Author’s Note

Howdy, my fellow readers! Y'know, when I first saw Moira, I didn’t take that much of a liking to her. I really didn’t think she was a character that attracted me, but after playing around with her and seeing numerous comics of her, I began to love her.

And so I decided to dedicate one of my Blackwatch Boiz to here since she can cause more havoc for the trio to enjoy, yet we are focusing on McCree on this fic~

Jesse couldn’t be more riled up. He was sleeping in his dorm soothingly until Athena set off his alarm an hour earlier than it was supposed to be. The young man whined and begged for Athena to let him sleep and leave him alone, yet Athena persisted since Gabriel commanded her to do so.

With her annoying computer voice, he couldn’t go back to sleep even if he ignored her, and so he slumped out of bed and got ready.

“Whatever Reyes got me waking up in the mornin’ for better be worth a while.” Jesse gritted under his teeth as he slumped through the Overwatch hallways until he made it down below into Blackwatch quarters of the building.

He made it all the way to Reaper’s office, riled up to explode all of his fury on his commander. He also saw some other face through the door’s glass window, but he didn’t care if Reyes had company, he was gonna taste his medicine from Jesse’s mouth.

He barged through the door, pointing a finger at Reyes, but then the cowboy’s eyes met with an unfamiliar woman. She had orange flaming hair, thin yet tall body, pale skin, and sepeate color eyes. His mouth hanged open as he stared the intriguing looking woman as she stared back, head cocked to the side.

“Why, hello Jesse. Glad you actually got out of bed. I wanted you to get up earlier to meet our new recruite: Moira O'Deorain,” Gabe said.

“Pleasure to meet you,” Moira said in a monotone voice.

“Howdy, m'lady.” McCree tipped his hat at her.

Moira couldn’t help but grin at his odd southern accent, but quickly returned to her emotionless expression.

“Moira is our genetic engineer that’ll help create new advancements for Blackwatch. You can be her new play mate today instead of you pestering Angela,” Gabe said.

“What’d ya mean ‘persterin’? I was just tryin to have fun with h-”

Gabe snapped. “McCree! You spilled toxic chemicals inside her laboratory. They burned a hole through several floors and nearly caused harm to countless agents! And Angela is tired of all of the constant flirtation you give her. It is time you stop fooling around.”

Jesse hanged his head in defeat. “Yes, sir.”

“Now, go with Moira and help her with her studies,” Gabe commanded sternly. “I have work to do in the office and check up on Genji on his mission.”

Moira and McCree left the office, but as soon as Jesse closed the door, the scientist shot him a smirk.

“What are ya bein smug about?”

“You have an interesting character. Both in attire and personality described by Reyes. A troublemaker, cowboy, and a hopeless romantic all rolled up in one.”

“I am more than that, Moira. Ya just met me.”

“Mm…I challenge that.” Moira’s smirk grew even wider.

Moira had gotten into her combat gear, and so did Jesse. They were in her laboratory, full of metal gizmos and glass whatnots that were foreign to McCree’s eyes. Her lab was certainly more advanced than Angela’s.

“In my ways of combating,” she started, “I have abilities that help me fright with my comrades, but also heal them as well.”

“Really?” McCree asked.

“Yes…Now hit me for a demonstration.”

“What?” He chuckled slightly, pondering if he heard that correctly.

“Hit me.”

“Er, wait a minute now. I can’t hit a lady. I’m too much of a gentlem-”

Moira slapped him across the face. “Too much of a pussy, that’s what.”

McCree was a velvet red, nostrils blowing steam. “Mc'scuse me, bitch?! I’ll show YOU how much of a pussy I am!” He punched her straight in the face at full swing.

Moira rolled her eyes as she saw stars twiddling across the sky, not even feeling her nose shatter.

The scientist tumbled to the ground, face planting. The last thing she saw was her nose gushing with blood and Jesse’s shocked face.

“Oh, ma'am! I’m greatly sorry! I wish I didn’t punch ya that hard!” Jesse scrambled along the room, getting napkins and anything available.

