File 8: Anya Volkova, codename “Uzi”. Age 14.  Born in a poor Ukrainian village, Anya was never wanted. Her parents saw only her beauty — wide blue eyes, golden hair — and when money grew tight, they sold her into a trafficking ring. From age 6, Anya lived in a nightmare of exploitation, trained to please and perform, her childhood erased in exchange for someone else’s profit.

At 9 years old, she was “rescued” — but not by heroes. The Organisation acquired her from the traffickers. Officially she became “an orphan,” another child nobody wanted, perfect material for their experiments. Brainwashing was applied, but not thoroughly: fragments of memory stuck deep in her subconscious, shaping her strongly.

Enhancements: Serums amplified speed, accuracy, ambidexterity. Combat Role: running gunner — she charges headfirst into enemy squads, dual Uzis blazing, “crashing the party” in a blur of bullets and laughter. Recklessly fast, her attacks overwhelm before the enemy can react.

Psychical evaluation: Her childhood trauma left two fragments in her subconsciousness. Fragment one - her awareness of her own body, how men had looked at her, how it was “used.” Twisted into power, she now flaunts her form — tight clothes, semi-revealing outfits, confidence weaponized. She knows how to bait, distract, or pose as a femme fatale to lure targets closer. With make-up and the right clothes, she can appear far older.
Fragment two - her parents’ betrayal. Years later, she tracked them down while on a mission in Ukraine. Not out of rage — but cold calculation. She murdered them slowly, methodically, smiling as she whispered “hello, I was your daughter” before ending them. That revenge gave her closure, but it also showed how unstable she really was.

Personality: Cheerful, arrogant, hyperactive. Cruel streak: enjoys watching people suffer, often toys with her victims. Loves the thrill of combat — her giggles often echo in firefights, unnerving even allies. Like her namesake guns — short bursts, but devastating.

File 9: Amelie Vogt, codename “Nightmare”. Age 14. Amelie was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into an ordinary middle-class family. Nothing seemed wrong at first — but by the age of 5, her parents noticed her disturbing behavior. She would mutilate animals for fun, laughed when other children cried, and began inventing cruel “games” that always left someone injured. By age 6, she attacked a classmate so violently the child ended up in hospital. Her parents, terrified, gave up. Amelie was committed to a mental health institution for children — officially for treatment, unofficially because nobody wanted her at home. At first she played the role of a model patient: smiling, polite, calm. Then the night came when she stabbed an orderly in the leg with a dinner knife “to see how sharp it was.” At age 8, the Organisation saw an opportunity. They pulled her from the asylum under the guise of a secret rehabilitation program. In truth, she was perfect material: already violent, already broken. Brainwashing “stabilized” her — but really, it just layered obedience over her natural sadism. Then came the serums. The result? Her mind was not repaired. It was amplified. Stronger body, stronger impulses. Nightmare was born.

Enhancements: superhuman strength (second only to “Beast”). Able to carry and fire heavy machine guns solo. Can punch through doors, dent cars, or throw grown men across rooms. Prefers heavy automatics (FN Minimi, Browning BAR) → sheer suppressive firepower. Aside from that she has a specially designed heavy scythe for close quarters combat. She is a living battering ram. In open terrain she is devastating, a one-girl storm of bullets. In cities… chaos.

Psychical evaluation: She learned to fake “normalcy.” Dresses in gothic lolita / occult styles, plays the role of a gloomy teenager with a morbid sense of humor. True self - psychotic, sadistic, violent. Enjoys causing pain, enjoys fear even more. She tries to suppress her mania in daily life, but cracks often show: creepy smiles at the wrong moment, whispering to herself, sudden bursts of aggression or hysterical laughs.

Notable Incident: An operation in Berlin outskirts. The task was to eliminate a group of radical extemists. Nightmare, against orders, jumped two stories down onto a parked car, crushing its roof flat. Without missing a beat, she pulled out a BAR and tore through every hostile in sight. Zero civilian casualties — but property damage was big, police attention unavoidable. She was nearly terminated after this, but her effectiveness kept her alive.

