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No one really knows much about the villainess called Succubus before Dr. Dimento brought her into his Dark Cabal. She might be Eastern European based on the many languages she speaks (Russian, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian) however she lies at every opportunity so it is difficult to say. She has bee a member of the Dark Cabal since its inception, being the first recruit. She is blood thirsty and deadly. She also likes to toy with her prey and relishes in killing the innocent. She has a deep hatred for Knight Rose and Genie for unknown reasons. Succubus is an Umbrakinetic and can generate powerful blasts of negative or dark energy. She can also use her dark energy to create simple melee weapons (whips being her preferred choice). She also has the ability to manipulate, nullify and amplify pain which makes her dangerous in a fight, but she can only do one of those at a time. While she is amplifying a targets pain she cannot nullify a teammates pain.
I know I started on the Dark Cabal but I had been struggling for a while to figure out a way to make this heroine and it clicked so I posted her right after finishing her.
Sabrina was a typical secretary working in a typical office in a typical high rise building in Mons, Belgium when a nearby fight between Blood Harpy and Warhead against ISF members Gravenger and Solarra damaged her building. As the fight progressed the building became unstable and being 17 stories up, it was hard for Sabrina and her coworkers to escape down the stairs. Warhead caused the building to fall to enable the villains escape and Gravenger tried to keep the building from crumbling using his gravitation powers. The strain proved to be too much and as the building fell Sabrina’s GorWol trait of Geokinesis manifested. Unknowingly she caused a protective cocoon for herself and her coworkers using the buildings concrete. Sabrina lowered the concrete cocoon safely to the ground and then collapsed from exhaustion. Solarra and Gravenger brought her to ISF HQs where she was tested and trained. She declined permanent ISF membership but did accept associate status. Sabrina, taking the name Tremor, then began a year hiatus traveling across Europe and gaining better control over her powers. Along the way she helped the ISF thwart the Dark Cabal and even fought Golem to a standstill. Tremor is a geokinetic and can psychokinetically manipulate earth and rock for various purposes, including reshaping rock, causing earthquakes, or altering its basic consistency. She can bend earth and make it wiggly, soft, hard or smooth, change the texture. She can trap her targets, create rock barriers, shields, slow her opponents down by changing the earth beneath them and create tremors in the ground. She can create formulated earth blasts, fly by projecting a lump of earth beneath her and telekinetically surf in the air. Tremor can also encase herself with rocks for shielding and when encased her strength increases to lifting 20 tons.
Harry O’Dell was a tough Mick from Boston living the life of petty criminal and underground cage fighter when his GorWol trait manifested following a nasty beating from the Boston PD. Discovering he was stronger, faster, tougher then others Harry continued fighting in cage matches earning thousands of dollars and even “accidentally” killing a few opponents. When the ISF started gaining attention Harry simply walked up to Vargr just to see how tough Vargr really was and punched him in the face. This led Harry on the path to being a meta criminal as has fought against many members of the ISF (Vargr, Power Stryke, Gunslinger, Bowslinger, Bengal, Dark Weaponeer) but he usually avoids fighting those he knows he can’t beat (Bronco). Harry is a biokinetic and focuses his biokinesis solely to improve his fighting skills. He has faster reflexes, increased speed, heightened endurance and pain tolerance, and heals faster than normal humans. He is an expert in Muay Thai and Pankration, two fighting styles that are vicious and show no mercy which embodies his way of life. Even without shooting energy beams or superhuman strength Hooligan is a dangerous ISF opponent and has killed more ISF members (Tek-Pro, Jaguara) than any other Cabal member. His most prized possession is his BAMF button.
