It was surprisingly warm and clean for a room with only a single chair and solid painted white walls. The stone brick style of the walls had no cobwebs or stains, or even crumbled in any areas. The floor was the same except it wasn't painted but left with the original grayness of the concrete. For a windowless room with nearly nothing in it, it was exceptionally clean.

To Geus's surprise, his captors kept and treated him very well. He wasn't tied down in any way except for the locked door. And the chair in the center of the room looked like something out of a doctor's office. An oval shape chair with a diagonal cut where the backrest began. A slick design that complimented the gray-blueish leather.

There were so many possibilities to who these people were. The guy who originally attacked him had a zero threat level but Dabi wanted to partner with these guys. The rest of the League of Villains could also be with these guys for all he knew. They had the chance of being well-equipped villains that also didn't fear his strengths or a group of idiots that they wanted to take over. Or it was just about money.

The less deadly optioned bored Geus. The secret lair would kill if that was the truth. Geus pressed his palms against his skin as his mind went sore with all the ideas. All he wanted was answers for his freak out and yet these guys just added more.

Just as he was about to pass out from boredom, the doors opened up. Geus pulled his head out of his curled up legs and looked up to the door. It was only open for a sliver of outside but he saw clearly the shape of those masks. Geus jumped off the chair and took stance. The holes of his suit filled up with his gas.

"Might as well not do that " a voice behind them called. The two front men opened up and allowed the small man through.

To Geus's horror, this man looked the same age as him. If he was older than him, his skin kept a healthy and young look. The opposite of what he expected from this line of work. And with this style, he might have been a child. A green jacket with a purple fur neckline, and a beak mask from the steampunk era. Not to mention he didn't fear Geus.

"I'm sure you would rather talk than fight me here." He continued to say. He stepped inside the room and stopped as he was right across from Geus. He didn't speak then and stood there while his eyes were on Geus's. Two more men rushed through with a simple wood frame couch with attached seats. They placed it down and stood at each end of the couch. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you." His arms reached back and grabbed the seat and armrest to sit down on. "Would've done it already. Taken what I wanted and left you aside."

It wasn't something Geus could explain but his eyes told the truth. Geus calmed his quirk down and sat back down into his own chair. This guy sent something scary into him. He was a threatening man with nothing threatening about him.

"Okay before I begin, have any questions you don't think I'll be answering?"

"Yeah. How the hell are we connected?"

"I actually would've started with that. The old man and your grandfather were both parted together. I believe I can pay back all that money and energy he gave by healing his family. Starting with you. I see you only want the obvious stated to you."

Geus eyed the door, it was locked with two more guards in those crow masks on each side. His moves were fast to take out some of these guys in one fatal swoop. If this guy was as strong as he thought, it was totally pointless. He leaves one Iroh for another one. Locked up again with more guards and a Warden with unknown strengths.

"By the end of all of this I either hope to keep you under my army or turn you back to normal. It's all really your choice, keep your quirk and assist me in all my endeavors, or become quirkless. Go back to your family and be the child they would've always wanted." He held out his left arm for the guard. A gun was placed inside his hand and he immediately pointed it at Geus. "I don't like to draw out these things if I don't need to. Keep your quirk and I can continue or I can erase that quirk and send you back."

"So it's either I help you till you don't need me or you can kill me now." Just like Dabi, he wasn't going to go out without a fight. The longer he held out this thing the better it was. "Let's humor me and risk agitating you and your compassion for me."

The boss held out his other arm to the other man for him to place a mask into his hand. "One thing I love about you is that every record was placed publicly. A downfall for you government guinea pigs." He fixed the position of the mask and tossed it into Geus's lap. "Anything done to you or given to you is public record, behind the security of course."

Geus grabbed the mask and inspected the mockery of the design. A gray skeleton like a version of the crow mask that everyone else in the room had. Instead of a full mask, it took the shape of his gas mask with the magnetic connections and two small filters at the nose holes. And a jagged shape of sharp teeth down the entire beak. When he pressed on the bottom half of the beak, it opened up. He looked down the hole and inside was another filter that opened open after the filters on the nose holes.

"Real life plague doctor." Geus mumbled. His eyes drifted upwards to the man. "Who the hell are you?"

He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees, and his fingers interlocked. "You may call me Chisaki. I know my counterparts of the League of Villains wasn't able to convince you."

Geus grabbed his mask and pulled it off. He leaned over the edge of his chair and placed the mask against the front leg. Geus exposed his teeth and breathed out his gas. To him it was an intimidation move, but to Chisaki appeared as nothing.

