[[ OOC: Unless specifically stated and to avoid paradoxes and what not, the locations pictured aren't the exact maps in Overwatch. ]]

[ The Legion World staff maintains a feed of all Legion-related media so Legionnaires can be kept abreast of any reporting that's done on them. Two women appear on the screen, sitting at a desk, their appearances altered by glam filters so that one is all pink hair and skin and sparkles, and the other is all in blues. They look pretty flashy and tacky but this is the future. Reporters don't exist anymore; they're "personalities" now. ]

Shellee: I'm Shellee Star! [ That would be the pink one. ]

Tammee: And I'm Tammee Tim! [ That would be the blue one. ]

Shellee: Welcome to another installment of Legion Watch: Legionnaire Legacies! Tonight, we're taking a look at the mysterious mechanical monk with no hero name to date, Tekhartha Zenyatta!



Tammee: Our story starts high in the mountains of Nepal in the Shambali Monastery.

[ However... the first person shown on the screen is Tekhartha Mondatta. He sits on the ground in the lotus position, head bowed in meditation. Mondatta's array flickers. He brings himself out of his meditative state and stands gracefully to look over the other Shambali omnics also leaving their meditation. There is an empty spot among them. Mondatta bids them farewell, leaves the sanctum, and begins to walk further away. ]

Mondatta: Now where could my errant brother be?

Shellee: I think you have the wrong omnic there.

Tammee: Grife, just let it play for now. Maybe he'll show up?

[ It's hard to imagine that there could be vegetation growing at this altitude, but Mondatta makes his way to a garden that appears to be flourishing. ]

Omnic Singing Voice: De do do do de da da da.

[ That seems to be the only hint Mondatta needs to narrow down his search further. ]

Mondatta (singing lightly back): Is all I want to say to you.

[ A tree's leaves rustle, and Zenyatta swings upside down into view. Zenyatta is noticeably shinier, lacking the scratches, dents, and oxydiation he has now. He's also wearing a white robe like Mondatta's but differing in pattern. The nine orbs Zenyatta is known for having are absent. He doesn't own them yet. ]

Mondatta: Zenyatta, have you gotten stuck in a tree again?

Zenyatta: Stuck implies that I tried to leave the tree and failed. I have not tried to.

[ Mondatta shakes his head with fondness and disbelief. Zenyatta is removed from the tree and placed back on the ground with Mondatta's assistance. He stands (not hovers) and smoothes out his robe a little. The hem of Zenyatta's robe is discolored, no doubt from whatever mischief he was up to. It causes Mondatta to sigh in fondness and disbelief. Again. ]

Mondatta: You were missed at group meditation.

Zenyatta: Meditation? My apologies. I did not realize so much time had passed. I saw this bird I had never seen before, and I wanted to get a closer look, so I....

[ Mondatta hold up his hand, halting Zenyatta's story. ]

Mondatta: Please try to be more mindful in the future. I worry you will fall behind in your training if you keep this up.

Zenyatta: I am sorry. I will try to. Ah, but since you are here... Brother! You must see this flower I found!

[ Zenyatta grabs Mondatta's hand and practically drags the taller omnic with him. It should be noted that Zenyatta is walking the whole time. ]

Shellee: Who knew Zenyatta ever touched land? I'm sure the viewers are just as surprised as I am.

Tammee: At some point, Zenyatta started hovering and stopped walking. That carried over to when he meditated as well--

[ The screen cuts to Zenyatta meditating in Nepal, but it quickly cuts back to Shellee and Tammee. ]

Shellee: Hold it! Hold it! Time out! Do we know what caused him to start doing that? This is something our audience would love to know. I want to know too.

[ Tammee looks a little sheepish. ]

Tammee: Finding information about him is like pointing out a single snowflake in a blizzard. There's too much out there that is not about him. However, if you want to know more about a champion racing horse or an ancient music album, that I can tell you more about.

Shellee: But none of those are Tekhartha Zenyatta.

Tammee: I know that!

[ The footage jumps through a number of clips. In some of them, a silver and green blur dashes through the camera, but it's hard to catch who or what that that blur is. Zenyatta is shown meditating on a stone railing, in front of a shrine decorated in red flowers, in front of a wooden building, on a balcony during the night, in front of mountains, sitting atop of a pillar (where he probably shouldn't be meditating), on an elephant statue's trunk (How did he get up there? Why is he meditating there?), by another wooden building, in someone's room, in the Shambali's inner sanctum, on a wooden deck at night, in a room with omnic writing on the walls, in another room, and also with candles. ]

Tammee: Let's see what we can find away from Nepal. We know that he left and travelled the world to follow his own path...

[ The screen switches to Mondatta at King's Row just before Null Sector attacked. ]

Shelle: Wrong omnic again.

Tammee: I know that.

[ Now it's showing Mondatta's speech, also at King's Row but years later. ]

Shelle: That's still--

Tammee: --I know!

Shellee: I'm seeing a pattern here.

[ Mondatta is barely allowed to speak before it switches to Zenyatta meditating in a dark rainy forest with ruins of a village. Nothing else happens beyond Zenyatta meditating. The footage skips a little to Zenyatta meditating in the same village, but during the day and facing a destroyed Bastion unit. The next skip places him meditating in a Japanese garden. Then he's meditating at a beach. Then a beachside city, then stone hearth in a tavern, in a planter garden. He's even shown meditating in drier climates. And various other locations. The screen never stays on one clip for long.

However, when the setting shows Zenyatta meditating in King's Row by a closed subway station and then at a small memorial for Mondatta, the show stays on it longer. ]

Tammee: Wait! Here we go. Zenyatta made his way to King's Row after Mondatta's assassination. There's a large memorial statue nearby, but it looks like this more modest one is what Zenyatta prefers to remember him with.

Shellee: It must have been hard for him to visit that place. They seemed close in our first clip.

[ The chimes of his orbs are quieter, and the golden glow is dim with motes of purple within them. But... meditation is still all the footage shows. ]

Tammee: Oh! We have footage of Zenyatta dancing!

[ While interesting, Zenyatta dancing does little to tell his past. Shellee looks perplexed as well. Tammee is really grasping at straws now, and both glance at each other and then directly at the camera. ]

Shellee: It looks like our mysterious mechanical monk is remaining a mystery for now.

Tammee: This has been another Legion Watch: Legionnaire Legacies!

[ The show abruptly cuts out. ]