Everything Changes

Curiosity

Watchpoint Gibraltar armoury

"I thought I told you not to touch anything."

The Bastion looked towards Torbjorn, tilting its head to the left. Torb had recently found the Bastion in northern Sweden and it had been following him around ever since. Torb had originally gone after the Bastion with the intention of destroying it. However, this Bastion was different. Instead of attacking on sight, it was peaceful, curious, almost like a child. This was completely against its original programming.

Since then, Winston had recalled Overwatch and Torb had brought the Bastion along with him, intending to work out how it had broke its programming. At first, the other agents were very wary of it, worried that it might attack at any given moment. As time went on though, everyone began to relax around it. The Bastion even brought along a bird, which Lena had decided to call Ganymede, for whatever reason that Torb didn't understand. Torb had given in to Lena and reluctantly bought it a cage, something the Bastion seemed to respond well to.

Despite everything though, The Bastion often managed to find a way to annoy Torb. At first, he was just following him and watching what he was doing. As time went on, it became more confident and began investigating the base, both with someone and alone. When it first walked off alone, it caused a slight panic at the base and everyone was quickly out searching for it. Winston eventually found it, investigating the mess hall and working out what was contained inside.

Since then, everyone had gotten used to it wandering off to some random part of the base and occasionally bothering someone, as they went about their daily tasks. In all honesty, everyone preferred it doing this, as it meant no one innocent would end up hurt. In the end, it seemed as if Genji and Lena were the only two agents who could keep up with the Bastion, often stopping what they were doing to check that it wasn't in any trouble and sometimes helping it out of the trouble it found itself in. Thankfully, it never tried to leave the base, much to everyone's relief. It seemed to understand that people were still scared of seeing a Bastion walking around.

Today was no exception to its curious behaviour. Right now, Torb had the Bastion connected to a computer using a long cable and was checking its systems to see what was causing it to act the way it was. He'd told it to sit still at the side of the armoury while the scan took place. However, the Bastion's curiosity had gotten the better of it. While Torb was searching for something in one of the storage rooms in the armoury, the Bastion had stood up and walked over to one of the many shelves in the main room, which was full of equipment. The sound of crashing equipment was followed by a loud sigh from Torb, knowing exactly what had happened.

Now Torb stood with his arms folded in disapproval, while the Bastion simply tilted its head and let out a few quiet bleeps, clearly meant to be some sort of apology.

Torb looked to the equipment on the floor, rolling his eyes. "At least nothing's damaged. Can you please sit back down while the scan finishes?"

The Bastion complied, stepping back towards the side of the room and then falling back into a sitting position. Ganymede now flew down from his cage, since the door was left open and landed on Bastion's hand. With Bastion distracted, Torb walked over to the computer and looked at the results of the scan, making a copy as he analysed what he saw.

"What? That can't be right..."

According to the scan, the Bastion's systems were all functioning correctly. However, somehow it's original programming wasn't active and some of the code seemed to be missing. After some further investigation, he found out that the code had been edited shortly after it came back online, something that concerned Torb greatly. Annoyingly, this scan didn't tell him exactly what he wanted to know, leaving him guessing at how the code was changed.