//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Making an Alliance // Story: Only through conflict, do we evolve. // by GamerDroid23 //------------------------------// Inside the meeting room at Talon Headquarters, Doomfist was discussing his plans to start a new war with the other members. "...And thus, this shall strengthen humanity as a whole, for the better." he concluded, reaching the end of his highly detailed explanation. As he looked at the many faces of the members, only five of got his attention: Reaper, the undead experiment with an unquenchable thirst for the death of former Overwatch agents, sat there with a skeletal mask which concealed both his emotions and his disfigured face, Widowmaker, Talon's top sniper, and former wife of the deceased Gerard Lacroix, with a somewhat indifferent look, Moira, Talon's head genetisist, responsible for the extensive genetic alterations given to some of Talon's head operatives, Maximilien, a wealthy Omnic member of Talon's inner council, and Doomfist's main supporter, and Sombra, Talon's best hacker, and although her true motives were questionable, the services she supplied were what kept her from being given the boot. She sat there, using her miniature holo-screens, with a disinterested look on her face. "Are there any further questions?" asked Doomfist, to which only one person replied. "While I do see what you plan to accomplish Akande, I think it would be best to find a place to test your war where no one will discover it." answered Maximillien. "Well if you got any suggestions, I'm willing to listen, Maximillien, or anyone, in fact." responded Doomfist. As if on cue, Sombra perked up to this and started flicking her holo-screens before finding what she was searching for. "Well, what have we here?" remarked Sombra, sounding somewhat intrigued. "I assume you've found something, Sombra?" questioned Doomfist. "Oh, not much, just found a side project that Winston may or may not have just completed." replied Sombra, with a minor playful tone in her voice. "Well, what is it?" inquired Moira, injecting herself into the conversation upon hearing this information. "Well, looking at the data I have, it's clearly a teleportation device. The strangest thing about it is that there doesn't seem to be a recall function, not even in the blueprints." replied Sombra, somewhat perplexed. "So he's going of the chance that wherever someone's teleported to will have a way back? Typical. That monkey might be a scientist, but he's still just as stupid as his species." responded Moira with a sneer. "Is there anything else you know about it, Sombra?" asked Maximillien. Sombra skimmed through her holo-screens a couple times before answering. "It's on an armored truck convoy heading to Oasis, ETA: 3 hours." replied Sombra. "We're going to Oasis. grab your gear." shouted Doomfist, as Maximilien called a dropship for Doomfist and the others. Upon nearing the city of science, Doomfist had the the pilot land in the loading bay. "Sombra, how much longer until the convoy arrives?" Doomfist asked, becoming more and more impatient. Sombra pulled up one of her holo-screens, staring at it. "Approximately 25 minutes." Sombra replied, before closing it with a flick of her wrist. Doomfist pondered this information for a moment, before deciding on the course of action. "Moira, is it possible to program the teleporter to have a fail safe recall function?" inquired Doomfist. "Theoretically, yes, but who knows how long that will take?" Moira responded. "Exactly ten minutes, if you have the correct resources, and if you know what you're doing." replied Sombra, to which both Moira and Doomfist gave her a look that pretty much said, 'How do you know that?', to which Sombra merely sighed. "Hey, I helped build electronics before I joined." Sombra commented, before a thought crossed her mind. "Wait, could my translocaters be reprogramed to act as return mechanisms for the teleporter?" she asked, receiving a contemplative look from Moira. "Hmm...what an interesting hypothesis. Let's see if it holds up." responded Moira, turning to begin the experiment, before another thought crossed her mind. "Wait, won't you need those?" questioned Moira, her tone sounding oddly genuine. "Don't worry about it. I thought I might burn through them, so I brought extras." replied Sombra, somewhat nonchalantly. "The convoy has arrived. Do you want me to slaughter them?" asked Reaper with a raspy voice through Doomfist's ear piece. "Negative. Follow and moniter their position only. We don't want them to know we're here... yet." responded Doomfist, the inflections in his voice making his point clear to Reaper not to disobey his orders. "Understood. I'll pass the information onto Widowmaker as well." replied Reaper, before an audible click was heard, followed by Widowmakers voice. "You do realize that I was in the call already, and was just being silent, right?" responded a calm, but serious Widowmaker, eliciting a loud groan from Reaper. "Just get the job done." muttered Reaper, before leaving the voice channel, with Widowmaker following shortly after. "Alright, while they monitor the delivery crew, we need to get the translocaters modified." commented Doomfist. "The only place here that has the tools we require is the Electronics lab." stated Moira, somehow managing to sound enthusiastic and bored at the same time. "Then let's go. We have no time to waste." replied Doomfist, as the trio headed towards their destination. Meanwhile, a few levels down, Reaper and Widowmaker where busy following the armed guards transporting the teleporter, carefully watching from the shadows. Soon, the guards moved the teleporter onto a cargo lift, pressing a few buttons, causing the lift to go up to the highest level. Seeing this, Widowmaker merely looked at Reaper, before speaking. "I'll take the stairs, you take the vents." she stated, before heading towards the stairwell. Reaper, having no other choice, ran over to the nearest vent, before turning himself into a black fog, slipping through the cracks in the vent grate. Inside the Electronics Lab, Doomfist watched as Moira and Sombra fiddled with the translocaters. While seeing the two work was mildly amusing to him, it was starting to become apparent that he was becoming bored. In an attempt to alleviate it, he accessed the communication link again."What's the status on the teleporter?" he asked, meritting a response from Widowmaker. "Target is in sight, the guards have stopped