The Claw-Phase 2

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:
CLAW:
Retractable uni claw, able to fire and connected to the housing unit by a magnetic-bond version of a tractor beam. Claw contains multiple dual-directions ‘hinges’ for versatility.
TRACTOR BEAMS:
Claw is 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.
BLADED BOOTS:

ION CANNON 'SHOCK BALLS':
Interior of housing unit also contains 1 rapid-firing ion cannon, capable of rendering electronic equipment worthless and living tissue unconscious.
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.

ADDITIONAL WEAPONS:
Dual, wrist mini-LAW’s on chains under his street clothes.
Strange, alien-based laser rifle.
Preferred Strike:

After many adventures Ticket gains the scientific know-how from an enemy who is strong in the various sciences and who has mental powers. He was given scientific knowledge from a mental bond-gone wrong during a battle with Mind Wipe.

Little does he know the origins of the alien laser and the connection it will later lead him to-his biggest challenge from deep in space!

New Project: Lashline

Lashline

Real name: Erika Shearer
Affiliation: Intellect Defense
Temperament: Ex-military vet. Mean, rude, and bitter due to the loss of her right arm above the elbow from her previous military experience. She also hates men due to the bad behavior from her previous military assignments (her superior officer was a big, bad jerk). She is almost unethical in her behavior and tactics.
Weapons/Equipment: Wears a cable-rapelling/grappling lashclaw on her right arm above the elbow.
HOOK CLAW: Sharpened, the boomerang-shaped claw can be fought with in hand to hand combat situations or fired at enemies from a distance.
FIRING THE CLAW: A thin, filament cord is wound tight in a quick-release spool near the base of the elbow. With small explosions it can be shot out and used as a grappling hook or weapon, which can be swung from. Maximum 2 city block range. Able to carry only 2 people (Lashline included). Stronger than Todd’s mini-L.A.W.s but not by much.
Skills/Abilities: MARTIAL ARTS EXPERTISE: As an ex-military vet Lashline is versed in various forms of hand to hand combat. Or, in her case, hand to claw combat.
Preferred Strike: Fire off hook-claw into opponent and then pull them into her awaiting elbow-uppercut.

Recruited by Prof. Cloward to replace Ticket after he wound up in the hospital. Prof. Cloward was ready to scrap the whole L.A.W. line of products and go back to the drawing board… until Todd woke up with a better design!
Feeling guilty for trying to replace Todd, Prof. Cloward never told him that he was going to replace him… until The Claw met Lashline in battle!

Sable Blade

Real name: Blair Yamasaki
Affiliation: The Claw and Intellect Defense
Temperament: Patient, strong, good-natured, willing to help, cautious, direct
Weapons/Equipment: His equipment came from Lyonell’s Laboratories. Phase-blades only hurt living tissue so they would not hurt undead monsters.
The frequency harmonies in the phase-blades repel each other like the opposite polar ends on a magnet. As such, 2 phase blades will NOT pass through each other! (Perfect for sword duals!)
FLOATING: Sable Blade is dressed in an anti-gravity harness that subdues the laws of gravity and physics, allowing him to create all types of aerial acrobatic tricks – even hang in midair.
The anti-gravity harness supports his injured back and allows him to do martial arts. Without his harness on he is incapable of martial arts feats. With it – he is the best!
BLADE SWORD: The phase-sword is an energy blade that passes through solid matter – but disrupts the energy sequence between nerves – stunning an opponent where it touches them! Also works on machinery.
ENERGY CROSSBOW: The gauntlet-crossbow is an energy-compound device that builds, stores, and launches a fistful of destructive energy from a virtual reality, energy-compression gauntlet system. One gauntlet stores the firing energy – the other draws and releases it. The further the draw the more powerful the blast. (The system does not contain a crossbow ‘string’ – it is virtual.) Both gauntlets also allow super-blast punches if desired/necessary.
Skills/Abilities: Lifetime, avid follower of martial arts. Holds black belts (some are double degree) in judo, tae kwon do, karate, shotokan, aikido, and fung fu.
Preferred Strike: Two-fingered punch to the throat. Swift, simply, easy, powerful... and the opponent can't talk back.

A Martial Arts instructor who injured his back during an ally fight.
During a martial arts competition he defeated his opponent, who was a sore loser. Following the martial arts competition he and his classmates cornered him in an ally and beat him almost to death. He doctor gave him the bad news: he would never be able to do martial arts again.
Down-on-his-luck, he was walking home one day when he came across a strange site: an unmarked black van had overturned and a group of people were fighting in the street. Despite his back injury he joined to assist and was able to stop the attackers using only his cane and his arms.
However, when the fight was over the people he thought he was defending also ran away from him, leaving him with the van and its contents.

What he found inside was technology hardware he’d never seen before. Fearing it would be stolen he took it home. After curiosity turned to experimenting he discovered that he could defy the laws of nature, gravity, and physics – allowing him to once again enjoy the benefits of martial arts like he’d never been able to enjoy before!
He planned to return the items to the scene of the crime but a series of adventures kept him from returning them immediately. By the time he returned to the scene the van was gone – along with any clue of who to return the items to.
Now armed with his phase-blade and gauntlet-crossbow he guards the night street’s dark ally’s-putting an end to any other attackers.