"They killed my cousin, and you got my aunt to try to get me kidnapped. And you expect me to follow you? I went on a small rampage, I'm not afraid to do that here."

Chisaki unwound his hand and pointed at both his guards. They both went closer to his sides. His hands slashed at both of his guards. Geus's eyes didn't have the speed to look away at Chisaki's moves. His hands went clean through both their necks and severed their heads off. Blood splattered on the walls and on Geus. While Chisaki remained clean from the attack.

He couldn't look away at the heads roll across the floor and lead a wine red trail behind it. The bodies turned lifeless and dropped straight down to the ground. It was then Geus grasped the concept of the situation. He was either going to let him follow as a slave, or kill him.

"I'm going to need somebody to clean this up." Chisaki stood up and walked to the guards at the door. Geus heard him whisper something to them but his mind was stuck on the bodies.

Chisaki returned to the couch and assumed into his position. Geus's head shuttered at Chisaki' face, the blank and unamused staredown. 'The League of Villains are a scary bunch, but this guy, he's just something else.'. Geus had no words to him. He was scared, he wasn't confident and regretted his actions. Against anyone his strength he had no problem hurting them, and if need be, destroying them. 'Come on, it's just like Bailey said. I gotta hurt somebody to get the work done. But this guy, I can't touch him.'.

"I know the best way to get somebody on my side is to show them I can offer what nobody else can. And having them fear you beyond reason."

The door swung open with another one of them coming through. Geus turned his unstable head to the door. His face froze. "Iroh." He whispered.

He was beaten up to where his lips puffed and swelled with bruises and blood. His right eye swollen shut and dripped pusss. His arms twisted behind his back and wrenched together. Even with all his pain and broken bones, his mouth still stretched open to a yellow grin. The guard in the plague doctor suit tossed him between them and walked back out.

"You can kill him. End the mental torture he placed you through without any repercussions from the law." Chisaki offered his hand at Iroh's crippled body. Then he lifted his hand up to Geus. "Kill him and follow me. I can give you your family back. Bring in the love and allow me to repay the favor your family did to mine."

Iroh rolled onto his back and crushed his arms more under his excess weight. "Do it kiddo. We said we'd fight after you got out. And now we can." He swished the saliva in his mouth and spat towards Geus. Red blood mixed with his bodily fluids flopped just out if his mouth and the ground next to him. "That's what happens when I trust a few kids."

"I already got rid of the others for you. You end his life and sacrifice your life to me." Chisaki reached inside his pocket and pulled out a small EpiPen like device. He reached over the space, grabbed Geus's palm, and placed it inside and curled up his fingers. "Inject it, kill him, follow me."

"Who was the girl in my past?" Geus asked.

"What are you talking about? I'm giving you this chance to live and take out your nightmare."

"I can't do that. I can't kill him."

"I offer you a solution to this cursed land. Starting with him will bring you to your salvation. This is the first step to helping me heal you. Kill him. Until you can act with a clear mind you are useless to me."

Geus's senses narrowed down, he became cool and collected. He didn't worry about Chisaki and what he might do to him. Iroh was right in front of him in a locked room with a pair of broken arms. Now was the perfect chance to kill him. The system failed once to bring him in and continued to fail with it.

He was already given a secret chance to do whatever was necessary. And with this guy, nobody would miss or feel bad if anything happened to him. It was a chance that would never happen again.

The corner of his mouth spazz up a grin. As such, the flow of gas drifted out without control. The bottom layer of the gas transformed into its hardened state and ran across his arm. It was personal at this point and not just something he needed to do.

The year of pain, seclusion, distress, the effect he placed inside his mind. The purple fog completely hardened around his fingers and sharpened into claws. "No." He whispered to himself. His fingertips went round and a pool of soft gas was in his palm. "This isn't just for me."

Geus snatched and closed his other hand tightly around Iroh's fat neck. The thick cloth around his hand was the only thing that kept his fingers from puncturing through the folds of his neck. His other hand froze inches away from Iroh's face. He could feel the heat radiate off his palm and try to burn his own face.

"How about you take the drug from the floor and inject yourself with it." Chisaki advised and unfazed by Geus's actions. "It'll help with your plot."

"Fuck that."

Iroh's arms snapped up from under his body. Through the ripped up sleeves and exposed hands, Geus saw the black stone of his skin. Geus rushed his hand down into Iroh's face. For a solid second it tore and melted a handprint into his skin. The stone rolled over the print and covered the rest of his body.

