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[OPEN] You're Out of Touch

[There's something amiss in Legion World— aside from the obvious hiccups in general time. A bright splash of phosphorescent green and pink, flitting in and out of public space. Eventually the little streak of color slows to a halt: runs clawed fingers across pristine walls, over statues and murals and statues without reverence, just an abundance of fixed curiosity, as though it's all so new.

And for her, it really is.

Across her face, glowing body paint cuts the shape of a stylized skull, making otherwise young features look decidedly more vicious. A notion that's punctuated by her predatory posture and the gun resting openly at her hip.

In front of a heroic depiction of the Legion's finest, she snorts to herself, quietly:]

Where the hell am I?

II: TAGGED TURF

[Graffiti. There's a lot of it, all over the less-used Legion World hallways— and the statues, and occasionally the floors. Variations of 'Tierra de Los Muertos' or 'Sombra', and a few iterations of the telltale skull pattern painted across her cheeks. Where she got the paint is anyone's guess, but she's putting it to good use while she can.

After all, why would anyone even waste their time trying to stop her?]

III: WILDCARD

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Twenty. [So no citations as far as she's concerned. A flat little response as she moves to lean in a mirrored pose adjacent to his own.]

Los Muertos are freedom fighters. We look out for Mexico— unlike the politicos corruptos.

[A beat, and then, belatedly:]

And we're also a gang.

Okay, good, cuz a night at the beach with tequila is something I'm gonna need by the end of today.

[ He has a feeling it's not gonna get any better as the hours spin along. ]

With kickass body paint- or is that tatoos. Either way? It's a good look for you.

I know. [That lack of humility? It's familiar, if nothing else, her mouth quirking upwards at the corner.]

Who told you about me, anyway?

[He'd said 'she', after all. Someone that knew Los Muertos— that knew her affiliation with it— that Sombra hasn't seen or spotted yet.

Then again he's the first person she's spoken to at all, technically.]

A sneaky spider.

[ Not even a lie, that part. A little vauge but that's all it's got to be. He'll make a mental note to check in with Widow later and try to help her with the damage control here. ]

Speaking of she kinda...had a very poetic way of saying you being like this is probably gonna make trouble for you when you're grown. So in the interest of uh. Keeping shit simple- think we can clear this up before that happens? I honestly don't know how it'd make trouble but I"m kind of invested in keeping my friends out of it.

[Her mouth opens, closes— technically there is trouble, but as far as Sombra can tell it didn't follow her here. How could it? She's technically in unaffiliated outer space. But a 'sneaky spider' means someone is paying close attention. Someone tied to Overwatch— to the conspiracy, maybe— and it has her brow sharply (defensively) furrowed.

She isn't leaning against the wall anymore.]

Can't fix what I don't know about, amigo - but your friend better watch herself before she gets in over her head.

[Sombra, after all, isn't in the mood to be spied on.

But with that threat passed off, Sombra's attention fixes (purposefully) towards the hallway beside them, as if she's resetting her own train of thought:]

You said I own a beach. I want to see it.

I'm not saying give up who you are now just- maybe tone it down? You got...fangs. Girl I know? Either hides them- which knowing my luck is pretty well likely- or dulled 'em.

[ A beat. ]

Which isn't like her at all, she's hardly dull.

[ He's not the best judge of character it seems- maybe he's wrong, maybe he's not, but this sharp edged, lean, viper of a sugar skull seems more...honest in some ways. It'll sting later when he thinks about it but right now? Damage control. ]

Gimme a quick rundown of what all you've tagged so I can clean it up and I'll give you directions to your habitat. Keeping her out of trouble means keeping you out of trouble.

[He gets a look for that, something wholly unconvinced: if she goes into hiding, it's to get sharper— smarter, faster, better. And if there is such a thing as a future version of herself (stranger things have happened, she supposes— not to her, but in general) there had to have been a reason for her to play so unapologetically nice.

She really, really hopes there was a reason.]

This hallway, two over, three more a floor down. [It's going to be a long day, York.]

Now you tell me where this 'habitat' is.

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Up a floor, over three, second hall to the left and you'll sort of step out into a field from east Texas. Turn south and walk or fly for a couple of minutes, you're the next habitat over.
[ That's gonna be a lot of scrubbing and this paint? Doesn't look like it cleans easy.

