Chapter 10

Child Emperor tried to get more information. There was something important about Street and Knuckle, he knows he heard their name once before yet couldn't put his finger on it. As he tried to research their names, he jumped as the head quarter's sirens went off. His computer went into sudden shut down mode as the power in the building began to wavier. The warning system however remained online.

"Level Dragon Threat in the facility!" it blared over and over again.

"Level Dragon?" he whispered. The computer regained power. He was quick to hack into the computer security cameras, he tried to find what set off the alarm… then the front gate blow off its hinges! A six foot thick iron door meant to stop monster attacks was no more. He stormed in without fear of the consequences. "Garou!?"

Immediately he got out of the lab, he wasn't the only one rushing to the scene. There were Neo Heroes confronting him left right and center. Fifty in total, and all were swatted away like flies! Garou's body unraveled as he unleashed the hoards of coiled monster like dragons from his body. The grabbed, whipped, lashed at anything looking like a Neo Hero until the path was cleared. He kept moving without even landing a strike of his own. He reached the front door, there he ripped them off their hinges. The dragons lashed about, tearing through the walls, ripping down lights and destroying anything in their wake! "I WANT ANSWERS… NOW!" He roared in the halls.

His sights set on Child Emperor. "Garou… take it easy, what is this about?" he asked.

"YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT YOU SHITTY BRAT! WHAT ROLE DID YOU PLAY IN THIS?" he moved too fast to be stopped. Child Emperor was grabbed by the scruff of the shirt, off his feet and forced against the wall. "ANSWER ME!"

"What are you talking about? Garou, calm down, what has you so upset?!"

WACK

Right upside the head, he was struck, and yet, he didn't even flinch. It was as if he didn't even feel it! However, his body reacted. Bad was forced to the other side of the wall and held in place by Garou's dragons. "STAY OUT OF THIS ASSHOLE!"

"You gone off your nut! What the hell is this!?"

"YOU… WILL ANSWER ME!" Garou growled as his eyes began to glow blood red. "Where… did you find them?" he demanded as it turned into a monstrous tone.

"Who? What are you talking about?"

"Street… Knuckle… where did you FIND THEM!" he roared.

"I don't know! They are new recruits! Accel brought them in, we don't know where he found them, McCoy was talking in riddles about it. We don't know anything else!" Child Emperor announced.

Garou sneered, he dropped Child Emperor abruptly, and then he released Bad from the wall. "I will find out…" he warned. "And if any of you… has anything to do with this… I will kill you."

He walked out after that, just as the other Neo Heroes regrouped and were about to engage him in battle. He was already gone.

Child Emperor felt his heart racing in his chest. It was the first time he had encountered the human monster in that state before. Bad too froze as he shook his head to it all. "Shit… I mean… SHIT!" he announced. "What the hell was that about!?"

Child Emperor trembled, just as Accel and Raiden came on the scene. They froze at the carnage around them, the Neo Heroes knocked unconscious outside, the damage done to their hall and main gate. "What happened?" asked Accel.

"Garou…" was all Child Emperor could say.

Despite the damage done, a smile came over Accel. "Well… If I didn't know any better, I'd say… he just rampaged."

Raiden was smiling too. "Which means… the hunt is on for the human monster and his kin!"

"Whoa, wait! He didn't do this because he felt like it. Something pissed him off!" protested Bad, and yet it was no excuse to what just happened. "He's upset about something, was it the new guys?"

"Yeah… he wanted to know about Knuckle and Street, that's what upset him. Why would it though?" asked Child Emperor.

"Either way, he rampaged, innocent people got hurt, our men are considered innocent, which means. He's a threat to everyone!" stated Raiden. "Let's make a plan here and now, how do we go about doing this?"

Raiden and Accel walked off, Bad however knew there was something more to this. Garou won't be in a talking mood, so he did the next best thing. He called his sister. "Z, favor to ask of you… I got to talk to Pac…"

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With the patrols done for the day, new clothing found and purchased for the large brothers. Street began to feel more at ease with the city. He began to familiarize himself with his surroundings and yet, he still couldn't help but feel he and his brother were out of place. "Ran, Shaw. What made you two want to become heroes?" he asked.

Ran laughed as Shaw snickered. "Something to do I suppose, I mean, we are rather skilled martial artists, better using it for something than just sitting around all day drinking sake. Right?" said Shaw.

Street nodded, but paused as Knuckle stopped a moment, he hocked up a wad of phlegm and blood before spitting it out on to the street. "Shit, that bastard hit me harder than I thought!"

"Walk it off bro, you'll be fine."

"You sure you're okay?" asked Ran.

"Fine, peachy in fact."

They walked back into headquarters, however, the four froze at the sight of the damage done. "What… happened here?" whispered Street.

Shaw sighed aloud. "I have a feeling I know…" he muttered.

The four wondered back in, yet Street paused and saw the destruction to the surrounding barrier. The door was torn out with ease by the looks of it, taking a good portion of the wall with it. Half of the door was on one side of the compound, the other half on the other side. There were sprawled out Neo Heroes everywhere, battered and bloodied, but none killed.

His sights then turned to the front door as they too were torn off their hinges. In fact the whole front area of HQ appeared as if a hurricane went through it! "My God… A monster attacked this place?" he whispered.

"Not just any monster, Garou!" announced Accel. He came down the hall and explained what happened. The human monster snapped and decided to send a message to the Neo Heroes directly. "He rampaged, we had made a promise to one of our recruit that if he joined us, we leave those in the M Class alone unless they do something like this. Well, one of them did!"

"So you are going to punish them all for the act of one?" asked Knuckle. "That's stupid!"

"They attacked us!" protested Accel.

Knuckle appeared to think things over for a moment, he looked about at the damage and then he stared at the injured. "On what grounds? You said Garou did this? Why? There has to be a purpose. I fought with him today and sense no malic in him when I did. He didn't even try, yet he wasn't out to kill or harm me despite the fact that I challenged him!" Knuckle protested. "No, this isn't out of pettiness or to send a message… this destruction was out of anger, pain…"

"You WHAT!"

Knuckle stopped his observation and turned to Accel. "I… fought him… to gauge his character. It's how we always judge someone in my family. You fight and see what is in their heart. He meant no harm to me, so the question is, what made him do this? What upset him?"

"We're looking into it, for now, you stay away from him, both you and Street!" he ordered. Accel walked off, as the brothers appeared as confused as ever.

"Okay…" muttered Knuckle.

"Perhaps we should call it a day. You two get something to eat and some rest, I think we have to talk to Accel about something." Stated Shaw.

"Yeah, I think we will do that. Let's go Street." Knuckle said as he nudged his head down towards the other hall. They walked away and yet, there was a look on Knuckle's face.

"There's a lot more to this, isn't there?" asked Street.

"Yep. So, late night tonight?"

"You know it, you?"

"Gonna sneak out, there were areas that are still familiar to me, one includes the seedy underbelly of the city, the entrance and markings are still up, it's being used."

"Be careful bro."

"When am I not?" Knuckle asked with a smirk.