"Ouch, my back." The woman mumbled while she woke up. She was resting on some kind of bed, wearing a medical gown. She couldn't see clearly without her glasses, but n was on a hospital: Resting on a stretcher, white roof and walls, curtains to her right side… "Why am I…? Oh, right. I remember."

She started to remember what did happen. How she, Olivia 'Liv' Octavius was the defeated ironically by a bus-truck when she was trying to catch some of the 6 spider-people. When she was hit by the bus, she was sent at the same time to where the vortex to other dimensions was.

The rest was blurry, but she remembers to fall her and the bus-truck on a vacant lot. She was breathing heavily, with probably some bones (ribs, back, arms, legs…) completely broken, crushed organs, cerebral traumatism… She was spitting blood, and she was worried that could drown on her own blood. The next thing Olivia remembers is being on an ambulance, with paramedics trying to help her.

After it, she had awoken of the stretcher. When Olivia tried to move her body, she felt that her arms, legs and her torso were covered in bandages. She also was connected to IV liquid on her arm. "Those arachnids…" Olivia mumbled, clearly angry.

When Olivia started to move arms and legs, she saw that it wasn't so painful how she expected. But was annoying that her mechanical arms had gone, making that her back felt empty. She needed her suit, her arms, some glasses, and find where she ended and how much time she had before to disintegrate just like could happen to those Spider-people.

But even she could get up of the stretcher; a door was opened, so she had to bend over to not call the attention. The curtain on her left opened, revealing two men: A man wearing a brown overcoat, white T-Shirt with a tie and a hat; a doctor (she supposed that due to his white medical jacket) with a huge mustache and thick glasses. At least those things were what she could see without her glasses.

The first on talk was actually Olivia, with a simple question on English. "Okay, who are you and where am I?" Olivia asked, just wanting some answer. But, for her surprise, both men looked at her confused and started to talk. Talk on a different language.

"Oh, great. I was sent to a different Japan." Olivia thought, frowning. "Well, time to use my knowledge of the language." Olivia smiled and, coughing a little bit, started to talk in fluent Japanese. "Let's try it again, who are you and where am I?"

The detected was the first on talk. "I'm the detective Tsukauchi, and next to me is the Doctor Tsubasa. Madam, when we found you, you had suffered kind of injuries, and each one was f different degrees. You have been unconscious for five days." The detective, now revealed called Tsukauchi, revealed. Olivia raised an eyebrow by the surprise. The hell with those Superheroes called 'Spiderman'. "Madam, do you remember what did happen to you?"

"Please, stop calling me Madam. My name is Olivia Octavius, 'Liv' for friends. And for answer the question: No, I can't remember what it has happened. I was working, and then, all is blurry and confusing." Olivia saw that the detective Tsukauchi frowned when she ended to answer, clearly don't believing the lie, but she preferred to keep the act. She will wait until she could escape.

"Okay Liv, and what's your work? If you don't have problems answering that." Tsukauchi asked with a little bit of hostility. Olivia smiled and proceeded to answer.

"I'm a head scientist on the Alchemax labs, with a specialization in engineering and physic. Occasionally, I'm a scientific adviser to investors who needs help, and students." Olivia answered. She didn't reveal be also the CEO of Alchemax. That could call so much unnecessary attention. It was better to be a scientist more than be someone important.

"I've never heard of those laboratories, what is the objective and where is it located?" Tsukauchi asked, with a little bit less of hostility.

"Discovering. Inventions, physic, chemistry, engineering, genetic… If we can't do something, just give us some months to do it. And it is located on the near forests of Hudson Valley." Olivia answered. "In fact, have you seen my suit? A green overcoat, with a harness tied on the back…"

"It was hard to take it out of you, but we saw it." The doctor talked by first time. "It's a very complicated design, and one that we couldn't cut it."

