The Doomfist gauntlet. It was a thing of sheer power. It could level a skyscraper and pummel any enemy who came into contact with it. And Talon had it in its sights.
Amelie and Gabriel were waiting on a roof top and looking at the layout of the building. Amelie used her visor and checked how many people were in the museum at the moment. It didn't seem like that many people were at the museum a few adults and two children. If Amelie needed to she wouldn't care about killing them.
There had been a time where the very idea of harming a child would have sickened her to her stomach but now she didn't even have to have a second thought about it. It was just like any other mission.
"Are you sure they don't know we're here?" Amelie asked looking around feeling uneasy. She didn't know why but she felt like something was going to happen. Another thing was bothering her. A person who still had a vendetta against her,Sombra.
Reaper groaned. Amelie was still getting used to all of these missions and he supposed that after the whole Satya incident she was still on edge. "Relax Amelie, This will all go to plan."
Amelie retraced her visor and looked him straight in his eyes. "You said Sombra planned this? I don't trust her." She scoffed with venom in her voice more poisonous then that of her mines. Even without emotions towards other people she could still feel what she could only assume was unease anytime she looked around the Talon base and saw her standing, looking at her computer screen. Se only glared but never engaged in any way shape or form. Amelie just wanted to shoot her in the face already so she wouldn't have to deal with it.
"You murdered her girlfriend. She's pissed off with you but she can't do anything so shut up and focus." This mission was important to him as if he got the Doomfist gauntlet then it could ensure Talon's victory. He could imagine his using it to pummel Jack into the ground. He didn't realise that he had mumbled Jack under his breath.
"Get over him Gabriel for Christ's sake." Everyone told Gabriel the exact same thing and just like when people told him he pretended like he was and that it didn't matter so much. It did sort of but he didn't want to think about it.
"You're the one to lecture me, you wouldn't be here if you gotten over losing Lena." He retorted back. After going on a couple of missions with him, she knew how to deal with his quips. She supposed her newfound sense of humour was mostly just putting people in their place. Whether it was due to the conditioning or she had just been through so much shit she cracked, she didn't know.
"I wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't you and your-" A sudden loud boom noise took her by surprise and as she was knocked off the roof and smashed through a glass roof by an armoured primate. She shot her grapple into a wall and went into her snipers position. She turned her gun into a rifle and shot at Winston. He seemed to be trying to protect someone but she couldn't see who it was.
She kept on shooting at him but when he finally got some common sense and went to attack her Gabriel intercepted.
Winston's glasses fell off his face and while Amelie was about to take the glove she knew what Gabriel was going to do as soon as his foot was hovering over it. She glared at him not to as it would unleash his primal rage but he was enjoying the moment too much to resist. Amelie's final 'Don't you dare you son of a bitch' was ignored and as the glass shattered so did Winston's calm. He turned into the raging ape and Amelie took her sights off the glove for one second to help him.
When Reaper got his situation back under control she looked and felt a small bit of shock when the gauntlet was no longer there. She needed to find it and fast or she would be dead. She was about to look around the corner when she heard something very unusual. A small child yelling to 'watch out'. She had enough of these petty distractions and her sights were locked in one the child in the Reinhardt top. Her finger and brushed against the trigger before another voice captured her attention.
"Hey!"
She underestimated how much the Doomfist gauntlet would hurt. Then again she supposed it wasn't called Doomfist for nothing. She was lucky that it didn't punch out her entire abdomen. She looked around for the child who had used it against her and she had him in her sights. She too the shot but once again the gorilla blocked her shot the shot pinged of his armour.
Lena kicked then gun out of her hands and used it against her. She tried to use her grappling hook to get away but Lena was the quicker of the two and pinned her down, leaving her totally defenceless. Winston was going to help but Reaper was keeping him well enough occupied with his double shot guns.
Amelie saw Lena was reaching to take off her visor she screamed in her face not too, if she did then the whole thing would be ruined. Lena heard her plea and the voice was defiantly her wife's. The visor that had been covering her face was ripped of ferociously and Lena got the confirmation she needed. It was indeed Amelie who was under the visor. Amelie look horrified but not as horrified as Lena.
It was tough for her to find the words but Amelie could tell everything from the hurt that resided on her face. Amelie would have done anything to take all of this pain away from Lena. This was why she joined this group in the first place, so she wouldn't have to see the pained face on her.
Lena was close to laughing but it wasn't her normal adorable laugh, no, this was the close to breaking laugh. She couldn't even think of what to do. She had pretty much been told all along that Amelie was this Widowmaker assassin but now that the proof was literally staring her in the face, looking regretful.
"Why?! Why would you do this?" She screamed in Amelie's face. Amelie didn't expect her to react like this. Lena needed this, she needed answers as to why she would do something like this to her. And the most important question she needed answered, did she ever love her or had it all been a plot against her?
"At least tell me you really loved me…" Lena was so close to breaking down she could feel her tears starting to flow. She leaned into her face so that she could say it to her face. Amelie couldn't think. The conditioning had weakened her emotions but she didn't expect it would cloud her feelings about Lena. Fog was plaguing her head and she felt like she was drowning trying to figure it out.
She tried to speak but as she began to choke despite Lena not having her hands anywhere near her neck. Lena didn't know what to do. This wasn't like Amelie and it seemed like she was having drowning on dry land. An instinct from the past came back and she eased up on her, as much as it pained her now she couldn't stand to see Amelie in pain. Amelie took the opportunity Lena had unintentionally given her to escape.