File 10: Maya Cortez, codename “Rider”. Age 18. Born in New Mexico USA (Latino descent). Maya Cortez was one of the Organisation’s earlier test subjects, taken in at the age of 8. Like others from that generation, she underwent brainwashing and early-stage serum treatments. The serums enhanced her speed, endurance, and reflexes, but not to the same extraordinary levels as the later Fangs. To keep up, Maya threw herself into relentless training, building strength and skill the hard way.

Her saving grace came in the form of a Cuban trainer, Raúl Herrera, a grizzled guerrilla warfare veteran in his late forties. Maya idolized him with the loyalty of a soldier who finally found someone worth following. He taught her urban warfare tactics, survival skills, and discipline. Years later, when Herrera left the group, Maya defected alongside him. She stayed with Herrera until his death from terminal lung cancer. True to his legacy, he chose to go out fighting — dying on his feet in a raid rather than wasting away in bed. After his passing, Maya drifted on her own for a time. During those years, she embraced rebellion, covering herself with tattoos and piercings — not trophies, but marks of self-expression and defiance. Eventually, she returned to the Fangs, on her own terms.

Specialization: Urban warfare specialist – trained extensively in close-quarters battle and ambush tactics. Expert in vehicular combat, motorcycle maneuvers, and high-speed evasions. As a tactician she relies on experience and discipline rather than raw enhancements. Also serves as the getaway driver for the team.

Psychical evaluation: Unlike some of the others, Maya is mentally stable. Grounded, pragmatic, and experienced, she is the squad’s reliable combatant. She knows her limits, but compensates with tactical cunning and hard-earned grit. Despite her loyalty to the Fangs, she maintains a streak of independence and carries herself with the swagger of someone who’s survived more than once on her own. Her love for speed is legendary, motorcycles are her obsession. Nothing makes her feel more alive than the roar of an engine beneath her and the wind in her face. The rush translates into her combat style: fast, aggressive, and hard to pin down.

File 11: Milena Dragović, codename “Doc”. Age 22. Serbia (Kosovo conflict survivor). Role: Medic, serum technician, interrogator. She grew up in a warzone, helping her parents (both doctors) treat rebels and civilians. Exposed early to blood, amputations, and death; developed a cold pragmatism. Orphaned after her parents were killed; taken by the Organisation at 12.

Enhancements: Early serum trials enhanced her intelligence rather than her body. Physically unimpressive, but mentally razor-sharp. Initially considered a failed subject until she instinctively saved lives during an explosion incident. Reassigned as medic trainee; quickly excelled in medicine, biology, and chemical sciences. Later became essential to serum production and maintenance — administering the replenishment cycles to all active Fangs.

Special skills: Advanced field medicine, surgery, and trauma care. Deep knowledge of the Organisation’s serum maintenance protocols. Skilled interrogator with a taste for sadistic methods, often using her medical expertise for controlled torture. Basic combat training; favors pistols and scalpels when needed, but tries to avoid combat at all cost.

File 12: Talia Graves, codename “Fixer”. Age 17. Graves grew up in the ghettos of Detroit, scavenging and repairing broken electronics, vehicles, and weapons. By her early teens she was already designing improvised drones and hacking consumer electronics. Her resourcefulness and low regard for moral boundaries made her adaptable to the Fangs’ needs. Talia Graves was never meant to be part of the program. Encountered by accident during an operation in Detroit, she was originally marked for termination to maintain operational secrecy. However, her exceptional technical abilities, quick thinking, and willingness to cooperate convinced unit leader Trella to bring her into the fold. Unlike other assets, Graves has received no enhancements or conditioning.

