Series 5-Crime Abhores a Vacuum

Quick Summary


With the assumed destruction of their BioMech enemies Todd Ticket and his allies decide to set up shop in their enemies abandoned underground headquarters and work to rebulid their previous lives as heroes of action.



In the wake of BioMech's destruction, local and international rival companies now begin to take hold of the crime markets the lost syndicate left behind.



And little do Todd and his friends realize that BioMech has been in the market, for years, and have established a wide, global reach.

Friday, June 25, 2010

The Claw-Rebirth

Real name: Todd Ticket
Affiliation: The Claw and Intellect Defense
Temperament:
ON THE STREET:
Calm, publicly shy, determinded, stumbles over words, likable, funny, good-natured, kind, but unlucky with girls.
AS THE CLAW:
Steel-worker turned gymnast, strong, agile, brave, unafraid of heights, quick-thinking/reflexes, and persistant.
Weapons/Equipment:
CLAWS:
Retractable twin drill/claws, one on each hand, able to fire from each hand and connected by a ionic-bond version of a magnetic tractor beam. Able to drill through solid metal with diamond-tipped drills and crush car engines with hydraulic claws. Claw ‘blades’ contain multiple dual-directions ‘hinges’ for versatility.
TRACTOR BEAMS:
Claws are fired off with a combination of electromagnetic/harmonic repulsors. The repulsors are specifically tuned to the claw’s harmonic frequency so that they will pull back or launch out, instead of attracting/retracting anything else.
IONIC BOND:
Interior of claws and bottom of boots contain alien ionic bonding substance, enabling him to stick to surfaces.
ION CANNON 'SHOCK BALLS':
Interior of claws also contain ionic-bond firing ion cannons, capable of rendering electronic equipment worthless and living tissue unconscious. Later will be able to fire a liquid ionic-bond for trapping targets in place.
HELMET:
Helmet includes various filtering/analyzing/sensory-boosting/scanning equipment.
Ticket can target with his eyes by looking at his target. External speakers and internal functions are all voice activated.
VEHICLES:
'Clutch' terrain-climbing S.U.V.,
ADDITIONAL WEAPONS:
Dual, wrist mini-LAW’s on chains under his street clothes.
Preferred Strike: Double, claw-extended swipe.


Ticket and his friends are able to locate the culprit behind the destruction of Intellect Defense and the demise of Prof. Cloward: Superior Johnston. For vengence they destroy his illegal, underground science facility.

Facing an uncertain future, Ticket is able to gain the financial backing support from some of Prof. Clowards’s friends to help rebuild Intellect Defense. They decide to use Superior Johnston’s old facility as their new underground headquarters.

Sundown



“I like to take a bite out of life.”

By day, he is an entrepreneurial playboy-type investor who provides funds for scientists working on super-hero–style technology and/or weapons. i.e. Dr. Max Schmall. He is not a scientist himself. He is the President of Sundown Inc.
By night he fights crime and preys on those that prey on others.

He approaches Todd Ticket and makes him an offer: if he can prove that he deserves to be the head of Intellect Defense by graduating from college with the necessary degrees in all the fields required, then he will help him to rebuild Intellect Defense. Now motivated by this new option Todd Ticket begins to take his studies more seriously.

What Todd does not know is the not-so subtle secret Sundown himself is keeping... or the nightmares it will eventually lead him into.

MagnaMax


“Maximum power!”
A diminuative scientist who wanted to be bigger and allowed himself to be his own motivation. When it came time to test his theoriest on a live subject he did not hesitate to use himself.
Size-restriction liberator. A scientist working with molecular de-configuration and re-configuration.
Capable of increasing or decreasing the size of empty space between molecules of any object to increase or decrease their size… including himself.
“MagnaMax” and “Maximum power” was a nickname growing up, based off of his first name.
He does not own his own company and he gained his support from Sundown. He decided to fight crime himself instead of allowing someone else to have access to the technology and do it for him.

Fire Bird

Able to create and control fire. Also able to fly on the heat waves of her fire.

No one knows where she came from or where she got her powers from. She's friendly to The Claw but prefers to keep her past history quiet and to herself.

