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Pyrrha's story begins when she was left in a basket by a door into Watchpoint: Gibraltar alongside a sword with a red colored hilt. At the time, it had been just after the reformed Overwatch had returned to the watchpoint after the attack in Paris. An errant stone from the one who had left her there knocked the sword over to cause a loud enough thud upon the door that Tracer noticed and went to check on it, finding the infant with a note showing her name to be Pyrrha Edwards. Tracer wasn't able to move the sword herself as it was surprisingly hefty for its size so she called Reinhardt to bring it in, which had him commenting on the sturdy make of it as he brought it into Winston's lab at the scientists request. Dr. Ziegler would take the infant Pyrrha to be checked over to make sure nothing was ailing the baby. The test found genetic makeup that puzzled the doctor but otherwise no ailments were found so she arranged for formula to feed infant Pyrrha with. Meanwhile Winston and Tracer discussed the note as he attempted to discern what material was used to make the sword that had been left with the baby.

Shortly after Pyrrha finished the draft for her gunblade design capable of both ranged and melee combat Winston came into the lab where she had drawn it up, taking a look at the design over her shoulder. "Interesting idea there, I could add a couple touches for the final version if you'd like." The scientist offered, which was quickly accepted by Pyrrha who then asked if she could examine the circuits of an old model of Tracer's harness so she could understand it better. Winston agreed as long as she did so in the containment room so any issues could be stopped quickly. Pyrrha then brought the original chronal accelerator Winston made for Tracer into the containment room to open up and examine each section of the circuits at a time and note what they did. While she did so Winston adjusted the design for the gunblade, most notably changing the grip to be slightly similar to that of a rifle's stock so that it could rest underneath the arm to steady its aim while allowing less strain on the wrist when shooting it. As he was distracted by the alterations to the design he didn't see the warning sign of a chronal energy spike within the containment until Pyrrha was engulfed in an orb of it and an alarm went off which pulled him out of his focus. "NO!" He'd yell as he jumped to do everything he could think of to stop the abnormal energies. Unfortunately nothing worked and the orb only subsided a couple hours later when Tracer was in to check and he was out of the lab worried that unlike with Tracer he wouldn't be able to help Pyrrha remain in the time stream. After the orb of energy subsided Tracer went in to check on Pyrrha, finding her now fully grown to roughly the same physical age as herself. "Woah love, are you alright?" Tracer would ask, to which Pyrrha would rapidly move away from the now completely drained harness until her back hit a wall. Tracer used one of Winston's lab coats to cover up Pyrrha as the clothes she'd had on were now scraps. Helping Pyrrha up she led the young woman to her own room so she could lend her some clothes until they get Pyrrha clothes of her own. Winston coming to the door and apologizing to Pyrrha for not catching it right away. After that he went to the lab and got to work on a side project he had been working on since Pyrrha had been found at the door.

Bringing the new clothes to her room in the Watchpoint Pyrrha sat down to be taught how to braid her hair by Brigitte so it wasn't in her way anymore. While they were doing so Tracer went to check on Winston, hoping he wasn't blaming himself too harshly for what happened. She entered his lab to see him putting a finishing touch on the gunblade, an engraving of a quote that has inspired him.



Tracer peeked at it just as the engraving was finished. "Oooh! Trying to inspire her as you were inspired?" She asked, causing Winston to chuckle. "It's the least I could do for being distracted when she needed me to pay attention to what was happening. That and I think she'll be glad to give this a test in the range to see if it fits what she expects." He'd say before placing the gunblade on a small table of its own and heading to check on Pyrrha.

Once in the lab, Winston brought Pyrrha over to the table that Genji was still standing next to, telling her that it was hers and that aside from the wrap for the grip it was done. Pyrrha would pick it up in her right hand and aim it toward a random poster away from the others, feeling satisfied with how the weight of it felt in her hand and appreciating the way that the grip rested on the underside of her forearm for stability. She noticed there wasn't a scabbard for it and looked between Winston and Brigitte, asking them to help her bring an idea for a scabbard and linked grip sensor to reality for her to use with it. After explaining the idea to the two of them she got medically checked by Mercy to ensure nothing too abnormal had happened to her body, Winston having asked Mercy to take a reading of residual chronal energy as it may be affecting Pyrrha's body still. During the exam, after Tracer, Reinhardt, and Genji left the lab, as Brigitte was working on the scabbard's mechanical parts for Pyrrha a piece went flying right toward Pyrrha. Everyone noticed what was happening and called out, Mercy even moving to try to shield Pyrrha with her own hand, when a spike in chronal energy was read and suddenly the piece seemed to stop in midair. Blinking a couple times Pyrrha was first to deduce that she caused that as she could see a blue energy in the air around herself that held the piece in the air, as well as the diagnostic tool Mercy had dropped to move in the way of the part. Pyrrha grabbed the medical tool as Brigitte moved to pluck the part out of the air, just in time for the field of energy to fade from Pyrrha's view.

