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There was little light out as the sun had just set over the city of los angeles. The city was filled with activity even in the nightlife, but not all of it was good. Just as the darkness grows so do the ambitions of villains. This wears the underground hero Faceless finds himself on patrol.
For the past week there have been little reports of crimes and even less villains sighted. Since the dawn of quirks the U.S. has always had a high crime rate of 20 percent like most of the world, well, all except for japan. But come on, they had all might, THE number one hero. Sure the US had their own number one but there was only so much she could do. Crime ran rampant, particularly in major cities, so this lull has greatly concerned the underground heroes, including faceless.
After investigating this lull, and interrogating a few punks in some alleyways, faceless learned something …. unnerving. There was a rumor that villains across the city are gathering to meet at a secret location. The meeting was apparently happening at an abandoned warehouse at the docks. This made sense as faceless thought about it, the area of the meeting has not seen use in many years and no pro hero patrols there in the day or night, too far from the cameras, faceless thinks.
Deciding to investigate, this is where faceless finds himself, on top of a roof sitting in the shadows as he watches multiple thugs and low grade villains walking into a warehouse.
'I've seen enough out here, time to get inside and find out what's going on'
Raising his hand to his face, faceless touches his cheek. In a few seconds his light skin darkens as his hair grows longer and a scar appears across his face. Pulling off a duffle bag from his back, face rifles through for a change of clothes. As an underground hero, faceless doesn't have a very flashy quirk. His quirk is called face shift which allows him to disguise himself as different people, but only the last ten people he has touched and it doesn't change his clothes, only his body and face, hence his duffle bag full of clothes.
After changing, he sneaks down from the roof and does his best to blend in with the crowd. Walking in with the groups of villains, faceless made sure to keep count of how many were here. Before joining in he had already reached over fifty, but it seems they've all arrived. Looking around he could guess there were around 70 or so villains here, a majority seemed to be heteromorphic types. Faceless meandered to the edge of the crowd as he listened in on the conversations taking place.
"So do we know what we're all here for?"
"Beats me, all that dang rumor let out was that there was a meeting at this place for any villain who came and that we would not regret coming"
"Yah, heard the same thing from my dealer, said if i came i wouldn't need him anymore"
"You talking about Chem? He hey, check that out he's my trigger dealer, small world uh?"
"Do you think it's true though? That there's apparently a new product that'll make trigger look like some dyed water that gave you a sugar rush"
That comment caught faceless attention. Trigger was a drug that boosted a person's quirk for a short period of time. He helped gather evidence for a trigger bust a few weeks ago, so if there's a new product that's supposed to replace the trigger, he needs all the info he can get. Listening around a little more all he got was the same stuff. The rumor about the meeting and the new unknown product. After 15 minutes of waiting one guy was getting real antsy.
"Ahhgg, we've all been standing around here for 15 minutes, was this rumor even true?"
"Oh believe me that rumor is very true" a voice says as everyone turns towards where it came from.
Looking above them a figure is standing on the catwalk. Faceless notes everything he can about his appearance. The figure appears to be a man dressed in an all black suit and top hat and in his hand a cane, though the most striking part of the getup is the white mask with black glasses that gives off a very unsettling feeling.
"Are you the guy who spread the rumor and set up this meeting" a random villain yells out
"I am" the masked man replies
"Then what the hell his meeting all about and who are you anyway"
"You all may call me Shade and this meeting was just to see what little fish would bite the hook"
Through his many years of heroing, Faceless has learned to trust his gut and right now his gut is telling him to stay quiet and not draw attention. The way this new villain talked set him on edge, he called them all fish and that this meeting was his hook. Some of the villains didnt take kindly to that.
"Who the fuck you calling a little fish, you shady bastered, was the rumor about the new product replacing trigger false too?"
"Settle down now, allow me to explain" shade said with a silky voice. "The rumor of the product is true and this meeting? Well all those that showed up will be presented a showcase of the product and many more things that will get your attention"
Faceless face fell grim. One new drug was bad but if there's multiple that could be even worse. A few people started calling for shade to show it already and faceless was restless to see it as well.
"I understand you want to see it but have a little patience, after all i don't even have it on me"
This caused an uproar among the villains demanding if shade was wasting their time. Shade simply raised a finger to his lips in a silencing gesture. As he did this, Faceless noticed the shadows in the warehouse seemed to shift and move, including the shadows beneath all of them. In one swift motion the shadows rose up binding all villains in the warehouse that were starting to become unruly and when a few tried to use their quirks the shadows yanked them into the ground.
