Howdy Folks,
Old Prowlar is cursed with The Dial-Up, but he gave me a CD tonight containing his customs, and so I thought I'd share them here on accounta their awesomeness.
(Thanks again for the birthday present, man!)
Now then... behold:
Prowlar's Customs Archive!
Badlands
Codename: Badlands
File Name: Digger, Carl “Badlands”
Rank: Major
Hometown: (???), Montana
Primary Specialty: Tracking and Survival
Secondary Specialty: Anthropology/Paleontology
Figure:
Head: Gung Ho
Body: Flint
Hands: Shockwave
Codename: Breakdown
File Name: Hunter, Erik D.
Rank: Corporal
Hometown: Aurora, Colorado
Affiliation: G. I. Joe
Primary Specialty: Infiltration/Desert Ops
Secondary Specialty: Primitive Weaponry
Favorite Book: "Last of the Breed" by Louis L'Amour
Favorite Movie: "Last of the Dogmen"
Favorite Song: "Revelations" by Dragonforce
Figure:
Head: Joe Firefly
Body: Temple Tracker Spirit
Hands: Hi-Tech
Accessories:
Temple Tracker Spirit: Knives, sheaths, and vest
Joe Firefly: Web belt
Desert Wolf: Pants
Other Accessories: 12” Joe Rifle and clip
Custom: Headband and staff
History:
Little is known about Breakdown's life before the Army and even when questioned he only says as much as is required. What is known is that as soon as he was old enough to join the army he dropped out of high school, passed his HED, and enlisted. After basic he served for three years as just another infantryman doing his job. That is until one night on leave with a couple of buddies when a biker group decided to "have a little fun". The smart thing to do would have been to run, after all one of the men was wielding a chainsaw.
Breakdown just picked up his beer walked up to the guy and said to him: "listen I've had a hard week and I'm trying to relax. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to buy you guys a round of drinks and then you're going to get on your bikes and go home. Otherwise I'm going to take that toy away from you and beat you so bad your momma won't recognize you."
Several hours later at the base hospital, when he regained consciousness, Breakdown found himself being debriefed by Flint of the G. I. Joe team. Breakdown was quick to ask what had happened because the last thing he remembered he was holding his own with half a pool cue and a chair seat as a shield. Flint explained that Breakdown had received a blow to the side from a cinderblock hammer wielded by the Dreadnok Road Pig and if the Joe team hadn't arrived he'd probably be dead. However the thing Flint was most interested in was how Breakdown had stopped Buzzer's chainsaw since the eyewitness reports were so confused.
Breakdown just smiled and replied that he wasn't technology compatible. Flint frowned and placed Breakdown's dossier on the hospital table. Pointing to the multiple warnings not to allow Breakdown near any complex equipment and ordered him to explain. Breakdown sighed and explained how no matter how careful he was that anything technical had a habit of breaking when he touched it. That was the reason he had dropped out of school in the first place. He'd break everything from staplers to computers. If the object had multiple moving parts or required an electrical current it would break or short out when he touched it. It meant that he had to work twice as hard as everyone else did. However his problem made him good at infiltration because locks and alarm systems never worked and even though he couldn't use a machine gun he was an expert with a bolt-action rifle. He was also proud of the fact that he could pick up just about any object that was lying around and use it effectively as a weapon. The same day that Breakdown was released from the hospital he found himself transferred to the Joe team.
"Who needs Cobra when we have Breakdown on our side?" Hi-Tech after the first, and only, time Breakdown entered his lab.
Codename: Deluge
File Name: Burns, Allan
Rank: Captain
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Primary Specialty: Firefighter
Secondary Specialty: Hydrodynamic engineer
Figure:
Head: Shockwave
Body: Wet Suit
Arms: Frontal Assault Duke
Hands: Arctic Snake Eyes
Legs: Hi-Tech
Accessories:
Frontal Assault Duke: Face Mask
Inferno: Pack
Hi-Teck: hoses
Kamakura: 2 Bolo launchers
Storm Shadow: Staff (2)
Iron Grenadier: Belt
Other Accessories:
12” Corps: Shovel and pick axe
Deluge joined the Joe team believing that he was the first firefighter to do so. When he discovered that both Barbecue and Inferno were firefighters he was unimpressed. As he put it “Who in their right minds would want someone with those sorts of code names to come along and try to put out a fire?” Things only got worse when he found that Barbecue used what looked like a modified squirt gun and Inferno used a giant axe. “If you’re going to put out a fire you need chemical suppressant and lots of it.”
