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The city shined with the glorious lights as it illuminates the land, as a giant bent castle-like structure lays in the center, watching over everything, this is the view you'd get in the Queen's mansion. Fortunately, Swatch was one such man that happened to work here where ethical issues are at an all time high, however it comes with the job of serving the Queen.
She is an odd fellow to say the least, Swatch remembered when he was 15 and wanted nothing more than to be a successful family man with a stable job, Queen was a notorious villain that dominated all the heroes with her revolutionary technology capable of triumphing even the best of heroes, villains and everything in between in the span of 5 months.
He still remembered the night he was walking home from school when the televisions flashed to reveal the final battle between All Might and Queen. She was on the floating chair that had protruding weapons that could match All Might's speed as she dragged him across several buildings and launched attacks at him ranging from guided laser pistols that came out of green arrows and electric fields that constantly shocked All might at lethal levels. Everyone was chanting for All Might to win but it was all for nothing as a beaten and bruised All Might has burned through all his exhausts, deflated and fell to his knees. Queen went over to him, seemingly having a small talk with him than she whispered something in his ear which made him go into shock as she raised her boot and stabbed him in the head, killing him. A generation of hopes and dreams died that day. The next day, Queen returned and placed herself as a government leader by blackmailing the authorities and after some time, she demolished the old government and reigned supreme across the entirety of Japan.
Queen demanded everyone to be treated as equals, there was no favoritism for 'heroic' quirks and hatred for 'villainous' quirks. Bullying rates nearly went extinct after Queen proclaimed that bullying is punishable by death. Queen wanted a just and right society, Swatch could see it as he was a mutant quirk himself that also got bullied a lot so he decided to join Queen and here he was.
Swatch works as a high ranking butler in the mansion. He was married to a lovely lady with 3 little swatches to take care of, fortunately, he has a lot of money so he does not need to worry about that, what he needs to worry about is the fact that Queen asked all the employees to bring their kids to 'Bring your son or daughter to work day. 'Swatch was panicking, the Pandora Palace was not a safe place, especially for children, traps lay everywhere in the form of paintings that are flamethrowers in disguise, an acid lake that makes people shorter, there is a highway in the mansion and finally, the pottery respect rule, Dear god, The pottery respect rule.
Nonetheless, he and his fellow Swatchlings are required to bring them, on the day of the event, he saw that veryone brought their kid out of fear that they would be fired if they don't, even Tasque Manager brought her pet Milk Carton. The Swatchlings played Queen's national anthem when she came-
"No, No, That Isn't Necessary. " Queen said as the Swatchlings put their instruments down. Queen looked at each one of the children and cooed.
"Well Aren't They Adorable!" Queen said. She pinched the cheek of Rosani, Swatch's daughter as she giggled back earning a "Awww" Chorus from the rest of the butlers. Queen takes up her map of the mansion and said, "Hey Everyone, We're Taking A Tour Of The Map For The Kiddies, Let's Go!" Swatch and the rest of the employees looked very alarmed as Queen asked the children to form a line as they went behind her. The rest of the trip was a nightmare, The building was littered with traps, so the Swatchlings brought shields to defend from the flamethrowers and acidproof boats , it was a combination of playing tag but the hands were everywhere and hot acid potato.
After the trip was done, Swatch sat back down on a chair and looked completely exhausted, him and his 6 year old son, Nagisa decided to rest in one of the spare rooms on the top floors as the Queen was still busy with them downstairs with the terrified Swatchlings.
"Well today, has been... interesting. "Nagisa started.
"Tell me about it.." Swatch replied.
"You work here everyday?" Nagisa asked in disbelief.
Swatch sighed, "I only work in the Color café downstairs but sometimes, I am called to go upstairs, it isn't fun. "
Nagisa slurped his drink when he Swatch something in the corner of his eye, it was light coming out of a room.
"brb dad, I'm checking that out-"
"Absolutely not, that is the Queen's workplace, no one is allowed in there without clearance level 3!"
Nagisa smiled mischievously and went in. Swatch ran after him, not wanting to be fired at something as trivial as this.
As they went in, he saw something.. fascinating, to say the least. It was a room covered, no, smothered with layer and layers of paper connected with red pin marks that connected each other with ropes, on the papers, blue and red ink scribbled all over it, Swatch could not understand some but a few words could be understood and they were unsettling.
must, MUST BRING HIM BACK. May 19
He's not dead He's not dead He's not dead He's not dead He's not dead He's not dead He's not dead May 20
There has to be a way to BRING HIM BACK. May 29
THIS IS IT, THIS IS HOW TO BRING HIM BACK. Sep 4
Dark fountain is the key Nov 23
Dark, Darker, YET DARKER..??? ??
Swatch sees an object covered in dust and dirt at the right corner of the room, it's a yellow backpack. Nagisa stepped back, he is very disturbed, "Wha- What is all this?" Swatch doesn't have an answer, he looks on a shelf that details a newspaper that looked burned and had a gaping hole in the middle with a writings in red ink saying words such as "LIAR" and "SCUM" in all caps, the headline saying:
"Quirkless child commits suicide"
Swatch read the newspaper and the more he read it, the more he looked at it, the more disgusted and angry he became, it was obvious the writer was quirkist, saying things like "One more quirkless shit off the -","Just going to die out anyways" and "Izuku Midoriya died by".
"Let's get out of here, Nagisa. " Swatch said as he takes Nagisa's hand and rushes out of the room, closing the door behind him, the day he left Queen;s mansion, he was filled with questions in his head,
What did I just see? What is all that, What is a dark fountain? bring what back and most importantly,
Who is Izuku Midoriya?