My apologies.

Time Error

Chapter 16

Soldier 76 was running to Mr. Cranston's office, where he is hoping to find the man unscathed. However, as soon as he reached the door he saw two dead guards lying cold on the floor. And by the looks of the corpses, 76 could easily tell who's the suspect that did the dirty work.

"Reyes…" Soldier 76 hissed.

Readying his pulse rifle and griping it tightly, then barged through the door.

"Where are you hiding it!?" Reaper shouted in demand at Cranston who cowered in fear of death's weapons.

"N-no-now now l-let's not get h-hasty! Su-surely there's something we can do!"

The sound of the door being slammed open caught both of their attention. With quick thinking Reaper grabbed Mr. Cranston and held one of his hellfire shotguns to the poor man's head. Once he saw who the person was that barged in, he glared back at the eyes that glared at him.

"Morrison…" He spat.

Soldier 76 turned his pulse rifle at Reyes who was now holding Cranston as hostage.

"Damn you Reyes, leave him alone!" 76 yelled.

"Don't worry, as soon as I'm done with him I'll kill you next!" Reaper yelled back. "But unless you don't want this man dead, you'll…!?"

Before Reaper could finish his sentence, Cranston went limp like as if he feinted. But the issue for Reaper was that Cranston didn't feint, he died right there in his arms, he couldn't feel a pulse on him.

"What…WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" Soldier 76 barked, almost about to pull the trigger.

"I didn't even…" Reaper mumbled in confusion, until he saw the body began to be enveloped by a cloud of smoke. He dropped the body and stepped back while Soldier 76 watched in shell shock. Soon the smoke dissipated and revealed another person.

A man who wore a fancy red suit and pants along with a cloth mask hiding his face. Next to the corpse was a cigarette as well.

"What. The. Hell." Soldier 76 said, too surprised to even care about Reyes anymore.

"Pardon me." A French accent spoke before a stab noise could be heard, following with Reaper falling to the floor with a knife in his back.

Morrison shook his head to get out of shock and switched his target to the new figure, but the newcomer was faster. Pulling out a red glowing revolver, the masked figure shot Morrison two times in the chest.

"RGH!" Soldier 76 grunted in pain and fell to the floor, he has no idea what kind of revolver the masked figure is using but it is deadly for sure. Stepping over to the old soldier hero, the newcomer simply kicked away the pulse rifle and aimed his revolver at Morrison's head.

"Stay down." Spy ordered.

"Like hell I will!" 76 hissed.

"Then die an imbecile." The man said, taking in another breath from the cigar and blowing it out into Morrison's face. Before Spy could pull the trigger, he noticed Reaper's body was gone with the knife on the floor. Spy raised his eyebrow slightly, then he heard a noise behind him.

"And just what are you?" Spy asked.

Reaper's black mist entered back into the room and reformed into the Reaper, his guns loaded and cocked towards the red masked figure.

"Your death! And that is my kill!" Reaper growled, mentioning Soldier 76 who laid there glaring at the masked man.

The Spy looked back and forth at the two men, before letting out chuckle. "Then perhaps you two can kill each other in another life, au revoir." Spy activated his invisible cloak and fled from the area, leaving behind a small little time that was on its last second countdown.

Soldier 76's eyes went wide. Reaper froze solid when he saw the last second go out, and his instincts were now going crazy as the floor began to shake.

Then an explosion occurred inside and above the underground base, taking out part of the old factory hiding the underground base. In the inside of the base where the explosion occurred, the walls were completely destroyed and the roof caved in, resulting a large hole to be seen. The agents outside were caught off guard by the explosion.

"Did that just come from the base!?" Tracer shouted.

"Not sure where, but it looks awfully close to where we are guarding the objective!" Pharah said.

After the explosion past, 76 slowly pulled himself out from under some debris. He scanned the room for Reaper and the Spy, but neither was in sight.

"They got away…tch!" The floor beneath him shook once more, as if it was about to give, but fortunately for him it didn't and the shaking stopped. 76 let out a relief sigh.

"This underground facility is going to cave in any moment, I got to get everyone to evacuate or else we'll all be buried alive!" Morrison pulled himself up and began his search for anyone who was still in the underground facility.

*Engineer's pov*

A loud ringing noise was all Engineer could hear after the sudden explosion near him and Symmetra. He coughed and gagged after accidentally breathing in some smoke and debris. His vision was clouded by the smoke and fire, his body felt like it was burning. That's when he noticed how his body has some burn marks, and his right arm felt more awful than his other limbs. He grunted as he began picking himself up, and once he did he started looking for the first thing that came to mind, Symmetra.

