Chapter 17: Blackflame
MANGA SPOILERS IN LIKE THE FIRST FEW PARAGRAPHS OF THIS STORY
TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter will be not suitable for all readers. Graphic Violence ahead.
All for One woke up in a daze. His fight with All Might had done a real number on him. As much as he did not want to admit it. He was dying. He really needed to find a successor for his quirk.
Up until recently he had been grooming Tenko Shimura, renamed Tomura Shigaraki, to be his successor. However, he was unsure how he would cope with being passed on with the All For One quirk.
Yes, he had the destructive mindset for the quirk, but he was too brash. He created Kurogiri, up until Blackflame, his only intelligent Nomu, to babysit the boy. He managed to stop him from creating all of chaos, but only just.
Blackflame has shown promise. Not only has he been able to handle the multiple quirks All For One had temporarily given him, but unlike the other Nomu, they haven't had a negative effect on his psyche.
The young Nomu was far more intelligent than Tomura. He was more calculating, more inquisitive, less likely to rush into danger and fruitless endeavors than his current chosen one. He seriously had All for One debating whether or not he should discard Tomura for this new creation.
He thought it be poetic 'justice' to have the grandson of one of his enemies be the downfall of the symbol of peace and successor to his quirk. However, once again the universe has shown its sense of humor.
The kid has proven himself quite capable so far on the missions he has been on so far. He managed to beat up a few Yakuza who managed to get on his bad side. He even quickly managed to carry out a stealthy assassination for him.
What made All for One even more proud of his creation was his natural bloodlust. He still craved chaos. However, it was a different brand of chaos than that of Tomura's. It was more organized, thought out, and thus more manageable and terrifying.
He knew the time would be by the end of the year, he would have to choose between Tomura or Blackflame to be his successor. Shigaraki better step his game up if he wanted to keep his prize.
Blackflame woke up. He didn't lay in bed to ponder life's choices and that of the universe. There was business to be done.
He immediately got out of bed and made it up again. Proceeding to the shower, he cleaned himself up using no more water than was necessary. He then got dressed in his black leather outfit and then placed his helmet on.
No one was allowed to see what his true face looked like. If they saw what he looked like, then that would be the last thing that they ever see. The only people that were allowed to know what he looked like under the mask were his father and the doctor. No one else.
The TV in his room crackled to life.
"My dear son, could you please join me in my medical room please?"
"Yes father." Blackflame responded in his heavily modulated voice thanks to his mask.
He walked out and into the lab where the doctor was tending to Big Bird and a few other minor grey Nomu. He didn't feel much for his 'kin', they were all barbaric primitives in his eyes. They lacked his intelligence, his cunning, his strive to make the world in his image.
They didn't spill blood out of pleasure. No. They spilled it because they were commanded to. They simply couldn't understand the simple pleasure and beauty of a blood geyser of a decapitated hero. They didn't understand the craftmanship and skill of a nice blade.
They were nothing but mindless beasts and to be used as nothing more. Tools to help him spread fear and darkness. The only two things he loved as much as his father who brought him into this world.
"My son." All For One called for him.
Blackflame immediately walked towards him and got down on one knee and bowed his head.
"What is my bidding my father?"
"I have a job for you. I want you to find a certain vigilante in the Naruhata region of Japan. I once stole his quirk from him. His name is Iwao Oguro."
"What do you want me to do with this vigilante father?"
"I wish for you kill him. There is also another reason I wish for you to find this man."
"What is it father?"
"He has come into possession of something called Queen Bee. Apparently, this thing has the ability to possess someone like a parasite and take them over completely, augmenting their quirk in the process. I wish to… study it."
Blackflame, still looking down at the ground nodded, "It will be done father."
Blackflame walked to the corner of the building where Kurogiri waited for him. He created a portal for him, and he walked through.
"Kurogiri." All For One beckoned, the misty bartender strolled forward to be in front of his master, "Tell me. What do you think of Blackflame?"
Kurogiri stared at his mater for a couple seconds before answering, "He shows far more promise than Tomura. He is nothing more than a spoiled rotten child that wants to sit around playing games. If I must be frank master, you most certainly learned your lessons from raising Tomura. It has been only a few months since Blackflame was created and he is far more calculating yet more cruel than Tomura could ever be."
