Archive for November 7th, 2011

#3 – The Warden

THE WARDEN
They faked the moon landing. It’s pretty obvious when you look really closely at the footage. How they did it, is plain as day if you know what to look for. Anyone with a bit of filmmaking experience and half a brain can tell you how. What they always miss is why. People think they faked it because they just plain couldn’t get there – that they needed something to fake out the Russians to buy some time, but that’s bull. We can get there. We’ve been able to get there since the ’40s. Hell, the Nazis nearly got there themselves. We can get there, but we’re not allowed.

The Russians found that out when Gagarin came back from orbit. They got some guy to pose as the returning hero, but the truth is that Gagarin, the real Gagarin, was torn out of his capsule, and literally thrown back to earth. Most of him burned up on re-entry, but I’m told by credible sources there are some remains – though hardly recognizable.

And thanks to the high level of Cold War paranoia, the Russians never told NASA, so Alan Shepherd bought it the same way. And you know, they keep trying, every few years. They’ve tried bombs, missles, decoys, what have you, but he’s always there, out in the dark. Waiting. He lets us have satellites, for some reason. Even those black-ops weapon satellites nobody’s supposed to know about. Guess he doesn’t really care what we do to each other. As far as the rest of the solar system, or hell, the rest of the universe for all we know, his message to humanity is clear. NO TRESSPASSING.

06 – Ms. Mercury

… continued from Character #5, War-Dove…

… Henrietta Glass!

Dr. Glass is a biology professor who made her way to the Danaian landing site moments before the aliens arrived.  She came out of her own curiosity when she overheard her colleagues joking about some reports that amateur astronomers had begun calling in to the university.  She was the scientist with the quick wits who doused Senator Trent Day with the Danaian Elixir transforming him into the Gold Gladiator.

When the meteors began to fall, the golden Sen. Day shielded her and his wife, Hilda, from the initial impacts and left them in the back of an Army jeep.  A jeep that was unfortunately hit by small meteor throwing her and Mrs. Day out into the field unprotected.  That is when the coughing fits began.  Each breathe Henrietta took was followed by a painful exhalation of golden mist.  Henrietta watched in awe, still clutching the Elixir, as Hilda Day fought through her own convulsions and performed miraculous feats of strength.  When Hilda destroyed an incoming meteor Henrietta, like everyone on the ground, ran for cover from the falling debris.

Tripping in her search for shelter, Dr. Glass dropped the Elixir flask, breaking it and exposing Dr. Glass to the entirety of its contents.  Covered in luminescent liquid, she looked on in horror as a chunk of space rock came hurtling towards her.  The meteor fragment never made contact as it continued through the space Dr. Glass had been occupying unimpeded as her body separated into two smaller, chrome beings both, strangely, under her control.

Appropriately dubbing herself Ms. MERCURY, Henrietta Glass is the science officer for the Secret Soldier.  Her body has been completely metamorphosed into a mercurial metallic substance that allows her to split into smaller versions of herself, all controlled by her central consciousness.  In addition, her mirror-like body is hard to damage as most attacks will either pass through or cause her to automatically separate.

As the lead investigator into the change that occurred in those individuals present in that Michigan forest that historic evening, Dr. Glass discovered that these extraordinary transformations were the work of a virus of extraterrestrial origin.  Upon infection, the virus is capable of altering an individual down to the atomic level with wildly unpredictable results.  Take for example…

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05 – War-Dove

… continued from Character #4, the Enforcer…

… Hilda Day, professor of archaeology and wife of Senator Trent Day!

Through fits of coughing up a golden mist, Hilda Day shocks both the newly mechanized PFC Johnson and herself when she helps him lift a meteor pinning down a state trooper.  A meteor that weighs over ten tons!  Taking all of the weight herself she effortlessly tosses the space rock several hundred feet into the woods.  Looking about she sees her gilded husband helping a small group of soldiers while Johnson pulls the injured trooper to safety.  Hilda hears a voice coming from overhead and turns her attention to the heavens to see Captain Hughes flying under his own power pointing to another, larger meteor falling toward them.

Reacting without thinking, Mrs. Day leaps into the air, toward the plummeting boulder and flies past the hovering, glowing Hughes to intercept it before impact.  Misjudging her speed and power, Hilda plows through the meteor, shattering it into millions of pieces saving the people gathered below.  Taking a breath after her incredible feat, Hilda is tapped on the shoulder by Captain Hughes and realizes that she is watching the proceedings below while hovering in the air.

The events of that fateful day left Hilda transformed.  Her strength is astonishing, able to lift twenty tons given the right circumstances.  Her body, while not as invulnerable as her golden spouse’s, is very resilient and capable of shrugging up gunfire.  Donning a Nordic-inspired costume and the nom de guerre WAR-DOVE, Hilda Day fights along side her husband and fellow members of the Secret Soldiers!  In addition, Hilda can fly for short distances and provides some aerial assistance to the team’s resident aerialist, Azure Aviator.

While Hilda’s spontaneous heroics prevented those present at the Danaians first appearance, debris from the broken meteor nearly killed…

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04 – The Enforcer

… continued from #3, the Azure Aviator…

… PFC Rocky Johnson.  Deployed from a nearby Army outpost on the northern shore of the Upper Peninsula, PFC Johnson bore witness to the Danaian encounter and was present when the meteors began to fall.  Johnson’s quick thinking saved Captain Hughes’ life when he pushed the Army aviator out of the path of meteor that granted him his powers.  Unfortunately this maneuver cost the Private his hands and most of his forearms, as they were crushed in the impact.

In the ensuing confusion of the meteoric storm, the injured Johnson, in complete shock by this point, fell upon the dropped Danaian “disc of universal knowledge.”  The disc lit up at the Johnson’s touch and emitted a ray of light that pulled bits of metal from Senator Day’s helicopter and Johnson’s own jeep and fashioned them into large mechanical hands that were summarily fused to the ends of what remained of Johnson’s arms.

These mechanical hands, which upgrade themselves from time to time and automatically repair themselves from available materials, grant PFC Johnson incredible strength.  These powerful prosthetics, coupled with his skills as an Army boxer, allow Johnson, using the field name of ENFORCER, to serve as a capable combatant as a member of the Secret Soldiers.

Despite recent traumatic events, Johnson’s instincts again saved lives when he made short work of an incoming meteor with a mighty blow of his mechanical hands.  He found the limits of his newly acquired strength when he attempted to move a large asteroid that had pinned a state trooper named Korvus Kain.  Eventually the hefty rock began to move.  Johnson was surprised to receive aid from…

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