Dr. Aberdale Croft was a brilliant English scientist. He was an expert in physic, biology, genetics and chemistry. He partnered with Dr. Karl Vogner another brilliant scientist, to map out the humane genome. Together they found proof of the GorWol genetic trait in humans. Croft, wanting to make a fortune from their discovery, tried to convince Vogner to market their research but Vogner wanted to share their findings with the entire world for free. The argument lead to a physical altercation and Croft was accidentally atomized by a quantum destabilizer machine. Crofts body was destroyed but his consciousness remained in the form of powerful psionic energy. It took Croft over a year to learn how to take control of another persons body by transferring their consciousness into a parallel dimension. Croft discovered he also possessed tremendous psionic energies when inhabiting anothers body.The first person he did this with was a petty crook named Richie Dorn. Croft used Dorns body and memories that bled over during the transfer to terrorize NYC until the original incarnation of the ISF stopped him and restored Dorns consciousness to his original body. Croft then inhabited a Philly police detective named Roger Farnsworth and waged another campaign against the ISF. This time he was stopped by Lord Psyker and Gilgamesh. Dormant for almost a year, Croft once again took over small time NYC mob thug and enforcer Donnie Williams. He used Williams body to slowly take over the rest of the mob outfit. He even infiltrated the ISF’s first HQs and copied the database Vogner compiled of suspected Metahumans across the world. He then began recruiting other meta villains to his cause of destroying the ISF. Most villains he encountered joined (Hooligan, Scales, Succubus, Baateezu and Gorilla King) and those that refused he simply killed. During the Meta War Croft killed Vandal but he prefers to let his minions do the fighting while he controls activities from a distance. Aberdale Croft is one of the most powerful metahumans on earth, but only when he inhabits a body. He has tremendous psionic powers and can create psionic force fields and blasts. He can influence weak willed people’s emotions and thoughts. He has tremendous telekinetic abilities and can project illusions into a persons mind. Only Lord Psyker and Gilgamesh were able to stand toe to toe with Croft when he is at full power. The mind transference also bleeds some memories over which gives Croft new found skills like thievery (from Dorn), investigations (from Farnsworth) and Boxing (from Williams) but it also keeps memories that aren’t his within him and that sometimes creates confusion in his thinking.
Not much is known about the hero Azu Etlu. He encountered ISF Team Alpha during their war with the Dark Cabal off the coast of Madagascar. The Dark Cabal had taken over a nearby island as a launch site for a spore bomb targeting Africa. During the battle Azu Etlu assisted ISF member MEGATEK in defusing an underwater bomb. Azu Etlu declined full time ISF membership but did accept associate membership. Azu Etlu usually stays near Madagascar and the Eastern African Coast battling poachers, pirates and polluters. When there is an ISF mission in the ocean Azu Etlu is called in to help. Azu Etlu is a hydrokinetic. He can project water blasts, shape and control water (and to a lesser extent other liquids), is able to survive in deep areas of the sea, and even breathe underwater. He can manipulate and alter the molecular state of water, being able to manipulate the surrounding water in the atmosphere, freeze water, or even make really thick clouds of mist, steam or fog.
Dean Castillo has always been the largest and strongest person in his village and worked as a school teacher in his native Belize out in the countryside. He was always the gentle giant. When economic depression hit his village he left to find money elsewhere. He traveled to Texas and found employment as a carnival strong man. He did this job for a year until he saved enough money to attend graduate school in the US. A week before his studies started Dean was robbed in Dallas. During the robbery his GorWol trait manifested and he accidentally punched one of the would be attackers in the chest, caved in the chest and killed the robber. The others fled in fear but with Deans savings. Despondent over what he did Dean turned himself in to the police. At trial his public defender was replaced by a high priced Dallas criminal defense attorney and Dean was found innocent of murder. After the trial concluded Dean was approached by Power Stryke and Stargazer with a new job offer. Dean accepted the ISFs invitation to join and he became the muscle on the reserve team. Dean is a powerful biokinetic. He has increased strength in the 40 tone range, increased endurance and durability. Due to his passive nature Dean is not a fully capable hand to hand combatant but he is improving under Power Stryke’s tutelage which sometimes proves difficult since Dean would rather read a book than spar.
Veronika was a Czech photo-journalist covering cultural stories for Christian Science Monitor. She was working on the plight of the Karens in Thailand for three years when her team was captured by rogue elements of the Myanmar Military. Her male coworker died under the brutal torture of the rogue commander but his death gave her an opportunity to escape. Fleeing into the jungles, Veronika was chased and cornered when her GorWol trait manifested. She easily defeated her pursuers and eventually made her way back home to Prague. Soon after arriving home, Veronika was contacted by the ISF. Veronika is a therianthropic and must biomorph to use her powers. She calls the biomorph form Nighthorn. When she does biomorph her skins turns to a hardened chitin carapace which protects her from damage. She also gains strength being able to lift roughly 12 tons with extreme effort and her leg strength provides her with great leaping ability. Through concentration she can project the same chitin material to protrude from various parts of her skin like thorns. These thorn-spines are coated with a light toxin that can degrade performance if it gets into contact with skin (it does not have to penetrate the skin). Continual exposure to the toxin results in decreased strength, agility, endurance, speed, mobility and eventual paralysis. She has learned to throw the thorn-spines out towards an opponent but with decreased toxicity.
