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The glory days of Overwatch, that's when you'd joined. At first, you'd found it hard to fit in and truly feel part of the family. But then there was her. Lena. She was the one that made you feel that you belonged. After that mission in Kazakhstan, everything fell into place.
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"Agent Y/N, you are assigned to Lt. Wilhelm's team and will be covering the East sector alongside agents Kim, Rochester, Weitz and Belasco."
As Captain Amari listed your teammates, she nodded pointedly at each one as they stood in loose formation around you. Lieutenant Wilhelm gave her a nod and ordered his team to follow him.
You spent the rest of that day and the coming few weeks perfecting a plan to infiltrate a village under attack from a small group of rebel omnics in the North West of Kazakhstan. You'd learnt all about the omnics and where and how they operated. You'd learnt about the human rebel militia known as воины (Warriors). They were known to frequent the area, but they were a problem for a different day and Amari stated they were not expected to be a threat on this particular mission...
Oh. How wrong she'd been.
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After just 14 hours, the village was secured; the omnic threat eradicated by the three teams sent in by Overwatch. You doubted if all three were even needed. The mission was an easy success...almost too easy.
As your team headed back towards the rendezvous point, Agent Ji Su Kim alerted the group to a noise. You'd known Kim from basic training. You remembered how she impressed everyone with her inhuman hearing abilities. She stopped suddenly and signalled for you all to lay low. Out in the middle of nowhere, with no civilian activity, she'd obviously heard something that had spooked her. Your eyes scanned the area, gun at the ready, but you saw nothing...not yet.
Then you heard it; a bird-like, whistling call coming from the right of your group. Almost instinctively, Reinhardt put up a shield, facing the direction of the sound. Your team readied themselves behind it. You saw Agent Kim from the corner of your eye turn slightly as if listening to something on your left, but before you could even enquire, you heard a call answering the first.
All of a sudden, you were under fire. воины.
Your team fought and pushed. From what you could tell, there were about six militia ahead and to your left, using a ridge in the landscape to their advantage. On your right, there were at least another four using a burnt out van and bits of sheet metal as cover between laying shots into your team. One of those shots slipped by and hit Belasco in the shoulder. You lay down covering fire to support your team's medic, Rochester, on her way to heal him and as you did, you heard Lieutenant Wilhelm warning, "Barrier won't hold forever!"
This was bad. You were all out in the open; a teammate down and your cover fading fast. You needed to think promptly. Come on. Think, think, think. Looking around frantically, you noticed a small ditch barely big enough for two bodies to the right and a few paces back. Whilst your Lieutenant worked on keeping you shielded, you took charge and ordered Rochester to help get Belasco and herself into that ditch behind.
You were successful. With Kim and Weitz laying down covering fire and Wilhelm acting as a shield, Rochester and Belasco were out of direct fire. Now you had to eliminate the threat. Being known as a skilled marksman, you'd really appreciate some high ground at this point, but you knew it wasn't an option, you'd just have to see what you could do. Wilhelm had ordered the team to find cover before his shield broke. You were pushing back alongside Kim and Weitz with Reinhardt using the last of his protective barrier, walking backwards behind you.
The team pushed back behind a long boulder, even further back than the ditch Rochester was treating Belasco's wounds in. In fact, as you poked your head over the rock, you saw the two a few feet away briefly, before a bullet whizzed by your head and you dropped back down. An idea struck you then. You ran it past Lt. Wilhelm and he praised your quick thinking.
Reinhardt and Weitz would act as a distraction, using their heavy armour to protect them. You and Kim would flank the group of six. Kim would listen for reloads and you would act on every opportunity to take one out at a time from behind their position.
It was working. You'd taken out four of the six, but as you turned to take a shot at the fifth reloading militia, you noticed beyond them, you other four rebels moving from their position behind the van towards Rochester and Belasco's ditch. You aimed at the leader, but before you squeezed the trigger all four of them were blasted into oblivion as you heard the familiar sound of a pulse bomb. You then heard a recognizable voice zip by you, "The cavalry's here!"
You looked up to see Lena flash you a wink before she almost glitched towards the remaining two militia in front of your position and took them out with such speed and precision. All you could do was watch in awe as she made her way closer to you and an equally amazed Kim whose mouth was already open before she started to speak, "Wow, Tracer. I knew you were fast, but even I didn't hear you coming!"
"All in a day's work. Let's get back to the dropship, yeah?"
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All three teams made in back to the dropship with only two wounded in total and Belasco and the other agent were both going to be okay. You slouched slightly in your seat as you watched Lena cheerily chat with Kim opposite you. You couldn't help but be enamoured by Lena. She amazed you in so many ways. When she looked up and caught you staring, your head dropped to gaze at your fidgeting fingers in your lap as you felt a blush creep its way up your cheeks.
Lena grinned.