Crystalline Universe: Team Fortress 2/ Overwatch

Chapter 15 - War, the fallen crusader

The war was far from over in South-America as struggles continued between Overwatch and the many military bases settled by McCain's troupes. A few days have passed since McCain's defeat at Belize, picking the remaining resistance, the 5th fleet is already near the final base at Santiago, Chile.

The fight was intense as the men guarding the final base fought, knowing that if they are captured, they will surely be sent to prison or executed for war crimes.

*On the bridge of the Liberator

Officer - Sir, the enemy hold-up is holding the local population as hostages.

76 - Deploy ground force and call back the bombers, we cannot harm the innocents.

Officer - Yes, sir.

Ground troupes deployed to the enemy position as intended but as they do so, the resistance deployed their remaining bombers and fighters to engage with the fleet. The ally fighters soon engaged in a heated battle against the invaders.

*Back on the bridge

Officer - Sir, look, there is a carrier ship approaching our position.

Officer - Roger that, sir. All canon aim for the carrier and open fire when ready.

Suddenly, an incoming transmission appeared on the Officer's screen of operation.

Officer - Sir, there is an incoming transmission from the carrier.

76 - Let's hear it out.

Connecting the message a voice spoke:

Unknown voice - Captain 76, you do not need to know who I am, the two things you need to know is that first, I respect you for your victory against McCain's fleet, a truly noble act to risk everything to prevent him from killing further more civilians. Second, I need only you to give me the 2 pods you found in Cuba base, the two containing 2 crusaders in them and no one will be harmed.

I will be waiting for your response while I slowly make my approach toward your ship.

The transmission ended with 76 fixed, unable to move or speak.

Officer - Sir, what should we do?

Officer - Yes, sir. Canonniers, carry out the order.

Captain 76 knows that someone is wrong with that message, a sane man would never challenge a fleet all by himself and a carrier ship.

The cannons soon fired at the small ship tearing it down to a ball of burning steel crashing down toward the ship.

His feeling where not wrong as the carrier ship soon crashed toward 76's ship's hangar.

76 (in a state of panic) - Officer, send out reinforcement, secure the ship's crash site. I want what the ship contained secured.

Officer - Should we send out a squad of soldiers or a rescue squad?

76 - No, sent there an armed squad with artilleries and our crusader Reinhardt.

Officer - As you wish, sir.

The carrier soon crashed blazing inflame into one of the hangars of the mothership. The ship was still able to properly land on the ground as squads of armed men and missiles launcher platform circled the flaming carrier.

The ramp opened with smoke and heat swarming out of the ship's inside. A tall figure stood in the smoke. Advancing toward the exit of his ship, the giant slowly began to look like an armoured man.

Finally, a crusader appeared in front of everyone, his armour looked exactly like the one worn by Reinhardt but with a chain gun attached to both his arm, a giant eye was painted on both his shoulder armour and he wears a different helmet design from the standard crusader armour set. The only thing that can tell the men he's not on their side is the executioner logo on his c.h.e.s.t armour.

Glaring at the man, Reinhardt advanced toward him in surprise, for a long time, he believed that all the crusader parished against the omnics.

The man stood where he was and spoke:

War - War, that is my name, I believe now that your captain did not take my message well so here I am. I will show mercy on all of you if one of you make the simple decision to hand me my brothers, the two other crusaders frozen inside their hibernation pods.

Commander - Nonsense, I order you to surrender without resistance and you will not harm.

Reinhardt - Wait, commander, give me a minute to settle this down.

Advancing toward the man Reinhardt asked trembling in emotion:

Reinhardt - Brother, are you a crusader?

War - I see, you were a crusader too. Yes, I am, so, will you kindly hand me our two brothers.

War (in a passive voice) - A chaotic world requires the necessary violence to return it to its peace, you can join me if you believe that peace and order are required on this world or be against me if you believe that a useless war is a path to true happiness.

Reinhardt - I cannot join you, I fight for what I believe in, Talon has caused slavery and suffering to ze people under its rule.

War (passive) - I'm losing my patience, I want an answer, do you chose to live amounts the men or in the underworld.

Reinhardt - War, I think we can talk this out...

Before Reinhardt can finish his sentence, a barrage of missiles buried War inside the smoke of the explosion destroying War's ship along with him. Believing that War met his end the soldiers celebrated with cheers and laughter.

Commander (laughing) - Send us to the underworld? You are already there! Hahahahaha! Such a fool! I bet he's just a mad man trying to scare us.

Reinhardt looked in shock at the pile of melting steel while remaining speechless.

Suddenly, a small cylinder pointing skyward emerged from the debris. Realizing the object's presence, Reinhardt alerted the commander and his troupes.

Commander (unconcerned) - Trouper, show to our crusader friend here that his evil friend died from the blast. By the way, that shot was an excellent hit, Mark.

The soldier sent to inspect the suspicious cylinder advanced toward the object in question.

Climbing up the debris he reached out to analyze the metallic barrel with his hand.

A fellow soldier - Hey, be careful.

