[center][color=gray][h3]Doombreaker[/h3][/color]

In the aftermath of a battle involving a very perverted villain, and buildings being felled, the honorable Doombreaker had stayed by the side of scared civilians, a less eventful position, to be sure, but a necessary one no less than direct combat. Someone always had to make sure the people were safe, even if the strongest hero in Singapore was the one to do it; Mizo never cared if she was banging knuckles or shielding lives, and heroic task is just that, heroic. Chariot had told them that they were given the day off, excellent. Mizo overheard a new student would be joining them, a hero named Sealer, a quirk like his was crucial to have, he would surely be welcomed. She led the civilians out single file from the building, assuring them that everything was fine. [color=gray]"Come now, it's alright. The villain has been defeated."[/color] She told them with a smile on her face. Mizo was visibly proud of her fellow heroes and their success. Every villain defeated by the heroes of Singapore is one less to terrorize the innocent, and that is all one can hope for on some days. When the civilians under her protection met up with their families, and left the scene in relative calm and good health, Mizo rejoined the group to see that one needed help, he would be tended to, no doubt. [color=gray]"Well done, everybody!"[/color] The titanic hero beamed as she approached, [color=gray]"Sealer, welcome to the class, I am Doombreaker, I heard of your quirk; I am sure you will be a great addition to the hero commission."[/color] Chariot, Amur Tiger, Tidal Wave, everyone was mostly alright. Mizo stood tall and proud among her fellow heroes, literally and figuratively, as the Dominatrix villain was being carted off to a prison. It was the usual scenario, really; Bad guy drops a ground-zero on the place, the heroes rush in, ass gets whipped, close the book. Monotony was good in this line of work. Who can complain when villains aren't running around completely unchecked, after all?

Meanwhile, the mesmerizing hero, Penrose, was up to different things...


[color=skyblue][h3]Penrose[/h3][/color]
[sub][h3]11:49pm | Singapore Federal Investigations Office[/h3][/sub]

Well into the night, later after the incident with Dominatrix, Penrose had been called in late, not uncommon among some heroes who had insider knowledge of particular things that the police could make use of. Especially in her own case- she knew a certain suspect who was working for Detgif, the secretive organization that sought to monopolize on quirk society. The sky was cool and cloudy, and the interrogation room reeked of coffee and fatigue, the night shift. When Penrose walked in, clad in her usual getup, it was a stark contrast to the sleepiness creeping up on the various officers around the place. They were expecting the woman, they needed her. 

[color=skyblue]"Where is he..."[/color]
"This way."
She was led to the back of the building, down a cold hallway, to a room flanked by a transparent mirror, able to be seen through into the inside where a man sat handcuffed, but not the other way around. He looked grown, but young, like he had only just finished college, as Penrose would hope, anyway. "He won't talk, he asked for you. By name-"
[color=skyblue]"Where did you find him..."[/color] Penrose was not herself.
"By the docks, he was caught loading boxes of Ignite drugs onto a boat, we stopped the-"
[color=skyblue]"I will take over now."[/color] She invited herself into the room, knowing everyone in the building would be foolish to object.
The man looked at her with disdain, like a child looking at his mom who found him in the wrong.
"Well, [i]Penrose.[/i] Talia Castle, mesmerizing hero. This is funny." There wasn't a tint of humor on his lips.
[color=skyblue]"You, why?"[/color] The man before her was Kai Chiako, someone she met when he was a child, roughly 15 years ago.
"Funny seeing you here, who would've guessed?"
[color=skyblue]"Answer me, why are you working with them?"[/color]
"They gave me a job, I took it."
[color=skyblue]"Kai, after everything your m-"[/color]
"Don't start with me." The strain in his voice sobered the sleeping officers from the other end of the muffled wall.
[color=skyblue]"Of all the places you could have gone, you found yourself here? After I helped you out of there."[/color]
"No, you [i]took[/i] me out of there. Remember? The Dreaming Sage coming to the rescue of a child."

Who?

[color=skyblue]"Keep that name. Out of your mouth."[/color]
He laughed.
"You want to know why I work for them, I want to know why you work for the heroes, you! The most violent, bloody vig-"
Talia's quirk set in, suddenly the man across from her felt his head split open, he got the message, having been victim to it once before.
"The stuff you did, didn't work out. Got sick, couldn't work, what money I had went to hospital bills, and then Detgif told me that they could help me. I owe em, like I owed you, I guess." He looked at Penrose, the last time he had seen her, he wasn't even 8 years old.
[color=skyblue]"You seem fine. Turn away from them, you know how I can be."[/color]
"This isn't the old days, S- Penrose...You don't [i]leave[/i] Detgif. I never had this kind of money growing up, I'm not giving it up."
[color=skyblue]"Kai, I didn't take you out of that home for you to end up like this, what would they have said?"[/color]
"The same thing you would've said to mom, before you-"
Penrose slammed the tabled with her hand, damn near cracking it.
[color=skyblue]"I did what I did, because you were skin and bones and reduced to a human ashtray by your sad excuse for a mother!"[/color] Penrose screamed, inches from Kai's face. Of course, he didn't even flinch, he just looked up at her with contempt.
"And you would know a thing or two about rough parents, Talia."
Penrose didn't have it in her to retaliate to that. She could barely stand to look at him, handcuffed to a chair with a thrown-away life. How far he had fallen.
[color=skyblue]"You could have been better than this..."[/color] Her words filled only with pain, maybe she didn't help as many kids as she thought she did, back then.
"You could have kept a knife out of my mother's chest."
[color=skyblue]"If you help us, we will help you. Tell us what you know about Detgif."[/color]
"Piss off."
[color=skyblue]"Kai. Let me help you."[/color]
"Help? You? Look at you, you can't even look at me, the kid whose window you bravely jumped through with a knife in your hand! Help me! Fuck off."
[color=skyblue]"I am not that person, not anymore."[/color]
"Yeah, and I'm not an 8 year old kid no more, I can handle myself. Now get out of my face."

They talked for what felt like ages, no one could quite tell what was running through Penrose's mind. Kai Chiako was eventually locked up in a high security prison, and Penrose was left thinking about things from a time forgotten to most.

A time when she was the Dreaming Sage.

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