Overwatch: The Alternate Future

Chapter 16 : Junkrat

Ecopoint: Antartica

Jamison Fawkes has never been more offended in his life. Here he was, trying to be a good guy, trying to turn a new leaf and the thanks he get was being glared at by the cybernetic ninja and a stupid floating tin can.

So maybe Junkrat was over exaggerating about being offended. The truth was that he was bored. He wants to blow things up. He wants to set people on fire. Not waste his precious moments of life wasting away in a dusty lab while a monkey, a dwarf and puffy woman tinkering on the broken slippey-slope thingy they kept blabbering about.

"Look," Junkrat decided to engage some conversation while juggling his bombs. "Ginji, right? I know its hard to look away from this fine specimen of myself but I am not into that life - you get what I mean mate?"

"I am not watching you over pleasure and its Genji," the ninja snarled.

"Be proud of who you are," the omnic monk said. "The Iris did not make any mistake in your birth."

"What he say," Junkrat added. "Or it? Do robots even have a gender?"

Genji growled and was about to lunge at him but Junkrat's adrenaline was cut short when Tracer zipped between them.

"Everyone needs to calm down," the British girl said. "I get that the tension is high right now and not everyone is particularly welcomed here." Tracer gave Junkrat a cold glare. "But we need all the help we can get."

"That weasel is not going to help," Genji said as he composed himself. "He is a coward, a criminal and I bet he would be first to turn us in to the Liche if given the choice."

Now that was not completely false but Junkrat felt he needed to say something. Before he could even make a word a group of men barged into the facility. Each with a skull band around their arms. Seeing how bored he was, Junkrat would have been happy to blow this whole place up but there were at least two dozens of them and only five of them not counting the monkey and the pacifist bot. Maybe he should run - it was what Genji expected him to do anyway.

"Get out," Genji loaded some shurikens into his palm.

Junkrat grabbed his trusty Frag Launcher and slowly backed away. This was not worth it.

"If you know what its best," the nearest man said with a shotgun in his hands. "You should stand down and surrender. You are outnumbered -"

"Pardon me." Winston jumped to the back of the Liche agent. "But I rather not."

Winston electrocuted him at any nearby agents. This forced the other Liche agents to back away from Winston's weapon.

"Whatcha looking at?" Tracer sneaked behind one of them.

The agent turned around but Tracer had vanished and reappeared again in a blue streak, kicked his gun away before eliminating him with her pistols. Tracer then moved on to the next agent in a blink of an eye.

The other Liche members, still standing and still armed, began firing at any Overwatch members available on sight but Tracer was too fast and Genji Deflected the bullets easily with his blade before finishing them off with his Swift Strike.

"Let's get to work!" Torbjorn said as he threw down a machine and began building it into an auto-aim turret, taking down the enemies one by one.

Meanwhile Mei was running around frantically trying to dodge the bullets aimed at her. Her round blue drone sensed Mei's distressed and flew towards the army of Liche team.

"Snowball, freeze. Don't move," Mei commanded her drone.

Snowball spun around emitting icy cold gas to its surrounding and froze any Liche agents within the vicinity of the Blizzard. Some of them escaped the freezing gas and fired at Mei but she instinctively blocked with with an Ice Wall generated from her blaster.