"Obviously, the overcoat was made to be resistant to fire, electricity, cuts and other situations. But the harness is one specially made by multi-work, giving me the control to do risky works while I can control the situation. That gives me more time and control." Olivia answered, but not with the complete truth "Just when I don't rip the guts of someone with them."

"Then if you were working on a place in the United States, how can you explain that was hit by a bus-truck and sent to Japan? And casually, a woman who can speak fluently Japanese?" Tsukauchi asked, trying to intimidate to Olivia Octavius. Clearly, he failed on the intimidation.

"It was scarier those workers on the 'New Copacabana' than this parody of Inspector Gadget." Olivia thought, not surprised. "I speak Japanese and other 19 languages fluently due that I can study them and that our businesses are international. And for the first question, is for the same reason that, spending 5 days here, no one medic has diagnosed my myopia of 6.00 diopters, making that I just can see two blurry stains if I don't force my vision." Tsukauchi just frowned when he heard the answer. "What? Did you think that I have my eyes almost closed due to fun?"

"Later I'll go back to make more questions. Meanwhile, I'll let Doctor Tsubasa continues his work. We'll see us soon." Olivia knew that Tsukauchi suspected things about her.

"See you later, Inspector Gadget." Olivia waved warmly, but she wasn't interested in the Police. In fact, she was just interested in leaving the room. The doctor was checking her, and Olivia saw that he had a card pass for the laboratories on the hospital.

She knew what to do. "Ow, ow!" Olivia started to groan, grabbing the left side of her back. She started to writhe on the stretcher.

"Something's wrong?! What's happening?!" The doctor Tsubasa asked worried, grabbing to Olivia. With tears in her eyes, she answered.

"My back! A jab! It hurts!" Olivia yelled, trying to reduce the pain pushing her back. The doctor quickly ran to the other side of the stretcher and raised her to see the back. But before he could watch her back, Olivia put the middle finger and the index finger on the nose and, with strength, Olivia pulled his head down, hitting his head on the handrail. The doctor fell knocked out.

Taking this opportunity, Olivia disconnected the wires and the IV tube and proceeded to steal his wallet, the phone, the card pass, the keys, and the coat. "Nothing personal, grandpa," Olivia said to anybody. She wore the coat and walked out of the room. But before to leave the room, she decided to take his glasses too and put it on her face. "Eh, not the prescription that I need, but it'll work."

Lucky for her, there weren't any policemen out of the room. She walked until finding the reception and all the signals with the different divisions. "Let's see, let's see… There, Advanced Investigation! Floor 6, right-wing, door 237." Olivia walked right to the elevator and went to the floor that he wanted. There, after of walk straight to the laboratory and use the card pass, she found the medical laboratory she needed right now.

"Well, let's see. Where do you save the tongue depressors?" Olivia said to herself. She found them on a little closet with the glass doors locked with keys. "Let's try it," Olivia said taking the keys and testing one by one the keys. When she finally could unlock the door, she took a tongue depressor and a little plate for watch on the microscope.

She put the tongue depressor in her mouth and took a sample of oral mucosa. After extract the sample, she put it on the sample plate and closed it. After find and switch on an electronic microscope, she positioned the microscope and started to analyze it. But instead of seeing her cellular structure glitching and decaying, she saw… just normal cells. "Interesting. The time that the other Spider-people were out of their dimensions was about 4-5 days when they started to glitch, but I'm not. What is my difference? Was the way to introduce me to the world? Were my time on coma and the medical intervention? Or is my own being?"

Whatever she wanted to discover, it had to stop. Another person was opening the door. Quickly, she hid in a corner and kept the breath. While the other doctor was walking in the laboratory, she started to walk slowly. For the moment the doctor saw that someone had been in the laboratory, he had received a knee on his guts, courtesy of Olivia Octavius. And before he could grab his belly, Olivia grabbed him of the hair and flung his face on the table, falling unconscious.

