Opening File: Grappulator
The man who would one day become Grappulator was a young inmate in a prison that was chosen for an experiment known as Project: Titan being conducted by a Secret Military Organization led by General Specific. He was put through a brutal training program along with the other inmates to ensure he would be in peak physical condition. During his training he secretly had his Aura unlocked and later his Semblance thanks to one of the older inmates being a disgraced Hunter and would sneak any kind of book into his cell, reading them at night when he was sure no guards were watching and sought other prisoners out to learn anything he could. His Semblance to the shock of himself and his fellow inmates was regeneration, allowing him to heal from almost virtually anything.
This made him the perfect candidate for Project: Titan.
He was placed inside a high tech combat suit with neuro-muscular amplification to enhance his strength, agility and endurance tenfold and the drug known as Scourge enhanced his physical mass, muscles, stamina and Aura to inhuman levels while his Semblance allowed him to actually survive the experiment. With his new strength he eventually broke free, tearing the prison down with his bare hands and disappeared. Despite his newfound strength he was horribly addicted to the Scourge and though his Semblance could eventually heal the worst of the effects, even possible brain damage, he ensured that no one knew how to make the drug aside from him.
He eventually joined the Injustice Friends and became a dangerous enemy to the Justice friends.
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Opening File: Scourge
A top secret steroid developed by a Secret Military Organization under the command of General Specific that grants super strength and physical endurance. It is made through a combination of specific types of Dust, chemicals and artificial growth hormones that only Grappulator himself knows how to make. However like many drugs and steroids it has addictive effects and long term usage cause significant body degradation and possibly brain damage until the user's system fatally collapses. Grappulator is the only known user and survivor of the steroid due the fact that his Semblance is regeneration, along with his peak physical condition and will power.
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Opening File: Bertha the Barbarian
The woman who would one day become Bertha the Barbarian was born in a tribe of bandits in the northern islands that Berk was said to be among. In the time since Berk's fall, multiple tribes inhabited the islands, isolated from the rest of the world and yet fought off the Grimm for centuries. Bertha was the daughter of the chief of her tribe and she learned how to fight at a very young age, raised with survivalist mentality: the strong live and the weak die which she understood and lived by. One day her tribe was destroyed by an unknown enemy with her as the only survivor, having been sent out on a raid.
With the death of her tribe and family Bertha vowed to become stronger, leaving her home to travel the world. She learned about the Hunters and wanted to become strong enough to fight and even kill them, seeking out only the strongest to fight against. One day she met a man dressed in red who challenged her with the condition if she lost she would join his group. Believing she would die before losing she accepted but even for all her strength and skill she lost to this man who was more powerful than anyone she had ever met.
Coming to believe she was weak and yet was bound by her word she joined this man, becoming a member of the Injustice Friends and soon found what she had been looking for. She fought against the Justice Friends and their allies, finding the strong opponents she had wanted to fight. Bertha the Barbarian is one of the strongest warriors in the world and lives for battle.
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Opening File: Shoko
According to Shoko herself, she was mutilated and abandoned by her parents at a young age, which resulted in her taking the path of a common criminal. She supposedly only has one arm because her parents sold her right arm before dropping her at a dojo to give her fighting skills. Her parents never returned to the dojo; thus, Shoko was left without any parents or guardians. She later befriended a tiger and the two began to roam the world in search of work.
Despite only having her left arm, Shoko is a skilled fighter; able to take on fully trained Huntsmen with surprising ease. She accredited this to her time training at a dojo during her youth after her parents left her there and never came back. Shoko is also a capable thief, being able to sneak into the most heavily guarded facilities with ease and has pulled off many high profile burglaries with no one able to identify her.
Due to her parent's neglect and her lack of a proper upbringing, Shoko has a warped view of morality and common sense. She is also indifferent about criminal activity, such as stealing, as long as she would be paid with coin. Despite her near lack of morality Shoko avoids killing in almost all circumstances and has a good relationship with her pet tiger showing she is not completely heartless.
