NESTS

**NESTS** was a secret syndicate originally founded by Nests back in the 1950s, before his son Igniz took over as CEO for 50 years for his world domination. Their goal was to collect fighting data and use them to their agents to defeat said fighters, but for Igniz, he wants a perfect world based on his image. They have highly technological arsenal of weapons and machines on their disposal, and they are the masters on bio-engineering. One of it's well known divisions, NESTS of America, is the main antagonistic force for The Heart Commandos group. It originated from *The King of Fighters '99*, and they where the main antagonist in the second saga.

## History

The evil cartel many people know today was originally a smaller laboratory dedicated on creating clones of dead people. In the early 1950s, Nestarius, still shocked by the loss of his daughter "M", permanently landed on Earth from Domino and founded the place in a still-undisclosed location (and its named after his allias), hiring the first ever employees to introduce them to his Domino technology, one of these was Albert Sheridan, grandfather of future employee James Sheridan. While common place today, back then, it was seen as a game changer.

In a hope of desperation, Nests and the scientists have tried to clone "M" in so many ways, but all of them failed during the prototyping phases, as the machine is still in its early stages. After 3 years of process, they finally succeeded at long last thanks to the miracle made by Dr. Makishima, who will go on to become an important person in the years to come. The clone looks exactly like Nests' dead daughter, right down to her personality and demeanor. Due to a cognitive error during the making however, her brain was affected by it and starts to turn from a sweet, innocent child to a rampaging psychopath ala Wily's masterpiece, killing many employees and destroying the entire lab, including Nests himself. The clone was never seen again and the only survivor left was Makishima.

Nests' eldest son, Igniz, took this opportunity by using his father's corpse as a living puppet to suit his deeds, while he himself secretly becomes the CEO to furfill his God Complex. He soon investigates the mistake Nests and the scientists have made during the cloning process, and it is concluded that Domino's technology does not belong to the lab, and that he needed something else to replace it. That's where he comes across the ruins of Starfall Islands, as he is fascinated by the Ancient's technology and its the answer he is looking for, perfecting it by himself when he returned home. During his travel, he went to Nowhere and discovered the meteor of alien origins that crashed down in 1826, where he took a part of it for his other project, Project Rebirth. He also used parts of the now abandoned lab to build a giant satellite as his new headquarters called Deimos, named after the deity of the same name, all while conducting his own research to find the whereabouts of the "M" clone. Makishima on the other hand starts his process to de-age himself using the ancients' technology to live much longer, which Igniz does so as well.

For the next 40 years, Igniz mantains his position as CEO of NESTS while perfectly posing as his dead father, as well as secretly putting his own DNA into his clones, so yes, Ruina Impulsum, Kula Diamond, K', Sula, Krizalid, Zero, Clone Zero, Flamme, K9999 (later Krohnen) and Nameless are all technically his clones as a way to see if they held the same powers as him, Sula came the closest to it. During this time, the evil cartel use their criminal activities to make many corporations to go banrupt via dealings, making their members wanted by NESTS' agents.

In 1998, however, their ultimate downfall began when they kidnapped a knocked out Kyo Kusanagi for their start-up project, the "Kusanagi Cloning Program". This results in the creations of many Kyo Clones, Krizalid, and K', who becomes the key factor on bringing the cartel down, with Maxima joining his side as well after being turned into a cyborg by Makishima, who soon left the organization after the creation of the Kyo Clones. With Krizalid's first death and the deactivation of almost all Kyo Clones, NESTS decided to open up the Anti-K' project in order to bring K' down. The experiments that are currently confirmed to be involved are Isolde, the unnamed younger sister of a detective named Pedro Garcia Lopez, Lucinia Porter and Kula, the latter became their most successful. Around the same time, they also started Project Ж on the moon, with the 100,000 Kyo Clone, Nameless being the only survivor of it. There's also another project in their works, Turbo Artificial Rapid Intelligence, which is used to modify kidnapped Reploids to obey their orders and become stronger, two of these confirmed Reploids are brothers Twitch and Jolt. After her death, Isolde's DNA was transfered into Nameless' glove to keep her alive. Lucinia was eventually discarded so they can let her to die alone after being labeled as a failure. Same goes to Sylvie Paula Paula, who was considered by the cartel useless by their standards, until she suddenly developed electromagnetic powers.

