I know I said last time that this was going to be the first battle but I realised something. Writing action is hard so it'll probably be majority character and emotional stuff.
Shout outs this time go to Destiny hunter 39 and TheVampireStrahd, Thanks mate.
The base was going into total lock down.
Talon agents were swarming the place and they had few heroes to defend it. The alarms were blaring out and the clanging of doors could be heard quite clearly. This base was home to many Overwatch secrets and if Talon got them it would be game over.
Jack and Winston had gone to the front lines while Amelie went to a sniper position that had been specifically made for her. It was at the perfect angle so she could see anyone who was coming in but they wouldn't be able to see her.
The enemies were coming in. Amelie smirked as the first shot fired. She could see them beginning to panic, wondering where the sniper was. When they were distracted with the sniper that's when the others made their move.
While they were on the lookout for her she was on the lookout for wanted criminal Gabriel Reyes and M.I.A Overwatch agent Lena Oxton.
Amelie was up in her cosy position, picking off the enemy agents one by one. She felt kind of thrilled that she was doing this. Her heart was beating so fast so didn't know how she was breathing. She had built up so much stress and this was her therapy.
She knew that morally it was wrong but she simply couldn't help herself. Then again this was Overwatch. The moral line was more blurry then Mei's vision without her glasses. And it wasn't like killing people was the worst thing that happened within the organization.
When she was sniping she had the Reaper in her sights and she loaded the tranquilliser in the gun. She would enjoy making him talk. She was still pretty sure that some of Gabriel's old torture equipment was there. She laughed to herself as she realised how ironic that would be. Torturing him with his own equipment.
As she took a breath and gently pulled on the trigger, a familiar whooshing sound was detected and she noticed a presence behind her. She turned the gun on the assailant behind her thinking it was the sound of a grappling hook hooking onto her ledge. She scowled and was going to pull the trigger but when she recognised who it was she could feel all of her senses leaving her.
"My god."
It was like Lena had gone through the looking glass. She was completely different than before. Her usual cheerful orange had been changed for a dangerous looking red and black costume. She had such a murderous gleam it had hypnotised Amelie. She couldn't figure out how her wife's beautiful light had been taken away. And she was looking Amelie dead in the eyes, pointing her guns straight at her head.
She moved away quickly before the speedster could get at shot in. Her body was nearly dropped from the tower like their first unofficial fight but this time she was prepared. She quickly aimed her hook and launched herself back up to the platform, punching Lena in the face on the way up.
She landed back on her feet but as soon as Lena rubbed her jaw from the hard blow she was straight over to her trying to get close and get a good shot. Amelie wrapped the wire around her foot and landed on the ground. She needed a second to make a plan.
Amelie knew the one things that Talon still hadn't changed was that Lena's guns were linked to her accelerator. So if she was somehow able to find a way to overheat it she would be powerless. Looking around she tried to figure out where would cause her to overuse her accelerator.
She heard gun shots and she hid. She looked and realised she was hiding behind a car. That was the moment the light bulb in her head lit up. The storage was the best place to go. She could get to places Lena couldn't and there were several positions she could snipe and hide. She just needed to get Lena to follow her.
She ran and as expected the brit followed her. Luckily Amelie bought herself some time with a small mine. It went off so Lena had to go back and avoid it.
She made her way through a small side door and was waiting on a small room. She looked down and saw that Lena was scoping out the entire room. She looked up as Amelie made herself known and the only way she could get up was if she used her ability a lot of times at once. She wasn't sure if the scientist at Talon had made it full proof yet but she needed rid of the sniper.
Her plan had worked. As Lena was about to do one last blink forward it went into cool down mode. Lena not realising this pulled out the gun and pulled the trigger. She looked down at the gun to try and see the problem but then as she looked back up she felt a fist impacting on her face.
She fell to the ground and then felt Amelie climb onto of her and pin her down.
"Lena. Please you have to remember." She shook her head while she was on the ground, thinking that somehow she would be able to shake lose her memories. She needed the light back in her eyes. Lena gave a small smile and a threatening laugh. She had never heard her laugh like that before.
"Oh but I do remember luv." She put a smug looking smile on her face while Amelie could only let her mouth slightly form a 'what?'
The rage in Amelie was stronger than she had ever felt.
"What? You knowingly have done all of this." She knew it was reconditioning that was making her act this way but she had now idea of how much she was saying was of her own free will. She had gone through and emotional roller coaster and this was the last thing she needed.
