(Scrapped) Overwatch: Playing With The Enemy

Chapter Seven : Blood

Overwatch Alpha, Gibraltar

August 29th 2081

09:12am

Lena woke from a peaceful slumber and she rolled over to find that she was alone in her bed. She had gotten used to the feeling and wasn't filled with the initial panic that she had felt a few weeks earlier. Amélie was ordinarily up long before Lena was. She shifted under the blanket as she slowly roused, the tired feeling gradually slipping away and she heard the shower running in the bathroom almost calling out to her. She carefully creeped out of bed and walked over to the open door. As she peered inside she saw the shower was indeed running but no one was inside and she stepped into the room with confusion, losing the sneaky approach she'd started with. Amélie held her position above the door. She may not be Widowmaker anymore but she had retained all the skills from the training. As soon as Lena was past the door Amélie silently dropped down behind her. With one swift movement, she picked Lena up off the floor causing the Brit to let out a surprised scream and then some giggling as Amélie carried her quickly into the shower with her. "Ame! Aww. How'd you know?" Lena half pouted. "I always know Chérie. You're still a little too loud on your feet mon amour." Amélie told her with a kiss on the back of Lena's head. Lena turned in the shower to face her girlfriend and placed a kiss on her lips with a smile. "Good thing it was too hot to sleep in anything they'd be soakin'." She laughed. "I have never seen you voluntarily sleep in anything chérie." Amélie laughed back causing Lena to playfully poke her in her side with a grin. "I wonder what Winston could want. Unusual to have such an early call from him, non?" Amélie asked once their cheery laughter died down enough. "Yea, I'm wonderin' that myself. He sounded, distracted, unsure. That's not normally like him. He likes to have a solid plan." Lena said as she decided that since she was now in the shower she'd start her morning routine. "He wants everyone up in the lab by 10 so we have 40 minutes." She finished. "I am all done in the shower and will get dressed and wait for you. We can go up together." Amélie said as she placed a parting kiss on Lena's lips and walked out smiling, only to stop half way out the door and turn her head over her shoulder "Its rude to stare chérie." She said with a smirk and Lena's eyes darted back to the shower and she continued to wash her hair, goofy grin on her face.

