Seven Devils
“Thousand armies couldn't keep me out, See, I have to burn your kingdom down”
The Seven Devils are a Menace group built on shared hatred. Formed by Mr. Napalm, the Seven Devils have set their sights on one Doc Nitro, putting their skills and powers together to try and bring the Cape to his lowest point before finally killing him.
Napalm has long resented Nitro, blaming the Cape for the disease ravaging his own body. As mild-mannered Ben Wahls, Nitro had been doused in chemicals Napalm paid to have specifically compounded to give him great power. With those chemicals swept out from under him, Napalm had to scramble to meet his timeline, hiring a less reputable power broker to craft the trait granting solution he desired. The end result was a mixture that should have warped and rewritten Napalm’s DNA sequence, but instead made it unstable. Now Napalm is facing a terminal sentence with the only question being how long he’ll have to wait. Forced against a mortal wall, Napalm vowed to bring Nitro down with him, killing either him, or his reputation before the DNA damage claimed him.
Napalm had many allies to turn to in his new mission. Before his vendetta had even gotten on the road, he already had a second in command; Brute. the massive mountain of a man had long been feuding with Doc, after far too many run ins late at night or at contentious moments.
From there, Napalm went to a group Brute had himself been associated with for years, the Trinity City ‘Hired Goons’: Freelancing Menaces that would happily join in on a bank job or a hostage situation for the right price. He drafted Dynamo and Tundra from this group, having worked with Dynamo on several occasions already. Dynamo would have gone after Doc with or without a group of like minded foes; having so many allies to his cause only served to inspirit him more. Tundra for her part had already developed quite the reputation in her duels with the Capes of Trinity, and had some very dower feelings towards Doc Nitro personally after the Cape cost her scores of treasure, and destroyed her Underground base.
Next they would need someone to help the team get around and scout out scenarios. Napalm tracked down Shade, a little less than a year after she’d been released from Poacher’s influence by Embeth Haven. Shade had attempted to go back to her old Menace life, but the scars from Poacher’s treatment were too deep. She struggled to focus without the overwhelming input of Poacher’s influence, and she found herself less confident in her capabilities. Napalm’s request offered her a chance to get her feet set under her, and revenge herself against Nitro; she blamed him and Mercury in many ways for both saving her and not helping her further.
The final two members of the team had less direct connections to Doc Nitro specifically, but would still enjoy seeing a Cape be torn down. The former APF officer Psychosis had been imprisoned by the APF, holding him in solitary confinement so as to not give him a chance to use his telepathic abilities to find a way out. Psychosis telepathy works by actually changing the brainwaves of his victims, and with his knowledge of APF procedure, he was considered a god level threat by the government body. Napalm and he had met previously, while Psychosis was still working as a mole in the APF for Mr. Infinity. They had gotten along well, and Napalm had vowed that he would always have Psychosis’ back, even if the APF did finally track the telepath down and reign in his control over others. This revenge tour was Napalm’s chance to cash in on that promise, helping Psychosis escape in exchange for the former APF lieutenant’s help; Psychosis was only too happy to oblige.
The final member of the team wasn’t even a being from this realm. The monster known as Titan had appeared suddenly after a rift to an alternate dimension opened in the middle of New Amsterdam’s Midpoint Park. The drop came as Titan was battling a Cape from his own world, Voltage, someone he had similarly bad feelings towards as Napalm to Nitro. Titan had begun his life as Miles McQueen, a teen who had been accepted into a test program to create (his) world’s first super human. Miles’ skin bonded with an experimental compound which was supposedly going to make him invulnerable, indestructible, maybe even immortal. Instead, the compound began corrupting Miles’ body, soon bonding to his DNA and reshaping it, essentially making it so Miles’ cells never decayed or died. The result was massive growths that began to spring forth from Miles, and while he could control them, they also left him completely disfigured and cut off from his own humanity, and the humanity of society. After an encounter with Voltage that included huge levels of electrical discharge from the living lightning bolt, Titan’s traits were charged even further, burning away any humanity that may have been left, and leaving Miles fully as Titan, a huge being that only grew bigger, and regrew no matter how much damage you did to him.
Titan may not be interested in Nitro, but he does want to find and destroy Voltage, who himself was just taking up a partnership with Doc Nitro and the Trinity Ragamuffins. The friend of my enemy is my enemy, or so was the case in Miles’ mind.
Doc better keep an eye out, this group is exceedingly dangerous, and won’t be satisfied until they bring Doc Nitro to his lowest point in his miserable life.