Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-26912075-20180817221555/@comment-32974074-20181022201131

Upon seeing his friend's death, Richard experiences a flashback of his former allies.

["Richard! Look at this we have an emergency! When did we have our last one? Weeks? Months ago? Who knows! Hurry up!" The Fire Chief shouted.

"Yeah, yeah." Richard replied getting up from all the rubbish that has been piling up next to his bed.

The entire firemen of the town gathered in their trucks to help out in the long awaited. Quickly they arrived at the building in which the emergency call was made. A 7 floor tall appartement building which was reported to have a gas leak and some people already have fallen unconsious due to the sudden gas filling each appartement.

"Alright Gentlemen, this is not to be taken recklessly! This is as serious as all our missions have been! Proceed with caution and beware of any open light sources!" The Chief told his partners.

"Yes sir!" the team responded.

As soon as everyone put on their gas masks and teamed up in their usual squads, the firemen headed into the gas leaking building. Richard and his 5 other colleagues had to go into the highest appartement on top. His squad arrived on the door but the owner of the appartement wouldn't open. Judging that he might have fallen unconsious they used their axes to chop the door open. As the squad smashed the door in and gathered in the appartement all they could see was a young man, not older than 20 years, kneeling on the window holding a match in his hand. One squad member looked to the right to see that he smashed the door to his oven and put in at max power.

"Woah woah woah! Wait! Don't do anything stupid!" He yelled.

"That's what my parents told me as well; that's what my psychiatrist told me; that's what the voices told me! I took everything that they gave me! I took it all! But I couldn't withstand the silence either! I need to do this to myself! I need to do this!" The young man cried lifting his hands, ready to lit the match.

Richard ran at the man, trying to take his match but all it did was making the match light up on the wall. As a single spark on the match ignited the air in the building caught fire, exploding within every appartement. Every Firemen was caught by the flames and died in the explosion yet Richard and the Chief managed to survive magically as they were thrown out by the windows because of the shockwave.

"Chief!" Richard yelled up.

"I'm here!" The Chief shouted from a few meters away.

The explosion caused pedestrians and civilian to gather around the trucks. The Chief stood up despite his injuries. His sense of responsibility was far greater than his sense of pain. He helped Richard up and took him to the truck. The Chief intended to treat wound, if it weren't for a woman that has climbed up to the roof and shouted for help. The Chief and Richard looked up, then looked at each other, then nodded and took the Life Net from a firetruck. The Chief and Richard faced each other as they span the life net to try and catch the woman. Before receiving any signal of security the woman jumped in fear of the flames. Richard managed to survive the explosion but he was far from being well. His vision turned blurry and he himself fall to the ground from exhaustion.

"Richard! Help me!" The Chief yelled at Richard but instead of holding onto the life net, the Chief threw it away and tried to catch the woman with his bare hands.

As expected the result was far from successful. The woman crash onto the Chief which broke his neck, killing him instantly. As for the woman, she fell onto the Chief breaking her ribs which punctured her lungs, killing her only minutes later but every help for her came to late. The only one left was Richard who was blamed on all incidents and was banned out of the town from the mayor. Richard was arrested and put onto a 8 years sentence in prison. After he got out, he moved back to his father, occasionally working in his garage. But even his father could earn enough money to feed both. That's when he received a message from Jotaro, that he is interested in his ability. He was the first one every since to treat him as a person not a criminal. Every since that message Richard has found a purpose in life and accepted himself because this adventure made him think of something else than his former partners.]

Richard's eyes turned bland, not seeing anything else than the murderer of his friends and allies. Richard ignored all his injuries and ran at Joker, he simply ran until he was within range.