"If you're done making a fuss…" shade says as shadows rise around him before swallowing him in a wave of darkness and disappearing. A shadow extends from the wall to the middle of the warehouse and slowly rising out of it is shade.
"... I'd be happy to take us all to where the showcase is being held."
Now Faceless's gut was telling him to get out while he still can. Shade's quirk, whatever it was, was powerful. From what he could gather it allowed shade to control shadows and make them solid but if that wasn't enough shade seemed to be able to travel through shadows as well. His quirk allowed him to basically warp and that by itself made him dangerous as warping quirks were rare.
"Ugh, alright we'll go with, that's what we came for any" a thug says as others agree
"Wonderful, though while were in-transit, try not to get lost in the dark lands, i doubt ill care enough to find you again"
Once again the shadows seemed to grow as a wave of darkness swallowed them all. Faceless feels shivers up his spine as he's taken into the darkness before it's gone just as quick. Looking around faceless notes how there is no longer in the warehouse but a rather large hallway. Shade appeared in front of the group with his back to the and proceeded to walk down the hall, motioning for the villains to follow.
"The hell was that!"
"Holy dam, warn a guy"
"Do that again and i'll kill you"
"Hey, freak where are we?"
"The name is shade and we are exactly where we need to be'' shade says as they finally reach the end of the hall. Approaching a large door, a beam of light shot out scanning shade, who tipped his hat as the door opened. Faceless braced himself for what was about to happen, because the moment the door opened a cacophony of noise hit the assembled villains.
"Feel free to mingle with all the others, after all many villains came here from all around the country." shade says, turning his head to address them before disappearing.
Faceless couldn't help but drop his jaw at the sight before him as some of the villanis around him did as well. Before them was an incredibly large hall if you could call it that. If faceless people had to guess, it was as large as a football stadium's seats and all, with each one filled with people. There had to be at least 60 thousand people, men, women, heck there were even children here. Was all this really for the unveiling of new blackmarket drugs?
Faceless followed his group to an area of open seats, taking one in the back trying to calm himself. Looking to the center of the stadium there was a large stage with multiple people in matching uniforms moving about. Above them, attached to the ceiling was a jumbotron showing the image of what faceless thought was a skull, and the letters L.O.D with a countdown that just hit one minute. As The minute ticked down faceless started to contemplate everything he's learned so far.
'This is something much bigger than new black market drugs, the rumor was to gather attention and draw villains into a meeting. Then, what I can only assume is that a very dangerous villain shows up and brings us to a freakin stadium filled with villains. Shade said there were villains from all around the states here but where exactly is here?'
Focusing back on the stage and jumbotron the time has finally zero and all the lights dim slightly. Face keeps is eyes focused cause hes about to learn what this is all about because on the stage a woman in a red dress steps on to a rising platform as all cameras focus on her. Taking out a notepad and secret camera faceless records all he can about the woman. She has fair skin with her hair done up in a bun with shades sitting slightly off her face and an important note is a snake tattoo around her whole body.
"Welcome one and all to this very special showcase, I am roulette and i will be running this gig tonight. Now many of you are here for different reasons of course, we spread rumors about drugs, money, plans to take out some of those pathetic pro heroes, and even about helping you with your own little problems. Well I can guarantee all of this is true."
Her opening words sparked cheers from a majority of the crowd.
"Now I'm sure when all of you went to the rumor meetings you thought that be it, but all of you better strap in cause this is the big leagues. As of right now this entire stadium is in an undisclosed location, well undisclosed to all you guests, so let me be the first to welcome you to the headquarters of THE LEGION OF DOOM"
That statement got hundreds of murmurs to spread through the crowd while roulette seemed to smirk. Faceless's gut began to churn, screaming at him to get out NOW, but he couldn't. He needed to learn everything he could about this legion of doom.
"Now, now, settle down, let's get right to business. This entire showcase we have planned is for recruitment, so if you're not begging to join us by the end, well, you must be some tuff nut. We have much to offer…"
"Hey Bitch, none of me or my boys care about joining your league or whatever, we just want the new drug your rumors talked about" a villain shouts
Faceless is surprised he can hear him. The guy is on the opposite side of the stadium near the stage floor. Looking around the guy appears on screens across the stadium and his voice seems to be coming from the speakers even though he had no mic.
