Your Shadow No More | Malevola

[Red Hood x Dispatch]

𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐜𝐤. 𝐀 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰.
𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭.

Riven Todd used to wear someone else's colours-follow orders, take punches, save faces. Robin. Sidekick. Charity case. Disposable.

Now, they call him Red Hood: the ghost that arrives before the heroes, the reason the coroner's on retainer. In a city where heroism is a subscription service and Dispatch runs justice like a business, he's the problem no one wants to admit exists.

While the bright, brand-safe icons pose for cameras, Riven's already cleaned the streets-the hard way. Brass, blood, silence.

Until she finds him.

Blonde Blazer. The Network's golden girl. Perfect smile, perfect record, no bodies. She corners him in a blood-slick alley and gives him three choices:
🩸 vanish,
🩸 wear their logo,
🩸 or be hunted like every other monster they can't afford on the news.

He's killed too many to be a hero.
But if he kneels to Dispatch, he puts his methods-his rage-his soul-under their control.

In a city polished for PR and rotting underneath, one man in a red hood has to decide:
stay a shadow...
or become the weapon they'll never control.
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- Inspired by Dispatch (Choices Interactive).
- This work contains violence, dark themes, anti-hero morality, and mature content. Reader discretion advised.
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