Misery. Despair. Hopelessness. Life had been bleak ever since that fateful day, July 28, 19XX. That was the day Massimo was taken under the wing of AidenPearce, the big bad bully.

Back then poor Massimo was unaware of Aiden's true nature. He was but a young thug looking to make a quick buck and Aiden had promised him richness and wealth. The picture he painted about the life of crime had hooked Massimo and he pledged himself as Aiden's associate. In the days that followed, Aiden revealed his true colors.

Making coffee, cleaning Aiden's room which smelled an awful lot like a pig sty and polishing his cann pea shooter were some of the menial tasks assigned to Massimo. With each passing day the treatment grew worse. There were days when Massimo would find his lunch money missing from his pockets and had to go hungry but he kept persevering and hustling. His hard work paid off when he was made part of the family but that did not change Aiden's conduct. Once a bully always a bully.

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"Kenji Kenji. I've done it Kenji. I have moved a total of 48 kilos of product so far. That's the same as Aiden. Now he will have no choice but to respect me as a real mobster," Massimo relayed the news to his friend Kenji. Kenji had helped him through the tough times. The two of them had gone through the same mental torture and had become thick friends.

"Let's find Aiden and tell him the news," the two of them left in search of Aiden and they found him and Sana, his favorite protege, leaving tags around the neighborhood wall. It was that damn tag 'UWU'. What the fuck was it. Was it a face or a cockroach. 

"Guess what Aiden, after last night's drug deal I have sold the same amount of merchandise as you. That's right I'm at 48 too. I'm as good a mobster as you," Massimo stated proudly but all Aiden did was guffaw and paint more 'UWU' tags on the walls. Massimo clenched his fists and growled at him, "I'm gonna surpass you. I'll sell 60 kilo of drugs before you do !"

That sure got his attention. As Aiden turned around Massimo continued, "And if I fail to get that target before you then me and Kenji here," he nodded at Kenji, "... we will tattoo your 'UWU' tag on our chest." Before Kenji could protest he added, "But if I win this race then you and Sana have to leave this weird 'UWU' fetish alone and get tattoo of our choosing. What do you say Aiden?"

Kenji had been sitting around the headquarters, awaiting a score from Aiden. As he saw Aiden come by, Aiden said nothing. Curiously, he was beginning to speak when he felt something was off. His wallet was gone. HOW? Aiden was there and he.. Kenji waas here? How could this have happened? He quickly wrote down a note to pass on to massimo explaining the situation.

    Aug 25, 16:30:17    AidenPearce PICKPOCKETED you, taking $15,000 from you.

He took his wallet and the rest of his money and stormed out. How DARE Aiden rob him? He was the ideal associate of Aiden's... That was until he thought, he was Aiden's associate no more. He was almost an equal to that of Aiden. When he went to go confront Aiden regarding the situation of the 'missing money' he saw Aiden and Sana writing notes on the walls of the headquarters that just said "UwU". He had no idea what the fuck that meant. It looked like some kind of cult. The way they began acting, he knew it was some kind of cult. Instead of confronting them, he ran to the nearest street corner and stepped inside of the phone booth.

He put in a couple of numbers to a local speakeasy he knew Massimo had some investment in and the barman picked up and immediately called Massimo to the phone. After a hectic moment of trying to explain things, they had began laughing.

"Aiden took my money. AGAIN. Can you believe this? Fucking guy. He pretends like he didn't do it, but I caught him last time.. And the time before.. And the time before..." Kenji began to ramble on the telephone to Massimo about it until he cut out the ranting.

"Not to mention the fucking cult he and Sana are in? What the fuck is an UwU? Seeing them write these strange notes nearly gave me a fucken seizure, I'm tellin' ya" Massimo began to explain a plan to get back at Aiden, and by associate, Sana. Of COURSE Kenji would back his friend in his race against Aiden.

"You've got my support friend, let me know what can be done. I'm gonna go somewhere quiet while I scrub my eyes out to forget the awful writing that they were doing.. Fucken oddballs"

Sana was putting the final touches on her latest UWU tag when she heard Massimo blabbering on and on about something... kilos of drugs, was it? With a bored look, she waved at Massimo and Kenji before going back to spray-painting a cat beside her tag. Talk about kilos of drugs no longer interested Sana, not when she had reached a quota of 45 before Massimo did.

