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"Birdy take the kids and go!"
Flames rage in the building that had once been a bar, a home, a safe place filled with warmth and family.
Now it's all burning down as strangers in suits yell and begin taking away her Aunties and Uncles, some are placed in black bags like some of the new flock members who joined last week, meanwhile others like Grandpa are led away by people in blue clothes armed with guns, some of the mean people are chasing after flock members like Uncle Shiggy who escaped with Big Sister Himi.
"Not leaving you here to get arrested or killed Dabi, now come o...."
"I'll be fine Birdy now Go!"
Tiny clawed hands grab tightly onto Mommy's shirt as the avian decides whether to leave or not like Daddy wants them to, so while the older avian thinks her green eyes flicker towards where Big Brother is hidden from the bad people in the shadows of the flames, soon green meets emerald then both pairs of eyes flicker towards the shattered window at the darkened alleyways where their other two siblings escaped already.
All thanks to Grandpa warping Big Brother Toshi and Big Sister Mei outside before the older man got captured while warping her to Mommy, cause Grandpa had been letting her help with cookie making by letting her stir everything when the door got kicked in by the big angry old fireman.
Movement catches emerald eyes so she follows the dragon's gaze to a new arrival soon enough big brothers eyes turn cold as he begins growling, glaring at a giant man with yellow bunny hair who is also wearing one of those funny looking outfits that lots of the mean people are wearing, Mommy's feathers fluff up to make him look bigger and she smells fear, anger, and something else rolling off the adult whose arms tighten protectively around her tiny form.
But all she sees is the nice looking old lady in a business suit standing next to the bunny man and other strange people.....
"Handler"
Tilting her head to the side curiously making a confused chirp hoping that Mommy will tell her who the old lady is, only for the man to flinch back several steps when the old lady he calls Handler looks directly at her due to the sound she made.
Crimson is all she sees as red wings hide her from view completely while her Mommy hisses coldly "No You can't Have Her Or Any Of Them! Their MINE MY Hatchlings And I won't Obey Like A Well Trained Dog While You Sink Your Claws Into Their Lives!" blue flames begin surrounding them as Daddy stands in front of them snarling looking seconds away from attacking the old lady,
Mommy's wings flare open revealing the fact that the flames have begun rising higher the heat grows more intense as the old lady laughs looking very happy about something as she glances at the remaining members of the flock, the woman grins widely her tone sounds too nice like there's something not right about it "Oh Hawks you really don't have any say in this situation and I think that you'll find you are still very much my trained dog" the grin widens into something sinister before snapping her fingers.
A flash of pink catches her attention and the two year old starts getting confused by the sight of her big sister now being held in the air above some red flames being created by an angry old fireman who is on fire, big sister struggles, thrashing around trying to escape the unknown force holding onto the ten year old.
Two razor sharp feathers shoot out of his wings aimed for Handler's throat and heart knowing that she won't be harmed by them after years of trying, but hurting her isn't what he needs right now, another razor sharp feather is soon heading for Endeavors right eye cutting his cheek instead when the older man dodges the attack, but the plan worked so Hawks Keigo takes the opening and uses one of his larger feather boats to carry his second oldest daughter away, soon Mei is through the ruined roof and heading towards the safety of the abandoned beach.
Hopefully the commission didn't manage to get their vile hands on Hitoshi or Himiko as well...
Chirping fearfully noticing how tense Mommy has gotten even though big sister is safe, the man is trembling now while he uses one of his larger feathers for a sky boat again, except this clearly isn't play time as she finds herself being whisked away and towards where Izu is still hidden, her brother doesn't hesitate to bring her into a protective embrace.
They watch from the flames as the two adults talk silently with their eyes like the pair always do because that's what special superpower adults are able to do after getting married...
Izu's scales are cold even though their inside flames right now and his double heartbeats help keep her calm as Daddy's raspy rough voice rings out "Izuku take Anya and get the hell out of here" big brother doesn't say anything instead the ten year old leaves the flames before he darts towards the nearest exit.
Looking at their parents from over Izu's shoulder eyes widening as...