moving the payload. Do I assassinate them now?" asked Widowmaker. "Have they turned it on yet?" questioned Doomfist, causing Widowmaker to peer through the scope of her sniper rifle. "It appears that they haven't." responded Widowmaker, waiting for her instructions, whilst watching the guards. "Then kill them without damaging the teleporter. We will be there shortly." replied Doomfist, before hanging up. Widowmaker aimed her sniper rifle at one of the guards, before accessing the com link. "You heard him, right?" she asked. "Yeah, yeah. Don't damage the damn monkeys toy." growled Reaper, as he erupted from a vent grate, blowing two of the guards heads clean off their shoulders with his shotguns, causing blood to spew everywhere. While Reaper was busy murdering the guards in front of him, he failed to notice the guards coming up behind him. Seeing this, Widowmaker quickly fired three consecutive shots, with each bullet finding it's home inside the remaining guard's foreheads. Jumping from the rafters, Widowmaker landed next to Reaper. "That was... way too easy." stated Widowmaker, somewhat glumly. "For once, I agree." replied Reaper, whilst snapping an unconscious guard's neck. "You'd think that there'd be more." Just then, the doors flung open revealing Doomfist, Sombra, and Moira, the last of which was carrying a rather large briefcase. As they walked into the room, Moira set the briefcase on the ground next to the teleporter. "I assume you dealt with the guards?" inquired Doomfist, to which he received a silent nod from Reaper. "Good. Now for the next step." he stated, as he opened the briefcase to reveal twelve heavily modified versions of Sombra's translocaters. "Sombra, care to explain what will happen when we use these?" asked Doomfist. Sombra shot him a dirty look, before kneeling to access the content of the briefcase. "What should happen is that once we put these on, when we go through the teleporter, it should remember the frequency these things use, allowing us to warp back to the location of the teleporter." explained Sombra, as she handed out a translocater to everyone, leaving the remaining seven in the breifcase, but turned them on before closing it. "Why'd you make twelve to begin with?" questioned Reaper, as he fiddled with the straps of the device, barely managing to get them around his shoulder blades. "First off, WE made them." responded Moira. "And secondly, Sombra suggested we make extra for two reasons. One, incase the first set malfunctions, so we have some sort of back up plan, and two, she made a fair argument that wherever we are warped to might have sentient species." After getting her device secured tightly to her, Sombra walked over to the teleporter and turned it on. "Ready whenever you guys are." she said, as she motioned to the swirling blue vortex of energy. "Maximilien. We are heading through the teleporter. Tell the retrieval team to pick it up, take it back to the dropship, remove any tracking devices and take it back to headquarters." Doomfist requested, as he picked up the briefcase with his left hand. "Understood, Akande. Sending orders now." replied Maximillien. Upon hearing this, Doomfist entered the portal, with everyone else following shortly after. Inside a cave on the frozen, snow covered peak of Mount Everhoof, Queen Chrysalis, the former ruler of the changelings, was laying in front of a dwindling fire, trying her best and struggling to keep warm. She sighed, for it seemed as though the world itself hated her very existence. First her plan to impersonate Princess Cadance, trick her lover Shining Armor into marrying her, and her invasion of Canterlot failed all because of his annoying, meddlesome sister, Twilight Sparkle, and her equally annoying friends. Then, to make matters worse, after she had kidnapped almost everypony in Equestria, her entire colony betrayed her, all because of Starlight Glimmer and her stupid idea that the changelings should share their love instead of leeching it from others. "Stupid Mane Six. If it weren't for your meddling, I'd be swimming in a sea of love right now, and I'd still be the Queen if it weren't for that bitch Starlight Glimmer and traitorous bastard Thorax." she yelled, her voice echoing off of the cave's walls. "All I wanted was to rule Equestria! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?!" As if to answer her, a rather strong gust of cold wind entered the cave and extinguished her fire. She sighed once again, as she rested her head against the caves cold, stone floor. "It's over for me, isn't it?" Then, a loud noise was heard, causing her to jerk her head up, to see a ring of light appear before her. "Ugh! What is it now?!" she groaned, as five mysterious figures stepped out from the ring of light. With all five of them looking at her, Chrysalis, being somewhat protective of what very little she had left, growled a bit before speaking. "What is it that you five want?" Chrysalis growled, her words barely audible. "Hello there. We are merely passing through, and would like directions to the nearest city." asked Doomfist, sounding somewhat kind. "Tell me, do I look like I know directions to the nearest city to you? Now will you please leave?" responded Chrysalis, sounding very sour. "Sombra, hold this for me." asked Doomfist, as he handed the briefcase to Sombra. Then, without even charging his gauntlet, Doomfist punched a one foot hole in the wall on his left. "Now, I ask again. We would like directions to nearest city." asked Doomfist, this time sounding very serious. Chrysalis' eyes popped out of her head a little upon seeing how deep of a hole was made in the dense limestone wall, but the gesture was easily understood. "The nearest city is the Crystal Empire, but can I ask what business do you have there?" inquired Chrysalis, sounding very curious. Looking at her for a second, Doomfist pondered telling her for moment. "Tell me, what is your name?" asked Doomfist. "My name is Queen Chrysalis." responded Chrysalis. "What is yours?" "Doomfist, and why do you want to know Chrysalis?" questioned Doomfist. "Because, I have nothing else to live for. My entire colony has overthrown and abandoned me, and I want revenge against those who caused me to suffer. Besides, you're going to need a guide." stated Chrysalis. Doomfist merely smirked in response. "Well then, lead the way, since you know so much more than us." stated Doomfist, as Chrysalis exited the cave, leading the group toward their destination.