She still remembered that fateful day... walking into the HQ and asking where Massimo was, finding out from Laura that he was out buying donuts, and waiting patiently for his return. As soon as he entered, Sana jumped from her seat and told him the big news. "Massimo, I sold 45 kilos of drugs today!" Sana watched as Massimo's jaw dropped to the floor, which was soon followed by the donuts. The sound of his cries echoed throughout the whole neighborhood.

11:56 <Massimo[MR]> NO
11:56 <Massimo[MR]> NO
11:56 <Massimo[MR]> NOOO

Sana chuckled at the memory as she continued to slave away and work on her masterpiece. It wasnt until Sana heard Kenji huffing and puffing about how livid he was about being pickpocketed that Sana stopped drawing bongo cat midway. She turned to look at Kenji with a raised eyebrow -- was he mad that he got pickpocketed or that he couldn't do it himself?

Aug 25, 15:25:27    Kenji tried to PICKPOCKET you.
Aug 17, 03:54:58    Kenji tried to PICKPOCKET you.

Her interest was piqued even more as Massimo discussed what the stakes would be in the race to 60 kilos of drugs. Not being able to say, write, and paint UwU? "UWU rights..." Sana murmured, shifting nervously as she looked at AidenPearce... UwU was love and UwU was life. To have her right to say it be impinged -- life wouldn't be worth living at all! Still, she trusted Aiden could hold his own so she looked at the pair of boys, whispering only one thing. "Uwu."

Aiden shook his head. It was clear that neither of the boys showed any respect to their lord and savior UwU.

“Massimo, Kenji, it almost hurts my feelings to hear that you view us that light. Everything we have done for you guys has always been with your best interest in mind. If it were not for my guidance you wouldn’t be half the villains you are today. While I do admire your vivid imaginations, surely no one else would back up your claims of me being a bully or thief.“

Amusingly, this was far from the first time Massimo had challenged him to a race. Not a single day had passed by without Massimo exclaiming in the HQ that he would be the villain to sell 60 kilos. It had only been a couple of days since he backed out of the same challenge, begging Aiden to go and take a few days off when he felt he fell too far behind. However Aiden had indeed promised him a fair race and as the gracious mentor he was he easily agreed to Massimo’s terms.

“Anyways if that is all it takes to get the two of you over on our side i’m willing to risk it. I may have allowed Massimo to catch up to me twice but I wouldn't expect it to happen a third time. The bet is Uwon."

"Massimo gingerly walked up to AidenPearce and shook his hand, "You're on. And thanks for making this a fair race, I shall do the same," he shook Aiden's hand while stealthily lifting a can of spray paint from his belt. "May the best man win," he smiled and took a few steps back.

Pulling Kenji aside he lowered his voice and instructed, "Trail them and keep an eye on them. Do whatever is necessary to prevent him from winning. Sabotage their trades, slash their tires, poke holes in their clothes. I don't care what you do,just do it. I have a little something planned as well," Massimo patted the paint can tucked in his coat but before he could make his move he spotted Laura heading in their direction.

"Hey Laura," he waved her over. "Wanna help us get one up over Aiden and Sana? I know you want to" he slipped her a piece of paper. "Bring a case of dynamites to that location and I will know that you are on our side."

In a flash Massimo dashed towards the wall where Sana was busy painting a cat mural. He whipped out the can of paint and sprayed over their tag, leaving behind a lewd figure ruining their precious 'UWU'. "Run Kenji !"

At first, Sana stood there with her hands on her hips, wondering what Massimo was trying to accomplish here. It took a few seconds for her completely innocent mind to wrap itself around what Massimo had done to her beloved mural but by then, he and Kenji were far gone -- snickering and tripping over themselves like mean schoolyard bullies. With tears in her eyes, she looked to AidenPearce for comfort but it seems her friend was preoccupied running a successfully organized crime ring and ordering dynamite to pay her much attention. She slumped against the wall and sat down with her arms over her chest, pouting as people passed her by. She had two choices here: let Massimo win and be a bully, or rise above his dirty and lewd tricks.

