Darius Pike

Darius Pike was Alistair Gryffen's personal assistant and part of K9 Mark 2's alien-fighting team in the early-2050s.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Darius was the son of police officer Harry Pike, who often took him to the precinct house he worked in. (TV: The Last Precinct) Darius frequently disagreed with his parents and did not like the rules they imposed on him or how they told him what to do. (TV: The Korven) Harry ultimately abandoned Darius after the CCPC made police officers obsolete, becoming obsessed with getting revenge against the Department. (TV: The Last Precinct)
Two years after the introduction of the CCPCs, Darius was employed as Professor Alistair Gryffen's personal assistant, (TV: Regeneration) working in the converted precinct his father formerly worked at. (TV: The Last Precinct) He knew of Gryffen's mission to bring back his wife, son and daughter and was grateful for how well the Professor treated him. Darius considered it his job to keep Gryffen safe.
Gryffen's agoraphobia meant that Darius had to do his shopping for him, (TV: Regeneration) although he sometimes stole food instead. (TV: The Korven) In his spare time, he worked on repairing a taxi with an artificial intelligence called Mariah. (TV: Liberation) He found time to do other work to make a living (TV: The Korven) and kept a collection of discarded items in the sewer (TV: The Bounty Hunter) that he had salvaged from across London. (TV: Fear Itself)
=== Formation of the K9 Unit ===
Darius returned from shopping after Gryffen's attempt to bring back his family with the Space-Time Manipulator failed because of Starkey and Jorjie Turner and instead brought four Jixen to Earth, as well as K9 Mark I, who killed three of them. Believing that Starkey could be trouble for Gryffen, he alerted the CCPCs to his presence, leading to Starkey's arrest. He also disliked that Gryffen allowed K9 Mark 2 to stay at the mansion, but did not give up either him nor the escaped Starkey, who was being hunted by the surviving Jixen, when June Turner visited. (TV: Regeneration)
Frustrated by Starkey staying at the mansion, Darius agreed to go with him to Dauntless Prison to help K9 find the Jixen in return for Starkey leaving and putting in a good word with Jorjie. They left in Mariah and entered the prison via the sewers at Darius's suggestion, after which they were captured by a CCPC and locked up until Jorjie arrived and freed them with a device Darius pickpocketed from Thorne. He helped the aliens captured by the Department escape and killed the Jixen by attaching June's self-destructing arm unit to it. Upon returning to the mansion, Starkey left with K9 as he and Darius had agreed. (TV: Liberation)
=== Exploits with the K9 Unit ===
On a stormy night, a trio of non-corporeal lifeforms came through the STM, taking on the appearance of Gryffen's lost family, and manipulating him into doing their bidding. Starkey convinced him that he, Darius and Jorjie were like family to him. Gryffen broke free of the apparitions' control, sending them back through the STM. (TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen)
He once almost destroyed London when he accidentally unleashed a swarm of alien nanobots. (TV: Black Hunger)
An accident in the STM resulted in Jorjie being sent to 23 November 1963. K9 and Starkey were sent to retrieve her. They encountered Darius' great-grandfather, William Pike and saved him from the clutches of Barker, a MI6 agent with a surprising resemblance to Thorne, preventing Darius from being erased from history. Gryffen, with June's help, brought them back. (TV: The Cambridge Spy)
Like almost all of Britain's kids, Darius was a huge fan of the latest VR game, Little Green Men. Darius, Jorjie and millions of other children, were almost turned into Etydions until June convinced the last Etydion to stop what he was doing. (TV: The Custodians)
When K9's memory was damaged by the STM, Starkey and the Professor helped him to recover his memories of Darius and the others. (TV: Mind Snap)
Darius met his estranged father when his father and his father's group, the Last Precinct, attacked Gryffen Manor, using it as a staging ground for their plans to disgrace the CCPCs. Although Darius helped derail those plans, leading to the arrest of the members of the Last Precinct, he and his father parted on civil terms. (TV: The Last Precinct)
Soon after, Darius was approached by Thorne, who claimed that his father was suffering in prison. Thorne offered to make his sentence more bearable in return for K9's regeneration unit. Darius convinced K9 to go along with it, only to be double-crossed by the group. (TV: Hound of the Korven)
When a strange phenomenon in the STM threatened Earth, Gryffen sent Darius to collect June. Shortly after, CCPCs in the area were given new orders that human personnel had no authority. When the two were confronted by two CCPCs, June saved Darius by grabbing a large gun and destroying them. They made their way to the STM control panel. Darius pulled June back just as the STM exploded, saving her life. This act of heroism earned June's respect, and she offered him a position in a new Department. Darius later heard that K9 was about to die. A tearful Darius told him he was the coolest thing to ever happen in his life. As per its programming, K9's regeneration unit homed back to him, allowing him to renew himself. Darius was delighted to see him alive again. (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven)
== Personality ==
Darius was a hard worker, and loyal to the professor, whom he saw as a father figure. Being an employee of the Department, he did not dislike and distrust them as much as Starkey and Jorjie. He would willingly go to them for help on occasion. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus) He showed great care for Gryffen, comforting him at bad times (TV: Regeneration) and going off to rescue him when he was kidnapped. (TV: The Korven) He initially disliked Starkey, believing his troublemaking ways would only bring the Professor strife, but they became good friends. Darius and K9 sometimes argued. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus) He had a crush on Jorjie, (TV: Sirens of Ceres) and was heartbroken when she confessed to him she had a crush on Starkey. (TV: Aeolian) He was very attached to Mariah, spending most of his free time polishing and working on her and was angry when it appeared K9 had damaged her. (TV: Jaws of Orthrus) Furthermore he loved to play the electric guitar. (TV: Aeolian)
Darius was something of a pragmatist, abandoning his friends' plans when they seemed too outlandish or likely to fail and seeking help elsewhere. He also had a habit of concocting get-rich-quick schemes, usually involving alien technology. (TV: Black Hunger) He liked Italian food. (TV: Liberation)
Darius suffered from claustrophobia (TV: Fear Itself) and coulrophobia. (TV: Dream-Eaters)
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