"Mind if I grab a bite?" Shigaraki said taking a seat.
"Oh? If it isn't you Mr. Japan's Most Wanted." Albert said gazing intently at him. "What do you want?"
'I need to play this out and get invited to join, once then I can begin to eliminate Saber and Archer. But then there is the need to find Caster, they are probably in the League of Villains, AFO and Shigaraki were like father and son. Then there is his age and those Nemu, based on what Kischur said I have to assume Caster is at least working for the league.'
"I came here to recruit you, Blue and Red." He gestured towards them, he made it a point to avoid looking at Mélusine to avoid Albert's fake anger.
"It's Red and Blue." Mélusine corrected. "It sounds better."
"She is right it's Red and Blue." Albert nodded.
"My apologizes, I came here in a bit of a hurry. You two don't stay long enough to make contact and even when you go into hiding you disappear off the face of the planet."
"Cause we are not stupid." Albert said. "We hit hard and then we leave. It's called being professional."
"And what do you call this?" He gestured around him.
"We can treat ourselves every now and again. You never treated yourself with something nice?"
"Hm." He grunted. "My only treat is the downfall of Hero Society."
"How boring." Albert answered returning to his meal.
"What will you do after destroying the heroes?" Mélusine asked. "Don't tell me this is your only dream? Your sole aspirations? Do you even have any idea on how to move forward from a societal collapse?"
Shigaraki gave it some thought. He never really thought on a situation on where he succeeds and lives, he figured he would die to bring the collapse of the society that failed him miserably.
"I do not know. But I would like to live long enough to find out firsthand."
"What a ridiculous answer you gave." Albert said. "With such a large event it would obviously bring the attention of the world and thereby you are not fighting Japan but the whole world who will protect their interests."
"Then I will keep fighting till it's all brought to ruins."
"So if we join your League of Villains what benefits do we get? We already have everything we could want. Wealth, freedom," Mélusine moved and sat on Albert's lap and wrapped her arms around his neck. "warmth, and a little love-nest."
"Hmm…" He didn't expect these two to be as wise as they presented themselves as wild lovers. "How about fun? I am sure you two get a kick out of a good crime, what better crime that than a revolution?"
Mélusine and Albert look at one another and shrugged.
"Sure." Albert responded. "I like a good challenge."
"I wanna burn more government buildings, oh do you know where they house all the debt? I wanna burn that to!" Mélusine said with a arsonists spark in her eyes.
"Then you are in luck, we have been clashing a bit with the Yakuza for a while now. Grr…" He let out a low growl, annoyed by their actions. "Causing trouble, how expected from such an old organization."
"So I can burn their buildings!" She said with starry eyes.
"That is right." He nods his head. "Kurogiri."
Kurogiri then opened up a portal.
"Naw, we have our own way out of here." Albert replied. "Got a number so we can meet up again? Or an address?"
Kurogiri reached into his breast pocket and handed Shigaraki a piece of paper and pen.
"Here." Shigaraki wrote a number and address and passed across the table. "I hope to see you soon." He gets up and leaves through Kurogiri.
Albert gets and reads the piece of paper before holding it up. Mélusine let out some fire and burned the paper. The hostages shake in fear as they see the cinder go out before it touched an inch of the rope.
"Hmm… we should get going, we stayed her to long." Albert gets up lifting Mélusine up in his arms.
"What about the next round?" She asked.
"I had enough, they started putting in toxins to make us go to sleep."
"Oh, no wounder they were starting to taste funny an hour ago." She hops out his arms and unwrapping her tail landing on her feet. "Alright let's go!" She then put on her helmet expertly, due to her horns she had a unique way of putting it on and taking it off involving her tail.
"You all can go." Albert walked past the hostages as he puts on his helmet and slicing the rope.
As soon as he said those words and cut their ties they immediately ran. Mélusine followed Albert as they head to the northwest of the building. Albert punched a neat hole into the wall and then cut a wall-sized hole with his claws and removed it.
Albert then knelt and Mélusine jumped on his shoulders and made herself as small as she can to not take up space. Albert stood back up with Mélusine on his shoulders he leapt off the building and plummeted down to earth.
The place they went to eat was a very fancy place that was fairly high up on a building. They had quickly arranged their escape route and even sealed other ways of getting to them.
"Whoa there!"
Albert and Mélusine turn to see Hawks, a pro-hero.
"Where do you think your going?" he said with a grin, his feathers beginning to scatter and attach themselves to Albert and Mélusine.
"Red, cloak." Albert said.
Mélusine's mask opened and blew under them encasing her and Albert in intense flames.