Overwatch Alpha, Gibraltar

August 28th 2081

9:58 AM

"They're going to be late." Huffed Gabriel as he crossed his arms. "Well you know Lena, controls time. Terrible at keeping it." Said Angela as she placed a hand on his crossed arms and looked him in the eye. They'd had a lot to talk about over the last few weeks, mostly why Angela had tried so hard to heal him and why Gabriel was so pissed about it. They'd found some common ground when Angela showed that she'd be able to regenerate him properly but Gabriel had declined. Said that after so long he was actually used to it now, and changing him would mean they'd lose an edge in a fight with Talon. They'd also talk of their feelings, a hard subject for Gabriel but Angela knew that. They weren't going to be as out there and free flowing as Amélie and Lena but they had decided to see if they can make it work, the feelings were there after all just had history surrounding them. Their moment was ended by the doors sliding open and Amélie running in, Lena panting right behind. "No fair. Do you have an end to your stamina?" Lena forced out causing Amélie to chuckle but not reply. "I call O P." Lena exclaimed finger pointing to Amélie who was now just laughing at her. Winston loudly cleared his thought and the two lovers straightened themselves. "Pardon monsieur. We are not late I trust." Amélie said for the two of them and Winston adjusted his glasses. "No not late but this is important. Athena and Hana have been digging through the data that Gabriel managed to swipe while extracting Amélie. We've found something that, to be honest, I don't like and like a lot." He said as he brought a large monitor for everyone present to see. A lot of the team had head back out a few days after Amélie and Gabriel had been brought back. Only Winston, Angela, Gabriel, Amélie, Lena and Jack remained. "Most of the files are corrupted but that's because the Talon files themselves are corrupted, not because of a speedy data mine." Winston continued. "What are we looking at?" Asked Gabriel as a file containing mostly text scrolled across the screen. A lot of it was blacked out, deleted data. "A secret experiment. Not done by Talon. Older than them. Older than the Omnic crisis. Maybe even Omnics themselves." Winston stopped there and let that sink in for a moment. "Wait. There is a secret experiment possible older than the Omnics and Talon wants it? Only real question I can see is 'when do we go'?" Lena said stepping forward. "I don't think it'll be that simple chérie. There's location to discover, has Talon already moved on it, what even is 'it' and more. I ready to go up against Talon any day but unless we know more about this then it'll twice as dangerous." Amélie voiced what everyone else was thinking. "I agree, so I asked Athena and Hana to dig into it. Athena?" Winston called stepping back as Athena took control of the monitor and highlighted several of the visible words. "The experiment is cryogenic freezing in the hopes of deep space travel. Subject 0001, Male, SAS, volunteer, birth year 1981, cryogenically frozen 2023, remains in stasis. No other information available unless obtained on site. No site coordinates." She explained and Lena's eyes were wide as saucers. "Did you say he's SAS?!" she asked and Athena confirmed that is what she had said. "Fill us in kid?" Jack said as he saw that Lena knew what it meant. "SAS. Special Air Service. Englands best of the best. Their nickname was Super Army Soldier but they had none of the fancy gizmos you and creeps got with your enhancements, these guys just trained hard. When a zone is too hot for the army or air force or navy, SAS is called in. Hostage situations, SAS. VIP extraction, SAS. Stabilization or destabilization of an area, SAS. One of these guys would be sent to lead platoons of allied forces on their own. Pride of England. But early to mid-50's they were demeaned redundant and like use disbanded and filter out." Lena explain and Amélie couldn't help but smile at seeing Lena in her element, talking of home and it's air forces. "And they just put one on ice? Why?" Jack asked not understand why, if Lena's knockledge was accurate, such an assest would be frozen. "New data generated, Subject 0001, SAS, Major General, Name, redacted: view hard copy." Athena announced as she continued to go over the information she had. "That's a high-ranking officer. He's not going to be a slouch on the battle field." Jack stated. "And just imagine if Talon get to him. They spin any story they want and get him on side, training and leading their troops." Gabriel added. "Then we have to get to him first. Athena, Luv, have you looked up all the known British bases of the time?" Lena asked surprisingly focused. "Compiling. Complete. There are a possible 57 facilities that match the timeframe." The AI replied. "Cheers. Now narrow that to those that could be advanced enough for something like this." Lena continued causing Gabriel and Jack to look to one another, Gabriel raising an eyebrow and pointing his thumb to Lena in a 'check her out' type fashion and jack nodded with both surprise and pride. "13 facilities could provide technology necessary." Athena told Lena as she continued to think of other criteria. "Which bases are off the grid enough for this to not reach public ear, or would be hidden away enough for extended freezing." She asked and Athena calculated for a moment. "6 facilities found under 'off site' parameters." She deduced. "And how many of those could still have the lights on? Like still have the funding and power to be running today after all this time?" Lena asked. "1 facility located. British military controlled. Function: Research and Development. Operational life expectancy: 178 years as of 2020. Location: Arctic circle. Coordinates: 81.464399, 57.717794." Athena replied and everyone looked over to Lena. "Cheers Luv. So, we going to get our popsicle?" She said with a smile as Jack got to his feet. "Good work kid." He told he as he placed a hand on her shoulder as a well done. Amélie placed a tender kiss on her cheek and smiled, letting her know she'd done well. "Alright, as Lena said, let's go see if we can rescue this guy from being taken by Talon. I'd like two teams. Mercy and Reaper, you're Team Alpha. Mercy, you go in see if you can revive on site and stabilize the man, Reaper give her cover. Tracer and Widow, you're Team Bravo, I want you to keep any threat off Team Alpha, give them the time they need. We don't know how many of Talon will be there if any but better to cover our bases. Jack I want you to pilot, that way the others, mostly you Lena, can concentrate on just their perspective tasks." Winston said as he stood from his tyre. Everyone gave an affirmative nod and headed out. "Our first mission together chérie, well, first on the same side at least." Amélie said as they walked towards the armoury with everyone else in toe. "Yea, it'll be grand, Luv." Lena replied taking Amélie's hand into hers. "I don't want to be that guy, but this could get bad. Be ready for that." Gabriel said only to receive a gentle nudge from Angela. "They'll be fine, as will we. Though that said. Lena. Be careful. I know you, you will try taking as much of the responsibility as possible so Amélie doesn't have to risk as much. Be. Careful. Ja?" She said playfully poking at the back of Lena's head. "Hey! I will, I will. Jeez." Lena replied as the two teams and pilot stepped into the armoury and geared up.