Winston was examining the generator schematic that Sombra had provided for him. As far as the actual construction of the generator, between Winston Torbjorn, and Brigitte would have no problem at all building it. The only delay was the actual science behind it. Winston was skeptical of it actually working and dumping the time and the resources into it.
"I don't know the first thing about how the thing works, I just provide the blueprints." Sombra said as she was examining the other stuff Winston had in the lab. Occasionally she was picking up a little trinket and fiddling around with it before letting her eyes wonder at something else. "The only thing I can tell you is its a small scale of what they use on their warheads, so they must be doing something right."
"I realize it brings back objects from warping, but a person is a completely different scenario. First things first we need to construct the chamber to contain Lena's molecules and hopefully bring her back." Winston gestured to Torb and Brigitte to begin.
"So it will work then?" Chris asked entering the lab.
"At this point it's a long shot to say the least, but it still is something." Winston said back.
Chris could hardly contain his joy at hearing that there was even a chance at her coming back. He embraced Sombra in the biggest hug he could give, fighting back tears as he held her tight. "Thank you, so very much."
Sombra just kind of awkwardly stood there and gave him a few pats on the back before escaping his clutches. Just as Chris was about to say something else to Winston his phone buzzed. He looked at it seeing it was from Gabriel.
Meeting in Morrison's office. Bring your company too.
"Well I guess this was bound to happen eventually." Chris said under his breath. "Sombra we need to meet with Reyes now. I'll go get Amélie from Angela's office and see what she has to say." Sombra nodded and went out of the lab following Chris.
The two of them were walking to Angela's office hoping she had some kind of lifting news. They both knew this meeting with Reyes and Morrison was probably not going to be pleasant to say the least. Chris was beginning to worry if he would be dismissed from Overwatch. The more he thought about it, it made sense. He pretty much stole a shuttle, conspired with a known Talon affiliate, and brought back what everyone seems to think is a ticking time bomb with Amélie.
God I'm an idiot. He thought to himself. But if it meant bringing Lena back, it would all be worth it.
"Chris you have to promise me something." Sombra said breaking the silence. Chris turned to meet a very concerned look in Sombra's eyes. "Whatever happens here, look after Amélie. It's very likely they won't allow me to be here, but you and I both know the best chance for her to get better is to stay in Angela's care." Chris nodded.
"You have my word." Chris though about it for a little bit. "How are you and Amélie so close anyway?"
"She won't remember me, her late husband helped me out a lot when I was younger. Gave me a way out of the gangs in Mexico. I'm just trying to help her any way I can." Sombra looked down almost ashamed. "I helped Talon carry out their plan of killing Gerard without knowing it. I was told to find security codes for a household security system, they didn't tell me for what. Then when I realized they had used my hacks to capture Amélie, I tipped Reyes' team on where to find her. Although them rescuing her ended up being Gerard's demise."
"Then why still work with Talon? You could have just joined Overwatch, with your hacking skills you would be invaluable to them."
"Greed. Money. Talon likes to pay a pretty penny for my services and my work doesn't come cheap."
They had both entered Angela's office seeing her at her desk looking over the body scans.
"We're going to have to borrow Amélie for a bit." Sombra said in a joking tone.
"Go ahead, I'll need time to analyze her results anyway, she's in the other room laying down." Angela said not breaking eye contact with her computer screen. Chris and Sombra walked in the other room to find Amélie sitting on the bed side. It looked like she hadn't slept in days. Her eyes were red like she had been crying. Neither one wanted to acknowledge it because she seemed rather embarrassed of it.
"We uh, we need to meet with Morrison, to discuss this situation I guess." Chris said rubbing the back of his neck. Amélie noticed he always did that around her. "I wouldn't worry too much, I doubt anything will really affect you that much, more than likely will be mostly about me and my compandre over here." Sombra rolled her eyes and chuckled a little bit at what Chris called her.
"Fine let's get this over with." Amélie said getting up and waiting for Chris to lead the way.
"We already got burned once by her Jack keeping her here is big mistake. Either kill her or send her to the Venice authorities." Reyes scowled at him.
"Reyes I know your still pissed about Gerard, but we can't keep a grudge with this sort of thing, we should explore all options before acting too hastily."
Reyes looked at him with a furrowed brow before he figured it out. "You want to use her don't you?"
Jack let out a huge sigh, "You've seen what she's capable of Gabe, imagine what she could accomplish.."
"Will you shut up and listen to yourself! She murdered an Overwatch officer, our friend Jack. Jesse lost an arm to her, and you want to use her in the field?"
Chris, Sombra and Amélie were just walking into the room when they paused their heated discussion.
"Have a seat you three." Jack said to them.
"What was all the yelling about?" Chris asked.
"Nothing of your concern. Who gave you authority to go out on your own?" Reyes asked
"Well, no one sir. I saw a window of opportunity and I couldn't wait to get approval. I acted on my own actions. We got vital information on developments that Talon had for..well for.." Chris started to stumble over his words as he felt the gaze of Reyes and Morrison bare down on us.
"He got Talon's plans for their warp bombs, the same type of tech you guys were working on for your slipstream jet." Sombra interjected.
"You will only speak when spoken to!" Reyes barked at her.
"How do you know about the slipstream?" Morrison asked in a growling tone.
"Information is my weapon, commander." Sombra said in her usual cocky tone.
"If I may sir, I would recommend we try and accommodate these two here with us." Chris said. "Sombra's information could prove to be useful for any upcoming operations you want to carry out."
