Editing Blood Syndicate (section)

===Media spotlight===
Brickhouse and DMZ joined the team at some point after their first crackhouse raid and the annihilation of the attack force. Their exploits attracted the attention of Dakota's local media. The Dakota Chronicle, the city's most popular [[newspaper]] sent reporter Rob Chaplik to score an interview with the Syndicate. Chaplik followed them to a raid on a crack-house, their main source of money. She was killed by one of the drug dealers, but Flashback reversed her death by turning back time three seconds and pushing Rob out of the way of the shotgun blast that killed her the first time. Holocaust burned the shooter to death before he could fire again.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 28, 2011 |title=''Blood Syndicate'' #1 Review |url=http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/blood-syndicate-1-review/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720143023/http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/blood-syndicate-1-review/ |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |access-date=January 30, 2016 |publisher=World of Black Heroes}}</ref>

Holocaust challenged Tech Nine for leadership of the gang, and by the rules they had set down, they had trial by combat to choose which of them would be the leader. Tech Nine took a horrible beating, but ultimately won the fight. Holocaust left the gang in anger rather than submit to Tech's leadership and went off to form a criminal empire.

They took in a new member, a rat-man called the Boogieman, and sought purpose. The gang did not have a true focus, but as their leader, Tech Nine tried to give them one. They discovered and destroyed a hidden lab under the local hospital where scientists experimented on Bang Babies. Boogieman was a big help in fighting the armored security guards protecting the place, and Brickhouse remembered being experimented on in the lab. The gang destroys the lab, but its creator escapes to set up shop elsewhere.

The gang went back to their home (an abandoned factory on the land where the Big Bang took place) to celebrate. During the party, the quantum juice destabilized Tech's body and he died as his flesh melted off of his body. Wise Son took over as leader, but it was clear he was less popular than Tech.

As Wise Son sought to fill Tech's shoes, the team faced multiple threats and disasters. They pondered what to do for money when they ran out of crack houses to rob, but before they could plan, Chinese mobster John Wing sent his forces to kill the Syndicate so they would not interfere with his plans. When they captured him. Wise Son chose to humiliate the man by urinating on him. Wing felt that he had to get revenge at all costs, and murdered his own wife in a supernatural ritual and summoned the Demon Fox. The Fox warned him of the cost of its services, and Wing agreed. After decimating the Syndicate, the Fox returned to Wing to take payment - Wing's life.

The Fox attacked the Syndicate in their headquarters and nearly killed the entire team. In the process, the Fox revealed their deepest secrets; the various revelations hurt worse than the significant physical damage from the fight. The Fox would have killed them all if not for the appearance of Kwai, who was reborn in response to the Fox's rebirth. Kwai revealed that they were mirror sisters - one cannot exist without the other as a counterbalance.

As the gang members woke up slowly, some of them learned each other's secrets. Flashback woke up near Boogieman, and saw that, his speech pattern and mannerisms notwithstanding, Boogieman was white. Fade and Masquerade woke up near each other. During the fight, the Fox reached into Fade's mind and revealed that Fade is gay, something he did not want his teammates to ever know. Masquerade overheard, right before taking a severe beating from the Fox. Fade woke up before Masquerade, and saw that Masquerade had reverted to a female form when knocked cold. Fade promised not to tell anyone that Masquerade was born a woman, and Masquerade threatened that if he did, he would tell everybody that Fade was gay.

Soon after they survived the Demon Fox, a super being named Rift with reality-warping powers nearly destroyed their reality and the one inhabited by the DC superheroes. The Syndicate had to fight alongside the heroes they knew ([[Static (DC Comics)|Static]], [[Icon (character)|Icon]], [[Rocket (DC Comics)|Rocket]], [[Hardware (character)|Hardware]]) and with [[Superman]], [[Conner Kent|Superboy]] and [[Steel (John Henry Irons)|Steel]] from the [[DC Universe]]. Eventually they all manipulated Rift into reversing the damage he caused and to go into hibernation, where he could not alter reality any further.

The team's tensions escalated. Wise Son embarrassed Boogieman by forcing him to reveal that he was white. He acted like he put Boogie off the team for lying to them, but then told him he could stay. This furthered dislike of Wise's leadership, particularly by Third Rail. He and Brickhouse developed a romantic relationship and contemplated moving out on their own when Masquerade betrayed the team. They chose to raid one last crackhouse to raise money. Kwai was shot during this raid and nearly died. Wise Son blamed Flashback - he had told her to watch out for Kwai since she was new, but Flashback was more interested in stealing some of the crack to fuel her habit.

They got Kwai back to their headquarters at her request; she was able to heal herself supernaturally. As the rest of them made their way home, Masquerade stole the money and successfully made a break for it. This widened the growing rift in the team and prompted Third and Brick to take their remaining money and leave the gang to start a life together.