Since I've gotten into Overwatch lately through the animated shorts and fan-comic dubs, I thought I'd try writing a fanfic where the younger heroes attend a special high-school in order to join Overwatch while the older ones act as teachers/parental figures. The character's descriptions will stay the same as their video-game counterparts despite being younger than they actually are. Time-wise, the story takes place ten years after the Omnic Crisis but before Overwatch disbanded though some events will be slightly altered to fit my narrative. So with that said, I hope you enjoy this fanfic!

Stage 1: Entrance Exam Jitters (Part 1)!

"Lena!"

From underneath the bedspread depicting the British flag emerged a young girl with spiky brunette hair, matching brown eyes, wearing a white undershirt and blue-and-yellow tempo shorts. Strapped to her chest was a glowing blue disk that had holographic rings circling constantly.

"What is it, Winston?" The girl said groggily in a British accent.

"You almost overslept," said the giant male gorilla that stood in the doorway of the bedroom. He wore a pair of square framed glasses, a white sweater, and dark blue slacks. "The Entrance Exam is today, remember?"

"Oh, shoot!" cried Lena. "I almost forgot!"

The glowing disk around Lena's chest glowed for a second and she was gone in the blink of an eye. Winston heard noises in the bathroom across the hall, then a blue blur went back into the bedroom, and down the hall toward the stairs. At the bottom appeared Lena once more only she was wearing a brown hoodie, a white T-shirt with the glowing disk still on, yellow track pants, and white sneakers.

Lena looked around the small kitchen that was next to the stairs and seemed baffled. "Where's Jack?"

"He left early," Winston explained as he descended the stairs. "He'll be judging the Entrance Exam along with the other teachers."

"Really?" Lena said, and took down a box of cereal from the top of the fridge. "Now I'm more nervous."

"You'll do fine, Lena," Winston said encouragingly. "I know you can ace this exam. You've been training a whole month for it."

"Thanks, Winston," replied Lena while she was busy pouring milk into a bowl with the cereal in it. "You always know how to cheer me up."

"Well, that's what big brothers are for," Winston said scratching the back of his head. "Even if we aren't related."

"But humans evolved from apes, so we kind of are," Lena responded eating the cereal really quickly. "Though not in the same sense as actually being brother and sister."

"Exactly."

Then Lena finished her cereal and headed for the front door. "Be back in a flash!"

"Good luck," Winston said as Lena walked out.

Outside, Lena took off down the street as the disk on her chest glowed causing her to appear several meters ahead of where she was before. She did this several times with small breaks in between till she reached a large silicon building that didn't seem different from all the other buildings except that it had an insignia resembling a white circle with the top section of it colored yellow and two short lines inside that nearly touched forming a triangular shape below. Nervously, Lena walked inside and found herself in a foyer crowded by several young boys and girls wearing different clothes and carrying different items. Most were carrying weapons of some kind with one person who was an exception.

Oh, my, Lena noted, staring at a humanoid robot who was levitating off the floor in a meditative stance with several gold-colored orbs circling around his neck. He must be one of the Nepalese Omnic monks I've heard so much about. Their leader, Tekhartha Mondatta, has been strongly advocating for peaceful relations between the Omnics and humans now that the Omnic Crisis has passed. Unfortunately, there's a strong majority that still see Omnics as a threat.

"Oi! You!"

Turning around, Lena saw a young man gesturing to her. He had spiky ash-blond hair that was always smoking, a charcoal-covered face, sickly pale skin, wearing nothing but a pair of torn camouflage shorts. While his right arm was a rusted mechanical one, his right leg was a metal peg. His mustard-yellow eyes made contact with Lena's.

"Are you talking to me?" Lena asked.

"Course I am!" said the boy with the smoking hair. "Come over here."

Cautiously, Lena walked over to him.

"Don't you think it's disgraceful that they're allowing an Omnic to participate in this entrance exam?" the boy whispered loudly. "I mean, what if he's secretly plotting to kill us?"

