The young doctor did not know how many days had pasted since the currency of her situation. She had been casted away and locked up in a cell; for which it had seemed days by now. She had no knowledge on the whereabouts of Genji or if he was even alive, the only hope she was holding onto was her own life expediency, but even then she knew it would run out eventually. Her motivation was starting to run dry with every day passing. Her day was seemingly long and boring a single daily meal were she had the smallest human interaction was a short exchange of water and bread; which was still keeping her on a low tolerance and her body increasingly becoming weak. As a doctor she was aware she wouldn't last much longer if this continued as so, in which this terrified her; there was also the trouble of the blood curdling screams that occasionally echoed thoughout the building; making her believe that would be her one day.
Yet another day passed, except this day they had entered the cell and blindfolded her. Forcibly she was dragged to a cold room, when her blindfold was then removed; her eyes adjusting to the scenery of things. She had noticed her companion Genji strapped against a metal table; similar to the ones doctors had use during operations. Genji was gagged and it was clear he was getting daily doses to knock him out, just as the one they mention to her upon their first arrival, probably in hopes to keep him from escaping.
"Is he even alive?" Mercy quivered.
Junkenstein emerged from the back of the room, a ghostly of a grin planted against his sinister face. "He's alive an well, as alive as a man can get."
Mercy didn't say anymore, she took in her surroundings. Much of the equipment in the room was of similar standards to her own lab back home, not as high tech and up to date, but the similarity was there. Just as Mercy was taking in the environment the doctor interrupted her thoughts with an eerie laugh,"Mercy you're probably wondering why you're finally being brought here… It took awhile to gather all this equipment. You see I can't just waltz out of my assigned facility without being question so it took a bit of time. I hope you can forgive the delay. In the meantime lets get down to business." Mercy still hesitated to speak, instead listening and waiting for an opportunity would be the best option that Genji and Mercy had to get out of here alive.
Junkenstein rose a single brow, he tip-toed over to the frightened Mercy, although she tried her best to hide her fear; she was easy to read. "This is the first task Mercy, I wanna see how much of your research you really have. I know only so much, rumors tend to get around. You saved this man, from what I heard he was labeled as dead." Mercy still refrained from speaking, and Junkenstein took that as a yes. "So I'm giving you one one-shot. You can either save Genji again, or let him die." Mercy did not understand him at first, was the doctor going to harm Genji, it all seemed so confusing to Mercy and still she refused to say anything.
"You don't have to speak Mercy, after all actions speak louder than words." Junkenstein snapped his long clawed fingers, and after a moment a fully robotic arm was brought into the room and placed on a table next to Genji. "Alright take his arm." Those words pierced through Mercy like a hundred bullets.
Take his arm?
At first Mercy had not grasped the seriousness of the situation until the bone saw blared up and filled the room in its piping screeching. The doctor himself grabbed the bone saw in hand, he did not stop, he did not ask question he began sawing away at Genji's flesh. Mercy in utter shock at to what was happening before her, the entire moment was drained from her brain, hardly hearing the sound of flesh being torn through, nor the cracking of bone as it had reached an end; blood pouring visibly onto the floor. It gushed condensing the room with a heavy scent of death as his arm fell to floor after being fully severed. When the doctor had finished this, he wiped away a trickle of sweat from his forehead and faced Mercy head on,"You probably have thirty minutes before he bleeds out and dies, so you better start working." The people holding keep of Mercy let her go and she collided against the tiled floor her eyes forming tears.
"Are you crazy!" Mercy finally yelled,"he really could die!" The doctor had nodded, as if that's exactly what he was after, he then handed Mercy the robotic arm. "If you don't save him he will die. You wouldn't let that happen, right Mercy?" Mercy bit her lip, her eyes shifting around in fear, but she grabbed the robotic arm. As scared as she was she wouldn't let Genji die like this. She used plenty of gauze to try and stop the bleeding, but as much as she used he was bleeding at an alarming rate, she wasn't working with her regular top-notching equipment, going old school she used a metal rod and burned it to a high degree and stuck it against his skin; the smell of burning flesh filled the already blood filled room. Mercy in her knowledge of robotics she could attach the robotic arm, connecting his nerve endings to work with the mechanics of the arm. Even so it was uncertain if it would work, and if she would have enough time, still the bleeding could return in the process. In these circumstances she had no choice, and she had know this was Junkensteins plan from the beginning, he knew he couldn't make Mercy do what he wanted; but if he had used Genji as a trump card he could get her to do anything he wanted.
"I know what you're thinking~" Junkensteins high pitched voice whined through the room. Mercy still working diligently through all his harsh words. "It was a good idea to leave little easter eggs throughout the city in hopes you would try to find at least one. I wonder why the library though…? Oh~ Well, what's done is done. You even probably want to know why I want you. I will let you in on the secret of a lifetime. Think… just what if you could bring a robot to life. My theory being that robots have the intelligence to be their own person and with you wanting to use robotics to save peoples lives, were a match made in heaven baby."
"You're crazy." Mercy spoke through all the muck Junkenstein was spilling. Mercy returned back to her work, her sleeves up and covered in Genji's blood. Working through her tearing eyes, she didn't have the technology as she did before, she would have to attach everything by hand as best she could. Every minute that passed was less a minute Genji was hanging on to living, she notice his face turning pale white and lips becoming a light purple color.
"You're not allowed to die Genji, god dammit!" Mercy yelled, she picked up her pace, working past her shaken hands. She just hoped his new body would be enough to help him, he wasn't unstoppable although he now healed faster than most, but maybe it would give Mercy the advantaged she needed.
An hour had pasted, the bleeding stopped and now the arm attached she would not know of her accomplishments until after Genji awoke.
"You're done?" The doctor asked. Mercy nodded, but the doctor did not seem to be pleased with her answer. "How do I know if it even works?" He asked again, his voice shaken with anger now. "I wouldn't know until he wakes up, but he's still alive so its highly possible it worked, but he has to move it himself. If I attached it correctly his body should be able to use it as a real arm, but I'm still uncertain."
"Wake him up then!" The doctor yelled to one of his subordinates, but they seemed at a loss on what to do.
"You know he won't be awake for awhile, you pumped so many drugs into him, you could have put him into a coma, his body is in so much shock, who knows when he will wake up." Mercy cried past the stubbornness of the doctor, but it seemed the doctor had of little use to her now and directed them to place her back in the cell, and before she knew it she was ripped from Genji's side and placed back were she had started.
"Oh dear god please save him…" Mercy whispered to herself clinging to the metal bars of the cell. She had believed in her ability as a doctor, but she wasn't a miracle worker.