And so it begins. The Injustice Squad has now gained their twelfth and most deadly member. How will he impact the rest of the story now that he has changed sides? You shall see very soon. And how was Gregory able to make him forget and implant new memories? Only time will tell on that part. And, if any of you were thinking that this is scary stuff, then you have no idea what's coming down the path. Now, let's go back to someone we haven't seen in a bit. Enjoy!

-POV: Harper- -The Next Day: Evening-

After such a long day at my internship I returned home to rest. I'd taken one of my offers and I was interning with the actual number 20 ranked hero in the country, the Croc Hero: Sobek. I wanted to learn how to be a better rescue hero, but also learn some new combat skills so I didn't have to rely on my quirk so much. But the dude is unrelenting. He's got this long crocodile tail that he just smashes into me constantly when we're training. It's left a few small bruises on me. 

"So tired....." I groaned as I stepped through my front door. 

"How was your day, honey?" My mom asked me as she was watching TV in our living room. 

"It hurt.... again....." I said, holding my chest in pain. 

"You wanted to go to that agency, so you have to suffer through. Can't go back on it now." My dad said as he was in the kitchen prepping dinner.

"I know..... I know...... what's for dinner?" I groaned as I made my way over to the stairs. 

"Tortellini with deep fried mushrooms." My dad said as I licked my lips. It was one of my absolute favourite dishes he made. 

"Is it gonna be done soon?" I asked as my stomach began to growl. 

"Not really. I only just put the pasta into the pot, and the stove is still heating up." My dad explained as I just lowered my head and groaned again. 

"Is Jiro here?" I asked. 

"Yes, she's down stairs. But.... I think it's best we give her some space for now....." My mom said as I just nodded and agreed before going upstairs to my room. 

"I can only imagine what Jiro's going through right now. I couldn't believe what I heard when she sent the message out to all of us about Cry and the students he had taken out. Vigilantes..... And the Injustice Squad again.... and they even have more to their team..... it's all so horrifying...." I thought as I opened the door to my room and closed it behind me before falling flat onto my bed.

"So freakin' tired..." I mumbled into my blankets as I then turned my head and saw my laptop. 

"Guess I should see if there's anymore emails after the one yesterday...." I thought as I dragged myself off my bed and over to my desk where the laptop was. I logged in and opened up my email and began scrolling down. 

"Coupons, coupons, unknown, coupons..... nothing important...." I said as I deleted them all and then went back as laid on my bed. But the moment I plunked my back down on it, another email popped up. It was another unknown one. 

"Oh for god's sake...." I said as I got back up and deleted the email. But seconds after doing that, yet another unknown email appeared. 

"Who the hell is sending these?" I said as I just gave up and opened up the email, hoping it was just some scammer. 

'Hello' The email read. That's all it was. 

'Hello. Who is this?' I sent back. There was no username for the email I was sending to. It only took a few seconds but another email showed up. All that it was was the crying emoji though. 

'Cry, is this you?' I emailed back out of sheer curiosity now. If this was actually Cry on the other end, then it would mean he's still alive. Jiro would be ecstatic.

'Maybe it is...... Maybe it isn't.....' The message said as I was starting to get angry now. What kind of answer is that?

'Where are you?' I sent back as another message came back almost immediately. 

'In your closet.' The message said as my heart sank at that moment. Sweat started to drip down my head as I slowly turned around and looked at my closet door. It was open just a tiny bit. 

"Oh my..." I quietly said as I slowly began to move my way over to my closet to see if whoever this creep was was in it. I picked up a baseball bat too so if there was someone in it, they're gonna be in for a world of hurt.

"Stay calm.... stay calm..... it's just a joke.... yeah, that's all...." I said as I arrived at my closet door. I reached out with my left hand and grabbed a hold of the knob while also preparing my bat to swing if there was really anyone inside. 

"Come on out, creep!" I yelled but when I opened the door, no one was there. Nothing but some hanging clothes.

"Yeah, that's what I thought....." I said as I put the bat down. But when I did that, I saw there was a cell phone on the floor of my closet. And before I even began to question why it was there, the phone began to ring. 

'Unknown caller' was on the screen as I picked up the phone. I contemplated for a while but I eventually gave up and decided to answer. 

"Screw it..." I said as I answered the call and put the phone up to my ear. 