She looked over her pile of paint and took a deep breath to steel herself before standing up on wobbly knees and grabbing a brush. Like a madwoman, she started painting like there was no tomorrow, and within mere minutes, she had managed to fill up most of the wall in an attempt to redeem her artwork. By the time Aiden had returned, Sana had a crazed look in her eye and was still painting in any nook and cranny she can find. Aiden tried calming Sana down and preventing her from painting any further, but Sana growled at him like a feral animal and continued painting, muttering "uwu" over and over again under her breath. It seems the young lady had lost all grip on reality upon seeing her lord and savior uwu be defiled like that.

Legend has it she's still out there painting to this day...

Kenji had only been observing the monstrosity that was the family art wall. It was once a proud place for members of our family to draw and discover ones self, until Sana began to corrupt it. He could only watch in terror as Sana climbed the top of the ladder to reach halfway up the wall only to destroy old art for the satanic-like writing of "Uwu". He just sighed and let it go. Let it go..

Some time later, Massimo had completely decimated all of Sana's hard work on her disgusting drawing on the wall. He had run only to put the blame on Kenji while Sana, and now AidenPearce stared him down. He had done NOTHING. Kenji was a victim to his own inaction. "Bullies" he muttered as they both yelled at him. In one ear and right out the other.

He sighed as he knew he wouldn't win this, until... He had noticed Sana and Aiden were gone. Probably throwing dynamite at a wall.. Strange, but it never surprised Kenji. He could always tell everyone here was a little off, or maybe it was him that was off? It didn't matter. He still loved his family regardless.

He eyed up the paint and thought about it.. He quickly took a brush and fixed the mural before Sana or Aiden could return. After clearing his mind, he quickly found somewhere to hide within the headquarters and just waited. He didn't know what to expect..

A bullet? A stern talking to? Probably a bullet, but lord knows Sana has worse aim than he did. He would just own up to it if confronted. "Yeah, I won't back down to them. I'm team Massimo" Kenji said as he hid in the crawlspace far away from any living thing.

Sana had just gotten out of her therapist's office after a fruitful session. She definitely went voluntarily and wasn't gagged and bound by her crewmates after her uwu-ing had gotten out of hand. Phrases like 'poor anger management', 'overfixation on UwU', and 'UwU as a coping mechanism against the crippling reality that we're all going to die someday' were thrown about, but Sana tuned all of that out and focused on the bright side -- her mural was restored to its former glory, if not better! All Sana really needed was a good talking to... and some benzos to calm her down.

With a lopsided smile, she entered the HQ and was going to head straight to her room to sleep it off when something off caught her eye. Slowly, she turned her head towards the mural and found it ruined yet again. A high-pitched scream echoed throughout the whole HQ and her crewmates went out to see what the commotion was about -- everyone was there except one person...

"Kenji! KEEEEENJIIIII!" Fuming, Sana grabbed a paintbrush, dipped it in violet paint and started turning the place upside down looking for the culprit. She heard someone say she was dripping paint all over the carpet and another saying that it was time to bring her to the therapist again, but Sana was hearing none of that -- all she knew was blind rage and vengeance. Once she found Kenji holed up in the cupboard underneath the stairs, she dragged him out of there and gestured for AidenPearce to hand over her step ladder. When she reached the final step and was finally the same height as him, she drew a big UwU on his forehead and stuck her tongue out. "You are my mural now," she said with spite as she stormed off to her room.

Massimo leaned forward in his chair and read the letter once more, a wide grin plastered on his face. Contained within was news of the latest drug deal and it looked like lady luck was smiling on him.

You've been given the nod to purchase up to 49 units of drugs.

Without wasting a moment he decided to send a telegram to AidenPearce detailing his latest exploit. It was his hope that this information would throw Aiden off his game. Massimo wanted to get in his head and make him sweat. On his way to the telegram office he ran into Kenji, who was looking glum with a bandage over his forehead.

"Kenji why the long face and what the heck happened to your head?" he gave him a concerned glance before pulling out the letter. "This ought to cheer you up. Look, 49 at last. I can taste victory. You won't have to take that vacation after all," Massimo laughed and patted Kenji on the shoulder.

"Although I did hear some disturbing news recently. Have you been supplying Hush with dynamites?" he glared at Kenji. "You know we have a limited supply don't you. Granted Hush is lazy and he will probably quit after one throw. That guy is the laziest mobster I have ever laid eyes upon" He took Kenji's hands. "We can't lose this my friend. Stay sneaky. Now I gotta run." 

