Opening File: Team DWMM(Doom)
All though acting in direct opposition to heroes and huntsmen the structure of the Invisible Hand actually mimics how teams of Huntsmen are formed with the members placed in teams of four so they would be always be even and each member would always have a partner. There is team JJIBA(Sheba) led by Jujunga which was one of the first teams formed and there is the more recently formed Team DWMM(Doom).
Leading the team is Drake Sypher, a selfish glory hound only interested in himself who would sell his own mother for the spotlight. His Semblance is Power Transfer that allows him to absorb a specific quality from any person or animal. However, it seems to have to be an intrinsic quality such as a Semblance or an animal's natural speed or strength, not a learned skill. The transfer is reversed if one of his victims touches him again and he cannot mimic the full capabilities of the Semblances he steals, only a small amount but he has somehow learned to artificially enhance them, no doubt thanks to scientists working under Sammael.
Next is Weather Vane, formerly known as Paula Haynes with an Atmokinesis based Semblance allowing her to manipulate all forms of weather. She used her Semblance to get in as the weather reporter, but when she was struck by the very lightning she predicted, she turned evil and her powers were vastly increased. She threatened the entire city of GrimmFall if she was not hailed as the most famous weather girl but was defeated by the Hurricane Sisters and she escaped, vanishing away into the Darklands.
The third member is Mallory 'Mastermind' Casey, a former prodigy who was believed would eventually rise up and earn herself a scholarship in DexLabs. Mallory was working on a project that could amplify brain waves, but her true motive was to drain the intellect from the professors from the academy. She was foiled by fellow scientists Dexter Senior and Wile E. Coyote when they deactivated her machine and turned her over to the police but not before a misfire of energy from the machine caused her head to grow in size. The results gave her a form of Technokinesis which when combined with her own Semblance: Ferrokinesis suited her perfectly.
The final member of the team refers to himself only as Massive, a very large criminal who can control gravity and has a tough body structure that even Dust projectiles cannot penetrate. He started off committing robberies simply to make himself rich and seemingly has a compulsion for this behavior. He is also not shy about this, telling everyone his name right before he robs them.
His gravity based Semblance allows him to control and manipulate the effect of gravity on others and even himself, allowing him to manipulate the mass and motion of objects and people, slam them to the ground or make them light as feather or even levitate himself.
This team is considered extremely dangerous and is recommended that only teams composed of Class IV or V Huntsmen engage them if spotted.
Close File
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"The funny thing about being on a team is that it doesn't make you friends. Sometimes the people in one team can in fact be mortal enemies. Instead of being friends, you could hate each other with no other form of bonding ever happening. However when your life is on the line it doesn't matter if you hate your teammate or not, you work together and get the job done." TOM lectured as the file closed. "Love or hate, as long as you remember what you are supposed to do as a team then too bad."
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"Should we really be doing this? It looks closed."
Hoagie wasn't one for trying to be the safe kid since he dreamed of designing airships like his father one day, but he needed to keep his record clean if he ever hoped to achieve that goal.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Soos called out, him and the others seemingly ignoring Hoagie's question.
"All right, keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious." Dipper said as they started to split up and look over the place.
Wendy took a chance to notice a seemingly disinterested Mabel as she walked past a mountain lion. "Mabel, are you okay? You just walked by a cat without petting it."
"Oh Wendy, everything I look at reminds me of failed romances. That formaldehyde heart. That romantic diorama. Even this poster of my most recent ex-crush." She pulled down a poster of Gabe, revealing a poster of Sev'ral Timez. "Aw, come on!"
"So your last memory was here. Anything coming back?" Dipper questioned McGucket.
"Guys, look!" Soos pointed down the hall, spotting a shadowy figure running away.
"Who is that?" Hoagie asked, forgetting his previous concern out of possible excitement.
They ran after the figure and into a room filled with depictions of eyes.
"Well kettle my corn. He vanish-ified." McGucket exclaimed.
"It doesn't make sense. Where did he go?" Dipper shook his head in confusion.
"Maybe a secret passageway." Hoagie suggested, earning everyone's eyes on him. "What? We're investigating a mystery. It can happen."
