@overwatchrarepair week day three - Crossover
“Ooh, you’re going to love this chamber. I made it extra deadly, just for you.”
Symmetra stepped into the white room, cradling her portal gun to her chest as she surveyed the dangers of the puzzle chamber and tried to calculate a solution for herself. From what she could see, there didn’t seem to be any turrets or deadly laser beams for her to cross, and despite the height of the room, falling wouldn’t an issue for the woman. After all, she had really cool boots. What the room did have to immediately offer was portal surfaces and glass walls aplenty. “It doesn’t seem that deadly to me.”
“Oh, linda, you insult me. Not everything is what it first seems.” The mechanical voice of the digital construct and Symmetra’s captor, SoMBRA, echoed from the high ceiling of the chamber. “I hope to meet you up here soon.”
A mechanical click signified Symmetra that the voice had left her to her own devices for now, and so the woman sought to solve this so-called deadly puzzle. With a few well placed portals, a couple of readjustments, and a dangerously close encounter with a pit of spikes, she eventually climbed to the top of the room covered in orange acceleration goop. After wiping her hands on her jumpsuit, fixing her hair, and catching her breath, Symmetra activated the doorway to the next chamber.
“These are getting fairly boring, don’t you think?” asked SoMBRA as Symmetra waited to proceed. “I think we should up the stakes a little.”
“I feel as though the stakes are already fairly high,” remarked Symmetra with a roll of her eyes. “Any higher, and you’ll be out a test subject.”
“The stakes are high for you, maybe. But I want to make a gamble myself.” With that, a hatch opened from the ceiling and a sphere dropped from high above and onto the floor. “Ow.”
Symmetra walked over and picked up the sphere. Centered in the pristine white metal was a bright purple lens, which focused itself onto the woman. “You put yourself in an edgeless safety cube?” she asked with a raise of her brow.
“Theoretically speaking, si.”
Symmetra held SoMBRA in the crook of her arm like a basketball and continued onto the next chamber. This one lacked white portal surfaces upon a first glance, and was teeming with pools of poisonous, murky water. “Seems foolish. What if I were to just destroy you and escape?”
“Nonsense, nonsense. I have a backup of myself saved, so destroying me is essentially useless. I just wanted to be a part of the puzzle for the thrill of it. I still feel some pain from being destroyed, though, so do take good care of me.”
Symmetra dropped the sphere directly into a pool of water and watched with a dark chuckle as it dissolved into nothing.
A new sphere dropped from the ceiling with a clang.
“That was mean. You need me to complete this chamber, you know. We’ll never get anywhere with that attitude.”
With a sigh, Symmetra hefted up the sphere and her gun, and headed onwards.