G.E.A.R.S.
Codename: Gears
File Name: N/A
Rank: N/A
Hometown: N/A
Primary Specialty: Heavy Armor and Weapons
Secondary Specialty: Infantry Support
Ratchet built Gears using parts from old B.A.T.s units. He then built the outer armor based off of a popular cartoon series. The G.E.A.R.S., or Guardian Experimental Autonomous Robotic System, is Ratchets attempt to not only build a unit superior to the Cobra B.A.T. but also program a fully functioning A.I. that can adapt to changing battlefield conditions.
Codename: Groundbreaker
File Name: Montana, William
Rank: Captain
Hometown: Oakdale, California
Affiliation: G. I. Joe
Primary Military Specialty: Heavy Machine Gunner
Secondary Specialty: Teacher of many unfortunate children
Figure:
Head and Legs: Desert Wolf
Body: Frontal Assault Duke:
Hands: Flint
Accessories:
Flint: Vest
Tunnel Rat: Harness
Grand Slam: Ammo Belt
Gung Ho: Machine Gun and ammo, boot knife and sheath
Jungle Snake Eyes: Pants
Temple Tracker Spirit: Knife and sheath
Adventure Team Snake Eyes: Flashlight
Desert Wolf: 2 Grenades
Other Accessories:
12” G.I. Joe Pistol
Groundbreaker is the first of a new breed of Joes. Rather than being on the team full time he is only called in on special missions. His day job is as an elementary school teacher. When asked why he wanted to join the team he gave several reasons: “I deal with terrorist on a daily basis, I need the extra income for my hobbies, and I really need a vacation where I can just relax and work out the frustrations of daily life. The more Vipers I drop and poopie I destroy the better I feel.”
Pounce
Name: Pounce
Primary Specialty: Tooth and Claw Combat
Secondary Specialty: Pet
Trace’s first project involved modifying the Venom serum in order to give animals near human intelligence. Trace started by using the Razor Claw strain to modify tiger DNA. However the modifications had unintended side mutations. At first the cub that was born seemed normal however as it grew both in size and intelligence so did the realization that the chimera had more in common with a saber tooth cat. Pounce, still had the coloration of a tiger but the sabers and short tail of a sabertooth. Also his sabers were more tusk like than the bone of true sabertooths giving him a much more powerful bite. Trace’s superiors were impressed but they wanted something a bit more spectacular. So while continuing to hand rear the cub Trace began work on the Draco project.
Prowl (A.K.A. The Shepherd)
Name: Taylor Tracey Black
Primary Civilian Specialty: Animal Handler
Secondary Civilian Specialty: Genetic Engineering
Primary Military Specialty: Survival
Secondary Military Specialty: Hand-to-Hand/Improvised Weapons
Figure:
Head: Kamakura V1
Body: Hi-Tech V1
Lower Arms: Firefly V1
Hands: Frontal Assault Duke
Lower Legs: Night Ranger Quad Duke
Boots: Paratrooper Duke
G. I. Joe Accessories:
Kamakura V1: Headset
Hi-Tech V1: Pants
Fierfly V1: knee pads
Paratrooper Duke: Pistol and clip
Arctic Snake Eyes: Jacket
AT Storm Shadow: Chain leash
Other Accessories:
Primal Rage Sabertooth: Wooden stake gauntlets
Trace has a nack for adjusting to any situation that he finds himself in.
