3rd POV

A figure sat tired to a chair in a dark room, her eyes were closed but her mind was wide awake once realizing that she'd been captured and taken somewhere for either torture or questioning for some reason. She was partially thankful because she was away from the creature that had massacred her friends and beloved, but she was angry at the same time because she wanted to kill the little creature more so now than ever.

Suddenly the lights inside of the room lit up and the female had closed her eyes as the sudden change in light overloaded their eyesight and caused everything in the room to go white momentarily.

"So Gomorrah Van Gough huh?" A male entered the room wearing a tight fitting  two piece suit with a file in his hand. He stood in front of the dazed Gomorrah, who was tied to a chair in the middle of an interrogation room.

"So. Shouldn't you have somewhere else to be big guy" she scowled at him messing with her bonds binding her hands together.

"Nope not really" walking over and sitting down in front of her. He was still able to look directly into her eyes without lifting or be and her head at all. "Now I'm at your level. Care to talk a little?"

"Nope not really" Gomorrah said glaring at the giant of a man in front of her.

"Then why are you still talking?" The man asked and Gomorrah clamped her mouth shut with a short hiss of pain. She bit her tongue to keep her from retorting, literally and figuratively.

"Okay then. First question" the man lent forward and got a little more comfortable. This woman wasn't going to be able to d anything even if she got out of the binds. "Who do you—"

"Work for?" Gomorrah sighed shaking her head disapprovingly, "you cops and military people always ask the same thing. Whether it's inside or outside of the job...geez." The man was shocked and slightly angry that she had interrupted him and then berated him and his fellow soldiers like that.

"Well to answer your question I work for no one, and the person that I did work with before has no power over me anymore and the three that I worked with including my beloved were killed by that scaly green creature that sounded like a child but killed like a demon" Gomorrah clenched her fists behind her angrily. "I swear when I find that thing I'm going to—"

"Kill it?" The man smirked cutting her off this time and causing Gomorrah to look at him in surprise. "Good luck doing that. One of his many powers is the power to nullify other's powers and considering his speed. You wouldn't even get close before having your head cut off or your throat slit."

This got Gamorrah's attention. The man before he knew how to get to the creature that killed her friends and family, so maybe, just maybe if she could get close to him she'd have a chance at killing the fiend.

"But you still do know who or what they are right?" Gomorrah said, her face twisting up into a wicked smile.

"Will you talk about what you were really doing with Falcon?" The Man asked and Gamorrah laughed.

"That's easy, we were torturing him" she said, "and we would've been able to kill him if he hadn't suddenly disappeared in the middle of our session. He did tell us all about you though Big Man. It's Strongarm right" seeing that when the man tensed up as she said it she smirked and grinned evilly.

"Though it is strange that you don't have a last name. We also know about five other hero's that the Falcon knew on a personal basis. Buuuuut, I'm thinking that when I get out of here I'll just let the world know about it—"

"Who said you were getting out of here?" Strongarm (AKA Arlington) said crossing his arms and leaning on the wall near the one-way window.

"Well for one, the law, all you hero's follow certain laws that keep you from killing others no matter how guilty of a crime, blah blah blah. I have one condition, and if you are able to meet that condition, I can give you my word as Workbox, that I won't release the information I have on the hero's to the public"

This got Strongarm's attention, and though he tried not to show it the slight change in his posture told her all that she needed. He would do anything to keep his friends and family safe, even if it meant betraying someone he was close to or was protecting. For this man family came first and everything else came last.

"If you are able to bring me that creature that killed my husband and my friends and let me talk to it I won't release what I know to the world" Gamorrah said and Arlington stepped out of the room. Letting the door close behind him before calling Alex.

"Hey do you know where 01 is?"

"No, I was just about to go out and look for him, oh and that reminds me I am thinking about giving it a new name? How does Scythe sound?" Alex said and Arlington thought for a second before looking at his watch and seeing that it was almost one in the morning.

"I guess it can wait for now" he said under his breath

"What was that?" Alex asked and Arlington just shook his head and sighed

"Nothing. I was just thinking about something, there's this villain I have in custody that won't talk unless she's faced the thing that killed everyone in her group including her husband apparently." Arlington said sighing and scratching his neck as he lent against the wall beside him.

"And she is convinced that 01 killed everyone there but her" he said and Alex was silent for a bit.

"Well you can hold her in interrogation for 24 hours right?" He asked and Arlington hummed in agreement. "Okay then you go and get some sleep and we'll look for 01 tomorrow morning. He's sure to come around to someone he knows sooner or later."

"Yeah, okay" Arlington sighed again and turned back to the door into the room Gomorrah was waiting in. "Thanks and goodbye Alex"

"Bye" Alex barely got in before Arlington stopped that call. He went back into the room where an expectant Gamorrah was waiting and looked at her.

"Get comfortable. You're gonna be here a while" he said before closing and locking the door and going home.

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01 was currently looking around the room with rows of beds that the orphaned children slept in. The light of the moon filtered through the window and lit up his scales. Causing the area around him to have a slight green glint to it.

01 saw that the humans are also in their beds so, naturally, it's curiousness about the rest of the house came back full force and all it took was a walk through the door and into the unknown.

