( 16 years ago )
Brain Drain stood motionless in horror as a huge beam of teal light blasted out of the recently ruined Contiello estate, shockwaves of powerful energy followed with the violent roar. Deep within the center of the ruins stood the Skullgirl before a cloaked figure, she stared determinedly into the visually empty space inside the figure's hood with her bloodshot eyes, the symbol of a skull laid where her iris should be.
"P-Please, end me…" she said as tears flowed down her pale cheeks.
"But there has to be some other way to solve this!" the figure responded in objection.
"I wished for them to live … but not like this. They don't deserve this, especially my dear Sienna." she replied as she looked at a pendant with a heart engraved on it.
She then stumbled towards the figure and gave the pendant to him before she held his hand, a long sleek blade in its grasp. "So please, finish this…for her!"
The figure nodded his head and as Brain Drain stumbled close to them, he drove the blade through her body, piercing through the skull heart along with her. Tears dripped out of the empty space in the hood as she put her hand on his cheek.
Just as he was about to say something, she went up and mummered something into his ear before pushing him away, using the last bit of fading power she had left to contain her rampant energy as the surrounding area shook by a huge shockwave as everything was engulfed by a huge inferno.
Brain Drain dug himself out of the rubble a few minutes later to see the blade glowing bright blue with engravings freshly etched onto it as the cloaked figure laid unconscious a few feat away.
"Looks like I've underestimated you Subject 0-45," he spoke in his arrogant tone as he stood above the figure, his face exposed and bloodied. "perhaps I may still have use of you in the future."
He then walked away as Lab Zero operatives immediately came in to collect back their asset. They then carried the cloaked figure to a huge metal canister and placed him inside, oblivious to the fact he was wounded.
"Sir what do we do about this?" asked a hazmat suit equipped scientist as he showed Brain Drain the recently changed sword.
"Put it in deep storage like him." Brain Drain replied as he took one final look at the figure. But as the doors to the canister closed, the figure reached his hand out to the emotionless cyborg despite being in a daze before dozing off into a long, long slumber.