1. What Goes Around, Comes Around
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The humble beginnings of the crime fighting, hired vigilante known as "The Claw," founded by the company Intellect Defense's CEO and owner, Prof. Emile Cloward.
His rise, and also his arch nemesis' Mind Wipe's, rise to power. Introduction of the powerful crime lord known as Crime Shark and foreshadowing the secretive underground science lab, "BioMech."
His rise, and also his arch nemesis' Mind Wipe's, rise to power. Introduction of the powerful crime lord known as Crime Shark and foreshadowing the secretive underground science lab, "BioMech."
Phantessa
Real name: Marla Theresa Walsh
Affiliation: Prof. Emile Cloward, The Claw, and Intellect Defense
Temperament: Smart, clever, direct, defensive, attentive, sharp, and short-tempered.
Weapons/Equipment: Wears a portable, voice-activated device on her belt that allows her to phase through solid objects. Provides some light fracturing ability but it's not designed for that.
Preferred Strike: A snappy come-back with her quick wit in defense of her work.
A scientist, inventor, designer, and perfectionist. Always trying to rebuild the perfect mousetrap! But in order to rebuild it she needs to locate the flaws, which she does too often.
Designer/builder of The Claw's original L.A.W. weapon/equipment in cooperation with the President/Owner of Intellect Defense.
Would rather spend time at a workbench or scientific facility than date or fight crime.
Affiliation: Prof. Emile Cloward, The Claw, and Intellect Defense
Temperament: Smart, clever, direct, defensive, attentive, sharp, and short-tempered.
Weapons/Equipment: Wears a portable, voice-activated device on her belt that allows her to phase through solid objects. Provides some light fracturing ability but it's not designed for that.
Preferred Strike: A snappy come-back with her quick wit in defense of her work.
A scientist, inventor, designer, and perfectionist. Always trying to rebuild the perfect mousetrap! But in order to rebuild it she needs to locate the flaws, which she does too often.
Designer/builder of The Claw's original L.A.W. weapon/equipment in cooperation with the President/Owner of Intellect Defense.
Would rather spend time at a workbench or scientific facility than date or fight crime.
Bondman
Real name: Police Chief Random Bishop
Affiliation: Cycle City, The Claw, and Intellect Defense Temperament: Patient, street-smart, kind, determined, able to take control but also ask for/accept help, and providing. Preferred Weapon: His police-issued .40 caliber pistol. The current police chief of Cycle City, who believes in Ticket's mentor; that more than just police are needed to keep the people safe. Unsanctioned by the mayor, Bishop goes behind his back to supply information to Intellect Defense, supervise The Claw's actions in the field, and provide back-up if necessary. Bishop's daughter, Carol, had the "Prowl" drug forced on her and is secretly receiving treatment from Intellect Defense. |
Mind Wipe
Real name: Prof. Terrance Wixom
Affiliation: Independent villian Temperament: Vengeful, angry, hot-headed, cruel, intelligent, wise, cautious, and clever. Powers/Abilities: To start: Hypnotism, mind read/control, create illusions, create suggestion. After his crystal is permanently implanted: telepathy, telekinesis, pyrotechnic abilities, mental block, and more. Preferred Strike: Incapacitating mental suggestion. His mind is his primary weapon. A scientist in his own right who believes in mental powers. Currently his powers come from a crystaline mask that enhances his mental powers. The mask needs to be periodically recharged through his weapon: a spiked staff. |
Prof. Emile Cloward
“The Smart Name in Defense Technology.”-Company slogan
A brilliant, millionaire scientist who is a respected member of the scientific community, who devotes his resources to developing non-lethal, crowd-control, non-military devices and weapons who is convinced after the death of his wife. Feeling guilty as a scientist for helping to put the industrial companies out of business he frees Todd from prison with Bishop’s help and hires him. He then becomes Todd’s mentor, like a father figure to him, up to the time of his ‘demise.’ |