'The guy has no mic but is heard across the stadium?' faceless thinks before looking at roulette who still has a smirk. 'They want him to be heard!'
"Well, well, someone's impatient. Fine, let's start with that." roulette says as she turns back to the crowds
"As you all know a majority of the world's trigger supply comes directly from here in the US. It makes you all powerful right, wrong. Even with it you're still no match for the pro heroes, that's why the legion of doom are putting out our own superior products, BANE, get out here and show these punks what they'll get a taste of."
Faceless watched as a massive man 4 feet taller than roulette stomped onto the stage followed by a few men. He presumed that this was bane and noted his appearance, he wore combat clothes and a harness with a glowing green liquid flowing through tubes connected to his body. His most striking feature was the black and white luchador mask.
"Ladies and gentleman, I present to you, Bane breaker of the mighty. He is incharge of production of our new drug, that we call Venom. With it bane has his physical strength increased to a level past most strength quirks, why, id even say he could take down you and your boys by himself" Those last words are directed at the villains who interrupted roulette, who did not take that too kindly.
"You really picked a fight with us bitch, my quirk can increase my strength by five times and with trigger, it's fifteen." the villain says getting up to take the challenge and activating his quirk based on the red glow around his fist.
The villain moves to attack roulette who doesn't move or flinch as bane catches the punch with one hand. The villain tries to pull back but banes grip is stronger, as bane effortlessly throws him across the stage as the villains gang rush in to help.
The whole stadium watches as Bane effortlessly beats down 15 men on his own. Most of the men seem to have combat quirks that could give some heroes trouble but as faceless watches, he notes how precise banes movement and strikes are.
'He's not just strong, hes tactical, and that makes him dangerous'
"Take note everyone, 15 men all using their quirks can't defeat my friend who hasn't even used venom yet nor his quirk, fftt ha ha, not like he even has one for you see, Bane is completely QUIRKLESS!" roulette shouts as the entire stadium goes silent.
"No fucking way is this bastered quirkless! I refuse to believe me and my boys were beat by someone without powers. Quirkless is nothing, I call bullshit!" the villain on stage yells
"Call it what you'd like, it's the truth, now why don't you all shoot up with that trigger in your pockets, so Bane can show you what he's truly capable of."
Villains are shocked the roulette knows they have a trigger but do it anyway because they want revenge for the humiliation. As they shoot, bane activates his harness and his muscles begin to bulge. Faceless watches this all in shock, as the noticeably stronger villains charged bane again only to be once again utterly beaten. He watches as bane takes each down with incredible strength, as he pouches one hard enough to be sent flying into the crowd. The main villain with the strength quirk tries to slam down on bane, but bane just catches his arms them proceeds to break them.
"AAAHHHGGHG" the villain yells
With that done bane walks off have not uttered a single word the whole fight. Some henchmen drag the villains off the stage.
"Well thats what you get for not taking our word, now listen up, everything we say is the absolute truth. We at the legion of doom are the real deal, you wanna be villains, bane without a quirk andjust his venom took down 15 trigger villains, imagine what he could do to the heroes, or rather what you could do. This is the kind of resource you get when you join with us"
Faceless was now utterly terrified, if bane really was quirkless and took down 15 villains on trigger image what villains with quirks and venom could do. He shook his head to get rid of the thought, as he tried to think rationally, bane was tactical the villains were not that's probably how bane beat them, but what if bane trained them? He shook his head again at the even worse thought. That's when another person in the crowd spoke up.
"Is it true is that bane guy really quirkless"
Roulette turned to see a rather plain looking guy.
"Indeed he is"
"Then is he what we can become if we join you. I came here because of the rumor that you had a way to help quirkless people stand on par with quirked"
A chorus of agreement came from around the stadium. Faceless was surprised where there really were that many quirkless people in attendance, did they all want to get their hands on venom.
"Indeed, that was the second rumor we spread to get the quirless attention. In this world 80 percent of people have quirks while the rest don't and in this society those people are treated as less than human when they were the original humans. Sir tell me what is your name"
"Mark"
"Well mark, you seen venom but do you think its right for you?"