The soldier nodded his head and proceeded to view the inside of the cylinder. Suddenly, to everyone's surprise, a shot was fired from the cylinder that's a cannon, killing the soldier with a bullet through the eye. Surprised and shocked, the commander ordered his men to take position and prepare to fire.

Two hands emerged from the pile of debris and with a chain gun on each of them, fired at the soldiers and artilleries killing a few dozens of more of them. The bullets fired like a storm of deadly rain at the men before coming to a stop with a dozen of them surviving the ordeal.

Rising from his tomb, War stood unharmed from the blast of the artilleries, his armour was not even scratched. War proceeded to speak with the voice of judgement:

War - Perhaps your technologies regressed over the years because, ten years ago, when I fought with Overwatch, you guys seemed more like a challenge.

Commander (In fear and panic) - Fire! Shoot him!

War - You should consider stopping to humiliate me with your puny weapons, no one in the entirety of Overwatch is a match against my power!

Stopping and glancing at Mark, the artillery operator, War put two of his finger on the man's head.

Mark (In panic) - Aaaaaargh!

The man's skull was crushed to pieces, splattering blood everywhere.

Charging at War with his thruster, Reinhardt used his hammer to bash the dark crusader in the head but the blow never hit him. In a moment of shock, Reinhardt realized that he only hit an afterimage of War. Looking around his surrounding, Reinhardt knows that he's no match for him. Using his microphone inside his helmet he called for help from McCree.

Suddenly in a flash, a strike from War's axe stuck Reinhardt on the c.h.e.s.t, because of the axe's speed, the blow cracked his armour and delivered severe damage to his flesh.

Bleeding, the crusader kneeled on the ground and after a few painful breaths, he forced himself to stand up while getting himself ready for War's next attack.

To his surprise, War appeared in front of him. Dropping his axe, he proceeds to say:

War - Looks like what I've done did more damage to your body than what I expected. Let's settle this fair and square, in a fistfight without using our thrusters.

Reinhardt looked at the dark crusader and thought for a moment before dropping his hammer while preparing for a face-off.

Reinhardt faced War while both of them walked in a circle, keeping a distance from each other before launching themselves toward the other.

Using a ruse, Reinhardt dodged War's strike and delivered a punch on his face followed by another.

Kicking the dark crusader on the abdomen, Reinhardt kept pounding War with several more kicks and punches before sending him to the ground.

War (while getting up from the floor) - I only wanted to see what you are capable of but now, I realized that the crusaders recruited little week girl like you.

Reinhardt, angered by War's taunt, launched himself toward War. Lifting his fist to deliver a punch, War simply dodged to the side while giving Reinhardt's arm a light strike which was enough to break his bone through his armour and all the actions happened before Reinhardt could realize that he missed his punch.

Reinhardt despite having a broken arm, turned to face War once again and tried to throw a kick at him.

War simply dodge to the side and said:

War - If that's how you fight, the war is already over for you before its start. Let me show you how this is done!

Five War suddenly appeared in front of Reinhardt, four of them are afterimages.

Five dark crusaders, 10 fists, all at once delivered a barrage of 115 punches in the spend of a half-seconde, sending the crusader to the wall with all of his bones broken.

War advanced to deliver the finishing blow. Suddenly to his surprise, a green blade stuck his fist before he could deliver a strike. Genji jumped over War's head and proceeded to deliver several strikes against him. McCree, during this time, helped the wounded to evacuate while McArthur climbed the ladder to get on a higher place.

Genji - Ryujin no ken wo kurae!

Using his dragon blade, Genji delivered a dash strike against War which to his surprise, did absolutely no damage against the dark crusader's armour.

Turning to face Genji's side, War has his axe already in his hand, ready to execute.

Turning pale, Genji tried to get away with a dash but was stopped before he could go further by no other than the dark crusader himself now already ahead of him.

All of a sudden, a laser shot hit the dark crusader in the visor followed by 5 other shots all hitting the same spot, temporarily blinding War. Using this opportunity, Genji quickly made his escape to the opposite side joining McCree and the others.

In the chaos of the fight, a few enemy bombers managed to sneak past the defences and proceeded to drop a c.o.c.ktail of EMP and plasma bombes on the mothership's engine.

The shared mixture of bombes deactivated the rear shield and caused severe damages to the engines and in a chain-reaction, the engines and the energy generator situated close to the engines exploded causing the ship to lose his power.

Activating his backup power generator, the cruiser was barely able to power his propellers and keep himself in the sky while the whole ship, cut off of any power source, was in complete darkness.

McCree - McArthur, I will distract him, make sure that those men get to safety.

McArthur - No! You put them under safety, I will distract him and with now the power down, there should not be witnesses when I dispose of him with my power.

McCree - Go on! Do that, quick, we are running out of time!

Genji and McCree went separate with McArthur. The young man stood for a moment and started to run down the hallway.

*BONUS:

War: (not a crystal user)

Power - B

Speed - B

Range - C

Durability - B

Precision - B

Potential - ???

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