Ring Blade
Real name: Tyler Johnston
Affiliation: BioMech Temperament: Selfish punk, merciless, cruel, easily provoked, and unwise. Weapons/Equipment: Electro-statically charged magnetic gauntlets that allow him to control any number of metal, bladed weapons. Preferred Weapon: A pair of circular saw blades. Unbeknown to Ticket, Ring Blade is his first connection to the mysterious BioMech, an underground scientific group whose one goal is to use illegal scientific methods/technology to get gain. Ring Blade goes on a killing/theft frenzy by robbing banks. He has magnetic pulses in his hand that allow him to control his bladed weapons and other metals, including Ticket’s claw, showing yet another weakness in Marla’s current designs. |
Crime Shark
Real name: Terence Jones
Affiliation: His underground crime cartel Temperament: Greedy, power-hungry, and insatiable. Smart, feisty, short-tempered, controlling, greedy... vivacious. Weapons/Equipment: Alien, hollowed, blood-sucking teeth, rapid healing, increased strength, and near-impervious bones. Owns a small, local drug cartel company that specializes in the street-drug "Prowl," which is based off of an alien predator's DNA. An overuse of the DNA himself has permanently reformed his teeth into a maw of razor-sharp, needle teeth. Preferred Weapon: Take a bite out of life. Drug-cartel/Blood Prowler smuggler. Dealer/manufacturer of the illegal street drug ‘Prowl.’ Southtown Labs-chemical facility. Leader of his crime syndicate. Responsible for Todd Ticket’s wife’s death. Crime Shark is a low life, street-thug who invented, pushes, and even forces his street-drug "OverProwl" onto hapless victims with the intent to get them addicted and needing more. What he did not know upon first applying the drug on others is that it can cause some seriously adverse effects on the users and their children in the form of birth defects, sometimes giving them incredible powers. Crime Shark has been known to experiment with his "Overdrive" drug to try and create more powerful 'human weapons.' His horrible ‘OverProwl’ street drug is actually taken from the alien Blood Prowlers and makes people feel as powerful as the alien beasts themselves. It is the alien DNA that causes the strange reactions, powers, and abilities in humans. One day he accidentally discovered an alien species living underground in the city, preying on the blood of the living: Blood Prowlers. Hiring a professional - Dead Bolt - to capture the deadly beasts and a top genetic scientist to experiment upon them, he discovered the unusual creatures had some very rare, and powerful, properties. |
A crime boss who has a fascination for anything with teeth – which is why he allowed himself to beginning receiving Blood Prowler’s DNA genes on a small basis at a time until he gained their ferocity, teeth, and appetite. Allows his carnivorous ‘pets’ to hide the evidence of any who… fail him.
With his scientist's help, Crime Shark developed all types of Blood Prowlers: some that breathed fire, some that had energy abilities from his "Overdrive" drug, some the size of diesel trucks, and some with multiple legs like centipedes.
Although unbeknownst to Todd Ticket, Crime Shark is directly involved with his wife's death.
His wife worked as a lab assistant for a scientist who developed a machine that was an electrical anti-oxidant. The machine was designed to ionize everyone's internal toxins in a wide range.
This meant a clean bill of health for everyone.
It also spelled certain doom for Crime Shark's "business enterprises" and saw to it that the project was destroyed. Dead Bolt fired a series of blood darts into the scientist's control room so some Blood Prowlers to go after them. The Master Blood Hunter, Death Watch, tried to stop them but it was too late. The damage to the equipment during it's inaugural test caused a major explosion; killing the scientist, Todd Ticket's wife, and many others in the process. Ticket survived and chased the Master Blood Hunter to the roof in time to see him escape.
However, he never saw Crime Shark and Dead Bolt standing right behind him.
Because of this experience Ticket vowed he would do something to avenge the loss of his wife... and eventually became The Claw.
