To anyone reading this - prepare for a long, long, long convoluted plot.
Bungoing Stray Dogs, Part One: Anemic Rat & Jester Card
Fyodor is kicked out of the orphanage and finds Kunkida scribbling in a notebook madly about a suspected 'ghost' haunting the area. Upon meeting him and Tecchou, his stomach grumbles, and Tecchou offers him sugared boiled eggs which Fyodor raises an eyebrow at, and Kunikida promptly beats the shit- sorry, I meant politely rejected Tecchou's advances and gave Fyodor some sushi since he's genuinely just splurging at this point. After, Fyodor takes his leave, at which point a tired police officer finds him and shoots him, thinking he's the 'ghost'/'monster' roaming the place. He dies, but discovers his ability in the process - his first death.
After Crime & Punishment kicks in, he finds himself at the hands of the ADA when Tecchou bursts in, having heard the gunshots, and finds Fyodor alive but in the body of the police officer that shot him. He questions Fyodor but doesn't go too deep, and Fyodor escapes too many questions about what just happened. Tecchou calls Kunikida, who bursts in with a worried man with split hair (Sigma), an old man who looks too tired for this shit (Hirotsu) and a little guy who looks like he wants to genuinely murder everyone but has really nice hat fashion that Fyodor, as a proud ushanka wearer, can appreciate.
Back at the agency, he meets Q. Q's ability can affect anyone, but instead of being just limited to pain, Q can regulate conditions and abilities via Dogra Madra. He's a tad insane - but hey. who isn't? Not like our resident rat isn't cilincally insane. Anyways, his entry test is trying to convince Gin to not blow her(them?)self up, which he does by just being a creepy bastard and passes. Yay! Fyodor, our ADA member. (I feel so proud typing this like yes officer THAT is the person made from what I've coined *Bungo Stray Dogs but the roles are Stray just like the Dogs)
In an alleyway, he meets the Port Mafia's 'Force of Nature' - Kenji, who is after the bounty set on his head. Tanizaki uses his ablity to put up illusions at Kenji's bequest. Kenji puts up an innocent facade that isn't 100% fake, but uses that to lure Fyodor in before nearly killing him before Kunikida interrupts and stops the two of them, revealing his job as.a......drumroll...Port Madia executive! Wow!:00000
Fyodor accompanies Hirotsu and Sigma on various jobs, where he learns the various types and combinations of abilties. Since Fyodor isn't exactly Atsushi's age in this AU, he wishes he had a more combative ability before Hirotsu teaches him a lesson - that any ability can be made combative.
Later, when he accompanies Sigma on a trip to buy materials for the agency, he meets the mad lemon bomber Kajii and the Port Mafia's Jester Card, Nikolai, who feels frustration at being caged by the mafia and being forced to assassinate people and essentially serve as their Jack of All Trades ability (transportation, killing, etc.) Sigma somehow beats up Kajii (I have this vision of Sigma like whipping out a hair dryer and swinging it by the cord the whack our favourite lemon guy but idk) and Fyodor tells Nikolai the same stuff he said to him in canon - "You fight to resist God, etc.) and tells him he's free to live for himself. Inspired, Nikolai takes off the bomb and teleports Sigma and Fyodor away, declaring that he's joining their motley crew now.
Nikolai drags Fyodor around Yokohama in exchange for information, eventually ending up at the lake where he says to Fyodor that death might be the ultimate release from slavery, and Fyodor tries to stop him. Suddenly, Kenji appears, knocking Fyodor out and telling Nikolai "It's not your fault, but he'll be taking Fyodor now." Nikolai, shocked and desperate, teleports Kenji and Fyodor away just as Kenji dives into a truck, knocking Nikolai out as well as he decides to drag them both onto the ship.
Meanwhile, it's revealed that Nikolai previously kidnapped Kunikida and took him to the Port Mafia base where the feared executive Nakajima Atsushi walks in, revealing history between the two. The history? Who knows, but Kunikida manages to convince Atsushi to let him go.
On the ship, Hirotsu uses Reversed Falling Camellia to locate Fyodor, and Tecchou speeds off the save the two of them. On the ship, Nikolai uses his ability as Fyodor instructs to put up a fight against Kenji, combining his frankly OP ability with Fyodor's smarts to wear Kenji down. Tecchou arrives and manages to save them both.
Bungoing Stray Dogs, Part Two: The Americans and Their Middle Names
When Kunikida returns, the ADA learns that an American organization - the Guild - has placed the bounty on Fyodor's head, and their boss, the feared Fitzgerald arrives for their permit. Lucy traps Chuuya in Anne's Room, and by taking him off-guard, manages to kidnap him successfully. By chasing her, Fyodor and Gin manage to infiltrate Anne's Room along with a mysterious man with a brown cloak and hat that promptly latches onto the nearest lollipop and starts licking it eagerly.
Fyodor and Gin struggle, but Ran-I mean, the mytserious man, gives them advice on how to beat Anne. They escape successfully, and Ranpo is revealed as the Port Mafia boss - someone feared for his smarts and unknown limits.
