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"Has it worked?" Sombra asked as she looked towards Lena, who was currently tied to a chair. It had been one day since she had done what reaper asked of her and now he had called upon her again to witness Talon's work. And also to get him some information on what Overwatch's next move could be.
Lena on the outside look completely unharmed apart from a couple of bruises to the face but those were only added to make it seem like she had undergone actually physical torture. The real torture had all been inflicted mentally. It would have normally taken about a week but thanks to the drug they had given to her the process had become a lot faster.
Gabriel felt no sympathy for the young agent and had taken his time when working on her. He could still remember the feeling of the smile on his face. Pain was like pure luxury to him. The only other time in his life when he had felt like this was when he and Jack used to…
He stopped in his tracks remembering what had happened between them. There was no going back. His hand was hovering over the controls and he had momentarily paused, Sombra took notice and was going to ask if he was "glitching out on her" but he then regained his focus and placed his hand on the red button.
"Just watch." He pushed a button and moved his mask so that he could speak in a microphone. His scared mouth just about being shown.
"The target is Gabriel Reyes." He said with a sinister smile. He was ready to show off his hard work. Sombra looked at him confuse by the choice of trigger word but then her eyes were drawn to the girl in the centre of the room, surrounded by at least 15 guards.
Almost instantly Lena lost all emotion on her face. She became like a porcelain doll. Her chronal accelerator was no longer the light fun blue it was normally, now it was a very crimson red. The look in her eyes was indescribable. If the eyes were the window to the soul then her soul was dead.
She broke the chains off the chair like the metal had been made from straw and she began to shoot all the guards who surrounded her. Blinking left and right, slaughtering them all within no time. Another adjustment they had made to her was that her cool down times were a lot quicker. She was now able to blink every 2 ½ seconds, essentially giving her super speed. She had roughly killed 15 guards in about 8 seconds.
"It was how Jack always informed the agents on who their main focus on the mission was. He'll most likely say it when everyone is in the same room. They will all be eliminated by her at the same time." He laughed manically scare a few of the other casual agents who were working but Sombra had grown used to it so she let him have his fun.
"Remarkable." That was all that Sombra could say. Reaper had just created the perfect weapon against Overwatch. Lena would be able to kill them before they even knew what was going on.
"What if he doesn't say it in that exact way? And won't people notice she's acting different than normal?" Sombra asked playing with the computer upload the new information she had brought him. She was curious as to how he would see this planned out. She had seen operations done before but none quite this detailed. He had put a lot of effort into this one and to her surprise it seemed plausible that it could work. There were just one or two questions that were bothering her.
"If he doesn't say it exactly there are other certain words which will trigger her. And that's the brilliance of this procedure. She will act completely as normal until we need to wake her up. She's the perfect sleeper agent."
"What word will calm her down?" She said noticing how she was trying to get out of the room using the others guards guns on the door without much success. She didn't know how but she seemed even more lifeless than a corpse. And Sombra had seen plenty of those in her time.
"La muerte camina entre vosotros." He spoke into the speaker and Lena instantly collapsed, her chest once returning to the electric blue. He had made it when he said those words she would have no memory whatsoever of the deeds she had done. He would then complete the procedure once Overwatch was destroyed or disbanded.
Whichever came first.
Sombra rolled her eyes as she couldn't actually believe his choice of words but she had seen enough. She took out her USB and put it in her pocket. She took one more look and noticed how she was shivering.
"Why is she shivering?" Sombra wanted to give her a jacket but then again she didn't care for an Overwatch agent. She was generally intrigued by the whole situation. Each piece played an important part.
"We needed to slow her heart rate down to get her to blink faster and be a better shot."
Sombra had seen enough. She would be watching how this plan unfolded from a far but for now she had some work she needed to get doing. The Los Muertos gang needed her back ASAP.
"I have some work to do back in Dorado." She said making her way towards the exit.
"I'll probably not need you again for a while." He said scrolling through the files and locating what he needed. Honestly without Sombra he wouldn't have made it as far as he had. She left and he began to work.
He was ready to let them have their agent back. He was ready to unleash his ultimate weapon. He highlighted the file Sombra had brought him and clicked on the folder. Inside was the whole history, every picture and dirty little secrets of one agent.
'Time to prepare the backup plan.' He thought to himself as a picture of a brown haired woman in a purple uniform came up. He remembered designing that uniform for overwatch very well, he had made it sometime after the Halloween party. He smiled remembering the old crew but stopped himself. He needed to focus. He couldn't look back he needed to look towards the future and the future was in this file.
He opened the file on Amelie Lacroix.
After their last failed mission the team had revised a whole new strategy. Seeing as how the last time they had essential walked right into the palm of the Reaper they had regrouped back up at the base and took a whole had spent 1 hour planning their new attack.
They would have spent more but seeing as their time was restricted they need to get things in motion now. Or they could risk permanently losing her.
This time they decided that they needed the most powerful agents. So therefore they had brought McCree for his deadeye, Bastion for his sentry formation, Zarya for her barriers and finally Zenyatta for his health orbs.
It was the oddest group they had chosen but it was the group most likely to get in there and get her out. They all put aside what they felt about one another, mostly just Zarya getting along with 2 omnics, for the sake of their mission.
"Okay. It's in and out. Keep any eliminations quiet. Any noise could cause them to try and move her." Amelie had taken over for solider76 as the leader of the mission as Jack had been injured more than he thought and was put on bed rest by Ana. Both figuratively and literally. He had refused to stay in the bed so she hit him with one of her infamous sleeping darts he'd probably still be out by the time they got back.
All of them nodded in unison and started to prep their gear. This time it had to work. They couldn't risk another failure. Amelie swore that if the guard had lied to her she would personally make him suffer.
