The Sentinel

Enigmas

*"I lost the use of my body serving my country and was given the opportunity to walk again through experimental testing and cybernetics, if I never accepted that offer I would of been bound to a wheelchair for the rest of my life so no I have no regrets."* - Jade to Milton Nichols on his offer to join the Enigmas branch of the United Nations

Jade Hawkins who later named her suit and in turn herself 'The Sentinel' was a female human that was born and raised in Switzerland where she became a member of the Swiss Air Force hoping to serve her country proud should they ever go to war, during her short tenure in the Swiss Air Force she would excel at her job where she was eventually moved to the Parachute Recon Company 17 in the Swiss special forces that served under the air force as her superiors believed she could be put to better use there. After countless operations conducted in different countries Jade was then moved to the Army Recon Detachment 10 or ARD-10 which served as Switzerland's counter terrorism branch of special forces, it would be during her time serving in the ARD-10 that she would attempt to prevent a terrorist attack on Switzerland's capital however she would fail and the explosion that was caused would severely damage her spine making her paralysed. Having been paralysed Jade got tired of being wheelchair bound and wanted to get back to serving her country to help correct what she believed was her failure at stopping the terrorist attack, it would be at this time that she was met by Milton Nichols who gave her an opportunity to help on an experimental piece of spinal technology that could potentially give her the ability to walk again however if it was a success she would have to work for Milton as an operative in a team called the Enigmas as an agent. The test would go ahead with a small cybernetic being placed within the upper spine of her body and upon waking up Jade was able to walk again, she would be given a suit that was donated to the UN by France where two large arms could form out from the back of the suit and could also retract being controlled by the cybernetic in Jade's spine that she could control through her brain. With control over her new cybernetics Jade would work under Milton as an operative 'Black Phantom' where she worked alongside another operative called Holly Gates who later went by the alias of Blitzfire, the two would work together on many covert missions with their own suits becoming effective agents for the United Nations. As far as we are aware both Jade and Holly were the first two known members of the Enigmas making them the first founding members of the group alongside Milton.

## Biography

### Switzerland

#### Swiss Air Force and ARD-10

Little is known about Jade's childhood however due to rising world tension it is indicated that she had the idea of serving her country at quite a young age and this would eventually happen when she joined the Swiss Air Force and served a couple of years within that branch of the Switzerland Armed Forces, after even more extensive training her superiors believed that her skills and qualities would be better suited in the field that from an air force base and so they would designate her to the Parachute Recon Company 17 inside the Swiss special forces. Jade would participate in many operations within the northern parts of Africa in joint task forces with other special forces to help overthrow dictators who posed a threat to the rest of the world including the helping of training local rebellions and resistances, eventually Jade would be transferred to the Army Recon Detachment 10 serving in preventing terrorist attacks and securing Swiss facilities. One of her major operations she participated in was a joint operation with US and British special forces in Peru to stop a major drug cartel that was rumoured to fund terrorist organisations, this operation would be a great success and became a boon to her career.

At some point in her career the Swiss intelligence would gather and compile reports on a terrorist attack that was planned on the the capital of Switzerland during a UN meeting which if successful could kill many leaders and representatives of many countries, given her success and experience within her career Jade would be given the commanding role in the operation to stop the terrorist bombing where she found that the current suspects were living in Austria. Jade would compile a team together to track down the address of the potential bombers house and upon finding the address would begin a breach and enter mission on the house however once the team had breached the house it would be completely empty, after discovering that most of the evidence within the house had been burned Jade would realise that the group had already moved their operations and were most likely now in Switzerland. Now having no idea where the group were she would double the security at the UN meeting in hopes of being able to uncover the group before the bombing could be put into motion but it would be too late as the bombs were already placed days before the meet and they would proceed to go off which critically injured Jade in the process.

