Author notes: Welcome to chapter 4! Thank you for sticking around through the month of this fanfiction. Don't worry, the story is not completely ending yet. Enjoy this chapter of Bastion's Hidden Love! P.S. Bonus points to anyone who knows the reference in the Bastion and Torbjorn section!
Orisa and Efi
System Rebooting...* "Orisa, online." Orisa announced. "Orisa? how are you feeling?" Efi asked. Orisa responded, "Im feeling fine, Efi. Why wouldn't I feel ok?" "I... uh, made a few adjustments to your system is all." "Oh, alright Efi." Orisa said. Efi contacted Overwatch and apologized for taking Orisa back so early, and offered for extra time for Orisa to stay. Overwatch agreed to the offer. "Alright Orisa, head back to Overwatch. I took you back just for the adjustments." Efi explained. Orisa was about to leave, "Wait Efi, How come I dont remember leaving Overwatch?" "Probably just a minor side effect of the a-adjustments!" Efi explained. Orisa went on her way back to Overwatch, but as she was, she thought to herself, "Why is Efi acting strange? Why do I have good memory of all of the Overwatch members except barely one?" She came to the conclusion that everything was fine and its probably just a coincidence.
Orisa and Bastion
When Bastion heard the news that Orisa was coming back, he waited far outside the building for her. When she arrived she had an unexpected surprise. Bastion ran up to her a hugged her, her reaction was to slowly push him away. "Excuse me, what are you doing?" Orisa asked. "D-D-Dweet boop beep? Beep sh!" Bastion responded, confused. Orisa replied with, "Dating? Sorry I'm not dating anyone, nor am I able to." "Beep deet?!" Bastion said, sad sounding. Orisa walked away, as she did she said, "Sorry, you must be mistaking me for someone else!" It took awhile for bastion to get the confidence to go back inside.
Jack Morrison (and Bastion)
"Alright everyone, as you have heard Orisa is back serving in battle with us. But she seems to be having memory issues, so don't ask her too many questions about the past." Bastion was in just the right position to hear Junkrat chuckle a bit. Bastion immediately knew they were suspicious, in a way.
Bastion, Junkrat and Roadhog (Jack morrison)
Bastion followed the two upstairs, looking for evidence. "I can't believe how well this plan went!" Junkrat said, surprised. "You'd expect getting an advanced robot out would be harder!" Roadhog said, also surprised. Bastion was furious when heard this! He busted the door down, following up with Junkrat's neck in hand and a gun up to Roadhogs head. Bastion, being prepared for this situation, had a piece of paper held inside his chest. He had revealed it, the note saying, "What did you do to Orisa?!" "Nothing!" Junkrat replied. Bastion tightened Junkrats neck and threatened to pull the trigger on Roadhog. Junkrat coughed, "I really don't-" "Whats going on here?! Bastion?! What are you doing, let them go, now!" Jack Morrison commanded. Bastion had no choice but to let them go. Bastion had said something, implying about Orisa, "Dweet beep, doot sh boop!" "Im sorry that I can't understand you, but I won't stand for this!" "Come strait to the meeting room, NOW!" Jack ordered.
Bastion
Bastion had talked to Jack Morrison, and it was declared that he was fired. He sat there, on a rock, regreting the violent actions he'd commited. He did not know what to do, until he realized he had access to the bases security systems. He watched Junkrat and Roadhogs actions, until he came across footage of their conversation about the plan to get rid of Orisa. Surprised, Bastion clenched his fist and started to head to Numbani. When he got to Efi's house, he checked to see if Efi was inside, luckily, she wasn't. As quietly as he could, he broke through Efi's back window. As soon as he got inside alarms started, so as quickly as he could, he went to the Orisa section of Efi's workshop and took all memory chips. Before he was seen, he escaped. He looked at the memory chips, none of them were catching his eye until he saw a specific chip, saying, "Orisa's Old Memories: 5/27/2080." Being prepared, Bastion thought of going to Torbjorn's new workshop, as he had been fired from Overwatch as well, but he realized he would need Orisa's current memory chip as well. So with that important thought in mind he went back to Overwatch. He noticed an important fact on the way there. From all the traveling, Bastion's legs were getting rusty. He needed his instant de-rust spray, unfortunately though, he did not have enough money for fixing Orisa's memories and getting de-rust spray. If he did fix Orisa's memories, she would know everything, but Bastion would be rusted up and overall ugly. But if he got the de-rust spray he would look fine, but Orisa wouldn't know. He immediately knew the best thing to do would be restoring her memories. He was at the base, hoping Jack didn't update the access panel. He inserted his card, with a Athena saying, "Welcome back; Bastion." He snuck into Orisa's room. He knew this was risky as she would not be active when he pulled it out, alarming the others, he kept telling himself he was doing the right thing. He took it out, with Orisa's eye light going out. He ran as fast as he could, making a lot of noise, out of the building.
Bastion and Torbjorn
Bastion arrived at Torbjorn's workshop, with the following question of, "Hello, welcome to- Bastion? What are you doing here? Why are you so rusted up? Is Overwatch trying to rehire me?" Bastion shook his head. "Oh, wait a minute Bastion." Torbjorn informed. He headed to the backdoor of his workshop and brought out a little chip, "Let me install this quickly." When Torbjorn installed it he also said, "Now say what you wanted to." "I need you to- I CAN TALK!" By this point Bastion was bouncing up and down like an infant girl. He continues, "I need you to combine two memory chips together." Bastion had already removed certain parts from one memory chip, he just didn't know how to combine them. "Alright that'll be 50 currency." Bastion handed him the two chips, Torbjorn asking, "which chip do you want to come first?" "The one with writing on it." 10 minutes later, he came out with one memory chip, packaged. "Alright, first before I give you this, i'll need to remove the talking chip. Its not free you know!" Torbjorn removed the chip. "Thank you for visiting Bastion. Come again!
Bastion
Bastion snuck back into Orisa's room, as he had luckily finished everything in one night. He placed the new memory chip back into Orisa's compartment and ran off. He waited out on the same rock he sat on right when Orisa said she was not dating him.
Orisa and Bastion
Orisa woke up and greeted everyone. She wondered where Bastion would be, as she still knew was he was fired. She remembered seeing Bastion on a rock, while she was out. She went over to the rock to find Bastion, and she did, but he was critically rusted. She ran inside to grab some de-rusting spray, and hurried out to Bastion. She greeted him with a hug and handed him the spray. He said, "Beep dweet boop!" "Me too Bastion! Now quick take some of this." Orisa responded. The rust washed off and bastion looked fine again, good thing he didn't buy any de-rust spray. Bastion explained what happened to Orisa. "Thank you for telling me, Bastion." Orisa responded.
THE ENDING
Bastion and Orisa asked Efi if it was alright for them to date. She apologized for her over-the-top behavior and allowed them to date. Bastion never got rehired to Overwatch but was happy with Orisa anyway. Bastion eventually got a job at the Omnic Rights Association (O.R.A) and explained his experiences with Orisa. They allowed for Bastion to gain enough money for a new house, and in the process established a new law stating, "Change of how omnics behave or memorize without permission from the government or agreement of the omnic is prohibited." Bastion and Orisa lived at the house for the time being.
IMPORTANT AUTHOR NOTES
Thank you for reading this fanfiction! I will in fact be writing an Epilogue to this story, but as a separate piece on the website. You may be asking why, well, it contains some content not suitable for younger audiences. I'll need to change the rating of it. Be on the lookout for it!