They were already in the base and had taken out at least 20 guards without raising a red flag unfortunately there was still no sign of Lena being here. Amelie was trying to keep hopeful but the more they went through the building the more she lost all hope of finding her.
"Who's takin' what parts?" Jesse asked readying his peace keeper.
"Jesse and Zenyatta, you take the north block. Bastion and Zarya you take the south block. I'll take the west. In 10 minutes we meet up by the south block." Amelie said bringing up a small holographic map on her phone. Zarya looked at Bastion with visible distrust in her eyes. Bastion not really understanding her look just waved hello.
They split up and began to search the area. She had to be somewhere.
Amelie was checking when a door when a hidden guard tried to shoot her. She felt something painful on her hand but she didn't want to give the guy a chance. She scoped him right in the head before he could even reload his gun. Amelie looked down at her hand seen that it had been grazed by his bullets. She was startled for a moment noticing her ring was missing but then remembered how she didn't have her wedding ring on her anymore and the last place she had seen it was in the Reaper's clutches.
She still had no idea why he stole it and what for.
Amelie gave herself a quick health boost before she resumed her mission, while thinking of what Gabe could have done with her ring. She could remember her heartbeat when she was broken from her thoughts and heard the cowboy said over the intercom that he had found something. She used her grappling hook and went as fast as she could to the north block.
"Amelie darling, Look over there. Is that hers?" He said pointed towards shards of orange tinted glass. They were scattered all across the ground but roughly in the same area.
"Those are from her googles. She's here." She looked around frantically until she noticed the rest of her goggles. From what she observed it looked like they had been smashed in with some kind of hammer and that made the hopeful feeling in her stomach change to a sickly one. She placed Lena's goggles in a small pocket and was filled with the burning hope she was still here.
Amelie ran though the rooms rapidly using her hook to reach high up places and observe every single square inch of it. Zenyatta tried to tell her to calm down but she was gone before he could share his words of wisdom. There was no point she was on a mission and she would complete it.
She was running when she noticed a door half open and a soft, heavy breathing coming from it. She disregarded all safety precautions and ran straight in. There on the ground she saw her beloved lying on the ground, shivering like she had been frozen by Mei. The room looked bare save for a few tools, most likely used for torture.
"Lena!" Amelie shouted as she snapped out of her shocked state and ran to her wife who was currently unconscious on the floor. As Amelie looked around she clued together that she had been chained up and for what it looked like she had been bruised mildly but it seemed they had gotten to her before any real damage had been done. She also noted that she was freezing cold, she thankfully still had her peachy skin and was showing no signs of hypothermia or frostbite.
"Amelie… What are you…doing here?" She said slightly regaining her consciousness, looking up at her not believing what she was seeing. During her captivity it had felt like a long time since she had been kidnapped. One of her worst fears was her never seeing Amelie again but her fear was beginning to fade with every frantic word her wife spoke.
"Rescuing you, mon petit papillion. Don't try and talk let's just get you out of here." She lifted her up, she was surprisingly light but then again she probably hadn't eaten in over 2 days. As she stroked her cheek she retracted it when she felt the temperature it was. Normally Lena's face was always beaming with warmth and happiness but now her cheeks felt as if though she was touching recently deceased corpse.
Lena nodded before once again losing her battle with unconsciousness. Amelie didn't know what was going on but she needed to get her to Ziegler and fast. Amelie wrapped one of her arms around her own shoulder and helped get her out of the room. The first person she spotted was Jesse.
All of the others had just gotten to the room and they stopped in their tracks when they saw Lena. Even Bastion gave a small beep of concern.
"McCree! Give me your serape. Now!" She demanded struggling to keep her from falling. Her legs were shaking like crazy. He didn't know what Gabe had done but he would be begging for what was his miserable life.
"Shoot! What's wrong with her?" He asked looking over her seeing nothing physically wrong with her. He took it off and put it over Lena. When placing it over her he felt how cold her skin was. He was surprised it hadn't turned blue yet.
"I'll take her to the jet. Let's vamoose out of here." She said carrying her bridal style. They nodded in agreement and got the hell out of there. Amelie went up onto higher ground to keep the bad guys off McCree and Lena while Bastion and Zarya took the lower level, destroying everything that opposed them. Zenyatta was giving Lena all off his harmony orbs trying to get her health back.
Surprisingly to them, there were little to no guards and they had made their way back to the transporter with no injuries.
He put her onto the stretcher and Amelie lay down beside her. Mercy began to work but 5 minutes after taking off she gave the all clear for signs of any critical wounds. Amelie sighed with relief and stroked some of Lena's hair out of her face. She was glad she wasn't physically damaged but she was more concerned if they had done anything with her mind.
"Will she be okay?" Amelie asked holding her loved ones hand gently.
"Yes. She is physically okay. Her coldness is nothing too serious but it has seemed to have slowed down her heart rate but that should go away in couple of hours. Thank goodness. I am surprised but grateful. Perhaps the old Gabriel was still in there somewhere?" Angela suggested taking off her gloves and placing them in her pocket. She had been so scared that she would have to do something to Lena to keep her alive. Like she had done with so many others.
Like she had done with Gabe. She shuddered that something similar would happen with the brit in front of her.
"What about mentally?" Amelie once again questioned not taking her eyes of Lena for a second.
"When she wakes up we can see the psychologically extent of the damage. It has only been 2 days Amelie, there's a high chance there will be no permanent mental scarring. She might be a bit shaken when she wakes up but she should be fine."
"You're right. I'm probably worrying over nothing." Amelie said smiling at her. She had really been grateful for all of her support.
"She's safe now. We can get back to normal."