### The Sentinel

#### Going Ghost

After an undisclosed amount of time Jade would wake up inside her own room inside what would seem to be a hospital where she was met by Milton Nichols who revealed his name and that he worked within the UN and US government where he gave Jade her official diagnosis of being dead, confused about the doctor's report Milton would go on to explain a conspiracy that was happening within the UN and that someone or some people had organised the bombing to take place from within the UN and that he was putting together a top secret team of individuals to stop this group and with Jade being pronounced dead that would be the best cover for her. Jade would go on to read the report of her body being paralysed from the waist down due to the explosion's impact on her spine which led her to question Milton how she would be able to help him bring down this group of conspirators from a wheelchair, Milton would proceed to offer a deal where a cybernetic piece of equipment would be surgically placed on her upper spine potentially being able to give her the ability to once again walk but this would mean that she would have to work for Milton. Jade would accept his deal where she was brought to a confidential lab where she learned more about Milton's plan to bring down the group of conspirators and she would also meet Holly Gates who was another operative that worked for Milton, after the surgery Jade would begin to walk again which allowed Milton to further explain the device that was now connected to her was also connected to her neurons going straight to her brain powering her entire body. He then proceeded to bring her to the lab's testing area where she would be shown a suit that was entirely made from nano technology that one of the top French scientists within the lab had made, after putting on the suit Milton explained that the spinal technology she had inside her connects with suit allowing her to control two large retractable arms that came out from the suit itself. With the suit Jade was once again met by Holly who was in her own suit that she had already had practice inside of, the two were given codenames as they would work alongside each other with Holly being called Blitzfire and Jade being called 'Black Phantom'.

#### Saving the World

Both Holly and Jade would be sent on missions independently and alongside each other over the months all with the ultimate goal of gather evidence and intelligence of the group of conspirators within the UN alongside disrupting their operations, one of Jade's independent operations would see her go to the Ivory Coast where Milton had learned of a secret weapons stash for the group that was held under the disguise of pirates who acted as weapon dealers. Jade would be discreetly deployed near to the location where thanks to the nano technology being able to shrink and grow adapting to the body it is on she was able to hide the suit from anyone's suspicions, after some recon Jade would be able to confirm the weapons depot and was given the authority to destroy it which allowed her to put the suit on and begin putting it into action like she had been trained to do using her large cybernetic arms to knock out and incapacitate her opponents. With everyone down she was able to locate the weapons cache which also contained juggernaut armour indicating that something bigger had been planned that Milton was not aware of, with intel gathered Milton would uncover that the group of conspirators were funding a group of extremists to commit terrorist acts across the country using military grade weapons. Both Blitzfire and Jade would be sent to Yemen to locate these weapons and the group who were going to use them so that they could be prevented from causing harm however once they arrived at the site of the weapons they would be ambushed by a mercenary called the Iron Fighter who was able to fight both of the operatives at the same time, whilst fighting him Holly would realise that the armour he had was extremely tough and only with their combined strength could they defeat him. Jade would use her retractable large arms to grab a car and hit him with it which would knock him out and Holly would use her electric cable ties to tie him up and take him back to Milton, having him detained in an undisclosed location the Iron Fighter would be interrogated where he revealed that he was paid to stop either Holly or Jade or any other operative from trying to sabotage his employer's operations which he would eventually reveal to be the President of Switzerland who was not at the original meeting when it was bombed.

Milton would assign Holly and Jade to their next mission to take down the President of Switzerland so that he may be questioned however he informed them to take extra caution as an open attack could cause more political problems and could upset the balance between the many countries in Europe, the two operatives would make their way to Switzerland where another emergency UN meeting was happening in light of many new smaller countries wishing to join due to the recent terrorist attacks. Both would infiltrate separate areas of the meeting however they would be exposed by the president who framed them as the terrorists causing the mass panic around the world, as they had been exposed Milton had no choice and sent in some of his own soldiers to free them which resulted in a battle between the Swiss army and Milton's soldiers who kept the army distracted. Holly would move to help Milton's soldiers as they were heavily outnumbered whilst Jade continued to chase down the president who had now hoped to escape in the ensuing chaos to come up with a new plan and once she had caught up with him she would be intercepted by the Iron Fighter who had also escaped captivity days prior and had warned the president, after a small battle between the two Jade would manage to punch him off of the building that they were on top of and confronted the president. The president would explain his actions being the world is very tense and that a world war could break out at any minute but if everyone were to become members of the United Nations they would all officially be allied to each other giving them no reason to fight each other and that is why he had terrorist attacks committed in countries that were not in the UN, Jade would disregard the president as nothing more than a murderer and arrested him. With the clean up done and the president facing trial in front of the entire United Nations both Jade and Holly would be given medals and crowned heroes of the United Nations which pressed for a team of people to represent the UN in time of crisis calling it the Enigmas, Milton would be placed in charge of the team and both Jade who now called herself The Sentinel and Holly who rather liked the name Blitzfire would become the first two official members.