Yeah he's gonna need that tequila. ]

I'll meet you there when I'm done here, alright? Explain the rest of this place to you.

I'll be waiting.

[She scuffs a few nails through her mohawk before turning on her heel, decisive in her movements when she moves to leave. Decisive in everything.]

And you better not be screwing with me.

[Because if you are, York...]

I'm a shit liar.

[ He calls over his shoulder, already scrubbing a hand over his face. Okay. Time to...process how he feels while cleaning up the paint. He can handle that. Delta thrums in the back of his mind, lining up parts of Azucar that align neatly with this feral little gangster.

Patterns, equations. Shit she'd said, shit she hadn't-

Urging him to go. Poking through Legion files; looking for who's responsible? For the truth in all this mess? And where did that make him fall? Where'd that put Sam? She can, (will, he reminds himself) peel off whenever she likes, make a new face, a new name. They'll...probably stick it out here.

Locus might follow. Azucar- Sombra had him on a leash. Taylor knows he wouldn't fly out with her without Locus but whether or not he'd do the same is- it's a mess in his head and it's no easier to clean than all this paint. By the time he's gotten the halls scrubbed half decently clear and used up as much luck as he could spare to make sure no one asked him questions? He'd been equally unlucky enough to have flecks of it all over his uniform and skin, some in his hair.

Finding his way to their beach- her beach- is all but instinctive. He bobs along over the sand, flying rather than walking, too weary from putting his back into clearing off paint and his mind tangling in knots to do much more than drop in the first clear patch of sand he finds and start working off his boots. ]

Alright little sugarskull, I'm here.

[By the time he shows up she's staring at the edges of the city limits, peering upwards at distant lights and tall, metal towers. Not Dorado— not hers or anyone else's— but similar enough that Sombra feels like she knows it somehow. Maybe that's the point.

Familiar, unfamiliar. Unsettling when she's so out of time with nothing to show for it, and no real allies aside from, well— ]

Sombra. [She reiterates, though not as harshly as before. As far as she can tell, he hasn't been selling her lies— and considering how deeply in hot water she'd been before she woke up here, that's not exactly a bad thing.

She turns around on her heel to face him, wandering closer and flopping down, elbows over her knees. Eyes trained on those residual flecks of glowing paint stuck to his skin.]

I don't get it.

Get what?

[ Shoes off, shirt peeled up to better revel in the salty breeze, leaning far enough forward the little chip at the base of his skull is visible for half a second. Just a moment and little more before he's flopping back entirely, staring up at a familiar yet foreign sky. ]

Keeping you out of trouble?

You said we were friends. [That part is self explanatory: he's trying to keep her safe because— for some reason— he clearly cares.]

I mean this place isn't real: it doesn't exist. It looks like Dorado, but it isn't. The landmarks are all wrong.

[She keeps her eyes trained on him, searching like she intends to find something that's imperceptible lurking just beneath the surface. The glint of that chip isn't missed.] Seems like a lot of work to hide everything.

[Her frown is drawn thin, brow furrowed. He'd said she was older, does that mean that years in the future she's still in hiding? Does that make everything she's working towards now pointless? Aspirations, power, necessity, it's hard to imagine it means anything if all it's done is put her back against the figurative wall.]

I'm guessing I didn't tell you anything about that, did I?

We are.

[ Until they aren't. Till he's not useful or until she needs to move- who knows. They're close and he's cracked himself open every which way for her to see and know about and she's- been kind.

How much of that was her? How much wasn't? How much of this is gonna hurt when she's back?

How much does he actually care about the future headache? Not that much. They're friends. He cares. It's enough for him right now to try to help out. ]

I don't know. All you said was this was like your home, that you enjoyed the ocean. That hte sea cures everything. Shit like that.

[She leans in a little closer, sliding down to rest on her side beside him: her guard's still technically up, but...]

Pfft. Technically it is. [It's a little, bitterly amused snort. Technically it is like her home, like Dorado, like the beach and the warm sands and the gentle surf. That she told him anything at all must have been a good sign, all things considered.

She doesn't know who to trust, where to go, which makes York the closest thing to a foothold— whether he wants to be or not. And while Sombra might not like the idea of being wholly dependent on someone (what if this is all a simulation? A ploy? She didn't find any gaps in the system, but she's missed minor details before) he's an advantage she sorely needs.

