Muffled voices surround her.
"Is she ready for her mission?"
Mission? No. No more missions. No more killing. No more voices. Make it stop.
"I believe she is. I did what I could with her issues before, she should be completely obedient at orders we give her."
No more orders. No more nameless voices. I just want it to end.
She opens her eyes to a hazy vision of a lab ceiling. She can't move. Why can't I move? Why am I trapped. She starts pulling at the restraints trying to get free. But there's a sharp pain. She looks down to see her naked body marked with freshly stitched scars. What's happening to me.
"Moira is she suppose to be awake?" That voice it sounds familiar but they are both just nameless faces. Except for the red head. Another pain goes through her head when she tries to think of that voices name. Moira walks over to the restrained assassin injecting her I.V. with a sedative to put her back under. Her eyes screaming back at Moira to get away from her. The golden eyes are silenced by the sedative as she closes her eyes fading away.
"That should keep her under until Antonio has her for whatever he needs her for." Moira said. The voices are fading away.
No I don't want to sleep, the dark. Nothing good ever happens when the dark comes. The hazy room starts to fade to black until that's all she can remember. The muffled voices are gone and the empty black is now at a deafening silence. She awaits to be called again.
Moira and Maximillion exited the lab as a team of doctors transported the pod that Widowmaker was in the shuttle.
"If I may, what does Antonio intend to use her for? He's not the type to put out a hit on someone without consulting the council." Moira asked.
"Oh the hit is Antonio." Maximillion flat out said. "He is becoming too reckless with his operations we feel it is better to just cut ties with him and clean house in his department, so to speak. We have noticed footage of him surfacing to the public eye that could connect him to the council and expose their identities."
"If killing everyone in sight is your aim, she will get the job done for you." Moira added
Chris gasps awake not realizing he had fallen asleep at the pilots seat. He wipes is face down trying to wake himself up. It had been a while since he slept.
"You talk in your sleep you know that?" Sombra said scrolling on her holopad looking at who knows what.
"So I've been told." Chris gets up to see if there was anything with caffeine on the shuttle to keep him awake. He found some instant coffee and was making himself a cup to stay awake.
"I didn't realize there were any survivors from that bomb Talon deployed years ago." Sombra yelled from the cockpit of the ship. Chris chose to ignore her thinking she was just rambling on about something useless or just trying to get under his skin. "I guess that means lucky you." Sombra said, who was all of a sudden right next to Chris making him jump a little. Chris just sighed heavily before turning back to cockpit to monitor the shuttle while sipping on his coffee.
"You don't really talk much do you?" Sombra asked sitting in the seat next to him.
"No need, you do enough talking for the both of us." Chris said trying to end the talking.
Sombra didn't like to sit in silence. She wanted to find some common ground with him. They were pretty much going on a mission together so better to be on good terms. Silence fell on them for a bit before Sombra let out a despairingly sigh.
"I lost my family too. The first Omnic War ravaged my home. I was only 10. After the war ended I was pretty much living on the street before I got mixed up in a gang. Didn't really care for any of them but they were a means to have a somewhat stable house." Sombra said as she started to scroll back on her holopad. She pulled up an old picture showing a goofy picture with a bunch of kids. "Those are my two younger brothers. And these were my parents." She said scrolling to another picture. Chris finally looked her way to see the photos she was talking about. Chris didn't say much before pulling out his locket under his shirt opening up to see that charred photo.
"My brother and mom." Chris said handing the locket over to Sombra. She took it and examined the photo.
"Where's your dad?" Sombra asked?
"Didn't know him." Chris replied taking the locket back. Sombra noticed how Chris always grabbed at the locket whenever he got nervous or uneasy. She first noticed it when they met outside the shuttle when they were discussing the trade off.
There was a silence that had fallen upon them for a while. Chris was trying to relax but couldn't help but wonder why Sombra brought up her family so suddenly. "Do you ever dream about them?"
Sombra looked at Chris caught off guard by the question. "Sometimes, but I don't think in the sense you're asking."
"I see." Was all Chris said back looking back out the window of the shuttle.
"I take it your dreams aren't too pleasant are they?" Sombra asked. Chris refused to acknowledge the question which gave the answer Sombra thought.
"Sometimes I wish I didn't survive. I feel like my life would be a lot easier if I was still with my family."
Sombra felt for him. Not out of pity, but she knew exactly what that feeling was like. Missing days with her family, her old life before she became the alias Sombra. Her past life as Olivia Colomar. But she knew her life was long gone.
"There's no point in dwelling on the past, we can only look to change the future by what we do in the present." Sombra said.
Chris chuckled slightly, "Sounds like something my brother would say."
Chris looked down before trying to change the subject. "So what's this weapon we are after?"
Sombra looked back at him, "Not what, but who."
"We are after someone?" Chris asked confused.
Sombra pulled up her holopad and started scrolling and pulled up old articles. Specifically one mentioning the death of a french couple.
"Read this." Was all Sombra said getting up from her seat to dig something out of her duffel bag.
Chris started reading about one Gerard Lacroix. Lacroix that name. Where have I heard it. He continued reading how he was killed in his sleep and his wife was missing presumably dead from Gerard's assailant.
"Gerard Lacroix. I think I've heard Reyes mention his name once or twice." Chris said to himself. He continued reading to the end where the article said police concluded it was a robbery gone wrong, although the body of the wife was never found.
