Maximilian was awaiting the call from Moira that the mission had gone on without a hitch. He sat patiently at his desk tapping his fingers together when he heard a low beeping, incoming call.
"How did the test run go?" He asked
"Could not have gone better, performance exceeded expectations. Everyone at the compound was completely obliterated. However there seemed to be an alarming presence." Moira added.
Although the omnic couldn't change his expression he leaned over on his desk curious, "And that would be?"
"Overwatch was present at the compound, it would seem we enabled Widowmaker just in time. Antonio being in Overwath's custody would be a tremendous setback."
"Agreed. Report back to base and we shall commence with a follow up exam on Widowmaker. Wouldn't want anything to happen to our precious weapon."
Moira nodded and ended the call. She turned back to see the other doctors patched up Widowmaker's wounds and leaving her be. Seems Moira's most recent procedure had eliminated any question of doubt to follow orders, she had finally perfected her mind altering process.
"The council will be very pleased with our success on this mission." Moira said to her.
Widowmaker was looking down at her arms and her body, heavily beaten from the battle she had just had with practically an army of Talon mercs, along with an elite Overwatch strike force. She was completely in her own world still attempting to process everything going on around her.
Why am I doing this? Why did they have to die?
Because thats all your good for.
Widowmaker's face winced at the voice in her head. It was a booming one that overshadowed everything else in her head, her reasoning, her emotions. That voice was overpowering her will it seemed like. Her face was that of a look of trying to suppress a migraine. Moira took note of this already having doubts of her conditioning procedures not having a lasting effect. Moira left Widow alone and left the small room. Widow looked up to see she herself in the reflection and only one thing ran through her mind.
What have I become?
What they created you to be.
Angela was in her office filing some papers when she heard a frantic call come through from Reyes over the comms.
"Angela we need you up here ASAP! Jesse got injured bad, he's lost a lot of blood. I did what I could to stop it but, you need to get up here now."
Angela could tell he was shaken up, which was very concerning. Even in situations like Reyes keeps a cool level head. Angela dropped her files and gathered a team of doctors to meet the shuttle on the pad. There they found Jesse pale in the face barely hanging on to life. His left arm looked like it was decimated from the shotgun blast. They wasted no time in rushing him into surgery. Reyes was sitting down looking lost in his thoughts. Morrison walked over to him patting him on the shoulder.
"Angela's the best, Jesse will be just fine."
Reyes kept his gaze straight. "We need to talk in your office. Now." he proceeded to get up and walk over waiting for Morrison to follow him there. Jack looked back at Genji with a bit of a surprised look.
"What happened?"
Even though you could only see Genji's eyes in his cyber suit, you could see the look of defeat in his eyes. "We were unable to apprehend Antonio. There was an unknown assailant that beat us there. She was too much for us to handle."
Morrison nodded. "Go get patched up, I'll go see what Reyes wants."
Reyes was sitting in Jack's office with his hands folded leaning forward. Jack came in the office and closed the door behind him. "What's wrong? You seemed a little shaken when you got here."
"She killed him." Was all Reyes said back to Jack. Jack sighed and dropped his head sitting next to Reyes.
"It's not the end of the world with Antonio. It's just a setback. I wouldn't beat yourself up over it, there's no way we could have foreseen this happening." Jack said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Not Antonio, Gerard." Reyes said still looking forward.
Jack's brow furrowed. "What are you talking about?"
"That assassin we faced, there's no doubt in my mind it was Amélie. I would recognize that face anywhere." Reyes had a mix of emotions stirring within him. Despair for his lost friend Gerard, with a new found anger towards the wife who everyone thought had perished. "Jack you and I knew it was too easy when we rescued her from Talon, she's with them it was a set up." Reyes got up and tossed a chair across the office in anger.
"You're absolutely sure it was her?" Jack asked finding it hard to believe himself.
"Jack I saw the look in her eyes, she had the look of a killer, how could we have not seen this coming!" Reyes sat down burying his face in his hands. "I swear Jack I'm going to make this right." He got up and started to storm out of the office.
"How exactly do you plan on doing that?" Jack questioned but he already knew the direction he was going in.
"I'm going to avenge our friend." Reyes said before storming out of the office.