### The Enigmas

#### SHRIEK Crisis

Months after the UN crisis Jade would return to her normal life working within the Swiss government finding herself a new love interest called Charles Decker who was secretly known as Switcher who was a history teacher that now lived in Switzerland moving from France, during her time in her new role Jade was adapting and adjusting to her new life with the cybernetic tech in the back of her neck maintaining her spinal structure and ability to walk. At this time Jade knew that she couldn't simply rely on the cybernetic enhancement to keep her spine intact and so in her spare time would with Charles accompanying her search for new medical experiments that could help her reform her bone structure permanently but despite trying just about everything would find no luck, when she wasn't working Jade slowly began to fall into a pit of depression realising that she may never permanently be able to walk again without cybernetics, before she fell even further into her own feelings she would receive a message from Milton Nichols who requested her presence alongside her friend and other Enigmas operative Blitzfire. The two would meet in the secret HQ that the UN had granted Milton Nichols to use within the USA where they would also come face to face with Orothos for the first time who made a joke about them being similar to government agents that used to chase her before which Jade simply retorted that she was "A child thats way out of her depth." this would be the start of a banter/rivalry between the two but would be put aside for the time being, The three would not know specifically why they were there until they were all sat around a table and a fourth member to the growing team of Enigmas was revealed by Milton who was The Warden Warren Russo a former Sparrow operative, Milton revealed to the three that he had been investigating the secret organisation and was recently approached by Warren who had provided him with evidence that Milton was on the organisation's target list as a potential threat to their grand plans. Having only just found out about this and what Milton was up to Jade would outright question Milton on why he did not tell her or Blitzfire seeing as they were tasked in the Enigmas to help protect the UN and other independent countries, before he even had a chance to respond she would leave the room heading to a private room for herself to calm down. After a couple of minutes had passed Orothos would eventually enter the room to speak to Jade about what had happened who would have a heart to heart with Norah telling her about how she was trying to find new medical practices to help her walk again without the cybernetic implant but had found no luck, Norah would proceed to speak about losing her mother and left Jade with a quote that would resonate with her in the coming months "Some things are gone for good and there is simply nothing we can do about that but we can decide what we do now." and this would help motivate Jade to go back to Milton and give him a second chance with her trust.

Upon their return they both noted that The Warden and Blitzfire had not yet returned to the briefing room which left Milton little to no choice in where to send Jade and Norah on their assignment to stop the AI chip known as Shriek by finding Josef Gruber's laboratory believing it to be in or near the city of Cairo in Egypt, the two made their way to Egypt in search of the lab and it wouldn't take them long to find a structure not far from the city of Cairo being guarded by Sparrow forces alongside the Iron Fighter who Jade and Blitzfire had previously fought before. Since their previous fight Jade would notice that he had an upgrade in his suit which looked like a suit made from some sort of alloy, both Jade and Orothos would launch a surprise attack on the Sparrow forces easily wiping out their soldiers now coming face to face with the Iron Fighter whom Jade would question about now working for Sparrow. He would simply laugh this off stating that he was always working for Sparrow and simply gave up the former president of Switzerland as a scapegoat to throw the scent off of his actual employers and organisation, after this conversation both of them would engage in hand to hand combat with one another revealing to Jade that he had managed to adapt his own fighting style to better defend himself against her large attacks but luckily she would manage to land a hit to his stomach but having little effect. Jade knew that his suit was new but was now realising that the alloy that was lined within his suit was very durable and able to protect him against massive hits that would take anyone else out, knowing she might not be able to actually defeat him yet she would keep him occupied whilst Orothos entered the lab to acquire any data that she could. Eventually the Iron Fighter would get the upper hand on Jade but he would be caught off guard by Norah's light power which incapacitated him allowing for both of them to escape just before Gruber's secret lab was blown up, whilst they made their way back to Milton in the US Norah would explain to Jade what she had found in the lab which included that the Iron Fighter had been given an experimental drug that allowed his body to be more resistant to harder hits alongside the plan to multiply Shriek in order to utilise it as Sparrow's own army preparing to take control of as much of the world as they could. The two would eventually return to the US where they returned to the headquarters from which they came to speak to Milton where Norah revealed what she had found to him alongside The Warden and Blitzfire who had returned from Rome, Warren told Jade and Norah what he had already told Milton that they had come across another Sparrow operative known as Caliber who was guarding a secure building owned by Sparrow which was being used as a data centre to copy the data of the AI chip that Shriek belonged to. Both Jade and Norah realised that this was the other part of the plan they needed to know which connected to their findings but despite now knowing their plan the group did not know where or when this army of robots were going to be released, after some speculating from the group Norah would interject into the group discussion stating that she still had some encrypted files from Gruber's lab and that it could be possible that the location could be on one of those files.

