Location: Somewhere in the Italian airspace, in the Overwatch plane.
Mercy was watching over the vital signs of the strange girl they had picked up from the base, the heartbeat was slow but steady, she showed no signs of waking up. However, the strange port wine birthmark that covered her left ear and part of her face was odd and looked more like a healed burn mark.
Mercy checked her over and was trying to cool her body down with wet cold towels, as she was burning up badly. Maybe she was sick with something? It might explain why she was in a laboratory, but why was she there in the first place in a research facility for Talon made Omnics. When Mercy had seen her, she saw the scared look on the woman's face, the vulnerability, the fear of the crossfire and of Reaper showing up.
Something just didn't add up… well… it did. But Mercy felt a chill in her spine at the idea or even suggestion that this was some kind of experiment.
"Angela, do you need something to drink?"
She snapped out of her thoughts and looked up to see Reinhardt, looking down at her, he had his helmet off and tucked her his arm, his pure white hair and bread fluff was well groomed and clean, and his kind eyes and smile was always a welcome to any of his allies. She gave him a sad smile and shook her head, "ah no Reinhardt, I am fine. I'm just worried for our new friend here."
"As am I Angela. Have ve found anything to say vho she is? Anything at all?"
The winged medic nodded and slowly lifted the neck of the girl, showing a tattoo on her neck, no tattoo would imply it was chosen by the person, it was more of a branding to say which experiment she was. The number on her neck was 190, there was also a patch of no skin under it were wires looked as if they had attached.
"Bei allem, was in dieser Welt heilig ist ... was haben sie mit ihr?" Reinhardt said in his native tongue, he was horrified by this well and truly.
"You and I both can guess what they might have been doing to her," she said darkly, she wanted to cry for this girl and the pain she must have went through, but she kept a cool face, years being a medic did slowly numb one to such horrors.
"Does Jack know vhy Reaper might have been there? Think it has something to do vith her?"
"I haven't spoken to him since we managed to stabilise her, he went to pilot the plane for some peace after the fight. Hanzo is hiding somewhere I bet, as usual. And maybe it does do, when she wakes up we can ask her," Angela sighs and slowly moves the girl's hair from slightly covering her eyes.
"Think she vill survive?" Reinhardt said, his tone was sad and concerned.
"I don't know Reinhardt, I don't know."
Just as she said that, the girl's vitals increase a bit and a groan was heard, the girl's eyes slowly open and blink as the light hurt her eyes. Mercy and Reinhardt look down at this and cry out in surprise and even a tad bit of happiness that she was even alive to the world.
She looks around at the lion man and then the angel, even at the archer on the shelf that was watching like some owl. She suddenly looked light headed and then passes out again, the eyes rolling to the back of the head.
The pair then cry out in horror as Mercy opened the girl's eye and shines a light in, as Reinhardt checked the girl's vitals.
-Meanwhile in an unknown Talon Headquarters-
Reaper was, for a lack of a better word, pissed. Overwatch blew up the Chinese research facility and now he was having to march straight to the head scientist and explain his failure. He walks up the stairs and knocks on the door of the laboratory.
On the other side of the door was a mysterious man sitting at his desk, surrounded by computers. Watching numbers go across the screen and smiling like a Cheshire Cat. When he heard the knock, he didn't look away and simply said, "enter."
Reaper enters the laboratory, even someone like him was creeped out by this place and by this crackpot. The mysterious man finally turns to face him and smiles slightly, crossing his legs and leaning back, "Reaper. How can I help you?"
"Conundrum... I am sorry to report some rather... unsatisfactory news," the man removed his mask and looked down, the hood still shadowing his face as he refused to face the other person.
"Oh? And what would that be?" Conundrum raised an eyebrow at this.
"Overwatch attacked one of our... your research facilities," Reaper growls deeply.
"Oh that. Yes, I'm aware. I told those idiots to evacuate but they were too slow. I have people fixing any damages that your men or my workers may have sustained. While I appreciate the concern, that went exactly how it was supposed to," he turned back to his screens, being incredibly calm and flippant for someone of his power.
"That isn't all Conundrum..."
"Oh?" Conundrum said without even looking back.
"Experiment 190 was caught up in the attack... and she was taken..."
"Well, yes, of course she was." Conundrum said, still not even sounding slightly distressed.
"Wait… excuse me?" Reaper looked up at this, his teeth bared as the lights of the lab hit his torn apart face and bright red eyes.
Conundrum swung his chair around again, "don't you think it odd how that experiment was the only one in that building at the time of the attack? Or that she was specifically in the lab that had little to no information connecting it to any other lab? Or how Overwatch seemed to have magically known where this lab was?"
"I assumed you didn't want her in contact with the other experiments, or was about to release her into active service. And I did find it rather strange Overwatch and that puto boy scout bonita de un héroe discovered our location..."