"And what of you Doctor?"
The doctor took a deep breath, his mustache quivering. "He's by far my favorite creation I've made. No offense Kurogiri."
"None taken."
"Thank you, anyways, Blackflame is proof that we can make Nomu now that can blend in with ordinary members of society without raising alarm. The only thing that is preventing us from making more Nomu is we exhausted our supply of that key ingredient when making him. We will need to acquire more."
All For One let out a gruff of annoyance. "We have no way of easily acquiring anymore of that ingredient without raising too many alarm bells in Japan right now Doctor. Otherwise I would have our agents go out and seize it."
"Perhaps with Tomura's plan we could…" Kurogiri was about to elaborate but All For One cut him off.
"His plan is to kill All Might at UA. That plan already has too many factors in it to risk adjusting it for us to acquire the ingredient. If it were to go missing from UA, we would have the heroes on our doorstep within forty-eight hours."
"So." The doctor said, seeing AFO was getting annoyed at how he couldn't acquire more of the secret ingredient. "Why send Blackflame on this mission in particular?"
All For One smiled, "So my son could have some fun. Children sure love to play don't they?"
Blackflame had managed to track his target to a rooftop apartment. He decided to camp out for a couple nights and observe him. What he found disappointed him. It seemed as though his target had given up his career as a vigilante. Blackflame hoped he hadn't gone soft. There was no fun in killing someone if they didn't put up a challenge.
Blackflame headed back to his staging area. He spent about a week preparing it. Boy, was he going to have some fun. His target, not so much.
It didn't take long for him to find the first part of his game he will be playing with Knuckleduster. He followed a schoolgirl home from the shadows. Once she turned down an alley all alone, he used one of his quirks to consume her into darkness.
He brought her into his secret warehouse. While she was unconscious, he removed her clothing and had his way with her. Once he was done, he placed a bear trap on her head. The movie Saw from the pre-quirk era was one of his favorite films. People truly didn't appreciate the life they had.
He placed her in a cage and went and captured and brought in a schoolboy, and a fire fighting hero. He placed the schoolboy in a harness over a tank of piranhas. Cartoonish, but still all hilarious from Blackflame's perspective. For the firefighter, he thought it would be poetic for him to have to escape a glass chamber that would be filling up with smoke. Knuckleduster would have no way to save this man because he planned on keeping the keys to the box he was trapped in to himself. The final task for Knuckleduster, would involve his own daughter. However, Blackflame needed to kidnap her first.
Capturing the girl was no issue at all. Knuckleduster had left the apartment to get some last-minute ingredients while they were cooking dinner. Once the man was out of sight, Blackflame snuck up to the front door of the apartment. He knocked and darkness was the last thing that Tamao Oguro saw. He quickly ransacked the apartment and found his target, the Queen Bee trapped in a jar.
He took the jar into his possession. He left a note behind for Knuckleduster saying that he had taken his daughter hostage and the Queen Bee. Stating that if he didn't want his daughter infected again, he would have to come to the warehouse alone without back up.
He of course wasn't going to infect the girl again. He was planning on killing her along with her father. He called up Kurogiri and had him take the Queen Bee back to AFO and the Doctor for the studies they wanted to perform. He also had him warp him and the girl to the warehouse for he could feel his other target approaching.
Knuckleduster had just gotten back to the rooftop apartment. It had been Kochi's before the accident that reversed him and Kazuho's age back to that of a high schooler. Once he got to the rooftop, he knew something was wrong.
He ran in and slammed the front door off of its hinges and found the whole apartment to have been torn apart. The food that his daughter had been cooking, splayed about on the floor. However, there was no sign of his girl. His Tamao.
He tore the apartment up even more, trying to find any piece or evidence or clue as to what or who had done this. He eventually found a note.
Knuckleduster, Iwao Oguro, O'Clock
It has come to my knowledge that you have been harboring the former host of the Queen Bee. I'm quite interested in running some 'tests' on your daughter. I have already sent my master the Queen Bee herself so he can study her more in person.
