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After a quick laugh at Jacob's expense the group quickly regained their normal tempers. Jacob returning to his human form and letting his mother ruffle his hair one more time.

"So when is everyone else coming?"

He asked Cairo. The arabic boy hummed.

"I wasn't told. I didn't have time to stop by the lunar watch point before I came here. Who knows?"

Jacob hummed. He was really hoping either Veronika or Derek came next, or even Destiny. They needed an actual healer and perhaps a tank.

"Fair enough. Can we try getting in contact with Bloodhardt? See if he can get Valkyrie and they can come in next? No offense to Jay, but we need a healing support and even as a Worgen I am no tank."

Cairo nodded.

"I can see about that happening. I'll contact them."

He said calmly before walking off to talk where he could be uninterrupted. Adrianna thought of it.

"I can't wait until everyone gets here. I do miss my sniping contests with Farouk. He was always a fun opponent."

Jacob laughed.

"Yeah, and then you both get to explain to his mother why you haven't killed each other yet. Or at the least why you weren't the one responsible for nearly blinding him."

Adrianna's face went completely neutral.

"It is not my fault that my mother likes to 'keep things in the family' as it goes."

Lena was about to ask what that meant before deciding against it. She honestly didn't want to know everything that had happened to the kids, but knew she'd eventually find out when Pharah's son returned, in the grip of the woman who'd birthed him.

"Ouch….dude, are you alright?"

Cairo coughed and wiggled. She was holding him up by the back of his shirt as Winston rapidly explained to Pharah what was going on. Cairo practically pleading with for her to believe the gorilla and set him down. Jacob sighed. He knew one way that was guaranteed to get Pharah to let go and he told his plan to Cairo while she was listening to Winston, catching her off guard when the fourteen year old boy turned into a raven, in her shock, she let go long enough for Cairo to fly over to Satya and land.

"I now believe the entire time travel thing. When are the rest of the kids coming?"

Cairo flew to the ground and changed back.

"Bloodhardt and Valkyrie, I mean Richard and Destiny, should be here by dinner time."

Pharah looked at her son.

"And their parents are?"

Jacob decided to cover for his friend.

"Richard's parents are Reinhardt and Johanna and Destiny's parents are Angela Ziegler and Uther. An Angel. A literal angel."

Pharah hummed, relaxing a bit when Jacob realized.

"Wait, have we ever seen Valkyrie use a hammer?"

Cairo shrugged.

"Not that I know of, but I have realized that with the upgrades to her mother's caduceus it is a….painful... melee weapon. I think Jay built her a hardlight hammer head."

Adrianna laughed. She was a close friend to Destiny, and knew that there was indeed a button on her caduceus that turned it from healing and damage boosting to health draining and pain inducing. For a medic she swung the thing with a strength one would expect more from Uther than Angela.

"I believe it. Richard is almost scarier though. By far scarier than Reinhardt."

Jacob laughed. Richard was a nice guy, but was just as big as his Dad, his hammer turned into a giant claymore, and he was twice as fast with a mission only mean streak to boot. He didn't joke on missions like his father did, adopting a much crueller persona, which was why he was called Bloodhardt.

"I think that only applies to our missions. Remember the first one? I don't think the talon agents actually expected him to be able to swing the hammer!"

Cairo allowed a bit of a grin as Jayesh stood next to him. Lena didn't interrupt the kids as they enjoyed their time reminiscing.

The four of them heading to one of the mission debriefing rooms that had been turned into a common area to continue with their stories.

"It's strange. How quickly they go from highly trained soldiers to children who are just barely teenagers."

Satya said calmly. Lena and Winston nodded.

"It is. But at the same time, they grew up like this. Going back and forth between soldiers and children. I don't think anyone else was there to actually raise them either. At least not from Overwatch. If one of us had been alive, they wouldn't be child soldiers. Someone would have stepped up to protect them."

Lena said, a small bit of sadness in her voice. Winston patted her on the shoulder.

"At least the children are alright. From what we've seen thus far they each have access to at least some of our gear and have upgraded it to be even more useful for them. These kids have everything it takes and more to make it. And if they're here to help us, well, changing one thing in the past can change their entire future. They know that."

Satya picked up quickly.

"They know that if they destroy Talon in our time, in their time they can grow up relatively normal teens with relatively normal lives. Relative being the optimal term. With us as parents I don't think they were going to have normal lives anyway."

Lena and Winston couldn't help but laugh. Neither of them had been expecting to hear Satya tell a joke.

However, it was the sudden appearance of Jacob headed back to the lab that got their attention. Following him, they weren't all that surprised to see two new teens step through the portal. The girl having white blonde hair and piercing, almost glowing blue eyes. Strapped to her waist was a model of Mercy's hand gun, obviously heavily modified, and strapped to her back was the caduceus they'd heard of. Other than her weapons, she did seem to have a version of her mother's flight suit on, but it seemed to be similar to Cairo's as far as the wings went. Being directly connected to her skeleton and being able to be summoned at will.

The boy next to her was strangely threatening. He was nearing seven feet tall with an impressive bulk hidden inside a massive suit of armor with a cross engraved on the front. His helmet was under one arm, revealing honey blonde hair and dark blue eyes. His hammer was on his back where it could be easily accessed.

"Well if it isn't the light at the end of the tunnel."

Jacob teased the girl. She responded quickly with a calm swiss-german accent.

"Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel, is a train."

Richard looked at her.

"I swear you're way too violent to be a medic, but I guess I can't judge, your Dad did heal people with a hammer."

Jacob nodded and Richard spoke again.

"He has a point, with a name like Destiny you have a nasty habit of ending people's lives before they can reach theirs."

Destiny looked at him.

"With a name like Bloodhardt one would expect you to be less of a scaredy cat."

She shot back. Richard gasped, as if greatly offended.

"Akarat have mercy on you, for I will not."

He growled. Jacob stepped in quickly.

"Okay! No need for a crusader vs paladin brawl! We need this place to still be standing! Why don't you guys go hang out with your parents?"

Destiny hummed and walked off as Richard did the same. Lena spoke up.

"A bit violent for a medic and a paladin."

Jacob shrugged.

"I think she was just tired. And Richard's like a brother to her. They continuously piss each other off."

Lena shrugged. That did make sense, and she left it alone. She was just trying to figure out how much damage those two could do in a fight.

A/N

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