BANG!!
A blood chilling inhuman scream rips from the older avian's throat as Daddy begins falling backward into Mommy's arms his wings wrapping around the taller man protectively.
There's a smoking gun in the old lady's hand.
The old lady smiles darkly at Mommy as he bares his fangs at her snarling and hissing, talons at the ready while his wings hide Daddy from the mean people's view.
"Four Hawks, four years I've searched and I truly hope you enjoyed your little rebellious stage Hawks, because the vacation you took four years ago is the last vacation you'll be allowed without supervision if all your going to do is breed with criminal trash and pick up stray garbage while playing house with vermin, you'll always belong to me so that means I tell you who to breed with, who to love, who to kill, who to save, and how to live, just like any offspring you birth also belong to me but don't worry too much about your Family you won't remember any of this once we get you back where you belong Pet".
Mommy launches himself at the old lady with the intent to rip her throat out, but because the older bird moved to attack... Anya sees that Daddy isn't moving... is he asleep? but why isn't his chest moving up and down...
Eyes flicker towards the gun held in the old lady's hand.
A gun with a silencer
The last thing she sees before big brother turns the corner of the alleyway is Mommy being hurt by lightning created by one of the mean people in black suits...
Burying her face into Izu's shoulder not liking whatever is happening or the fact they are being chased by the giant bunny man and other people wearing strange outfits, snow begins falling harder than it had been earlier today as the young dragon begins leaping across rooftops.
She can see their home being eaten by red flames her heart burns at the sight because the flock had been so happy this morning opening little homemade gifts surrounded by pretty glowing trees and tasty food the adults kept taking pictures cooing about her first real Christmas, and it is at this moment watching the nest burn to the ground that Anya decides she doesn't like whatever Christmas is anymore because it brings bad people...
However inside the raging blaze, there are blue flames as well taking on the shape of a Kyuubi spreading its tails far and wide, her wrist tingles slightly when one of the tails touches it, Izu probably can't see the foxfire because the dragon doesn't react to it but he is also focused on getting them to safety.
Clinging tighter to the stuffed animal that Daddy spent forever sewing for her gift, soon enough the dragon jumps off the roof ignoring the horrified shouts of the mean people, and spreads the wings he keeps hidden underneath his coat.
The shouting fades as Izu flies farther away from home and not long afterward while cuddling Mr. Chimera, Anya cries herself to sleep in her brother's arms…
A single tear runs down her bruised cheek as she is woken up from the bittersweet dream by the nearly silent yet very mechanical sound of her prison cell door unlocking a few seconds before the door automatically opens.
Staying in her ratty bed wrapped in a thin sheet she doesn’t even bother getting up because there are only four reasons anyone would be entering her room.
Another new experiment, more training, or a new mission, another surgery to make her appear more human once again before taking her straight to the reprogramming room.
Nothing good ever happens whenever that door opens
The four year old doesn't move or release her iron tight hold on Mr. Chimera while razor sharp green eyes track every movement that the two men in black suits one big man and the other man is small, plus the kind woman in a guards uniform make, while the group walks into her cage,
“Leave the toy here you disgusting flying chicken, there’s a new job for you” she has probably heard all the insults in the book from people who have quirks that society thinks of as heroic and not even some of the quirkless who work for the commission seem to give a rats ass about people with mutation quirks or villainous quirks, society doesn't like anybody that's...
DiFfErEnT
Not responding to the small suit man in any manner besides silently getting out of her nest yet still refusing to leave Mr. Chimera behind in this awful place, as a result of her actions the two suits plus the lady guard all step aside so that she is leading and the adults can watch her for any mistakes or escape attempts.
More guards join them as the group heads upstairs to the floor where Handler's office is located...
There calmly sitting behind a nice wooden desk is the same old woman who haunts almost half of Anya's dreams and controls all of her waking hours, the woman who took everything from her, the monster who killed Daddy and made Mommy forget about their flock.
Leader Of The Hero Public Safety Commission For The Last Seventy Years, Age 125, Quirk Slow Aging, Name Handler Jiangshi Yagi, Her Last Remaining Blood Relative Is Her Grandson Toshinari Yagi...
