It was quiet. Everyone was in position, no one said a word. All forms of wireless communications with the outside world were disconnected and every possible connection to anything electrical or digital was rerouted into the building's prison for Anubis. No phones or comm links were brought to avoid any potential mishap of the Singularity escaping.
The prison was only meant to hold one prisoner, and even then, it held no physical manifestation, yet required so much time and resource to be contained, and soon, those efforts would double. The first line of Helix soldiers were contemplating how they were going to fight such an abomination. Based on what they were told, this thing could not be killed by any conventional weapon, only damage its physical appearance and imprison it. Holding their rocket launchers close to them, they figured that the explosive damage their weapons dealt would be enough to damage it.
Suddenly, the roof broke from above them and the Singularity shot down powerfully, breaking the formation of the guards.
"Fire!" One of them said before the Singularity closed the distance between them and broke the man's skull with ease in its fist, before immediately moving to the next and stabbing its claw like hands through the breastplate like a sheet through paper.
The other guards opened a barrage of missiles at the Singularity, emptying their rocket launchers as quickly as possible in a panic. The Singularity quickly calculated the area of effect of the blasts and raised its left arm and activated the Crusader Shield and blocked out all of the missiles heading its way. After the barrage ended, the squadron struggled to reload in fear as their attack did nothing. The God Program straightened up and charged its red eye and chest before unleashing two powerful beams of red energy that disintegrated them all in its wake.
Walking down the hall, the Singularity scanned the area for any sign of Sombra and the other defectors, when suddenly, Winston dropped from above it and fired his Tesla cannon at it, temporarily paralyzing it and landing on it with enough force to create a small dent in the floor beneath them, Winston then quickly jumped away from the Singularity, when suddenly, a barrage of missiles rained down upon it. It quickly blasted off towards her, to which she began to fly away from it at her highest speed.
Suddenly, Tracer began to blink fast high in the air and fired her energy pistols at the Singularity, which caused it to switch targets onto her. Quickly, she blinked away from it, only be swatted down from above. The Singularity began to charge up again, until Pharah returned once more and pushed it against the wall. Tracer struggled to get up from where she landed, coughing painfully, until Mercy used her golden rays of her caduceus to heal her.
"Thanks, love!" Tracer said happily.
Pharah was engaging in hand to hand combat with the Singularity on her own, using the augmented strength and speed of her power armor to fight on a near same level against it.
"You are nothing compared to me." The Singularity said as it blasted her in the chest with a beam of energy from its eye, she did her best to block the heat ray with her wrists as the beam pushed her onto the floor, Winston quickly jumped up toward the Singularity and landed a punch that would have normally devastated any other organic opponent. But not this God Program's body. Landing into the wall, the Singularity quickly broke forward and returned a devastating punch of its own against the genetically engineered gorilla.
"Rising Uppercut!" Akande yelled as he jumped upwards to hit the Singularity's jaw, sending it flying upwards, where Moira awaited it and fired her coalescence at it, bringing it down powerfully into the ground. Akande then slammed his makeshift gauntlet down in the direction of the Singularity, the shockwave sending it into a wall. The oncoming attack continued with Gabriel re-positioning where it landed and firing a barrage of blasts from his hellfires. The Singularity recovered quickly through the blasts and fired its beam into Gabriel, who shadow-stepped away from it just in time as Jack was behind him and activating his tactical visor.
"I've got you in my sights!" He yelled as he fired his Helix rockets into the Singularity, all three a direct hit. His having more destructive damage than the standard issue rocket launchers the other guards had.
For a while, everyone looked on in worry as they saw smoke in place where the Singularity was, perhaps they managed to destroy it completely. Their hopes were dashed as soon as it appeared and fired at the center of their formation with a graviton surge, causing them some of them to be pulled into it. Others managed to get away, some were pulled into the center, while others stayed where they were, struggling against the pull. Those that escaped in time were Tracer, Mercy, and Pharah. Those that struggled against the force by holding onto the ground were Winston, Akande, and Moira, and the two that were pulled at the center were Jack and Gabriel.
The Singularity, from where it stood, saw the three that managed to escape and chose to go after them first, it charged up powerfully and flew at near sound speed at Pharah and pushed her so hard into a wall that it pushed her into it, the stone keeping her from escape. It then calculated the route of which Tracer would blink to and quickly raced to stand where she was headed. Appearing in front of her, she crashed her body onto the cold omnium that made the exterior of its body before falling back, it then pulled back its fist before bringing it down on her frail accelerator, smashing it over her ribs. Noticing the importance that Mercy played in healing them all, it went after her, appearing on her from behind and ripping her wings and blasting her with its energy beam to the floor.
