Breakbank Association

The Breakbank Association were a secret criminal organisation based in East London, started by a wheelchair-bound Darren Edmunds and his sister Hannah in early 2011 after he stood trial for kidnap and the attempted murder of Vicky and Jo Richardson; giving away most of his life-savings to hire the best Solicitors. While this earned him minimal jail time in light of his fractured lower spine, for which Wildstar was not charged, it left him almost penniless, but after calling in a few favours from his father's friends, and promising to earn back his what he borrowed, created the group with the intent of robbing banks and stealing money deposits and technology which he used to upgrade his sister's prosthetic arm to make it stronger and eventually with similar microwave technology to his old gun. The group also engaged in the sale of drugs and resale of proteptomine variants.

After a few years Edmunds earned himself a lot of money, most of which, however went back to repaying his debt with his gangster-backers, and with Sovereign being reckless and his own sister's eventual betrayal, Volt managed to shut down Breakbank by destroying their hideout whilst on a Guild mission to take down Blayze and Rilla.

### **History**

While Edmunds was not a fan of superhumans, particularly neos, knew that to become an outstanding organisation, and to get things done quickly, he would have to try and hire some; through his same contacts, Edmunds was put in touch with a neohuman who was thought to be living in a run-down council estate in South London; When Edmunds showed, he discovered the neo was just a 19-year-old dropout, whose 'posse' had been terrorising the neighbourhood for months. Though he was cocky, rude, obnoxious and had no manners, he'd already been living comfortably in his father's old flat for the last three weeks by robbing ATM's with a single hit and divvying the money between him and his friends. This neo, who called himself 'Sovereign', had the ability to change his skin into a golden, biometal form, didn't want his friends to know he was a neo, and with that agreement, Edmunds agreed to give him a large cut, and intense action.

His second Recruit was through Sovereign; his best friend and cousin Shane "Bitz" Nesbit; while he had no powers, Bitz was a hacker, quite a connected DJ and drug runner, with his primary attribute being his vast connections, and once more Edmunds and Bitz seemed to have some mutual acquaintances and developed a close friendship quickly.

Though Bitz, they found the neohuman Blayze, who at the time was being sought for arson and was hiding in an abandoned dockside warehouse, where a drug deal was about to go down and Blayze was about to take the money for himself; When Edmunds found a chance to use some of his technology, notably his thermal scope goggles to detect Blayze, He, Sovereign, Hannah and Shane confronted Blayze; who at first laughed and attempted to fly away. When Hannah blasted him with a microwave burst that seemed to disrupt his powers, Blayze was genuinely impressed and joined the group under the promise that he kept the money he's just stolen for himself.

Together the group began easily robbing banks, breaking into technology storage units and even ripping ATM's, coordinated expertly by Edmunds and Bitz in various cities over the following few years, much to the befuddlement of the police and investigative agencies the country over.

The final member recruited later in 2012 was a woman named Wendy, a cybrid with a gorilla-like mutation who acted as head of security for Bailey Industries, in hopes that the company would find some way of reversing her cybridism; while she let Bailey take samples, and experiment painfully on her, never found a solution to 'cure' her condition and treated her both badly and then ignored her, claiming that the alterations done to her as an embryo by PGI Research were permanent after their manifestation at puberty and that it was her problem. Angry, Wendy was looking to quit, until Darren contacted her. Already a friend of James Bailey and his father Boise who owned Bailey Industries, Darren suggested that Wendy stay as security for Bailey Industries, and that she would get back at the company by helping steal various forms of advanced chemical formulas; this would lead Darren to be able to replicate, use and sell the proteptogen chemical to others.

Eventually, however James, already suspicious of vanishing chemicals, and more than aware of threats to his father's company, and in mid 2013 decided to find out what was happening, he found Blayze, Sovereign and Wendy, now calling herself "Rilla", were raiding one of Bailey Industries storage warehouses in Croydon. While he tried to fight off the group, was defeated and almost killed. Darren, however stopped the final blow, not wanting to hurt his old friend.

While James spent several months in hospital, and began losing control of his smoke form; finding issue remaining solidified, his father fired Wendy and upped security to such an extent it nearly bankrupted he company; but the damage was already done. James, however wouldn't let the insult go, and although he wasn't aware that Edmunds was the mastermind behind the operations, he contacted the Guild's British branch in 2014 with a substantial pay, where Volt and Kestrel picked up the job.

Together Volt, Kestrel and Fume helped hunt track the Breakbank Organisation in a year-long hunt; eventually collaring Hannah Edmunds, who, sick of her brother's bullying ways, and the group's criminality, wanted to turn a new leaf; this enabled them to take down Blayze and Rilla in 2015. Edmunds, however got away along with Bitz and Sovereign.