He used to be the number two hero. The youngest person to ever reach the top ten on the heroes billboard. A hero with their own agency at age eighteen. The man who's (still) too fast for his own good.

The downfall of the hero Hawks is a widely discussed topic, online and in real life, but the Commission has kept the truth hidden under lock and key. Fanatics online suggest that the pressures of hero society did him in, and he went insane. 'He lost it' they would say in threads, others would offer thoughts on corruption in the government. There were few who suspected there was foul play, that Hawks had been killed, or he had killed somebody else.

‘For the greater good’, the Commission would drill into him. It became a saying Hawks would repeat to himself when he’d see his blade splattered with blood, or when he’d gaze up at his ceiling from his empty bed and see the faces, hear the screams, of those victims. For every person he saved, he couldn't help thinking of the people he didn't, the lives he ended at his own hand.

'For the greater good', Hawks would get his hands dirty for the sake of others. He would be the good little soldier the Commission wanted him to be. Time and time again, he eliminated people for the Commission, and it wore on him. It became clear to Hawks soon enough; the HPSC wanted to be God, and so that's what they played. They deemed quirks 'villainous', individuals 'harmful', and in more cases than not, a crime had not even been committed.

What had really unfolded was a well-kept secret between only Madam President and Hawks himself. After a meeting with his handler, congratulating him on the success of his most recent black operation, Hawks had snapped. It was a long time coming; he did, in fact, kill them. He stepped away from the President that evening, vowing to himself that he would do something meaningful. There was nothing he could do to bring back the lives he took, but he wouldn't sit by and let the Commission repeat what Hawks had gone through someday.

If the truth was found out, the Heroes Commission would surely be dismissed. The organisation released a statement six months ago when, publicly, Hawks seemed to vanish into thin air. The president was afraid of what would happen when he returned, and so for the meantime, damage control was the focus.

Lying low, Hawks was spotted by a Commission operative with a member of the League of Villains only yesterday. Advised to not engage, the Commission called in their next favourite.

There’s one option left to ensure the truth doesn’t come out.

For damage control, for the greater good, you’ve been tasked to find and eliminate.