"Hello?" I said as I waited for a reply. 

"Hey...." I heard as I was suddenly grabbed by my hair and pulled back. I tried to scream but whoever was holding me put this black stone-like hand over my mouth to muffle me. I tried to pry myself lose but this person had a death grip on me. So I started flailing legs and kicked off a wall, sending us both into another wall and smashing this attacker against it. The person let out a grunt and briefly moved their hand off my mouth. I kicked off the wall behind us and tore myself away from this person, ripping out some of my hair in the process. 

"SOMEONE!!! HELP!!!!" I screamed as the attacker then grabbed me by my mouth and pushed me up against the side of a wall. I got a better look at them now. It was a man, taller than me at about 6ft tall. He had messy wet looking dark brown hair, and he wore a plain black t-shirt, dark jeans and red shows. This person's right arm was like black obsidian or something like that and he was wearing this futuristic looking black and blue mask over his whole face, eyes, nose, mouth and all. 

"No, no, no. That wasn't very nice, Harper. I wanted it to just be you and me." The man said with a distorted sounding voice. The person then held up their right hand and made a kitchen knife appear in it. He stabbed the wall next to my head as I tried to scream. 

"Harper!! What's wrong!? We heard you scream!!" I heard my dad shout as he opened up my door. 

"Who the fuck are you!? Get your hands off my daughter!!" My dad shouted as he ran over to try and help me. 

"Don't need you being here, old man." The attacker said as he let go of the knife in the wall and swung his obsidian arm, smashing it against my dad's face and sending him flying out of my room and into the hallway.

"DADDY!!!" I screamed in absolute fear as I broke free of the person's grip on my mouth. I ran over to my dad who was out cold, his head bleeding, no doubt sustaining a concussion.

"Didn't have to happen.... if he had stayed out of the way, he wouldn't have had to be hurt...." The attacker said as he began to walk over to the hallway. I got up to fight back as I activated my quirk, making a lightsaber appear in my left hand. But before I could even try to swing it, the attacker reached out and grabbed my left wrist. He twisted it and forced me to drop my weapon as he then reached into one of his back pockets and pulled out this collar looking thing. 

"No more resisting...." The attacker said as he slipped it over my head and down to my neck where the metal collar tightened on its own and turn on. I tried to activate my quirk again but nothing happened now. 

"What the.... heck.... is this....?" I said as I tried to struggle free from this person's grip. 

"The collar nullifies a quirk entirely. Looks like your normal now. And weak...." The attacker explained as I heard footsteps approaching from behind me. 

"Get off of her, creep!!" Jiro shouted as she came running down the hallway, wearing her hero costume and gear.

"So, she was here after all...." The attacker said as Jiro rushed in and threw a punch past my head and hit my attacker right in his neck. He let go of me and stumbled back as Jiro pushed me away and ran right up to this guy. She took in a deep breath and then injected her earphone jacks into her neck.

"SONIC ROAR!!!!" Jiro roared as she unleashed a screeching soundwave from her mouth, hitting the attacker point blank and sending him flying back into my room. Jiro's attack broke some stuff in my room too like my windows and the walls partially, but I didn't really care. Not as long as she took down this asshole. And right now, the attacker laid flat on his back, not moving even an inch.

"Thanks for the save....." I said to Jiro as she turned and gave me a nod. 

"I didn't hear you before, but your mom ran down and told me you were screaming for help. She stayed down their for her safety. And, I guess it's a good thing she did. Who the hell is that guy?" Jiro asked as we looked at the attacker. He was still breathing, thankfully, so Jiro didn't kill him with that attack.

"Don't know.... he was sending me emails and then he somehow left his phone in my closet. Then he just appeared behind me and grabbed my hair out of the blue. Then he put this weird collar thing around me so I couldn't use my quirk anymore." I said as the attacker suddenly raised his upper body up. 

"Is that all?" He said with his distorted voice as Jiro began to push me down the hallway away from him. 

"Run!! We need to leave, now!!" She said as we both took off and ran out of my home. 

"Come on! Don't go into the city, there's not enough cover! Follow me!!" I said as we started to run for a nearby forest. It was only a few blocks away from my house so we ran down one of its paths into some thicker brush. 