Bionica

She was biologically altered to protect her origins and identity.
RAIL GUNS: Carries two, pop-up, internal mini-rail guns in each forearm. The designs were slopped together after extensive research into Dead Bolt’s rail gun. The designs were not stolen-they were figured out by working hard to spy on Dead Bolt.
ENDO SKELETON: Has a turbo-powered endo skeleton throught her skin and into her bones via the ionic bond. Through programming techniques it gives her super speed, strength, and very high jumps.
SECRET POCKETS: She has secret pockets/sheaths all over her body which carry various tools and weapons; including swords, throwing stars, first aid kits, rope, and escape artists lockpics.
BIONIC HANDS: She has 2 fake ‘hands’ over each real hand while ionically bonds into place and looks natural. When released it fires from her arm with a thing, non-destructable cord attached which is used as a grappling hook. She can still control the hand after it is fired. The fake hands have ionic bond on the inside, which bonds whatever it grabs onto. The firing/cord technology was given to them by Prof. Carter, as part of the Lashline project. Prof. Carter gave it to them in exchange for the a sample of the ionic bond, though he didn’t know it at the time.
EXTRA LIMBS: Always being upgraded, scientific technicians are trying to develop an extra pair of drop-down arms from underneath her real ones, like her fake hands to.
Her technology is powered by internal batteries; one for each section (with backups).

Created by Prof. Carter’s friend when he decided to take his advice and provide a service to help clean up the mess the scientific community caused when they moved in and put so many strong, young men out of work and into the crime scene.
Innovative Inc. works in secret with N.A.S.A. and based its experiments on the un-natural-appearing ionic bonding material brought back from Mars. At their satellite facility at N.A.S.A. they created a place specifically for testing the ionic bond. Some N.A.S.A. scientists felt the ionic bond should belong to everyone and should be made public but the president and his military advisors ordered to keep it a secret.
Before his untimely departure Prof. Carter was becoming frustrated with Ticket and the L.A.W. and developed New Project Lashline to replace him. While Lashline was in production Prof. Carter was still developing. Always the scientist he couldn’t put a good idea down. Prof. Carter designed Bionica but realized that the technology was impossible.
Prof. Carter’s friend managed to illegally smuggle some out when he discovered how easily it was to replicate. He could take some with him, duplicate it at his own company, and still be able to give some to Prof. Carter, too. And no one would know that any was missing.
Prof. Carter met with Prof. Carter’s friend for lunch at a small, public cafĂ©. Prof. Carter told him of his frustrations with his designs and why he was doing what he was doing – for the benefit of the community and to give back what the scientific community had taken from the city.
Pro. Carter’s friend believed his cause was just and made a deal with him: he would give him the secret to make his L.A.W. design possible if he would give him the designs for Bionica (including the technology designs for Lashline’s lashclaw). Prof. Carter agreed and Prof. Carter’s friend secretly gave him a sample of the ionic bond, which Prof. Carter learned to use himself.
Unfortunately, Prof. Carter didn’t get a chance to make Bionica himself. He tested the ionic bond on Ticket to see if it would work. If it did, he would bring the Bionica project to life! Fortunately, it did save Ticket and the L.A.W. project, his job, and many times over – his life!
Prof. Carter’s friend took the plans back to his own company. After the death of Prof. Carter, Prof. Carter’s friend knew his friend was right all along and his dream needed to survive. At his own company he created Bionica himself.
Costume is pinkish/burgundy/red with a ‘Russian-type’ symbol on it. She has a Russian background/accent, which is a cover for her. Tall, athletic, sporting athletic/gymnastic abilities. She has blonde hair (mostly died) and striking blue eyes (from contacts). Her hair is actually black and eyes are actually brown because she is actually from Puerto Rico.
They pit her against The Claw to see how well she does but she eventually grows to like him. They become a great crime-fighting pair.
What they didn’t know was that Dead Bolt’s rail gun was stolen from the Russian government. That’s what brings Iron Clad to investigate Bionica in Cycle City.

Grimley the Gargoyle


Has the heavily armored anti-gravity Bullet Sled weapon platform converted into a high-tech jetpack unit with retractable/telescoping wings.
They gained the technology from Lyonell’s Laboratories from one of Bionica’s missions. Because they gained the technology from someone else they won’t use it for public means-it would be industrial espionage. This will also force their enemies to come out against them. Instead, they’ll use in secret to fight crime.

Fyre & Knyfe

Professional circus twins who use their skills of acrobatics, juggling, tumbling, high wire, and contortion to fight crime. They often use circus tools, equipment, personnel, and animals to fight crime. i.e. The Human Cannonball’s cannon, lions/gorillas, high-wire, trapeze, etc.

Highly skilled circus performers who often get bored after a highly-charged, adrenaline-pumping show. When the show is over they race out together into the city’s night to find crime and stop it… as a form of post-show entertainment.
When they come across Triplet they are all impressed with each other’s abilities to work so well together. Triplet finally finds a pair of unique individuals who, although are not “Prowl” drug birth defect individuals, can understand what he’s going through.

Whenever they are in town they help to keep crime down in Cycle City when The Claw begins to travel around the world!