Sombra and Chris had made their way to the Talon base planning on their infiltration.
"How exactly are we going to, well you know waltz out of here with an assassin over our shoulder's. I'm sure shes not going to come with us willingly." Chris asked as they were suiting up in the shuttle.
"That's mainly the reason why you are here. You are going to have to subdue her while I sedate her." Sombra said putting a vile in her pocket.
Chris rolled his eyes, "Sure no problem just rely on me to be the muscle." Chris looked back at the ships communicator device and looked back at Sombra. Chris had agreed not to mention to the other Overwatch agents what they were planning, or rather it was one of Sombra's terms to work together. Chris let out a sigh before they both made their way to the base.
"The lab's are on the top floor, that is likely where our friend will be kept. I can trust you can hold off any opposition while I get us in?" Sombra said scrolling through her holopad.
Chris nodded as double checked to see his blades were functional and his pistols were loaded. Sombra pulled up her holopad one more time typing away at some keys before the door opened. Both of them moved inside before the door quickly shut behind them. The two of them were moving efficiently through the hallways. Sombra would peak every corner first hacking any camera in their way. Chris kept close behind her watching her back to make sure no one was on their trail.
The two of them made it to the main lab doors as the Sombra signaled Chris to halt. "This is it." Sombra said as she hacked the door to open it. Both of them barged in ready for a fight, ready for a war. Only to find nothing. Nobody was in here not Widowmaker, no doctors, nobody.
"No. No, no, no, no." Sombra started to hold her hands over her head. "They already sent her to a mission, I thought I had at least delayed her progress." She was pacing the room, leaving Chris to look at her flustered before he started wondering around the lab. He found some notes written down that looked relevant. It looked like a schematic to...her biology?
"Jesus Christ." Chris muttered to himself seeing all the of the modifications they made to her. Chips installed in her brain to hinder resistance to orders, biological enhancements to her nervous system to increase reaction time in addition to..replacing her eyes for enhanced vision. "This is unthinkable. How can one person endure this kind of torture." He muttered to himself. Chris then felt his arm being tugged. "Someones coming, keep this on and don't make a noise." Sombra said as she stuck a small device on his chest. Just as she did he suddenly blended in with everything in his background. They both were standing in the lab cloaked trying to stay as silent as possible as the doors opened to reveal a very blood stained Widowmaker still recovering from her previous mission. Moira and Doomfist followed her into the lab along with some Talon guards.
"I still say she is a lost cause, she may have succeeded in this mission, but it's only a matter of time before her conditioning breaks down again and you know it." Doomfist said crossing his arms leaning up against the wall.
"We will cross that bridge when we get to it, for now we take this one step at a time, much to your disliking." Moira said with a bit of a smirk. She enjoyed proving people wrong especially when it came to her science experiments.
Chris still stood cloaked in the corner not exactly knowing what to do next. "When I give the signal kill the guards and I'll take care of the other two." Sombra whispered behind him. Before Chris could even ask what the signal was Doomfist's mechanical arm suddenly slumped to the side. I guess that's the signal. Chris dashed to the guards, stabbing one in the head, before turing and taking the rest out with his pistols, all clean headshots.
"SHES HERE!" Doomfist yelled trying to get his arm functional. Moira turned to the battle ensuing behind her before breaking the shackles on Widowmaker.
"Deal with them." Was all she said. Widowmaker's golden eyes perked up like a switch being turned on. She immediately sprinted over to Chris and knocked him back with a powerful kick, sending him flying into the wall.
While all this was going on, Sombra who was still cloaked, was rummaging through one of the computers trying desperately to look for an opening in the conditioning. Come on Chris just a little longer.
Chris was desperately trying to hold his own against the assassin. Anytime he spotted an opening, it was quickly closed by the onslaught of punches and kicks Widow was throwing at him. She's faster than Genji, Chris thought to himself. Chris tried to turn and run to get better positioning before he felt something grab his back. Widow shot her grapple at him and pulled him back before roundhouse kicking him to the side. Chris grabbed his side in pain. He didn't have much time to wallow in pain before Widow was approaching him again. Time to try another approach.
Chris got up and put his hands up in a surrendering gesture. Widow paused raising an eyebrow at him.