Engineer began looking left and right for his partner but couldn't see anything do the smoke that still covered the area.

"Symmetra!" Engineer coughed some more after some smoke entered his lungs. "Symmetra!" He still heard no response and began to fear for his partner. "SATYA!" This time he cried out her real name, he waited hopefully for his partner to call out for him, and after what felt like hours he got a response.

"Dell?…" A weak cry was heard.

Engineer turned his head towards the sound of her voice and immediately starts running her direction. He whipped his head left and right trying to look for her, till he finally found her. But he felt relief after finding her for a short moment before returning back to panic.

Engineer saw the state Symmetra was in. Her legs were stuck under some heavy debris, she couldn't get up. Her head looked bruised, and her abdomen was pierced by a piece of medal. She was barely conscious.

"Yikes, let's getcha out of there." Engineer began removing some of the debris, his right arm crying in protest. He removed the debris with caution, careful not to hurt Symmetra. After removing all the debris on top of her he began assessing her to see if she has anymore injuries.

But he was interrupted by the sound of a helicopter above them and the wind started blowing away the smoke. Engineer covered Symmetra from any flying debris and let the wind blow the smoke away. It was only then he realized that there was a big hole above them.

"At least we're able to breathe and see again, but what in tarnation is going on now?" Engineer wondered.

Soon he saw for ropes drop and hanged from the helicopter, followed by 4 figures climbing down the rope and landed inside what use to be an underground facility. They began digging out something from under all the fallen debris, it was the safe where they locked the austrailium in.

"The austrailium!" Engineer shouted in alarm. He tossed out a mini-sentry and took his shotgun out and aimed. What he was expecting next was for his little sentry to open fire on then and he would fire next, but the strange thing was is that the mini-sentry didn't shoot but stood in idle mode.

"What in the damn Sam hills!" Engineer cursed, he SO did not want to deal with a sentry malfunction right. "This makes no sense, the only time it wouldn't shoot is when it doesn't have ammo or when there is…no enemies…detected?" Engineer slowly paused when he noticed the four figures looking back at him.

"Engineer…?" One of the men called out, lifting up his helmet to see better. Engineer's heart skipped a beat, he can recognize that voice from anywhere.

"S-Soldier!?"

"Holy Dooley…It is him!" the figure said in awe, pulling down his black bandana to speak.

"Sniper!?"

"Dear God…" Soldier said in awe.

"How is dis possible!? We thought you were ded!" Engineer could easily tell it was Heavy.

"Zis iz incredible! Ze Engineer has come back to life!" Medic said.

"I don't…I don't understand." Engineer mumbled. "Y'all shouldn't be here…it's 2076! How are you guys here?"

"There is a story for that question, Engineer." A French accent spoke, Engineer turned his head to see Spy walking up to him.

"Spy…" Spy nodded and placed his hand on his shoulder, and for one of the rarest times, the Spy gives him a genuine smile.

"But now is not the time, right now we are in a mission to retrieve the austrailium that has been stolen from us."

"St-stolen!?" Engineer exclaimed.

"Indeed." Spy nodded again.

"Spy, what took you so long?" Soldier asked

"Had to deal with a couple imbeciles, but never mind that. Have we found what we are here for?"

"Yes! Austrailium safe and secured sir!" Soldier informed, in a saluting position.

"Excellent. We must continue the plan, there is a ride waiting for us." Spy said.

"Da. We must go." Heavy said, tightening the rope around the safe to make sure it won't slip off when the helicopter lifts it up.

All the mercs hanged onto the rope holding the safe, waiting for the helicopter to raise them out of the underground facility. All except one however.

"Engineer, are you not coming?" Soldier said, seeing Engineer still standing there.

"Uh…I." Engineer looked back towards Symmetra, who was still laying there on the floor. He looked back at his team, unwilling to leave Symmetra alone at her state. "I gotta get this lady to see medical attention, so I can't leave without her."

The mercenaries gave Engineer bewildered looks, they haven't seen Engineer act like this before.

"Zince when did you become a hero? Vwell if you needed a doctor vwhy didn't you just say so?" Medic said as he walked over to heal her. Taking out his medigun, he shot the healing beam on her and her injuries started to heal.

"Ah you may vwant to take zhat piece of metal out of her so err…you know." Medic said.

