Mercury

Mercury is the fastest known hero in throughout the history of the Strange Comics Universe

## Martin Maranda

### Aliases

"The Silver Speeddemon""The Fastest Man is Every Reality"

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### Affiliation

Guilford High (formerly), Hero Inc. (formerly), The Superhero Society of America

## Appearances

### Appears in

Glory Days (Comic Series)Time Forgotten (Comic Series)

## Appearance

### Physical Description

Martin is of an average build, though is a little light on muscle. He has pale skin from many daays spent indoors and stormy grey eyes that pair well with his short, messy, brown hair.

### Civilian Clothing

He often wears a long-sleeved , blue shirt with dark grey sweatpants, an unzipped black jacket, and gym shoes. He wears glasses because of his vision, too.

### Hero Costume

As a superhero costume, Martin dons a black, friction-proof, one-piece jumpsuit and places blue and silver armor plates and wears black gloves with the same silver and blue armoring. He also wears a helmet that's complete with a two-way radio capable of functioning at his high speeds, prescription goggles, onboard GPS, a breathing apparatus, night vision, infrared, and even sonar. His suit even monitors his speed and reports back to Index.

## Personality

After the Meta Bombs struck, Martin gained the power to run as fast as he could imagine. He's quickly adapted to life with his speed and is confident in his "fastes man in every reality" title. He can often be pretty arrogant and condescending but isn't "high-and-mighty" that he can't tell when he's going overboard. He likes to be right but is able to acknowledge that he doesn't know everything and enjoys learning more about things he doesn't know.

He loves goofing off with his friends but is serious when it comes to matters of worl and life-or-death situations. While his friends initially assumed he'd be the quippiest member of their team, they were surprised to find that it's much scarier to see the face of Mercury when you're a criminal than it is to just be whooshed off to the police station. His friends even agree that his Mercury persona is kind of intimidating.

## History

### Origins

It all started 2 lifetimes ago, back before the birth of the new universe, before the old universe, too. There was a man by the name of Martin Maranda and he was just a simple techer until the impossible happened! Until the bombings happened. The bombs that struck weren't designed to destroy areas, they were designed to be biological weapons of war. Bombs filled with artificially created biohazards meant to annihilate the civilian population in America; however, there were those among the American populous that were not killed by the contaminant. These people would come to be known as superhumans.

Martin's exposure to the contaminant gave him a high that sent him into the Primordial Universe! While in the Primordial Universe, Martin saw into one of the Primordiums. He encounted the Speed Primordium and the exposure to such a force turned him into living speed! Coming in contact with a force that embodies the concept of speed, itself, rewrote his existence and permanently linked him to the concept of speed. With every step he takes, the Speed Primordium grows and seeps deeper into the present incarnation of reality. Mercury is not just speed given from, his is the idea of speed housed within the form of Martin Maranda!

### The End of Time

As the fastest man in the universe, and one of its greatest heroes, Martin felt as though he is at fault. He believes he wasn't fast enough to save everyone, everything. Martin witnessed the loss of his entire world. His friends, his family, everything. When the world began to turn to white, Martin did the only thing he could do...

He Ran.

He ran, surpassing his previous top speeds and outran everything. He ran until everything turned white. He ran until there was nothing and he ended up in the space that protected existence from Oblivion, a place called "The In-Between."

### Until the Beginning of Time Itself

Martin didn't run to the end of time, he ran outside of the existing reality and stayed ther from eons. To him, time hadn't passed at all and it was simultaineously a mear second and an eternity before he was able to ran back across the infintely spanning whiteness that The In-Between consists of. Inside reality, it had been around 27.6 eons since Mercury's reality was wiped from existence and he became trapped in The In-Between. But, finally, due to a fluke that occured in the usage of Maid Miracle's esotaric energy powers, Mercury was finally given an actual way back into reality! He was able to use the spark left behind by Maid Miracle's dimensional portal and tachyeons generates from his speed trail to reopen the doorway and enter the new universe!

## Skills and Abilities

### M-Speed

M-Speed is an abreviation for "Impossible Speed," which allows Martin to move at speeds beyond that of any other living thing. Not only can he out-speed light, but he can also out-speed time! And that isn't even his speed limit. Once, on Index's request of him to ran as fast as he can, Martin outran creation! He ran so fast that he left the universe only to continue and outrun existence! This caused him to enter The In-Between for the first time. Only, he wasn't don speeding up yet. He outran the infinite expanse of white that The In-Between is composed of and ran straight into Oblivion.

He calls going his top speed "Going M!" Additionally, Martin can create whirlwinds bu spinning his arms, tornadoes by running in circles, become intangible by vibrating his atoms at hyperspeed, speed up the atoms around him to produce fire, vibrate molecular structures around him to generate lightning, use the Speed Primordium's raw power to move through time, and can even vibrate so fast that he turns completely invisible! He can even run on the atoms that make up the air! With his speed, Martin is practically unstable.

As he runs, Mercury produces a trail of what seems to be white light; however, this trail is actually composed of tachyons (aka superluminal particles), Metatons (aka hypertachyonic particles), and Akroparta (aka premetatonic particles). This means that he can produce something much more powerful than a sonic boom, light boom, or time boom... He can generate what he calls, an "Over Boom," which reveals the Primordial Universe in a ring around his point of departure.

### Healing Factor

Practically everthing about his is speed up and his healing is no exception. He can regrow severed limbs, save himself from fatal wounds, and is immune to radiation, poisons, venoms, alcohol, drugs, and even necrosis.

### Impossible Perception

Due to his ability to access the power of the Speed Primordium, Martin can process informationbeyond the speed of infinity, beyond the speed of creation. His ability allows him to react at M-Speed, which is almost comparable to subtle forms of precognition!

### Immortality

Whether it's by running into The In-Between or litterally outrunning the concept of death and destruction, Martin can escape the claws of death quite easily. Since he's one of the very few people in all of existence who's capable of traveling outside of reality and suriving the death of not just one, but two universes, and reentered reality at teh same age he left it in, it is safe to assume that he is completely immortal. Not to mention that he became the he is one with the concept of speed, and speed, no matter how slow you move, will always continue to eixist.