“Be a good grandchild and don’t fail this mission like you did your last one” almost hissing due to the familiar terms of false endearment from Handler, Anya instead holds tighter onto Mr. Chimera and he helps her instincts stay buried deep underneath the human mask that she is forced to wear.
Mommy’s pained screams echo in Anya’s ears and the threat of Handler promising to turn her siblings into broken soldiers certainly acts as reminders of consequences, instincts hissing in the back of her mind not wanting Handler to touch her flock again, mind rebelling even as her body doesn’t respond like it should be able to because Handler wants her to be a Human puppet.
Claws cut to the root so the talons don’t lengthen to pose a threat
Wings removed so they can’t be used to escape
Fangs removed so she doesn’t bite the hand that feeds
Feathers and tail stolen from her so that the public can’t become afraid
Quirkless due to her flames being sealed away by the microchip located in the back of her neck
A microchip that only deactivates if she dies but it will explode if she tries to escape again
The bruising covering her body is proof of why her instincts are always locked up tight
Handler Hates DiFfErEnT...
Hates Mutation Quirks Essapailly Animal Based Ones She Says Their Inhuman Creatures
Handler kills the people they love like Daddy and has her subordinates destroy families, there are rumors that the old woman killed Nezu’s family with her own hands.
Mr. Chimera held tightly to her chest while she reads the mission file and ignores the deep burning want to leap over the desk to rip the old lady’s throat out.
Consequences once again ring through her mind knowing that if she does something that the commission doesn’t like then it isn’t her who suffers the punishment for her actions.
So the four year old plays pretend to continue acting like the perfect little puppet, not allowing her gaze to flicker towards the man in a suit whose quirk prevents her from reading the minds of everyone that's within the range of his quirk called Mental Block, the range is two miles and she hates the man she calls Jack cause he protects Handler from her mind reading...
So like a good little puppet, she starts rereading the mission file before Handler has one of the guards take it away and Anya is forced to get prepared for the mission and then be shipped off.
Agent 007 Codename Will O The Wisp
Your next mission is a request from our allies the State Security Service located in Ostania.
For you our youngest agent to journey to Berlint Ostania to be adopted into a high upper class family and get into Eden Academy to begin creating lasting ties with its future leaders and political figures as well as their families, while gaining enough information on both our mutual enemies The Garden and WISE in order for you to destroy them once and for all.
This mission has no time limit.
Your mission shall only be considered complete once both WISE and The Garden have been confirmed destroyed.
Placing the file on the desk while smiling brightly "thank you for the mission Grandmother" ignoring the poison on her tongue and the burn of stomach bile clawing at her throat, hating that Handler won't allow Anya to refer to the old lady as anything else besides Grandmother while the woman insistently keeps calling her Grandchild.
A smile and silence are the only responses the old woman gives as Anya leaves the office with the guards escorting her to the preparation room.
Twenty minutes later she stares blankly at the mirror, the only thing they changed this time ended only being her hair color now pink instead of her natural white, meanwhile her scars are once again covered completely like they never existed... all due to the illusion that's linked to the blue fire marking that appeared on her skin the day Daddy died, and the mark has been acting as a bracelet like tattoo on her left wrist.
Nobody here has the skills or quirk to make this marking or cover her scars, she's searched... which means the mark was made by an outside force that isn't with the HPSC...
The marking hides her scars and if need be changes everything about her outward appearance, she sometimes wonders if the marking is magic because it seems to know what she needs when she needs it, although sadly it only makes illusions otherwise she would've used it to save Mommy and get them out from underneath Handler's thumb...
Magic marking aside Anya takes a breath clinging to Mr. Chimera as she begins her new mission, knowing that she can't let herself slip up even once.
Because Anya is the spark, the pictures of her siblings living free acting like bullets, while Mommy's screams from the reprogramming room are the gun, Daddy's lifeless corpse is the silencer and Handler owns the gun with the silencer.
Failure and mistakes will be punished...