"This guy means business. He took one of my strongest attack head on and he's totally fine...." Jiro said as we peered through the bush we were hiding in. I tried to get the collar off of me but it was so tight that I couldn't pull it off. 

"Here, let me help." Jiro said as she tried to inject one of her jacks into it. But the moment she did, she received a shock that made her let out a quick scream. But some movement just ahead of us made me quickly reach over and put a hand over her mouth. 

"Shhhhh!!" I said as the attacker came into view. He stopped at the edge of the forest and took a look around. He began ti whistle slowly, almost like a bid singing. 

"Come out, come out, wherever you are, girls. I'm not done playing yet." The attacker said as he then suddenly turned his head and looked directly at the bush we were hiding in.

"Does he see us....?" Jiro asked as he started walking straight for the bush. 

"Yes he does! Run!" I said as we both leaped out of the bush and started running away again. 

"Don't think you can hide from me, girls." The attacker said as he came running after us now. 

"Head over there! There's a lot more trees close together!" I shouted as we began to stray off the marked path towards a section of the forest where the trees were closer together and much more dense. 

"He's catching up!" Jiro shouted as I turned my head and saw the attacker was quickly gaining on us. 

"Who the hell is this guy!? And what the hell does he want with us!?" I shouted as we started going through the thick brush of trees.

"Split up! Try and confuse him!" Jiro said as I gave her a nod. We both then went opposite ways but I didn't go very far. I stopped behind three trees that were very close together to hide. I climbed up the one in the middle to a large branch that was about 20ft above the ground and covered in leaves from some smaller branches. 

"Haaaarrrrrrrrpeeeeerrrrrrrrr......." The attacker said nice and slow as I saw him come walking by near the tree I was in. He stopped right below me and tapped on one of the trees next to mine a couple times before he let out a sigh and moved on. 

"Oh thank god...." I thought as I let out a quiet sigh of relief. 

"Did you really think I didn't know you were up here?" I suddenly heard the attacker say as I turned my head quickly to see him crouching on a branch near me. How the hell did he get up here so fast, and without me noticing!?

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I screamed as I suddenly lost my balance and fell off the branch, landing hard on my back along the rough dirt ground.

"My, my, that looked like it hurt." The attacker said as he jumped down and landed perfectly on his feet. 

"Why don't you just stay down? Maybe it'll keep you from hurting yourself...." The attacker said as I tried to crawl away backwards from him. But he simply walked right up and stepped down onto my chest to stop me. 

"We're going to have so much fun together, you and I. My family has been-" The attacker began to say as a loud *SNAP* sound went off, like a bunch of twigs breaking. 

"Jiro..... I know you're there..... no need to hide yourself...." The attacker said as Jiro came walking around a large tree, holding a broken branch in her hands. 

"Let go of her, right now, you bastard!" Jiro demanded as I slowly and quietly reached my right arm out and grabbed a large rock. 

"No..... No, I don't think I won't. I came all the way here to visit, Harper. And until i'm done, i'm not leaving. But you on the other hand.... I didn't come here for you. So you can just go and di-" The attacker began to say as I smashed the rock into the side of his left knee, making him collapse to one knee. Then I smashed the rock right into that mask he was wearing and made him fall off of me. He let out a few grunts of pain as I got up and ran away with Jiro.

"Harper, do you have your phone!? I left my back at the house!" Jiro asked as I reached into my pocket and gave it to her. She began to dial a number and it started ringing as she held it up to her ear. 

"Yes, hello!? Please, get over here and help us! There's this crazy person trying to kill us and nothing we do to him is hurting him! We're in a forest near Slife Street! Please, hurry!" Jiro said as she then stopped the call. 

"Who was that!?" I asked her as she opened up the alarm app on my phone. 

"Someone who can help us! And sorry Harper, but I've got to do this to your phone!" Jiro said as she set a timer for 1 minute then threw my phone away in the oppsotie direction we just headed in.

"Hopefully that takes this guy away from us." I said as we came to a narrow and shallow river, barely knee deep, and not running very fast.

"I've got an idea. How good are you at holding your breath?" Jiro asked. 

"Pretty good, why?" I asked as she grabbed my hand and pulled me into the water. 