"Right." Engineer said as he grabbed the piece of metal that was stuck in her abdomen, but was hesitant to pull it out.

"Just pull it out! Vwhy are you treating her like such a baby!?" Medic hurried.

"I just don't want to hurt her!" Engineer shouted back.

"Engineer, ze pain would be like pulling a splinter vith my invention healing her." Medic deadpanned. Engineer reluctantly sighed and pulled the metal piece out quickly, Symmetra's face winced but only a second.

"Zee? Was zat so hard?" Medic asked, Engineer partially glared at him.

After a few seconds, the injuries were healed. The pained look on Symmetra's face disappeared and was replaced by peaceful look. Medic shut off his medigun and walked back to where he was before.

"Now shall we continue on?" Spy questioned.

"Bringing her along is out of the question right?" Engineer piped.

"She can't come with us Engie, not where we're going anyway." Soldier said.

Engineer stared silently at Symmetra's unconscious figure, then back at them.
"Let's move out."

*10 minutes earlier with Reinhardt and Mei*

"The shield won't hold out much longer!" Reinhardt shouted through his radio, but before he could relay his position a grenade that was thrown at him exploded. His shield consumed up most of it before failing and shutting off, knocking Reinhardt back into the fight. He charged in again head first and knocked away a couple Talon troops. Then with his rocket hammer he smashed away any that dared to get close to him.

Suddenly a squad of five fired at him from the distance, Reinhardt let his armor absorb the bullets since his shield was still recharging. But he was knocked off his feet by an explosion when they began using the grenade launcher attached to their weapon.

"Argh!" Reinhardt grunted, he saw the Talon soldiers reloading their grenade launcher and tried to get up quickly. However, he wasn't quick enough as by the time he got up they shot another barrage of grenades.

Yet a big wall of ice blocked the grenades from hitting their target and exploded on contact with the ice, blasting the ice to little shards but the icy wall still stood. Reinhardt relaxed his body, grateful since for once he is the one that is being covered.

"I had that Mei…but thanks." Reinhardt said.

"Letting enemy's blast you to pieces didn't seem like you had it Reinhardt. You need my help." Mei scolded.

"You need to stay in hidden cover until Mercy comes, you're hurt." Reinhardt reminded.

"Reinhardt I'm fine now, I just had to put some ice on me that's all." Mei said, but due to the way Reinhardt tilted his head Mei can tell under that helmet he gave her a deadpan expression.

Out of nowhere, a couple more grenades were launched and blasted themselves upon the ice wall, shattering down what remains left. Reinhardt gripped his hammer and stood in front of Mei.

"Now is not the time for cold puns! Get back to cover! I'm going in!" Reinhardt shouted as he charged at the group. As he got close they fired more grenades but this time he was ready, stopping mid-charge he brought out his shield and let it absorb the explosion. The explosion left a cloud of black smoke, allowing Reinhardt to be hidden well.

Putting out his shied, he charged forward again through the black smoke catching the Talon soldiers off guard. Then he swung his rocket hammer, releasing a fire strike on the first three soldiers, taking them out instantly. He then finished off the last two soldiers with two swings of his rocket hammer.

He breathed with a tired sigh as he set down his hammer and leaned against it. Mei ran up to him once she saw there were no more Talon soldiers nearby.

"You got them!" Mei cheered.

"Yes well it wasn't easy but we held them off together." Reinhardt mumbled, looking around to see if the others have come yet to their assistance.

But as he was looking around, something caught his eye. A figure in red, a glowing green fire shining in one eye, with someone on his shoulders. Mei also spotted what Reinhardt was looking at.

"Hey isn't that…" Mei mumbled, starting to recognize who is the figure that was being carried.

"It's Scout!" Reinhardt shouted.

*Scout*

Scout regained conscious after his defeat with Genji, his mind felt dizzy and he felt so weak, which is not surprising since he lost a great deal of blood. Though he felt like he was being carried, he felt the wind hitting his body and an arm wrapped around his torso. Confused, Scout began to open his eyes and was greeted by a floor flying past his vision, and a pair of running feet. This woke him up, even alerted him.

"What the hell?" Scout thought. He started to move his body, slowly but surely, and the person carrying him noticed the movement.

"Aye Scout! You're up?" A familiar Scottish accent said. Scout's face brightened up.

"Demoman!?" Scout shouted in surprise.

"Ahhahaha! Yes it is I! You're black Scottish Cyclops!"

