Happy Holidays everybody. In order to celebrate the season have the longest chapter of WDSK at 3164 words. Shout outs this time go to Dillyane and JediMayukiDaAWESOME. Thank you folks.
Announcement: With the new Overwatch comic being out and all I just want to let you know I will be including Emily (Lena's canon girlfriend 3) at a later stage because she is too adorable not to be mentioned. It actually fits in quite well with a future bit I was planning.
It had been about a month since Lena had turned into a cold blood assassin for Talon. A month since she had last been seen by Overwatch. A month since Amelie had lost the love of her life.
They had had several opportunities to capture her but they had always gone askew. One specific time had been at a museum when they were trying to assassinate a well know activist for Omnic rights. He was a friend of Mondatta.
Now they were currently in Hollywood trying to protect an omnic director from would be assassins. His film feature inter species relationships between an omnic and a human woman so Talon wanted rid of him before it could be shown.
"Are you in position?" Amelie asked over the inter com. This operation was one of their only opportunities to catch both Gabriel and Lena first hand. They had gotten Intel from Symmetra's 'associate' that they would be overseeing this mission personally together. Over the past month the team had either been too late to catch them or they would get away.
"Yeah, you?" It was the old strike commander who was on the other end of the line.
"Oui" She had gotten a lot colder since Lena was gone and that meant she didn't often talk and if you did ask her a question it was almost always a one word answer. If she continued at this rate she would be speaking less than Roadhog.
He paused and readjusted the earpiece.
"Will you be okay?" He asked. Amelie could hear the concern in his voice and she rolled her eyes at this. She had recover quite quickly after the rib breaking and she had been doing fine ever since. She was beginning to wonder if the saw her as weak because the target was Lena.
"I'll be fine I nearly got her one time before and I will get her again." He could hear the determination in her voice and he had the upmost faith in her.
"Good." He was going to give her some life advice but Amelie heard a gunshot sound over on Jack's side and she knew that it was about to go down.
As the shots sounded she was ready to shoot whoever came within her sights. As the enemy began to come in they were all lying on the floor within 5 seconds of coming into her line of view.
She was in the same position a month ago but this time things would be different. She would be the winner this time.
The area was filled with the sounds of gun shells clinking against the ground and as she expected she was soon able to hear the sound of the technology sounding whoosh. She this time had a plan of action. Her eyes surveyed around and quickly spotted the source of the noise and got herself ready.
When Lena was up to where Amelie was she shot and thought she had killed her target but to her surprise the target had vanished. She gave a small 'huh' but then as she turned around a high heel met her face and she was kicked to the ground.
She place a heel on her to try and keep her down but Lena was to quick when it came to things like this and Amelie's heel hit the floor as Lena reappeared where she was a couple of second ago.
Like before their epic battle commenced once again picking up where they left off.
Amelie picked up on the fact that she had gotten even faster then before. Most likely due to more experimentation on her chronal accelerator. The others had suggested that they try and take it away from her but Amelie was having none of it. She was praying that due to the fact that they had been messing with it, it would lose its charge faster so she would be weakened.
The snipers bullets were so close to hitting her but she would just miss her by a hair. She would always just hit the blue light the followed behind her. She gave a small grunt of discontent as when she went to pull the trigger there seemed to be no more ammunition and when she went to grab another clip she was punched in the stomach and put on her side.
She yelled but her face clearly showed how she was putting everything she had into beating her. Traer could see that fire in her yellow eyes and she knew that this fight would get her heart racing. She would feel alive.
When Amelie was able to get a successfully punch to Lena's jaw she put her on the ground but before she could take further action she heard a slight wince followed by a whispered 'Amelie'. Amelie knew that she had played this trick before where she made it seem like she remembered but then brutally betrayed her when she wasn't looking.
She pulled out one of Ana's sleeping darts from her pocket and was ready to stab her. When Lena realised her trick wouldn't work a second time she was out of there in a blink.
Now they were currently facing off, Lena was 5 meters away standing with a stupid looking smirk on her face. They both charged at each other, knowing that one would walk out of there. And this would decide who it was.
It hadn't taken long for the soldier to run into the Reaper. They, just like Lena and Amelie, had started their newest of fights which was sure to go down as their second worst. The first being their last fight in Switzerland.