If you wish to see your daughter alive with her head attached and not deflowered, come and rescue her. Come alone you filthy vigilante. If you dare and try and call those pathetic 'proper' heroes, you will only find your daughter's severed head. Imagine that rolling around in a casket once you have to bury her!
Anyways, I've wasted enough time writing this lovely note. Come to the old abandoned sex toy warehouse in the Nar Shadaa Ward. I'm sure I can find some old product that was left behind to have fun with daughter while we wait for your arrival.
Blackflame
Oguro felt fury in his heart. Someone had taken his daughter and the parasite that turned her into a villain. He realized he was foolish to keep the thing alive and not kill it. However, he still had a chance to save his baby girl still. Hopefully he could get to here before this Blackflame could defile her.
It took him an hour to reach the abandoned warehouse. When he got there, he surveyed what he could from the outside. He couldn't see any lights on. He felt an urge to sneak through the window.
Once he was through the window it snapped right shut and he realized he fell into a trap when he heard a voice cackle from overhead. He looked up and saw a figure in a jet-black outfit with red accents and a helmet sitting on one of the support beams in the rafters. He appeared to have the body of a well fit male. His voice was electronically distorted though because of his mask.
"Why hello there." The boy said in his modulated voice, "What do we have here? A pathetic excuse trying to save his daughter before I have my way with her?"
"Give her back to me!" Knuckleduster hollered, there wasn't anything he could do really. His enemy was too far high above him and he had no realistic way of reaching him. Blackflame merely waved a finger.
"Tut. Tut. Tut." Blackflame said mockingly, his over hand over his heart, "Now now. I sure hope you taught your baby girl some manners and rules of etiquette even though you don't seem to follow any yourself. You are way too stressed out. Let's have some fun! After all we are in warehouse full of fun toys after all. Perhaps I can be a good host and use some to play with your daughter. After all, my father taught me it was polite to share my toys with my friends."
"If you lay a hand on my daughter, I'll kill you!" Oguro shouted, and Blackflame placed a hand on his helmet in fake exasperation.
"If you can get to the other side of this warehouse, maybe, keyword: maybe you can save her." Blackflame laughed, "However, you will have to have to go through several games and challenges to reach her. I do love game shows."
"This is my daughter's life I'm talking about." Oguro shouted, "This is not a game!"
"Oh, but it is to me." Blackflame responded sinisterly, smiling underneath his helmet. "If you genuinely care about your daughter, then you'll have to let several other people die. One of which I've had my way with already, but I'm always good for round two."
"What?! How many people do you plan on killing tonight?"
"Oh, me killing?" Blackflame responded mockingly, "Yeah, in a way I'm killing them, but in a way it is up to you to make sure they come out of the building alive. If you don't mind, I got a beautiful girl waiting for me at the other end of the warehouse."
Blackflame stood up and to Oguro's surprise floated up to a support beam that ran the course of the structure and to the other end of the warehouse. He looked around and started to make his way forward through the maze of boxes containing various sex toys. He thought about knocking the boxes down to make a path through the warehouse, but he was still quirkless and thus vulnerable and they would just create a mountain debris that he couldn't get through. He didn't want the contents of the boxes spilling out onto him if he wanted to given what was most likely in them as well.
He eventually made his way to a large metal cage, similar to one that you see at an old-time zoo or circus. Trapped inside was a young girl; she had been stripped of her clothing. She was freezing, trying to cover up her body when he approached. She was also bleeding; it had been clear to Oguro that she had been raped. The most terrifying thing was the headgear that had been placed upon her. It looked like a reverse bear trap, ready to cut her face off. Iwao's heart collapsed.
"Who would do such a vile thing to an innocent soul? What kind of monster is this Blackflame? What does he plan on doing to my little girl if this is what he does for his side victims!?"
There was a crackle from a speaker somewhere nearby, "Ah! I've seen you made it to your first challenge Oguro." Blackflame's distorted voice was warbly even more through the bad speaker, "You see, I'm a fan of pre-quirk horror movies. I really love Saw; it gave me the idea of these fun little challenges I have for you. This trap is straight from that movie, but with some modifications."