"Fucking idiot." Iroh grabbed and twisted around Geus's arm. His weight overpowered Geus's and leaned over the counterbalance.

Iroh stood over Geus and hurled him against the far wall. His crazed eyes snapped over to Chisaki, who again had no reaction to the scene. He snapped right back to Geus and held out both his hands. "You really think I'd make it that easy for you? What kind of father figure would I be?"

Geus laughed. "You?" Geus grabbed the zipper of his costume and pulled it straight down. "I'm going to kick your ass without this weight." He pulled the last arm out and shoved the jacket aside.

"Pretty cocky for fighting an illusion." Iroh snickered. Ten sets of chain links ejected from his fingers and at Geus.

"Not" Geus bent down and jumped over the attack. "really." Each of the chains impaled the wall behind Geus and detached from Iroh's fingers. Geus landed on his knees in front of the bunch. "For a while I burned my hand to make sure it wasn't an illusion." He opened his mouth and filled the area with his gas.

"You've gotten pretty smart kid. Pain is the only way to break out of my mind. And you really have to hurt yourself." He looked back at Chisaki, still the same. He whipped back with ill intent in his eyes.

Geus took this free time and ducked away into the cloud of gas. If he did everything precisely right and was confident inside his training, all the gas around him hardened and softened perfectly. His vision was entirely blocked but if anything touched the gas he'd know then. It was more of a strategy to take advantage rather than start out with the momentum.

Iroh knew Geus wanted him to attack with any means at the gas. Any further details were ambiguous in his mind. His arm morphed and bent into a long and large chain of links. Thick as the rest of his arm and stretched the length of the ground and then some.

In one large motion; Iroh's arm swung completely around and whipped down into the gas. Geus was as ready as he could be for the swing. He felt the chains make contact with his gas and prepared appropriately. His gas hardened as fast as it could around the chain which reduced the speed severely. Even then the attack's power forced Geus to slide to the edge of the smoke.

It wasn't what he wanted but had to deal with the moves. Ideally, he wanted a second attack at least before he went into phase two. Geus fixed the positions of his feet and bolted out of the smoke. And it seems as Iroh anticipated that, his fingers were in links and wrapped around his arm. The swing Iroh used to protect himself was slow and narrowly missed decapitating Geus.

The plan wasn't as accurate as hoped but Iroh didn't see the whole reason for this. Geus curled his legs into his chest and launched himself into Iroh's chest. Both legs were covered in his gas and ready to explode. Two points of contact landed on Iroh's chest and Geus combusted his feet.

The shockwave launched him right back into the gas. The visible time he had given him a chance to see the damage. It only ticked him off more from what he saw. A pair of small holes exposed through the tattered suit where his feet was. But no other damage was visible to him, only more stone underneath.

"Okay." Geus huffed out a clean and full breath of air. "It really is stone. Strong stone." This only meant Geus had to revise his strategy. Every square inch of his body was stone and was strong enough to hold back Geus's explosions. There was no visible weak point for his gas to expose.

Iroh looked down at his tattered jacket. He was slightly impressed at the broken impressions on his chest. His hand ran over the chiseled groves. "Told you kid from the beginning. Don't know why you fight."

"Why do you fight?" Geus shouted from the smoke. "You never wanted to be a villain! You just wanted to use me, not all this!"

"I lost everything. After the discovery of my connection with the League of Villains I knew they were going to take everything from me. And at this point." Iroh slammed his foot forward and thrust his arm as hard as he could. "Who cares any more!" The chain around his arm came loose and spiraled into the gas. "Take a lesson from All for One!" He pulled back both his chains just to send them back out in a diagonal slash. "Say fuck it and do what you want!"

Geus dodged around the slowed down attack as he remained in the gas. With this much heat inside his space even Iroh would have a hard time in it. Since he remained on the outside, that surely was the case. At any point he decided to charge through, there was nothing Geus could do to stop him. It was just a count down till that happened.

"You saw what Chisaki will do! You kill me and he will just kill you!"

Iroh pulled back his chains. A single line of a laugh came out of his mouth. "You still don't get it kid. Your gas is making you pretty dense. And I'm a damn rock. I had a moment of hesitation, I won't lie. But you should see why everyone has had a change of heart around you!" Iroh curled in his chains to just his fingertips. "I'll beat that realization into you until you get it!"

Geus jumped out of the pile of gas with tunnels of it around his arms. Iroh latched his chains around Geus's neck before he reached his body. All five fingers produced the chainlinks and wrapped around his neck until there was nothing left.