"Lay down on the bottom. We're both wearing darker clothes, so if he doesn't buy the alarm, then maybe he'll pass right by us." Jiro said as we both sat down on the bottom, tooka deep breath and then submerged ourselves. We held onto large rocks along the bottom so we wouldn't float up to the surface. 

The sky was now a pitch black, with only the moon and some streets light far away to give us any source of light. And, after being submerged for about 20 seconds, the attacker came walking by. 

"Where oh where..... could my prey have gone.....?" He sang to himself as he began to cross the small river. He stepped down right next to my head and I froze in fear as he stopped for a brief moment. But then we heard the alarm buzzing in the distance and the attacker began to walk away towards it. And after waiting about 15 more seconds, me and Jiro lifted ourselves out of the water to breath. 

"I think that worked.... Come on, let's go...." Jiro said as we walked out of the river and into some more thick brush. But as we only just took a few steps, we suddenly heard the alarm stop. 

"Please tell me your phone just shuts it off after some time?" Jiro asked me as we both looked back. 

"No.... it stays on until you shut it off...." I said as we both took off running once more. 

"He's gonna come back. We need to make some distance." Jiro said as we heard water splash behind us. 

"He's not far! Go! Go!" I shouted as we began to climb up a small cliffside, maybe about 30ft high. It was fairly easy to climb with a bunch of places to put out feet and hands, and we made it to the top before the attacker even showed up. 

"If he's.... following.... our footsteps.... then he'll lose them.... when he gets down there...." Jiro said as we both sat, exhausted from all this running. 

"See if.... he's down there yet...." I said as Jiro crawled over to peer over the edge. 

"No.... I don't see him..... it's too dark anyways....." Jiro said as I felt my hair get grabbed again. I was pulled back and thrown up against the side of a tree by the attacker who somehow had already gotten up here. 

"There is no escaping the hunter, girls. I will always catch or kill my prey in the end...." The attacker said as Jiro tried to get up to fight. But before she could, the attacker swung his right leg and kicked her right in the face, making her bleed as she screamed in pain. 

"No witnesses..... No exceptions...." The attacker said as he reached down, grabbed Jiro by the neck and picked her up.

"Why are.... you doing this.....?" Jiro asked as the attacker held her over the cliffside.

"Because it's what my father wants. It's what must be done." The attacker said as I rose to my feet and ran for him. 

"Get your grimy hands off her, bastard!" I shouted as I picked up a rock to hit him with again. But the attacker looked back and literally swung Jiro into me, knocking me back and making me drop the rock.

"I wasn't gonna drop her.... No.... I want this to be more personal...." The attacker said to me as Jiro tried to retaliate. She reached up with her arms and jabbed at the attackers neck and mask, grabbing it as she tore it off his face.

"Wha....... What!?" Me and Jiro both questioned in utter shock as it was Cry who was our attacker. 

"Y.... You.... You're..... alive.......?" Jiro said as Cry then let go of her neck and dropped her crouching down to pick up his mask. 

"Nice to see you again, ladies....." He said as he put the mask back on. 

"How.... why!? Why're you doing this!?" I asked him as he just laughed, his voice all distorted again. There must've been a voice changer inside that mask he wore. 

"It's like I said before. It's what must be done. My father's wish is my command." Cry told us as Jiro stood up and coughed a few times. 

"Bullshit it is. I've met your dad, and he wouldn't make you do anything like this..... so what the hell happened to you after you disappeared?" Jiro asked him as he just laughed a bit. 

"What happened? Absolutely nothing." Cry told us, but it was obvious that was not the truth. Someone like him wouldn't just do this for no reason at all. 

"What did the Injustice Squad do to you?" I asked him as he stopped chuckling. 

"Nothing. I was lost, and they found me. My father found me...." He said to us as we both just looked at him, totally confused. 

"Again, that's total bullshit. You wouldn't just join them! You're a hero in training, for god's sake! Not some low-level villain!" Jiro said as Cry put his head down and shook it a bit. 

"You're wrong, Jiro...." He said as he made another kitchen knife appear in his right hand. 

"I was never a hero!" Cry shouted as he used it to stab Jiro right in her gut. She looked at him with pure horror and sadness in her eyes, not even having the strength to scream.

"NOOOOOOO!!!!" I screamed as Cry pulled the knife out of her and watched as she collapsed right in front of us. 

