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Absolute ruler of the world-conquering planet Kazaar

The shadowy facility known only as “The Castle” has been responsible for turning a number of meta-humans into weapons. Most notably Replay and Howler. There are others though, such as Brain Matter. An experimental procedure designed to boost latent psychic potential was marginally successful but it turned the once friendly and likeable Brian Harris into a twitchy and paranoid individual. His handlers are understandably wary of someone who could fry their minds in a second if he thinks they’re working against him but they understand that it’s better to have a rabid dog on a leash and snapping at your enemies than to set him loose to do as he pleases.

The Castle has learned that Brain Matter is far less unpredictable when he has a clear mission to focus on so they have decided to task him with finding Howler and Replay and returning them to the Castle.

What the Castle is unaware of, however, is that while Brain Matter is completely loyal to them, Brian Harris is a different matter. The man he used to be before the scientists started tinkering with his mind has occasional moments of lucidity and has actually been feeding information to Howler about the Castle’s operations. He want’s to be free of the monster that the Castle has turned him into but with every day that passes, Brian Harris is fading away and Brain Matter is growing stronger.

In the battle against the Castle, Howler and Replay’s greatest ally may also be their greatest enemy.

Alias: Impala
Real Name: Brittany Gray
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: superspeed
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: Gazelle
Other Aliases: XLR-8R, Speed Freak
Status: active
Bio:
Andrea Gray lived a double life as the superheroine Impala without her family finding out – or so she thought. But one day her little sister Britt confronted her and told Andrea that she not only knew of her big sister’s power, but she had the same one.

Always the selfish sibling, Britt forced her older sister to let her fight crime alongside her, and even went so far as to make her give up the Impala name so that Brittany could wear it. She blackmailed Andrea by threatening to tell the world her secret. Reluctantly, Andrea agreed, and Britt became the second person to wear the mask of Impala. They fought crime together, Andrea changing her superhero name to Gazelle, for several years. But they eventually tired of seeing each other all the time. They agreed to split up, and Britt began a solo career as Impala.

But that same innate motivation that led Britt to blackmail her sister pushed her to seek more power and more speed, so she began to research cybernetic implants to increase her velocity. She modified her body with so much technology that she eventually changed her alias to XLR-8R. Not only did her new body run exponentially faster, but she also stole, from the superhero Friction, the design for a device that stores the static electricity formed by simply moving through the air. This gave Britt the ability to fire bolts of electricity from her hands.

At the height of this power, Britt went through yet another transformation, although this time it was unwitting. While in battle as XLR-8R, she collided headlong with Zazarel, a beast from the Hellgate dimension. This collision at such high speed, with such a massive amount of energy expended, caused the two beings to merge into one. Now Zazarel was at the wheel of an insanely fast superhuman, and it used this opportunity to cause massive amounts of destruction and chaos. This new creature called itself Speed Freak, and it even discovered that its speed allowed it to slip into a side dimension, a plane just beyond our reality. This allowed Speed Freak to essentially teleport from place to place. But it was there, in that strange world, that Speed Freak was confronted by none other than Gazelle, Brittany’s now estranged sister. Gazelle had gotten her speed power amplified by the superhero Battery. During the fight, Gazelle was able to separate Speed Freak into its original two bodies, and trap Zazarel in the pocket dimension while escaping with Britt.

Severely traumatized by the experience, Britt hung up her super suit, had her cybernetics removed, and retired from life as a superhuman. She even paid a visit to Battery and had him drain her of her speed power completely and permanently.

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Alias: Impala
Real Name: Andrea Gray
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: superspeed
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: Division-X, Impala II
Other Aliases: Impala
Status: active
Bio:
Andrea knew from an early age that she was different from other people, but something told her even as a child to keep it secret. So she only ran at superhuman speed when she was all alone playing in the woods. That is, until her late twenties, when she took on the alias Impala and fought crime with her gift. What she didn’t know was that her little sister Britt had the same power, and that Britt knew Andrea’s secret. Britt finally told Andrea the truth, and threatened to tell the world the true identity of Impala if she didn’t let Britt accompany her on her patrols of the city.

