Contest entry for toymaker's contest.
Original Character:
Name:
Hero: Blackhole
Civilian: Scot
Height: 6'1"/185 cm
Weight: 140 pounds/63.5 kg
Age: 26
Appearance:
As hero: Camo-patterned uniform that is colored so that it doesn't actually blend in with anything. Colors of camo are a mix of urban, forest and desert camo colors. Mask is a fine-knit black ski mask that covers the mouth, wears tinted glasses under mask.
As civilian: jeans with shirt, always seen with hat. Usually has a bag slung over his shoulder. Very ordinary looking.
Back story: Born in Dgansk, Eldisk, Skire (as Scot was called before arriving at Earth) lived a normal enough life as could be expected in that corner of Solsev. Life was normal until one morning, Skire was woken up in a muddy trench by a military officer. Being very confused, Skire went on autopilot and followed the orders of the officer, and tried to attack the enemy trenches. The attack failed and Skire was taken prisoner. When he was allowed to sleep, Skire woke up as a different person, this time a camp gaurd. Here, Skire helped herd prisoners into a 'delousing station', which was actually a gassing chamber. Realizing what he had done, Skire vowed to himself that he would never kill again. The next day, Skire was in a relatively normal setting. This was ruined by a phsychiatrist visiting and asking Skire about himself. This became normal for Skire over the next few months, until one day as he was riding a bike for exercise, he suddenly found himself in a lab. Learning that they had just completed an experiment in teleportation, but they weren't expecting the results they got. After Skire didn't become a new person that night, he figured that that was over. After he was able to make a life for himself as a freelance engineer, he became aware of the relatively high crime rate (compared to Solsev, which has different problems) and wondered what could be done about it. Later, Scot (as he now called himself, that being the closest name to Skire) heard about Trans and decided try out being a superhero. Scot chose the name Blackhole because it reminds him of his superpower.
Personality: Very easygoing, Scot doesn't really care what you're doing so long as you don't interfere too much with what he is doing. Content to be ignored, Scot doesn't like to stick out in public. Very reliable, Scot will keep the promises he makes, though it's best to make sure you actually got a promise. Scot's mind is constantly working and he is always seeking new things, though he can stay content with what he has. Scot is very paranoid about being discovered to also be Blackhole.
Super Power: Has infinite storage space in his pockets/bag/hat/other enclosed carrying object. The main limit is whether an object (it doesn't need to be solid) can fit through the opening, regardless of length. To retrieve an item, Scot just has to reach into his pocket/whatever and think of the item he wants. However, if Scot doesn't think of a specific item and only thinks of certain characteristics, he will pull out something that shares those characteristics (example: if Scot wants a sharp knife to cut some rope but only thinks as far as 'sharp', he may pull out anything from a fork or thumbtack to a rifle bayonet. After realizing his mistake, will quickly fix it.). Items won't be 'forgotten in the wrong pair of pants', if something is put in Scot's left pocket, he can pull it out of any left pocket he happens to using.
Abilities: When Skire was in a different body in a different universe each day, he acquired the skills and abilities of the original owners. Learning everything but what made the original body's owner them, Skire got a short cut to learning much of what he knows. Leaning heavily to technology, industrial and fighting skills- though many of them were learned two or more times. Didn't always get complete skills, so Scot doesn't always have full knowledge of some subjects. A list of some of Scot's more important skills/abilities: Marksmanship, Parkour, close quarters combat, various martial arts, almost total control over his body, fully ambidextrous, knows many languages
Weapons: Guns of various caliber, bayonets for some of the rifles, a few tazers, a flamethrower (only ever used to scare, NEVER actually used on people), hand to hand weapons (knives, brass knuckles ect).
Note about the guns and their ammo: The guns are mirror copies of their standard model to prevent others from using them easily. The ammo is replaced with non-lethal rounds, usually paintball rounds. Many of these rounds Scot specially made with small tracking devices inserted to track down the targets later. Other bullets include tranquilizers and rubber bullets. Does have a small amount of 'real' ammo.