"If you wish to hurry on and save your precious daughter, I will not impede your way. However, I will remotely trigger the trap on her head and kill this poor girl. I don't know what her name it. I never bothered learning it. What kind of former pro-hero would you be if you let an innocent young girl die?"
The girl's eyes went wide and had a pleading look at the former vigilante. It was clear that she was not allowed to speak, but she was clearly afraid of dying, and knew this man was her only hope. Oguro sighed, he really felt the urgency to save his daughter, but knew that he would be sentencing this young girl to a gruesome and painful death if he left her behind. Something his daughter would never forgive him for.
"Okay, I'll help save the girl. What are your rules to your sick and twister game?"
Blackflame cackled with laughter. "Do you take me for some random ass comic book villain!? I'm not telling you the rules on how to save her! Figure it out yourself!" He heard the audio feed disconnect as Blackflame laughed.
Oguro cursed. He had seen some pre-quirk era movies, but he had never seen this Saw. He tried to pull the bars apart, but they were simply too strong even for him. They were probably designed to keep a large bear from escaping. He frantically ran around the entire cage looking for a door. Freaking out as he didn't see one. He then remembered how that bastard was floating and checked the ceiling of the cage and he sighed as he found a trap door.
The only problem was that once he got inside the cage, he had no reliable way of getting back out, the ceiling was too high for him to jump. He looked around in the boxes around him to see if he could find anything useful but his search was fruitless. All the sexual paraphernalia wasn't good to make a rope or anything sturdy enough to get out. Not even the boxes would be good enough for him to stand up on and climb out of the cage with.
"Save the girl. I'm getting bored! I'm almost done with my first bag of popcorn!" Blackflame called over the speakers, and this only infuriated Knuckleduster even more. He couldn't figure a way to safely get the girl out of the cage.
He looked around the boxes again once more and came across one that was labeled BDSM. He opened and found what he was looking for, a long heavy-duty link-chain and to his surprise a special looking kind of key.
"This must be the key to that awful trap!"
He grabbed the key and the metal chain and rushed back to the top of the cage. He opened up the trap door and called out to the young girl and dropped the key into her hand, using it to get the trap off her head. Once it was down on the ground it snapped closed.
"That was close." Oguro sighed, not knowing that Blackflame remotely triggered the device deliberately once it was off to give them a sense of how close they were to death. He lowered the chain down to the girl who grabbed and held onto it as he brought her back up. She was panicking and stuttering in coherently.
"It's, okay." Oguro tried to say in a reassuring voice, "We will get you out of this warehouse, and you will live another day. You will be able to see your loved ones soon okay?"
The girl simply nodded as the two rushed forward through the towering maze of boxes until they reached another opening. There was a large water tank full of fish, and there was a boy, the same age as the girl dangling headfirst from a chain wrapped around his body.
"Please help me!" the boy cried out in panic.
"Don't worry son! We will get you down!" Oguro shouted as he looked around the boxes, expecting a similar solution to the first task.
"I'd hurry up if I were you." Blackflame cackled through the crackly speakers, "Those piranhas are quite hungry. I'm afraid I've been a bad master and have neglected to miss their past couple feedings. Poor things are famished! I'm surprised they haven't begun eating one another."
The girl seemed to panic for a couple seconds. First at being seeing nude by a boy her age, and then again at the situation the boy was in. She then joined Oguro in searching the boxes for anything useful.
To the horror of everyone present, the chain began to creek and groan, and began to lower towards the tank.
"Don't make sudden panicked movements boy!" Oguro shouted, "You'll only weaken that chain holding you more!" The boy whimpered in understanding. Helpless, and unable to help save himself.
Oguro panicked when he couldn't find anything to help save the boy. He then rushed over and started to punch the tank. The first few blows did nothing to the glass. However, on the thirty-seventh blow a couple cracks started for form as the chain holding the boy groaned even louder and snapping noises were coming.
"HURRY!" the boy shouted, unable to keep calm at the fear of being eaten alive by a bunch of carnivorous fish. Knuckleduster kept ramming his fist even harder into the glass, it eventually cracked and burst open. The water and the fish spilled out onto the floor in a flood, the fish asphyxiating as they couldn't breathe in the air, flopping violently.