“I didn’t expect you to punch that hard either. I knew you had quite the build, but I didn’t think you would be that strong, yet my calculations proved false.” Moira voice was a little stubby due to the face she applied pressure to her bleeding nose with napkins. She was still a dazed with a light headache. “God…That wasn’t my brightest idea. And my nose and heads hurts as a result.”

Jesse immediately grabbed a glass measured beaker and went to the lab fridge. He poured some ice into it. He was about to apply it to her forehead, but she shewed it away.

“Thank you for the offer, but I can heal myself.” Moira faced the palm of her left hand on her face and as she expended yellow biotic energy onto her. She sighed of relief as the gas regenerated her cellular structure in her nose, fixing it. It also soothed her headache and other facial featured that were damaged. Soon, she looked like she was never hurt.

McCree watched in awe. “Woah…That’s amazin. Never seen such a way to heal. Medics are gettin so advanced now adays.”

“I also have more up my sleeve, but I don’t have time to show you. I have a weapon to test out, Jesse. I know you’ll love this one.”

“So, what does thing exactly do?” Jesse examined the gun in his hands. It resembled much like a pistol, but instead of bullets, it had plenty of tiny pink beads, no smaller than a penny.

“A bubble gun, simply,” the scientist said.

Jesse cracked some chuckles. “So we’re going to use bubbles to harm our enemies? Really?!”

“No, it’s a way of capturing them if you want them unharmed,” Moira explained. “Quite useful if you say, but I haven’t tested it. I’m not good at fire arms, but I know that Reyes said you had a 'good eye’.”

The cowboy engulfed in his pride, smiling proudly of his superior marksmanship. “Indeed I do.”

Moira picked up a rat from a cage and placed it on the ground. “Test it on the rat.” She commanded as she got a pencil and a notebook. “I will record as you do so.”

'But I can’t harm an animal. There’s no way. Even if their small mice,’ Jess thought. His hand started to ship. He aimed straight at the mouse, his throat felt like it was closuong up. The cowboy’s pulled the trigger, but his finger slipped from position.

The bead missed the rat by an inch. It hit the floor and then cracked open and turned into the bubble. The bubble bounced all over the place at the speed of sound until it aimed for Jesse and Moira and engulfed the two.

They both yelled as the bubble bounced over the laboratory with them in it, reaking havoc over the place: smashing beakers, busting gadgets, computers and tv screens sparking.

They even busted into the air. They soon bounced their way to other parts of the building as they traveled along the air duct in the ceiling.

Overwatch and Blackwatch agents stopped their work and listened to the thudding and the screaming amongst the ceiling.

Jesse and Moira continuously bounced along the air duct, toppling over eachother and smooching their faces along the walls of the bubble.

As that happened, Gabriel was discussing his new recruite to Genji in his office since the cyborg just returned from his quick mission and it was best to inform him about her.

“Moira is the smartest woman I met, even smarter than Angela, Winston, and Mei. She can give Blackwatch the boost it needs as long as we keep her a secret from Overwatch, especially Jack and the Overwatch officials.” Gabriel smiled in fondness of the scientist. “I might even ask her to make improvements on me and other Blackwatch agents.”

“Sounds like an interesting comrade. Where is she now?” Genji asked.

“She is in the lab using McCree as her personal lab rat.” Gabriel smirked. “Hoping that’ll do him good use while he isn’t busy doing missions. Why, I bet there’s no more trouble from hi-”

The two Blackwatch men stopped once they heard screaming. They tilted their heads up to the ceiling, where the sounds came from.

“Oh Lord, help us!” Jesse’s voiced could be heard calling out.

But soon the noises by passed Gabe’s office and went down into the hallway.

“Erm, what the h#@$ was that?!” The cyborg asked nervously.

Gabriel sighed and facepalmed. “An annoyance…”

~ The End~

Don’t worry! Jesse and Moira eventually get out of their bubble trouble, but their relationship got better in the end! ^^

segadores-y-soldados:

Quick Reasons Not To Trust Moira in Retribution

1) The wording in her Hero Profile is just vague enough to imply she is a Talon agent at the time of the Retribution mission.

