With A Snap
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Chapter 22: Man in the Black Hat
The Offices of the Black Hat Organization were lively, they were one if not the greatest resources for those out to do dastardly deeds.
Behind a desk in classic victorian style sat someone known as Lord Blackhat. He wore a black suit, with a red shirt and gray vest, and sitting on his head was a black top hat. His skin was dark, gray bordering on black, and his eyes were beady, and a monocle hid one. He wasn't human; no one was very sure what he was; all they knew was he was evil and was not someone you wanted to anger.
In front of the desk stood a young woman with red and black sleeves, she wore a black and green hoodie that was designed to look like the head of a lizard. She had long, almost tail like green hair with the tips on her head bright red. She smiled as she looked at Black Hat. That was Demencia, and she lived up to the madness that shared her name.
Quietly standing near her was a big fluffy blue hair with a single yellow flower blooming over her head. He looked more like a child's teddy bear than an actual bear, but that was 505.
Standing before them was a lanky young man who wore a blue shirt with an airplane and a white lab coat over it along with a pair of yellow gloves. His most distinct clothing was a paper bag that covered his head, which he topped off with a pair of goggles that covered up his eyes.
That was Doctor Fly Slys, the head scientist for this organization.
"Sir," Flug said with a gulp, "The samples we brought back of that hero's tech-"
"Flug," Black Hat didn't raise his voice, "What was the mission?"
Flug gulped, "It was the eliminate the hero known as Vortext."
"Which I did!" Demencia announced proudly.
"And to bring back samples of his tech," Flug added.
505 held out pieces of some strange technology and let out a proud, "Bwar"
"Which we managed!" Flug grabbed the control and held it out.
"Yes," Blackhat agreed, "but can you tell me what you weren't supposed to do?"
"Ah…"
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO GET OUR CLIENT KILLED!" The room turned red and shook at his voice; Blackhat seemed to grow with his voice, "Professor Anomalous paid handsomely for us to retrieve the technology of his enemy. He even went along with you so that he could oversee it done properly."
"Well, Sir." Flug started as sweat pooled in his armpits.
"Well, sorry." Demencia rolled her eyes, "he told me not to touch a button and kept yelling, and he just got too close when the device went off and blasted him to bits."
Blackhat stared at them, "It is bad business for us not to fulfill our request. If our clients fear us fulfilling their jobs, then they were less likely to do business with us. So tell me one reason why not to punish you." Blackhat shrunk back to his regular size,
"Ah, well," Flug stuttered, "Well, he did pay ahead of time, and well, it was an accident. If we look at it in a certain way, it's his fault; if he's such an expert, then he should have known not to be standing in front of the barrel. And now, we have all the tech. Given some time, I'm sure I can reverse engineer it, and we can sell it."
Blackhat smirked a sharp toothy grin, "Exactly, we cannot be held responsible if our clients ignore basic safety hazards. Flug gets started on using that technology to we can sell. I want it in on time for the next catalog-"He paused.
"Boss?" Flug questioned, he never remembered seeing Blackhat tense up.
"Who was stupid enough?" Blackhat whispered as he clenched his fist.
"Bwaar?"
Flug turned to see 505 starting to dissolve before them.
"Hey, Flug?" Demencia asked, "I thought the bear was supposed to be invulnerable or something? I can never hurt him, but he's falling apart."
"What?" Flug yelled, "That's not supposed to happen. 505! We need to get you back to my lab! Is it cellular decay? Electrons shells breaking apart? Phase-shifting?"
"Ba!" 505 hugged Flug as his body trembled and faded away into swirling dust.
"505?" Flug let out his voice weak.
"Uh, Doc?" Demencia started.
"Not now!" Flug barked at her,
"Flug!" Demencia yelled out, getting his attention, her body started to fall apart into ash.
"Yeah, is this some of your geek stuff? Cause it doesn't feel good. I'm," her hand was gone, "I'm not feeling anything." For the first time in ever did the doctor her actual dread and terror in her voice. She turned to Blackhat, "BLACKHAT I LO-" the ashes consumed her last words.
Flug just stood there trembling; something just took two them out like nothing. A wall of screens turned on, news reports, messages, live streams, all from all over the world and from beyond, showed the same thing people turning into ash.
"Doctor Flug," Blackhat got up from his chair, "I need you to find the source of this madness,"
"The source?"
"Yes, I need to teach someone a lesson; no one takes anything from me. My money, my territory, or my flunkies. No one steals from me without learning the error of their ways." Blackhat growled, leaving the room.
Flug just stared at the screens and wondered what could do this and where was he to start.
Author's Notes: It's time to get villainous. And by that I mean this chapter is for the series villainous, if you haven't checked it out the episodes are on youtube. The pilot is called dreadful dawn. Anywho, we've been looking at heroes for a while. I guessed it's time to see some villains react to the snap.
Q&A:
Yes I'm still doing this.
Luiz4200: Yeah, Korra doesn't happen in this timeline as things are. As I've shown in other stories when the snap happens, any possible futures that the heroes might know have been deleted. The Doctor sensed her entire universe's future changing to the point that her people who were hidding at the end of time were gone. Red in the last story couldn't even connect to her future. As far as things stand there are no known futures, or one shared future but more on that later.