Pyrrha set up the palm print sensor for her gunblade and its scabbard, programming in a differentiation between full grip of the weapon's grip and partial grip for removal. Full grip would suddenly open the scabbard with a loud ping like sound, which would then allow her to almost immediately strike from a sheathed state. Next she set it up to attach to the backside of her belt that also included the holster for her Raging Judge pistol on her left hip. Once set up she made her way to the shooting range that had been set up so she could give her new gun a try. Meanwhile Genji was getting help from Reinhardt to set up an obstacle course for Pyrrha now that she was fully grown. In the shooting range Pyrrha got used to the way her gunblade shot, thinking she should probably get a speed loader for it and the Raging Judge so she'd be able to load each of them easier. Just as she put her gunblade back into its sheath on her back Tracer came in with the note from when Pyrrha had been left at the door of the watchpoint. They talked about the information in the note and how the sword was supposedly made to cut into dragons of legend from thousands of years ago. It was at this point Genji came in with the intent of offering agility training to Pyrrha and overheard the mention of cutting into dragons of legend. He recounted a tale passed down in his family of a female warrior having fought Yamata no Orochi at the beginning of the Shimada clan's foundation. According to the story Yamata no Orochi initially had nine heads and eight tails but after the female warrior had been eaten by one of the heads she wound up cutting that head off from within. It is said that the members of the clan helped her turn the skin from that head of Orochi into a supple leather outfit which she wore, leaving the remainder of the material for them to use as they would.

Upon entering the med bay Pyrrha greets Mercy, mentioning the implant idea that Winston had mention. Mercy smiles and answers any of Pyrrha's questions that she has about the implant and how it would be implanted. Pyrrha got excited when it was mentioned that it was created using a genetic sample from herself, surprised at the way Mercy's nanobiotics was able to be used. With a chuckle Mercy reminded Pyrrha that it's an incredibly versatile medical technology. Once Pyrrha was satisfied with what she felt she needed to know about the procedure, as well as understood the probability of the implant integrating properly, she would lay face down on the table and bring her braided hair up and out of the way for the doctor. A fairly short time later the implantation was done and all that was left was to allow the implant a chance to integrate or be rejected. After sitting up Pyrrha discussed the idea of nanobiotic patches and a container that could generate them. Mercy brightened up at the idea, noting it was a purely healing method of use for her technology and promising the first successful prototype of it would be Pyrrha's. They then hashed out a design for it as well as including an easy way to feed it materials for making the single use patches. Once that plan was hashed out and written down Pyrrha went to get something to eat with Reinhardt and Brigitte.

Years passed, Overwatch regained its place as a global force for good and peace, avoiding delving into black ops of any kind. Pyrrha herself had somehow started getting letters sent to her from all over the world. That she would get letters confused her, particularly when she read a couple of them before giving up. The things in those letters felt disturbing to her. Regardless, eventually a new threat emerged that person by person began killing off Overwatch members. The first two, though it wasn't until much later realized such, were Reinhardt and Torbjörn using an engineered disease that had been meant to infect all of Overwatch yet failed to do so. Next to be killed, rather gruesomely, was Mercy while she was at her desk. It took weeks for Pyrrha to recognize that Mercy had typed up relevant information about her murderer using shorthand that she'd used with her when developing the nanobiotic med patch dispersers. By then it was too late to strike at the leadership of the new enemy as they started battles specifically to kill off Overwatch members. Doomfist had been used in one battle to remove Tracer from the fight, him surprisingly trying to do so without killing her or Emily. Unfortunately Tracer didn't come to meet him alone and he responded poorly. Tracer's response to him killing Emily was to go into a rage where she flitted all around him far faster than she ever had before, causing her chronal accelerator to critically overload. Just before it failed she managed to latch onto Doomfist's back before it exploded in chronal energies. The aftermath leaving Tracer mortally wounded and Doomfist erased from that point on. With the rest of her strength Tracer crawled to her girlfriend's body and hugged her close as she joined her in passing on from the living. After that battle none of the others could bear to separate their bodies and so placed them in the same grave. In one of the later battles Winston had gotten seriously injured such that he had to get cybernetic replacements to maintain his life and ability to aid his teammates. Several members of Overwatch publicly retired from being involved with Overwatch in order to both save their lives and allow them to continue helping people. Morrison wound up giving his life to obliterate the commander of the enemy forces about two weeks before the final battle, allowing Pyrrha, Winston, and Brigitte to alter the interior of the base. The final battle was at Watchpoint: Gibraltar after some alterations to the interior making it a gigantic choke point preventing them from swarming the lab from all sides. In the lab Pyrrha and Winston were working on a device to send one of them into the past in order to warn a past version of themselves of the threat, although Winston kept it to himself that it was to be added to Pyrrha's chronal bracer. Orisa arrived in response to Winston's call for help with just hours to spare before the assault began. She and Genji would initially fight back the hordes of enemies alongside each other while Brigitte assisted Pyrrha and Winston in the lab. Genji and Orisa would slowly be pushed backward into the facility bit by bit. About halfway from the now solitary entrance to the lab Genji was injured such that he lost use of one of his arms. He steeled his spirit before calling out "Kakugo!" as he rushed into the midst of the enemies brandishing his wakizashi in his uninjured right hand. The call out would be heard over comms by those in the lab, causing Winston to tell Brigitte to go help out. When Brigitte reached Orisa the quadruped defender had been pushed back a third of the remaining distance to the lab. With Brigitte at her side Orisa ceased being pushed back, though she had recieved damage that prevented her from using her graviton charges. Just before finishing the device Winston told Pyrrha to go help them out, though it was a cover to get her out of the lab while he removed his communicator and recorded a message for her once she returned. After recording that message into the device's memory, as well as one for his past self, he told Athena farewell before removing the vital piece of his cybernetic life support augmentation and inserting it into the time travel device to make it active, if only for Pyrrha. He heard through Athena's coms system that the others had successfully eliminated the final attacker, allowing him to peacefully pass on with a smile on his face.