After a while, Reaper sat up, then moved to stand. He stretched a second, then headed back inside the lab. He looked around and saw stillness, my form was no where. He moved up to the private lab, empty, then into the barracks, empty. Back in the main lab, he looked around, thought a long moment then glanced upward, he saw a leg hanging off a perch and chuckled. He kneeled down and teleported as a shadow up to the perch, remaining knelt at my side.
Carefully reaching over he touched my chin and turned my head, slowly, to make sure not to wake me up. He paused suddenly seeing my cheek, were they wet? He then touched my cheek and wiped it away bringing it closer to inspect. They were tears.
"Why would you cry, bird?" He asked softly. Sighing, he moved to sit beside me and brought me close, resting my head down on his lap. He sat there until morning when I lifted myself up and removed my helmet to rub my eyes. "Phoenix." He said sternly and I turned sharply to look at him, surprised to see him there. "Why were you crying?"
"I was?" I asked softly touching my cheek. "I didn't..."
"You didn't harm me." He said simply. "I was merely drained of energy. You must train yourself to contain the energy and release it when you need to."
"Yes, alright...I will. I'm sor-"
"Don't." He said cutting me off. "There is nothing to be sorry about." I smiled and nodded slightly. "Practice with it, I know you can sense it, feel it. Learn to control it."
"Yes, alright, I will get to it." I said lightly and slipped off the perch landing on my feet. I then moved and headed for the door.
"Where are you going, bird?" He asked looking down from the perch and I stopped a moment.
"To meditate." I answered then continued making my way outside. Once in the sun, I sighed and looked up at it, "you are my curse and my blessing." I sat down in the open area, ontop of a jet and crossed my legs, then began meditating. Soon enough, all my systems shut down and I was lost to the void of my mind.
Something seemed not right suddenly and I shifted uncomfortably opening my eyes to see darkness around me, had I been meditating into the night? That wasn't my concern at the moment. We weren't alone anymore. I began looking around, slowly inspecting the area around me when I heard a bullet sear past me. I jumped into the air and spread my wings but a second bullet came from another location and hit my wing exploding. I fell hard to the ground and growled softly, standing, I rushed inside.
"Reaper, we have company." I said grabbing my staff and watching him as he walked over to me.
"I know."
"Friends?" I asked and he shook his head.
"Omnic." He responded causing me to tense up. "There is only one exit to this place and we must fight our way through."
"Yea, alright. Let's do this." I muttered taking a deep breath, only to hear something burning the door which had them locked out. "If we get separated..."
"We won't." He said sternly drawing up his guns.
"If we do, let's meet up in the main city across the lake."
"Alright." The door burst open and we began fighting. Every one we dropped seemed to bring two more in, it seemed like a never ending battle. Just how many Omnic were in here? Still, we managed to fight through them, we neared the front gates, I healed him as we went, he covered me, I covered him. We made a well balanced team.
They soon brought out the bigger guns and it was stealthy, a sudden rocket explosion knocked us back from one another. I was up on a kneel but he was barely moving. Growling to myself, I spread my wings and launched forward, spinning my staff I slammed it on the ground and created a fire barrier around us. Extending my hand back, I healed him up and struggled against the fire barrier to keep it up against the attacks.
"Reaper. Get up." I said looking back at him, watching him slowly get to his feet. "My barrier is only going to weaken you, you need to escape."
"Excape where?"
"Teleport back to the lab, take the jet and get off the island." I said wincing slightly, my power, my barrier, was beginning to fail.
"What about you?" He snapped, angrily.
Chuckling I winked back at him, "I'll hold up this barrier until I hear the jet. I will then burst it out and follow you."
"Will you even have that much energy? You already look fatigued."
"The longer we stand around here talking, the less of a chance I have of keeping this up. So get to it and hurry."
"Alright. See you soon."
"Of course." I smiled watching him turn his back on me. "Oh, and Reaper?" He glanced over at me from over his shoulder and I hesitated to say what I was about to. Instead, I said, "Good luck."
"You too, bird." I saw shadows wrap over his body and he disappeared.
Frowning, I looked forward. "I love you, devil." I said softly and took in a deep breath. I burst the barrier out, sending a vicious fire attack which melted nearby Omnic. I then began fighting off rows and rows of them and heard the jet preparing for take off.
"Good." I muttered to myself and took a small explosion to the side of my face knocking me down and rolling. I cursed to myself and tried to get up but another explosion knocked me back into a wall, then it was hard to move. I watched the Omnic being to move towards me and I waited. Why weren't they killing me?
I glanced upward and saw the jet take off, but the Omnic in the sky flying around did not chase, they stayed hoovered above us. Why? It didn't make sense unless...they were after me. There was another explosion close by me and it caused me to black out.
When I came too, I was in a cell, my hands were strapped tightly above me and there was a sharp pain coming from my wings. I was barely able to glance over to see that there were several heavy spikes in the wings pinning them to the wall. I could feel a coldness on my ankles and tried to glance down only to see my armor was stripped away and I was in nothing more than the body suit I wore underneath it, at my ankles were shackles and chains with enough give for only a little room.
I heard the cell door open and glanced upward to see a man come in with an Omnic behind him. Fear set in nearly instantly, Ghalt stood there and I tensed up.