"Why? Why would you do this?" She screamed at her after. It was like she saw the new colour schemed Lena as an entirely different person, it was so strong in her mind she was ready to put a bullet in her. Luckily she knew that she was till in there. She was just lost. Deep, deep down.
"You're a fool. Y'know that." She spat in Amelie face and the reaction Amelie had gave Lena a window of time to escape. She blinked from her grasp and as she attempted to grab her again she attached herself onto Amelie's collar but Amelie lost her balance due to the extra weight of Lena and they were both holding onto each other as they fell from the ledge. Lena punched Amelie straight in the chest hoping that she would let go of her hair.
Amelie felt Lena crack at least two of her ribs. She felt a distinct sharp pain in her lung and knew that she had been cut. The blood rose as she coughed and it sprayed on partially on Lena. Lena had absolutely no reaction to this whatsoever.
Amelie reacted by grabbing Lena's jacket and what was meant to be a punch to the face, however her fist landed straight into her chest causing her to punch her right in the chronal accelerator. She felt something come lose inside and a metal making a cut on her hand. She had essentially just punched Lena in the heart.
Lena was down on her side, sounding like she was a wounded animal on the side of the road. She was cringing in pain as she could begin to feel her body beginning to be ripped from time. It had hurt like hell the first time chronal disassociation hit her and now it was burning like hell fire. Parts of her body looked like they were glitching like a computer virus.
Amelie reached out but retraced her hand like she feeling the heat of a flame. If she helped her Lena might turn on her once again on the contrary if she didn't help she would disappear once again.
Lena had passed out so Amelie wasted no time in flipping her onto her back and trying to fix her chronal accelerator. It was hard with the now red glowing light to tell what the hell everything was going but she had seen it enough times to know what parts were meant to go where.
She began to move things. Moving wires into about until it momentarily lost the red colour entirely and Amelie could feel her heart stop thinking she had messed really badly. When it started to glow a full bright red without it flinching she threw herself down and let all of her stress out in the sound of a very long, tired sigh.
She brought her hands to her face and rubbed her tired eyes. She was tired of all of this. Overwatch. Talon. All of it.
Her eyes opened and there was a limp looking tracer standing in front of her holding a gun to her face while trying to uphold her own body weight.
"What's your status?" Amelie heard through Lena's communication device.
"My accelerator is damaged. I have Amelie Lacroix here I'll finish her off then-"She was interrupted by the static of the radio and Reaper's gruff voice cutting her off before she could finish her sentence.
"No. Get back to the ship."
"But I could kill her right now." She argued back at him.
"We can't afford to lose our top agent. Get back now!" He demanded over the intercom. She looked down at Amelie. She could vaguely remember that look and it was the look of when Amelie was ready to kill. She would always get a small fire in her eye before she took someone's life.
Lena was going to do as Reaper said and go back to the ship but as she heard Amelie cough again she turned her head slightly and made her way back to her. She leaned in to Amelie's face, her lips just brushing her cheeks.
Lena's foot collided with Amelie's stomach notably making her ribs injury worse than it already was.
"Lena please." She said only this time it sounded more gargled because of the small amount of blood that was coming out.
"It's your lucky day Luv. I'll leave you alone this time but next time I see you. You're dead." She turned and left her alone there.
When Lena left, Amelie just lay there. She had no idea what to do anymore. It seemed as though Lena had been murdered by Talon and all that was left was a shell who was taught only one thing and that was to kill.
She was now only beginning to think of some others things she hadn't thought of previously, mainly what if they couldn't get her back to normal? What if she remained a Talon puppet forever? All the ideas were racing and she just wanted to be done with all of this.
"You okay?" She didn't want to be bothered by the old solider but her abdomen was in too much pain to resist.
She shook her head and he picked her up and took her to the medical bay.
Being an Overwatch agent for many years he had picked up on how to use some of Angela's equipment. He was getting her sorted so he decided to see if she had found out anything.
"Her old personality is gone. I just want her back and to get things back to the way things used to be." She said as he seemed to get a yellow biotic cylinder from a cupboard. Since Amelie had learned under Ana she had a pretty good idea of what she needed for her rib.
"I know how you feel." He applied the weird yellow medical stuff, clearly trying to avoid looking at her.
They were in silence but they both knew what he was talking about.
She made a vow that she would let what happened to him and Gabriel happen to her and Lena. She would save her or she would die trying.
Next Chap: The story of how Lena and Amelie met. Also if you didn't notice I have a pattern of doing light cute chapters before heavy chapters and the next chapter will be adorable...