The rest of the morning was filled with 01 going around to different things and looking around: Standing on the chairs making up the lower floor's resting room where a large 14" TV was, the next thing was going to the area that smelled like food and figuring out how to open the giant silver box the smelled like it held everything.

Phasing through seemed to work fine enough, but when 01 tried pulling out the meat wrapped in some odd sort of clear stuff. It found that as soon as the wrapped container hit the inside wall of the fridge it slipped out of 01's mouth and he pulled back with no prize for his efforts.

01 growled in annoyance and started to pry at the edges of the giant thing keeping in the container of wrapped meat. But 01 wasn't too hard as to rip off the front of the fridge's door. Eventually, when pulling at every corner didn't work, 01 tried a different approach. He climbed on top of the raised-flat space of which had a clear jar of strange looking discs in it with brown spots.

Then he jumped on top of the fridge and started to jump on it. The entire structure wobbled, bumped the walls, and almost fell forwards. But didn't, and seeing that that didn't open the thing 01 fell to its side in defeat.

The sound of something close opening work up 01 from his short nap and when he peeked over the edge of the fridge's top he saw that the door was open! But it wasn't by his doing.

01 saw that it was Elena that had opened up the giant cold box and was now grabbing a jar of what looked like thick red stuff inside of it. 01 made a short whine as the fridge started to close again and Elena looked up to see that he was on the fridge looking down at her, inside of the fridge sadly.

"Oh don't worry" she said, "I put the meat in the sink earlier for you." 01 hopped off from the top of the fridge and looked around in the area she pointed. And when he found the red packaged meat sitting in the middle of the left sink he happily grabbed it and started to examine the prison it was currently kept in.

"See" Elena said smiling at him and closing the fridge behind her as she hopped over to one of the draws making up the island counter and got a straw from it. And as she put it in her jar-full of red liquid 01 spoke to her.

"What is that?" He stated looking at the straw and Elena smiled and took a sip from her drink.

"It's called a straw" she said going over to one of the chairs on the other side of the island, and putting her drink on the counter before clumsily clambering onto the stool. "People use them to drink with"

"What are you drinking?" 01 asked curiously looking at the red liquid in her jar. Elena looked the dragon and then her cup and decided that she might as well tell him. Otherwise the smell would give it away later on.

"This is some deer blood" she said taking another sip as she peeked at 01 to see what it's expression would be. Only to see that the creature was carefully poking at the package of meat.

"You aren't scared of me?" Elena asked confused and slightly cautious and 01 looked at her, then her drink, and licked it maw before shaking its head 'no' and going back to its meat. "You aren't scared that I might try to go for you instead?"

Her question was met with 01 stopping from opening its package and looking at her before going over and making a large, deep cut along the length of it's right arm. The blood that seeped form the wound wasn't red, but black. Though Elena was too shocked at what had just happened to notice.

"If you need my blood you can have it" 01 said, "your the first person to talk and look at me like another equal. And you haven't tried to hurt me, so you can have my blood any time you ask" he said and Elena snapped out of her shock and quickly went over to one of the drawers and got out a washcloth.

But when she came back to the sink the cut had already closed and all that was left was the blood staining the sink black and it's surprisingly appealing smell.

"I-I. Why would you do that?" Elena finally asked, letting the water run all of the black blood down the drain.

"I like Elena. Elena is the first human to actually want me around" 01 said before going back to opening the package of meat and shoving the entire steak into its maw.

"But you hurt yourself for me" she said still looking at the blood draining down the sink. "I just wanted to keep you safe, but you hurt yourself for me instead...why?"

"I already said it" 01 said skipping over the length of the counter and jumping on a stool on the other side before dipping a claw in her drink and licking the portion of the blood coming out stuck to 01's claw. "I like you. I like meat. I like killing. And I like blood, so nothing you can say will scare me. I'll always be by your side even after I die."

"What?! You shouldn't say that like you're fine with dying?" Elena said, "you shouldn't be fine with dying period"

"Why not?" 01 said hoping back to the side she was on before jumping down and going back over to the fridge and gripping the side of it like he saw Elena doing earlier. "I've already died 546 times in these eight years, so I don't think another will be that harmful"

546 times Elena couldn't speak as she thought about the revelation that had just befallen her. This creature has died so many times, how is it able to stay this happy and act like nothing's wrong?!

"I-I. How?" Elena finally struggled out looking down only to see that 01 was struggling to open the fridge. It's claws were gripped around the front face of the large hollow rectangular prism and pulling towards himself but the fridge didn't seem to like opening for it.

Elena stared at it for a half minute before sighing and deciding to drop the topic. Maybe it's for the better that he doesn't care about dying, but I can't let him die protecting me.

She hopped off of the counter and made her way over before opening the fridge for the small dragon; Who, once seeing that a human that had no comparison to it in terms or strength, had opened the fridge without a problem; Breathed a small plume of comic flame that incinerated half of the bottom shelf of the Fridge's inside door.

"That's not fair" it said simply, lashing its tail and clawing the ground before realizing what it wanted the fridge open for in the first place. 01 dove into the drawers and looked around the shelves for more meat, even looking through other things so it didn't move anything unnecessarily but nothing was there and seeing that saddened 01 to a great degree.

It looked once again before letting itself fall to the ground, all limbs spread out and flat like an animal carpet. A position it stayed in for a good ten minutes while Elena just poked at it wondering what was wrong.