A slight warning. This chapter is a bit darker than the previous ones.
"Is it not time to wake up now Amélie?" A voice said and Noir slowly opened her eyes.
She seemed to be in some sort of medical room and she was strapped into a chair and unable to move.
Then sudeley a light lit up right in front of her and a doctor walked up to her.
"Seems like someone have been a bit disobedient lately. Miss Lacroix" He said.
"Did not your people decide to kill me?" She replied not even looking back at him.
"Well yes. But I would not want such a valuable asset go to waste like that." He said.
"I'm not going to be your tool ever again." She said with an angry tone.
And the doctor just laughed.
"Well we will see about that Amélie. Or should I say Noir?"
"Salaud! What have you done with her!?" She said now staring at him with angry eyes.
"Oh what fierce look you have there. Well we have done nothing to her yet." He replied as he started to tinker with some instruments.
"What are you going to do with her?" Noir asked still looking at him.
"Oh we have a few things planned for her. First we will try to get as much intel out of her as possible. Then we will try to make her into a new asset or agent if you will." He said and looked up from the instruments with a gring.
"Salaud! She is not a tool for you people to play with! Zut! I am going to kill you if you hurt her!" She almost screamed while trying to move in the chair.
He laughed again.
"These new emotions you have almost suit you. But that is not what we need of you." He said and waved in his assistant who started to strap things onto Noir's head.
"What are you doing to me?" Noir asked.
"Well we are going to have to break your will again." He said and waved to the assistant again.
Who this time lowered the back of the chair and lifted up the foot rest so now Noir was laying on her back. Still strapped down.
"This may sting a bit." He said and flicked a switch.
Noir sudeley felt a tremendous pain. First in her head then spreading throughout the rest of her body, And she started to scream in pain.
Memories started to appear. They were all random like from back when she was Amélie to when Talon first got their hands on her, to her time as Widomaker and even her time with Lena. both good and bad memories at the same time in combination with all the pain she was feeling.
"PLEASE MAKE STOP! IT HURTS! PLEASE! HELP ME! LENA!" She cried out in pain.
At the same time in another part of the base Lena woke up in a flash.
"Huh where am I?" She said and looked around the medical room that she was in.
"I see that you are awake miss Oxton." Said a female doctor that walked up to her.
"Who the hell are you?" Lena asked.
"I suggest that you watch your tone young lady" The doctor replied as she picked up a syringe on the table next to Lena.
"What are ye going to do to me?" Lena asked as she tried to move.
"Ahah don't try to move or trying to use your abilities. If you do then you will be dead within a heartbeat." She said pointed towards the collar around Lena's neck.
"If you try to leave this room or this base. Then that collar will fry your brain. But now when we have gotten that out of the way. It is time for you to talk." She continued.
"I ain't going to tell you anything." Lena replied and frowned at the doctor.
"Haha. We will see about that. At least you procedure will be less painful then Widowmaker's. For now." She said.
"What are you assholes doing to her! She is a living being dammit!" Lena screamed.
"Haha. Now now calm down a bit. There is no need for you to think about her for the moment. Right now it is all about you and what intel you could tell me." She said as she finally put the syringe into Lena's arm.
"Bastard." Was the last thing Lena was able to say before everything went blurry and she felt all fuzzy.
"Well do you feel like you have had enough?" Then doctor said when he finally turned off the machine.
Noir had no strength left to reply. But she just looked at him.
She still had determination in her eyes.
"What a pitty. But you are lucky. I have something else to attend to, so you can rest for a bit." He said and called in two guards.
They pulled her up.
She could not stand on her own.
Her legs just felt jelly.
And the guards put a collar around her neck just like Lena's before they started to drag her away.
They dragged her to a holding cell and just dropped her on the bunk and left and locked the door.
"Are you okay Luv?" Said a familiar voice.
And Noir looked up and across the hallway in the cell opposite to her's stood Lena.
Noir forced herself to sit up and said.
"I've been better. But it feels good to hear your voice again Chérie."
"What did they do to you Luv" Lena asked.
"They tried to break my will again. They want me to become their Widowmaker again." Noir replied.
"Why can they not just let you be. You have been thru enough already." Lena said.
"More importantly what did they do to you?" She asked and looked at Lena.
"They drugged me trying to get information out of me. My head still feels weird after it." She replied.
