[ 'There's no such thing as an easy mission.' Those were usually the first words out of Morrison's mouth before the team started a mission. It proved true more often than not. And when a mission went badly for Lena, she always got the same chastisement-- 'your power doesn't make you invulnerable'-- from both Morrison and Angela, albeit phrased differently.
Winston made the Accelerator to take a fair beating but, as he's told her many times, there's no way to make it durable enough to take high-caliber bullets or close-range fire. The ideal materials, he explained, don't exist. The materials he could use could compromise the structural integrity and--
He's very passionate about his invention. Fortunately, Lena made a point of learning how the Accelerator works. It wasn't much different from learning the schematics of a plane, though Winston had to explain a lot of jargon.
One high-caliber bullet to the Accelerator and she's glad she memorized the schematics. She and 76 made it to cover just in time. The distant shouting and haphazard gunfire at anything that moved is background noise as Lena focuses on the most pressing matter. Her accelerator's glow is erratic and the core is sparking. It doesn't take an engineer to know that it's really, really badly damaged. Her blood turns cold and her stomach turns to ice. There are very few things Lena fears and becoming a living ghost again is one of them. It takes all of her time as a test pilot and all of her training in Overwatch to squash down that blind panic and crippling fear. Instead, she leans against the wall, takes a deep breath, and prepares to walk a man she hardly knows through stabilizing the one thing keeping her tethered to the present.
No big deal. This is totally fine. ]
Don't touch the core-- it'll fry you. There's a green wire coming from it. How's it look?
it's perfect ♥ sorry for the delay!
Winston made the Accelerator to take a fair beating but, as he's told her many times, there's no way to make it durable enough to take high-caliber bullets or close-range fire. The ideal materials, he explained, don't exist. The materials he could use could compromise the structural integrity and--
He's very passionate about his invention. Fortunately, Lena made a point of learning how the Accelerator works. It wasn't much different from learning the schematics of a plane, though Winston had to explain a lot of jargon.
One high-caliber bullet to the Accelerator and she's glad she memorized the schematics. She and 76 made it to cover just in time. The distant shouting and haphazard gunfire at anything that moved is background noise as Lena focuses on the most pressing matter. Her accelerator's glow is erratic and the core is sparking. It doesn't take an engineer to know that it's really, really badly damaged. Her blood turns cold and her stomach turns to ice. There are very few things Lena fears and becoming a living ghost again is one of them. It takes all of her time as a test pilot and all of her training in Overwatch to squash down that blind panic and crippling fear. Instead, she leans against the wall, takes a deep breath, and prepares to walk a man she hardly knows through stabilizing the one thing keeping her tethered to the present.
No big deal. This is totally fine. ]
Don't touch the core-- it'll fry you. There's a green wire coming from it. How's it look?