Iroh's eyes didn't watch Geus. It was subtle but his eyes crept around Geus's side. His fingers tensed up and swung around Geus's body. A giant spike made from Geus's gassed up arms curved around with Iroh's swing and jabbed inside Geus's back.

It hurt beyond Geus's original thought. Mixture of heat and powder attempted to destroy his insides. His insides were completely mutated to accept the amount of gas in his system but this still hurt. In the end it was worth it all. The contents from that injection Chisaki gave him felt pure, gave him strength like that phase man from before. Only now he felt he could control the power.

The colors of his eyes changed from purple to white and overpowered his pupil. The intensity that grew had Iroh feel the heat irradiate off of him. He wanted to refuse what his eyes saw. Heat so powerful it melted down the start of his chains.

Nothing was around him but Iroh couldn't move. He felt frozen trapped inside a case of fire. He didn't know what was inside that attack Geus just pulled, only an idea. The power Geus wields was off the charts. Secretly it was just as Iroh had thought. "Pure sulfur." He whispered.

Geus didn't hear him. All that was of concern of his was the absolute power inside of him. He noticed the change of his quirk and rolled with it. It was like a clear layer covered everywhere around him. If Predator was cloaked and only an outline on the screen was over everybody.

He felt no limit to what he was and what he had inside him. The gas flowed out perfectly cool and his oxygen never ran out. "Iron Maiden." Geus increased his flow around Iroh's body.

To the outside eye, random holes appeared throughout Iroh's body. Deep enough to see through the other side and everything inside it. To Geus, his spikes went clean through the stone armor and out the other end.

His actions stopped suddenly. A new person stood in front of him. That blistered and melted skin man that claimed to be Geus from a future of where he kills. He was far more damaged this time with his skin peeling from the entirety of his face. His breathing was a smoker's of huge and rugged inhales and slow and brutal exhales.

"Don't kill him." His cracked voice said.

'The difference between us and them is that we only hurt bad guys.' The girl's voice played inside his mind. 'The world will never learn if they die.'

"You dare mess with mind while you're only one stab away from death." Geus mocked. He increased the flow around his neck and forced Iroh's grip from his neck. He became loose enough to slide right out and float in the air with more gas around his feet. "This is my chance to end everything that holds me back. I can return to my school, return to them! And yet you still try to fuck me up!"

"You can't return as a killer." Iroh coughed and blood splattered onto his chest. In seconds the blood evaporated from Geus's quirk. "It's what we were trying to teach you this whole time."

Geus pulled back his quirk to just be able to hold him down. "You kept me locked up! You took everything I had! Messed up my entire life and you tell me you were helping me!"

Iroh continued to cough up evaporated blood. "I wanted you to be a weapon. Strong enough to guide me up to control even the toughest of villains. With you at my side I could've done anything I wanted and everybody could lean on me. You were just a scrawny kid that needed to learn."

"Why should I believe you! You told me everybody would leave me! That I'd be locked up forever."

"Call it greed. A weapon all to myself." Iroh's head tensed up as he laughed. "Then All For One came to me for you. Could you imagine if I caught him with you? I'd be the leader of all locked up villains. Control them, bring down the crime rate, all the money in the world for my actions. Absolute peace in the world." His face turned to normal. The pain became unbearable at that point. His face became bright red and burned against the air it touched. Nothing he expected from this to happen. "Or don't believe me." His mouth arched up as the skin started to melt down to his bones. "I could just be wanting to get out." The figure behind him disappeared and so did the stone around his body.

'Heroes don't kill. Maybe if you get that in your mind then your quirk will awaken. Then we can be pro heroes together!' The little girl in his mind screamed. Whoever was behind this voice cried through the words. She was scared of whoever she talked to. He couldn't prove the second part, he just placed himself into the role.

He pulled his quirk back and freed Iroh from his prison. "I won't kill you." Through all the pain he endured, he was still able to show what teeth he had through that grin. His body imitated a statue and kept in place. Solid and unmoved. "I'll hurt you so bad that you can't be a villain again. But I won't kill you."

Chisaki got up from his seat and walked up behind Iroh. "It's close enough." His hand pushed through Iroh's skull. Exploding the area he touched and splattered blood everywhere. Blood painted his clothes and covered Geus's face. "You're too much of an asset to kill for now. Do as I say and maybe one day you can return to the world you previously knew."

"With this much power I could easily kill you and leave this place."

"I guess he was right with how dense you are. You really think I'm that stupid to give you that much power and not have a way to take it away?" He patted Geus's cheek and shoved the plague doctor mask into Geus's stomach. "I got a gift for you tomorrow, sleep tight."