The chain holding the boy finally snapped and Oguro caught him before he violently hit the soaked concrete floor. Oguro and the boy worked on unwrapping the chain that was still around them. Once it was off of him, he noticed the girl that came in the room was nude and violently blushed as he took off his shirt and pants, giving them to the girl, remaining in his boxers. The girl took them gratefully, blushing as she quickly put them on.
Blackflame was quite surprised. He had no way for the former pro-hero to save the boy. Yet he still managed to find a way to save the child. It was a shame that he still had to die in the end.
The trio made their way to the next room where there was a glass box starting to fill up with smoke. Inside was someone Oguro recognized, it was Extinguisher, one of Backdraft's sidekicks, he could launch massive amounts of CO2 from the palms of his hands to extinguish fires. However, he couldn't use his quirk to put out the fire because it was in an adjacent box that connected to his through a tight tube. He was in the process of dying in a living nightmare.
Knuckleduster tried the trick he had last time of punching the glass like he did on the piranha tank. It did not work with this case, the glass that made up of this box was of sturdier quality. They began searching the boxes once more for anything that could help them.
The box started to fill up with more and more smoke and Extinguisher collapsed on the floor in a coughing fit, tears streaming from his eyes as they burned because of the smoke. Eventually though, it was clear that he was dead, and there was nothing they could do to save him. The trio moved on and found Tamao, his daughter strapped to wall at the other end of the warehouse.
Iwao immediately rushed forward and freed her and held her in his arms. "It's okay baby girl." He said as she sobbed into this shoulder, "Daddy's here to protect you."
"And who is exactly going to protect you?" a voice said, as Iwao felt a sharp object pierce is back. He gasped felt all the air go out of his lungs, "You were able to save three out of four, but not yourself. You were never going to get out alive."
He then leaned in and whispered something in Iwao's ear before he died, "My father, All For One sends his regards." This caused Iwao to feel rage in his heart before he died. The man who had stolen his quirk and ruined his career as a pro-hero had once again ruined his life and traumatized his daughter probably for the rest of her life as well. He had one final thought before blackness consumed him.
"Koichi. Kazuho. Please avenge me. Not for me. For my baby girl."
The two girls and one boy cried out in panic and screamed even more as they saw what Blackflame did next to Iwao's corpse as he removed his head. "Got to show proof to the boss that my mission has been complete and lugging the body around is a pain. Hey! At least it gives you something to burry. Best make it a closed casket funeral."
With that Blackflame exited the warehouse leaving his former victims trembling in a state of fear. He called Kurogiri for a pickup and had him take him straight to his father. Upon exiting the warp gate, he walked up to his father and presented the head of his target.
"I see you have brought proof that you have completed your mission!" AFO laughed as the head was displayed for him. "Where there other deaths along with your mission son?"
"Yes, Extinguisher. One of Backdraft's sidekicks." Blackflame answered as he still looked at the ground. "There are three survivors. I let them live on purpose."
"Oh, do tell." AFO said conversationally.
"I thought about what you said and said it was up to me to decide when I should make my villain debut. I feel like I'm ready to have my name out there. Not my face. I fucking hate my face."
"Why not kill them all off?" AFO asked, curious for his son's answer.
"Because that would be giving them the easy way out." Blackflame mutely responded, "With them being alive, they will remember this night for the rest of their lives. They will have nightmares for months if not years. They will not be able to react to some certain situations the same again. If they were dead, they would not be able to suffer years of psychological torment."
All For One cackled at his son's answer, "My boy that is why you are slowly becoming my favorite son! You understand that you can do more harm in letting someone live than just killing them. Something Shigaraki continues to fail to understand. I think it is time you finally met him."
"You have not told him about me father?"
"No, I have not," AFO said, "However, with your current leaps and bounds of progress, I think it is time to light a fire under him so that he understands he is in danger of being replaced as my successor. Kurogiri! Inform Tomura that he is about to receive and extremely important visitor that is not to be harmed under any circumstances. Blackflame, please get that blood off your outfit. Make yourself presentable for this meeting."
