A strident alarm resonated through the building. Angela had been alone in the room for an hour at least, thinking about everything that had happened in the past few days. She held the electronic chip tightly against her heart, wondering if she was thinking about the right thing.
A click coming from the door brought her out of her head. She tried the handle and, to her surprise, it was unlocked.
As the alarm and fainted gunfire could be hear all around the place, she got out of the small room she was in and found herself alone in a tight corridor. In front of her, a few doors were visible, but one of them caught her eye : the window onto it and the color of the light coming from it ringed a bell in her head.
She got to it with slow steps : she was still very weak and had difficulties walking. She opened it and with it came the lightbulb in the middle of the room she had been kept in for the past few days. The chair was on the floor, which was all dirty and covered in blood, bile and other body fluid she had spilled onto it during all that time. A horrible stench was still present when she got to close to it.
She went on the table and on it, she found what she was looking for : her blaster, her belt and what was left of her Caduceus staff were there, left behind. The staff had the tip completely shattered and the metal that made the rod was bended, Widowmaker really did it her with powerful blow to be able to break it as much. A small note was written on a paper glued to the staff. « Sorry about that. Hope you'll be able to fix it. » She took it with her and armed herself with her pistol. She only then noticed her global locator, which was vibrantly flickering light on the back of the room, next to the computer monitor. She took it as well and turned around.
The wall on the other side of the room was covered in a splash of blood and it was only then that she remembered what caused it. Doomfist had sent Widowmaker across the room and onto that wall when he saved her. The strength of the gauntlet was a sight to behold and it made Angela shiver… was Widowmaker dead? Doomfist mention how he made sure she wouldn't disobey him again. One thing was sure, she wasn't in the room, nor did she seemed anywhere around. If she were somewhere, it would be out there fighting the police trying to get in.
With her staff and her blaster onto her, she got out of the room slowly and tried out the other doors, a small staircase led onto a floor on top of hers.
The place was dark, the lights seemed to have been shut down. She used her staff to help her walk as a new alarm sounded all over the building. She heard footsteps coming her direction and hid next to a wall : a small group of masked men ran across the corridor and onto the staircase she just went in. She hoped they didn't come to get her. She tried to accelerate her paste, but it was to painful.
Gunfire were heard behind her, along with screams, then complete silence. She hid away, but as the door opened, she sighted at what she saw : a steady metallic stature covered in blood with green light coming from all over it's body. « Genji… »
The man saw her and ran to her with small and silent steps. She kneeled to her to look at the bandages and her staff. Without a word, he took her in his arms and ran away with her.
She held onto him, closing her eyes… it was finally over.
As he got onto a new corridor, he stopped and put her back on her feet, only to say quietly : « Hide in that corner, there are people coming.
- Genji, there is no need to fight them, we can… »
He gently pushed her onto the dark corner and took out is smaller blades. He ran away and gunfire started pouring away. She could heard the clear sound of blades slashing quickly through flesh and saw blood being spilled onto the floor and the walls. She didn't look away from it, she had changed since the last time she saw such violence.
Genji retracted his blades and walked back to her, only to stop and stay completely immobile. Angela did the same, whatever he was doing, he knew better than her.
He turned around in the blink of an eye and threw his blades onto a wall, or at least Angela thought it was the wall. A scream could be heard and the figure of Sombra materialized next to the wall, with blades stuck into her waist. She fell down and Genji took out a knife and ran to her. « Genji! No! Wait! Not her! » Angela shouted.
Genji stopped right in front of Sombra, with a knife ready to open her throat. Sombra looked at him in horror, then at Angela who tried to get up and run to them, only she fell down with the pain in her abdomen getting worse. Genji put back his knife in his mechanical arm and ran back to her, leaving Sombra alone. She put her invisibility cloak back and disappeared without a trace.
He took her back in his arm and they walked up to a new floor. « We are getting closer to the exit. Over. » she said, seemingly talking into is earphone.
Something shot his leg and he fell onto the floor with Angela being thrown further away. A dark mist surrounded the place with soldier coming into the room. Bullet started being sent around the corridor as Angela crawled to safety in a corner, with Genji jumping onto her and using his body to protect her.
The shape of Reaper started materializing behind his soldiers as police men were trying to fight them back. At the end of the corridor, a blown up wall let a gaping hole in the building and the light of the day could be seen, with a large energy shield covering war vehicles firing at them. They were in the middle of the brawl.
Reaper noticed them and Genji got back up, with his leg sparkling and twitching. He got his katana out of it's cover and readied himself to the attack. Gabriel got his shotgun up. « Don't think I'll let you both escape that easily. »
He got shot in the back by small energy pellets and a figure twitched around the field. Tracer got next to them. « C'mon, now! Let's go! »
Genji jumped onto Reaper and the three got into the fight, with gunfire all around the place, Angela could only hope that none of them tried to get where she was hiding. A large mass jumped into the melee, putting down a large barrier and grabbing her. « I've got Mercy! Winston shouted in his earphone. »
As the battle raged on, Winston jumped out of the place with bullet following them, he landed behind Reinhart's barrier and ran away with Angela in his arms. The battle wasn't over yet, with bombs being dropped and constant gunfire.
Winston put her inside a large vehicle and looked at her wounds. She had received a bullet to the arm and one in the stomach, although she could barely feel them. She started having difficulty breathing. A mask was put on her face to help her and she was sent away from the battle. Winston held her head and looked at her. « It's alright now, Angela. We are going to get you back on your feet. You're safe. »
She looked at him and teared up. She try to reach out to his face to touch him, but her arm was trembling and her muscle objected to her. Nurses and robots got onto her and started treating her into the vehicle as the sound of the battle faded away. The light of the sun and the color of the sky though the windows of the vehicle made her smile and cry out what she had left. This time, they were tears of relief.