Chapter 42
Meanwhile in Zenyatta's room, Sebastian laid still. The only thing moving was the very tiny twitches in his muscles and even then it was few and far between. Ana was counting. The niper entered the monk's room and laid a pot of tea as Zenyatta informed her of the decision. It explained why Angela ran to her hours earlier. If it wasn't for Genji, the woman would've just barged in on an intense moment between Omnic and human.
She sipped her tea as Zenyatta floated next to her.
"What did you see?"
"Damages beginning to repair. While not enough to return him to the man everyone knew him for, it is a slow recovery. I can tell he's thinking of those in the past a very good sign for someone like him with this certain case."
Ana hummed approvingly as Sebastian began to mumble. "I...I'm fine."
"What's he dreaming about?"
"Hard to tell. While he claims to be fine, I suppose he dreams of someone. Perhaps one of importance." Ana nodded again before taking another sip of her tea. Sebastian then slowly opened his eyes.
"This bed is hard."
"Considering that is my floor, I would say so." Sebastian groaned as he smelled tea. He looked at Ana and pointed at it. "Still hot?"
"Of course." Ana replied. Sebastian pulled himself up and made himself a cup. The elder Amari took notice of his form and hummed. "So how was your session with Zenyatta?"
"Enlightening." Sebastian replied.
The two drank silently as Zenyatta floated over. "I hope things will begin to look forward to you Noah." Sebastian barely flinched at the name and just shrugged. That was his name after all and it felt more...comfortable when the Omnic addressed him as such.
"So is there any training I need to do today?"
"I don't know. Do you want to train?"
"That's...what I'm asking you." Ana grinned before standing up. "If you're ready we can begin firearms testing. I'm sure with those broad shoulders and arms you can handle a gun?"
"I'm pretty sure. A pistol is pretty easy to use."
"I'm not talking about a pistol."
At the firing range, Ana opened up a case with various assault rifles, shotguns, and sniper rifles.
"We here have various weapons that can be used by a basic soldier. And while you see many of our agents use rather unique tools, we don't forget the basic versions of them. So which do you choose?"
Sebastian reached down and picked one of the first things he saw. Ana's eyebrow raised as he pulled out a sniper rifle.
"You know how to use that thing?" Ana said. Sebastian laughed as he picked up the sniper rifle. "I'm sure I can fire a gun." He turned around and still saw no Noah. Maybe things were getting better. Sebastian shouldered the weapon and loaded it right. Ana watched him fiddle with the scope before taking aim.
It seemed so easy. When he held the weapons something inside him triggered. He saw Burr and a woman. She was wounded and Burr was trying to keep her awake. And the weird thing was his outfit. It was a blue military uniform with his communicator resting against his cheek. He watched the two attempt to run, but he couldn't help aiming down. Taking a deep breath, Sebastian held himself still as took aim and fired a bullet. The bullet traveled through the air and struck the Talon guard behind Burr. The image faded with Burr looking at him surprised as Ana whistled in surprise on the perfect headshot. Sebastian quickly ejected the empty shell and slid the handle over the one in the chamber.
He took aim again and saw something else. It was Burr again, but the setting was different. It looked like London and Burr was walking around cautiously. There were fires, bodies, and shambled buildings. Close to the Omnic attack nine years ago when Overwatch was still active.
He took aim again and fired another round. It embedded itself in a Bastion unit. The Omnic fell to the ground as Sebastian blinked and faced another dummy with a perfect headshot. "It seems you know how to use it."
"Told you. And you doubted me."
"I doubt that hacker taught you how to use a rifle of this caliber." Sebastian opened his mouth to respond, but he shut it as Angela stepped in.
"Ana, Sebastian." She glanced at him awkwardly and Sebastian felt his cheeks heat up in embarrassment. "I need you two to come with me and help bring Lucio, Fareeha, and Amélie in for a medical report."
The two nodded and followed the doctor. As they walked down the halls of the base, Sebastian let his eyes wander for any sign of his imaginary self. Surely he'd be around to call him out on this. Try to antagonize him. Something.
Silence. That's all he got. Sebastian felt something when that was true and it was a little hard. Ana saw his gaze, but misinterpreted his target.
"You know it's not smart to follow a woman with a focused glare on her ass." Sebastian almost shouted in embarrassment as Angela's eyes widened at the suggestion. "Sebastian keep your eyes focused."