Hans Von Thunstein was born into a wealthy industrial family in Austria. He was born with wings which created a difficult delivery and his mother perished soon after he was born. His father was despondent and took Hans to the family mountain retreat in the eastern Alps where he raised Hans in seclusion of others for fear of Hans being attacked by radicals. Hans received the best tutors his father found but he grew up alone with just his father who ran the energy business from the house. He spent his free time flying around the Alps having fun. By the time Hans was 25 years old he already had three Masters (Business, Economics, Finance) and a Doctorate (International Markets), black belts in Karate and Judo and mastery of medieval weapons but he was unsatisfied. He was tired of individual awards and accolades. After his father died Hans sold the family business for a small fortune and traveled to New York City to the ISFs Field Office for membership. He spent two years at the ISF HQs improving himself mentally and physically. He currently serves on the ISF reserve team. Sky Hunter has greater strength, reflexes, speed, and durability than a normal human. He can lift roughly 5 tons. He has wings on his back which he an use for flying up to 300 mph. ISF scientists created Titanium/Obdurium alloyed shield, armor, broadsword, spear and axe for him to use in combat.
Annuska Perger was an up and coming model from Budapest but was unhappy with her career and felt her life was missing something. While working on a fashion shoot in Milan robbers broke into her hotel room demanding money. Annuska was scared and her GorWol trait manifested when one of the robbers put a gun to her head. She melted the gun to his hand and melted the other robbers gun as well. When the robbers tried to flee she trapped them in cages of fire and burnt them to death when she lost control of her powers. This started a massive fire and burned down one half of the hotel but Annuska walked away unscathed. She allowed the media and authorities to report her death in the fire and she started her new life of vigilantism because of the excitement. After a few months of fighting low level criminals Annuska was tracked down by Vikka and Vargr who convinced her to join the ISF. Torcher helped Annuska learn to control her powers and after serving a short stint on the reserve team she became a member of ISF Team DELTA. Solarra is a Pyrokinetic and a Thermakinetic. She is able to absorb solar radiation and manipulate it for various offensive and defensive uses. She is able to store the solar energy in every cell of her body, even her blood. She can absorb, store, and manipulate energy from light, especially direct sunlight, and fire. She can use it to project heat blasts or blinding flashes, create fire cages to trap targets, and raise the temperature of objects to weaken or destroy them. Solarra is, by nature of her powers, resistant to most heat attacks. Her body is immune to the detrimental effects of wielding her power. By projecting thermal energy below her, Solarra is able to produce sufficient thrust to fly to a maximum speed at which she can still breathe unaided, approximately 130 miles per hour. Solarra can create Thermal shields to protect herself and others from damage.
Bataar Chulunn was a Mongolian goat, wisent and horse herder when he was struck by lightning in teh Altai Mountains. His tribesman witnessed the event but he came away from the strike unharmed. His kinsman started calling him Jigari (after a local nature spirit associated with lightning and a rumored son of Tengri) and he lived in relative obscurity with only his kin knowing of his new found powers. Members of the Dark Cabal attempted to start a war between China and Russia fro within Mongolia and when the ISF responded, Bataar was near the battle. When ISF member Aunt Artica found herself fighting Scales and Blood Harpy by herself Bataar intervened, saved her life and drove off the villains. He was soon admitted into the ISF and remained a reserve member until he could control his powers. Now he is a member of ISF Team DELTA. Jigari is an Electrokinetic and his entire body is basically a powerful capacitor. He is super strong (35 tons) and resistant to damage. He can store and release massive amounts of electricity and can absorb energy damage directed at him. He can generate a short electrical field damaging anyone who comes into contact with him, use stored electricity to move faster or heal himself, project electricity from his fists when he punches, and can project electrical blasts from his hands at a short distance. He wears a specially designed suit that regulates the amount of electricity stored in his body. Although having the basic level of education Jigari is good with languages can can speak English, Russian, Chinese as well as Mongolian.