“The shadowy Talon organization had already been supporting her for years, aiding her experiments in exchange for utilizing the results for their own purposes.”

2) Moira’s interactions with Reyes during the Retribution point to her egging him on, pressuring him, or attempting to “get under his skin”. The most notable one involves Moira saying she wishes she could go to rhe masquerade (of Venetian Carnival). Reyes says he is surprised because she doesn’t seem like the kind of person to enjoy that.

Moira replies, “There are a lot of things you don’t know about me.”

3) The major bosses utilize technology or “enhancements” that are originally from Overwatch agents.

• The Heavy Assault Tank: uses Rocket Charge. Originally from the Crusaders. Canonically used by Reinhardt in animated shorts and comics.
• The Assassin: uses what appears to be Blink and/or Recall. The chronal accelerator technology was specifically made for Tracer by Winston. If this is true about the Assassin, it also severely limited the time range of Retribution. Canonically appears in multiple shorts and comics (by Tracer).
• The Sniper: uses a form of Shadowstep and/or Wraith. Canonically appears in multiple shorts and comics by Reaper.

The last one is the most interesting because it is unique to Reyes and his biotic “enhancements” that he accrued during SEP.

However -

There is one other person who has access to Reyes’ biodata - and the technical knowledge and ability to manipulate and recreate that in other ways (Biotic Grasp, Fade) - to make new technologies, enhancements, and abilities out of that.

Moira.

4) Related to Point 3, Moira has canonically stolen technology from Mercy. We are also told by Geoff Goodman during Moira’s Blizzcon panel that she took Wraith from “Reaper” and “improved” it. Moira has no qualms about taking other people’s research, property, or abilities and then redesigning or reworking them for her own purposes.

5) Moira is the only person who appears HAPPY during the intro video. The later statements she makes where she tells Reyes that he did the right thing by killing Antonio are shady as all hell.

Both of these appeared to be “coincidentally” tied to the sudden rise of Vialli and Maximilien, and Akande overthrowing Akinjide in the wake of Antonio’s death. This becomes significantly less “coincidental” if you consider that Moira may be a Talon agent, or be getting financial support from one (or all) of them.

6) During Reyes’ debriefing with Morrison, Amari, and Lacroix, there are images of two Talon operatives - a Trooper and a Heavy Assault tank.

The third image is of Moira.

(Comparison image)

Remember, Blackwatch continues to operate while suspended. Whatever occurs between Gabe, Jack, Ana, and Gérard during Gabe’s Retribution debriefing isn’t enough to make him leave, nor enough to make McCree leave in the immediate aftermath. Both Gabriel Reyes and Jesse McCree go on to help the Overwatch Strike Team by recovering intel on Null Sector during Null Sector’s Uprising. Genji stays on the team as well, and eventually helps arrest Akande Ogundimu, who is now the third Doomfist.

However, we do not know what happens to Moira after Retribution.

Speculation/Guess: in my opinion, the entire Retribution mission - and Gabriel’s motivations - make considerably more sense if you look at it like this:

The mission WAS intended to grab Antonio, run, and interrogate him later. It does not seem like Gabriel was lying here. In fact, MCCREE originally wanted to kill Antonio, but is told by Gabriel that they’re not going to do that.

However, Antonio reveals: 1) that he was anticipating this move by Blackwatch, 2) that he expected his “friends” to help him walk free from Blackwatch a week later, and 3) that he expected to hurt Blackwatch/Overwatch again.

This is the moment when Gabriel realizes -

He’s been betrayed by one of the three Blackwatch agents in the room with him.

(Note who else is “in frame” but out of focus during this moment).

This is not a sudden turn-about in motivations by Gabriel Reyes -

But instead, the clear and distinct realization that he has walked right into Antonio’s (and Talon’s) grasp.

And letting Antonio live is the LEAST of his worries.

The far bigger threat is the person IMMEDIATELY behind him.

And she knows it too.

Holy shit….My mind has been blown by these theories.