Transport arrives in Ostania then quickly leaves her on the outskirts of Berlint and she spends the next four hours searching for Berlint’s poorest, ruined, unkind, and dangerous places for the cleverest morally dark orphanage,
And for some strange reason, rich people and a special few adults only seem to adopt orphans from these kinda areas
Children without any form of identification papers always make for easier business ventures after all…
There are seven children all ranging from ages eight or younger, wearing ratty worn clothes, no shoes, a few injuries, and skin tightly clinging to their ribs
Anya shall fit right in considering she’s probably in an even worse condition than most of the children here currently, good she won't look out of place.
Although she doesn’t count as one of the corpses buried in the orphanage’s backyard either as she keeps coming back to life for the next round of suffering.
The orphanage caretaker is a seemingly normal harmless looking drunken older man at first glance, however, the moment the pair locks eyes for several seconds Anya knows his secret but he also knows her own as well even though they both carefully hide their scents to prevent being caught.
“Bark”
”Chirp”
After gaining verbal confirmation Anya makes her way toward the adult who doesn’t hesitate to pick her up and cradle her close while she buries her nose into his neck, he growls in a laughing manner and she thrills softly in response far too happy to find another animal mute who is hiding in plain sight, especially an adult who hasn't been brainwashed by a higher governing power...
"By your reaction an scent, I take it that you are tied up in some pretty nasty business young one?" she nods not explaining the situation any further and the canine seems to understand why as he begins tracing words into her clothed back carefully written in the Ostania language "baby bird surviving as a supervised spy huh? SSS, G, HPSC, W" her hand twitches three times telling him silent who she works for knowing full well that this man is not going to rat her out to the Handler.
The animal kingdom protects its own as well as those in need after all...
He begins carrying her to the kitchen using one hand to pet her white pink hair as she clings to the safe adult for a few moments of fleeting safety while he uses his free hand to start cooking a large family's worth of rice and grilled fish "sorry pup this is all I've got" Anya shakes her head "Anya likes fish mister" he grins and the four year old wishes the canine mute still had his tail so she could see his tail wagging as the older man responds cheerfully an all to familiar accent bleeding through his words now spoken in Japanese "Anya huh? tis a good name little lass, kids call me Ol Bastard" Ol Bastard huh? so he is Japanese and one of Ol Musutafu's residents.
Good to know she has allies even while in this strange country...
Needing some insider info about certain people because she is worried about her flock, the little bird starts using kanji to begin writing on the old man's shoulder while silently noting that he gave her an extra fish for dinner "update on Hawks... also are the vigilantes an the LOV still causin chaos? is that Ol Mutt still kicking about?" he cackles silently making her bones rattle slightly but she enjoys the grounding feeling it gives her "ya pup none of them are dead an buried in the sanctuary, although didn't know the number three hero was one o us, hmmm he keeps it well hidden don't he?, nevertheless don't ya worry ya'r pretty feathers about them an worry about ya'rself for now, an tell me what do ya need o me childe".
Pleased that no more of her flock has died recently the little spy doesn't hesitate to answer yet still does so without speaking verbally knowing that the Handlers people are listening in on their vocal interactions, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to put another camera in her body.
The last time the scientists tried the camera broke within two days and it took five to get everything out of her body so they haven't tried again, but the watchers are always watching waiting for her to slip up again.
So slipping up is not an option "don't let anyone abusive or normal adopt me off... need someone high class... ya can manage it right... ya ol bastard" the dog barks out a mostly silent laugh clearly understanding that they are being watched considering she hasn't spoken in awhile, yet he still treats her with kindness as he gives her food and leaves her in what appears to be his room, while the dog goes about his own instincts checking on all the young he has gathered in the house while searching for threats as the older man still acts as if he drunkenly grabbing more alcohol to drink.
The man who calls himself Ol Bastard is good very good in fact and she wonders if she could one day be as fantastic as he is at hiding her true self as the older man clearly is, maybe if she manages to live to the ol age of thirty or older then she might be as crafty as some of her elders are currently about secrets...
They eat a small dinner about an hour later with the seven other children, three of which clearly have animal mutations that are thankfully well hidden due to the old bastard's own experiences, while two kids are quirkless and the last one has a healing quirk that is blood related.
