"Snake, if you have a minute, I would like to talk to you about something."

"Naomi. What is it?"

"A medical exam. Despite that— that FOXDIE is still in your bloodstream, it's still hasn't put you into cardiac arrest once. All of FOXHOUND succumbed to it in mere hours… but you've outlived them by years."

"It's like what you said back after Shadow Moses. I have a lot of living left to do."

"Don't be coy; there's got to be a real, scientific reason. Are you taking anything? Maybe it's somewhere in your genetics that gives you a better resilience. You certainly don't have a pacemaker…"

"I'm feeling fine right now. I can do your tests or whatever else when I get back."

"How can you not understand yet? Snake… I've killed you. Thank God it's taking longer than most, but you're living on borrowed time. And if FOXDIE doesn't act first, then it'll be from your decomposing genetic material."

"Pretty sure I've said I forgave you before."

"That's beside the point! As a doctor, I've failed my patient. I can't even correct my own mistake."

"Something in particular got you thinking about this?"

"There's one more thing worth a try. It's the hybrid bio-nano formula devised by Overwatch's own Doctor Ziegler. She's found use of it not just in first-response warzones, but for surgery. Maybe I could tinker with the RNA to get better results."

"Thanks, but no thanks. You already know my opinion on these days' nanomachines. If anything, they're more dangerous than ours, way more opportunities for biological warfare. Sure, maybe one or two people get saved, but nothing good can come out of it."

"Maybe. Ziegler is single handedly responsible for many medical breakthroughs in the last decade. At least she wasn't born during out time. There's a reason her callsign is 'Mercy.'"

"Wait, that Mercy?"

"Is there a problem?"

"She isn't in the doctor's office anymore. She's right here, hovering around and tethering herself to her teammates with this energy beam. Her getup lets her glide around everywhere."

"The Valkyrie Suit, another one of her inventions. Basic propulsion system, deploys biogel to the wearer, LED hud, plasma-based sidearm— I've read its deceptively powerful— the suit sounds useful. Being out there to make a direct impact, instead of staying behind to patch up the aftermath…"

"Thought about getting one?"

"You're the one who keeps saying people slow you down."

"What? It's not every day that the resident medic engineers a way to kill their former teammates. And I bet you'd look good in it."