Only time will tell what is in store for her.
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Opening File: Gem of Sight
The Gem of Sight is one of the Spiral Gems and one of the manifestations of the twelve powers gifted to the universe by the Six-Founding Spiral. The Gem of Sight came from the Azure Guardian of Time and Space but is also believed to have actually been created long before the universe as we know it was created, existing as the Eye of Cronus. Whoever holds this Gem gains the ability to see both the future and past in anyone or anything the wielder sees and also gains cosmic awareness. There are likely other abilities this gem grants but none have been recorded.
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"Addiction is the greatest power drugs and steroids have over their victims. No matter how good you might feel you'll eventually become so addicted you lose all sense of control. Trying to fight addiction is difficult, going through long hours of painful withdrawal and even then it is never clear if you have truly defeated the addiction or not." TOM remarked as the files closed. "All you can do is hope you never touch the drugs again."
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"Unbelievable."
To say Shoji Fuzen was upset was an understatement. An entire shipment of equipment left out for the police to find thanks to the Hibagon, Genki Sanban and those interlopers she had with her. They were skilled enough that even with his Azure Samurai battle armor it wasn't enough.
However that did not mean he was giving up.
"I want all the guards armed and ready. The creature will not be far behind." Fuzen ordered as he walked into his office. "And where is the thief?"
"You called?"
Fuzen spun around, unsheathing his katana and pointing directly at Shoko who was sitting in his office, her tiger at her side who growled at him. "Where were you?"
"When it looked like you had everything under control I saw no reason to stick around. I was only being paid to track that monster, not fight against a team of Hunters." Shoko explained dryly. "I am only here to collect my pay."
"It was agreed you would have payment after I have the creature." Fuzen retorted spitefully. "I do not pay those who do not deliver!"
Shoko narrowed her eyes as she stood up, her tiger ready to pounce. "You think you can scare me with the fancy armor of yours?"
Fuzen smirked. "I could ask the same for your tiger." He lowered his sword. "Fortunately I still have use for you."
Shoko placed a hand on her tiger's head. "Oh?"
"The creature will be coming after me and Sanban not far behind. I will not be taken quietly and I plan to settle my score with them both." Fuzen sheathed his sword. "Your assignment is the same, capture the creature and bring it to me alive. Leave the rest to me."
"Make sure you have my technos ready for me." Shoko retorted, walking past Fuzen, followed by her tiger. "Or my tiger will have an extra-large meal."
Fuzen narrowed his eyes. "We will see, thief."
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The battle in Independence Mall continued to rage between the members of the Injustice Friends and the few Justice Friends and the Hunters that were present. Comrade Red had chosen to go after Major Glory, leaving the rest to fight their respective opponents. With the arrival of Capital G, the tide slowly turned in the hero side's favor as he quickly knocked away Grappulator and proceeded to help the others along with White Tiger. Action Hank revealed a rod that extended into a large battle axe and held it in front of him as Bertha the Barbarian charged at him.
Their weapons clashed, producing a small shockwave before they pulled back and attacked again, Bertha slashing with her scimitar against Hank's battle axe. Bertha eventually head-butted Hank, knocking him back and slashed at him but Hank dodged and fought back. They clashed again, moving so fast that they were complete blurs to the naked eye. Each blow produced a shockwave as they clashed, becoming more and more intense.
As they fought an insane grin slowly appeared on Bertha's face, showing she was enjoying the fight. She eventually grabbed Hank by the shirt, lifting him up and threw him to the ground hard, only to pick him up and slam him down again. Hank grunted, his Aura protecting him as he got back up. As Bertha charged at him he crossed blades with her again. The two seemed evenly matched at first before Hank eventually slashed Bertha, making her skid back.
Bertha grunted but her smile remained. "This is what I have been waiting for. A fight with a worthy opponent."
She viciously slashed at him, forcing him on the defensive as he stepped back, hastily blocking and it seemed like he was about to lose…
Until he dropped his axe as they clashed.
