A/N: I wrote this after a long time of debating with myself, please keep in mind that there will be Worm spoilers and lots of them despite this taking place in an Alternate Universe, before hand I'm raising the flame shield because this is Worm or at least based off it and people will die in this case lots of people die.
Disclaimer: I do not own the character or settings of either Worm or Pandora Hearts, they belong to Wildbow and Jun Mochizuki respectively.
Butterflies of the Abyss
Ever notice how everything that was once true seemed to change when one person seemed to disappear from the life of many?
In the three years in which Taylor was gone a lot of things changed, She returned to the bay to find so many surprises. Firstly Winslow High had been shut down during the investigation of a certain missing student.
Danny Hebert fell into a state of manic depression at the lose of his daughter and last remaining family member and this resulted in two failed suicide attempts.
His retirement as the union head of the dock workers association, and him being moved into a local mental hospital by the concerned workers who visited him two months after his first suicide attempt.
In the early part of that year, The Undersiders spare one member were eliminated by Lung in response to the Casino incident. This member was tattletale whom had mysteriously disappeared and been presumed dead by the local authorities.
The tensions between the ABB and the Empire were high but with nothing to spark them off no massive scale gang violence occurred outside the normal hot and cold periods as the situation was in the Bay, despite the recruitment of an unknown tinker.
The biggest incident involved the ABB and the Merchants in which a temporary truce with a few of the local criminal powers resulted in the complete annihilation of Skidmark, Mush, and Squeeler.
Dissolving the merchants completely as a force of power within the Bay.
The endbringers had not yet struck the poor town and as such the slaughterhouse nine were nowhere in the line of skirmish or in the aftermath as typical of them.
Shadowstalker was discovered to have been using Broad-head crossbow bolts and in clear violation of her parole, she was taken to the court transferred to Elisberg during her investigation and was found guilty on account of bullying in her civilian identity after a confession by a number of local teens including Madison Clements.
She was later found dead two weeks later from a presumed suicide attempt, but whether it was suicide or revenge was never clear.
After the unfortunate termination of the Undersiders, Local villain Coil hired on the Travelers or at least so it seemed.
Armsmaster had developed a supposed Endbringer prediction program alongside Dragon and a Combat predictive system reducing expected Civilian casualties and injuries by 15% in the protectorate's E-N-E branch and jurisdiction.
Panacea needed two weeks leave after a mental lapse, and was unable to appear at the fight with Behemoth resulting in nearly 85% causalities.
Odd people with Parahuman like abilities started to appear three weeks after February 8th.
These people were later dubbed chain users, most of which had displayed odd master like powers and some reporting to have varying levels of Telekinesis.
Local PRT branch Head Emily Piggot had retired due to job related injuries and sickness whether this was due to past injuries or stress is still unclear.
Director Tag was selected to replace her, but mysteriously both declined the position and entered an early retirement without actually stating his reasons for stepping down from the position in question.
Miss Militia gained authority of The Brockton Bay Wards and established a new leadership program, at the insistence of Parahuman psychologist Jessica Yamada and the official Government sanctioned youth safety and leadership program (the youth guard).
This churned out a surprising amount of success and decreased stress levels across the bay increasing overall productivity by the local wards by 32% as predicted after three months time.
Unbeknownst to most Jack Slash and Theo Anders never had that faithful encounter, which did not lead to the chain events which would later set off Scion and result in over 95% of the Human population being killed.
Noel never went off on her rampage despite losing hope everyday that help would ever come.
Klouse was still suffering from a number of severe forms of Paranoia, depression, anxiety, and random fits of rage. he was diagnosed with an acute variety of Schizophrenia and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder relating to his brief stay in a Simurgh Quarantine Zone.