With his scientist's help, Crime Shark developed all types of Blood Prowlers: some that breathed fire, some that had energy abilities from his "Overdrive" drug, some the size of diesel trucks, and some with multiple legs like centipedes.
Although unbeknownst to Todd Ticket, Crime Shark is directly involved with his wife's death.
His wife worked as a lab assistant for a scientist who developed a machine that was an electrical anti-oxidant. The machine was designed to ionize everyone's internal toxins in a wide range.
This meant a clean bill of health for everyone.
It also spelled certain doom for Crime Shark's "business enterprises" and saw to it that the project was destroyed. Dead Bolt fired a series of blood darts into the scientist's control room so some Blood Prowlers to go after them. The Master Blood Hunter, Death Watch, tried to stop them but it was too late. The damage to the equipment during it's inaugural test caused a major explosion; killing the scientist, Todd Ticket's wife, and many others in the process. Ticket survived and chased the Master Blood Hunter to the roof in time to see him escape.
However, he never saw Crime Shark and Dead Bolt standing right behind him.
Because of this experience Ticket vowed he would do something to avenge the loss of his wife... and eventually became The Claw.
Big Bear
Real name: Briggs Baer
Affiliation: Crime Shark-Bodyguard Temperament: Calm, silent, obedient, and very powerful. Silent, strong, deadly, clueless... hungry. Weapons/Equipment: Controls the living essence of a grizzly bear that is trapped within him, which forms around him as energy when provoked. Preferred Weapon: A giant bear hug. Another child affected by the drug ‘Prowl’ birth defect. All ‘Prowl’ birth defect individuals gain their ‘ability’ from their most prominent natural talent/emotional feature-it amplifies their strengths in odd and unique ways. A side effect is that he has lost the ability to speak. Capable of communication only in grunts and growls. When the energy form is not in use Big Bear is often hungry and still displays signs of the bear within him. |
Triplicate
Real name: Ein, Dual, & Thryce
Affiliation: The Claw and Intellect Defense
Temperament: Smart, clever, direct, strong, and distracted.
Powers/Abilities: Able to use all senses through all of his bodies and control them with perfect clarity. Range: Yet to be determined. Athletic tumbling/fighting: Attacks opponents from 3 different directions with unparalleled coordination and tumbling tactics.
Preferred Strike: Catch, swing, and stomp.
Triplets born with one mind controlling and operating all three bodies. His abilities came via Crime Shark's "Prowl" drug and he wants justice and/or revenge for what he did to he and his brothers.
He gave his individual bodies names so that others could differentiate but it's not necessary for him: Ein, Dual, and Thryce.
An excellent spy and hand-to-hand combat fighter. Currently not proficient with any weapons; he doesn't feel he needs them.
He is often reminding others that for him, controlling one body is like others waving only one hand. When frustrated, he will sometimes speak through all 3 bodies. He is searching for a cure to his situation and he lives with the regret that he might have killed his actual brothers. But he still fights with hope to find a way to live a normal life.
Affiliation: The Claw and Intellect Defense
Temperament: Smart, clever, direct, strong, and distracted.
Powers/Abilities: Able to use all senses through all of his bodies and control them with perfect clarity. Range: Yet to be determined. Athletic tumbling/fighting: Attacks opponents from 3 different directions with unparalleled coordination and tumbling tactics.
Preferred Strike: Catch, swing, and stomp.
Triplets born with one mind controlling and operating all three bodies. His abilities came via Crime Shark's "Prowl" drug and he wants justice and/or revenge for what he did to he and his brothers.
He gave his individual bodies names so that others could differentiate but it's not necessary for him: Ein, Dual, and Thryce.
An excellent spy and hand-to-hand combat fighter. Currently not proficient with any weapons; he doesn't feel he needs them.
He is often reminding others that for him, controlling one body is like others waving only one hand. When frustrated, he will sometimes speak through all 3 bodies. He is searching for a cure to his situation and he lives with the regret that he might have killed his actual brothers. But he still fights with hope to find a way to live a normal life.