It then changed its sights over over to Winston, it shifted its right arm into a minigun and fired it at Winston.
"Stay back!" He yelled, holding his arms up in futile defense, until the bullets brought him down, the force pulling Winston toward Jack and Gabriel like a ragdoll.
"Stop! They're defenseless!" Jack yelled.
"More the opportunity to get rid of them." It answered in a frighteningly, emotionless voice. It then switched its focus and walk toward Akande.
"Bring it on! I do not fear you!" Akande said, trying to reach out to punch the Singularity as soon it was close enough, though he couldn't as the gravitational pull wouldn't let him throw a single punch.
"It is irrelevant if you do or not." It said as it reached to hold Akande's arm its hand before ripping it off.
"Aaah!" Akande yelled as his prosthetic was taken off by force.
"It is so confusing for humans to want to install artificial nerves on their prosthetics. Such a design flaw can be exploited." It said as it pushed Akande back with ease, allowing him to fall back onto the center of the surge.
Moira was struggling to decide how to defend herself. She couldn't teleport anywhere away from the pull as this suit didn't allow her to, if she threw her energy spheres of destruction, she'd risk having them pulled back and onto her team, if she chose to heal, the same problem would happen. There was nothing she could do as the Singularity punched the side of her face hard enough to knock her body out.
"Enough!" Yelled Gabriel as the surge dissipated and he and Jack were free. Both shifted into their smoke and dust abilities and charged together in a glorious spiral beam against the Singularity, pushing it back onto the wall. Both ex super soldiers held one of the Singularity's arms down, with Gabriel using as much of his corrosive ability as he could on its left arm while Jack did his best to prevent its right from transforming into anything. The Singularity used a sudden burst of electric energy to push them back. With the rest of their team down, it was up to them for the moment to weaken it.
"Just like old times, eh?" Jack said, with a battle ready smirk under his mask.
"Shut up and press the attack." Gabriel said as he materialized his hellfires as Jack picked up his rifle.
"You go high, I'll go low!" Jack said as they both charged at the Singularity, who shifted its right arm into a minigun once more and fired as they both materialized into dust and smoke, Jack firing his rifle to hit the legs of the machine, while Gabriel aimed for the torso and arms. As they reached the Singularity, they both ran out of bullets, Gabriel tossed his Hellfires down, and Jack turned his rifle about to hit the machine with the butt of it directly in it's chest center, breaking the red energy circle, At the same time, Gabriel shifted his fist as corrosive as possible and landed it on the Singularity's eye. Both quickly stepping back and switching attacks and dodges as the Singularity was having trouble keeping up with both of their fight patterns. Especially since its eye was shattered, temporarily causing it see in distorted vision.
Both their punches were clearly superhuman, as regular hits from any other human would shatter the knuckles and tear the muscles in the wrists. However, the hits were not enough to cause significant damage, just enough to prevent it from countering. They constantly exchanged places and avoiding being hit or blasted with energy. Both men sense a nostalgic sense of camaraderie as they focused the attack on a single entity. And even though they knew they weren't doing any significant damage, they both felt as though together they could defeat it with vicious attacks.
The Singularity then unleashed another shockwave of energy that forced them back once more, however, they had all done a great job in weakening it's exterior, and distracting it enough so that it did not use it's self repairing systems. The Singularity noticed they stepped back and before it could make any more decisions, two sniper rounds hit it it directly in both its eye, and its power core. The shots came from all the way at the end of the prison corridor, atop a sentry tower, where both Ana and Amelie were camping for the perfect opportunity to hit the Singularity.
With its energy core permanently damaged, the Singularity commanded the remaining bits of energy it had to its right arm to attempt a repair. Both Gabriel and Jack walked up to it, Jack grabbed it by the right arm and ripped it off its body while Gabriel extended both his arms into black shadows of decay and laid them on the Singularities head and began to corrode its entire body.
"There is only two options for you in whatever time you've got remaining." Gabriel spoke in his darkest voice. "You can remain where you are and cease to exist. Or." He turned his head and the Singularities head to the only digital core in the room that had a wired that lead to the center of the prison. "You could enter your mind into this prison and share existence with the Anubis God Program. What will it be? Time is ticking." Gabriel said.
For the first time in the time of its entire existence, the Singularity began to understand the feeling of desperation. It could now understand what a mouse felt like when entering a maze with no exit except the entrance. It calculated all its options and figured it would lose in both. The first being its existence being destroyed if it did not choose to digitally transfer its mind over to the nearest core, or choose the core and be stuck for all eternity with an inferior God Program. Seeing no choice in the matter, it chose to transfer its mind into the prison, even though the possibilities of escape were nonexistent.
