Overwatch 2: Sojourn by Temi Oh

Author:Temi Oh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment, LLC

It’s been a couple of months since she left her city. Toronto looks different already, covered in heavy drifts of snow. No snowplows or winter service vehicles means that the roads and avenues are like frozen rivers. One advantage of the snow is that it’s easy to see where the omnics have passed through recently. Chase is reassured that there are no signs of movement on the segment of Spadina Road elevated above Winston Churchill Park. But it’s also strange not to see it full of dog walkers or commuters, children all bundled up throwing snowballs.

Chase is sure that once they land, any omnics nearby will be alerted to their presence. They always seem to know when her forces are approaching.

The blades of the stratoscopter spin the snow in wild vortices below. Chase is one of the first off the ramp and into the snow, which is nearly half a meter deep and will be exhausting for her detachments to wade through. As she cuts a path, she’s grateful for the extra strength her cybernetics provide.

Chase has heard that Torbjörn practiced drills with the engineers overnight, trying to maximize their efficiency and shorten the Siege setup time.

“Fifteen minutes,” Grayson says. When she looks back at him, he’s already started typing furiously into his data pad.

“Move out,” Jack commands. Chase gestures for her detachments to set up in their positions.

It takes less than three minutes for the omnics to find them and attack their location. But Chase’s plan seems to have caught them off guard. They’re far fewer in number than what they encountered in Ottawa, and it’s easy to hold them off from the bridge, where each detachment only needs to be wary of attack from one direction.

As Torbjörn’s team counts down five minutes, then four, Jack’s and Chase’s teams make easy work of the oncoming Bastions, Huntsmen, and smattering of OR14s. Chase allows herself a brief moment to hope that they might make it this time.

“Okay,” Torbjörn says over the comms, “looking good.”

“One minute,” Grayson says, his jaw trembling a little in the cold.

Chase can feel something shift under her boots.

“Torbjörn, is that you?” she asks him.

“Is what me?”

But in the next moment everyone is looking around in terror as a loud crash of trees falling tears the air.

A thought flashes through Chase’s mind, a terrified suspicion, a worst-case scenario, but she tries to squash it.

“Almost there,” Torbjörn says.

“Fifteen seconds,” Grayson counts down.

“Air support,” Chase whispers into her comm.

“Yes, Captain?”

“Be ready for a quick evacuation.” Their stratoscopter is hovering low over Winston Churchill Park.

“Nine,” Grayson counts.

But they all see it, in the same awful moment. Rising from the trees like those old videos Chase used to watch of kaiju rending the Tokyo skyline.

“A Titan,” she says, then curses under her breath. “It’s always something.”

“Seven.”

Chase has nightmares of these machines. A bipedal omnic twenty stories high, originally designed to help in the construction of high-rises, dams—massive construction projects that require inhuman strength.

But the omnics have turned it into a giant,

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