Von Ness

## Von Ness/Von Nebula

* Von Ness
* Von Nebula

"*Von Ness no longer exists. I am... Von Nebula!*"
―Von Nebula[In the orginal serie|[src]]
**Von Ness** (better known as **Von Nebula**) is the main antagonist of the 2014 action comedy film Hero Factory: The Movie and is the dark and mysterious leader of various villains. He was a robot hero made in the Hero Factory and a former member of the Alpha 1 Team. After his last mission, he betrayed the Hero Factory and left the group. He is Preston Stormer's archenemy and former partner.

## Biography

### **Early years**

Created in the Assembly Tower, Von Nebula was once a Hero from the Hero Factory, under the name of Von Ness. He was a part of the original Alpha 1 Team led by Thresher. He traveled with the rest of the team (minus Thresher) to a prison that was under attack by the Legion of Darkness, led by Black Phantom. He was with Dunkan Bulk on the surface of the asteroid while Preston Stormer and Jimi Stringer were in a Hero Craft above. He went onto the roof to stop XT4, Toxic Reapa, and Voltix from escaping that way. However, he realized that he did not choose to be a Hero and that this was not his fight, so he allowed the villains to escape, beginning his path to becoming a Villain.

After this failure, it was decided that Hero Factory would be shut down, something that Von Ness didn't appear to mind too much. He then left on a transport with Bulk and Stringer while Stormer and Thresher remained behind. Hero Factory was then attacked by the Legion of Darkness and he returned with Bulk and Stringer to fight them off. After they won the battle, it was decided that Hero Factory would not shut down; this was not received well by Von Ness.

### Betrayal

During a routine Hero response to a burglary in progress, the Alpha 1 Team found themselves facing a much more dangerous threat when they came across a giant heavily armed Drone packing a dozen of powerful plutonium cryptide canisters, having enough firepower to destroy half of the City. Upon contact, the Team Leader Thresher and Ness' Rookie teammate Preston Stormer started firing at the Drone to draw his attention trying to make him stop targeting civilian populated areas, Von Ness got visibly frightened about the situation. Thresher ordered the Rookies to take cover near the Hero Craft while he made a run at the Drone to distract him, during the process, he got hit by one of the Drone's plasma projectiles leaving him badly injured and lying unconscious on the ground.

Now without the experienced Team Leader to provide help and strategy, Von Ness and Preston Stormer were now on their own. Stormer exclamated to Ness that they had to stop the Drone before it hurt any civilians. After hearing that Ness demanded that they waited for Hero backup to which Stormer strongly disagreed due to the amount of damage that the Drone could create in a short amount of time. Due to the disagreement, Stormer instead told Ness to cover Thresher while he drew the Drone's attention away from the two. While Stormer took the Drone alone, Von Ness once again felt that the Hero Factory had sent him once again there to complete an impossible task, thinking that he was just a pawn, another one of the millions of Heroes sent to their deaths on every Mission. Seeing an opportunity to escape the battle and secure his own survival, he attempted to escape on the Hero Craft, when Stormer noticed he jumped on the windscreen cracking it and demanding that he brought the Drop Ship down immediately, refusing to comply, he stated that Stormer would get them both killed and proceeded to shook Stormer off the Drop Ship. Stormer was able to project himself of the Drop Ship landing on the Drone's back, then proceeding to cross-circuit the Drone's power supply, crippling him which caused the Drone to explode.

Von Ness was still able to escape the scene flying off on the Hero Craft, going, rogue. After the incident, he ended up blaming Stormer for his failure and for Stormer being blind and agreeing to do everything that the Hero Factory ordered him to, vowing revenge to him and to the Hero Factory.

Though after many months of attempts from Preston Stormer to track Von Ness down, he never was able to locate him.

Von Ness flew over to Disneyland where he destroyed the houses of the Little Einsteins for no reason (except Rocket's Garage). After that, he went into space and disappeared to Destral where he met the Brotherhood of Makuta.

* Rise of the Rookies
* Breakout

Von Nebula led his villains to the Deltari Quadrant, where they cut communications and stole their palomino diamonds.

Next, he put his plan into effect by dispatching XPlode and Rotor to hijack a shipment of C-4000 explosives on Merak 9. When this failed he sent the pair to rob an Explosives Plant on Lemus 2, though they were ordered to not really do any damage besides worry the Hero Factory.

He then sent Corroder to attack Penitentiary 1331, a prison under construction on Tantalus 5. Once again the henchbot was ordered to avoid doing too much damage. Lastly, Von Nebula sent Meltdown to poison Stormer with nanobots, causing the Hero to go berserk. After Stormer was cured, Von Nebula decided to target New Stellac City for the final part of his plan.

First, Von Nebula issued out a false alarm meteor strike warning, to gain the Alpha 1 Team's attention, then he sent Corroder and Thunder down with a Nebula Gas Cannon. He later dispatched XPlode and Meltdown as well.

When Von Nebula revealed himself at New Stellac City from his black hole base, Stormer, followed by William Furno, willingly let themselves be sucked into a black hole where they knew they would face Von Nebula. Von Nebula stripped away their weapons and devices and began draining their Hero Cores.

The Heroes, however, retained their built-in Anti-Gravity Thruster Rings and began plotting to reverse the effects of the vortex. Von Nebula returned and demanded the rings, attacking Stormer because he knew "Stormer always has to take the glory". However, it was Furno who held the rings, and he threw them into the center of the black hole to destroy it. Stormer then seized the Black Hole Orb Staff and sucked Von Nebula into it. Stormer and Furno escaped the black hole, and brought the staff with them to the Hero Factory.

Shortly after heroes Furno and Rocka seemingly arrested Voltix far too easily, Voltix appeared to release some sort of entity of Von Nebula which shattered the Orb on his Staff. How Voltix was able to carry an embodiment of him remains a mystery. After escaping the prison via the destruction of his own weapon, Von Nebula went into hiding.

## Personality

Von Nebula was cowardly as a Hero, a behavior which eventually caused him to flee in the middle of a crucial mission. However, Ness refused to accept responsibility for his actions, and instead blamed Stormer for what happened. He developed a deep, unyielding hatred for anything related to Hero Factory, and was determined in getting revenge against the perceived wrongs inflicted upon him.

As a criminal mastermind, Von Nebula excelled in organization and development, utilizing his talents through criminal activity.