Watchpoint Gibraltar was a long way from the town where they found Noble 6 so Winston decided to find out more about her and her answers surprised him, "I would like to apologise for my behaviour back there. I was under the impression that you had assaulted one of my best agents and I see now that I must have been mistaken, it was most odd to have Sombra recommend a total stranger. Do you know each other?" Winston asked curiously, Noble 6 replied "I have never met her before today, however our encounter left us with significant knowledge about the other, under normal circumstances I would either arrest or kill her for knowing what she does but things seem a little more complicated than that" Winston was shocked to hear such a casual unveiled threat to Overwatch's public leader, "just who ARE you?"he asked incredulously "A lieutenant in the UNSC and the last remaining MK III Spartan probably the last Spartan at all they called me Noble 6 so just call me 6" Winston thought about this response, "do you know anything about the Pillar of Autumn?" Noble 6 removed her helmet and looked the ape straight in the eyes " I lost my entire team, my friends, the whole world I grew up on and nearly my own life to get the Pillar away from the covenant, why is she here now?"
Winston sat there for a moment then said with quiet concern " the Pillar crash landed somewhere in Europe, unfortunately Talon, a terrorist cell, got to the crash site first. We need to know what kind of weapons we could end up dealing with here" Noble 6 shook her head and said "the Pillar was a military vessel complete with a full armoury, Mongoose rapid response Quad bikes with a seat on the back for a passenger, warthogs highly responsive lightly armoured cars with miniguns mounted on the back and room for a passenger in the front, other configurations include a gauss cannon, an open back for troop transport and a lock on missile launcher that fires volleys of 6 missiles at a time, Scorpion MBTs with a 360 degrees turret and 2 MGs one on the turret one on a separately manned turret for close range defence, Hornet Aerial Assault Vehicles armed with a machine gun, twin missile launchers and defensive flares, Elephant Mobile Command Centres, 4 machine gun turrets protecting a machine big enough to carry a warthog and a couple of mongooses and still have the room and resources to act as a base for scouting and a full comms relay suite, and the ability to drive around while doing all this, then there is the pillar herself with a MAC cannon capable of firing rounds with the Impact of a small nuke and a slip space drive which if fired up incorrectly could destroy an entire city instantly, potentially the world since Earth is quite small." Sombra slowly sat up and immediately noticed she was surrounded by armoured giants "ai ai ai, what happened to me, last thing I remember is hacking some really cool armour and checking it out up close. then nada then plane." Winston chuckled as 6 replied " I knocked you out once I could move again." Sombra slowly sat up and immediately noticed she was surrounded by armoured giants " ai ai ai, what happened to me, last thing I remember is hacking some really cool armour and checking it out up close. then nada then plane. " 6 replied "I knocked you out once I could move again." Sombra looked at Winston and said " hey monkeyman we should definitely be letting her join, I saw what that suits made of and it is SCAAARY!" 6 chuckled at the compliment, Winston replied "oh I intend to make sure of it as soon as we arrive at Gibraltar, Reinhardt should be waiting for us as will Mei, Hana and Angela. Zenyatta, Genji and Jesse are off in Peru looking for a vigilante going by Soldier 76, Torbjorn should be waiting for us too now that I think of it," 6 interrupted "now hold on a minute Reinhardt? The Reinhardt? The old German Crusader? Torbjorn too?" Winston nodded, "There's no way that can be true, Reinhardt's armour heavily influenced the development of my own, and Torbjorn helped with the original design concept, but it wasn't until a couple of centuries after their deaths that the UNSC actually took the idea and put it in development. How can they be alive? I always wanted to meet Reinhardt, but I never had the chance..." Sombra looked at 6 and quietly asked "Senorita what year do you think this is?" Noble 6 shook her head and said " it's clearly not 2552 anymore so why don't you tell me?" Winston frowned, and he said to 6 "I'm afraid that is very much correct, the year is currently 2072, I'm sorry." 6 sighed and sat back down "to think I get sucked almost 500 years into the past and I still can't escape the covenant, this sucks." the drop ship jolted and 6 was flung into the ceiling and back to the floor, luckily her shields absorbed a lot of the impact and her armour took the rest, 6 heard the pilot shout "we have bogeys on us at 6 o'clock, taking evasive action, strap in!" 6 ignored the strap in, but quickly helped to get Sombra and Winston in place, then she showed, what was to everyone else insanity, by opening up the bay door, she saw 3 Banshees on their tail, but one had dipped down to drop a fuel rod bomb on something, that was her ticket, she quickly calculated and jumped, the impact from the fall knocked out her shields completely...but she was on the back of the Banshee and she quickly set about opening it up, she then yanked the pilot out and slotted herself in the cramped cockpit, she decided to test out the capabilities of her new vehicle, making it do a somersault and simultaneously firing a fuel rod at the Elite that had been the pilot, it landed right on his chest killing the alien, satisfied 6 quickly climbed to the altitude the drop ship was on. She was a fair distance behind the chase and used the fighter's boosters to catch up, meanwhile inside the drop ship Tracer felt like she was going to end up breaking the controls for the ship with how she had to throw it around, truth be told she felt like she was probably going to die here. The ship was pretty much a goner and the third hostile had reappeared, she threw the ship into another haphazard roll to avoid another missile and one of the enemies vanished, 6 barrel rolled and was behind the other banshee immediately spraying it out of the sky with plasma blasters. Tracer cheered when the second one vanished even if she wasn't quite sure what was going on. She had to put the ship down somewhere though, and the nearest town with an airport was Numbani which could work, except she risked bringing Overwatch's activities into public eyes, although the petris act had been lifted and it wasn't illegal anymore, it wasn't public knowledge that overwatch was back in action and it would be a long time until they thought the public at large would accept them, however Tracer decided it was worth risking that exposure considering the planet wide invasion, and she began to fly to the airport, hoping to land and refuel/repair or better still find a replacement, what they found there was a city under siege by the alien forces, a lot of them: Banshees, Spirits, Phantoms and Engineers filled the sky, Locusts were destroying buildings at random withdevastating direct energy weapons, there were Wraiths and Ghosts everywhere opening fire on civilian vehicles and civilians, countless covenant infantry blanketing large portions of the streets, there was even a Scarab obliterating a whole city block with it's giant plasma beam, 6 sped her Banshee towards it on sight while Tracer hid the drop ship behind a sky scraper and went to join her passengers in the hold, "we had to stop in Numbani, this bird is buggered and there's no politer way of saying it-" Sombra quickly interrupted "what about FUBAR?" Tracer sighed and continued "the thing is Numbani is done for. The aliens are all over the place destroying everything, they have a 4 legged super tank the size of a building with a death beam!" it was at that moment, that a massive explosion shook everything and the team was thrown out of the ship