The New BlackWatch Recruits

(2) I Listen To No One

"You're not supposed to leave the monitor room!" Winston exclaimed nervously, chasing after me. "Morrison will reprimand you!"

"Yeah well Morrison can suck on my left butt cheek--I'm going out there and checking on my own." I continued to zoom down the hallways. Besides, me and my bombs are disappointed that they didn't get to see some action; all because Jack thought that I was too dangerous out on the field--ass.

Outside of the small overwatch base looking over central park in London, everything was in near ruin. There was dust everywhere and the smoke burned the eyes and lungs. Suddenly, there was a blue shield surrounding me. When I looked behind, it was Winston. "Why are you in such a rush?" He asked, a small hint of irritation in his voice.

"Explosions of any kind or dangerous when exposed to someone who isn't compatible enough to handle them!" I suddenly barked. "They could either have gone insane or close to death."

Winston seemed confused as he adjusted his glasses, "What makes you come to my conclusion?"

I forgot that he just recently joined the overwatch team. He must have not gotten background check put on me. "You know that explosion in Australia? From the omnic crisis?" He nodded. "The radiation turned everyone there insane. I was there and saw it all happen. It killed my parents." I said curtly, not trying to sound too emotional. "Ana has a daughter and Gerard has a wife; they have someone to go home to."

When the smoke began to clear, I saw it as an opportunity to leave this awkward conversation. "Now, snitch on me or don't, but don't interfere." The small thumps behind me told me that he's going to follow me. Tch, a small emotional backstory and now he feels pity? Sappy Ape.

"Ana? Gerard? Are you there?"

I heard static in the headset. "I'm approaching your location, put out a flare so I can pinpoint your location." Even though I can't hear them, it seems they could hear me when I saw a set of two red flares.

They were near the entrance of the large tall building in central park. "Ana! Gerard!" I yelled.

"Over here!" I heard Gerard grunt.

It seems the crumbling building had accumulated over them. "Are you guys okay?!"

"It just built around us, so we're fine for the most part." Ana said. She probably took care of the minor injuries if they did have any.

I was a very short 5'1 girl and those were a lot of big rocks. I consider myself more fit than the average chick, but I could only do so much. Thank God Winston was here. "You think you can get them out?"

"Yeah, but... It's kind of like Jenga. If I pull out the wrong piece, the rest of it comes crumbling down."

"Well that's reassuring." Ana chimed nervously.

"Ah, but I'm sure a little quick overview of the structure and I'll find a little nook for you guys to come out of." Winston said reassuringly, adjusting the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

I chose to sat and watch since I couldn't do much in this situation, but as I was about to sit on a broken piece of the ceiling before I noticed the fallen body of one of the Talon body guards. That must be the one Gerard captured, but it didn't seem like they saved him time before he got crushed.

That's when I noticed a small red light beeping in his pocket. Winston was busy trying to figure out how to get them out, so I went ahead and began snooping around the dead body; you know, the usual stuff a 20 year old like me does.~

When I took out the flashing object I came upon a remote with three buttons on it. One said Open, the other Delete All Files, and the last one EMERGENCY: Immediate Shutdown. It sounded like this was maybe a button to control some really complicated computer? But the buttons wouldn't make sense if...