The Emperor's Dragon II

Hard Working Forensics

All Might was officially retired. Toshinori Yagi, on the other hand, was still an active member of the Hero community and was determined to remain that way for as long as he could. As such, he was on duty, as back up for this raid and was watching it unfold from the high tech command vehicle.

The vehicle hosted a veritable army of staff, and consoles and every part of the operation could be monitored and controlled from here. It was, apparently, standard equipment for the Police and they used it when they were called in to help with hero operations. It made sense. There were very few agencies who could afford to keep equipment like this.

Toshinori glanced over the screens, eyeballing the heroes who were active. Flame Hero Endeavor, the new Number One was here and already stalking through the area he'd been assigned. EdgeShot was in the rafters, ready to reinforce anyone who needed it but so far things had gone smoothly.

Miruko was literally bouncing in place and Crust was looking grimly determined.

The warehouse had been found by one of the HPSC's informants, and while they... she, Toshinori believed the informant was a woman, had rushed to tell the Commission what they knew, by the time the heroes had scrambled, there was evidence the warehouse had been used but the majority of the contents were gone. Even so, they were treating this as a live case where the villains could appear at any moment.

They actually could, given that they had a warper. From the looks of things, both Endeavor and Miruko were hoping that the villains reappeared. From what he could see, Toshinori didn't think they would but they had left evidence of their presence.

There were tanks, and pipes, and what looked to be a major computer installation that was still sparking. The villains had destroyed it and forensics was already going over it to see if anything could be restored. He had a feeling, based on finding things in the past, that the destruction of the computer was absolute. All For One was not a rookie villain and even if he was in Tartarus this situation stunk of him. The people who had worked here were not low level despite what the fingerprint scan suggested.

The more 'low level' forensics team had gone through first, escorted by a scowling Endeavor, scanning everything. They had found a wealth of fingerprints and so much genetic material it was going to take them a while to go through it. Some of the fingerprints though had already gone through the system and had popped out a variety of names. A good proportion of them had criminal and villainous records. But nothing major. They were major crimes for the victims but on the scale of crime... not that bad.

They'd run about 60% of the finger prints and were running the others. A few had come up with no record. Looking at the warehouse, Yagi felt sick about them.

There were the remains of glass tubes everywhere, and they all had a thick, almost gelatinous residue in them. From what the HPSC informant had indicated, they'd all been filled with people.

The warehouse was some sort of twisted science facility. God alone knew what had been done to the poor people here.

There wasn't much else. It was a single level warehouse with a small office beside the main entrance and a mezzanine level above it. The mezzanine level was being swept now and they were hopeful for some good material from it, since it contained several couches and a table. It was almost impossible to think of people just sitting there, drinking tea or coffee while the experiments went on below them but...

All For One's followers were sick and they had most likely corrupted his son already.

Sir Nighteye was right. Now, anyway. Mirai had been wrong in the past. Toshinori refused to believe that there had never been an opportunity to save Izuku Midoriya. Sometime in the past, they could have if they'd just done something different... At Tsu, if they'd gone after him at school... All Might knew the risks but...