Thread:The Purpur Man/@comment-26173711-20191005064301/@comment-35691777-20191005073830

Johnny smirked, "You know, now that I think about it, it happened sometime ago during my time after I left the Benefactors. I started joining the criminal underground, and started making potential businesses, some of which focused on the "Fearsome Four", a crew of three males and one female, capable of taking on even the most powerful of the Benefactor agents due to their combat skills, incredible experience, and supply of weaponry. I reached out to put you four down, remove the competition. At first I wanted to recruit you four to me by showing you some of the jobs I had planned, but you four refused because you called it, "too inhuman." But it also got in the way of your bank robberies, as you four managed to always make my ruling of the criminal world harder.

You see, I remember, you said Dmitriyev that you loved to burn things, but even you had limits to what you wanted to burn. You even told me, "I wouldn't bat an eye to taking a life by setting it on a beautiful inferno, and I may be a criminal, hell even insane, but I am not evil like you." I figured as much, for in truth, I wanted to remove you four so I can take over. But I was a fool, each of you four defeated me. Me, a man with power and might beyond your mortal bodies could perform and I was taken down by four humans. You may think you are mere men, and woman, among Gods, but for mere mortals, you possess experience and skills in putting down even the most powerful of beings, which makes you four dangerous, very dangerous. Hell, if the Payday Gang can survive multiversal challenges, imagine what you four can do, and those three never fought super powered beings in their normal lives back on their homeworld yet you four have, the Benefactors. So, I hope that explains your question on how I know him, just as how I know you, Mr. Shintomi, and you Mr, Gardner, long before you were introduced to ELOR, and you as well, Ms. Greene."

"And as for you Mr. Dmitriyev, or Pyro as you prefer to call yourself as, that man you burned, it was at a Russian underground bar, where I used as my base of operations in the Russian underworld. I lured you there, but you were able to defeat me. And you did burn me just as I how I said before, in fact, if you want proof...." Johnny then took off his pants and shoes and glasses, only his underpants were on. "....here it is." It was then Johnny's entire body showed that it was burned and charred to the point in which was as black as charcoal, and there were deep gashes all over his body. His knees were shot up with multiple bullet holes that went clear through, and his eyes were burned out completely.