Anya sleeps in the orphanage knowing she can sleep without worrying constantly about people opening her door because ol bastard noticed how she stared at the bedroom door with unblinking eyes, and the adult had removed it without complaint before he went on his next security round for the house, she wonders if his breed of dog is a guard dog of sorts considering how protective he is.
The ol bastard's instinctive behavior makes the little bird miss one of her previous caretakers during one of her past supervised month long vacations... that certain vacation was almost a year ago, although the same past caretaker is also a hero... and Anya is thankful that she managed to get big sister Himi adopted by the vampire dog before the little bird had been recalled from her vacation to move on to the next mission.
The Klein mission...
Clinging to Mr. Chimera tightly than earlier she eventually falls asleep knowing that this might be the most peaceful sleep she has managed in a while, silently hoping to get lucky this time and get a good natured yet rich foster family, a family who is hopefully, not like the Levski had been six months ago.
Mr. Chimera had been murderous and the slightly older boy has become even more protective over her since he found out what the Levski family did to her during that mission, he has been finding her faster lately which is good considering she misses him so much it drives her crazy.
The old basset hound watches as the quirkless man enters his domain.
A spy in need of a child who can read and write that's six years old, so of course the ol man takes him right to the room where Anya has been for the last three days and watches while the youngster works her craft like a master resulting in the older spy not realizing that the pink haired girl is also a spy.
From the doorway of the orphanage, he watches as Anya leaves with the unnamed blonde man, and the little brat whose been camped out on top of his dammed rooftop for the last twenty four hours finally leaves as well following after the unfortunate bird girl.
The adult wonders how long before Anya's past catches up with her, the past never stays dead for long not even for spies.
Her bedroom door is never closed and she refuses to use the bed instead the child Twilight has acquired insists on sleeping underneath the bed,
Hopefully Frankie can dig up all of her past quickly so that he can get answers to the questions that he wants to be answered about her strange behavior, maybe sleeping underneath the bed is what all children do nowadays...
Glancing towards the empty bed again, a bed that is also sheetless due to Anya having made a nest of sorts underneath the bed, something akin to dread claws at his chest while the little voice in the back of his mind whispers that the child's behavior isn't normal and that there is important information that he is missing regarding the pink haired girl.
Twilight doesn't close the door on his way out of the room having found out that closing her door at any point is not a good idea, it had terrified him to watch those unblinking green eyes stare lifelessly at the door because it had accidentally closed while he had been helping the tiny child put away her new clothes.
Even if the spy plans to leave Anya with a permanent guardian after his mission is over... Frankie had better find out exactly who caused this girl to be afraid of being locked inside her own bedroom because Twilight would love to have a few choice words with that person.
He just wants to talk...
Really...
Breathing out a heavy sigh Twilight makes several mental notes about what kinda information regarding his young charge that his friend partner in crime needs to find... he really wishes that he hadn't needed to involve a child with his mission it would've been better for Anya if he hadn't adapted her at all...
The quirkless adult blinks a few times in bewilderment as he finally takes notice that the child somehow managed to leave her room and climb onto the couch without him noticing, not only that but somehow she also managed to cuddle into his side as well, either he is getting soft or Anya is hiding more than he originally thought.
"Mommy..." hmmm it would seem that he'll have to get Frankie to search for any mention of the girl's mother maybe even track down the woman to see if reuniting the mother and daughter would be possible or even a good idea... children don't end up in places like that orphanage without a reason and the thought of sending the girl currently glued to his side back to that orphanage makes him uneasy.
That old man who runs that place was definitely hiding something... and Twilight Loid Forger hopes that he is wrong about the scent of death coming from the backyard, either way regardless of what the old man is hiding Anya isn't going back to that orphanage.
But Loid Forger doesn't actually exist and Twilight doesn't have a proper home so that means he can't keep her, even though his heart burns painfully at the thought of Anya being placed with a possibly abusive family.
Hmmm maybe Handler knows a WISE member who wants a child after this mission ends...