"Well, I'm making a disaster here. Better I'm looking for my girls and leaving the place." Olivia accepted, talking to herself. She abandoned the laboratory but, before she could even go back to the reception, she saw that the left-wing of the same floor was the depository for the items and other of the patients. "What a weird, but good luck." She said to herself, while opened the door and tried to look for her suit. "They didn't know my name until I woke up. I must be a 'Jane Doe' for the hospital records." She went right to the room marked. "J-Q" when she remembered a detail. "Wait, which is the equivalent of 'Jane Doe' on Japan?"

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After of looking for the equivalent of Jane Doe on the stolen cell phone (Yamada Hanako) and a quick look on the room with the 'Y', she was lucky to finally find her suit and the harness with the 4 mechanical arms. "Ah, my girls." She took out the medical gown and wore first the suit and, after it, the harness. She felt the sting of the nerve connector that connected her nervous system to her mechanical arms, and then… they back to life. "There you are, ladies. Sorry to keep you out, but I needed rest."

The arms went back to their hidden position and, wearing the medical coat, she proceeded to leave the hospital. She sat down on a bus stop and waited. While she waited, she proceeded to switch on the phone and look for the Internet. "2419? Very far in the future. Let me see what science has done! I can see it: Cure for cancer, space bases on distant planets, flying cars… Oh, I'm sure that they finally stopped to use petroleum on the cars! Finally, electricity and solar energy will win!"

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40 minutes later

Olivia Octavius left the bus. But on her face, a pure rage was perceivable. "Nothing…" She mumbled to herself. "On 401 years of history, the scientific advances have been… zero. Nothing. 401 years totally worthless. A day, just appeared super-powers and then… Nothing else! Just 'Look at it, powers!' and the rest, trash carried to a bin."

She discovered the quirks, that there was Super-Heroes (and that it was a job), but she hadn't found that interesting. But when Olivia Octavius, a woman of science and continuous evolution on the History, saw that the science has got stuck by centuries in the same position, she felt her blood boil. There wasn't cure by the cancer, just some doctors whose quirks had been helpful (just till they pass away, then back again to the same story); the space trip had just gone to Mars, but then the Governments stopped to invest money on those projects; the cars continuing on the ground and…

"Buy a Tesla, you motherfucker! You're killing the planet using the gasoline!" Olivia yelled –on English- to a car that drove next to her, seeing how much smoke the car produced. Some people observed her, but she continued walking, with each step full of rage. On a moment, she walked on a store full of electronics, with some TVs showing the news. She observed and translated the Japanese sentences to understand the news.

The only good news that she found was the upgrading of bionic arms and legs for the amputee people, which Olivia found actually a good advance for the medicine. But the rest of the news was basically about Super-Heroes, just things like 'Super-hero stops super-villain' or 'Super-hero did that'. "If those powers could be produced like those arms then…"

A light-bulb switched on over the head of Olivia Octavius. "Then the people would receive a call of attention about what science can do. That's it!" The revelation that Olivia had was enough to make her forget all her rage and start to think.

"The genetic modification hasn't been so hard (Even when they're even a lot steps back to my world), and even when I worked for Mr. Fisk, I made some good creations. Also that I was working on upgrade the Goblin Formula and make it less 'monster-ish' and more 'superhuman-ish'. If I can show that, instead of born with powers, the powers can be created, the people would forget how awesome those quirks and concentrate on make even more devices. I just need a decent budget to build the laboratory and then…" Then, reality hit to Olivia hardly.

"Damn it! I don't have Alchemax or the unlimited money of Kingpin. And…" Olivia opened the wallet of the Doctor Tsubasa, which she kept on a pocket of the doctor coat that she was wearing, revealing 5 bills of 1.000 Japanese yen. She threw the wallet, the keys and the card pass to a bin. "And I don't think that 5000 yens will buy me a lot of."