Throughout school he passed his classes with the highest marks, even though he only bothered to show up for class two or three times a week and even then he never spent the whole day. When he wasn’t in class he was either at the genetics lab with his mother or on the street beating the crap out the local toughs. The one place he was never at was his stepfather’s home. He never knew his biological father but he couldn’t have been worse than Fred Black. When he was still living at home Fred constantly tried to get him into civic organizations like the Cobra Youth Corps however after a single meeting Trace knew that wasn’t for him. There was more fun to be had in Broca Beach if one broke the rules. Besides what did it matter how he acted so long as he kept his grades up?
One of the best days of Trace’s life was graduation. He had the highest number of scholarships and acceptances to the best universities. His Valedictorian speech was short, simple, and completely edited out of the graduation video. In its place his boring rehearsal speech was cut in. But he didn’t care he was finally free. In college nobody partied harder or got better grades. Trace took three times the required full time credits and only showed up to a quarter of the classes with the exception of labs and physical ed. which he attended regularly. By his second year he had earned multiple degrees, several pharmaceutical companies and a couple of research labs hoping to get him to sigh contracts to work for them had approached him. However it was the lab that his mother was working for that finally convinced him that he could do more than advance theories in scientific circles. The presented him with information on everything from genetic enhancement to full human cloning.
So even though he hated the idea of moving back to a company town he packed his bags and moved to Springfield. He had worked for four months before he discovered a secret that would change his life forever. While moving converting the basement, of the house the company had provided, into a lab he discovered the hidden entrance to an already existing laboratory. Inside he found extensive notes on a project to create super soldiers. However the program was halted due to the fact that it was to slow. Manipulating the genes of sperm and eggs to create the perfect soldier was scrapped in favor of the Venom Program; which enhanced adult specimens. However the researcher had continued her research on her own. Two subjects were created T1 and T2. Twins with enhanced strength, reflexes, and learning capabilities. She presented her findings to the company, who were impressed with her work. They transferred her to a larger lab in Broca Beach with T1. T2 was to remain in Springfield to be raised by his father. The last entry in the files had been made by T2 himself. Now calling himself Tye it read:
“If you are reading this then I have either been removed from Springfield or I have escaped. My name is Tyler White and I have come to realize that my entire life has been a farce. I was created for the purpose of being a soldier for a terrorist organization known as Cobra. My talents have been molded so that I’m an expert in computer programming and robotics. This, I hope, will be the organization’s downfall. I’ve used my abilities to set up an escape attempt. If I’ve escaped then I hope to find and rescue my twin; if not then I’ve likely been moved to Cobra Island and I can only hope that I’ll be able to find a way to escape though I doubt it is possible.”
Not knowing what had happened to Tye, Trace purposely bungled an attempt to escape Springfield. He was captured and transferred to Cobra Island. He was later extricated by Ratchet and the Joe team during a covert operation to discover whether the orbital recon was true and that Cobra had somehow created not one but two species of dragon.
When Prowl, first asked to join the team the Generals didn’t think it was such a good idea letting another former Cobra join. When they found that his specialty was as an animal handler they said “We have enough dog handlers.” That’s when Prowl brought in Primal and Dare. “It was difficult to tell which we were more impressed with, the sabertooth cat that rubbed up against his leg like an overgrown housecat or the Dragon who asked what all the fuss was about. Needless to say we allowed Prowl to join on a probationary basis and assigned him to Wildside’s research group.” (Gen. Colton)
Ratchet (A.K.A. The Engineer)
Name: Tyler Travis White
Primary Civilian Specialty: Robotic Engineering
Secondary Civilian Specialty: Computer Programming
Primary Military Specialty: Anti-Electronic Countermeasures
Secondary Military Specialty: Battlefield Mechanic
Ratchet is Prowl’s twin brother. Where Prowl was gifted with a talent for genetic engineering Ratchet developed in the area of mechanical engineering. His first project after defecting from Cobra was to completely re-engineer a B.A.T. unit into his G.E.A.R.S. unit.