"Ohhhoh man I can't wait till Engineer sees this!"

"Wot!? You mean that two eyed toy maker is here too?" Demoman asked, now surprised with Scout.

"Yeah! He's gonna flip once he sees you!"

"HAMMER DOWN!" The earth below them suddenly cracked, causing Demoman to lose his footing fall and dropping Scout.

"Agck!" Demoman grunted from the sudden attack, Scout winced in pain after being dropped to the floor.

Reinhardt soon came running in, aiming to get the demoman away from Scout. He succeeded by swinging his hammer at Demoman while he was still on the floor, knocking him some distances away.

But shockingly to Reinhardt Demoman landed on his two feet, holding a shield out with his arm. Reinhardt realized the figure in red blocked his attack and was merely bounced back.

"Reinhardt!" Scout shouted to get his attention, the towering hero looked down towards Scout and gasped once he saw the terrible wounds Scout has sustained.

"Reinhardt don't fight him!"

"Don't worry my friend, I shall avenge you!" Reinhardt shouted, tightly gripping his rocket hammer.

"No! Reinhardt you don't get it!"

Demoman reached something from his back and pulled out a long golden looking sword, it looked a little dirty but still looked like a glorious melee weapon. What sent a chill up Reinhardt's spine was when he heard a feint creepy whisper.

"head…" Reinhardt shook off the creepy feeling and readied himself for another fight.

Meanwhile, Mei was still running to catch up to him. "Reinhardt wait!" She cried out. But before she can get anymore closer to him, she saw a flying red figure coming right at her.

She immediately jumped back, just in time to dodge a nasty air attack. The figure landed with a flaming explosion, its volcanic looking axe stuck to the ground where Mei once stood. Mei stared in horror at the gas masked figure, it turned its head slowly at her after noticing it missed her, and with ease pulled its axe out of the ground without taking its eyes off of her.

"W-what…are you?" Mei questioned, reloading her endothermic blaster.

"Mhmhmhmhmh." Pyro let out what sounded like a chuckle, before pulling out large looking flamethrower and aiming it at her.

"Pyro?" Scout thought as he saw his firebug teammate. He then noticed that they were all about to fight.

"Wait don't! They're my friends!" Scout revealed to Reinhardt and Mei. Reinhardt turned to look at Scout.

"What…?" He asked in disbelief.

Before he could explain anything, Demoman heard Spy in his ear piece.

"Charges are set, blow them." After hearing this Demoman grinned sinisterly, before setting the bombs off. Seconds later the ground beneath them shook, and a large explosion erupted from the old factory, where the underground facility hid.

Reinhardt and Mei stared in shock at the explosion, while Demoman cheered and Pyro clapped his hands excitedly, Scout starring in awe.

"Demoman, Pyro. Regroup with us, our mission is nearly complete."

"Argh what!? But I was just gettin-" Demoman exclaimed while gesturing a hand at Reinhardt but was interrupted.

"Demoman, remember our agreement?" Spy questioned.

"Ahhh…wut was it again?" Demoman scratches the back of his head with his sword, Reinhardt looks at him like as if he was crazy.

"Ugh…I'd buy you drinks if you cooperated with no complaints. Remember?" Spy reminded.

"Oh, alright." Demoman placed his sword away while Pyro huffed with disappointment.

"Sorry lad, we'll have a fight another time." Demoman apologizes, but a drink is a drink, to him you can't argue with that.

"W-what?" Reinhardt could only stutter but was suddenly charged by Demoman, who ran past him and grabbed Scout, then charged off and out of sight. Pyro used his jetpack to fly away, following Demoman.

"He took Scout!" Reinhardt shouted.

"Who!?" A new voice came in, which was Tracer's. In a bright blue flash she was right next to Reinhardt. The rest of the hero group came after her.

"Reinhardt! Glad to see you're okay. Mei are you alright?" Winston asked.

"I'm fine, but still hurting a little." Mei informed, Mercy went next to her and began to heal her with her staff, Mei sighed with relief.

"Reinhardt, what do you mean 'He took Scout'!? Does someone have him!?" Tracer asked with alarm in her voice.

"Yes! The man just took him and ran off that direction." Tracer blinked away with no time to waste, hoping to catch up to Scout. And as she continued running, she saw a helicopter in the distance.

"It's good to go! Take it to the fort!" Soldier shouted to the pilot of the helicopter. The helicopter continued its ascent and lifted the austrailium along with it, carrying it away.