"No mam"
Well mark you dont have to worry because i will now present our other special products. For the past 200 years its been this quirk that, so much so that the advancement of technology has stalled. If not for quirks we'd all be in space right now. Any advance tech created has gone towards helping the heroes with their precious support items. So now I tell you that we, the legion of doom, pioneered a new age of technology more advanced than anything I-island has to offer. In all fields of science we hold the cards so to give you a taste a senior member of the legion of doom, known as Mr freeze, has allowed us to show off his incredibly cool cryo technology"
As she was speaking many henchmen came on to the stage sporting fancy looking tech. Faceless wanted to get out now. He had enough infoe to shut the legion of doom down for the venom drug alone, but now they were claiming they had tech more advanced than i-island. He also had another villain to take note, Mr freeze.
"Mark why don't you come on down and help" Roulette asked the man who obliged. When he got to the stage he was fitted with a high-tech backpack that came with a rather sci-fi looking gun.
"Now a little information for all of you. Our member Mr Freeze is a brilliant scientist with a phd in cryonics. Now Mr Freeze has a quirk but it is not one that helps him. His quirk makes it to where he can't survive outside subzero temperatures and that's it, despite his name freeze has no power over ice, but using his intelligence he created his patented cryo tech that can be used by any one. Carry on with the demonstration."
Faceless took note of this as it was useful but when the demonstration started his blood turned cold, almost literally. The man, Mark, was instructed to fire at a target and when he did it was encased in solid ice. Never before has faceless seen any technology able to replicate the effects of a quirk before. Mark got a smile on his face and proceeded to blast the other targets.
"I'm in, if it means i get to use this tech i'm in" mark says turing to roulette
"Do you hear that people, we got our first new member, welcome mark to the legion of doom"
Thundurus cheers sounded from the stadium as many more people started to shout pledges to the legion. This was not good, only two products in and thousands wanted to join the legion of doom.
"Now before we continue on i think we've entertained our unwanted guests enough"
Faceless was confused for a second before his eyes widened in realization, jumping from his seat and making a break for the hall they came from when they got here, he ran for it. Before he got even 10 feet from his seat he was grabbed and put into a submission hold by the legions henchmen who seemed to be waiting for him. Faceless was then dragged down to the stage where he was tied and forced to his knees.
"Well I knew we were expecting an infiltration but over twenty underground heroes and you all were still caught so easily." roulette said
Faceless looked up to see twenty more people tied up with him and if roulette was to be believed they were all heroes. The stadium was in an uproar that heroes were here but roulette was quick to reassure them.
"People please calm yourselves, all infiltrators have been caught and will be dealt with. Now what say we have a little game. Mark, would you like to participate?"
"Yes mam"
"Good, now you've hit stationary targets but lets give you some moving ones"
Faceless felt his ropes loosen but chose not to move. His fellow heroes though did, they took off trying to escape almost immediately 7 were frozen in blocks of ice.
"My, mark, are you a quick shot"
"Of course mam, I learned to use firearms to defend myself from people with quirks" Mark said as he froze 6 more heroes. Those not yet frozen made it to the edge of the stage only to crash into a barrier.
"Another one of our technologies, a particle barrier able to withstand the force of a missile." roulette announced which got the crowd cheering. The other heroes, realizing there's now to escape now, had to fight. Some went for Mark while others went for roulette. Mark quickly took him out in rapid fire before jumping in front of roulette to protect her.
"My how nobel" she says with a smirk
"Think nothing of it mam, it will be my duty to serve the legion that gave me the power i've dreamed of"
"Keep this up and you'll make it quite far here."
Soon it was just faceless still on his knees, while his body told him to run his mind said to stay still. Roulette approached him with Mark acting as a guard right behind her, she knelt down and forced faceless to look her in the eyes.
"Tell me, hero, did you like the show so far?"
"Your legion won't succeed, the heroes will stop you" he growled out definitely but made no move.
"Please your heroes are nothing, and so are your world's villains, we, the legion of doom, will show this world what real villains are like and we will rule this world"
"Stars and stripes will stop you, the heroes of the world will stop you, All Might himself will dismantle your legion."
"Funny how you should mention All Might, he's a great hero, truly, but the legions seen greater, we've beaten greater, were done here, mark, make it slow"
"Yes mam"
Faceless's legs are then encased in ice which begins to slowly grow up his body. Mark is keeping a consistent beam on him as roulette walks back to center stage. She asks the crowd if they liked what they saw who responded in cheers. As his head was being encased in ice her heard roulette announced the next part of the showcase.
"Now for all of you who have children, I'd like to introduce you to Brother Blood and his HIVE academy"
And like that the hero faceless was encased in ice, his heartbeat slowing down before finally stopping.
whoo first real chapter
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