"No, my friend. You see, sure, she was a super soldier. But look at yourself. Look at Widowmaker. We can get more super soldiers any time. What I was working on was much bigger than that..."
"Puede explicar bastardo loco."
"I would love to explain...actually...why don't I show you?" He got out of his chair and stepped to the side. On his computer screen was camera footage of inside the Overwatch airship, with the experiment lying on the table being tended to by Mercy and Reinhardt. Next to this footage was a command input box.
Reaper blinks at this, seeing Mercy again boiled his blood fully, he hadn't of forgot what she had done to him or the jealously he felt when she dated Jack.
"Why don't we wake her up?" Conund smiled and leaned over, typing a command for the subject to awaken and begin making hostile contact into the box before hitting the enter key.
"No." Reaper may hate Mercy for what she did, but he did still fancy her and have fond memories from their Blackwatch days. Conundrum sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Fine...ya bleeding heart..." He mumbled under his breath as he cancelled the last input and instead simply had her wake up.
"Uno fino para hablar cuando esa chica era su mascot."
Xifeng slowly woke up on the monitor, her eyes open slightly and as groans, Mercy and Reinhardt notice this and check her over. So does Hanzo meditating nearby. Conund ignores that last comment and smiles as he watches her awaken.
"The best part? She thinks everything I tell her to do is her idea. But...that's just phase 1 of my plan."
Chatter was heard over the line as Mercy was trying to calm Xifeng down, but the girl passes out again much to the dismay of the team, "and?"
"And... if you want to see phase 2...I suggest bringing someone in here...unless you wish to be my demonstration subject."
Reaper growls at him and calls a Talon agent, who arrives promptly and without question.
"Good," Conund grabs a crossbow and grins, aiming it at the agent's head, "hold still."
The agent blinked and did nothing, you got to love brainwashed soldiers. Conund fired the crossbow at its head and a small, robotic antenna attached to its head. He then pulled a keyboard up from his desk and started typing.
"Watch as I make him dance."
Reaper doubted this would work, but sure enough, the soldier would start dancing to Conund's command and Conund would start cackling like a madman.
"Loco bastardo."
"So... here's my plan," he switches off the mind control device and grins, "we get my pet to lure Overwatch to a secure location. Then I use this to get them all under my thumb."
"Very clever Conundrum."
"Why thank you," he grinned before getting back unto his chair.
"How sure are you this is going to work?" He growls as the agent ran out of the room in horror.
"Almost positive," he grinned.
-An hour so later, location: Watchpoint Gibraltar-
When the ramp came down, Mercy came flying out with Reinhardt carrying the ragdoll that was the girl, Hanzo, Bastion and 76 walked on to the runway and followed the pair. Winston came out along with Zenyatta as they had been told that a patient was coming in.
Mercy flew past them and said, "I've been stabilizing her throughout ze flight, but she's still critical. Winston I need you to get her in a body scanner and check for any broken bones or internal bleeding, Zenyatta I need an Orb of Harmony on her while I examine her."
"Already on it," Winston huffed as he ran on all fours to the medical bay, Zenyatta followed by Mercy's side and summoned an Orb of Harmony on the girl, "already on it Ms. Ziegler."
When the team reached the medical bay, she was taken in right away for a scan to see what damage she had. The others tried to follow but Angela threw them out, stating that, "I vill let you know if she's okay."
Bastion whirred sadly and headed off to recharge and run diagnostics as the battle has drained him and left him needing repairs, Hanzo gave a sigh and gave a courteous nod to both 76 and Reinhardt before heading off to mediate, the pair nodded back in silence before the clansman walked off.
This just left the brave old lionman and the scared commander waiting outside the medical bay, after a while of sitting silence between the pair, 76 took off his visor and places it on his knee. His face was scarred from the incident at the original Overwatch HQ in which he was presumed dead, there were a few wrinkles under his eyes, showing how both stress and age had taken a toll on the blonde, blue eyed, boy scout.
He ruffles his snow white hair and gives a huge sigh, the older man gives him a sad and understanding smile and says, "ze girl vill be fine Jack, if anyone can save her, it's good old Angie!"
"I know that Reinhardt, I very much know that. But I'm questioning if it was wise to bring her back to the base." The grizzled and experienced voice of Jack said, staring at his visor, "Angela was saying that the girl was some kind of experiment from Talon, had a barcode and number on her neck."
"You're thinking of Amelie again aren't you."
Jack nods and looks at the man darkly, "this sounds similar to what happened to her. But… the barcode and the number. She sounds like she is one of many experiments, I find it sickening she is just a number to Talon."
"As do I Jack, what are ve going to do vith her if she survives…?"
"We'll decide that when we find out if she survives or not…"