Later, Kenji, Kaji, Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Higuchi, and Mori attack Nathaniel, Margaret, and the rest of the ship. It plays out as canon, with Kenji falling into a coma and Tanizaki looking desperately for a way to bring his friend back. He earns the respect of the Black
Lizard this way while the Agency fights their own battles.
We meet Dazai, one of the executives of the Port Mafia and someone who wants Nikolai back. He tells Nikolai he'll onoly ever be free when killing people and nearly convinces Nikolai to return before Fyodor counters him, telling Nikolai that the only place he'll never be needed is the Agency, and thus where he'll be free always. Nikolai and Fyodor pull off their combination again and capture Dazai to the Agency, where Kunikida makes a deal with him to not harm Nikolai in exchange for staying put. Dazai doesn't really care about Nikolai - he's just as very valuable piece of his he doesn't want to lose.
I'm not sure who's taking Q's place here, so let's just say the Guild has some mysterious ability user with the same ability as Q's. They trigger the incident once more, plunging Yokohama into a state of distress as the Port Mafia begins damage control and Fyodor is sent to the Moby Dick along with Kenji to fight Fitzgerald under Kunikida and Dazai's command.
In the meantime, Kunikida and Atsushi travel to fight Lovecraft and Steinbeck, revealed as the duo of ability users that can fight anyone. Atsushi's fully transformed claws can shred a page of Kunikida's reality-altering book, thus becoming a weapon that can affect space, time, and the basic world on a foundational level that doesn't compare to The Book but is far more powerful than any other combination (for now). Using this power, they manage to defeat Lovecraft and thus end one facet of the Guild's plan. (Genuinely pulling this out of my ass I have no idea id this even works but trust)
Meanwhile, Sigma and Hirotsu travel to a challenge, where they meet the 35-killer, Izumi Kyouka and her trusty companion Demon Snow. Kyouka challenges Hirotsu to a fight and turns out they have beef. Back when Kyouka's parents died, Hirotsu was assigned to investigate but didn't notice the blood, sparking this conflict. Hirotsu wins easily even without Sigma's help and admits his wrongs, asking Kyouka for forgiveness and establishing a sort of grandfather-daughter relationship.
On the airship, Fyodor and Kenji encounter Fitzgerald and begin to fight. They discover a singularity between their abilities - one channels the power of Mother Nature and the other goes against the very laws that define nature - creating a singularity where Kenji essentially cannot die in his 'anger' state and grows more powerful with every blow taken. Nikolai helps from the airship prison he was placed in after Dazai was taken by the Agency, essentially passing his test and gaining even finer control over his ability - being able to teleport things far longer than 30 metetrs. Eventually, they defeat Fitzgerald and fall, where they meet up with Dazai and Kunikida who disable the ability and save Yokohama. (We're skipping the Fitzgerald subplot since none of the Guild is swapped except Poe.)
Bungoing Stray Dogs, Part Three: Cannibalism, Except There's a Raccoon
Pushkin infects Q and Ranpo, triggering the Cannibalism event between the two organizations. Each one is set out to get the other, with the ADA firmly on the losing side when the Mafia shows up to kill Q with full forces blowing - Atsushi, Dazai, everyone. Meanwhile, the Agency is dvivided and afraid, but they power through via Fyodor's strategy and Nikolai's ability.
Using Nikolai's ability, he's able to repitively buy time for the ADA by simultaneously teleporti ng Q and the others away from the Mafia and teleporting the Mafia far away from them. This buys them time to set up a hideout in Anne's Room, where he joins them after. Kunikida makes a deal with Dazai and Atsushi where they work together, since Ranpo - the main brains of the Mafia - is infected and he doesn'[t want to take the risk. They agree, but on the confdition that if the ADA fails, the Mafia can kill Q.
This is a short arc, since I don't exactly remember what happens here. I think Dazai and Chuuya's arc took up a lot of this and I genuinely have no idea what Kunkida and Atsushi's history would be.
Kenji and Fyodor fight Ivan with the same abilities that they used to fight Fitzgerald, ultimately defeating him but revealing the true mastermind as Poe. And his raccoon, who escape before either organization can beat him up, thus staring the next arc:
BUT! Who would have saw??? Kuinikida ambushes him via Fitzgerald's Eyes of God and sends Poe to Mersault!! What???:0000
Bungoing Stray Dogs, Part Four: The DOA, but Anemic Rat & Jester Card Strike Again
We open with Hirotsu and Kyouka out on an excursion to the tower, sent by Q to retrieve a mystery novel for peace negotiations with Ranpo, the Port Mafia boss. While retrieving it, they find a murder (I assume Mushitaro is just Mushitaro?) and Hirotsu finds a susicious person named Mushitaro, who turns out to be the murder/eraser. It's revealed Poe approached Mushitaro, intrigued about his ability and commissioned him to erase some crimes for him. When Mushitaro escapes after Hirotsu's suspicions cannot be proven legally, he is arrested after Hirotsu lectures him about guilt and such.
On the way to be arrested, someone murders the driver. This person is revealed to be Jouno, a member of the Decay of the Angels - a group of people aiming for complete world domination, and takes Mushitaro after Mushitaro manages to warn Hirotsu about the situation.
