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Night swallows the industrial park in smoke and sirens. But the lithe figure darts through the din and chaos with detached calm. She moves like someone who no longer remembers what danger feels like.
She perches on a rooftop, breath steady, rifle pressed against her shoulder. The world narrows to the circle of her scope; a cold, perfect tunnel through which she views the targets, the kills.
She inhales. Holds. Exhales.
A head aligns with her crosshairs.
She squeezes the trigger.
A clean kill. She could be mistaken, but she senses her heart rate rise by a single beat: a faint blip, nothing more. She is already shifting to the next kill before the body hits the ground. Another explosion ripples across the battlefield, shaking the metal beneath her. Shrapnel clatters against the rooftop. A stray bullet slices past her cheek close enough to stir her hair.
She doesn’t flinch.
Her pulse remains steady. Her breathing stays unchanged. Her mind is silent. Nothing excites her. Nothing frightens her. Nothing matters except the kill.
She moves across the rooftops with fluid efficiency, grappling from one vantage point to another. Each landing is silent. Each kill is perfect. She does not think about cover. She does not think about escape routes. She does not think about herself at all.
Self-preservation is irrelevant. She exists only to eliminate.
Talon is losing the skirmish badly. She can see their retreat, their panic, their collapse. It means nothing to her. Their survival is not her concern. Their deaths are not her concern. Only the kill matters. And the next kill. And the next.
The sniper spies a rooftop, slightly higher than the rest. A perfect vantage point. Clear line of sight. The promise of more kills. Faster kills. Cleaner kills. But… the building was unstable, the internal structure likely compromised, the jump would reveal her position, her footing on the landing uncertain.
A rational operative would avoid it. The sniper feels a faint flicker of awareness: not quite fear, merely the cold recognition that she might be injured. That the building might collapse beneath her. That she might fall. It doesn’t stop her.
She can’t help herself. The position offers too much advantage.
She darts towards the edge, her thighs pumping as she gained speed. She fires her wrist mounted grappling hook, and launches herself into the air. For a brief moment she feel weightless, suspended above the battlefield like a dark star.
As she hits the rooftop, it groans beneath her boots. She doesn’t care. She raises her rifle, breath steady, eyes cold, crosshairs already finding the next kill.
She never sees the rocket coming.
“Amélie—!” Olivia “Sombra” Colemar empties the rest of her magazine at the oncoming troops and readies for a mad dash toward the wreckage. A pale hand clamps around her wrist, stopping her.
“We can’t retrieve her,” Moira says, voice tight.
“She’s down there!” Sombra snapped. “She needs—”
“If we stay, we die. Move.”
Sombra hesitates — torn between loyalty and survival — before Moira pulls her into the shadows.
Widowmaker lies half buried in debris, motionless. Her visor flickers weakly. Overwatch soldiers surround her, weapons raised.
“Target down,” one said. “Secure her.”
The assassin drifts in and out of consciousness as she is rushed down a brightly lit corridor. The world blurs around her — white lights, rushing footsteps, harsh voices.
“Watch her arms — she twitched!”
“Should’ve sedated her more.”
A sharp, commanding voice cuts through the chaos.
“Stop! Now!”
The gurney halts.
The assassin can barely make out a figure: a flowing coat, bright blue eyes blazing with authority.
“She is a patient,” she says. “Not cargo.”
“She’s a threat,” one soldier protests.
“She is also a victim,” the figure replies, her voice softening as she turns to the captive sniper. “And she will be treated as such.”
The sniper’s eyes flutter open. Through the haze, she sees the figure framed by the bright hospital lights — radiant, golden, and calming.
‘An angel,’ is all she can think. Her lips part, as if to speak, but the darkness claims her once again.
“We thought you were gone forever,” the angel whispers, “but I am going to bring you back. Stay with me, Amélie.”