Codename: Retribution
File Name: Rogers, Jason Steven
Rank: N/A
Hometown: Parker, New Jersey
Affiliation: Cobra
Primary Specialty: Hand-to-Hand Combat
Secondary Specialty: Distraction/Chaos
Head: Hi-Tech, Body: Paratrooper Duke, Hands: Joe Firefly, Boots: ATV Duke
Accessories:
Frontal Assault Duke Mask, Arctic Duke gauntlets, Paratrooper Duke Switchfire Rifle and modified bayonet, Joe Firefly belt and fire sticks, Kamakura weapons connector
Other Accessories:
He-Man: chest belt, Razor: Shield, Zeus Gundam: Lightning Hammer, Lego King Jayko: Cape, Ultra Corps: Purple Knife and Sheath
History:
From an early age Jason knew what he wanted to be when he grew up, a super hero. He grew up on Power Rangers. In school he was the one always protecting the smaller kids from bullies and making sure that no one broke the rules. Junior High was a shock for Jason because that was when he started reading comics but it was also the point where he discovered that, super heroes weren’t real. Unfazed he devoted himself to sports. He believed that if he couldn’t be a super hero then he would have to train his body to the peak of perfection in order to become an ordinary hero. This opened up several possible career paths from sports star to law enforcement. In high school he was captain of both the baseball team and the football team. He avoided the girly sports like basketball and soccer and though he considered wrestling he decided it was just a bit to gay. However in his spare time he earned high ranks in several martial arts.
The fact that he wasn’t valedictorian at graduation didn’t bother him because he’d already decided that further intellectual education wasn’t necessary. Instead he joined the army. Steve, by this point he’s started using his middle name because it was the name of a comic book super soldier, quickly moved up through the ranks to Captain and had led multiple missions into enemy territory and every time his team came out with only minor injuries. That is until his last mission.
It was a routine patrol and they had nearly returned to the green zone when they hit an IED. Steve was the only survivor. Though his wound was serious he was expected to make a full recovery. In light of his excellent military record he asked for a transfer to the G. I. Joe Team. However he learned that the team had be disbanded. Worse still he was then given a medical discharge because of nerve damage that left him without the ability to feel pain.
Steve returned home and tried to get a job with the local police force. Eventually he was able to get a position with an independent contractor but it didn’t last long due to the fact that his superiors clamed that he was “a loose cannon”, “he used unnecessary force”, and “he was a danger to himself and others”.
Dejected and unemployed Steve packed his favorite comics and movies into a pick up camper and set out to find a place in the world. Eventually he was arrested for disorderly conduct when he got into a fight with a biker gang in a bar outside the town of Springfield. He would have won if the police hadn’t shown up.
The next morning, Saturday, he expected to be released like all the times before. Instead the guard told him that the gang planned on pressing charges and he’d have to wait until Monday to go before the judge. Monday morning Steve met with his public defender. He was quick to point out that he wasn’t read his rights and he didn't receive his one phone call.
The lawyer slapped a file on the table and asked one question. “Is this your military file?”
Steve opened the file and was shocked. About the only things that the file had right was his name, blood type, ID number, his petitioned to join the Joe team, and his medical discharge. He was furious.
That was when the lawyer told him that the Joe team had been reorganized and reactivated as Sigma 6 before Steve had applied for a transfer. Then he asked him if he might consider joining Cobra. Steve took one look at the lies in his file, ripped it up and said that the first chance he got he was going to make them pay. By noon Steve had a costume befitting a hero and a new name, Retribution.
Retribution (The Real Story):
From an early age Jason wanted to be a super hero. Anything to get away from the abusive life he was living. Whenever he could he’s watch Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In school he was shy always avoiding the other children in fear. Both of being picked on and that someone would learn that he was being abused at home. Junior High was a shock for Jason first because his father was killed in a bar fight. It was as though a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. It was also when he started receiving an allowance that he used to buy comics. Unfortunately it was also the point where he discovered that, super heroes weren’t real.
Not wanting to ever be beaten again he started taking martial arts classes. He hoped that one day he’d be able to one day become a police officer. In high school he began trying out for sports but he was always to short or just not good enough no matter how much he worked to be better. He avoided soccer and wrestling because he decided it was just a bit too gay. He continued with martial arts in his spare time though he didn’t progress up the ranks like the other students because he lacked the discipline.