Fighting style: Doesn't fight fair in the least. If Blackhole can beat his opponent 100 yards away with no risk to himself, he will. However, this is secondary to preventing injury to civilians, so if the choice is danger to himself or to civilians, Blackhole will put himself in the dangerous position to protect others. Uses the minimum effort possible unless his opponent refuses to stop, then Blackhole will end the fight as quickly as possible.
General Strengths: Greater range, fast thinker, experienced,
General Weaknesses: Anything very new or unexpected, is relatively weak (can hold 70 pounds easily, and increasing weights for shorter times, with a max of 200 pounds for a few seconds), often attacks are weak for fear of killing the target
Stats (according to Marvel power grids http://marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Power_Grids ):
Intelligence: 4.5, smarter than gifted, but not a genius
Strength: 1, can do 2 for short periods of time
Speed: 2
Durability: 2
Energy Projection: 1, 6 if weapons are included.
Fighting Ability: 4, rating is misleading. While not a master of any one form of combat, is experienced in many.
Additional info:
Trans http://mastertoymaker.deviantart.com/art/Trans-Stats-125952331 : Nina's boyfriend- secretly a member of The Federals- gave her the necklace that gives her the power of Trans. Shortly after learning about her new powers, Nina broke up with her boyfriend after finding out that he had been cheating on her. Somehow, Nina's former boyfriend found out about Nina's new powers and what she was going to call her super form, and went to a safehouse calling several other gang members over to discuss that information. Glomp, who was locked in that same safehouse, finally snapped and became Pounce for the first time.
Pounce http://mastertoymaker.deviantart.com/art/Pounce-s-Stats-125952461 : Glomp was abducted by the gang 'The Federals' to celebrate a successful jewelry heist. Locked in a safehouse as 'entertainment' for members staying there waiting for their heat to die down, Glomp was abused in countless ways. One night, during a meeting, Glomp felt power stirring in her. Wanting revenge against the humans that had abused her, Glomp took that power and transformed into Pounce. Killing everyone present, Pounce toyed with the last human 'promising' to let him live if he gave her information. Some of that information was about Trans, but before he could tell Pounce about Nina, Pounce decided she had heard enough and killed him. Based on what she had heard, Pounce/Glomp believed that Trans was secretly a member of The Federals.
Arma http://mastertoymaker.deviantart.com/art/Arma-s-Stats-125952537 : The unknown force that saved Michelle was a powerful but incomplete spirit that partially fused with Michelle until it was complete, if somewhat deficient in certain areas. The spirit took the form and powers the Michelle wanted most at the moment of fusion. The spirit also copied much of Michelle's personality, but with greater emphasis on certain aspects. Arma and Michelle have a hard time communicating because they are 'speaking different languages'. Despite this obstacle, Michelle can summon Arma to take over when she wants, but must wait for Arma to release control.
Setting: Los Angeles, California.
Story:
Blackhole responds to a police call about another fight between Trans and Pounce. This will be his first time meeting both. Blackhole arrives at the scene thinking he is late because he doesn't see Pounce or Trans. Pounce jumps/falls off a building near Blackhole. Blackhole takes out a gun to shoot paintball tracking devices, but Trans gets in the way and gets tagged. After a brief apology and introduction (there being no time for anything else), Blackhole joins in the fight against Pounce, taking the role of bait. After Pounce is beaten and tagged, Trans and Blackhole make a better introduction then go their seperate ways.
Later, Scot tracks down Pounce- who has now turned back into Glomp- and after an akward introduction (cafefully not revealing that he is Blackhole) gets some information about why she (as Pounce) is always killing people and fighting Trans. Figuring that if Pounce beats Trans for a change she wouldn't fight her-and thus cause damage and kill people- Scot helps make a plan to help in her next fight.