"I feel like all these eyeballs are a-watchin' me." McGucket shrank back from all the eyes.
"Wait..." Dipper spoke up, tracing the path of every eye in the room, leading straight to McGucket. "They are! Move aside."
The eccentric old man moved as told and revealed a stone tablet with an eye marking similar to one Dipper had seen in the journal. Dipper pushed it and stepped back as the wall peeled back to reveal a dark stair case leading down.
"Holy Glob, a secret passageway!" Hoagie exclaimed. "Just like in the comics."
"We'll have to be stealthy. I'll hambone a message if there's trouble." McGucket slapped his arms and legs.
"I have no idea what that means." Dipper said with a frown.
The group went down the stairs, reaching the bottom where a strange ominous chanting was heard down a narrow corridor.
"Novus ordo seclorum. Novus ordo seclorum."
The group came upon a crimson curtain with the chanting coming from behind it. They peeked out behind the curtain, looking inside to see a large room lit by candles lining along the walls. In the center of the room was a single leather chair with straps surrounded by a group who happened to be the ones to have been chanting the whole time. They were crimson floor length robes with hoods hiding their identities.
The chant ended as one of them stepped out and held out his hands, silencing the group. "Who is the subject of our meeting?"
"This woman." An elderly blindfolded woman was brought into the room.
"Lazy Susan?" Mabel whispered in confusion, sharing a look with the others at why she could have been here.
The leader had Lazy Susan placed in the chair. "What is it you have seen?"
"Speak!" The group chorused.
"Uh, well, uh, I was leaving the diner, and I saw these little bearded doodads, and I was, like, 'Bwaaa?'" The woman answered nervously.
"There, there." The leader opened a wooden box and pulled out a strange device, resembling some sort of ray gun as the members pulled down their hoods. "You won't be like 'Bwaaa?' for much longer."
"What is that gizmo? It looks like a hair dryer. Are you guys barbers?" The Leader pulled the trigger and fired an electric blast at her, hitting her straight on the forehead. "AAAAAH!"
When it was over Lazy Susan was calm, her eyes blinking slowly and unevenly.
"Lazy Susan, what do you know of little bearded men?" The leader asked.
"My mind is cleared, thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye." Lazy Susan said robotically.
"It is unseen!" The group proclaimed triumphantly.
"Oh my gosh. They erased Lazy Susan's memory." Dipper exclaimed quietly. "Guys, are you seeing this? They just wiped Lazy Susan's memory!"
"They should've wiped off that awful mascara." Soos commented jokingly.
"I think she looks beautiful!" Mabel retorted.
"She's doing the best she can, Soos!" Wendy scolded.
"Don't be mean!" Grenda added.
"She's pretty!" Candy finished.
"Whoa, touched a nerve there." Soos looked away fearfully.
"Lazy Susan, how do you feel?" The leader asked as Susan was led away.
"I feel great! I can't even remember what was wrong, or what I'm doing here, or if I'm a man or a woman!"
"Your memories will be safe with us, buried in the Hall of the Forgotten." The leader removed a tube from the memory erasing gun, and wrote Susan's name on it.
"Into the Hall of the Forgotten. Into the Hall of the Forgotten." The group chanted before dispersing.
"Good chanting, boys. Have you been practicing?" The leader asked. "Meeting adjourned."
"Unsee you later."
"Unsee you later!" The group echoed.
"Wow. So this is what you guys do."
The robed members and the intruders spotted the speaker as two girls came out of the shadows, one hands on her hips.
"Who is that?" Dipper whispered.
"It's Juniper. She's been up here for a little while." Wendy answered, remaining quiet.
Juniper Lee and her friend Lila stared down the members of the Blind Eye as they gathered together, facing the intruders.
"Juniper Lee, the Te Xuan Ze." The leader spoke in amusement. "I figured you would find us eventually and I see you brought backup this time."
Lila made one stomp on the ground and the entire room shook with small pieces falling from the ceiling. Dipper and his friends barely managed to keep themselves from falling over and revealing their presence.
"You guys tried to hurt my friend." Lila said angrily. "I promise you will not get another chance."
