When they fall

[The Beast attacks again...]

[The Beast takes out gang...]

[The Beast destroy building...]

[The Beast...]

[The Beast...]

[The Beast...]

*

It's been some months since Andrew started acting as a vigilante. During this time he had seen a lot of different people. There were drug lords, petty thieves, bank robbers, smugglers, mafia bosses and many more. He mercilessly attacked anyone with evil intent, so he had gotten pretty infamous, just by appearing criminals would surrender and the more tenacious ones would go out beaten and broken.

His daily life had stagnated as he was more focused on his nightly activities. He did start to exercise more, a lot more. This was because he discovered that even though he has an ability like [Elephant's strength] he did not grow any muscles. He also collects all the money from the criminals so he had a small fortune.

These were the abilities he acquired during this time.

[Monkey's fingerprint - can change your fingerprint to a monkey]

[Elephant's memory - near-photographic memory]

[Coldblooded - you can lower or increase your body temperature]

[Under water breathing - can breathe underwater]

[Tiger's retractable claws - sharp claw will grow on each finger and toes, fully retractable]

[Abalone's durability - bulletproof skin]

[Eletric Ell's discharge - can discharge electric currents up to 600 volts]

[Eagle's vision - 8x more powerful than humans and able to zoom in]

[Flea's jump - Able to jump as high as the empire state building(380m or 1250ft)]

[Stable fall - able to fall from high places and land on your feet without mistakes and injury]

[Dog's nose - your sense of smell becomes 40x better]

[Goat's digestion - able to eat almost anything and digest it *caution, does not make you immune to poison*]

[Axototl regeneration - capable of slowly regenerating every body part]

Andrew made sure to absorb abilities that made it easier to hide and leaves fewer traces. For [Axototl regeneration] he had to go to the black market because it was an endangered species only bred in captivity or found in Mexico.

Luckily SHIELD or anyone else had not come knocking on his door yet so he was relatively safe for now.

*

It was in the middle of December now and it was snowing outside. It was a gentle snow though, like before the heavy one in January. Looking down you could see people dressed for winter walking and cars driving. Most lights were on in the surrounding buildings as it was night time. Adding the falling snow on top of that it created a serene and beautiful scene, outside that is.

Andrew had tracked down yet another criminal. This particular one had escaped while his gang where being taken out and Andrew was only able to find him now.

Inside the small apartment building on the 7th floor was a mess. There were fallen chairs, turned over couches and broken pieces of wood. On the floor illuminated by the single lamp in the living room was a man on the floor and in the corner, glowing dark orange eyes.

"Please... don't hurt me. I left that life behind me... I've turned over a new leaf..."

"Turned over a new leaf is it...? I've no doubt you will go back eventually, and when you do, you will hurt people... I can't allow that to happen, I won't."

"I swear its true! Just because they call you a beast on the news means you have to be one!"

"What do you know? Nothing, you know nothing! But I do know what will happen if I let you go now, all the suffering you will cause to others in the future..." Saying so, Andrew slowly stepped out of the shadow. His majestic horns still sat atop his head, his eyes still glowing, his slightly more toned body, claws on each finger, and if anyone were to look at his fingers, they would see weird fingerprints.

As Andrew got closer he extended his right arm out to use [Eletric Ell's discharge] on the man who kept crawling away from him, he saw a closet open and a small figure running towards the man.

"Don't hurt my daddy!!"

"Maria!! What are you doing!?" Andrew had noticed that there was a girl hiding in the closet with his [Dog's nose] but he didn't really care. She was just a small, dark-haired, six-year-old girl.

"Get out of the way little girl. I'm just here for your father."

"No! You can't hurt him!!" The girl said with a look of conviction even though her legs were clearly trembling.

"Get out of here Maria!"

"If you don't move, I will move you."

"Please, you can do anything you want to me, just don't hurt my daughter!"

"No, I won't move! You can't have him!"

"Last warning. Move."

"No!" The girl said as her father held her and begged her to move, but she unwavering.

"Alright then, your funeral." Andrew drew back his arm, lighting sparking along with his black figure.

Time slowed down as he lunged his arm. He could see the girl close her teary eyes, the despair in the man's crying eyes, the lights from other buildings, the snow outside, and his reflection on the window.

Andrew's outstretched palmed came to a halt an inch away from the girl's face. The arcs of lightning still going, the girl's eyes still closed and her father who was ready to throw her to the floor and receive the lightning confused.

It was only for a slipt second, but it was all that was needed for him to stop and think about things.

'What... am I doing...? I was about to... kill a child...Oh my god...!'

The girl finally opened her eyes and the father was still wary of him.

"You are lucky... you better change for real... not for me or for you or anyone else... but for her. If you don't... I'll find you." Andrew said as he turned his back to them and stood next to the window while speaking. He then opened it, put strength in his leg and jumped.

*

'Shit... I was about to kill that girl... What the f*ck was I thinking... What the hell have I been doing...?'

Andrew walked in the streets out of his costume and in civilians clothes. Ever since he left the pair of father and daughter Andrew's mind had started to clear up, it was like a fog disappeared from his mind. He started to regret some of the things he had done, but not all of it. There were some really bad people out there that needed to be dealt with and he did. He was just going too far. He was losing more and more of himself every day since the accident happened.

'I'm finally here. In the MCU! ...And what am I doing? F*cking breaking people bones so bad they become crippled for life...? Sh*t, all those people I hurt...'

As Andrew aimlessly walked the streets with his mind in disarray he was stopped by someone.

"Are you all right there sonny?"