Engineer watched as the helicopter took the rare element away, until a large truck drove into view, the backdoor opening signaling for them to climb in. Engineer felt a large hand grasp his shoulder, Heavy's hand squeezed his shoulder slightly before speaking.

"We go home old friend." Heavy said, Engineer grinned slightly. But his grin soon vanished once he realized something was missing.

"Wait hold up a sec!" Engineer shouted, gaining the mercenaries attention.

"What is it?" Spy asked.

"Scout's here too! But I haven't heard from him since we split up. The boy has gotta be around 'ere." Engie said.

"Babyman is here too?" Heavy wondered.

"Aye Spy?" Demomen spoke through the radio. "You will not believe who I've found bleeding to death."

"Who is it?" Spy asked, but received no reply. Just when Spy was going to ask again, Demoman came charging in, and stopped right next to the truck. Pyro was flew in right after him, landing next to Engineer, then proceeding to squeeze Engie to death with a devastating hug.

"Missed you too Pyro…" Was all Engineer to say.

"Guys? Oh my god it's really you guys!" Scout said in relief.

"Oh my god, Scout." Heavy said in shock when seeing Scout.

Scout had a large cut going across his mid-section, and a bleeding wound on his forehead, his skin was starting to turn pale from blood loss.

"He doesn't look to good lads…" Demoman said as he carefully took him off his shoulder.

"Pfft, this is nothing. I mean come on I had worse!"

Medic began checking on him clicked his tongue.

"Zis iz not good, Scout you have lost too much blood for my medigun to help. Vwe need to get you back to ze fort, now." Medic said while concentrating his medigun on the Boston boy. After getting out of Pyro's deadly hug, Engineer ran over to Scout.

"Damn it Scout, always getting into fights that are way over your head." Engineer scolded.

"Oh come on! I almost won!" Scout complained. Engineer shook his head.

"He will live, right doc?"

"Pfft, obviously. Who do you take me for?" Medic stated.

Demoman began carrying Scout with Soldier's help into the truck, Medic following them. With the rest of the mercs climbing into the truck, Engineer being the last one, they were about to shut the door until a certain British girl blinked right at them.

"Stop right there!" Tracer shouted, pointing her dual pulse pistols at the mercenaries.

"Tracer?" Scout said aloud.

"Tracer!" Engineer said, alarmed.

"Scout! Engie! Come to me quickly, I'll cover you!" Engineer and Scout continued to look at her, but did not move from where they were. They show conflict on their face as they struggle to decide what to do.

"Well don't just stand there! Get out of there before they try something!" Tracer said, sounding a little frustrated.

"Oi Scout, Engie, you know this sheila?" Sniper asked.

"Wha…what? Scout, Engineer? You know these filthy crooks?" Tracer asked as well.

"Mph!?" Pyro sounded out.

"I beg your pardon?" Spy said.

"Hold on guys let me handle this…ah shucks." Engineer mumbled as he stepped out of the vehicle.

"Engineer what's going on, I don't understand." Tracer said.

"Tracer, remember when I said that I had a team with me back where I'm from?"

"Yes, you said you're a part of another hero organization from the past and you have your own team but where is this getting at…" Tracer tried to make eye contact with Scout but he tipped his hat down and looked away, knowing what was coming next.

"See that's the thing here Tracer, Scout and I lied." Engineer admitted. Tracer froze.

Soldier 76 had just got out of the underground facility, along with the rest of the people who were stuck in the underground facility. And in his arms was Symmetra, who still remained unconscious.

"We're not heroes." Engineer continued, as he turned away.

Reaper regrouped at a rendezvous point with Genji, RoadHog, and Junkrat, and rode a helicopter away.

"We're mercenaries." He finished.

To be continued…?

This concludes Time Error. I am sorry if this is not the chapter you've been waiting for. I am sorry if it seems rushed, but I have squeezed out the last bit of juice I had for this fanfic. I hate to say, but writing this fanfic in particular has become more of a rough chore rather than an easy hobby. Plus, I've been getting into college work now. That kind of stuff makes me feel like i have any time at all.

Chances of me finishing the series seems awfully low, it's gonna take me awhile to think of what to do next.

I might make some one shot stories in this crossover, but nothing too big.

But I wish to think you readers for sticking with me to the end. Even if it took awhile, I thank you. You truly are awesome readers, and deserve a better writer than me.

Goodbye.