Stanilus Dyminski was a Polish footballer playing for Legia Warsaw in the Ekstraklasa. He was one of the stars of the team and a known hot head when he sustained a devastating lower leg injury against Germany on the pitch. Depressed and mad over this apparent end to his playing career, Stanilus withdrew from society in the Puszcza WkrzaÅ„ska region near Germany. Years went by and no one heard from Stanilus until one day German amateur photographers took a picture of what they claimed was a vampire in the woods that attacked them. Soon there were more reports and sightings of the Puszcza WkrzaÅ„ska monster ayyacking Germans. Eventually Power Stryke was sent to investigate the rumors and encountered Stanilus transformed into what Stanilus called his devil persona (Teufel is devil in German). Power Stryke tried to reason with Stanilus but the ex footballer became enraged and the two fought. Proving to be more than a match for Power Stryke, Stargazer and Bronco Billy were dispatched to assist. After a struggle that destroyed tens of acres of forest Stanilus was subdued and brought back to ISF HQs. He remained under observation until he gained better control of his awesome powers and MEGATEK felt he could be trusted. Now Stanilus is the most powerful member of ISF Team DELTA and one of the more powerful meta-humans on Earth. Teufling can manipulate dark energy, gravity and matter to blast and dominate his foes. He can generate dark fields to give himself incredible defensive capabilities. He has increased strength (15 tons), durability, willpower and energy generation. His energy projection is on par with Stargazer’s. Teufling has tremendous resistance to energy and negative energy attacks. He can emit a negative energy aura from his body at will which continuously causes damage to those near him, weaken their resolve and make him stronger. He can surround himself with shadowy particles that bends the light around him, making him difficult to spot at a distance. He can use his dark energy to steal the life force of those around him to heal his own wounds and damage his opponents at the same time. He can project powerful negative energy blasts from his eyes and hands. His powers allow him the power of flight and teleportation. Due to his powers and his look, Stanilus is a loner even though he is a member of the ISF and other members keep their distance from him.
Sulwen “Samantha” McHarris was a Scottish nanny on vacation visiting Greece, Macedonia and the Crimean Peninsula. While on the Crimean Peninsula she fell ill and was taken to a local hospital. The doctors could not figure out what was happening to her and she slipped into a coma and officially died two days later. Moments after dying she was reborn having increased in height and muscle mass. Trying to escape the surrounding media storm Samantha fell off the roof of the building and flew away. She spotted a sinking luxury boat in the Black Sea and rescued the boat and passengers. The media dubbed her the Scythian Heroine or the Amazon citing historical rumors of the Amazons living in that area ages past. She chose the ancient Amazon name of Thebe, who was from the north and had red hair. Samantha returned to Scotland to fight crime and was soon recruited by Power Stryke and joined the ISF. She is the muscle on ISF Team DELTA. Thebe is a biokinetic and has increased strength (45 tons), reflexes, endurance and durability. She heals four times faster than a normal human. Her skin is very tough, although not as tough as Gilgamesh’s, and she can withstand massive amounts of damage. She also exhibits the potential for Ergokinetics and may shoot energy beams given practice. As tough and strong as she is, Samantha still likes to put her hair up and wear heels and recently started dating Dark Weaponeer.
Roxanna Milanova was a struggling Russian physics student in Moscow when her GorWol trait manifested in her school science lab. She could not control her powers and the resulting catastrophe caused serious damage and injuries to her University and colleagues. Chechen rebels tried to capture her and use her as a weapon but ISF Team Alpha showed up and saved Roxanna. She stayed at ISF HQs for over a year learning how to control her powers and eventually went from being on the reserve team to joining ISF Team Charlie. Valeska is a magnetokinetic and has comprehensive control over all forms of magnetism and utilizes that control to manipulate ferrous metals and achieve a variety of effects. She can generate magnetic shields for protection, shoot focused electromagnetic rays, manipulate metal and ferrous items, fly by using the earths magnetic waves and can sense changes in the electromagnetic spectrum in her vicinity. Velaska is a member of ISF Team DELTA.