Bertha stumbled forward and Hank grabbed her, punching her repeatedly in the face. She dropped her sword and like she did with him Hank lifted her up and slammed her into the ground over and over again before finally throwing into a nearby wall. Bertha grunted as she slowly climbed to her feet. She looked up, ready for more but Action Hank was done with her.
He jumped up, aiming a kick to her face that she dodged. Hank's foot shattered the wall and he pulled it back before Bertha could cut it off with her blade. Bertha spun and aimed her sword at Hank's face but the Hunter was more than done with her and decided to end things now. To her immense shock, his beard extended out, forming into a fist that swat Bertha's sword aside and then slugged her right in the face.
Hank then followed up with a series of punches and kicks, tearing away at Bertha's Aura until it broke and he delivered a single blow that knocked her out, sending her flying up and then crashing into the ground.
"That's one down." Hank commented, leaving the unconscious barbarian behind to help out the others. "Time to end this party."
Meanwhile Wally was with Fergle O'Reilly and both were preoccupied with the flying menace known as Dr. Diablos. Since he was young, Wally's uncle Lou Beatles had trained him so he could be prepared to become a real Hunter. The training was long and vigorous, conditioning his body to peak physical level and took it even further, learning how to 'jump good' as Uncle Lou called it which involved attaching heavy rocks to his body and making him preform various exercise in order to strengthen his muscles until he was ready to 'jump good'. Wallabee Beatles represented the pinnacle of human physical ability possible for his age, with his physical characteristics greater than that of even an Olympic level athlete.
He had been engaged in fights with kids in his home country of Australia and began agility training at the earliest age, and continued to engage in intense regular rigorous exercises with his uncle to keep himself in peak condition. He was arguable the strongest kid in his entire school with only his friends, Nigel and Abby able to take him on and even then they relied on their agility and cunning rather than strength to defeat him.
If one were to look up the definition of a 'one-man army' in a dictionary they would likely see a picture of Wallabee Beatles.
And he showed it as he smashed his fists into Diablo's face three times before the villain furiously threw him off, slamming him onto the ground. Diablo raised his foot to crush the young Faunus but Wally rolled out of the way.
"Leave him alone!" Dee-Dee shouted as Koosie charged at the villain.
The Fire Dust embedded in his clothing ignited, covering the supervillain head to toe in flames. He punched Koosie in the torso, the Fire Dust creating an explosion that knocked the imaginary creation back.
"Pathetic!" Dr. Diablos spat, picking Koosie up by the tail and flung him around before smashing him into the ground, followed by the wall and then tossed him up into the ceiling. "I have fought Huntsmen, Grimm and even stood my ground against Major Glory himself. Even a Semblance with the power over imagination itself is no match for me!"
Wally stood back up, his Aura manifesting as orange fire. "I've heard it all before! You're just another big talker that spits crud out of his mouth."
Dr. Diablos growled, balling his hands into fists.
"Kid, you are crazy." Fergle whispered, watching Wally provoke the supervillain.
Wally picked up anything he could grab and threw them at Dr. Diablos who just shrugged them off and grabbed Wally's face.
"Child, you are perhaps the greatest suicidal fool I have ever met." The villain said before he smashed Wally into the ground again.
He then stomped Wally on the torso with his armored foot several times but it only seemed to make Wally stronger as he grabbed the foot and his hands burned so hot that Diablos actually felt his foot burn despite the armor designed to protect him. He attempted to jump back but Wally jumped up and lunged at him, punching him several times in the face. Diablos let out a roar as he grabbed Wally's fist and slammed the boy down into the ground again.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!" Diablos shouted as he slammed the blond Faunus into the ground several times, each impact hard enough that cracks formed around the boy. Finally he held Wally's limp form up by the wrist and smirked. "You think you had a chance, child?!"
He tossed Wally across the mall and up so high he smashed into the ceiling and fell onto the upper floor.
"Now then," Diablos turned to Dee-Dee and her uncle. "Where was I?"