"I have dealt more damage to the rest of the world than any other being ever could. The damage is done and your comrades are all dead." It chose to say before making its decision to survive. Changing the fading red color around the shattered glass of its eyes into a fading blue a short spark between its body and the core where Gabriel had pointed occurred. The Singularity had chose imprisonment.
"Heroes Never Die!" Mercy called out, as she raised her caduceus in the air and a beam of golden light illuminated the room. Everyone of their fallen team members were brought back to consciousness and their injuries healed to a certain extent. Jack walked over to the core and pressed a button that transferred the God Program into the digital prison along with Anubis.
"We will make do with what we have and do our best to change the world once more for the better." Jack said.
A few hours later, paramedics, and other military staff arrived at the prison. The initial soldiers that were killed by the Singularity were put away in body bags and the remaining pieces of the Singularity's body were confiscated. Leaving the Ex Overwatch and Talon Rejects behind to settle things between them. Doomfist was told to give the artificial gauntlet back.
"Take it, it was worthless throughout the battle." He said, as they took it off, showing he only had one good arm remaining as his prosthetic was ripped off. Then came Moira's gear.
"It was useless, I could have died!" She yelled in anger as she held her head in pain, the punch having left a prominent bruise on her. Then Amelie's rifle.
"I will no longer need one after today." She said, almost elated at having to give it away. Then Gabriel's armor.
"Can't say it didn't help." He said, though putting something in his pocket before any of them could see.
Once their arms were taken away, Jack, Lena, Winston, Ana, and Angela all took them outside of the prison, and they headed into the desert for what they knew would be Jack and Gabriel's final confrontation. When they were far enough away from the city, they all looked at the two opposing men as they gave one another distance.
"We both knew it would come to this." Jack said.
"Then let's put an end to it." Gabriel said.
"You don't have to do this." Amelie called out. "I would very much like my daughter to grow up knowing her father!" She yelled at Gabriel, who looked at her with a soft smile before turning to face Jack.
"Looks like Gabriel put more priority in this than your daughter. If he lives, I'll make sure to kill him myself." Moira said with her fists clenched. Amelie sighed and looked on in anticipation.
"I agree with Amelie. This is completely unnecessary Jack." Angela said. "Enough lives have been taken. Just leave it be." She pleaded, though both of them seem to have ignored her. After several moments of silence, both men began to charge at the other with hatred in their eyes.
But just as they were about to make contact, Gabriel re-positioned to where the rest of his team was. Jack fell forward into the sand before looking to the sidelines of where everyone else. Gabriel was directly behind his teammates and made sure that they all made contact before he took out what was in his pocket, pressed a button and making them all disappear in several purple pixels of teleportation.
Everyone who remained in the dessert was left speechless.
Sombra had managed to escape the base where her and her team were taken. It was relatively easy once she complained about how she wanted the Victoria to play anything on one of the guards phones. She put her hacking skills to the test, and managed to create a false alarm in the building that caused all the other guards to position in one side of the building, while she made sure to leave her cell unlocked when the guard took his phone back. She then wrapped Victoria in her rebozo and simply walked out of the building, with a device at her hip and made her way out into the market streets of Giza. She walked into a safe alleyway and waited, occasionally giving some bottled milk to the little girl.
After several hours of anxious waiting, she feared the worst and was about to stand up and make a new life for herself and Victoria. that is until the rest of her teammates appeared out of the trans-locator in her hip. They all fell onto the ground in one piece. Well, some more than others.
"What the hell was that?!" Moira shouted in anger as she got up to her feet.
"Sorry guys, I did my best to alter that gorilla's apparatus into a makeshift trans-locator." Sombra said. Gabriel and Amelie soon stood up and walked over to her and Victoria.
"Oh! My dove!" Amelie said as she took her child in her arms kissed her forehead before turning to look at Gabriel. "You idiot!" She yelled and punched him across the jaw.
"Ah!" Gabriel shook his head. "What the hell was that for?!" He held Amelie in his arms.
"For not telling what you were about to do and making me worry over you!" She yelled, but her anger came from a place of caring. Akande sat up.
"Finally they're bickering." He laughed to himself. Sombra noticed his missing arm.
"You ok?" She asked in concern.
"Yeah. No. Well, nothing that can't be fixed." He said, Sombra sighed.
"Well, since you're not in any immediate danger, I guess you can help yourself, huh?" Sombra teased.
"Woman, I don't understand you." Akande exasperated, before they both turned back to Amelie and Gabriel.
"Well?!" Amelie frowned, tears cascading from the corners of her eyes as she looked at the man she loved.