Another idea appeared on the mind of Olivia, but that was riskier than usual. "Well, I heard stories on my world about the Yakuzas being dangerous, but filthily riches. Maybe I must give them something that they could want." Olivia thought. "Find underground information, make something that they need or upgrade it, and call enough the attention of the Yakuzas." Olivia frowned "It will be a long trip."

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2 months later.

The Union Cabaret, one of the most frequented locals on the nights. Girls? The sexiest possible. Drink? Until you need a new liver. Deals? Uncountable, and with a lot of money. Music? The only flaw, with just a loop of Spanish-Latin rhythm, and Disco-Music.

But what was more interesting was the owner. Not a person, but an 'organization' was behind the most rentable cabaret on the city: The 'Shie Hassaikai', or 'The Eight Precepts of Death', one of the lasts Yakuza organizations that it was working on the country. And the boss of that Organization, known as 'Overhaul', was known by his lack of remorse, cold attitude and wish for exterminating the quirks.

… It was very surprising when he, accompanied by Chronostasis and Mimic, appeared on The Union Cabaret. With the dark aura that just his presence created, everyone moved far of his way. It was known which his power is, so they tried to avoid problems with him.

They acceded to the VIP tables, looking for someone. The tables were a full circle while the seats were semi-circles sofas with purple fur. The leader and his right and left hand walked until that they found the person when they heard a female laugh.

"I can't believe you did that. Aha-ha-ha!" A woman, wearing white glasses, a laboratory coat, a colorful diadem on her long and wild hair, a colorful scarf around her neck, a blue jumper and tracksuit's pants, laughed. On her right, there was a waiter, a huge and muscular black man wearing just a red dungaree. She cleaned the tears of her eyes and continued talking. "Just like that, without a 'Good morning' or even a cigarette to make it easier."

"Then you must listen to what my great-uncle Thurgood did on the premiere of his own theatre, Liv. The story is…" But even before he could start the anecdote, Olivia Octavius raised a finger.

"Sorry, Coffey. But my guests have arrived. Later, tell me what you great-uncle did. But now, bring to me another Caipirinha. And for them, I don't know, three glasses of water." Olivia requested, making that the waiter Shuichi nodded with an innocent and grabbed the empty cup of the table. Olivia just watched how Coffey abandoned the table, and when he was far, she observed to the Yakuzas. "The nicest guy on the cabaret and the only who don't want the content of my wallet. Maybe a little childish, but I find there the positivity of his attitude…"

She stopped when Overhaul and Chronostasis sat on the other side of the sofa, getting in front of her. Mimic just got standing next to them. Olivia just stretched the arms over the top of the couch and smiled. If she was honest, she waited for something more… classic: Tuxedo, fedora and a Walter P38 on a pocket of the jacket, not a young adult with a mask.

"You've been trying to call our attention by weeks, beating each one of our lackeys." The boss, Overhaul, was the first on talk.

"My first idea was destroying places that were under your hand, but then I said to myself 'Liv, destroy their businesses will make that they want your head, not an audience with you.' So I started to think about how to call your attention. It isn't like I could go to your Headquarter, call on the ring and say 'Good day, I'm the doctor Olivia Octavius. I have something it could interest you. Let me pass.' But isn't like you have some way to make contact. Do you know? The old 'We'll contact you' isn't always the best idea. It's a classic, but you know… Renovate or die." Olivia explained, losing herself on the explanation. "And I wasn't who beat your lackeys, is my partner 'Octopus'. We share the work: I'm the face and the brain; and Octopus, the strength."

After making that Olivia explained to herself, there was a tense silence. Olivia didn't lose her smile on any moment while the Yakuzas just got quiet, observing her. Then, Chronostasis talked.

"Boss Overhaul, if I can opine, she doesn't deserve our time and our presence. She's clearly crazy." Chronostasis confessed. Olivia waved both hands.