The fact that he didn’t receive any scholarships at graduation bothered him but he decided that he’d join the army in order to avoid the monotony of working at the local burger joint. Steve, by this point he’s started using his middle name because it was the name of a comic book super soldier. This change didn’t help him. Corporal Steve Rogers was a completely average soldier. He did his job well enough but it was unlikely that he’d ever move up through the ranks. During his tour the only time he left the green zone was when we was being rotated back to the states.
Steve’s unit was en-route to the airport when their vehicle was hit by an IED. Steve was the only survivor. A piece of shrapnel was lodged in his head. He could no longer feel pain. He was expected to make a partial recovery and he would be able to return to civilian life but he’d never be able to return to combat. Not because of the physical injury but because he could no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy. He believed that he was a war hero and that even with his disability he should have been transferred to the G. I. Joe Team. He was informed that G. I. Joe team had been disbanded in order to protect him from himself.
He was given a medical discharge and an appointment with a V.A. physical therapist near his hometown. He never showed up to the appointment. Steve returned home and tried to get a job with the local police force. However in light of his military record he was politely refused. Eventually he was able to get a position with an independent contractor as a truck driver in the war zone. However the job only lasted one month. He was fired due to the fact that he was a danger to civilians and as such a liability to the contractors continued operation. He was told that he was “a loose cannon”, “he used unnecessary force”, “he was a danger to himself and others” and “he needed to get help”.
Dejected and unemployed Steve packed his favorite comics and movies into a pick up camper and set out to find a new place in the world. As he traveled he devolved into a creature much like his own father had been. Eventually he was arrested for disorderly conduct when he got into a fight with a biker gang in a bar outside the town of Springfield. He had kicked the crap out of most of the gang, paying no attention to his own wounds. He might have been killed if the police hadn’t shown up.
He spent the weekend in the hospital though he expected to be released like all the times before once his injuries were patched up. Instead the nurse told him that the gang planned on pressing charges and once he was in stable enough condition he’d have to go before the judge. Monday morning Steve met the public defender in his hospital room. He was quick to point out that he hadn’t been read his rights and he didn't receive his one phone call. The lawyer told him that the ploy wouldn’t work since he had been read his rights it was just that he was too drunk to remember it. As for his one phone call the phone had been next to his bed the whole time and he hadn’t bothered to call anyone.
The lawyer then placed a file on the table and asked one question. “Is this your military file?”
Steve opened the file and was shocked. It was his file but the only things that the file had right in his mind was his name, blood type, ID number, his petitioned to join the Joe team, and his medical discharge. He couldn’t understand how it was possible that his file was nothing more than a work of fiction.
That was when the lawyer told him that the Joe team was real and that it had been reorganized and reactivated as Sigma 6 before Steve had applied for a transfer. Since then the full roster had been reactivated but they didn’t bother to contact him. Then he asked Steve if he might consider working as an independent agent. Steve a second look at the lies in his file, ripped it up and said that the first chance he got he was going to make them pay and he didn’t care who he had to work for to do it. By noon Steve had a costume befitting a super villain and a new name, Retribution.
Codename: Skyfall
File Name: Eaglefeather, Joshua
Rank: Lieutenant
Hometown: Fort Hall, Idaho
Affiliation: G. I. Joe
Primary Specialty: Paratrooper
Secondary Specialty: Extreme Sports Instructor
Head: Temple Tracker Spirit
Body: Night Tracker Duke
Legs: Hi-Tech
Accessories:
Arctic Snake Eyes: Sky Board
Paratrooper Duke: Rifle, 2 grenades, jump harness, parachute, and helmet (modified)
Other Accessories:
Ultra Corps: Watch
History:
Skyfall was the kid who was always positive that he could fly. At six he jumped off the roof. After a scolding he was asked if he learned his lesson and he said yes. An hour later he jumped off the barn roof and broke his leg. When asked what lessoned he learned earlier he said that the house wasn’t tall enough for a proper take off.
“Why did I join up? It was just getting to be too expensive to continue jumping on my own. This way, not only do I get to jump out airplanes, I get paid to do it. Man I love the military.”