The next day, Scot tracks down Trans. Finding Nina at her home, he reveals himself to be Blackhole (trusting her with the secret because she is a superhero, and thus also knows the importance of that secret.) and talks about what Glomp said and other things.
Later, Scot makes good on his promise to Glomp, and in the ensueing fight Pounce almost beats Trans, and might have actually beaten her if Arma hadn't intervened to stop the destruction.
Later, Scot reads an article about an increasing number of foreign weapons being found in searches of criminals' houses. He suspects that there is something more to it than just the weapons.
Later, when Blackhole is returning from a bank robbery, he is seen by Glomp who becomes enraged and transforms into Pounce and attacks. After a hard fought battle, Blackhole finally wins, though Pounce gets away licking her wounds.
A week later,there are several small confrontations between gangs, then the confrontations start to escalate. Very quickly there is an all out battle rapidly expanding throughout gang infested areas. In all, there is the Yakuza and Tongs defending themselves, the Russian Mafia trying to maintain a foothold while staying nuetral with the local gangs (who are buying weapons and services from them), local gangs- the most numerous and doing most of the fighting- in shifting alliances and truces fighting each other and everyone else, a Mexican drug cartel trying to push out the competition (several of the local gangs), and the incredibly overwhelmed police.
After hearing the news, Nina, Scot, Michelle and Glomp all went into action. Nina excused herself from work (several other employees did as well, so she didn't stick out) and transformed into Trans, Scot (who was out shopping) changed into Blackhole, Michelle (on foot patrol) transformed into Arma, and Glomp saw an opportunity to get revenge against The Federals and transformed into Pounce.
As each fought their battle-Trans going where the fighting was hardest, Blackhole stopping as many fights as he can, Pounce killing as many members of The Federals as she can, and Arma protecting as many people as she can- day gave way to night and the fighting ebbed down. Trans transformed back into Nina to rest, Blackhole changed back to Scot and rented a hotel room because his home was in an area with heavy fighting, Pounce-running out of targets-enters an empty house for the night, and Arma turned back to Michelle since there were no people nearby to protect.
The next day, the fighting picks up where it left off and everyone quickly returned to their previous day's tasks. Meanwhile, The Federals consolidate their forces and wait in ambush for Pounce. Pounce stumbles on the ambush and-though initially overwhelmed- kills almost all of the remaining Federals, with the last few running in terror. Elsewhere, extra police forces are called in to help the local police. Trans left in the early afternoon, having exausted herself. Blackhole welcomed the extra police as a way to take fighting gang members off the street rather than simply dispersing them as he had been. Arma joins with the police as well, there being very few others to protect. By nightfall, the fighting is significantly reduced.
When the third day came, it was marked by a desperate by the Russian Mafia: a take over of a school, which was being held hostage until a list of people are released. As soon as word reached Blackhole, he left the clean-up to the police, and quickly went towards the school. Along the way he saw Arma, and quickly thought of a plan. After getting Arma to understand the plan, they implement it. Arma teleports herself and Blackhole into the auditorium where the students and staff were being held. Arma stopped the bullets the Russian Mafia fired, while Blackhole shot back. After all the hostage takers were taken care of, Blackhole and Arma emerged to find the fighting was over.
After everything was accounted for, 350 people were dead including 15 police officers, almost 100 of them killed by Pounce. Nearly 3,000 are wounded or injured, overwhelming the hospitals. The 5,000 people arrested are crowding local jails, though they are quickly being transfered to ease that problem. Of the gangsthat fought, the Yakuza and Tongs came out the least harmed followed by the local gangs, the Russian Mafia was significantly reduced in influence and power, while the mexican drug cartel was pushed out entirely.
Nina returns to work, as does Michelle, Scot goes back to his home and repairs the minor damage, and Glomp is satisfied about having destroyed The Federals (except for Trans, she thinks) and is generally less angry at the world (and thus less of a threat to it)