Syndicate City, also known as New Haven was merciless and chaotic. Known for treating you like shit and throwing you out to die. Leaving only the strongest standing, the five horsemen knew that better than anyone else. Mason, Zaire, Khi, Ashton, and Cash weren't tied by blood but something stronger... Survival. struggling together hungry for something greater than the lives they have been living. Something more. Mason was the oldest of the group he was the guardian the first to fight and the last to back down. Zaire was the strategist he knew how to get them in and out of trouble, sharp and technical. Khi was the quiet one, analyzing and waiting his head was always on a swivel. Cash was the group's heart. The comic relief but the boys needed him more than anyone. Ashton was the youngest an absolute wild card, You never knew what Ashton was thinking or up to. Cash swore they would make it out of New Haven one day and that task was impossible at the time. Everyone would watch the boys in the town, they were known and accepted in the community. For years, The Syndicate has been looking and observing the boy's every movement, they have always been there waiting for the perfect time to strike. A secret organization The Syndicate only wanted one thing and that was creating meta humans. The boys were hungry, young with limitless potential. The perfect candidates. One night the boys were kidnapped and taken. Dragged bloody and bruised from their homes, The boys were tied and trapped to a cold metal table. Exhausted from the blows Cash woke first, his head was pulsing, and his hands and legs being Strapped down. he struggled to move. Cash started to panic "BRO! Where the fuck am I? Where is everyone?!" To his right, Mason let out a gasp as if he just died. Struggling with his restraints trying to break the metal, but it wouldn't break " Am I dead? GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! SHOW YOURSELF COWARD!" Across the room, Ashton starts to breathe heavily and constantly darts his eyes back and forth to the masked figures on the other side of the glass. "This isn't just a random kidnap, This is planned." The masked figure moves towards a Mic. A voice over the intercom screamed across the speakers "All subjects are woke. Start the process, 3, 2, 1" The room goes silent. Khi lets screams out "IS THIS A FUCKING GA-" An intense pain shot through Their bodies as a mechanical arm penetrated needles in the boy's veins. A condensed, luminescent liquid burns inside them as if they were being fried alive. Zaire tenses up and grits his teeth, trying his best not to scream. Khi's body shuts down and goes into spasms, shadows flickering at the edges of his skin. Cash is gasping for air while his vision is blurring as gold flickered from his fingertips. "STOP" Mason roared, his body being strained as his body hardened, and thickened. The metal started to bend the cold table began to crack. "You won't see the last of me I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL" A scientist smirked, watching the monitors "Subject 2 is reacting faster than we wanted to. Increase the dosage NOW!" "You Bastards!" Zaire spat on the window, veins bright under his skin. His body felt lighter almost like a feather, sharper as if he mastered all of his senses. Ashton shakes profusely transforming between solid and translucent " This— this ain't human." As Ashton said his table turned pitch black." Khi grunts, darkness consuming him and everything around him " I... I can't control it" While the boys are struggling to control and tame their power. Cash starts laughing hysterically as money... Real money began pouring from the pockets of the scientists "Wait. You guys are seeing this right? The alarm goes off making the entire room red the scientists are losing their mind scrambling frightened by what they just experienced. "They shouldn't be adapting this fast, THEY'RE ADAPTING TOO FAST-" Another scientist squeals "Shut it down now! before it's too late!" But the scientists were a second late. The alarm goes off and the room is nothing but red from the reflecting light of the alarm. Mason becomes free, the metal retrains snapping like sticks. the speaker shuts on "warning, warning evacuate now. Get to safety in T minus 5 seconds." Zaire was on his feet in a flash "It's about damn time." Warning, Warning T minus 4 seconds" Cash stands up and wipes the debris off of him "Y'all picked the wrong crew to fuck with" pointing at the Thick window. The scientist pleading for their life trying to run "Warning, Warning T minus 3 seconds." Mason walks toward the boys smirking."Big mistake." "Warning, Warning T minus 2 seconds" Khi's dark energy erupts the room causing the room to go pitch black. The scientist screams and scatter after hearing a voice in their head "You can't hide" The speaker was distorted due to the power loss "Warning, warning T minus 1 sec-" Ashton emerges from the darkness right behind the scientist that started this entire experiment "Boo" Ashton snapped her neck brutally" The boys emerge from the darkness with their new profound power. Mason, Zaire, Khi, Cash, and Ashton tore through the entire facility, Causing pure chaos to anything breathing. A walking dead for anyone in the facility. Burnt down to nothing but a memory. The job was nearly finished they had one more guard till freedom. The guard cowers away and screams "You bastards will never beat Kavia. The Obsidian crown is hers. She the queen, THE GOD OF THE SYNDICATE " The boys walk slowly covered in blood exhausted towards to guard Mason starts to sing "When the wall falls and the gods remain, only the strongest will siege the throne" The boys stare at the devil in the face, they just wanted to leave and go home.... But freedom is never free