Banshee
Codename: Banshee
File Name: Unknown
Rank: Twilight Elite Squad Commander
Hometown: Unknown
Affiliation: Arashikage Twilight Elite
Primary Specialty: Assassination
Secondary Specialty: Circular Saws
Banshee doesn’t speak, instead he lets the scream of his saws speak for him. Of all the Twilight Elite’s targets Banshee harbors a special hatred for Snake Eye’s apprentice Kamakura.
Demon
Codename: Demon
File Name: Unknown
Rank: Squad Member
Hometown: Unknown
Affiliation: Arashikage Twilight Elite
Primary Specialty: Explosives
Secondary Specialty: Improvised Explosives
As a member of the Twilight Elite Demon has mastered all but the most advanced of the Arashakage ninja techniques but he rarely uses these skills preferring to simply blow everything to hell. If anything survives then repeat until everything is dead. Demon is the man that the Elite leave behind to make sure there is nothing left to show that they were involved.
Ghost
Codename: Ghost
File Name: Unknown
Rank: Twilight Elite Master
Hometown: Unknown
Affiliation: Arashikage Twilight Elite
Primary Specialty: Assassination
Secondary Specialty: Command
Ghost is the master of the Arashakage Twilight Elite a group of ninjas who have pledged themselves to the purity of the Arashkage Clan. Every member of the Elite is a blood member of the Clan. Their mission is preserve the purity of the Clans traditions. To this end the Elite’s primary targets are the rogues Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow. By pledging their services to G. I. Joe and Cobra they have betrayed the Clan. Secondary targets include Zartan, Jinx, and Kamakura with the destructions of G. I. Joe and Cobra due to the fact that both organizations have received information on sacred Arashakage secrets.
Ghost takes no pleasure in his task, as he believes that both Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes are honorable ninja. However his first loyalty is to the Clan.
Phantom
Codename: Phantom
File Name: Unknown
Rank: Twilight Elite Sniper
Hometown: Unknown
Affiliation: Arashikage Twilight Elite
Primary Specialty: Sniper
Secondary Specialty: Stealth
Wraith
Codename: Wraith
File Name: Unknown
Rank: Twilight Elite Gunner
Hometown: Unknown
Affiliation: Arashikage Twilight Elite
Primary Specialty: Heavy Machine Guns
Secondary Specialty: Chaos
If a mission requires a large body count such as going up against a regiment of Vipers, B.A.T.s, or Joes then Wraith is the ninja for the job. While others were practicing throwing shuriken Wraith perfected his skill as reloading single-handed while continuing to fire with the other. Much like Demon, Wraith loves the fact that the Elite has targeted Cobra and G. I. Joe since this gives him the chance to hone his skills against the best the world has to offer.
Tiger Claw
Codename: Wildside
File Name: Williamson, Daniel Tigris
Rank: Civilian
Hometown: Shoshone, Idaho
Affiliation: G. I. Joe
Primary Specialty: Genetic Engineering
Secondary Specialty: Berserker Combat
Favorite Book: "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abby
Favorite Movie: "Stargate"
Favorite Song: "Holy Diver" by Dio
Figure: Grand Slam
Profile: To most of the people that Wildside grew up with only three words could describe him big, dumb, and average. The school coach wanted him for the football team but he never bothered to get his grades above average. Besides he had to spend most of his time helping his grandparents keep their ranch going. However that was only his public face. In his spare time Wildside spent hours training himself in the use of edged weapons using methods he'd gleaned from books on medieval combat and survival techniques in the surrounding environments. When he wasn't training he was studying university level topics. Everyone, except the local librarian, was surprised when at graduation Wildside received the most scholarships, grants, and choices in Universities. When questioned on how he had achieved such an accomplishment with such low grades and test scores he would ask why he should have bothered doing homework and studying for tests that were geared to the average student.