"Bu-But I...yes Angela, Ana." The three kept walking before opening the door and seeing Burr already in the hangar. The dropship was flying in and Burr turned and smiled at the group. Sebastian saw the blue trench coat he wore and remembered what he was wearing when he saved that girl.
"So what did you hear?" Angela asked. Burr sighed and glanced at the ship.
"According to Lucio the mission went on with a small hitch, Gideon's personal guard." Sebastian felt his heart jump at that as Burr nodded. "Apparently they ambushed Pharah and Widowmaker."
He gritted his teeth. "And they almost won." Sebastian's shoulder ached slightly as he remembered when Moonlark stabbed it. The ship opened and Fareeha walked out in battle damaged armor.
Next was Lucio and he was helping Widowmaker walk. Her face was swollen from the beatings, bloody bandages around her hand and abdomen, and it was obvious that very step caused pain. Most could barely hold back his shock at the assassin's state. Sebastian felt overwhelming pity fill him. Burr's pupils dilated as he ran and held her.
"Burr." She said. He kissed her forehead and whispering small apologies.
"Angela, Sebastian, and Fareeha come with me to the medical bay. Lucio stay with Ana and give her the mission report." He put an arm underneath her legs and lifted her up. Widowmaker gasped in surprise as Burr carried her off to the med bay. He wasn't running, but the walk was definitely fast as Sebastian and the others tried following him.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. You shouldn't be too damaged." He looked and saw the stab wounds in her abdomen and the blood soaked bandages. Her hand was covered as well and Burr felt his heartbeat and breathing increase as Widowmaker seemed complicent toward him.
No words was going to slow him down when she was in danger. Angela jogged ahead and opened the medbay as Burr ran to the closest bed. He tried mumbling small french sayings that made Amélie hold on tighter before Burr softly let her down on the bed.
"Burr, let me and Sebastian handle this." Angela said as Sebastian reached for the closest medpack. The doctor grabbed her staff as Burr caressed her cheek. Everyone in the room saw the utter pain in his face. "Don't worry she'll be fine."
Burr didn't respond as he held his lover's undamaged hand. Sebastian ran up and grasped his shoulder. "Trust us." He looked at him before seeing Amélie's pain. "Please."
The leader finally stepped back as the shadows of the lights above him covered his eyes. Fareeha shot an uncertain glance at Angela and Sebastian as she opened the door. "Burr, I'll explain what happened."
"Good." He walked out briskly with Fareeha following him. Angela stared at the door before turning over to Widowmaker.
"Sebastian prepare to unwrap the bandages, it needs to breathe and be examined before proceeding any further. After that apply an anesthesia to numb the pain."
"I'm already numb enough Doctor." Amélie responded. Sebastian shook his head. "It's just a process Widow. Trust me it'll pass by quick."
She looked at Sebastian and noticed that lack of hatred. "Thank you No-Sebastian."
"Call me Noah if it makes you comfortable." He replied. Angela was in doctor mode so it didn't register as fast. Amélie didn't respond to that and let Sebastian inject her with with the anesthesia.
Fareeha and Burr watched as they cleaned up Widowmaker and doing extra check ups for any internal damages. Fareeha turned to Burr and pressed a button. The windows turned reflective and Burr saw his teary eyes expression.
"Amélie will be fine. There's no stress to it." Burr paced the medical room impatiently. Fareeha was there with a few bandages on her own. "All I know is that I'm going to personally kill the one responsible for beating on my girlfriend!"
"Hold off it. I'm not having you go all berserk again because of the conditions of your loved ones." Burr looked at her and realized how shaky his hands were. He took a deep breath and tried calming down. Fareeha watched the erratic breathing slow down to a more comfortable pace.
She kept waiting until he composed himself. "I'm sorry. I don't…I just don't want a repeat of two years ago with Amélie. I can't go through with that."
"Amélie won't. She's too stubborn to die especially for you. She'll make it."
"Just tell me how things went. And talk fast." Fareeha gave a rigid posture and began explaining how events went for her.
Across the glass, Sebastian was making sure Amélie was comfortable as the assassin waited for more treatment. Angela pulled out another needle and filled it with a strange liquid. She held the assassin's arm and pushed the needle in.