"Hmm…" The leader mused and chuckled. "Very well. We have a chance to remove another threat anyways. Members of the Blind Eye…Unsee them!"
June smirked and cracked her knuckles. "Come and get me, boys."
Something on her feet clicked and she shot up into the air, somersaulting as she landed right in front of the group members and slammed her fist into the ground, sending a shockwave through the room. The Blind Eye members dodged, jumping back while one actually jumped up and landed behind June. The Te Xuan Ze spun around, aiming a punch at the robed man but he back flipped, landing on his hands and quickly dropped and rolled, swinging around on his hands and crashed his feet into June's legs. June let out a yelp as she started to fall but Lila jumped in and grabbed June, pulling her away and back up to her feet.
"Thanks, Lila." June said as she stood up.
"No problem." Lila spun around, spotting an incoming familiar wrecking ball and lashed out with a spinning kick.
Her large foot and the ball collided, creating a powerful shockwave that caused cracks to appear along the ground. The wrecking ball flew back to its owner while Lila lowered her foot that was shaking a bit.
"Lila, are you okay?" June asked.
"I'm fine." Lila answered, offering a small smile. "My foot just feels a little numb but I'm all right."
"Good because we're not done yet." June said as the robed figure that had kicked her down landed in front of them and took his hood off, revealing short brown hair and glasses with a long mustache and three freckles near the top of his head which was covered by a hat.
"Toby Determined?" Wendy and Soos whispered in shock.
The one with the wrecking ball took his hood off next, revealing a dark skinned man and many tattoos that related to parts of the boy. For example, there was a tattoo that said 'HEAD' on his forehead, a tattoo that said 'CHIN' on his chin, and on the back of his neck there is one that said 'NECK.' He also had a nose piercing and unibrow.
"Tats?"
Another one took off their hood, revealing an elderly man with grey hair and a moustache.
"Woodpecker Guy? I wonder how his marriage is going." Soos wondered.
"The two of you are strong, I can see that." The leader stated as the three advanced on June and Lila. "But you are heavily outnumbered."
"Just more for us to smash down." June replied as she and Lila got ready to fight.
"Take them alive. We'll take their memories and see what secrets she has." The leader ordered.
The fight started again as Toby Determined preformed several dance maneuvers and as he raised his feet, both spotted projectiles shooting from the tips of his feet they quickly dodged. Woodpecker Guy chased after Lila while Tats and Toby Determined faced June.
"This is going to be awesome to watch." Soos brought up his phone and pressed 'Record'.
"Seriously, Soos?" Wendy rolled her eyes.
From the back of Woodpecker Guy sprouted what appeared to be metallic red wings that spread down his arms with the 'feathers' extremely sharp and pointy at the end, with armored gauntlets covering his arms up to his hands.
"Whoa!" Mabel marveled in awe. "Are they Huntsmen?"
"Huntsmen don't erase memories." Dipper replied.
Woodpecker Guy pointed behind him and there was blast that sent him flying straight at Lila who spun out of the way and as he slashed at her with his right 'wing' Lilia spun and kicked it away with her leg. Luckily she had her Aura to protect her and her Sasquatch inheritance made her more durable than an ordinary human's. Lila backed away as Woodpecker Guy brought the flat of his other 'wing' to slam it into her. She kicked the ground and brought up a large piece of it to block the next incoming slash aimed at her head.
Woodpecker Guy grunted but smirked as his 'wings' flashed and slashed through the shield Lila made to stop him. "My Semblance allows me to cut through anything my weapon touches. Bad idea to try and use a shield."
Eyes widening, Lila hastily fell back, losing only a few strands of hair instead of her entire head. Woodpecker Guy was almost on top of her, slashing at her with both 'wings' and she hastily fell to the floor to dodge. Woodpecker Guy slashed at her again but Lila rolled away, tucking her legs and rolled onto her hands before she launched herself over Woodpecker Guy and slammed her feet into the ceiling. The strength of her feet was enough to crack the ceiling and as she kicked pieces of debris fell onto Woodpecker Guy who used his wings to cover his face while using his Semblance to slice through any debris that fell on him.