Wildside then burned through a double Masters in Zoology and Anthropology and a Doctorate in Genetics and was thoroughly absorbed in the field of research dedicated to preserving genetic samples from animals on the edge of extinction. However due to his talent of being able to make intuitive leaps when dealing with complex problems the U. S. government asked him to join a team researching a WMD known as Venom. It only took him a few hours to realize that Venom was a retrovirus that combined animal traits with humans turning them into super soldiers. However the serum was flawed in that it completely suppressed the human intellect. Wildside was added to the research group trying to formulate a cure. He loved the challenge and immersed himself in the work. However while working on a cure he also worked on trying to perfect the Venom so that it could be used safely with little to no negative side effects. When he believed that he had perfected the Razor Trooper strain of the serum he tested it on himself.
He felt the results were less thrilling. He didn't feel stronger, faster, or smarter. However he also didn't feel a drop in intellect or an increase in aggression. In fact over the next few weeks the only change that he did notice was that most of his hair dark brown hair developed light brown stripes. The other older researchers just put it off to the fact that he was young and going through a phase. Soon the changes continued and the stripes began to appear discolor his skin. At first it was easy to hide the stripes under the long arms of the lab coat and with make-up. He also began to notice that though he wasn't physically getting stronger his stamina had greatly increased and he was developing a taste for rare meat. After several more months of careful observation his abilities stabilized and he hadn't developed any detrimental side effects.
He had just decided to reveal his discovery to his co-workers and the military when he was attacked by a large number of robots bearing a red Cobra symbol. At first he couldn't believe it. Sure he'd heard rumors about a terrorist organization known as Cobra but he hadn't really believed them. But now here was proof standing around him slowly raising their weapons. He realized that not only had Cobra been the original creator of Venom but they also knew about his involvement in the research. In that moment calm controlled Dr. Williamson snapped and the engine of destruction known as Wildside was born. When the G. I. Joe team arrived what they found surprised them. The twisted metal remains of a platoon of Sky B.A.T.s and Wildside sitting in the center of the destruction in meditation. After that Wildside was placed with the G. I. Joe team both as a formidable soldier and scientist but also as a way to keep him under military observation.
"Wildside fits in really well being able to geek out with Hi-Tech, spar with Snake Eyes, or work out with Heavy Duty. Best of all once he takes off the lab coat he becomes a real party animal. Just never ever get between him and food; you're likely to loose a finger or an arm." Tunnel Rat
Wingspan
Name: Wingspan
Primary Specialty: Flame Thrower and Air Support
Secondary Specialty: Pet
Wingspan is the product of Cobra’s Draco project. After his success of creating a sentient animal using Venom Prowl was given the task of creating Cobra’s newest super soldiers. Dr. Mindbender wanted a soldier that could out perform the Sky B.A.T.s. He gave Prowl complete freedom to create a legion of dragons. What no one suspected was that Prowl had been contacted by his brother, Ratchet, and through him the G.I. Joe Team.
Wingspan has human level intelligence, unless you ask him and he’ll claim that he is smarter than humans. He can breath fire and he carries gas grenades in order to expand this ability.
Wipeout
Name: Nadare, Hikaru
Codename: Wipeout
File Name: Nadare, Hikaru
Rank: Sergeant
Hometown: Hokido, Japan ?
Affiliation: G. I. Joe
Primary Specialty: Arctic Operations
Secondary Specialty: Extreme sports skiing instructor
Wipeout was into extreme sports from the moment he stole his first skateboard at age seven. By the time he was twelve he had been arrested four times. Tired of trying to make him conform and dealing with the police his parents sent him to Canada to live with his uncle. The change of country did slow Wipeout down a bit. At least that was everyone thought until he disappeared. He was completely off the grid for several years. At nineteen he was working as a ski instructor in Colorado when word got to him that immigration was after him. In order to avoid being deported he joined the military as a fast track to citizenship.
UPDATE 07/25/08:
Bill gave me another CD a couple weeks ago featuring some outdoor photos he'd taken on a camping trip, and while I wasn't about to try to "speak" for his original characters, I figured rather than simply posting the photos, I'd go Modern Day Geek Creek and make a comic out of it (whilst staying Old School Geek Creek in keeping it silent.) Hope ya like it:
And thanks again for the Badlands head, dude. I'm almost done with the first dio featuring him; I like to think you'll be pleased.
