Hiro curled up in a tight ball and covered his ears, screwing his eyes shut in a desperate attempt to muffle his friends screaming. Hiro had no idea how long the torture had been going on, but he hated to hear his friend suffering like this. Why was he hurting Ezra? He was so nice and caring and didn't deserve whatever pain that man was putting him through.

Soon Ezra's screaming turned to sobbing and Hiro felt himself crack. Tears streamed down Hiro's face as he heard Ezra's crying. This was wrong, why was he hurting him? Why couldn't Hiro be brave like Ezra? He stood up for Hiro when kids bullied him. But this was so much different then school, this man would kill them.

Ezra let out a small whimper and Hiro realized he couldn't sit there and let him hurt his best friend. Hiro scrambled out of his hiding place, momentarily freezing when he saw what was happening. From what Hiro would see the man wasn't even touching Ezra but he was curled up on the ground crying and whimpering, covering his ears trying to block out something.

"Don't hurt him!" Hiro shouted, throwing him arms forcefully around the man's legs making him stumble slightly. Without using his hands, he somehow lifted Hiro off of his feet, choking him as he did so.

"What are you doing?" The man growled. Hiro tried to say something but whatever was holding Hiro was tightening itself around Hiro's throat making him desperately gasp for air. "You might be more trouble then you're worth…" He whispered, refusing to let whatever was choking him loosen its grip. He tried to breath, but he couldn't get air into his lungs and soon dots danced across his vision.

"Let go of him!" Ezra shouted. A strange force suddenly threw the man back causing Hiro to crumple to the ground, desperately gasping in air. Ezra scrambled over to Hiro, protectively wrapping himself around Hiro. "Are you okay?" Ezra asked, tightly hugging him. Hiro who was still gasping for breath nodded his head against Ezra's chest, shivering. How did that man do that? Why did he fly back like that? Did Ezra do that?

The man slowly picked himself up and walked over to the pair, an unreadable expression on his face. Hiro was terrified the man would punish them for what they did and huddled closer to Ezra. As he approached them Hiro saw his twisted smirk and shuttered slightly. The man leered down at them and said,

"Now we're getting somewhere."

Three days, Hiro and Ezra had been missing for three of the longest days of Tadashi's life and so far they had no leads as to their whereabouts. It was agonizing not knowing where they were or if they were okay or even alive…. No he could not think like that. Hiro was alive. He would come home.

Tadashi groaned and rolled over, quickly realizing that for the third night in a row he would not be getting any sleep tonight. Tadashi dragged himself out of bed to walk around some and clear his head. As Tadashi wandered he found himself walking into Mr. Lee's lair. He probably shouldn't be in here….but then again what would it hurt for Tadashi to do some research and see if he could find anything useful?

With that thought in mind Tadashi got to work. He really wasn't sure where to start, so he decided to do some looking into this Inquisitor man. With Mr. Lee's super hero connections it was not hard to get more information then Tadashi knew what to do with. The first thing Tadashi decided to look into was what this man's abilities where, hoping to find a way to at least weaken him. Apparently he had very powerful telekinetic powers and was surprisingly once a super hero.

"Doing some late night research I see," Mr. Lee tiredly sighed, startling Tadashi.

"Oh I'm sorry Mr. Lee I can leave if-" Tadashi began, awkwardly standing up. Mr. Lee limped over and said,

"No, no it's fine." Mr. Lee assured, wincing as he sat down.

"Are you alright?" Tadashi asked.

"That fight took a lot out of me…" Mr. Lee admitted.

"Will you be alright?" Tadashi asked.

"Eventually," Mr. Lee assured. "I'm not young anymore Tadashi, it's getting harder and harder to bounce back after a bad fight."

"If…when we find out where Hiro and Ezra where taking will you be able to take on this Inquisitor?"

"I…I don't know," Mr. Lee admitted. "I've been trying to find others who might be able to help but….with the Inquisitors growing strength more and more supers are going into deep hiding."

"And you can't find them?" Tadashi asked.

"No," Mr. Lee sighed.

"How can we beat him then?" Tadashi asked.

"We'll have to figure that out," Mr. Lee said. The pair fell into an uncomfortable silence, both realizing how daunting the task ahead was becoming. No leads and no one strong enough to take on this monster. Mr. Lee's phone suddenly went off, shattering the silence. Mr. Lee pulled out his phone saying,

"Hello this is Stan Lee….oh hello Kanan. Hold on let me put you on speaker, Tadashi is with me." Mr. Lee pulled the phone away and pushed a button saying, "All right can you hear me?"

"Yep," Kanan said.

"All right go ahead." Mr. Lee said.

"Well…I have good news and bad news." Kanan began. "We found two men matching the descriptions of the ones who took the boys."

"That's great!" Tadashi exclaimed, feeling light headed, "Have they given you anything?"

"Well that's the bad news," Kanan sighed. "We found them in a ditch. Someone shot them."

"So they were…dead…" Tadashi whispered, heart sinking.

"Yea…seems like their boss was not happy with them."

"So we have nothing," Tadashi mumbled, feeling sick. Back to square one. Maybe even less because now they had no living suspects to look for.

"Well we have a team analyzing the bodies to see if we can find anything," Kanan said. "So….it's something."

"It doesn't feel like it is…" Tadashi grumbled.

"Trust me, it is," Kanan assured. "I'll send you over anything they find."

"Thank you," Mr. Lee said before hanging up the phone.

"If our only suspects are dead, how are we supposed to find them?" Tadashi asked.

"No they aren't," Mr. Lee said. "Well not all. Remember their is the inquisitor."

"The last time anyone saw him and survived was…eons ago! No one knows what he even looks like now!" Tadashi exclaimed, standing up and pacing. "We have nothing!"

"Kanan thinks we might have something," Mr. Lee reminded.

"And what if he's wrong?" Tadashi demanded, "I mean he is human!"

"What if he's right?" Mr. Lee interjected. "We just don't know for sure yet." Tadashi collapsed back into the chair and grumbled,

"I know that…"

"Worrying won't do you any good," Mr. Lee said.

"How can I do anything but worry?" Tadashi asked.

Mr. Lee sadly nodded in agreement and said, "It's hard to do anything but worry when you're a parent." Tadashi simply nodded his head. What could he say to that?

"I'm going to keep researching…see if I can find anything useful," Tadashi informed Mr. Lee.

"All right…" Mr. Lee reluctantly sighed. "If you have any questions or need help come find myself or Heathcliff."

"Okay," Tadashi said, turning his attention back to the computer. The odds were stacked again him, but he would not give up. Hiro needed him and he would do everything in his power to make sure he came home safely.