"YOU MONSTER!!! MONSTER!!!" I shouted as I got up and threw a punch at Cry, hitting him in the back of his head. But he barely even flinched and then reached out and grabbed my neck. 

"Now that's not very nice, Harper. And unless you want me to stick this knife in you like I did with Jiro, I wouldn't do anything stupid and stop resisting." Cry said as he raised up his bloody knife and moved it down my right cheek, cutting it a bit. 

"C-C.... Cry....." Jiro said, coughing up blood as she held her stab wound, trying to slow down the bleeding. 

"What is it? Spit it out before you kick the bucket." Cry asked as he looked back down to his dying girlfriend. 

"I know this isn't you.... It's not the real you.... you wouldn't become.... a villain.... for any reason..... so it's clear something..... was done to you...." Jiro said as Cry sighed and took off his mask again, dropping it as he slammed me against the ground, stepped on my chest and then crouched to get a better look at Jiro. 

"But they did nothing to me.... I've always been a part of them. I've always been with my dad...." Cry said as we both then saw a scar on the left side of his forehead. It wasn't very big but it had stitching around it, and it gave us both the same thought. 

"They cut him open.... and they toyed with his brain.... They made him believe he's one of them...." I said in complete shock as Cry lowered his knife down to Jiro, holding it by her neck. 

"The next one's gonna kill you for sure, Jiro. Where do you want it? Throat slit? In the face? The gut again?" Cry said as he began to raise the knife up into the air. 

"Yeah.... I think right in your head will do nicely..... any last words?" Cry asked her as she only chuckled a bit. 

"Yeah..... look up..." Jiro said in a smug tone as me and Cry both looked up. Without warning, some dark looking creature came swooping down from the sky, grabbed Cry by his shoulders with its talons and threw him right into a tree before letting him go. The creature then came back and landed in front of me and Jiro, then turned back into a human. I nearly broke down into tears when I laid my eyes on the person. The sight of long snow white hair, a scaly silver and red costume and a flaming right arm made me so relieved. 

"Wrath Queen.....?" I said as she turned her head around. 

"It's so good to see you two again. I apologize for my long absence. The recovery was longer than expected, and I was only discharged two days ago. I tried to return to America as fast as possible, and it seems I arrived just in time. Now, tell me. What has happened to my son?" Wrath Queen asked us as Cry got back up onto his feet and cracked his neck a couple times. 

"It was the Injustice Squad.... they must've captured him.... then they tinkered with his brain and somehow made him turn to their side...." I told her as Cry began to approach us. 

"And who the hell are you, lady?" Cry asked Wrath Queen as she looked on in surprise. 

"Wait, what? He remembers us but not you?" I questioned. 

"Cry, you must listen to me right now. I am your mother. You are Tenshonoma Cryshiki, and I am Tensho Fuyumi. I'm the Wyvern Hero: Wrath Queen. Surely, you must remember all this?" Wrath Queen asked him as he chuckled a bit and shook his head. 

"Nope.... I don't know a thing about you. And you definitely are not my mother. My mother died when I was just a little kid. She was murdered!! And not one person, or even a hero for that matter came to help!! She died because you people did nothing!!" Cry roared in anger as Wrath Queen simply lowered her head and clenched her fists. 

"I don't know how.... but the Injustice Squad was able to take away and implant false memories into his mind. And because he's forgotten specific things that actually happened in his life, we can't get through to him at all." She told us as I held Jiro's gut wound to try and stop the bleeding. 

"What? Are you saying that he's a-" I tried to ask as Wrath Queen stopped me. 

"Yes. My son has become a lost cause. He cannot be saved. And even if we were to capture him, i'm not sure we could fix him." Wrath Queen told me as Cry then pulled out a phone from his pocket and answered its incoming call.

"Yes? I've run into a bit of an issue. Some hero's shown up and she's claiming to be my mother. Yes, I know she isn't..... Alright..... Alright i'll open one for you...." Cry said as he then hung up and opened a portal right next to him. And coming out of it was the one person none of us wanted to see. The leader of the Injustice Squad, Markus. 

"Well, well, well..... and here I thought you would've died from what I did to you in our last encounter." Markus said to Wrath Queen as she just cracked her knuckles in a rage. 