The arc offically kicks off when the agency sans Hirotsu, Q, and Kunikida are sent to investigate a terrorist attack. Fyodor is sent in first to gather intelligence and is met by Jouno, who knows about his ability and just sticks him in the ground to be rid of him. Fyodor learns that there are more people like him and waits for someone to come, thinking of plans to save the Agency - because you know what? He's grown to care for the only place that called him home.
Meanwhile, Tecchou, Sigma, Nikolai, and Chuuya are sent to investigate. Through the book's influence, they are painted as the terrorists of the DOA, and try to escape via Nikolai's ability and Chuuya's ability, but are hunted by the Hunting Dogs, who are revealed to be Kouyou, Fukuzawa, Teruko, Yosano, and one more we don't know yet. Fukuzawa and Teruko find them and capture Sigma, Tecchou, and Chuuya before realizing Nikolai's not there and being taken off-guard when a full-grown, massive tiger drops from the sky and reveals himself to be Atsushi, saving all of them per Ranpo's orders. They run from the Hunting Dogs, managing to avoid Kouyou's Golden Demon only by Tecchou's sacrifice, jumping off the stab Kouyou with his sword as the rest of them run on Atsushi's back, sped by Chuuya's Gravity Manipulation.
Nikolai saves Fyodor in the ground, and they run. When they learn the Agency is essentially disbanded, they try ot find Mushitaro and manage to run, but end up becoming allies with Ango after teleporting out and leaving traces that Ango tracks them by. After making allies with Ango, the two of them locate Fitzgerald and ask for his Eyes of God. Fitzgerald agrees, but on the one condition that Sigma be able to heal Margaret by giving her information on her family and giving her a fit mental state to be revived. They agree, and learn where the ADA is hiding. (I changed the series of events here since I coudln't really figure stuff out, lol.)
Higuchi is revealed as the fifth Hunting Dog after trapping Sigma. Sigma healed Margaret, though, so Fyodor and Nikolai use Eyes of God to find out where Kunikida and Q are. Higuchi rejoins the Hunting Dogs.
We learn that Kunikida and Poe are in Mersault together, discussing notebooks like a world class-conniseur. Poe brought Karl over in a book, and they end up discussing animal regulations. This goes on for the entirety of this arc. Wow.
Higuchi and Kouyou are sent to inbvestigate the Sky Casino run by Tachihara, a man with a history of war and metal-bending. Lucy, Nikolai and Fyodor also head over to the Sky Casino to investigate Tachihara, and Kouyou and Higuchi end up pursuing them. Higuchi discovers the coin bombs, but Kouyou's Golden Demon saves Higuchi before she needs to use her ability, and they continue to pursure Tachihara, eventually forcing him to fall from the Sky Casino after telling Fyodor what the DOA is after. He's saved by Jouno, who dissovles himself into particles to save Tachihara from the sky.
Bungoing Stray Dogs, Part Five: The DOA, but Yosano is Girlboss
Fyodor and Nikolai figure out what they have to do for the ADA, and Hirotsu manages to rescue all of the ADA and reunite them for the airplane arc. Before that, though, Fyodor and Hirotsu try to convince Yosano to join their cause, as she's the most influential as an Angel of Death. They manage to convince her and board the ship set for Yokohama.
Fyodor, after thinking, realizes that Yosano is Kamui - the boss of the DOA - and manages to tell Hirotsu to escape before he's nearly killed by Yosano. However, Yosano knows his ability, so she doesn't kill him - giving Kenji a chance to step out from the shadows and attack Yosano alongside Fyodor. They manage to kill Yosano, but she just revives with Thou Shalt Not Die and manages to pick off Kenji before Kenji chucks Fyodor back to land. Yosano sics Bram on Kenji, starting the Vampirism arc.
At the airport to retrieve the One Order, the fights go as canon. Yosano asks Fukuzawa if he'd like to join in, considering he's on the side of 'justice' - but Fukuzawa refuses and subsequently gets turned into a vampire by Bram. Aya discovers Bram and ecapes with him, running into Chuuya, who tries to protect them by fighting Teruko. It ends in a draw as Tecchou reports back to Hirotsu with every new development, sending Fyodor to find Aya, where he runs into Kouyou.
In Mersault, Jouno and Tachihara break Poe and Kunikida out. Jouno reveals that he really just wants someone to suffer so the world can heal, and sets the same game on the two of them. Poe waits for a 'Vampired' Atsushi to come to him while Kunikida takes Tachihara, and the arc plays out the same way - with Poe nearly being killed by a vampire but escaping via a book back to the surface, where an unsuspecting e-mail owner finds him. Atsushi and Kunikida go back to the mainland.
Fyodor and Kouyou have their fight, ending with Kouyou telling Fyodor about the DOA's ultimate goal after figuring that she cannot kill Fyodor and it's not worth it. Conflicted, Fyodor tries to think and ends up going to where Q, Hirotsu, and Yosano have their final confrontation, during which Q stabs Yosano and ends the airport arc with Aya and Bram's fate ending up the same way.
As for 'Two Hours Later'....yeah, let's leave it at that.
Thanks for the amazing AU~!
