A/N: Like usual I will first say I wrote this out of love and inspiration not profit, secondly I don't own any of the rights to characters, settings, or any thing of that nature the only thing I own is the keyboard I am typing this up with. So with that in mind if you have any Ideas and suggestions I would love to hear them.
A/N #2: I also just want to say that no I will not leave my other story. I will be updating after I get over my nasty writers block.
Ch.2 To Find an Ugly Surprise! The History of Cauldron?!
Vash had unknowingly slain the legendary cape and monster named Nilbog, when he destroyed a dangerous place called Ellisberg. As he was asked by Contessa before retreating to his new home within the city of Brockton Bay.
Contessa was able to see that Vash would probably be a key character as shown to her in her very own Path To Victory. Contessa's power was a unique variety of precognition. If anyone said that, it would be a massive understatement.
Her power worked by picking a goal, and it would show her one or multiple routes to achieving her goal, it showed a series of steps to take that would lead to a desired outcome. These steps could range from something as simple as picking up some guys laundry to executing a corrupt dictator.
Her power didn't always work on everyone the way she wanted and sometimes was either extremely vague or specific. Some just didn't show up on it at all. For example Contessa could not use the Path to Victory when it involved any of the Endbringers, but she could see it for say Scion.
Her goal was simple, to kill the entity called Scion and in doing so save the world from destruction on a terrible scale.
Cauldron was established by Doctor Mother when she killed a entity. There was no real way to describe the Eldrich horror that creature was. the sole purpose on it's mind was simple.
Cause lots of conflict, find creative uses for the powers the had by distributing them and giving a compulsion to seek out conflict to the user. Then when the needed information was collected they would consume that world and the other parallel versions of that world as a source for energy. Seek out a new world and repeat. This ran on a cycle and unfortunately time was short.
Cauldron worked on a lot of things from behind the scenes. Establishing an organization that would collapse at the right time. Gathering off-world subject to test power granting serums.
Studying the dead entity for weak points within it's counterpart, and all this was to ensure that when Scion showed his true colors they would have a chance to stop it from completing it's destructive cycle.
Cauldron was guilty of doing a lot of horrible things to a lot of people, but the reason was always justified when compared to the alternative. The death of over ninety percent of the world's population within a timetable ranging from five to twenty-five years, if they did nothing.
Yes the fact that a lot of people would die would always be terrible, but for even a small chance to defeat the monster, nothing was beyond justification. That is why Cauldron existed, and why it was always willing to pay the price for victory.
As terrible as it was the path to victory, always showed a route that required a certain mentality at least with this goal in mind. Victory at any cost.
Knowledge of the past, and present research
Vash always wanted to save everyone. Even when he was little.
His brother Knives however knew that was simply impossible to do. In someways the things that Vash had read when he was doing research about the monstrous group of wandering murderers, reminded him of his brother Knives.
The Slaughterhouse nine were monsters where Knives Millions would find no trouble fitting in. A perverse lack of concern with life, a twisted collection of personalities, and the fact that ending the lives of survivors was considered mercy killing the majority of the time did little to avail any hatred people could feel for the group.
Knives never cared about life, and thus had no problems ending those of the people he deemed unnecessary to his goals. His only goal was the complete elimination of humanity and to confront his idealistic brother about his 'foolish idealism'.
There were only a few things that Vash and Knives had in common one of the few was blood. A few physical traits such as both were blonde, and both were oddly tall. The fact that the two had a high intellect really was part of what made them so incredible.
That is where those similarities as well as any other ended. Vash only hated one person in the world and that was the monster named Knives Millions.
The actions that knives had committed led to the death of one of his closest friends and his mentor Rem Savarem, as well as several countless others.
Vash swore that in this one case if he were to encounter them he would do whatever was needed of himself to protect himself and others. He felt sick when he had read through the files on each of them. Their capabilities, history or at least what was known. Lastly the ungodly high body count that each member possessed.
After reading the information, he felt sick in just about every sense of the word that he could apply to reading about the given subject. The brief flashbacks of his brother did nothing to ease the feelings he was experiencing.
Vash learned how bad off this world was, and felt such profound sadness at the countless travesties that happened to the people here.
He was done with his week of researching the entirety of the research that was provided by some of the staff at cauldron, and what he could learn from Parahumans Online. He knew of the local gangs and had a decent idea about pretty much any cape that could appear within any given situation as well as several things about cape politics.
There was the merchants which sold and dealt drugs to people, they would often resort to kidnapping and addicting their victims to the drugs they were dealing. This resulted in a unfortunate supply of members who were mostly able to fight or do tasks as needed. They were lead by three capes Skidmark, Mush, and Squeeler.
Then there was the Empire Eighty-eight. A large group of Neo-Nazis who targeted minority members frequently, they were also supported by a strange organization in Europe called Geschellschaft.
They also are one of the biggest groups in terms of both gang membership and parahuman firepower. This gang is lead by Kaiser who inherited it from his father Allfather. This gang often was attributed to hate crimes.
The last large criminal organization in Brockton Bay was the 'Azn Bad Boyz', they were also a large conglomeration of asian minorities and are at odds with the Empire the most often. The reason they got as big as they did was because people feared the man leading.
Lung the Dragon of Kyushu, the reason why was because he was able to go toe-to-toe with an Endbringer and fight to a draw. He was also able to defeat multiply hero teams at the same time and leave with a clear victory. This organization ran several illegal gambling rings, dealt weapons out, and whore houses.
Vash knew he had his work cut out for him, but he would perform his duties to the best of his ability. He would save the world, and make it a better place if he could help it.
With his research done, an appetite worked up, a renewed desire to help others, and a box full of doughnuts Vash felt ready to try to make a difference.
TO BE CONTINUED. . .
A/N: I felt that this chapter would be a good chance to fill in any blanks and give a reason for Vash to want to make things better. Though in all honesty Vash is just a big sweetheart who has terrible luck. Sorry if this was boring, but I sometime forget to include background information which is usually important to actually enjoy a story in my experience. Anyways I hope it wasn't to boring I promise that my next update will be more exciting.