With the destruction of the Zero Cannon by the traitorous Kula and the death of Clone Zero, NESTS is now in a dire situation. The original Zero thought of bringing back Project Rebirth (which was abandoned years ago for different reasons), but "Nests" (controlled by Igniz) decided that there's no going back, and releases not just the last experiments, Ángel and K9999, but also Nameless as well. He then hosts The King of Fighters 2001 tournament while impersonating as Nests to see if they can reach their headquarters and eliminate them once and for all.

After Team Hero reached the spaceship and defeated not just the original Zero, but his lion Glugan and a ressurected Krizalid, they finally reached the headquarters of the organization. Everyone around the globe and realms are watching the fight unfolded, including Nests' former friend, The Pagemaster. Now that he no longer uses his now disintigrated father's corpse, Igniz reveals to them that he declares himself a god, and that his god complex plan is now at its final climax. Defeating Team Hero was a piece of cake for him, but then other teams soon arrived as well to help K', including Iori Yagami and Kyo, who wants revenge for getting experimented by them. With his defeat, Igniz declares himself a demon and tries to kill everyone (including himself) by plunging the space station into the atmosphere. As the team survived the heat, Igniz felt betrayed by his agent Ron and soon perishes alongside the satellite and Nameless (who chooses to stay behind after changing his heart), ending his god complex and the original NESTS once and for all. With them gone for good, all the agents (sans Ángel and K9999, who are still wanted, and Sylvie Paula Paula, who now wonders around homeless) are finally free at last. Twitch was later saved by Heidern's forces, but Jolt was nowhere to be found. The only trace of him left is an odd message written in blood (presumably using Clone Zero's blood), which reads "The angelic reaper shall rise from the ascended sky for a brand new world. Nobody can leave it...-nobody at all...." Dr. Makishima on the other hand was never seen or heard of it again since the Satellite crash.

Despite being extinct however, remnants of NESTS still continues to lurk the planet, as Dr. Sheridan (who was involved with the Anti-K' Project and for accidentally awakening Lucinia's new powers) and the former agents decided that the organization needed to be split into 8 branchess all over the world, with them becoming CEOs of their respective headquarters, while some have infiltrated tournaments to gather combat data of the partecipants in secret prior to the events of the KOF 99 tournament, which they still do to this day. Ron and Igniz's widow and former secretary, Misty meanwhile, vanished without a trace. One of the 8 branches that still poses a major threat is NESTS of America, originally founded by a unnamed agent before he suddenly dies 20 years later. Luckily for Sheridan, he introduce them to his new creation to replace him as the new CEO; Ruina Impulsum.

## Members

### Executives

* Nests (founder and former leader; dies from "M" rampage, with his corpse being used by his son. Later disintigrated into dust at the KOF 2001 Tournament's conclusion)
* Igniz (new leader, perished in the Satellite crash)
* Misty (Nests' secretary, defected)
* Ron (ninja ally and former Hizoku leader, defected)
* Original Zero (Executive, perished in the spaceship explosion)
* Glugan (Original Zero's pet, perished in the spaceship explosion alongside him)
* Clone Zero (Executive, shot to death by Whip)
* Krizalid (Officier, crushed to death by Clone Zero, then dies the second time by Whip's desert eagle)
* Diana (Officier and one of Kula's protectors; defected)
* Foxy (Officer and one of Kula's protectors; defected)

### Agents

* K' (defected)
* Maxima (defected)
* Whip (defected)
* Kula (defected)
* Candy (destroyed)
* K999 (defected, now as Krohnen McDougall and currently on the run)
* Ángel (defected and currently on the run)
* Kyo-1 and Kyo-2 (both neutralized)
* Kyo-3 (rescued by the first NESTS of America CEO)
* Nameless (perished in the Satellite crash)
* Clone of "M" (vanished during her rampage)
* Isolde (dies from the experiment. Her DNA perished when Nameless dies)
* Albert Sheridan (dies from "M"'s psychopathic rampage)
* Jerad Deek Alan (worked for them allegedly, probably defected)
* Umataro Tenma (worked for them allegedly, probably defected)
* Dr. Makishima (defected, currently in seclusion)
* Dr. Sheridan (defected and becomes employee of NESTS of China)
* Clone of Ling (killed by Heidern)
* Sylvie Paula Paula (defected and hired by Antonov)
* Ebenezer De Rosa (left the cartel upon becoming a cyborg hybrid)
* Other 8 agents (defected and becomes CEOs of their respective divisions)
* Lucinia Porter (discarded, joined The Heart Commandos years later)
* Twitch (rescued by Heidern's operatives)
* Jolt (vanished after the Satallite crash)