"She's good." Wendy admitted, impressed with how Lila was handling herself.
In the meantime June was busy with Tats and Toby as they cornered her. June recognized the weapon Tats was using and knew he was one of the two who tried to kill her in the last fight and she had only one thing to say to him. "Nice tattoos."
"Nice hair style." Tats replied, gesturing to her pink strand. "Why pink?"
"Family thing." June answered, settling into a fighting stance. "This is going to hurt."
"Yes. It is." Tats agreed and through his wrecking ball at June.
However the Te Xuan Ze surprised him by performing a spinning kick. Something fired from the sole of her boot and collided with his wrecking ball, sending it flying right back at him. Tats moved aside, allowing it to fly past him while he kept his eyes on June who rolled up her pants to reveal what had happened.
June was sporting small but powerful ankle Dust launchers fitted to her lower legs in such a way that the barrels lined up with her ankles, meaning that any kick she launched would be the equivalent of a point-blank shot from a shotgun firing high power Dust rounds.
"Meet my weapon: Burning Flower." She smirked and let her pant legs back down.
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Professor Pericles watched with interest as the Blind Eye members faced down the Te Xuan Ze. "This is getting very interesting."
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"Targets have been spotted. They are in the park."
"Excellent. We will approach them once it has been confirmed they are alone."
"What of the others?"
"They are of no consequence. Proceed."
"Understood."
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Abby sighed as she leaned against a tree, taking a break from training with Kenny and the others. It wasn't rough by any means and Abby had been training hard since she was little but being in this park brought back some memories.
The day Nigel had nearly died protecting her.
She remembered it clearly, picturing the Grimm that had cornered her only to be end up frozen by Nigel who froze himself along with it to protect her. It had been from that day forward Abby vowed that no one she cared about would ever be hurt protecting her again and no one would have to suffer because of her. She had lost too many people now and she never wanted to lose anyone again. She trained how to use her Aura and Semblance, she worked to discover what kind of powers came with being the Candy Elemental and she put herself through the rigorous training Wally had already been going through to become the greatest of Huntsmen.
All to protect herself and the people closest to her.
"Good afternoon, Miss Lincoln."
Eyes widening in shock Abby spun around, spotting a boy that had managed to sneak up close enough to be within a few feet of her. Abby had also trained to use her enhanced senses granted to her by her Faunus heritage that included enhanced hearing, sight and smell.
So how did this weird kid sneak up on her?
The boy was strange, even by Abby's standards considering all she had seen. He wore a green trench coat over a green shirt and black tie with black pants and shoes. He had pale green hair that partly covered his right eye and strange bright green glasses with black rims. He was simply staring at her, remaining still as a statue.
"Uh…Do I know you?" Abby asked slowly, her senses screaming danger to her.
"No you do not but I know you." The boy answered, remanding still as he stared at her with not a shred of emotion one would find on a boy his age. "Abigail Lincoln, race: Faunus, parents: deceased, older brother: deceased, older sister: missing, surrogate daughter of Monty and Jennifer Uno and current Candy Elemental."
Abby's eyes widened in shock as the boy basically told her that he knew one of her deepest secret. "How do you know that?"
"It says so in your file." The boy answered simply.
"My file?"
"Everyone has a file." The boy said just as cold and stoically. "My people have known about you and Nigel Uno's status as the Elementals of Ice and Candy for quite some time now. We've had time to learn about you."
"We?" Abby questioned, working to keep herself calm.
"My people, dedicated to the protection of the world." The boy continued. "Much like the Elementals if I am not mistaken."
"Maybe you are." Abby frowned. "Maybe you are just a kid trying to scare me. I find it hard to believe they employ kids as secret agents."
"Unlikely and I assure you I am more than qualified. My name is Francis." The boy replied, finally introducing himself.
"Francis? Is that even a real name?" Abby probed, getting ready to make a run for it.
"It is real enough and I suggest you don't try running, Miss Lincoln. My people have surrounded the park and we know the location of your companions." Francis said, seeing through Abby's tactic to stall for time.
Abby scowled. "What do you want?"