He currently teaches a martial arts hand-to-hand course at Fleetwood University.

The Conjurer

Real name: UNKNOWN
Affiliation: Independent villian
Temperament: Insane! Mentally unstable, fits of anger, flights of fancy, easily distracted... but still dangerously brilliant.
Weapons/Equipment: He created a pair of gauntlets that break objects down to their basic molecule and atom sub particles. He is then able to store them in a computer system as energy on his belt and use them to re-create new items. With this technology he is able to create objects from thin air – including weapons and shields!
Skills/Abilities: Intelligent in a variety of science fields, including, but not limited to: biology (including micro), chemistry, geology, zoology, and palientology. A lot of 'ologies.'
Preferred Strike: Make you vanish... then delete your file.

His insanity and creativity are his primary weapons!

The Conjurer was first discovered by Sable Blade in his first adventure. The Conjurer is an insane, but brilliant scientist who believed in the breaking down and recreation of molecules. He believed that solid matter could be disassembled down to their simplest form, as energy, and stored in a computer database. He further believed that he could also reverse the process using varied combined molecules to create new objects.

He was mocked, ridiculed, and abandoned for his claims.
Using stolen funds he sought for a way to make his claims become a reality. He succeeded but fortunately Sable Blade caught him before he could put his claims to use.

Forkliftman

Real name: Brad Cavanaugh
Affiliation: Independent villian
Temperament: Patient, hard-working, focused on his work, determined, stable, hard to provoke, and without hope.
Weapons/Equipment: His giant, forklift-like tank vehicle is fully bullet proof. Made from two forklifts it has a full-range of reach and capabilities, including a high-voltage anti-intruder defense system. Multiple telescoping joints allow it to stretch or reach in almost every direction. And runs on diesle fuel.
Skills/Abilities: Brilliant design engineer used to build cranes, bridges, and buildings for a living. Now he uses his intelligence, creativity, and schooling to destroy them.
Preferred Strike: Low gear; run ya over, squash 'em flat...

Another tired, brilliant, overworked, engineer supervisor who was let go from his company… with his team's hard-fought project rejected and only a week left to retire.

Pressured by his over-anxious, self-absorbed, and controlling wife Brad threw caution to the wind. Building a tank-like super forklift in his garage he used it to break into and steal bank vaults: the ENTIRE vault. With his forklift-tank he tears out the entire bank vault and drives away with it.

After a run of bank jobs Ticket receives his functioning L.A.W. design and successfully tests it out on Forkliftman, stopping him.
But during the difficulty of the fight it is Forkliftman's tank that give The Claw the ideas he needs for his finalized phase of his C.L.A.W. weapons.

In jail Brad gratefully is served divorce papers and he considers it a relief.
But his days of being Forkliftman are far from over.

Dead Bolt

Real name: UNKNOWN
Affiliation: Crime Shark
Temperament: Patient, calm, calculating, silent, stealthy, quiet, and cold.
Weapons/Equipment:
SPECIALTY SNIPER RIFLES:
Carries 3 varying High powered sniper rifle that can be broken down and reassembled quickly, including conversion to a one handed sniper pistol. Two rifles have modified chambers are capable of firing multiple cartidges, designed to release gas, smoke, toxins/poisons, strobe lighting, and blood pellets to attract Blood Prowlers.
RAIL GUN:
An essentially silent, and legendary, weapon that has no moving parts and can fire almost any quarrel, round, or ammunition supplied via an overdose charge of magnetics.
Skills/Abilities: Stealth, camoflauge, near invisibility. His suit is half black and designed to cover one eye during an operation for better concealment in an urban-jungle warfare situation. Also has window-washer-type harnesses that allow him to get the best shot from anywhere... even the dark, outside of a tall skyscraper.
Preferred Strike:
“Distance, silence, and invisibility are my weapons.”

Dead Bolt’s rail gun was stolen from the Russian government.

Dead Bolt used to be part of an ex-military team of commandos. No one knows why he left or what his connection is with the Russian Government.

He now works full time with Crime Shark.

Shattered Shard

Real name: Garret Baker
Affiliation: BioMech
Temperament: Violent, quick-tempered, vengeful, unwise, rash, and vicious.
Powers/Abilities: Physical body has been genetically altered into a super-strong, rubbery, jelly-like substance that is capable of bending, twisting, or altering into any form or shape. His skin has been altered to form a metallic crystalline shield when exposed to oxygen. With it he can can form any number of bladed weapons in any shape, to attack in any direction. His abilities were intended to mimic The Claw's.
Preferred Strike: Dual, multiple-claw slash, one from each arm.

Ruthless, vicious, and deadly - And The Claw is unable to stop him.

Where did he come from? Why did he attack Intellect Defense and Todd's mentor? Where did he get his strange powers? And after his wake of destruction, where did he go?