"Look, I'm sorry. I should have told you what I was planning. But there wasn't anytime to do it." He said, taking Amelie closer into his arms. He said. "I chose you over my past." He said.
"You did..." Amelie came to realize it, she thought it might have been impossible for him to do so, but he had just made the decision. "I'm so proud of you." She said as she turned to kiss his cheek repeatedly, as if thanking him for making the decision. "I know it wasn't easy." She said.
"It wasn't...but I knew I could not take anymore risks. Not anymore, now that I have you and her." He said as he kissed her head softly and looked down at a smiling Victoria.
"Thank you, Gabriel." She said, still kissing him.
"Are you two both done? Or can we get out of here? This place is unnecessarily hot." Moira said.
"Yeah, I agree, let's get outta here." Sombra said.
"Yeah. I think we should." Gabriel said. "Where to?" He asked the team.
"Where else?" Amelie asked with a smile. "Home."
Overwatch eventually reformed, and this time, it was undeniable that it was now a force that prioratized the safety of the people and omnics, no matter what the conflict. This time, there would no longer be any compromises made with the business tycoons that threatened its existence the first time. Those that initiated Overwatch continued to head the decisions of the organizations, and making sure to guide what would be known as the next generation of heroes.
When it began, the old vanguard of Mercy, Jack, Reinhardt, Ana, and Torbjorn, with the help of Bastion, spearheaded personal raids against what remained of Talon, using the information that Gabriel's team had on the terrorist organization. Everyone was caught, imprisoned, and locked away for good.
Jack Ana had a choice to make when Gabriel left their duel back in the desert of Giza. They could either go after Gabriel with a continued vengeance or focus on the bigger problems that were present in the rest of the world. Tired of chasing and fighting the ghost of their past, they too came to realize it was a fruitless endeavor and eventually chose to leave him and his team be.
Jack continued to be the head of Overwatch, but did not let his romanticized ideas of heroics get in the way of what needed to be done. Ana would occasionally join at the table, but chose to spend time with her daughter. Mercy continued to what she did best and help aid the world through her medicinal miracles. Lena would join the fight on and off again before going home to her Emily. Winston started a project that would focus on re-establishing and taking control once more of the Lunar colony and see where his research would take him from there.
As for the Talon Rejects, they chose to leave the world to their problems and focused on their own personal goals and successes.
Akande went back to Nigeria and took control of his parent's business in prosthetics, doing what Gabriel had told him and become a man of the people. Occasionally he would don his augmented gauntlet again every once in a while to deal with would be successors and warlords, and some other times he would take long vacations. Rumors spread around in Nigeria and Numbani that the child prodigy known as Efi was to be his chosen successor in his business and his hatred for omnics became minimal upon meeting the gentle Orisa. Word even spread that he may even have a successor for his gauntlet, but that last part could not be proven true.
Sombra and Moira would travel Europe and Latin America together, under the guise of being an entrepreneur couple, their criminal days behind them and choosing to enjoy the fruits of their freedom. Even though their main income came from Sombra's constant hacking of local atms. Occasionally their vacations would be joined by Akande whenever he had the time, and they genuinely waited for the times in which he could take time off work. Meanwhile, it was just the two of them enjoying the single, rich, life.
As for Gabriel and Amelie; they went back to Annecy and bought her Chateau and a boat, courtesy of Sombra of course. They fixed the place up, decorating it however they saw fit. They employed new names for themselves as French citizens, though they never told their friends what their new identities were. Sombra eventually found out, however, and was beyond confused when they chose the strangest names of Keith and Chloe. Thought thankfully they allowed Victoria to keep her name.
They enrolled her in school a little ways from the village and both made sure to walk her together back and forth. Some days they'd spend the entire day exploring and getting acquainted with the town, and collect a variety of wines and alcohols to store in their large basement. Other days they'd remain together in the solitude of their Chateau and make uncontrollable and unrestricted love of all kinds before resuming the duties of parenthood. Their favorite parts, however, was sitting by the window, Victoria on either of their laps and watching the waves move back and forth, leaning on one another for support and enjoying their company.
Truly, this was the happiest ending both of them could have ever hoped to achieve.
Well, we've reached the end of this story folks. Kinda happy, kinda sad, but hey, what can you do? Thank you all so much for sticking with this story and its confusing uploading schedule. This is by far, my longest work, and proudest work on this site and I am glad to have shared it with you all. I don't know what I plan to do next, or if I even feel up to it considering how much of a high standard I set for myself after this fic. But I know there are some ideas floating around in my head for something. But for now, este cuento se acabo. Thank you all so much and I hope you enjoyed this story! See you guys...well not here anymore obviously, but next time for sure!