Norah would begin cracking through the encrypted files whilst the rest of the group recuperated from their missions which allowed Jade to sit down and talk to Charles who was still living his normal life as a history teacher whilst she was away, as she spoke to him she would tell him that she loved him but this job of hers was her life and she had no choice but to dedicate her life to defending both her country and the world but didn't want her job to get in the way of a relationship. Charles understood what she was saying and simply told her "The job comes first, no matter what, you have to do what you have to do." which would motivate her to not give up on herself as she gradually did over the months of receiving her cybernetic implant, after her conversation with Charles she would return to Milton confronting him on not telling either her or Blitzfire about his investigation into Sparrow and how big of a threat they were. Jade would offer Milton another chance of her trust but he was not to hide anymore big secrets from her or the group who were now actively trying to clean up his mess which he understood and thanked her for the chance, Norah would manage to crack a file open which contained the date and location being Chicago with the date being tomorrow during the president's speech within the city. The group now united with Jade acting as their leader made their way to Chicago whilst Milton took charge of the president's security force the very next day where he continued to go on with his speech despite the warning from Milton, as the group arrived into the city Norah would inform the group that the data was replicated but all of the Shriek robots would still need to be controlled relatively close by from a central computer that Gruber was likely operating from. All four of them began combing the city in search of the scientist and any large energy spikes that could indicate where the computer that controlled the robots was located at, whilst the group searched through the city the Shriek robots began swarming the city preparing their attack which forced the Enigmas to go on the defensive instead of searching for their target they would work on defending the civilians and the president. Jade having been a commander before would use her own leadership to organise the Enigmas by having Blitzfire fly over the city helping to evacuate the civilians to a safe area then proceeding to tell Orothos to continue working on locating the central computer whilst she and The Warden focused on destroying as many robots as they could, for the first time in history the Battle of Chicago would be the first time that the Enigmas revealed themselves as a public team. At some point in the battle Norah would uncover where Gruber was and the central computer but was thrown from the building with Gruber himself which led Jade to make her way to Norah's location to stop Gruber, having arrived just in time Jade would save Norah by now fighting him in hand to hand combat whilst Norah made her way back up to the building containing the central computer. Whilst Norah made her way back to the computer Jade would get into a slug fight with Gruber both of them throwing large and heavy hits at each other however with Gruber's portable electric pack he was able to electrically disable Jade's large retractable arms leaving her vulnerable to his attacks, as Gruber was about to finish Jade off The Warden would flip over him using his sword to slice the scientist's pack in half leaving him with no electric fists allowing Jade to knock him out in which shortly after the central computer would be destroyed and Gruber would be arrested. Having stopped a potential global threat from happening the four members of the Enigmas were given medals and recognised as heroes by the president of the USA and the entire UN with each member vowing to continue defending the people, after the Battle of Chicago Jade would return home where she stopped looking for new medical practices and became at peace with her new life spending most of her days working on her relationship with Charles until whenever she was once again called by Milton.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Retractable Large Arms**: With the spinal chip in the back of Jade's neck it allows the suit containing the arms to be controlled from her mind such as retracting and growing the arms from the suit and as her arms were connected to the spinal chip the suit would act like an exo-suit with the large arms mirroring what her actual arms were doing, this would also work to her advantage in terms of traversing land using her large arms to act like a slingshot off from the ground. Aside from traversing land Jade is also able to use her large arms to scale buildings quickly if she needs to but more importantly due to the arms metals and alloys that have been used to make them hit hard and the ability to lift things up with ease such as when Jade lifted a car up to throw at the Iron Fighter which would incapacitate him for Blitzfire to then tie him up, alongside this the durability of the arms allowed her to utilise them to block any incoming damage.

### Abilities

* **Special Forces Training**: During her time within the Swiss Air Force and special forces Jade would receive years of physical training allowing her to go toe to toe in combat with many people as seen in many of her fights including when fighting the Iron Fighter where unlike Blitzfire she was able to fist fight him for several minutes matching his strength by using her environment to her advantage, alongside her physical training she was trained in durability in the event that she should be captured and interrogated or tortured for information she would be able to hold out for days without giving up any information. Aside from her physical training she was also trained in strategy and being a leader of which she was the team lead of the soldiers overseeing the first UN meeting in Switzerland which has helped her in the Enigmas when devising a plan to during the middle of a battle.