"I will kill you people for that." Noir said in a low voice.
"Did ye say something Luv?" Lena said.
"No. Sorry as much as it feels good to hear your voice again Chérie. I must rest for a bit." Noir said and laid down on the bunk again.
"I understand that Luv." Lena said in a calm voice.
"We will find a way out of this. I promise Chérie." Noir said before she fell asleep.
"Of course we will Luv. We always do." Lena said and sat down on her own bunk.
This is not a hell you are going to have go thru again. We will find away. Lena thought to herself.
Talon have been a thorn in Overwatch side for a long time. But what are their goals.
Thru all the years Talon's goals have never been clear.
Stealing important artifact, killing political figure heads. Are only a few things of what they do.
And they seem to have become a lot bigger and stronger after the original Overwatch fell.
But what about Reaper? How is Gabriel Reyes still alive? Did he not die together with Commander Morrison when the Swiss HQ was destroyed. And why is he with Talon now?
"It does not make any sense." Lena said to herself as she laid down and fell asleep.
Lena was awoken by the sound of the guards opening the door to Noir's cell and pulled her up and started to drag her away.
Lena went up to her door.
Noir tried to stop her with a small little shake of her head but Lena still said quite loudly.
"Hey what are ye assholes think ye are doing! Let her be!"
One of the guards stopped and turned back and opened the door to Lena's cell, And punched her in the stomach.
"You be quiet now little girl." He said and locked the door again and went back to the others.
"Bastard." Lena choughed.
They dragged her back to the same room as yesterday and strapped her in the chair again.
"Well well here we are again miss Noir." The doctor said.
And she just looked at him.
"So let's get to it then. We will not do the same thing today as we did before. No today we will play with your mind." He continued with a huge grin on his face and waved to his assistant again to start to put things on her head again.
The Doctor picked up a syringe and stuck in Noir's arm and said.
"Now we will let this to it's thing."
The thing in the syringe must have been some sort of hallucinogenic because the room went all black.
Suddenly she was on top of a rooftop in some city somewhere.
She had her normal gear but with one big difference. Her uniform.
It was not her normal purple jumpsuit. No this one was black with purple details and she had blue coat with a Overwatch logo with the name Lacroix under it on the side of her shoulder, and she had a smoke grenade instead if a venom mine
And a voice in her ear said.
"Amélie do you have eyes on the target?"
And Noir instinctively raised her rifle and looked thru the scope.
"It's the one in the cloak right." She said.
"Yes. That is Talon's new agent. She have already killed many of our people and multiple civilians as well" The voice replied.
"Very well." Noir said and took aim and fired.
But just as the bullet was about to hit the target. She vanished.
And Noir saw a red trace in the corner of her eye.
"Impossible" She said to herself.
"Cheers Luv!" Said a familiar voice behind her.
And Noir turned around to see the girl with short brown hair.
"Lena!?" Noir said.
"Amélie what is happening? Lena Lacroix your wife is dead!" The voice in her ear said.
"What's wrong Amélie? Are you not happy to see me Luv?" Lena said with her normal grin on her face.
Noir just stood there and looked at her.
Her uniform looked almost like it used to do. But this one was black and red.
Even the light from her Chronal Accelerator was red.
"I thought you were dead." Noir finally said
"Oh come on like I would die from a simple plane crash." Lena shrugged.
"But why are you with Talon? There were nothing more you hated than them." Noir said.
"Well it's not like I had a choice after that Overwatch had abandoned me." Lena replied.
"Abandoned you? We, I seriously thought that you died in that crash." Noir stuttered and took a step towards Lena.
"You really believe that rubbish that Overwatch told ye. That organization was a failure from the very beginning." She replied.
"What happened to you Lena? You used to believe in Overwatch ideals. You basically lived by them. You wanted to protect the innocent not kill them!" Noir almost screamed.
"What a pity. You seem to be far too deep in their shit for me to try to get you out of it." Lena said with a disappointed look at Noir, and she lifted up a pistol ready to shoot.
But just before Lena was able to take the shoot Noir fired of a smoke grenade from her wrist, and then quickly fired her grappling hook to get away.
"Amélie do you read me?" Said the voice in her ear again.
"Did you people know about this?! Did you know that she was alive?!" Noir said when got into cover and bullets from Lena's pistols could be heard in the background.