Dee-Dee bravely stood in front of her exhausted uncle. "Do not take another step."
"Dee-Dee, run." Fergle ordered, gathering the last bit of his Aura to hold the villain off.
"No. I am not letting this bully hurt you or anyone else." Dee-Dee replied to which Dr. Diablos simply laughed.
"Another child who fancies themselves a hero?" Diablos shook his head. "They just never learn, do they?"
Wally growled as he stood back up, his orange flames reactivated and burning brighter than ever as he jumped off the upper floor and fell back down to the fight. "Who said we had to learn?"
Diablos looked up, just in time to see Wally rear his fist back and then slam it right into the villain's face. Dr. Diablos was knocked right off his feet and was slammed right into the ground so hard he formed a crater.
"Is that all you got?!" Wally stood up, looking very proud despite his bruises and torn clothing and was possibly exhausted to the point he was about to collapse. "Those punks I beat up back in Australia were tougher than you and it was a hundred on four back then for me!"
"Uh…Don't you mean like twenty five on one or something like that?" Dee-Dee asked, wondering what her fellow blond was being taught in school.
"Meh, whatever." Wally shrugged.
Dr. Diablos opened his eyes and let out an enraged roar as he stood up. "ENOUGH OF THIS! I AM DONE PLAYING AROUND!"
"So am I." Fergle said, pointing both hands at the villain. "Yawa thiw uoy!"
Diablos was suddenly lifted off the ground and thrown up into the ceiling, slamming through it and colliding with the energy shield surrounding the mall. The villain let out a scream as he slammed into the shield and fell to the ground, losing consciousness on impact.
"And stay out." Fergle sighed, falling to his knees.
"Uncle Fergle!" Dee-Dee ran over to her exhausted uncle, kneeling beside him. "Are you all right?"
"I am all right, dearie." Fergle smiled. "Just been a while since I have been in such a big fight is all. Really exhausting."
Dee-Dee smiled as she hugged her uncle. "You are so tough."
"I know, love. I know."
Wally sighed and fell onto his back, staring up at the ceiling. "Nigel and Abby have no idea what they are missing."
Hector Con Carne watched as his soldiers aimed and shot at the enlarged Capital G who used his Size Alteration Semblance to grow into a giant that was sixteen feet tall and with one swipe of his hand he knocked all the grunts down.
The brain spotted Grappulator emerge from the nearby ruined store he had been thrown into. "Grappulator, take him down!"
The villain looked at Capital G, nodding as he held up his wrist and pressed a button. The tubes connecting to his body started pumping Scourge into his bloodstream and he let out a roar as his muscles and mass grew in size until he was nearly as big as Capital G. Before he finished his transformation he swung an uppercut into Capital G's face, knocking the size altering hero back and causing him to crush several objects underfoot before he regained his balance. When Grappulator came in for a second hit Capital G caught the blow on his forearm and redirected it before he grabbed onto Grappulator and swung him around, using his own momentum to slam him into the nearest wall headfirst…several times.
Hector gave a long suffering sigh. "Team up with the Injustice Friends, they told me. It will make everything easier they told me! Pheh. Forget this: I'm going back to basics. Control Freak! Emergency warp for myself and Dr. Ghastly."
"What about Big Red and his pals?" Control Freak asked.
"Their precious plan has gone belly-up, and I'm not going to stick around so that even more heroes and huntsmen can show up." Hector declared.
"Wasn't this whole thing your plan-"
"It was a collaborative effort!" Hector cut him off. "Don't you know that when things go wrong the practical thing to do is blame the partner?"
"Ohhhhh supervillain handbook, chapter six: damage control! I like it." A portal opened up beneath Hector and engulfed him. "One emergency warp coming right up for you and Herr Doctor."
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Just as Callie Briggs handcuffed Ghastly a portal appeared under her and she fell into it. "Oh great! Typical."
