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Torbjorn x Bastion

December 2, 2016
By Luiso BRONZE, East Palo Alto, California
Luiso BRONZE, East Palo Alto, California
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The world of overwatch is a mysterious one, but a unique one. The world of overwatch has many people, mostly robots with feelings and few humans who also have humans as children.  The robots outnumber the humans 5/2. Yet, there are always the same exact number of humans a year, and exact number of robots a year, nothing every really changes, because, logic doesn’t exist..

Torbjorn is a simple person, who is a simple engineer for robots, which is basically a medic in, non overwatch terms, and non - overwatch terms. He has a kid named Bastion, who is a boy. (Because that means so much.) Bastion is a robot, and humans can give birth to robots, was difficult, but it happened. Torbjorn has another kid, but the mother accused Torbjorn of abuse, whereas she was the one abusing him, but due to the government mostly favoring women. Torbjorn barely got to keep bastion, and when she was abusing him, he tried to attend a abuse shelter, but all of them were only for women, and whenever he tried to go to one, they said he either did something to deserve it, or to “man up.” (As you can see, this society is very different from ours.) Continuing on Bastion… He is a robot, and is a war vet, who is now retired, and has PTSD due to being a war vet.
Torbjorn is now heading to work, and he is jumped by a bunch of robots from the hood, this has gone wrong, and he almost died, like every prank video. They plan on kidnapping him, raping him, and using him for hard labor. Bastion is attending his PTSD coach, who denied him several times for being a male, saying to just man up, and trying again to see if he could attend the PTSD class.
Bastion sees his father being jumped by a bunch of people, and in the world of overwatch there are practically no gun laws, and bastion has a turret mounted onto his back, due to being in the army, and not being able to have it removed, due to being told to just, “man up, and deal with it.” He shoots the people down, and calls the police.
Weird stuff has been happening with Bastion lately, and Torbjorn is sure that it’s PTSD. Bastion collapses onto the floor.
Torbjorn quickly rushes to see if he’s okay, but sadly enough, Bastion has completely collapsed and gone to his alarm box state.
It completely shuts Bastion down for 24 hours, and Torbjorn goes back to his work, and takes Bastion over there, and calls the hospital and says it’s an emergency, where he’s actually trying to figure out what’s wrong with Bastion. Bastions faced seemed frightened, and scarred for life, like as if he saw the youtube comments section.
The rushed, confused medics decide to reboot Bastion.
AFTER THE POWER SUPPLY IS CHARGED
“What happened son?” Torbjorn asked, afraid if Bastion can say anything.
He asked again, “What happened!”
“I’m not sure, I’m just very scared.”
Torbjorn looked into the eyes of Bastion, and it seemed like he was about to cry, but them Bastion realized the standard men have in society, so he can’t cry, or else he’ll be sent to a mental hospital.
  THE NEXT DAY
Torbjorn goes to work, slowly starting to worry more about Bastion. Today, Bastion went to the movies, which helps ease the PTSD. It was a slow day, so Torbjorn started to go and research what type of PTSD Bastion has. But he hears a cart coming, and immediately a robot comes into the room on a cart. He quickly realizes that Bastion is in the cart. He knows by seeing all of Bastion’s burned out parts, and realizes that’s what must be causing the issue. He replaces the parts, and inserted Bastions memory cards, the ones like on the gamecube you used to use, but now you have it in your garage, and you never use it, but you plan on using it some day at a party, for fun, to bring back the good ol’ times. Torbjorn realizes that he can erase certain memories, so he ONLY keeps the special memories of him and his son, like Bastion learning how to breathe. (Oh wait, sorry society, he just has to man up, and not breathe)
Bastion is rebooted, and gets brand new legs, because those were the parts that he needed to replace, because story logic. But Bastion quickly realizes he has a military badge, and a turret on his back.
He remembers everything, the war, the army drafting. How it’s super sexist that women weren’t drafted into the army, although it was men’s fault and sexist to women, although that’s more privilege that you won’t be drafted, just kind of like “Hunger Games,” And won’t have to be separated from your family.
Torbjorn didn’t want it to come to this, but he had to go on a noble quest. To see the Wonderful wizard of overwatch. Her name is Sombra, and it has to be a girl because there isn’t a main girl character in the story, and we don’t want to be sexist now. (Sombra may be a side character more than a main character but accept it)
The amazing wizard knows how to fix Bastion, Torbjorn has heard in the hood.Torbjorn is going through the land, when all of a sudden, he stumbles upon Gaben. Gaben tells him, “Hello, this is my swamp.” Torbjorn is so happy that the creator of the land is right there in front of him! They say when you see Gaben, he gives you many steam sales. Steam is a company who has tons of games on their website, and have tons of sales, it’s beautiful, and the #1 gaming platform. Gaben is a beautiful man. Torbjorn looks away, because looking at Gaben for too long will kill you.
My boy Gaben whispered in his ear,”Good luck, and have fun.”
Torbjorn asks, “What?”
Gaben opens his mouth, Torbjorn excited to see what he’ll say next, “After nine years of development, hopefully it’ll have been worth the wait.”
Torbjorn has seen this before, it’s called Gabenitis. This has infected millions of people, it’s where you get sick enough, that you’ll literally see frickin’ Gaben.
It’s a horrible disease, but Torbjorn keeps on going, FOR BASTION!!!
“I've made it through all the meis. I made it through all the Try - Hard Genjis, and all the Hanzo’s keep saying yu ga waka tiki kuroy, thinking they are cool.
Torbjorn made it, he made it through Sombra’s lair. It’s all dusty, and dark, with just a bit of edgy middle schooler.
He see’s Sombra
Sombra is dead. Sombra isn’t responding, or anything, she’s just dead, even more dead than blockbuster.
Out of nowhere, Sombra comes out, and chops off Torbjorn’s head.
1 MONTH LATER
Bastion wakes up from his eternal sleep. He was actually not sick at all, it was as problematic as the woman at the grocery store who gets like a million free samples, and just keeps saying she’s so bad. You know that one I mentioned earlier, yeah no, it’s as confusing as Suicide Squad. Bastion realizes Torbjorn is gone, and that he has heard that Torbjorn went to Sombra’s lair. Bastion goes on a helicopter to Sombra’s lair (Yeah I know Torbjorn is a dumbass) and see’s Torbjorn is dead. Luckily he brought his girlfriend Sombra, who can bring people back to life, that for some reason no one knows about. Bastion goes all PTSD mode though, but only hits Sombra when she is about to go for a strike, because Sombra is that stupid, that she didn’t kill them right away.
Bastion and Torbjorn go home, but plot twist they get nuked by Dota THREE. But before than Torbjorn and Bastion had their cliche’ little words before death. Well, not too cliche’ BUT. It was something.
“I love you son.”
“You suck dad.”
“You’re adopted.”
“What?!?!?!?” (Yeah that’s my ending, great right?)



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on Dec. 9 2016 at 1:47 am
Junior312 BRONZE, East Palo Alto, California
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Amazing a piece of artwork. My kids should be influenced by this. I'll make them read it right now.