Agent Alpha sighed as he carried the baby into the base. This was starting to become truly sick… Doing this to a family…

He was no stranger to hero/villain relations. Alpha was a ten-year veteran of fighting against do-gooders. It was part of how he secured his current position. He'd heard that this Gemini guy, a noobie to the playing field, was a crazy one.

But this? He had never thought in a million years that he'd be involved with something this grotesque.

It was clear to Alpha that this poor man had no idea about the utopia project. But his boss, ever the paranoid motherfucker, kept pressing him. Even after extracting all of his memories about GJ he was screaming mad on trying to get the information he wanted. Convinced his sister, another new person who'd been recruited by GJ, somehow sealed the memories in his head.

Which was why they now had his family.

Alpha had no idea how it would help. They'd also extracted the memories of being in college, just in case he'd been recruited by GJ in secret and the original memory was a cover. This chump had no idea who this woman even was!

She didn't stick around long at least. A few shots of the brain-tap machine and she had no idea what was going on either. She was wily, though, and managed to break out with just herself. Didn't even bother going for the baby, if she even knew about her.

After that, Gemini finally, finally believed the poor man. Gave up on extracting any information from him on Project Utopia.

But that didn't end the man's suffering.

No, instead, Gemini decided to use him as a test subject. It wasn't a bad idea, really. Basic average guy, why not see what would happen if you pump him full of whatever mutagen they could find?

Except…

The baby.

Something had to be done about the baby.

His boss had demanded the child be disposed of, like some piece of garbage. Alpha was floored by the command. That was truly monstrous, wanting to kill some poor baby for getting stuck in the middle of some sibling feud.

Alpha wasn't having any of it.

The next night saw him sneaking the baby, still wrapped in her blanket, out of the facility. He made one pit stop: to the man's cell. Maybe, hopefully, even with his mind awash with chemicals and pain he would have at least half a mind on who he wanted to take care of his baby.

"Where did you want this kid to go?" Alpha asked, listening closely. "Where would she be safe?"

"Possible. Decent guy. Possible…" The man was muttering gibberish now, but Alpha got the message.

A few weeks after he'd dropped the baby off at the Possible residence - really easy to find, not many people named Possible - it seemed to be the man's turn to be tossed out into the scrap heap.

Alpha searched the clothes he'd been brought in with, looking for some kind of clue as to where this man's home was. There was no way that their previous address was anything viable anymore, being a small college apartment where he'd been missing for months. The turnover was much too high. And Alpha, even being as soft-hearted as he was, wasn't about to waste a lot of time helping this guy.

The man had a number in his wallet, labeled 'Mother'. He was glad for it… The only problem was that he had no idea which Lipsky his mother was.

...they'd found him and his family in Lowerton. They must live somewhere around there.

So Alpha called up the old broad. Told her her son was in bad shape and needed help. Then, carefully so as to not be caught, he snuck the man out of the base to a back alley in lower Lowerton. Stuck him behind a dumpster, where he would at least be safe from the casual eye. It was raining, a small bane, but what was a little rain to a guy that'd been through what this guy had gone through? Even decided to leave a piece of his uniform with the guy, in case he wanted some revenge later. The guy seemed the type to carry a grudge like that.

After that, Alpha got the heck outta Dodge. Went back to his hometown, planned on just settling down. If the new generation of villains were as crazy as this guy, he wanted no more part of it.

It was a moot effort.

Just a few short days later, Gemini showed up at his home. Demanded Alpha explain himself. Alpha tried to sidestep it by saying he was taking vacation per his contract, but Gemini was having no part of it. Said contracts are for chumps, and that Alpha was clearly colluding with his sister due to the missing patch on his uniform. Then he went on a spiel about how he needed disposal holes for fools like him that failed or betrayed him, and how he needed to be careful picking his next Agent Alpha.

Nutter. Entirely 100 percent a nutter.

Alpha didn't bother protesting. He knew it wouldn't do any good. His fate was sealed.

As expected, Gemini shot him clean through with a laser.

Even as he fell, Alpha couldn't help but feel like it had been worth it.