"To recruit you and Nigel and train you to stand against the greatest threats the world has even known: the Fallen." Francis answered, watching Abby's shocked reaction. "Yes, you know of the Fallen. Specifically one of them: Sammael."
Abby stiffened.
"We know of Sammael, we know of the threat he represents and we know eventually he will come for you, Nigel and the other Elementals as well. He needs the four of you to locate objects of great power. If he finds them the world will be in great danger." Francis continued. "I assume you wish to prevent that. We can provide you what you need to stop him."
"…What makes you think you can help me?" Abby asked slowly.
"We can provide you the training you need to fully master your Elemental powers as well as offer to ensure your surrogate family is isolated and protected from all threats." Francis answered.
Abby scowled. "Isolated and protected huh? Sounds more like a prison."
"Quite the opposite. My people can hide you from the Fallen until you are ready to face them in open combat. You may believe them to be dangerous but it is much worse than that. Fallen can live for thousands of years, they can survive wounds that would kill an ordinary human and their powers are likely equal to even that of the Elementals. Sammael is not just one Fallen, he is a Majesty Class Fallen." Francis took a few steps forward, stopping when he saw Abby take a step back. "That means he has mastered all of his powers which match the power of every Grimm in existence. Can you say for certain that you will be ever ready to face him?"
Abby stared at the boy who had kept what was likely the perfect poker face the entire time he had been speaking. She knew Sammael and the other Fallen were dangerous and she knew they would be after her eventually. She needed the time to properly master her powers, to learn how to fight like a real Huntress and to be ready for when they came again.
But did that mean she should trust this boy that had just showed up out of nowhere?
She wanted to protect her friends and the people she considered family.
But did that mean she would force them to be moved by some sort of secret agency to who knows where?
She needed to be ready to take on anyone.
But did that mean entrusting hers and Nigel's lives to a secret group?
She knew she needed to trust her instincts as she had come to learn over the years and right now her instincts said…
"No." Abby shook her head, facing Francis with conviction in her eyes. "Thanks kid but I am not about to trust a bunch of strangers with my life or the lives of my friends and family. I'll be ready when Sammael comes for me and I won't let anyone be taken because of me."
"Your wishes are respected, Miss Lincoln." Francis said neutrally. "But we can't accept it."
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"Isn't this sad? You leave for Nowhere and come back reeking with the stench of failure."
Jujanga remained composed as he meditated, blocking out the unwelcome noise of the recent arrivals as they sought to mock him.
Pitiful fools.
"Too bad we weren't sent to get the girl. She'd be back here long ago." A giant shadow towered over Jujanga who kept his eyes closed. "Hello? Anyone home?"
"Just leave him to wallow in his misery. I am sure the boss will be more than happy to make him feel worse." The apparent leader of the team snickered.
"So why did he call us here?" One of them, a woman asked.
"Who cares? I just hope there will be a lot of loot involved." The large hulking man replied. "It's been too long since I have had the chance to do something fun."
"Perhaps we're finally going after the Justice Friends or maybe even having the chance to blast GrimmFall off the maps." The woman suggested.
"Then we better see what he wants." The final member, a younger woman suggested. "I have machines to make and plans for revenge to hatch."
The four members laughed as they left the room, leaving Jujanga alone as he opened his eyes. "Team DWMM…More like Team Doomed."
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Name: Tats
Aura: Grey
Weapon: Geodite Wrecking Ball
Semblance: Shockwave Impact
Description: Even if his weapon misses Tats can use his Semblance to hurt his enemies even if he misses. Once it hits the ground the impact releases a shockwave that heavily damages anything it touches.
Name: Woodpecker Guy
Aura: Light Red
Weapon: Lady Woodpecker
Description: An armored jetpack with red metal wings that goes down the arms to act his weapons and allows him to fly.
Semblance: Razor Attack
Description: Allows his weapons to slash through anything no matter how strong or durable.
Name: Juniper Lee
Aura: Forest Green
Weapon: Burning Flower
Description: Ankle Dust launchers fitted to her legs that allows her to fire high powered Dust rounds any direction she aims her feet.
Semblance: N/A