Abilities: technical expertise, weapons modification, field repairs, drones, surveillance systems, IED design, hacking. Rapid improvisation - can build and deploy effective solutions under pressure using limited resources. Unenhanced Physiology: No combat serum enhancements. Limited combat ability compared to other operatives. Relies on intellect and equipment.

Operational value: Graves has proven indispensable in several missions where equipment failure or tactical disadvantage would have otherwise resulted in casualties. She compensates for her lack of combat enhancements with innovative support systems — particularly her weaponised drones and hacking skills.

Serum, dependency cycle and irreversible enhancements. So that’s the cost. No miracle without a chain to go with it. All right, the last stack. This is it. The real monster under the bed. Time to meet it face to face.

File 0: History of the Organisation, Project Pandora & Black Fang Program. 

Founded by industrialist, multi-millionaire and CEO of Thanatos Enterprises: Xavier Thanatos. The original goal was to develop mind-control pharmaceuticals. Instead an enhancement serum has been created. Early experiments failed until tested on a young girl. Enhancement worked, but the subject went insane and had to be terminated. Key finding: serum only worked on female physiology (genome & hormonal factors).

2014-2015 - Early program

Serums were tested on young teenagers without brainwash. One of them was Milena Dragović, who came in at the age of 12. Two subjects were partially enhanced but became unstable and had to be terminated. Milena survived but showed only mental enhancement. Results show that success requires prepubescent subjects. Development of full brainwash protocol (memory wipe, obedience protocol, linguistic skills). The first true success came with the 8 years old subject Maya Cortez. Enhancements were limited compared to later subjects, but stable. She has been considered the prototype soldier.

2016-2019 - Development & expansion

The serum has been continuously improved. In the year 2016 two new recruits: Trella Moretti and Aya N´Komo were brought in. Significant enhancements have been achieved. The peak of the program was in the years 2017-2019. The majority of current Fangs was created during this period. Not all subjects survived due to side effects, serum rejection, instability, insanity. The new serum required regular supplementation of some of its components, dependency created. Maya Cortez remained unique: earlier weaker serum version did not create a dependency.

2020 - The collapse

The last successful enhancement was in early 2020 in the form of Anya Volkova. Later that year a disaster hit the program. Xavier Thanatos has been killed by one of his business partners motivated by greed. He tried to seize assets & some of the enhanced girls. The research facility has been destroyed in a massive explosion, unclear if it was an accident, sabotage or security protocol. The majority of the staff and scientists have been killed and the research lost. All seized girls died, since they had no access to the supplement serums. Only survivors were the subjects and staff in the remote training facility: 10 girls, who later formed the Black Fang, trainers Raúl Herrera - a Cuban guerrilla legend, Yael Ben-Ari (Israeli ex-Mossad, codename Black Butterfly), Milena Dragović, a scientist with the knowledge to create and distribute the supplement serums and the mission coordinator Joseph Dawson, who assumed leadership.  

2020-2023 - Black Fang mercenary era

After the fall Joseph Dawson reorganised survivors as Black Fang, using remaining funds to build a base on a small island near the coast of Mexico. Black Fang became guns-for-hire. Standing order remained to track and kill the traitor. In the year 2022 Raúl Herrera retired due to poor health. Maya accompanied him until his death. In the year 2023 Talia Graves was recruited, became “Fixer”.  Later that year the traitor was located and executed. Yael Ben-Ari retired. She went to live in South America.

2024-present day - Transition to US Black Ops

Summer 2024: Encounter with US CIA during a hostage rescue mission. Both sides cooperated successfully. Second collaboration confirmed the Fangs’ effectiveness. Late in 2024 US intelligence agencies offered amnesty, asylum, clean records and cover identities in exchange for exclusive black ops work. Joseph Dawson accepted. The Black Fang relocated to the US under cover of St. Helena Orphanage in Odenton, MA in early 2025. 

And since then they live dual lives… I know who they are now. And I’ve chosen.

Dawson met her gaze. Then pulled out a blank folder. Slowly, he wrote a single word across the tab. CIPHER