"Gabe please just listen to me!" He yelled over the sound of Reaper tossing his guns to the side and somehow managing to pull out two more just like it. If Jack could just somehow get him to talk then it might ease the emotional pain he felt in the back of his mind every time he saw him. It would always make him hesitate and that could one day be his downfall.
"I'm not Gabe, Morrison. It's Reaper." He yelled using his entire second clip on one pillar in an attempt to get the soldier to reveal his location. Since they were both ex Overwatch they knew the strategies but the tricky part would be figuring out which one the other was using and then countering it.
"For god's sake. Please would you drop this? I don't know what went wrong between us." Jack said trying to reach out to him. Jack noticed how he hesitated for a moment.
"What? Are you serious? This is always so typical of the Boy Scout." He scoffed at him. If there was one thing he could have changed while they were together it was that he was always the goddamn goody too shoes. At the start he found it so adorable that he was always trying to be the hero but after a year into their relationship he wished that he would just tone it down a bit. Even now he still couldn't believe how he was trying to get him to come back to the heroes.
Didn't he realise it was too late for him.
"What happened?" His tone of voice was filled to the brim with seriousness and Gabriel turned towards him dramatically.
This was the phrase that broke Gabriel form his jokiness and he felt something he hadn't felt in a long time. Shock. He was dumfounded that Jack had to ask that. He had to stop himself from using his death blossom right there and now. He took of his mask and reviled what the doctor had done to his face and began to tell his tale.
"It was the position you idiot. I was constantly under pressure from Blackwatch and you were strike commander and playing the hero as always. I had to cut of Jesse's arm after an attack and you were gone for a week! A whole week of crying alone in bed without one single phone call from you! I didn't want to be a part of Blackwatch anymore and you took my only ticket out. I was just going to pack up and leave you, no, leave all of it and never look back!"
Jack dropped his gun. He was trying to think back all of those years ago. He looked into Gabriel's eyes and he saw what almost looked like regret.
"I couldn't. I couldn't leave in the end." He added on at the end. He put back on the mask but Jack was still frozen. He couldn't believe what had happened to the face that he had once known and loved. A face he had once adorned with kisses.
It was clouded with black smoke around the corners. His mouth was filled with sharp teeth and his face was covered with scars. He didn't know how Angela made him like this, like a science experiment gone wrong. In fact that was exactly what it was. Some rogue project that had turned him into a movie villain. His eyes had been turned the colour of hell. Which included all of the raging fire. He felt like they were staring into his soul and judging him for everything that had happened.
Even though his mask hid it he was exhausted by that outburst. He had been practicing this speech over and over, ready for the day that he could use it as an emotional weapon and now that he had finally used it he felt a sense of relief and an immense rage towards him.
Jack never realised that was what Gabriel was going through. He guessed that after the job he did feel that he should have been there for Gabe more. The job was 24 hours a day every day and have the hope of the world on your shoulders made it stressful. He was never at their home and every time he was Gabriel always seemed so pissed off at him.
"Jesus Gabriel. I never knew." He said ashamedly. He realised what day he was talking about. It had been one of the rare times he was home and Gabriel just seemed exhausted. He had a bandage on his arm and he couldn't tell but it sort of looked like he had been crying.
"That's the point. You never knew. You always took the time to listen to everyone else's problems except your own goddamn hus- Fiancé's!" He had to stop himself. They were engaged, hell they even talked about adopting a kid, but then once again the job happened and it all went to shit.
"I'm sorry for what happened. You could have talked to me." He no longer wanted to kill Gabriel. He wanted to hold him tightly and apologize for what had happened. How he had been an idiot and that he was sorry for never being there but it seemed as he wasn't done with his rage yet.
"Whenever you came home you were too tired. Even if you said you were listening you weren't."
He remembered one specific situation where he had to watch a group of his youngest Blackwatch agents get murdered by an Omnic. They had all been in their teens. They weren't even adults, they had been goddamn kids. When he was sent home he wanted to tell Jack everything but as soon as he got home he was asleep and when he tried to wake him up they got into a mini fight about how he was exhausted from his job and Gabe left and went to a cheap hotel.
What he didn't know however was that Jack had to sleep off his own shitty daw as well. There had been a fight within the group and there had been a bad storm in an Antarctic base which they couldn't get too.