Not too far away, as he clashed with Sebben General Skarr noticed Ghastly vanishing into the portal. "So the brain's calling her back and most likely running away as well."
"I see you are not exactly priority, general." Sebben commented.
"No matter." Skarr pulled back, twirling his sword. "So, did you use your special eye to anticipate this attack?"
"Surprisingly no but I used it after I got word." Sebben answered. "Someone sold you out."
"Someone…" Skarr smirked. "It was Comrade Red, wasn't it? He didn't like the idea that someone else was being assigned to kill Major Glory other than him."
"It does make sense." Sebben agreed. "He would never allow anyone else the honor of killing the major other than himself."
"Well, like I said no matter." Skarr shrugged, grinning eagerly now. "I prefer to have this chance to kill you and then take your eye, the Eye of Cronus for myself. Won't Sammael be impressed that I managed to acquire one of the twelve Spiral Gems. You hold the Gem of Sight which allows you to see the future doesn't it?"
Sebben remained silent.
"Yes, I heard the Gem of Sight can be used to see through earth, cloud, shadow, flesh and even time. You're a Spiral Wielder, which makes you high priority right next to Major Glory himself." Skarr continued, his sword morphing into its rifle form. "So, can see what I am going to do next? Can you see my future? Or maybe you can only use it at certain times and you have to keep it covered when you are not using it."
He pointed his rifle at Sebben.
"So what good is it in a fight?"
Sebben closed his eye for a second. "You only need one eye to see how this going to end."
Skarr pulled the trigger.
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The departure of Con Carne did not go unnoticed.
"Oi! That weird bear with the talking jar on its head just took off!" Wally said as he, Dee-Dee and Fergle took cover just off to the side from where Capital G and Grappulator were still exchanging blows.
"Seems the rats are abandonin' ship already." Fergle observed. "But we've still got Comrade Red and his lot to deal with and they're not exactly known for cutting and running."
"Oh! Idea!" Dee-Dee looked down at Wally. "Did you ever play Baseball?"
"No, but I majored in dodge ball." Wally replied as Koosie's shadow fell over him. "Uh…why are you guys looking at me like that?"
A few seconds later he had his answer.
Grappulator succeeded in sweeping his opponent off his feet and slamming Capital G down into the floor where he began to lay blow after blow into the pinned hero's face. But as he reared back for a fifth punch he was hit in the side by a flying…Wallabee Beatles.
"Hiiiii-YAH!" Wally shouted, slamming both of his feet into Grappulator and launching him across the mall…right towards where Mental Mouse was hiding behind Von Hellen as the latter tried to fend off White Tiger.
"Seriously, of all the super hero motifs why did you have to go for a-" Mental Mouse paused and loked up to see Grappulator falling towards them. "…oh no. Not again." He opened a tiny umbrella and held it overhead before the giant crashed down, pinning both of his team mates under his weight while White Tiger leapt on top and held up a thumb towards Wally and Dee-Dee.
"Oh man, three-for-one!" Wally said. "That was a pretty awesome plan!"
"Aw you." Dee-Dee picked him up in a hug, causing the boy to blush deeply.
"We aren't done yet, youngins'." Fergle said.
"Yeah, we still need to take care of the others." Capital G said, rubbing his bruised face. "And where's Krunk?!"
White Tiger pointed off to one side…towards the food court, where the familiar purple mass of Krunk could be seen at an ice cream parlour with…
"You're kidding me." Capital G stared. "Whole mall is under attack and Krunk goes out on a date? With the She-Thing?!"
"Eh…love knows no bounds?" Fergle shrugged with a smile. "Better datin' than smashin', right?"
"So who does that leave?" Wally asked, released from the confines of Dee-Dee's arms. "The red guy?"
"Went underground with Glory. He can handle it." Capital G said. "We're all done up here."
"That's it? We aren't going to help?" Dee-Dee asked.
"Trust me little lady, the Major never loses to that guy." Capital G said, shrinking back down to normal size. "You know, officially I'm not supposed to be letting kids help, but…I think maybe the Major might be interested in talking to you two after this. You handled yourselves out there, and you did a pretty good job too. So, off the record: great job Huntsmen."