Britt’s blackmail went further when she forced Andrea to give up the Impala mantle and give it to Britt. Andrea then assumed the name Gazelle and the two sisters fought crime together as a high-speed duo. Eventually Andrea’s resentment towards her little sis faded and they formed a tight bond.

But at some point both sisters knew it was time to part ways as crimefighters and go solo. Britt stayed on her own while Andrea joined the city-funded team called Division-X.

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Alias: Impact
Real Name: Eddie Pryce
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: body converts kinetic energy of damage taken into “augmentation energy”
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: bulletproof suit and helmet able to change size
Affiliations: The Protectorate
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:

Eddie began his superhuman career as a villain, working for the vast organization known as the Sinister Society. But he was captured by members of the super team the Protectorate and shown video footage of horrible atrocities being committed by his teammates in other parts of the world. Eddie finally turned over a new leaf and joined the Protectorate. His mutant power is that anytime he is dealt a blow by any object or force, his body converts the kinetic energy into what he has labeled “augmentation energy,” and he grows taller and larger, as well as proportionately stronger. Essentially, the more he is attacked and hurt, the more powerful he becomes.

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Alias: Ill Will
Real Name: William Barton
Genre: Supervillain
Powers/Special Skills: radiates disease from his body
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: none
Other Aliases: none
Status: confined in the Special Criminals Maximum Security Complex
Bio:
Will Barton was always sick as a child. His body, for reasons unexplained, seemed super-susceptible to illnesses and diseases. Eventually he developed skin cancer, for which he was treated with chemotherapy. The radiation worked, but it was soon revealed that it had opened the door to something terrible. Not only did it cause Will to lose his hair and turn his skin a rotten, pale yellow and green, but it also caused him to involuntarily radiate sickness from his body. Now Will is seemingly insusceptible to disease, but anywhere he goes, he brings it with him, infecting anyone in the area with deadly illnesses. It was decided that the only way to save the population of Caligo and, ultimately, the nation was to put Will into maximum security behind several air locked doors. The solitude drove Will to madness, and he now sits in his room vowing escape and revenge.

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Alias: Iguana
Real Name: Archie Connell
Genre: Superhero
Power/Special Skills: reptilian qualities
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: Citizens’ Hero League
Other Aliases: none
Status: de-powered
Bio:
In 2032, the technology-based company PresCorp discovered an amazing thing. By stimulating and manipulating the right genes, they could give a normal person amazing super powers temporarily. The effects lasted for about a week.
To collect as much on this breakthrough as they could, PresCorp created a daughter company called Venture, Inc. Venture offered the process to those who would pay for it (a hefty sum), and then kept them on a compound on an otherwise deserted island. They would create adventures in which these people could use their powers. It was exclusively for the sake of entertainment and profit, letting the rich and influential people of the country live out the fantasy of being a superhero for a short time. Lengthy background checks were performed to ensure that none of the customers would use their powers for evil, as well as a cancellor gate, which would void all powers when passed through. There was a public outcry scolding Venture for making the experience so expensive and thus only for the wealthy, but no legal action could be carried out.
But then the demons arrived.

To call them demons is actually a misnomer. They were really just beings from another dimension. They had found a way to cross to our world, and when they saw that we were physically inferior, the invasion began. It soon became clear that the world’s existing heroes were not enough. Therefore, the US military declared martial law over Venture, Inc.

The “hero surgery,” as it was known, suddenly became available to anyone for free, as long as they were willing to volunteer to help battle the armies of beasts. And thus, the Citizens’ League of Heroes was formed. Many different powers were offered, and all were given to these everyday working people. Thousands applied and most were accepted. They were each given a crash course on how to control and use their new-found powers, and then they were sent to the fray. They were divided into teams of ten, each being led by a pre-existing superhero. makeshift hospitals were set up near the battle lines so that the week long powers could be continued as long as was necessary. They fought until the menace was destroyed. Many died in the battles. The rest returned to their normal, mundane lives, but with the memory of being and doing something extraordinary.

Archie was changed by the surgery into a humanoid lizard.

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