Blackflame nodded as he rose to his feet and went back off to his room. He took his villain costume off, minus the helmet and rummaged through the closet. His father had given him varying array of outfits. Letting him choose his own clothes for when he wasn't on duty. When he was told that Shigaraki dressed like someone who lived in their mother's basement who gamed all day. He decided to follow more of Kurogiri's fashion sense to set himself apart.
He settled on a red button-up shirt, black vest, black tie in a double Windsor knot, black slacks, black gloves, and of course his helmet. He didn't trust Tomura to know what he looked like.
He walked back into this father's room where Kurogiri was waiting for him. He created a portal upon his arrival, and Blackflame dutifully walked through without complaint.
He entered the infamous bar he heard so much about. Kurogiri immediately went behind the bar and started cleaning some crystal whiskey glasses.
"So, you are the important VIP that Sensei desperately wanted me to meet." Tomura said dryly, he clearly wasn't impressed with him. Blackflame seriously doubted anything could really impress this man-child that was in front of him. "What's so important about you Blackflame?"
"Well Hand Job." Blackflame started out sarcastically, making fun of all the hands over his counterpart's body. Tomura immediately jumped off his stool at the insult sending it crashing to the floor, "You are looking at your replacement if you don't get your fucking shit together you pathetic man-child!"
"WHY YOU!" Tomura shouted as he rushed to kill the newcomer, but he was stopped by a portal from Kurogiri.
"Kuro! Why did you stop me from killing this pathetic nobody?!"
"Pathetic." Blackflame jeered, "I know the phrase sticks and stone don't break my bones, but words will leave everlasting psychological damage and trauma was true, but my goodness! Your skin is thinner than that of a geriatric on their deathbed! If you can't keep your cool after a few insults you don't deserve to be leader of anything! Note even a kindergartner's rock, paper, scissors club! Perhaps you can go back to living in the basement living on a diet of Mountain Dew and Doritos like the pathetic man-child you are?"
"Why you pathetic piece of—" Tomura shouted as he attempted to make another attack on Blackflame.
"I'm afraid I can't let you harm my son." All For One called from the TV, and this caused Tomura to shake with rage. "Also were you not told that this special guest must not be harmed under any circumstances?"
"SON?!" he yelled, "I thought I was the one you considered to be a son sensei!"
"Did you honestly think you were the only one I was grooming to be my successor?" All For One chuckled, and this dumbfounded Tomura, "Did you think I would not have contingencies in case you didn't turn out the way I wanted?"
Tomura stood there in shocked silence as if Kurogiri had dropped a basket of dirty diapers onto his head. It was clear the idea of a replacement successor had never occurred to him. He was unable to come up with a response, but then the inevitable rage spilled out.
"But Sensei! You promised me that I would be your successor! That I was the one worthy of your mantel—"
"Opinions can change Tomura." All For One barked back and Tomura trembled, "Blackflame is quite right. You have been recently acting like a pathetic man-child. You have lacked the drive to spread madness. You have been obsessed with All Might. While I want him dead as much as you, you have to understand you can't become obsessed over one target, otherwise you lose the bigger picture. That is something Blackflame understands."
"Blackflame will be accompanying you on some missions that I deem fit and necessary. If you don't clean up your act, he will take your place permanently. Moreover, if he finds you have become blind on your missions, he has permission to countermand your orders and order you to retreat back to base. Is that understood?"
Tomura merely stood there, shaking in rage.
"I said is that understood Tomura Shigaraki?!"
"Yes Sensei." He finally said in a shaking of rage.
"Kurogiri, please take my son back home so he isn't tempted to punish Tomura for his insubordination towards his father?"
"Yes Master." Kurogiri said as he created a portal back to AFO. As soon as they walked through Blackflame approached his father.
"Forgive me for my rudeness, but whatever did you seen in the pathetic excuse of a successor father?" Blackflame asked as he approached his dad.
"He was a young child when I originally found him an alley." AFO sighed, "I thought I could make him grow up into a person I could enjoy having as a successor. Apparently, he never did any growing up. I grow tired, I must sleep."