"What about her?" Morrison motioned over to Amélie.
"She's not exactly well enough to be on her own, no offense Amélie. It would be a bit cruel to just send her away wouldn't it? You would pretty much be signing her death warrant. Talon is likely on the look for her." Chris replied.
"Which is why I say they shouldn't be here." Reyes piped up. "We are putting a huge target on our backs keeping them here."
Morrison leaned forward on his desk folding his hands together pondering what they should do. "I'll think about it Chris, in the meantime you are responsible for these two."
"We aren't helpless, we don't need a babysitter." Sombra said crossing her arms.
"No you aren't, and that's exactly why. You may have helped us but you still are Talon associates." Morrison said.
"Not by choice." Everyone turned to Amélie who had been silent the entire meeting. She was looking out the window refusing to make any eye contact with any of them.
"So you say." Reyes muttered back. Amélie snapped her head shooting a glaring stare at Reyes hearing his insinuating comment.
"You think I wanted..this?" She stood up and motioned at her body. "You think I wanted to constantly be torn apart and be put back together." Her voice was starting to become more angry and pissed. Chris got up and escorted her out of the office before she said anything else. The other 3 inside just watched them exit refusing to say anything back to all the yelling Amélie was doing.
Chris shoved her up against the wall outside. "Hey! you've got to cool it ok? You aren't helping yourself out getting worked up in there."
She slumped her shoulders and dropped her head. She gave a slight nod and took a deep breath. "Sorry, you're right." Chris was about to turn to go back inside before Amélie pulled him in for a tight hug. "Merci." She whispered it in his ear
God that accent is so hypnotizing
They both returned back into the office where Morrison dismissed Reyes from the office.
"So where will we stay?" Sombra asked.
"As I said Chris is responsible for you." Morrison said.
"Well with all due respect sir, my room isn't exactly big enough for three people to stay in." Chris responded.
"Should have thought about that before bringing them here. All of you are dismissed."
The three left the office with Chris looking down and rubbing his temples. He knew things were going to be tense for a while. It will all be worth it, he kept telling himself that. The three of them made it to his room which was fairly clean for someone who hasn't been around for a while. It was as big as a small one bedroom apartment, so for three people to be staying there it was going to be a little cramped to say the least.
"Wow you Overwatch people really know how to impress a lady." Sombra said dropping her bag and sitting in a chair making quick to get comfortable.
"Sorry I know things are going to be..uncomfortable for the time being. You guys can take the bed and couch. I'll figure something out for myself. The mess hall is down the hall to the right if you get hungry, though I'm not sure if I'm suppose to accompany you guys everywhere." Chris said pulling out some extra pillows and sheets for the couch.
"You mean to tell me in this whole base they don't have anything to spare for us." Amélie asked she said graciously sitting down on the bed.
"I think it's a matter of them wanting to, rather then lack of supplies." Sombra said pulling up her holopad looking at the size of the base.
"You..you aren't going to do anything that would jeopardize you being here right?" Chris asked looking at her typing away. "Because I really don't feel like being your babysitter."
"You don't have to worry about me amigo, you already know why we are here, so long as you keep your word we won't have any worries." Sombra said peaking to the side of her pad.
"Just don't rock the boat too much, we're already on thin ice as it is." Chris replied trying to get comfortable. As he was his insecurities were starting to settle in with him. With everything going on, the sneaking around, the meetings, and all the thoughts about Lena possibly coming back soon were taking place in his mind it finally hit him.
I'm sharing a room with two women. Two women that aren't too bad looking at that. His face starting to turn red slightly at the thought as he was trying to hide his face from them by making himself look preoccupied with something, anything.
"Are you ok?" Amélie asked trying to get a view of him looking at his back.
"Yea yea, I'm just..letting my mind wonder." And trying to make it stop. He thought to himself. "Shower is in the bathroom if you guys need to clean up. I'm going to catch some sleep." Chris said sprawling a couple of pillows out on the floor by the window. It didn't take long before he drifted off. It had been days since he got any good amount of sleep.
The other two followed his lead and got themselves comfortable before drifting off, waiting for what the coming days had in store for them. They all have had a long couple of days, and finally stopping and resting, it finally hit them how exhausted they were.
Angela was still analyzing Amélie body scanned when Gabriel popped in to talk to her. She peered up from her screen to see him walking in her office and pulled up a chair. "Can I help you with something Gabriel?" She asked going back to work.
"Why are you helping her? After all she has done to us, you still are helping her?" Reyes said crossing his arms, giving a disapproving tone.
"Not everyone thinks she's out to get us Reyes." Angela said getting up from her desk. "If that's all you came to talk about you can show yourself out, I have work to do."
Reyes sighed and slumped in his chair a little. "We did everything we could, right? There wasn't something we missed somewhere was there?"
"None of that is on you Reyes, I was the one who cleared her medically. We couldn't have foreseen what they did to her in such a short period of time. Stop beating yourself up for it. It won't do anyone any good."
"I'm not letting it happen again, I'm keeping a close eye on her and quick trigger pointed at her. You see anything out of the ordinary you let me know. I won't make the same mistake twice." Reyes got up and walked away slamming the door behind him.
Angela shook her head and looked at the final results of the scan. She covered her mouth in shock at what she saw. The nano chips that were placed in spots of her brain. The cybernetic enhancers placed on her spine. She was shocked because she had recognized the work and the tech that was placed throughout her body.
It was the same tech she had used on Genji.