"That's a pretty narrow-minded assumption to make," Lena said. "The God Programs that caused the Omnics to revolt in the first place have been erased, thanks to Overwatch's efforts during the Crisis, so I don't think they are a threat anymore."

"Are you an Omnic lover or something?" the boy said mockingly.

Lena shook her head. "No, I didn't say that, but—

"Then why are you arguing with me?" the boy snapped.

"I'm not arguing! I would just like to point out that—

"Hey, keep it down!" said a short girl with a petite figure who was wearing a purple T-Shirt with a white rabbit logo on it, a pair of headphones with pink antennae attached to each ear, a short blue skirt, and black shoes. She held a small handheld video-game console in her hands. "I'm trying to play a game here!"

"Oh, I'm so sorry," said the boy with the smoking hair mockingly. "This is an entrance exam, kid, not a babysitting center!"

The short girl's face turned red. "I'm not a kid! I turned fourteen this year!"

"What's going on over here?"

A tall woman approached the teens. She wore a black-and-gray hooded coat over her matching uniform which had hints of blue with an eyepatch over her right eye and a silver-haired bang sticking out from under the gray headband she wore beneath the hood. Her skin was the color of dark molasses and there was a tattoo beneath her good eye that looked like an Ankh.

The boy with the smoking hair hesitated and then he pointed at Lena. "She started it! I was just trying to have a normal conversation."

"Is this true?" asked the tall woman as she leered at Lena with one eye.

"No," Lena said defensively. "This guy asked me to come over, and then he made a nasty accusation about the Omnic over there. So I responded, but he accused me of arguing which then got this girl's attention and then he was arguing with her."

"Sounds about right," the short girl said folding her arms.

"Tattletale," the boy with the smoking hair said under his breath.

"Excuse me, young man?" the tall woman said turning her eye to the boy.

"Uh, nothing," the boy responded nervously.

The tall woman eyed each of them and then said, "I'll let you go this time, but if I hear another disturbance you'll be forced to leave this facility. Got it?"

"Yes, ma'am," said the three teens.

"Good," the tall woman said and walked away. "The Entrance Exam will be starting shortly."

While the boy with the smoking hair stormed off, the short girl resumed her game and Lena was left standing feeling no less nervous than before.

Great, Lena thought to herself. I've already gotten in trouble, and I haven't even started attending school yet.

"Is something troubling you?"

Hearing a robotic voice, Lena turned to see the Omnic she saw earlier who was now floating near her. Everyone had cleared a path for him, and were standing at a distance.

"I-I'm fine, thanks," Lena said, trying to sound polite.

"I noticed the disruption from afar, and it seemed that you were defending me from something that boy said," the Omnic said in a calm manner.

Lena's eyebrows raised. "You heard all that?"

"Not all, but enough to understand what the argument was about," replied the Omnic.

"He thought you didn't belong here, saying you might try to kill us," Lena said bitterly. "But I told him that was ridiculous because you've all had the God Programs erased from your systems, right?"

"That is correct," the Omnic said nodding. "Yet I cannot blame him for accusing me of such things when my kind have caused so much suffering for you humans during the Omnic Crisis."

"But that doesn't excuse what he said."

An alarm suddenly went off as a gruff male voice blared over the speakers. "Participants of the Overwatch High School Entrance Exam, please make your way into the testing rooms for the written part of the test! You will be sorted alphabetically and sent to the appropriate room!"

So the tall woman came out again and ordered everyone to gather around her. Once they did, she told them to form lines based on their last names.

"A through F, you're in room 103," the tall woman said. "G through L, room 104; M through S, room 105; T through Z, room 106."

Because her last name was Oxton, Lena wound up in the third line along with the short girl and a tall guy in a full body suit that was silver in color with green circles on the chest who stood near the back.

"What is that guy wearing?" Lena wondered, occasionally glancing back.

An audible throat-clearing from the tall woman made Lena stand straight and look forward as she directed the four lines to the right testing room.

To be continued…