Gaby Marshall

Gaby Marshall is a character in QIA. She serves as the protagonist for the Season Two short story "And All That Could Have Been".
== Biography ==
=== Foretelling ===
Gaby Marshall's grandfather, John Mackey, was targeted in a Reclaimer attack in 1978, but was saved by the Washington Field Team; he later got married and had a daughter, Enid. Eryn Gray would one day tell Will Bradley that the intention had been to prevent Gaby's birth, as she was destined to "play a great role in the future". ("The Rise and Fall of Will Bradley")
=== 2014 - 2026: Birth and Early Life ===
Gaby was born to her parents, Enid and Andy, on 10th April 2014 in West Hills, California. Minutes before she was born, the attending doctor witnessed the impossible - Gaby appeared to disappear, albeit very briefly, from within the womb, reappearing just seconds later. When the doctor mentioned this to Andy Marshall, he did not believe it at first. As a baby, Gaby would disappear and reappear several more times in the months to come, all of which went relatively unnoticed.
However, at eight months of age, Andy and Enid were forced to admit something was amiss with their daughter when she again disappeared, for a couple of minutes this time, directly from her stroller in the middle of the Westfield Topanga mall. Although she soon reappeared and this was mainly put down to her parents being ridiculous, the incident was enough to alert QIA agents Will Bradley and Josh Hannigan, who - believing her to the first known Natural (previously only speculated about) - informed them that there were two options - take Gaby away for study, or suppress her abilities and observe from afar only. Of course, Enid and Andy chose the second option, and for the next eleven years Gaby grew up believing she had a rare disease ('chrono-whatsit') that required twice-daily medication.
=== 2026 - 2029: Powers and Novus ===
In 2026, after an argument with her parents, 11-year-old Gaby stopped taking her medication and, after reading about a volcanic eruption, she Jumped for the first time since she had been a baby. Gaby found herself on top of Katla caldera where she briefly witnessed people on top of a large structure, just before the volcano erupted, at which point she Home Jumped again.
The next three years brought about huge change, both to Gaby and the world. As she experimented with her new 'superpowers', a mysterious and deadly group called Novus appeared and, seemingly overnight, took control of the whole world, with most governments around the globe bowing to their power completely. Quantum shifting - the name given to her ability - was outlawed and anyone found with that ability was arrested or executed. Gradually, despite a rebel movement calling themselves the FM trying to fight the dictatorship of Novus, the tyrannical group turned the world into a police state, governed by the deadly Pariahs.
However, Gaby somehow made it onto the Novus radar and in 2029 she was called on by Benedict Carter, who threatened her parents unless she did as he asked. Carter had her took them both to 2002 to test her abilities, which caused a minor quantum infraction. Although the QIA had, by that point, dissolved after an incident called The Blinding, remnants of the organisation - who were behind the FM - were alerted to it. Blake Kishell learned it was Gaby Marshall, a name that Tasneem Hafiz was already familiar with from a past mission.
Fearing for her life, Andy helped Gaby escape just before Carter arrested both him and Enid. Gaby Jumped back to 2023 but was soon found by Pariahs and captured. Gaby was brought to a Novus detention centre and shown a video by Carter that showed Andy admitting to being with the FM and deliberately sending Gaby into a Novus trap, stating that she was a weapon that could be used against Novus. The video also showed Andy murdering Enid after she said she would go and stop this from happening. Carter then told Gaby that Andy had been executed shortly afterwards, before asking her to join Novus. At first, Gaby refused, but a few months later, during which she was gradually worn down, she eventually gave in.
=== 2033: The FM ===
By 2033, Gaby had risen to be one of Novus' top operatives, feared by many and going by names such as the Enforcer and Stormbringer. By this point,Gaby was the only known 'shifter' left. Having been groomed by Carter and a man named Vone, Gaby had already come to the attention of Cassius, the Novus liaison to the White House (and therefore the true power of North America), with whom Gaby developed a slight infatuation. 
Following the arrest of Blake Kishell, Gaby was specifically sent for to interrogate him. During this, Kishell told her that Novus had lied: Carter had murdered her mother, and put the blame onto her father. After witnessing this for herself, Gaby went with Kishell to join the FM and listen to their risky plan to fix things.
Later, she, Kishell, Hafiz and Iulya Dalca went to the now-derelict London Hub in a bid to send Gaby back into the past, but they were attacked by Pariahs. Although ultimately they were successful in sending Gaby back, it cost all three of the others their lives.
=== Changing History ===
Gaby arrived in Geneva on the night of 31st December 2026 where she became the one responsible for The Blinding, destroying the Eye with a powerful bomb - though she was almost stopped by an earlier incarnation of Hafiz.
Gaby then Jumped to January 2026, where she met newly-appointed QIA Agent Steve Mariner and told him most of the truth. Together they went to see Ida Trent of the QIA Echelon, but Trent appeared unconvinced and even threatened Gaby, who later told Mariner that she would achieve her objective alone if need be. Later, she Jumped to 1993, pursuing Carter who was in Canada meeting with Sam Locke. The Washington Field Team were present to stop a quantum terrorist - Gaby - from murdering Carter, and so Kishell and Mariner attempted to apprehend her. Gaby shot Blake (non-fatally) but after Carter escaped, Mariner let her go.
In 2021, Gaby followed Carter again, this time to Havana, where she found he was meeting with Ida Trent - and once again the Washington team were present. While trying to kill Carter, Gaby accidentally shot Trent dead, and once again Carter got away.
Now knowing that Trent was involved with Carter and likely knew where she could find him, Gaby next went to June 2020, where she orchestrated the Academy bombing, paying Alex Struycken to detonate a bomb in order to lure out Trent (who came with the intention of pinning the blame on Andrew Wesker). However, during this effort, Gaby accidentally murdered Trent again, despite Trent's death in the future. When Steve Mariner intervened yet again, Gaby - her brutal Novus persona briefly returning - killed him as well. She would later also murder Struckyen, to tie up the loose ends.
Realising now that, with the future inevitably changing in light of Trent's earlier death, Gaby returned to Havana, 2021, only to find Carter waiting for her and fully aware of who she was. Carter insinuated that all of this had been foreseen and orchestrated by The Divine, and then attempted to kill her, but Gaby was saved after a mysterious one-eyed man shot Carter dead, before telling her that she still had work to do - killing her original target.
== Appearances ==
=== Season Two ===
"Academy" (uncredited), "Lampeter" (mentioned), "And All That Could Have Been"
== Trivia ==
Gaby's Anchor is Trent Reznor.
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