Overwatch: Last Stand
Chapter 9: The Chateau Guillard
A few days later, Melody was asked to take a trip to France to find Amelie. She arrived in Annecy in the Southeast and there she found Amelie's mansion. She enters the mansion and surveyed her surroundings. Never before has she seen such magnificence.
"Wow," she said to herself. "This woman must be living well."
"Bonjour, Mélodié," Amelie shows up in her gray sweater and pants and without her visor.
"Amelie."
"Pharah told me you were coming here. Let me show you around."
Amelie gave Melody a tour throughout her mansion.
"I am recently the owner of this chateau. It is actually an ancestral home. For hundreds of years, this chateau was the home of the Guillard family, until it fell in disrepair and their power gradually waned after the French Revolution in 1799."
Melody sees a computer with a message written in French. She used her armband to scan the info. It read: We confirm with this message that a limousine will wait for you at the Nice Cote d'Zur airport at 9:30PM. The journey between Nice and Monaco should last about thirty minutes. You can of course modify this reservation at your convenience. We remain at your disposal for any other request.
"My trip to Nice and Monaco were quite delight," said Amelie.
"Girl, you got a huge lap of luxury here," Melody agreed.
"Come. I will show you the dining hall.
Melody wide-eyed at the dining hall. This reminded her of Sindel's dining hall in Edenia, nearly identical.
"Incredible."
"This is where we usually eat our meals. Sirloin steak, baguettes..."
"Baguettes... speaking of that..."
Melody checked her HW bag and brought out what appears to be two freshly made baguettes.
"You bought me... baguettes?"
"Tracer's suggestion. You also left your rifle at the agency.
Melody showed Amelie her Widow's Kiss rifle. Amelia saw some modifications.
"Is that... a suppressor?
"Yes. Usually snipers take out their targets quietly with a suppressor, further cloaking your whereabouts. It is detachable. And this right here, see the extra barrel?"
"What can it do?"
"It is a grenade launcher. I took the liberty of modifying this rifle to give you more options, starting with the grenade launcher. It can fire frag rounds, clearing out enemy personnel from a safe distance. This is a frag round (Red) This is a flare round (Blue) Use this to call for backup at any time. If we see this flare, we'll find you and give you cover. This is a smoke round (Yellow) Useful to provide temporary obstruction of enemy vision and execute ambush attacks. And finally, an EMP round, (Light Purple) only useful against electronic equipment like security cameras, computers and the like. They can be useful against the Omnic. I was able to make good supplies of each, but the grenade launcher can only fire one round at a time so it requires you to reload each time."
"Extraordinary!"
Amelie aimed with a scope, but noticed that she activated night vision.
"The scope was also modified with several different types, including night vision, thermal vision and x-ray."
"X-Ray? You mean I could target the Omnic's weak points easily?"
"Exactly. Should there be another crisis, I think you'll be well prepared. Finally, AP (Armor Piercing) and AM (Anti-Material) rounds. You can use your own ammo, but extra firepower never hurts. It's what I mostly use during certain operations."
"No one will know what hit 'em, not even the fool Sombra. I never trusted her."
"Why?"
"To tell you the truth, Melody, I never wanted to be like this. I was happily married, until I killed him. My husband, Gerard."
Amelie showed Melody a photo of her and Gerard at the wedding.
"Why did you kill your husband?"
"I was controlled by Talon. Gerard became their target, and used me to dispose of him. I became Widowmaker, a cold, ruthless assassin with no regard and amnesty for the innocent. That is not what you see here, Melody. In the past, I was a accomplished ballet dancer."
"Talon reprogrammed you as their sleeper agent."
"Si. They suppressed my personality through neural reconditioning, until recently, during my assassination attempt, the reconditioning began to wear off. Memories of my past, my marriage, everything, was coming back to me. In my mind, I saw visions of my past. I realized that I needed to escape. My rival, Tracer, was sent to stop me, only to see me escaping instead. I told her that the mission was botched because of recent return to humanity. Suddenly, Tracer's chronal accelerator, unknown to her, created a vortex that took us 60 years into the past."
"You both found yourselves at my home in Los Angeles, during the Replicant crisis."
"I discovered you, Melody. Your military power is like nothing I have ever seen before. I required your aid in helping me take down Talon for destroying my life. And after recognizing what they've done to your birth home, it gave me more reason to take them down. That's why I need your help, Melody."
"Sombra has much to answer for, but I will not kill her. I cannot bring myself to do so. Justice will be done regardless, for both of us."
Back home at the HW agency, Jade was watching Melody's progress.
"Amelie LaCroix freed herself from Talon's grasp. It seems that that the closer they get to Talon and take them out, the closer we see Melody coming home safely."