"No, no, no, no. I'm not crazy. I'm a little bit eccentric and…" At that moment, a different waiter appeared, putting a cup in front of Olivia and the glasses of water on the other side. Olivia just laughed awkwardly. "Well, maybe I've exceeded my limit of alcohol by this night." Then she took a sober before to shake her head. "But well, to me 'Business is Business.' And I have an offer that you mustn't reject."

Overhaul observed her. She looked like a crazy old woman that just wants to call the attention, just there was something that it said to him 'Listen to her', plus that her look made her look inoffensive. Maybe she could have something interesting… Just maybe. Overhaul just opened his right hand and said 'Five Minutes'.

Olivia nodded and then took something of the laboratory coat and put it on the table. The three Yakuzas recognized it easily. It was a Quirk-Erasing Bullet. "Don't ask me how, but I could obtain some of your bullets. Interesting creation: Inject a medicine which affects right to the Quirk, but modifying the medicine to make it rewind to the moment that it didn't exist. A dangerous weapon, more on the correct hands." But then Olivia shook her head. "But it doesn't work."

Olivia then raised 3 fingers. "The source for the rewind is biologic, that means that a living being, probably human, is the source. What could happen if the source disappears or, even worse, dies? No more Quirk-Erasing bullets; the modification works, but is temporal. Very temporally, which means that receive some bullets can generate immunity to the bullets, similar to the addition to the antibiotics can generate immunity to them, something that gives to us to the next point; It can be fixed. I don't know if you have the cure or not, but good Scientifics could find it with just a sample of it."

"The bullets work, but they're far to be perfect, and further to the wished 'effective'." Then, Olivia took another thing of another pocket and threw it right to the Yakuzas. Mimic caught it on the air, and showed to Overhaul and Chronostasis. It was a bullet, but with a unique shape: Five tiny spikes (two longer than was on opposite sides, and three around a red dot), perfectly cylindrical and with a red LED in the middle of the top. "But I can fix that."

"Those are my own creation, temporally called 'Grim Reapers'. Those bullets are built by pure engineering, without chemistries or biologic elements, just pure technology. The two long spikes act as a magnet to attract the essence of the Quirks, and the three extract the essence. It is designed as a 'one-way bullet', meaning that is designed to absorb. It can't give back the quirk on anyway because, at the moment it absorbs the Quirk, the bullet deleted it. There isn't a cure, it works at the first shoot and can be created with technology completely. This, gentlemen, is the best offer that I can offer to your organization."

Overhaul took the bullet and observed it. "Could it be? The answer to my pray? The purge that our God should have made centuries ago, but never did?" But before he could give an answer, Mimic did it for him.

"Why should we trust you? What's your motivation to create that bullet?" Mimic demanded. Olivia just drank of the Caipirinha and answered.

"I hate Quirks." Olivia dryly answered, making that the eyes of the Yakuzas widened. "Look at me. I'm a 40 years old Quirkless woman that has 3 careers based on physic, genetic and engineering, a master for each one and I'm doctored on each career. I speak 20 languages, including your Japanese and my native English, and since I've been a little girl, I loved science." Olivia started to explain.

"See how everything can evolve, create something new to make life easier or discover things out of our understanding. On the 20th Century, we promised to create technology that could be the enemy of the Science-Fiction. But we're on the 25th Century, and we don't have flying cars, the cure for incurable diseases, we haven't gone further of Mars and we're still contaminating the planet with the petroleum. All that due that we got distracted entirely by the Quirk's phenomenon. Innovations got stuck and we just upgrade slightly the technology we have." Then, Olivia punched the table. "Plus that the discrimination isn't funny. 12 years studying just to work fixing electronic devices on my floor? Hell, I demand work on laboratories. I have won it!"

"Then, one day, a day appeared on my brain. It was 'If I could cut the Quirks, we should go back to the technology.' I started to work, investigating how the Quirks work. When I could find the Essence, I started to work on how to delete it. Months later, I could make the final design and build an entire load for a gun."