"It's amazing what some organ rearrangements and a spine implant can do for a person in such a short time. But never assume such a pathetic blow like that one would kill me. I will always survive until the end. And now I have more of a reason than any to hunt you down, Markus." Wrath Queen said to him as he just chuckled a bit and put his right arm over Cry's shoulders. 

"What the hell did you do to my son?" Wrath Queen asked him. 

"Oh, your son? No, no, no, Cry here is my son. Ain't that right?" Markus asked Cry. 

"Yeah, that's right." Cry replied as me and Jiro just looked on in horror. 

"You see, for too long we've suffered in the shadows of society. Myself and my son, and even the rest of our team has grown tired of it all. We just want to take back what's ours. What we have lost. And now, we have the means to pull it all off thanks to my sons quirk." Markus explained to us. 

"You must be confident if you're telling me all this." Wrath Queen said to him. 

"I am. Because we have the most powerful quirk in the whole world on our side now. There's just one thing we're missing...." Markus said as Wrath Queen looked at him curiously. 

"And what would that be?" She asked him. 

"Leverage. Cry, do it." Markus said as Cry activated his quirk again, making a portal appear right behind me and next to him. Cry reached through and grabbed the back of my shirt and pulled me through over to him and Markus. He closed up the portals as I tried to struggle free, but his grip was just so strong as he then wrapped his right arm around my neck. 

"Stop this!! Let her go!!" Wrath Queen demanded as Markus just laughed. 

"Relax, Queen. No harm will come to little Harper here. Not so long as you don't get in our way." Markus said as Wrath Queen threw a fireball at him. But Cry defended him by activating his quirk and simply waving his arm in the air. The fireball shrunk until it dispersed, so he most likely did his oxygen trick on it. 

"We did not come here for a fight. That will be for another day. Harper is all we needed. And now, we'll be going." Markus said as Cry opened up a portal behind us.

"NO, PLEASE!!! LET ME GO!!! I DON'T WANNA GO!! WRATH QUEEN!!! SAVE ME!!!!" I begged as the pro hero took off running for us. 

"I WILL NOT LET YOU TAKE AWAY ONE OF MY STUDENTS!!!" Wrath Queen roared in a rage as she turned into her wyverian form and spewed fire at Markus. But right before she could hit him, Cry closed his portal. 

"Pfft.... so over-dramatic..." Markus said as he began walking away, Cry taking me with him as I was pulled into another room. 

"Where did you take me!?" I said as I kept on trying to break free. 

"Our hideout, of course. Please, come say hi to our family." Markus said as he opened a door to another room. Inside was nothing but one light, a large table in the middle, and chairs all around it. And in each one was a member of the Squad. 

"You!? She's the one you went and got, Cry!? Why her!?" Shield asked as he slammed his fist on the table. 

"Because she was nice enough to show me hospitality before. And thanks to that, I knew exactly where she lived." Cry said as he let go of me. But I knew with this many people in the room watching me, I couldn't escape even if I tried. Especially with this collar around my neck nullifying my quirk.

"Everyone, Harper here is going to be our special guest for the next coming days. I do not want harm to come to her. If you do anything, then you'll have to deal with me or my son directly. Understood?" Markus told the rest of his members as they all nodded. 

"Alright then. We move on to Phase 3. Poppy, that means you're up. I need you to go back to your old boss. See if he'll give us anymore weapons and Trigger." Markus asked, looking at an owl girl who stood up, nodded, then left the room to go out. 

"Cry.... i'll leave our guest to you. Have fun..." Markus said as Cry began to pull me away from everyone and into a different room. There wasn't much inside, just a single light like before, a bed and two chairs. He let go of me when we came in and I quickly rushed over to a corner to get away from him. 

"What's wrong, Harper? Afraid?" He asked me as I just began to cry. I was so scared, I thought I was gonna die. 

"What're you gonna do to me?" I weeped as he came over and crouched down in front of me. 

"Nothing yet. But your time will come when you'll be useful. My father and I, as well as the rest of us wish to take back this world. But even more so, we want revenge. And nothing is gonna stop us from achieving our ultimate goal." Cry said as he rubbed my hair a bit before standing up and leaving the room, locking it behind him. 

"Someone..... please....." I said as I quickly got up and ran to the door, banging on it with my fists as I pleaded for a miracle. 

"HELP ME!!!!!"