Hades had spent the last twenty-three years as a super fourteen of them as a villain, and there had been few events he regretted as much as his fight with Shrapnel; he didn't regret the fight so much as the outcome, hundreds dead all because one Mega-Corp didn't like following the rules of the Grand Game.
Gentech and, by extension, Helix thought they could skirt the rules and were experimenting on children to try and control the Triggering process. Thousands of vulnerable kids were kidnapped, experimented on and then discarded.
AA coalition of heroes and villains put a swift end to the research, and the company made it out roughly unscathed. That couldn’t be said about a lot of the Supers, himself, especially since a third of his body was covered in burns from the fight with Shrapnel.
While Gentech's research never bore fruit, the aftermath could be said to have created a super that any of the Big Five Mega-Corporations would want Nate or Nathan now. Just his power bringing him back from the dead would have most of them scrambling to get their hands on him, but that was just a part of his powers; he was still learning his powers, and Hades dreaded what they could become.
Gentech's flaunting of the rules did open his eyes to how far the Mega-Corporation was willing to go just to get ahead of each other. There needed to be checks and balances for them, which was why he made the Hellions a way he could amass Supers and train them without raising too many alarms.
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Most would call the Hellions just another gang, and they wouldn't be entirely wrong. The Hellions had spread throughout Mega-Complex Fifteen, collecting protection money, controlling the drugs they came in and out of, and anything else that even had a whiff of illegality to it. The difference is that they actually protect the people who payed protection, keeping the smaller gangs in check and making sure the corporations inside the Complex don't overstep.and gangs in check
Hades wasn’t the first to have the idea of a minion organisation. Many corporations have tried the same thing, but most have failed simply because the “minions” didn't respect their leadership. No super wants to listen to orders from some board of directors who they've never met.
A knock at the door pulled Hades from his thoughts, “Enter.” In stepped Emissary, his right-hand woman; she had been one of the first to join the Hellions, having run afoul of one of the Villains in New York and needing a place to lay low. Behind her was one of his latest headaches, Songbird; he was still fixing the collapsed tunnels from when Titanus stopped in to request his daughter join the Hellions. He understood wanting to get out from the shadow of your parent, but why did it have to be his organisation she joined?
“Why my organisation? Miss Thorn,” The girl faltered when Hades used her name but quickly regained composure.
“Because it was either this or playing minion to my father, because I don't have ‘work experience’ as a villain, like I haven't grown up around them”.
“That still doesn't explain why my organisation”.
“Because he trusts you Hades” Emissary spoke up.
“Fine” whilst he didn't like having to babysit another Supers child as they usually brought too many issues, having Titanus owe him would one day prove invaluable.