Poison | Overwatch fanfic [ENG]

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Place: Watchpoint Gibraltar

Country: Gibraltar, British overseas territory

The waves crashed against the rocks, squeezing into the gaps, even in the smallest. Their roars were somewhat relaxing when passing by. Sometimes the spattered foam reached the top of the cliff before falling back into the water. In the rays of the setting sun it looked beautiful, not even one person would have taken such a sight away.

That's how Mei-Ling Zhou remembered Watchpoint: Gibraltar before she went with her team of scientists to Ecopoint Antarctica. She often came here to hang out and watch the sunsets and the waves crashing against the rocks. At the mere mention of it she smiled warmly and closed her eyes, taking in a deep breath and then exhaled with a sigh. The smell of sea water filled her with nostalgia, to the point that she paused for a moment and crouched on the edge.

Snowball, who has been sleeping so far, woke up when it noticed that her friend had stopped walking. It detached itself from the endothermic tank Mei set nearby and flew to her. The woman smiled gently at the robot.

"It feels good to be back, right Snowball?" Mei asked, glancing over her shoulder at her little droid companion. Snowball blinked at the words and moved gently down and up, as if it was nodding its head.

The girl giggled softly and after a moment stood up to turn towards the destination of her journey. The Gibraltar station was in the same place as Mei remembered. She stood proudly above the cliff and watched what was going on around her. The girl gave a sigh at the sight one last time, pulled up the straps of the tank, and then picked up the cords from the sledges on which she had packed the items taken from the Ecopoint.

"Come on, Snowball, I think our friends are already here." Mei said, pulling along her equipment. It was much easier on the snow to move all this equipment than on hard ground. Even so, Mei was a persistent woman, not letting go not after how much distance she walked, if she traveled by plane, or even in cramped city buses...

She managed to climb a steep ridge and pull the entire package. She walked a few steps and entered the rocket launch platform. Despite the years that passed, the watchpoint looked very much the same. But she noticed that anyone wasn't here...But somebody was cleaning up here regularly. Mei began to think.

"What do you think, Snowball? If anyone is here...Where would that person be?" She asked the little drone, who just blinked. The Chinese woman sighed. "I hope Winston will be here." She said, moving forward.

The sound of shifting skids on the ground echoed in the station. After a few minutes Mei found herself in the hangar.

"Hello? Is anyone here?" At first she called quietly and timidly, but with every call her curiosity grew considerably. "Winston? Lena? Commander Morrison?" Mei called, but she only heard her echoes and the seagulls' calls from outside. The woman sighed, but she is not giving up. "Come on Snowball, maybe we will meet someone." The girl said, glancing at the robot who only nodded.

After searching the hangar for several minutes, not a single person was found.

"Someone has to be here!" Mei yelled out loud, getting Snowball's attention, who came back from its own search. "The hangar is usually messy from what I remember, but it's clean and someone had to do it!" She pulled the cords off her gear and left the hangar. She was becoming more and more worried about not finding someone here...Or that something might have happened to them.

She passed under the bridge until she reached the landing pad, which, to her surprise, was not empty. A ship was on the landing field. The Slipstream, Mei remembered, widening her eyes with disbelief. But...it was destroyed, wasn't it? And if The Slipstream was here, that could only mean....