Chapter 3

Bloodbath of Fire

After many missions and many months, 6 was finally the leader of a squad. Squad Numero 9 she liked to call her friends that were part of the squad. Over the months, 6 became more proficient in her abilities and as an assassin. Finally feeling like she belonged, she could breathe easy and do her job to the best of her abilities. She learned about the treachery of Overwatch and was against them at all costs. Nicolai assigned her squad to visit an abandoned Overwatch HQ to see if any of the files and data were salvageable. Upon entering, skeletons were laid around like rugs. Noticing recent footprints, she signaled for the squad to stop.

"Someone was here before. Stay alert." 6 said out loud. Walking slowly, 6 peeked around the dark entrance room, she saw nothing of immediate danger.

"Okay. Stay on your toes, let's split up. Usual formations" her squad nodded and went their ways. 6 walked towards a big red door with COMMANDER REYES printed on it with black letters. She wondered who Reyes was, shaking her head, she opened the big door. It creaked loudly and swung open. She pointed her gun around the room to make sure it was clear, once she made sure, she lowered her gun and walked around. She saw a computer at the far end of the room on a big desk. She sat in the still intact chair and started tapping away at the somehow still functional computer. Attaching a hack module to the side of it, she cleared past both the login screen and the security screen. Once in, she looked for files pertaining to Overwatch. She found only but one file. Labeled COMMANDER MORRISON, she clicked it and started to read it. Mostly it was about mission reports and squad formations. She was just about to exit the file to download it when she saw another file on the home screen labeled REDACTED REDACTED. IT was her birth name. Curious, she opened it and was shocked what she found inside it. The Reyes man was keeping track of 6. Her every move and he knew was with Talon.

"Holy f******g sh*t. They know about me. That means they..." 6 trailed off as she thought about the worst possible outcome. Overwatch agents knwq she was part of Talon. They knew that she was a murder. They knew where she was right now and what she was doing. Shaken up, she hit the download button, and ran out of the room with the module. Scared what Talon would do to her once they knew Overwatch knew about her, she ran out of the building and straight back to the HQ. Running down the hallways, she finally reached Nicolai's office. Bursting in, she slammed the module onto his desk and breathed out,

"Read this. Please." 6 took some deep breath to settle down and watched as Nicolai read the files. His face went from confused to enraged. Knocking the laptop away, he grabbed 6's shirt and growled,

"How do they know you. How the f*** do they know you name and current location?! They know you're a Talon agent?" Nicolai punched 6 hard in the nose and threw her away.

"I have no idea how they know. That building was abandoned. How could it have held that new information? Unless, it's all connected by one..." 6 trailed off as Nicolai walked over to her and stood above her.

"You're a security risk now 6. After all we did to prevent spies and someone finding out our agents, they somehow found you out. They know you're Talon, where you are. They are going to come after you to kill you. We have only but one option, we delete all information regarding you and obscure all information about you. We keep you in the building 24/7 and wipe the memories of your squad. I cannot afford to lose one of my best agents to Overwatch." Nicolai growled and walked back over to his desk.

"You can go back to you room. I'll send Sara when I have updates." he gestured towards the door and 6 walked out into the hallway. Somehow everyone knew already. They avoided her, giving her sneers and dirty looks. Enraged, she walked into her room and locked the door.

"There is no way Overwatch could know all about this, unless someone from Talon is feeding information to Overwatch." 6 grumbled under her breath. She had to find out what was going on. She decided to wait until night to leave and snoop around.

Night finally arrived, 6 slowly creep out her window, and stayed to the shadows. Knowing that Talon has way too many cameras, she decided to keep outside until she got to the directors office window. Lucky for 6, she was slender and small, so she could keep hidden from the guards walking around outside. Finally reaching the directors office, she kneeled under the window and used her ear piece as a recording. This was about the time the director, Valeria Knoz, started a vidcom with other directors. She hoped that she was lucky enough to catch Valeria telling other directors what she was doing. Waiting patentily, 6 was rewarded. Valeria started a call with Director John Numaz, from Los Muertos. Valeria was saying something about the Los Muertoz gang. She couldn;t hear the full conversation, but she was certain she got the full conversation on her ear piece. 6 quickly made her escape and reached her room, where she inserted the ear piece and listened to the recoring. 6 was shocked at what she heard on the recording. Director Valeria was selling agents information to Director John for a handsome price. In return Valerie got information about Overwatch. Director John mentioned something about an agent called Reaper joining Overwatch, so Director John sold agents information to Reaper, purposely making it unclassified so Overwatch could obtain it. How many agents information was given out to Overwatch? Pissed, 6 ran to Nicolai's office and stood before him.