"Whoa!" Hawks flapped back not expected they would fall with a cloak of fire covering them and burning away his feathers.
As they plummet towards the earth Hawks noticed their was a opening to the sewers below.
'Did they plan this out!?' he was very shocked and equally impressed.
Hawks watched as the two of them fell through the opening. He couldn't pursue further as a column of flame shot through the hole. It lasted for but a few seconds before it stopped.
"Move!!" Endeavor said arriving and jumping down to the sewers.
As he jumped down Endeavor saw molten earth and a rancid smell of steam with the sound of a motorcycle slowly fading away.
"Uugh!?" He had to cover his mouth while using his flames to hover over the melted ground.
They had gotten away and returned back to base.
"I have to admit their way smarter than I give them credit for." Hawk said to Endeavor.
"Grrr… We will get them next time."
The next day. In the early morning Albert gets a call.
"Hm?" He picks up his phone to see it is Nezu. "What up." He answered as he gets ready.
"Ah, Albert! Some things have come up. I was hoping if you could spare some time tomorrow?"
"Uh… I will have to get back to you on that. I am busy with other matters at the moment and depending on how it goes I can give an answer."
"Alright, that is all." He ends the call.
"Hm." He didn't think much of it and go ready. With a burner phone he sent Shigaraki a text and after a few minutes he gave a time.
Albert and Mélusine eventually arrive at the location, a warehouse in the city of Fuyuki, a city located in the Hyogo Prefecture by the sea.
They enter the warehouse that was filled with shipping containers and within the warehouse they saw three people waiting inside already. Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and Siegfried. Mélusine softly rubbed the ring on her index finger that Kischur gave to her and hid her presence as a Servant. Due to the weakness of Mystery in the world Servant's detection of one another fell drastically back to human level. Siegfried still had his dragon characteristics with dragon horns, tail, and wings.
Siegfried upon looking at the two who just entered he felt a jolt run through him.
'Maybe because their Quirks are so dragon-like it made me a bit jumpy.' Siegfried said looking at Red. 'She reminds me of Lancer, but she isn't this tall, nor does she have such a womanly figure, or even such a draconic appearance.'
"Oy!" Albert looked to Siegfried, he noticed his gaze at Mélusine. "You fucking checking out my girl, twinkle chest!" Albert stomped towards him.
"Ah!" Siegfried got flustered and immediately bowed at a 90 degree angle. "I am sorry! I didn't mean to stare!"
"Tch!" Albert stopped about 40 steps away from Siegfried. He looked to Shigaraki. "You should have left him behind."
"Aww~" Mélusine said coming up behind and hugging him. Her voice held a teasing tone. "Are you jealous my cute patch of sky?"
"N-no!" he squirming a bit.
Even without taking off his helmet everyone could tell he was blushing in embarrassment.
"Anyway." Shigaraki said. "You need to prove your loyalty."
Both Albert and Mélusine stopped and looked at Shigaraki.
"And how are we supposed to do that?" Albert said.
"Kill a hero."
There was a silence within the warehouse. It was only a minute or so before someone spoke.
"You know that will just bring unnecessary heat on us right?" Mélusine said. "We get no benefits aside from infamy when killing a hero."
"Don't worry." He rose his hands and snapped his fingers.
From one container burst out with flames was Dabi dragging someone along.
"Here." He then tossed a hero before Albert and Mélusine. "Kill'em."
They looked at the hero, he had spiky blonde hair with a stubble and a faint moustache with two vertically cut half-bamboo stalks over his ears, brown fingerless gloves, and two bamboo stalks crossed over his back. His green jacket has a cuff of fur and shoulder pads.
The hero looked up at Albert and Mélusine with a beaten and bruised face. He had tears swelling up.
"P-Please d-d-don't kill me!" He uttered with fear in his voice. "I-I will—"
BWHOOSH!!
Mélusine already set him on fire.
'I have a role to play.' Mélusine said.
"AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!!" He screamed out in pain as he rolls around.
"I told you Red if you are gonna kill you make it quick and easy." Albert walked over and with a firm stomp he ended the hero's pain. "Hah. Now the smell of flesh is in the air." He looked to Shigaraki. "You happen to have some dry cleaning?"
"Hehe!" Shigaraki chuckled. "Kurogiri."
Kurogiri moved and turned into a large portal of black haze.
"Nice fire." Dabi said was he walked through the portal.
Everyone else soon walked through the portal. On the other side Albert and Mélusine were in a very large open area with several supporting pillars. There were several of people here talking with one another, many were heroes and other villains.
Due to the amount of sounds in the large room Albert learned this base was within a mountain but also that the base was massive with several corridors. Albert will need to walk around to get the full picture in his head.