As he neared the post office he saw a group of mobsters gathered around the entrance. "What's going on?," Massimo asked one of the thugs.

"Haven't you heard. AidenPearce the genius has secured another big deal. Man I want to be like him someday..."

Massimo didn't hear the rest of it. He stumbled into the nearest alley and threw up in the dumpster before falling to his knees sobbing. Was this the end? Will he lose the fight against the evil that is 'UWU'? Why was fate so cruel to him?

Hush watched the explosion as the stick of dynamite he just threw exploded. As the glow from the explosion faded, a sigh of contentment escaped from his lips. This was fun. He realized now why so many of his crew members were doing this. Generally Hush liked to use his gun over any type of explosives, but he's starting to see the fun in it after all. 

Sirens interrupted his moment of bliss. He knew the fire trucks and police cars would find his wreckage soon, and he should depart. He tucked another stick of dynamite into his coat pocket and bolted in the direction of the HQ. They would never find him and charge him for this crime, which took some of the thrill out of it, but there was still plenty to be had. Once he turned the corner near the HQ he saw Massimo throwing up nearby. A paternal concern rushed over him as he ran to go check on one of his Villains. 

"What's the matter Massimo? What's got you so sick? Wait...maybe I shouldn't ask...I am lazy after all and this conversation could take some serious effort..."

Hush then heard the commotion about AidenPearce and his recent achievements. A small chuckle escaped despite his best efforts. He looked back to Massimo with a grin. 

"I've got something I want to show you, and I want you to show Kenji when you see him."

Hush hands Massimo a card and heads off toward the HQ. He looked back to see Massimo face turn from curiosity to sheer disappointment.

TEAM HUSH = UwU

 Hush laughs maniacally and runs off to find Sana at the HQ.

With bleary eyes Massimo stared at the card in his shaking hands. If Hush was part of the 'UWU' cabal then it had infiltrated into the highest ranks of organised crime. Massimo was just one man standing against the 'UWU' horde. There was no hope, he might as well give up now. Using his balled fist he banged the nearby trash can in anger.

A small raccoon scurried out from under the bin on hearing the din. It carried a large piece of pizza in its furry hands,more than it could handle , dragging it along with its tiny paw. Massimo watched in amazement as it dragged the pie up a flight of stairs and disappeared into a hole in the wall. If such a tiny critter could take on something so big, he could take on the 'UWU' gang as well. With new found determination he marched off in search of Kenji.

"Kenji we have some bad news," Massimo found Kenji loitering around the street corner. He thrust the card from Hush into Kenji's hands. "Our boss is a part of 'you know what' group as well." He took a deep breath and continued. "But don't worry. Pizza raccoon has shown me the way. We can't give up now. Let's fight till the very end," he stared off into the distance with fiery eyes.

She heard Hush's blaring guffaw minutes before she even saw him enter the HQ. Sana wondered what trouble he was getting himself into this time as she twirled around in front of the mirror, admiring her new suit. Above its breast pocket was a small piece of embroidery which proudly stated "Team Aiden ~ For UwU Rights ~", and on the back was an obnoxiously large UwU sewn into the fabric. She had this pantsuit especially tailored in anticipation of AidenPearce's big win today and was excited to show it off once the time had come.

Hearing Hush call her name in between his bouts of laughter, she quickly took off the blazer so as not to spoil the surprise and bounded down the stairs. "What's up, boss?" She asked, thinking he had a task or job for her. Instead, he showed her a card which contained the three words she had always dreamed of hearing. "Team Hush = UwU".

Sana had always known Hush was a good man -- she'd heard him say UwU in passing once or twice before -- but this, this made it official. "Hush, wow... I don't know what to say... I... I have to go!" She quickly ran back up the stairs, grabbed her new blazer, and sped out the door to go to her tailor. She knew exactly what needed to be done.

When she got back to the HQ, she checked if anyone was around before approaching Hush. She fished the blazer out of a paper bag and showed it to her boss with a proud look on her face. There was an addendum to the embroidery of her already awesome suit, one which showed the world who her allegiance was to.

Team Aiden
~ For UwU Rights ~

Also Team Hush
~ 'Cause he says UwU too ~