"Lena, sweet foolish girl." She said in a harsh voice but with still the panic.
She pushed Lena out of her way as she grappled onto the Talon air carrier taking Reaper along with her. Along the way she put a momentary destabiliser on her accelerator. She fazed out for a moment but it was long enough for Amelie to make her daring escape. Amelie hadn't felt emotions for a long time but this was hurting her more than anything so far. She tried to hold back her tears but she let one slip. She knew that if Talon found out they would have to condition her once again.
And lords know they would not have any mercy this time. She couldn't feel any pain anymore but she knew they would find a way to make her feel it. Or worse. Psychologically breaking her.
Winston helped Lena up checking her chronal accelerator making sure there was no more damage. His armour had a small implant which gave off the field which kept Lena in her timeline so that even if there was a problem with her anchor then if she stayed close to him it should make do until he got it sorted properly.
"It was her." Ana had told everyone about what she had seen and she was met with mixed reactions. A majority of them just assumed that she had seen it wrong and had gotten confused while a select few did believe her. Tracer being the one who believed her the most only due to the encounter with Sombra. Winston didn't make any comment but he did have earlier suspicions due to the same visor that was used.
"I'm sorry." He didn't exactly know what to say, what do you say when your friends ex-wife turns out to be an assassin for the enemy?
"Just get us back to HQ." She said visibly tired. She was drained and not just from her accelerator being nearly busted. Winston complied and they both made their way back.
Later.
They arrived back and only a few people seemed to be at the base at this time. All noticed how rough a shape Lena was in and thankfully Winston was able to call in advanced and have Angela get out a new chronal accelerator to replace the damaged one.
"Yo, Tracer. Y'all need a medic?" He said noticing how she had a bit of a problem picking herself up. She was able to steady herself against a table and shook it off as she did.
"What went down? You look in pretty rough shape." Said Lucio using his sound amplifier to tend to Lena's minor scrapes and bruises. He normally tended to these types of things as Angela was busy help Fareeha. With what he didn't know but he could only assume that it was either medical or romantic.
"It was Amelie, it was really her." She wasn't even noticing the pain she was too conflicted on what was going through her head. It had gone so differently from what she originally planned. She had so many things she needed to think through. First Amelie never answered her question, she just called her a foolish girl so her Amelie was still in there but then there was the other main factor. She had choked up when she tried to talk. Lena knew what it was like during the conditioning, when she tried to talk back she felt an invisible force grabbing her by the throat, restricting her air supply.
Lena began to think maybe instead of being angry she should have thought of the situations where Amelie may have been kidnapped and forced into it. As well she was beginning to think that Sombra only told her a half truth. Then again there was still the fact that Amelie had been lying to her. Lena hated not having all the pieces of the puzzle. It was tearing her apart mentally. She had been so set on getting answer and even though Amelie said little she felt like she got all she needed.
Everyone around her was in shock. They hadn't expect that would be what happened but everyone had their own opinion on the matter.
Fareeha assumed she was just imagining it, McCree took her word for it and Soldier 76 didn't want to believe that he had lost another important person in his life.
"So it was true." Ana came on the scene. It seemed that Ana was wearing a blue and black eyepatch to cover her missing eye. It looked well on her but it was clearly making her uncomfortable. She was constantly given the teams sympathy which didn't help at all.
"Do you think she's under Talon's thumb?" She asked wanting to know if she had been brainwashed or if Amelie had knowingly and willingly taken out the one thing that made her useful to the team
"I'm not sure. I'm just trying to think of when this could have happened."
"Maybe they kidnapped her during the mission in Nepal and that was just a body double." Solider 76 suggested. He had seen Gabriel use this tactic once before and it ended up fooling a lot of people until they found out the real person had been captured as a talon agent.
"Why would she do this?!" Lena said suddenly getting everyone's attention on her. She had said it normally but there was so much uncertainty in her voice it almost made her seem like she was yelling.
"You know how Gabriel works. He'd do anything to destroy us." Jack said looking to the side. He wasn't wearing his visor so his sight was practically non-existent. The looking to the side was because it was a natural reaction he had when felt guilty about something.
"When I asked her if she loved me she started to choke on the air, it did seem like the Talon conditioning. But she still had her free will." They all just wanted to give her a hug she seemed so conflicted. Ana was the one who went in for the hug and Lena pulled her in for a hard and tight one.
Something about it seemed off to Solider 76. Amelie clearly was being controlled will but she wasn't conditioned. As Jack thought more about he theorized and then it clicked into place. Gabriel had really thought of everything.
"Talon got her, but not in the way that we thought…, Lena, I think they told her you still have your conditioning. They tricked her into being their slave." This pulled Lena from her hug with Ana and Lena took a moment to think about it. It did seem like a good answer. If they told her that she would have done anything to stop them from doing anything to her.
"Ame... I can't leave Overwatch now. I have to stay and fight Talon. As soon as they're destroyed then Amelie will be free."
"I have to destroy Talon to save her."
Unbeknownst to her on the other side of the world Amelie was in the Talon medical bay, whispering something similar to herself while holding her wedding ring.
"I have to destroy Overwatch to save her."
One more chap and it's done. Hopefully.