"You don't have to do this, this isn't you." Chris said. This is a long shot but maybe it wo- his thoughts were interrupted by a sucker punch across his face knocking him to the ground. Widow mounted him and grabbed his throat starting to crush his windpipe.
Chris clawed at her grip trying to loosen it to no success. She glared at him with what seemed like lifeless eyes. "Amélie, I know you're still in there. They can't keep a leash on you like this. You're better than that." Chris was trying desperately to gasp for air. Widow still kept her grip tight watching Chris' face turn red. "Gerard..would..hate to..see..what you've..become." Chris spat out in a last ditch effort.
Widows eyes went wide. That name. There is no face but I know that name.
Ignore the thought. Kill him.
Suddenly Widow was looking down at Chris and saw Gerard in her grip. She looks down and sees a dagger in his stomach bleeding all over the bed. His look of shock is burned into her mind, she didn't realize what she was doing until it was too late. She jumps back and cradles her husbands corpse bellowing out in a cry. Then it cuts off. The memory ends there.
Widow jumped back, her inhibitors were keeping the full memory from returning, but her mind was combating the inhibitors. She held her head grimacing in pain leaning up against the wall trying to keep her balance. Chris got up breathing heavy catching his breath.
Sombra got what she was looking for off the computer and destroyed it shortly after causing her to de-cloak. Moira saw her and drew her sidearm to shoot her before she disappeared to her translocator, inside the shuttle.
Chris looked around for Sombra going to his communicator.
"I got her..sorta subdued, where are you?" Chris said.
Sombra started up the shuttle and took flight.
"Get her to the roof I'll pick you up from there."
Dammit Sombra, Couldn't you have just told me the whole plan. He gently goes over to Widow trying to be cautious, but trying to hurry seeing Doomfist and Moira approaching their position.
"Hey Amélie we've got to go now come on." Chris took her arm and tried to pull her with him. She was on autopilot not knowing where she was, her past memories were blending with her present time. Doomfist had regained the use of his mechanical arm as he cocked it back to charge at them. Shit.
Chris pushed Amélie to one side as he darted back to the other side of the hall avoiding the flying punch. He proceeded to deploy both his daggers to engage Doomfist. Moira took Amélie and started to retreat away from them. Chris and Doomfist were in a fierce battle. Doomfist striking where he could, was missing most if not all of his blows, although his bulky stature was mitigating any counter attack Chris was throwing at him. Chris jumped and mounted Doomfist on his back as he took a couple of stabs at his back. His attention was drawn away from the battle to see Moira taking Amélie to the elevator. Doomfist took the opportunity to cast Chris aside and jump on top of him pointing his fist mounted shotgun to his face.
No. I didn't come this far to have it end like this. Chris ducked the blast and gave and jabbed Doomfists gut in rapid succession before kicking him back and sprinting after Moira.
"Amélie!" Chris yelled running towards the two causing them both to turn around. The way Chris was running towards them caused something in Amélie to snap. She looked at Moira and swift kicked her away from her before trying so hard to keep her vision straight from the pain going through her head, staggering her way towards Chris. She practically fell into Chris' arms looking up at him
"Make..it..stop." Was all she could muster to say before she passed out from the pain going through her.
Chris hoisted her over his shoulder and ran to the stairs to get to the roof. "Sombra we're coming now be ready for a hot pickup." Chris bursted through the doors not knowing if anyone was close behind him but he didn't even bother to stop and check. The shuttle was hovering just above the roof of the complex as the door opened showing Sombra there waiting to hoist Amélie up onto the shuttle before Chris jumped up too. The shuttle flew away with Chris carrying Amélie to one of the beds on the shuttle. She was still out cold from whatever happened to her earlier.
"What happened to her?" Sombra asked as she approached the two.
"She just said make it stop before passing out." Chris said sitting by the bedside.
"Keep an eye on her, we're going back to Gibraltar."
Chris looked up at Sombra surprised by what she just said.
"What, you held up your part, now it's time for me to hold up mine."
Chris nodded to her and shifted his attention back to Amélie.
Let's hope she can keep it together till then. Chris thought to himself as he started to relax in the chair.