Both children's faces lit up as they exchanged grins.
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Major Glory smashed Blight through the wall of an abandoned subway tunnel, far enough blow the surface that the radiation emitted from Blight would not affect anyone. Blight swatted the major and blasted him away with a stream of concentrated radiation. The Major's Freedom Armor protected him from the radiation and he charged forward, the two locking into a tight hold. A blue aura surrounded Blight and he tossed Major Glory over his shoulder.
Major Glory quickly recovered and blocked the punches aimed at his head and countered with an uppercut and kicked Blight away. The radioactive villain hit the ground but he recovered and grabbed the major, slamming him into the ground.
"You think you can beat me?!" Blight laughed as he tossed Major Glory away. "I control radiation in all forms. I feed off of it and now I have an unlimited supply! I will bathe the entire planet in radiation, creating my own paradise!"
Blight stomped over to the finish the Major off but Glory stood up, firing his shoulder cannons that slammed right into Blight, blasting him into the wall on the other side of the tunnel. Glory stood up, watching as Blight slid onto the ground, grunting as the part of the wall he impacted melted from the sheer radioactive heat of his body. Blight lunged at Glory, knocking him over and pounded on the armor in an attempt to crack it open. Glory grabbed Blight's arms and pulled him down, head-butting the villain with enough force to send him flying into the ceiling.
Blight fell back down towards the ground where the Major was waiting.
"That's enough of this." Glory deactivated his armor and took a deep breath…
And blew, releasing an icy gust that froze the entire tunnel and Blight was directly hit by, blasted down the tunnel that quickly froze up as a result of the Major's icy breath.
"That will not hold him for long." Glory muttered, staring down the icy tunnel. "I need to get a containment team down here."
"You have other business first."
Narrowing his eyes, Major Glory turned and spotting Comrade Red standing a few feet behind. "Comrade Red."
"Major Glory." The leader of the Injustice Friends grinned at his heroic counterpart. "I see Carne's pet failed. No surprise. I told him it was folly."
"As folly as launching an attack in daylight, in the middle of GrimmFall, right in front of me?" Major Glory retorted. "You are usually more careful."
"Now how can you say that to the one who made sure that there would be no unnecessary casualties?" Red chuckled. "Sebben, Action Hank and the other heroes that were lying in wait. How did they know to be here?"
"You called them? You sold out your own client?" Glory raised an eyebrow. "And why would you do that?"
"I am a soldier, not a monster, even if my comrades and I sometimes work for monsters. Hector Con Carne cared only killing you and the radiation from his pet would have surely led to a great many deaths if anyone was left alive by the fighting." Comrade Red shrugged. "After all, this was all about you, Major Glory. It's always been about you. Crushing you for the world to see so the world will know who will be ruling it."
"That's yet to be decided." Major Glory replied, seeing the conversation was at an end. "If a fight is what you seek, I will oblige you."
"Yes, you will."
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Name: William Owens
Alias: Action Hank
Aura: Blackish Red
Semblance: Super Rugged Beard
Description: Action Hank's beard is a mighty and impenetrable defensive force which he can use to deflect various projectiles - bullets, knives, swords, just to name a few. He can also extend it out, morphing into anything he likes but he mostly makes it into a fist.
Weapon: Double Bladed Axe
Description: Action Hank's Axe can shift from a single rod that extends out into a battle axe that can be enhanced with Dust.
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Name: Unknown
Alias: Grappulator
Aura: Acid Green
Semblance: Regeneration
Description: Grappulator is able to recover in several hours that would take anyone months or even years to recover from. His Semblance works in tandem to a naturally accelerated metabolism that allows him to heal much faster and it is possible he can even regenerate lost limbs but has not had to yet. It is possible his Semblance even allows him to age even slower than normal humans to the point he can live and fight for much longer, possibly up to 130 years or even longer.