"Very well father, I'll leave you be." Blackflame said nodding his head as he went back to his room. Once he was back in his room he went to his bathroom and took off his helmet. He stared at the reflection that he hated, wondering why he never looked like his father before he was deformed by All Might.
Naomasa Tsukauchi had gotten the call that three people, two girls and one boy had escaped from being held captive in an abandoned sex toy warehouse. He arrived on the scene with a couple pro heroes, Ingenium and Airjet were there as well.
Naomasa approached the scene, lifting and up ducking under the crime scene tape as he approached the two heroes who were consoling the three survivors. A young teenage boy and girl, as well as a young adult woman.
"Hello. I am Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi." He said as he crouched down to get on eye level with the victims who were sitting down, backs towards the building they were trapped in. "Could you please tell me what happened to you all tonight? Could we start with you ma'am?"
"I'm Tamao Oguro." The young woman said as she looked down at the grown and Naomasa activated his quirk, "I had just sent my father out to get some flour. We were wanting to bake a pie for dessert, and we had just ran out. He left, but soon afterwards I think I remember the front door knocking. I thought maybe he forgot his keys, so I opened the door and all of a sudden, I remember darkness. Next thing I know I'm chained up to the wall, and I see my father and this boy and girl rush towards me. My father takes me down and then he kills him. That young man, he killed my father and then he cut his head off!"
She was too terrified to continue speaking. What shook Naomasa was that his quirk had registered every word as true. He went and took the statements from the other two victims. They had nearly escaped death and were far too young to have experienced something like this.
"Here it what is going to happen. We are going to take you all to the hospital to have yourselves examined. Ladies, we are going to use rape kits on you to see if you can collect any evidence that may have been left behind by the villain. They both nodded as they were loaded up into ambulances and headed to the nearest hospital.
"Does Backdraft know his sidekick was murdered yet?" Ingenium asked he walked up to the detective, causing him to sigh.
"We haven't broken the news to him yet." Tsukauchi whispered, this was going to be the beginning of a very unpleasant investigation.
A few days later, Naomasa was at his desk in his office when the report came in from the hospital. They had done tests on the rape kits and found no evidence of foreign DNA. Apparently, the villain was smart enough to use a condom to leave no traces of any seminal fluid.
The detective groaned as he leaned back in his chair as far as it would go without tipping over. Here was a crime right out of a horror movie and they had no evidence so far on how to proceed with an investigation. It was infuriating to say the least.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Come in." the chief detective merely grumbled as the door squealed open, he really needed to lubricate the hinges.
"Detective, we found a note from the supposed killer on the body of one of the victims."
"Which victim Hojo?"
"Iwao Oguro sir."
"Hand it over." The detective said as he accepted the plastic baggie containing the note. He went on to read it. What concerned him was that there were three names on the top of who it was addressed to. He knew of Knuckleduster thanks to his work with the old vigilante group. Koichi and Kazuho never told him why their old mentor left their little group in the first place. They had recently been in a quirk accident that left them permanently at a younger age.
He had pulled some strings and used his contacts with Nezu and Aizawa to get them into the Hero Course without having to take a practical examination, given their prior experience with vigilantism. He never knew the real name of their mentor's identity. He did not like the idea of having to go down to UA and explain to them that their old friend was murdered by a psychotic villain. Not to mention that the girl that was raped was the younger cousin of someone in the business course.
He knew he inevitably had to make a trip to UA at this point to ask his two friends for information about why their old mentor could've been tricked into a trap straight out of a horror movie. He swiveled over to his computer and started to enter a new entry into the villain database.
Villain Name: Blackflame
Real Name: Unknown
Quirk: Unknown: Some kind of quirk that involves darkness and memory loss/or incapacitation.
Villain Rank: A
Known Appearance: Jet black suit with red accent, full face helmet, uses a voice modulator. Real face unknown.
A/N:
I imagined Blackflame's modulated voice to remind me of that Vanitas's voice from the Kingdom Hearts franchise in case you were wondering, and his outfit is somewhat similar. Don't blame me! (Okay! Blame me!) I'm just a KH fanboy and couldn't help but borrow the outfit. His Katana folds away much like the sword we saw Sulu use in Star Trek 2009.