"My job was stressful too. I took the job so that you wouldn't be under any more stress." This was the moment that he had been waiting for. If he could clear things up there could be a slight chance of him giving up all of the Talon nonsense and come back home. This was the first time he had had a chance to reason with him. Gabe could be reasoned with.
"You stopped caring about me when you got the job. I want to end this." He pulled out the large shot gun and began to shoot at Jack at point blank range. It was official. There was no going back for them. There was no way in hell now that they could ever get back together.
They began their battle and it was raining bullets everywhere. Gabriel tossing guns like they were nothing while Jack was firing missiles at him every chance he had.
It was going to be a long fight but Jack had to win. He needed to win so that Gabe could be put somewhere where he couldn't hurt anyone. Even if it was in a prison at least Gabriel would get the help he needed and he could visit him. If he somehow lost to the black clad figure then he knew that Overwatch would be finished and then he would take control of everything.
Despite everything he still didn't want to kill him.
"Time to finish the job. Once and for all." Lena said rubbing her black eye. Their fight had been long and difficult but Lena thought that she was winning. As she pointed the gun to her head she smiled one last time at Amelie before she pulled the trigger.
She attempted but for one Amelie was too quick for her. Amelie was handed an opportunity and she took it and didn't let go.
"Lena I'm sorry about this." She stabbed her with the needle in the arm and pressed down, releasing the drug into her veins and Lena tried to get away but she found that she was instantly paralysed. She tried to use her blink but it too wasn't allowing her. Amelie hadn't expected it to affect her accelerator but she guessed that Ana's tech was more high tech than she thought.
"Reaper!" She struggled to yell out to the other who was seemingly busy with the old soldier. He looked over and saw that she was about to be captured by Overwatch. She knew too much about Talon too be left with them. He would put her to good use later but they would find a way to undo the conditioning.
Even worse she had information on a majority of Talon secrets. Every single document, plan and location was all locked away in her mind and if Overwatch got her while still under his control then he and Talon would be finished off permanently.
Mercy was good with mind play, Zenyatta was generally good at healing broken souls and Winston would figure out how to get her back to normal fully using some kind of science. He hit the soldier straight in the face making sure he was unconscious and he disappeared in a shroud of black smoke.
He appeared behind Amelie and she tried to shoot him but he once again turned into the black smoke only this time he spoke to Lena. Amelie only heard his voice behind her and she shot him but when she looked back she was nowhere to be seen.
As she was looking back a cloud of blackness enveloped her face and she could feel herself choking a small bit. During the confusion he whispered another trigger sentence to Lena to make sure that his new plan would go off without a hitch.
"Jack Morrison es un hijo de puta."
Amelie looked around making sure he wasn't trying to disillusion her but when she knew it was clear she resumed and held Lena close to her.
"Cherie, what are we going to do?" She asked the unconscious one in the hopes that when she was asleep it would somehow reach her true self and reverse what he had done.
This reminded her of several moments in her past when she and Lena would just curl up on the sofa and watch movies or talk about their day and what they did ect. It was a quiet moment and the wind was blowing Amelie's hair in front of her face. She didn't even bother trying to correct this. She only wanted to be with her. Her heart beat was so fast instead of its usual calm.
Amelie could feel a floating like presence behind her and she already knew what she was going to say before any words were even said. This time however she knew it wasn't the devil Gabe but instead the angel herself Dr Ziegler.
"Amelie. We need to get her to the medical bay. We might be able to reverse what Gabriel did to her." Said Angela motioning for Winston to come help carry her. She was light but one of them might accidently drop her.
"Might?" She asked questioning her use of the word.
"We don't know what he's done so it could be dangerous but I will try my best to undo the damage." She swore that she would stop meddling with agents long ago. She really did want to try and save her but at what a cost she didn't even want to begin thinking about.
"Thank you." She said not taking her eyes of Lena for a second, watching her chest rising up and down slowly. This was making her anxious. She didn't know what would happen now. This is the first time she wasn't really sure of her future with Lena.
Little did they know that Gabriel was in the distance watching them and plotting his next move. He knew what he had to do next the hard part would be the execution of it all. If it didn't work perfectly then it would most likely mean that he would be finished. He had no choice but to start his Plan 2 early.
He knew it was time to put "Operation Widowmaker" into action.