"Nanobots to make sure the damage is undone. However it would be wise to sleep. Understand?" She said seriously. Amélie smiled softly before feeling the bots heal her damages. She closed her eyes and gently slept.
Sebastian felt odd, but he felt a little good for helping her out. It still came with a little disdain, but he assumes that's from somewhere else. Angela gave a sigh of relief and the doctor within her quelled.
"Thank you for your assistance. I'm sorry I had to order you around."
"Nah you're as good as Sombra when it comes to ordering me around. Firm yet understandable plus whenever she returned from any of her "jobs" I had to patch her up. She called it my way of "making it up to her", and given what I apparently went through I guess that would make sense."
"Well I intend on being better than that."
"If it helps you save lives then you can treat me in any way you see fit." Angela blushed before nodding. "Plus, um, I wanted to apologize."
"At the graveyard?"
Sebastian nodded. "I...I wanted to tell you, but it would sound crazy if I told you I was seeing things."
"I can help in those areas and if not it's still not right to hide these kinds of things. Many soldiers have told their wounds are scratches or worse never tell me about it all. And it's when things become dire do they reveal it. I don't want you to do that. I want you to trust me with your problems."
"To be fair...you're right. I just didn't see this happening. It all started when you guys came and some part of me just rejected your presence. It spoke such disdainful things about myself. About how I failed, how when I loved...you I was making a mistake. And with Gideon calling for my head I feel like this might be another mistake on my part."
"You saved me that night didn't you. If you hadn't Gideon would've won that night and God knows what he's planning to do with an asset such as me."
Sebastian nodded. "That's why I began training. If Gideon comes after us I want me to be the first to confront him. And that's why I'm gonna try take back what's mine. Starting with my name."
"Your name?"
Sebastian stepped forth and grabbed the doctor's hands. "I want you and everyone to call me Noah again. My experiences with Zenyatta showed me some things and I can remember bits and pieces. If I want to come back I gotta accept my identity again. I want to be Noah again. For you, Fareeha, Burr, and everyone else."
Angela felt her breath hitch as he felt his confidence die down and him putting his hands down. She leaned forward and gave a peck on the lips. "I would love to call you Noah again."
Little did they know Sombra was watching. She had a wide smile on her face and snickered. The hacker rolled back on her chair and closed the window. Who knew a quick check up on them would lead to things taking such a turn. The door opened and she turned to see Burr walking into the dark room.
"Ah hola amigo." Sombra greeted. "How's the lady?"
"Recovering and with Fareeha's personal account taken in I need for you to find out more about these flunkies Gideon has. They managed to hold back our Falcon/Spider offense formation. That's not normal."
"You could catch them off guard. When Moonlark was busy with Noah, I had a simple ambush ready and she went down with a tranquilizer. Though next time it'd be better if it were a bullet."
"That's a plan, but in most cases Gideon will always have them steadfast ready. Try finding Aryt's sister or more family history about Moonlark."
"Exposing my enemies weakness through their personal connections and possibly use that for blackmail. Burr, you know a way into my heart."
"Save your flirting with Noah. I'm sure he'd be more willing to play along. I'm not in the best of moods Sombra."
She rolled her eyes. "Of course you're not gringo. You got that same expression when you went undercover in Talon. Always so serious as if you trying to bore a hole into our commander's eyes."
"You earned yourself a couple of those glares when you found out my affiliation with Overwatch."
"And your training mentor Gerard." Burr shook his head as Sombra pulled up another file. "Look I'm not going to reopen old wounds, but I certainly hope that he isn't' the reason you haven't popped the question. I know you got a ring somewhere."
Burr shot her a hard glare. "That isn't relevant at the very moment Sombra. I came here to see if you activated the bugs we put on Gideon."
"I did and with just audio it isn't...good enough for my standards. So I used one of the many holes in their hard light network system to ride the cameras throughout the building and can now live stream whatever's caught and onto this monitor."
"And all this without a peep?"
"No sound." Burr broke out a small grin. "Good job."
"Ssh. Show's starting."
The two watched as they saw Symmetra enter the office doors.
"Symmetra."
"Yes Gideon." She replied.
"How goes their recovery? I have another mission for them to partake in once the process is complete." Symmetra glanced at the monitors. "A few more days. They were damaged badly in the ensuing battle with Overwatch."