If Overhaul wasn't interested before on Olivia Octavius, now he was. Not only she presumably had upgraded their Quirk-Erasing Bullets, but she also was on their side for the purge of the Quirks. He didn't want her. He needs her! But… why would she want to help them? They didn't know it, but Olivia knew that they had them in the palm of her hands.

"What do you want of us?" Overhaul asked, giving back the bullet to Olivia. She grabbed it and smiled.

"I need a bigger budget. With my own saving money, I can barely produce a load for a gun. If I have more money, I can start a massive production. Also, I'll need a place to work, maybe a laboratory or just a place with the tools and devices I need. And privacy: I don't want to be related to any of your works. My name will be clean at least I want it." Olivia demanded. When she saw that the Yakuzas frowned, she just could sigh. "I'm not a machine that can produce magically the bullets. I need elements that will reduce the time all the possible, and increase the production. Do you want an army that can stop each hero or just one of your useless thugs with such a powerful weapon?"

"Our economic sources are limited. Out of our houses, we just live of commit crimes and don't let any clue. We can't give to you a lot of money." Overhaul explained, clearly annoyed by that fact.

"For the fancy house that you call 'Headquarters', I seriously doubt that." Olivia thought. Then Olivia just took a notebook and wrote on one of the pages a phone number, giving the phone number to the Yakuzas and putting over the piece of paper one of her bullets. "Let's do it on your way. Test the bullet, and then contact me. I'll wait." Then, putting a bill down her cup of Caipirinha, she took a huge handbag and a bike helmet. "See you later."

While Olivia walked right out of the Cabaret, she allowed smile. She didn't need to wait. She knew that they were on her hands. After all, she had what they wanted, and even more. The call was clearly happening at that moment, but she needed to wait.

Oh, and the ideas. She had the blueprints of what she had planned. When the people could see what the mind of Scientifics can do. The powers would lose its status, and then…

"Then the Superheroes would continue there." Olivia thought, opening the door of the Cabaret and leaving the local. "How could I forget that? Even if the powers aren't interested, all the kids still wanting to be Superheroes or build things for them. What is the sense of destroying the reputation of the powers, if I'm still having the reputation of the Superheroes there." While she walked right to her bicycle, a newspaper –moved by the wind- landed on her face. After of move it out of her face, she read a new on page 7 "'U.A. High-school for future Pro-Heroes changes one of its main rules and will allow Quirkless students'." Olivia read the article. Then, an idea appeared. "Well, well, well… What is bigger than lose the reputation of the powers than lose the reputation of the superheroes?" She saved the newspaper of her handbag and unlocked her bicycle.

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Next night.

Olivia Octavius was now on the little apartment she had rented. Not counting the bathroom, there wasn't another room. On the floor of the apartment, there were uncountable devices and other junk. Right at that moment, Olivia Octavius was connecting some wires on a little screen.

"The wireless connector, configured to the pulse of the user, is connected to the blue space. The configuration for the buttons to the yellow…" But she was then interrupted by a telephone call. She left the soldering gun to its place, the protective glasses to a side of and grabbed the call. "Octavius' garage. You break it, I fix it, and you pay me."

"Doctor Olivia Octavius, we have an answer." A voice talked, recognizing it of the one called Mimic. "Boss Overhaul tested the bullet, and it ended being a success. We agreed to give you all the needed to create those bullets. But in change, you'll produce exclusively to us more weapons for the 'Eight Expendables' and our lackeys. Also, we will continue producing our Quirk-Erasing bullets. It's the only deal he and the 'Eight Precepts' will give to you."

Olivia smirked and answered. "Of course, I had some ideas that will interest you. And I don't have any problem with the competence. And please, for now, I prefer that you people call me as I want some special people to call me."

"And that would me…?" Mimic asked. What he ignored since his side of the call is that the four mechanic arms of Olivia Octavius extended and put her green special glasses.

"Doc Ock"