Her brow furrows, lips thinning out. The topic changes again. Casual this time.]

You know you don't really seem like the kind of people I hang out with. You're a little...

[She lifts a clawed hand, waving it in a cyclical pattern as if it's a stand in for any actual descriptors.]

So much flexibility offered by technicalities. [ Keeps life interesting for both of them, honestly. He rolls over to prop a hand on his cheek, squinting at her with his good eye. There's a subtle pulse of color- a faint flicker of green in the depths of his pupil. Delta checking in. A quick discussion of how much to say- how much of their hand to tip.

How much trouble this could net them.

But it's- Azucar. It's Sombra. Someone they've chosen to trust, someone that's trusted them in turn. They're not about to break that bond now just cuz she's younger and sharper and angrier than anticipated. ]

I'm a thief that was shot for stealing private military equipment and going AWOL. Also treason. The playing by the rules thing is a very recent development, Mija.

[That's better. Infinitely, indescribably better. It shows in how her shoulders settle down, in how her facial features relax by almost imperceptible degrees.]

You're trying to cover up your past. Avoid suspicion.

[Like her. He has to be— it'd explain how they came to know one another, how her future self (still the weirdest thing to even consider) decided to trust and work alongside him.]

Trying to make up for it. The people here in the Legion? Aren't the people that I fought for back home. They're actually pretty decent which took awhile to sink in.

[ Weirdest damn thing ever, but. They'd tiptoed around this conversation before. Kind of nice to actually settle in and have it outright. ]

We get along because we're both hackers. Stealth oriented operatives with a middling grey kind of morality to what we're doing.

Doesn't look so grey from where I'm sitting, amigo. [Stepping in to drag her out of the spotlight, scrubbing up her handiwork, bringing her here— working to undo his past: those aren't the actions of someone willing to dwell in the in-between anymore. The questionable, the hungry, the certain.

It's not her needling him, it's her telling the truth.]

They have rules they need to follow to do their job. Sometimes shit needs to get done that bends or breaks them, that's what I mean. You don't really get it when you're older either.

[ He's not terribly surprised that she doesn't get it now. ]

You don't have to. Unless I'm just a puzzle to pick at which- well it's not the first time that's happened and at last you're cute and share your tequila.

[She heaves a tired little sigh— wearier than the time she's burned getting situated: it'd started before she'd found herself adrift here, and it's carried on and on... so much thinking, so much planning, pushing herself to adapt and understand everything that's beyond her, because it's the only way she'll do more than survive.

A beat later, she slides forward in the sand, sitting finally at his side.]

So, what's the endgame.

Save the collective multiverse, don't die. Stick around to keep doing that if possible. [ He shrugs. ] You? Fucked if I know. We're...friends but you don't always tell me what you're doing or what you're playing at. I'm the schmuck that believes you actually enjoy my company and that whatever you're doing probably won't get me killed.

[ Probably. It's more blind faith now that he looks at it, now that Delta considers things-

But they've been through and seen plenty. Found shades of truth in the evasions. Then again being through trauma leads to bonding and it's not always the healthiest and now his mind's running wild in circles that lead to nowhere. He drags a hand down his face. Sighs. ]

I dunno. There's a lot I don't know.

[His distress isn't exactly intangible: it's not her responsibility to manage— not directly, anyway— but Sombra was never one for tormenting anyone that didn't somehow deserve it. She shrugs, attention mildly drifting away from him towards the sea, cheek falling to rest against her open palm.]

You should know.

[It sounds offhanded, but anyone that knows her well enough knows that's how heavier topics are played out.] If you don't have an escape plan, the world's gonna swallow you whole.

That's how I ended up here.

This isn't the kinda shit you escape Pequeñita. The whole universe is gonna end. Every universe is gonna end. Your home, mine, people we've met, people we'll never know- you either fight to stop that- or you don't.

[ He's already tried the running from it gig; and they'd had this talk. Right now he's got too much reason to stay. ]

Besides. I don't have anywhere else to go. We're needed here. All you gotta do is tell me goodbye if you bail.

How do you know?

[It's an earnest question, her brow furrowing by degrees behind a few wayward strands of vibrant pink hair: weighing her options, trying to gauge how certain he is that this is all that's left to them.] I've lived through the world ending before.

Maybe this is just a bigger scale; maybe not everyone would bite it.

[OPEN] You're Out of Touch

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