"So we are looking for the killer?" Chris asked. Sombra turned to show a picture of Amélie Lacroix. Hot damn. Gerard was one luck S.O.B.
"We are looking for her." Sombra said. Chris studied the photo and thought she looked familiar too. Wasn't there something in the Overwatch archives about her? He thought long and hard thinking she was so familiar.
"Talon was hard set on killing Gerard because he was head of a task force to take them out. There were numerous attempts on his life until they got desperate. They captured Amélie and brainwashed her into a sleeper agent. When Overwatch rescued her, or so they thought, she was completely unaware what had happened to her. She murdered Gerard in his sleep before returning to Talon." Sombra let out a heavy sigh before returning to her seat.
"So she is the alpha weapon or whatever they call her."
"Si."
Chris looked at Sombra trying to figure her out. "Are we rescuing her or are you gaining a weapon?"
Sombra looked back at Chris almost appalled at the notion, but she figure it was a reasonable question. She had only just met him a few hours ago and it wasn't exactly on the best of terms.
"I'm helping a friend, just like you want to help your friend." The quick short response was all Chris needed to hear. The tone alone was enough to say she was serious. "She is likely to be..unstable if we come across her. Keep your guard up she could probably kill you in a swift movement."
"Nothing I haven't come across already." Chris said turning his attention back to the controls. "We're almost there."
If only you knew amigo.
"Watch out for the perimeter guards, we can't blow this element of surprise we have on them." Reyes said over the comms as Genji and McCree were getting into position to take out the snipers watching the rooftops.
Genji stabbed the sniper in the throat quickly killing the sniper while McCree put the other sniper in a sleeper hold until the sniper passed out.
"Rooftops clear time to move in." McCree said over the comm. Reyes switfly moved through the compound being vigilant not to alert anyone to his presence. Genji was making his way to the roof of the compound to keep a look out if reinforcements.
"You look to be clear Reyes. No sign of alarms going off."
"I'm on my way to meet u inside Reyes." McCree said as he made is way down from the perch to go inside. Both McCree and Reyes started to make their way inside when they opened the doors, they were met with an unnerving sight.
"My God." The two almost said simultaneously seeing the trail of bodies going up to the main office. Bodies bludgeoned to death, some with holes in their heads. Others were just limp from their broken necks. It was a graveyard of Talon that was merciless.
"Genji get in here we have to move now!" Reyes shouted as he and McCree sprinted down the hall. As they got closer to the office they heard a couple of gun shots followed by what sounding like bones breaking. They bursted through the doors to see one woman kill 4 elite guards with ease as Antonio was cowering in the corner of the room. They were stunned.
The woman slowly turned to them, the golden souless eyes stared right through them, piercing them like a sniper bullet. She had splotches of blood on her clothes and face from everyone she had killed, unfazed by it. The three were in a stare down. McCree had his hand hovering over his revolver waiting for a reason to shoot. The woman stood there pale skinned smeared with blood cocked her head to the side slightly almost like she was sizing the two up.
"Help me she's killing everyone!" Antonio yelled, catching the attention of the assassin. Her gaze narrowed on him before he got up and tried sprinting out of the room. The assassin drew a side arm to take him out before McCree shot the gun out of her hand. She gasps in shock to see the cowboy holding his gun up this time aimed at her head. As quick as a flash, she throws a dagger to stun the cowboy before she rolls and dodges all the bullets fired from the peacekeeper. Reyes moves to try and subdue the assailant but he stood no match for her. She jumped and kicked both of his guns away before jabbing him in the chest and roundhouse kicking him to the side. McCree reloads his gun and as soon as she hears the click of a readied bullet in the revolver she rolls and picks up one of Reyes' shotguns and blasts McCree back.
"JESSE!" Reyes yells out. Just then Genji dashes through the window and draws his blade to kill the woman. She tries to avoid the swing of the blade but it still cut her in the side slightly. Genji turns and sees his opponent bleeding out of her side but she was still ready to go. Reyes mad a dash for McCree to try and stop the bleeding, most of the spread seem to just hit his shoulder. Genji and the assassin were in a mad fight exchanging kicks and punches, she was strong for a woman her size. Any attempt at using his blade was countered by her swift speed, Genji had no opening to strike her.
A transport was arriving outside of the compound right next to the window of all this. The woman suddenly kicked the ninja back and dashed to the window. She jumped out, deploying her grapple and hooked on the transport as it started taking her up and away.
"Where's Antonio-" *BANG* Just as Genji finished the question he ran to the window to see Antonio's lifeless corpse flop to the ground outside, his head had been popped by a sniper. Genji looks to see the assassin dangling from the transport holding her sniper in her hand flying away.
Reyes helped McCree up trying his best to stop the bleeding from the gunshot they needed to move quickly before the local authorities arrived at the scene. The three of them looked around seeing all the bodies left mangled from this incredibly efficient assassin.
"Come on Genji we gotta move. Help with McCree." They made their way out of the compound and back to shuttle.
The assassin was back on the transport where a team of doctors was there to evaluate her performance and tend to any wounds she may have received. She went over to the bench and sat down as one doctor started to suture her wound from Genji's blade. Moira was on the ship too to evaluate her mental and physical performance as this was a test run for her.
"Well you certainly made quick work of them." The doctor noted as she wrote notes down. "How do you feel?"
The woman looked back at the doctor with a blank stare. "I don't."