"Well Yes." The voice replied.
"Why the hell did you guys not tell me this?!" Noir said with an angry tone.
"We did not have the time to tell you. But calm down for a bit now. She is not the Lena Lacroix you once knew. Talon have twisted her to their will. We are sorry to ask this of you. But it's for her sake as well. You have to take the shoot you have to kill her." The voice said.
"Just shut the hell up! And let me think for a bit! Okay!" Noir said.
This was all wrong.
How the hell could all of this have happened?
Why would Overwatch lie to her?
And how could Lena fall to Talon?
Wait!
This is all wrong.
Not just this scenario.
But this entire world.
She was never married to Lena.
And Lena is not with Talon, she never was.
And Noir is not with Overwatch.
"What are ye thinking about Luv?" Lena suddenly arrived and started to open fire at her.
Noir easily evaded all of her shoots. She had never let Lena hit her before and she would not let her do it now either.
This must all be made up by Talon in order to try to break her.
Maybe she would have to try to kill Lena in order to break this illusion of theirs.
"Hey! Stop daydreaming and fight me Luv!" Lena said irritably.
"As you wish Chérie!" Noir replied as she finally started to fight back seriously.
And it quickly became the normal kind of deadly dance as it used to be.
But with one slight difference. Lena was making more mistakes than she usually did, and she also seemed a bit slower.
"You seem to have become sloppy after you joined Talon Chérie." Noir said as Lena laid on the ground.
"Oh just shut it! Just finish me Luv." Lena said irritably.
But just as she lifted her rifle to take the final shoot she realised something.
This was all too easy.
There is no way Lena would fight like that.
This is a far to easy way to break this illusion.
They want me to kill her.
They want to try to make her kill the one she love again.
So she lowered her rifle and said.
"I won't do it. I won't kill you."
"Pathetic." Lena said and grabbed one of her pistols and shoot a burst into Noir.
Noir fell down onto the ground and coughed up blood.
"I thought more of you Luv." Lena said and pointed her gun towards Noir's head.
"I will not kill the one I love again." Noir coughed.
"Hm Goodbye Amélie." Lena said.
"I'm not Amélie. I'm Noir Chérie." Noir closed her eyes and smiled.
And Lena pressed the trigger.
Noir woke up in a flash and quickly looked around the room.
She was back in the medical room again.
"Thank god it's over." She said quietly to herself.
Then she heard the doctor out in the hallway talking to someone.
"Dammit she almost fell for it. How can she have regained such a strong will, in such a short amount of time." He said.
"Ah well we just to continue to try to break her." A female voice replied.
"How is the process on Tracer going?" The doctor asked.
"Slow. But I feel like some progress have been made." The female voice replied.
At the same time Noir manage get one hand loose from the restraint, And she quickly got the other restraints off just as the doctor said.
"Guard go in there and get her back to her cell."
Noir quickly grabbed a scalpel and hid by the door ready to ambush the guard.
The guard had no chance to react when he entered.
Noir in just one simple motion stabbed him in the throat with the scalpel.
And the guard just fell lifeless down onto the floor.
Noir grabbed his gun and keys.
"Good this can take of the collar as well." Noir said as she inspected the various keys.
The guard had a collar hanging from his belt. Probably meant for her since they had to take it of before the procedure.
No alarm had gone yet which mean that the doctor and that woman must have left before the guard entered.
So Noir started to make her way toward the cells.
Lena was laying down on her bunk when Noir finally found her.
Noir knocked carefully on the door, and Lena replied with an irritated voice.
"What do you people want from me?"
"Chérie it's me." Noir said.
And Lena quickly went up to the door.
"Luv? How did you get free?" She said with a big smile.
"I'll explain later right now I need to get that collar of you." Noir said and opened the door.
And just as she got the collar of Lena the alarm went off.
"Let's go and find our gear and then get out of here as fast as possible" Noir said.
"Ayay right behind ye Luv." Lena replied in her normal cheerful tone.
This made Noir calm down a bit.
This is the Lena she knows and loves.
Well it feels like I'm just keep repeating myself by saying that the next chapter will be the last. But that is what I am aiming towards. Chapter 9 will be the finale (I hope. For this part of it at least)
I at least hoped ye like it so far. And as always reviews are always welcome.