"I noticed. Well at least we managed to get Amari before anyone else. It'll make things easier once we gather the rest."
The architect grimaced at the thought. Ever since she's worked underneath this man it seems the goals of Vishkar have been snuffed and its corpse paraded around as a new disguise. It's clear to anyone that's seen the true him, but most don't see the true him. So far it's been her, Burr, and Noah from the looks of it.
She almost sighed in frustration as Gideon sat next to her. "I hope you understand why we need them out of the way."
"For you to settle a score?" Gideon's eyes flashed dangerously as he heard that. Symmetra felt the sweat on her forehead as Gideon stood up. "Care to rephrase?"
At the corner of her eye the metallic tendril stood at the ready. Symmetra shook her head. "To bring our goals to fruition. If Overwatch were to continue, they were parade the wrong system in which to truly help humanity and Omnic kind."
"Very good. I've been with this company for a long time. From the very bottom of the food chain to its very top. I know the ins and outs, all the corners, every decision made here. And I know you understand the level of...persuasion we employ to ensure such victories."
Her eyes glanced at amp and showed several markings where the labor camps were. Gideon sat down and shook his head.
"Appreciate what you can and cannot do Symmetra. Because honestly knowing you, I'd say you shaking faith."
"Never. My belief in Vishkar has not shaken or wavered since the ball."
"I didn't mention the ball." Symmetra's muscles tensed up as she could see how dangerous Gideon's look was becoming. "I expect loyalty."
"And you'll get it. Now if you don't mind, I must attend to your assassins, Understand?" Gideon's playful nature made a brief comeback before eyeing her with suspicion. "Do what you think is necessary. Just don't complain when I have one of them aim a bullet to your head."
"I said I was loyal. What more do you want?"
"Honesty. I don't mind the aggression or the hatred, just don't think of lying or betraying me." Symmetra opened the door and closed it shut. Once she was out, the engineer could've sworn it was the freshest breath of air in the longest time.
Little did she know, a hacker was watching her along with her new overseer. The two looked at each with contemplation when Sombra smiled. Burr waved it off and left it to her. The spanish woman marked Symmetra and labeled: Potential recruit.
"And the hacker's score...it's not even fair to keep count I just keep getting better and better." Sombra laughed. As she slowed down, she remembered to check on her old friend in the place down below.
Sombra kept digging through the security cameras of Reaper's cell when Gideon's face appeared. "Hello, Sombra. You've been peeking a little too closely. I wonder what I got to do."
Sombra's whole mood was put under whiplash as Gideon smirked. "I hope you enjoyed the tour of the facility, but please understand that since the ball Aryt told me of your involvement. And thinking along with the break ins and the hacked cameras we find I guess I finally found the source. Cool right?"
"You…"
"Don't you have to answer. I need more time for things to play out, but hey if you see Noah let him know that he's gonna love what I do next."
"How did you reverse this?"
"I got a good friend. One capable of finding you." Sombra turned and saw the eye of the conspiracy look right at her. Her breathing hitched hard as Gideon chuckled maniacally."Now why would you would come after me with them?"
"You threatened my friend." She tried holding her composure.
"Oh come on, your "friend"? Sure go ahead and die for him, it'll add more to his conscious. But it doesn't matter I'm going to break Overwatch and if you get in my way, I'll break you puta."
Sombra gritted her teeth as Gideon turned to Reaper. "Say hi to Sombra Gabriel. It might be your last chance."
The black mass didn't respond as Gideon turned to Sombra with a crazed smile. "Well I gave him a chance, but I guess he isn't answering. Don't fuck with me Sombra."
The screen cleared itself with Sombra staring at the screen.
"I can fuck with you if I want. You just bullied a dragon my friend."
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*Next Time
"This weapon will be perfect for me." Noah said as he held his blade in his hand. The butt of the hilt glowed a soft purple as he held it right.
Symmetra ran down the halls as Aryt and Moonlark ran after her. She didn't slow down for anything as she heard guns clicking and aiming at her head. She turned around and faced her pursuers.
Gideon smiled as Burr fell to his knees. The Overwatch leader held onto his blood soaked garments as Gideon strolled over and kicked him in the face. "Looks like homefield advantage doesn't help."