"Fan~cy!" Albert said presenting to be amazed.
'I fucking hate this place, reminds me to much of the facility I was raised in.'
Memories of himself training resurfaced in Albert, he remembered the screaming, the running, the sweat, the vomit from running too much, more screaming for him to keep running and then the ding when his running skill increased. From this memory more began to resurface, Albert quickly rid himself of this train of thought.
"Kurogiri why don't you show these two around?" Shigaraki said. "Me and Saber here have other business to attend to."
Both he and Siegfried walk away. Kurogiri stepped up to Albert and Mélusine.
"I will show you around." Kurogiri lead the way heading in a different direction than Shigaraki and Siegfried.
With each step taken Albert learns more and more of the layout of the base, all the while he placed a tracker to find where it is, he hid it in that large room he and Mélusine arrived in at the very top of the pillars and they left the room.
Kurogiri showed them all the features of the base, their cafeteria, their gym, showers, even farmland to grow crops and vegetables. This was a self-sustaining fortress within a mountain.
"Hey, what's that place?" Albert pointed at a large metal door with warning signs telling people this area was off limits.
"Looks dangerous, you guys got some missiles or something?" Mélusine said.
"Afraid we have nothing of the sort." He shook his hazy head. "That is our Research and Development area. Only a very select and trusted few can go in."
"I see, say is there a bathroom around here? Drank a few bottles of water getting here along with some food."
"We had to get up earlier than we liked and traveled as fast and stealthily as we could." Mélusine said. "Time is precious when under the late cover of night."
"Follow me."
Albert was lead to a bathroom about 300 steps away from the R&D area, but it didn't matter. Albert entered a stall and placed his hand on the floor of the bathroom.
"Hm!"
Using the basics taught to him by Kischur to use Reinforcement magic Albert used the analyze aspect to fully map the place out. He was careful as he reached the R&D area and first poked and prodded to find the R&D area's walls were made with different material and layered enough that sound could not leave.
'I'll stop for now, I been here for about three minutes already.'
He flushes the toilet and turns on the facet to wash his hands and dries them before leaving.
"Sorry it took so long, lets get this tour finished!"
They continued to walk through the base and arrive back at the large open room.
"Thank you for the tour Kuro!" Mélusine said not saying his fully name as a form of fondness. Mélusine was following all the character traits for Red, she took and followed Albert's advice on acting. It helps that the character she is acting as is so close to how she actually acts.
"Haha." He let out a soft, dry chuckle, no one knows if he actually made an expression or not. "I am glad you enjoyed this tour, not many lasted as long as you."
"It was the other villains wasn't it?" Albert said.
"Yes." Kurogiri nods his hazy head. "So shall I send you back?"
"That would be nice." Albert nodded. "Call us up if something comes up."
Their tour ends and they return to the warehouse.
'So shall we go and attack them?' Mélusine spoke to Albert via their connection.
'No. After we find Archer's location we will move quickly and kill Saber and Archer. As for Caster I have to assume they are within the R&D area.'
'You didn't feel any kind of mana?'
'No. I didn't look inside, kinda hard to hide glowing lines. So once we leave the city we will head to the western half of the Aichi Prefecture.'
Flying over the Pacific to Japan was Cathleen Bate, more famously known as Star and Stripe, is flying to Japan.
"Haaah…" Cathleen lets out a deep breath.
She looks out the window of the plane and thinks how fast this is going. After years of searching for her child it came to an end so suddenly.
'Soon.' She thought. 'I will see you with my own eyes… Hm.'
Now in this situation she began to have weird and mixed emotions. She herself never thought of having children, preferring to live her life as a hero for all. Then there was the fact of how he was born.
'S-should I treat him like a mother? Maybe as a fan? Ugh!'
She didn't know how to act as a mother and acting as if he was a fan would feel fake in her eyes. After a while of thinking she came down to one solution.
'I will see how I feel when I meet him.'
Also flying to Japan was a large and fast plane.
"You make land fall in 20 minutes." Said a soldier. "Initial startup of Operation Lucifer is a go."
Everyone within the plane stood up and saluted them. They all wore skintight pure black attire, they were all wearing Morning Star's.
"Yes, sir!"
They all stood shoulder to shoulder, their were a total of 100 of them. They had a various sizes and even genders but aside from that they all had the same gear as Albert but far more inferior.
"I have talked with the Handler, he said the one who killed Cain shall take up his name and position within the organization, but any teamkills will result in your immediate dishonorable discharge, got it!!"
A pair of red eye sockets formed as a bloodlust began to fill and radiate inside the plane.