"How many lives have you guys ruined?! HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU GUYS KILLED?!" 6 yelled at Nicolai. Nicolai confused and enraged at her outburst, stood up and stood nose to nose with 6.

"What the hell are you talking about 6?" She breathed heavily, reached for her gun and put it to Nicolai's head.

"I will kill every last one of your crooked, traitorous, back stabbing assholes. I will make sure you guys pay for making Overwatch aware of me and everyone else. We came here for refuge from them. I was got unlucky I ended up with you guys." with that, 6 pulled the trigger and shot Nicolai right between the eyes. Falling dead, 6 ran from the office and opened fire upon the guards and agents gathered around. She felt the fire welling deep inside her, and thought now was a good time to use it. She let the rage fuel the fire until she could feel nothing. She let go and became the demon she tried so hard to hid. Fire exploded from her hands and burned everything to ash. Everyone screamed, but it only fueled her rage. The place burned to ash, with people still screaming inside. 6, the rage induced ability was finally dying. She started coming back to reality when she realized what she did. The Talon HQ was nothing but a raging fire, all the screams ceased and 6 fell to her knees. She did it again. She was only a murderer. She could never find home in any organization. Standing up, she shook her head and started walking away, thinking of how Talon will be after her in no time, but she didn't have the will to run.

"Let them kill me. I will die fighting. They ruined many lives. Let me try to kill me. I'll take them with me to hell." 6 said aloud to herself. The sun became to set and she continued walking. After seemed like forever, a small village came into view. She stumbled into the village's bar, and slumped into an empty chair. Too tired to move, she fell asleep in that bar, with only her thoughts keeping her company.

She woke up in a brightly lit room. Groaning, 6 thought to herself, not again with this bullshit. Until she noticed the logo on one of the walls. She was in a Overwatch facility. Jumping up and reaching for her pistol, which wasn't there, she looked around nervously.

"What do you guys want from me?!" 6 screamed at nothing. The only door opened up and a man clad in a leather jacket with the number 76 on the back walked in with a angelic doctor.

"Calm down Assassin 06. We aren't here to kill you. We are here to ask you questions about Talon. Seeing as though you have the uniform on and one of our agents saw you walk away from the burning Talon HQ. We only want information." The man had a smooth but harsh voice that soothed her nerves.

"You guys should have all the information you need. I learned secrets in my time with Talon. They were selling information between each other and your guys. Reaper I think was the agent." 6 smirked. The man and doctor looked at each other, shocked. Then the man reached to his ear,

"Bring Reaper here. Tell him it's important." the man looked back at 6, nodded to the doctor, and left the room. The doctor walked over to 6 and looked her over.

"Well, other than a few burns and wounds, you seem perfectly healthy. By the way my name is Angela." The doctor smiled and turned away to type something in a computer. About then a tall, black clothed, masked figure walked into the room. Coldness followed him into the room, and 6 shivered. Angela nodded, and left the room, leaving only 6 and this dark figure.

"Assassin 06? You killed everyone at that Talon HQ. How. Why." the dark man growled, his voice instantly sending shivers up 6's back and down her legs. His voice melted her into a pool of mush, but she regained composure.

"I overheard the director's talking about selling information between each other. Said the sent information about Talon to you that was unclassified, so Overwatch security could obtain it as well." 6 smirked and looked the dark figure up and down.

"Dammit. I knew that the information wasn't classified, but I was assured it was. Damn traitors. Talon will be after you now. You better watch your back." the dark figure turned and walked towards the same computer Angela was on.

"You were the little girl in Los Muertos I watched being used, aren't you. You're REDACTED REDACTED?" the figure growled out. Hearing him say her name, 6 felt a weird sensation between her legs and chest. One she knew, the other she didn't.

"Yes, that's me. A pawn used by the gang for money and drugs." 6 breathed out. Moving her legs so that maybe the sensation would go away only made it worse.

"I'm glad you lived. Reaper. Welcome to Overwatch" the dark man held out his hand to 6. She took his clawed hand and shook it. Touching him only made her moan a little under her breath. She wanted to see what was under that mask, under those clothes. Shaking her head, she came back to reality. Reaper had walked towards the door, turned and nodded at 6. Opening the door, Reaper left, taking at the coldness with him. Who is he? What is he? What does he look like under all those clothes? Oh my god his voice, 6 thought to herself.

"Well, I guess I'll see where this goes. Hopefully I don't have to burn this place down." 6 chuckled to herself as she lost herself in thought. Maybe this will be home.