Brockton Bay had always been a dangerous place, especially for people of color, but it became even more so after Leviathan. The city was left in ruins and the people had started to regress away from a civilized manner, something the splintered groups of the E88 thrived on.

It was not a situation Brian wanted any member of his family going through. So after the walking natural disaster was pushed out of the city Brian began the search for his family, not finding them until nearly two days later. The only fortunate part of that time was that it gave him enough time pack up his father's and sister belongings before the raiders came.

And when he tried to take them to where he was keeping everything, a place his employer assured him was safe, they were spotted. A group of bigoted and narrow minded men spotted them, a family trying to survive making the "mistake" of being too dark skinned for the liking of fools.

During the chase for their lives Brian had made a true mistake, he used his powers to help hide his family. Something that caused a fraction of what was left of the E88 capes to come after them, a number of them still holding a grudge against the Undersiders for the release of the racist groups identities.

Stormtiger and Cricket came racing at their minions call and Hookwolf's orders. They hoped from roof top to roof top chasing the terrified family as they hid in the darkness of Brian's power.

And then it happened, a missed step and a lucky shot from Stormtiger had Brain and Aisha's father sprawling out of the clouds of darkness. Right into Cricket's hands.

"Come out Grue." A mechanical voice taunted as the cape brought a blade to black man's throat. "Come on out and maybe he survives."

Before that demand could even be finished Brian's father was already yelling, "Boy! You better not stop running! You get your sister out of here! That's an order!" Despite the order, despite knowing his father was right Brian paused as something in him screamed for him to save his father. Yelled and demanded of him to protect his family.

He even went so far as to take a step in his father's direction.

A step he took just to be inches closer to watch as invisible claws ripped his father's stomach open. "He helped take our lives from us why should we give him a chance to save his own?" Stormtiger asked as he landed gently next to an irate Cricket. "Let the monkey come to us as we rip everything from him."

But Brian could not hear the murder's words, he could only hear the pounding of his own blood in his ears as the image of his father's death played over and over again in his mind. He must have gotten so mad because he had briefly blacked out and landed to his knee, still gritting his teeth in anger.

He paid notice to his darkness as it began to rapidly spread, rushing block after block as it moved faster than ever before. What little electricity was left in the city blacked out for miles around and the night's chill became biting as the darkness spread and spread. The inky clouds taking away any source of power they could find, from the heat in the air to the power lines, it was all absorbed into the ever expanding storm.

Brian didn't even notice as he felt his temper rise and rise and rise again. His body shaking with rage to the point that meaningless words and sounds of rage began to escape his lips. "You bastards." He found himself saying against gritted teeth, his darkness swirling passed roof tops and scraping the sky as it seemed to expand ever outward. "I'll make you suffer!" His arms began to tremble and his mind nearly white his outrage as his eyes snapped unseen onto Stormtiger. "I Will Make You Pay!"

And then, like a switched flipped, he screamed and the darkness he had spread had begun to spiral inward. The darkness rushing at speeds that sent people sprawling to the ground as it returned from where it came. Inches into miles of energized darkness seeped back into Brian as he screamed himself raw.

His muscles began to bulge and the air around him began to heat enough to cause a distortion about his body. The color and texture of his hair began to shift, unraveling his cornrows as spikes of blonde hair forced themselves into existence. He screamed until every last bit of his darkness returned to him and then, ending with a shockwave causing yell, he stopped.

He stood in the open with a barely contained scowl on his face as it began to snow. His new green eyes regarding his father's killers with deadly intent as heat rolled off him and electricity crackled across his form.

The villains had barley managed to get a syllable out before Brian moved, his speeds untraceable as his fist bloodily sunk into the wind manipulator's stomach.

"All of you here will pay."

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AN:

For some reason the idea of Super Sayian Brian was in my head and I did a roughly 45 min write up to get it out, sort of. Basically Brian second triggered after watching his dad die, Aisha trigger around the same second, with the power to expand how far his darkness went/made it absorb more energy/take that energy into himself to become a mega Brute/Blaster. I still have no clue how this idea got in my head.