Adina Choudhury

## Overview

* Female human trying to suppress her Wechsalbalg wolf DNA
* Scientist working with gravitational forces
* Adina is capable of controlling a partial change, something that takes significant control over her wolf.

## Summary

### Shadow Vanguard

#### Gravity Storm

Adina has been working in Jean Dukes' development lab and is improving the armor built there for the Queen's Guard and Bitches. She is known to Ecaterina Romanov-Lowell through the testing effort on the armor.

Adina is trying to suppress her changing because at 13 years old she killed her mother on her first change. The change was a surprise to the family. While there were changelings in the family line neither of her parents could change. Ecaterina realizes Adina is a Wechsalbalg when Adina tries to acquire illegal DNA suppressing drugs. The dealer and his partner attack Adina which triggers her to change and she kills them. The exchange is captured on station cameras and Ecaterina confronts her about it.

Adina explains that after the change and the death of her mother Adina's father had left her and she had gone to live with her uncle. Her uncle had been buying the drugs but now had dementia and couldn't do it.

Adina agrees to become the navigator on the ICS Fortitude after Nathan has brought the ship and its crew into his covert services. Ecaterina also provides Adina with legal versions of the meds she was taking to suppress her changes.

The crew (Tc'aarlet, Jack, Adina and Mist) go to Alma Nine after the president is murdered. The suspicion is the murder is because she has committed to have Alma Nine join the Etheric Empire. While there the investigation is complicated as a scientist working on the weather control system creates a weather and gravity storm over grief that his wife's death is not being publicly mourned. The nanobots causing the weather and gravity are being controlled by a computer that is password protected by the scientist (who committed suicide) with his wife's DNA. He has hidden the body but they recover a bloody knife from the kitchen and end the storm. At the funeral ceremony they discover the vice president is a member of Dark Tomorrow and arrest him.

While being attacked by a mob Adina changes saving Jack and sending the mob fleeing for their lives. Jack has to stun her to prevent her from killing him, but her secret is now known to the crew.

#### Immortality Curse

The team handles multiple issues. First they take out a drug lord who has been needs to be curtailed. Then they go to an mining asteroid and stop the abuse of the indigenous people by the mine owners. Afterward they are requested to visit Astone to give Bethany Anne's condolences to the queen on the death of the consort.

In her grief Queen Lapis Lazuli has asked her lead scientist to develop a cure for death. Unfortunately the cure turns her subjects into zombies who attack and infect each other. As the "cure" spreads she makes the ultimate sacrifice and detonates a bomb that floods her province with lava, protecting the rest of the planet.

#### Ultimate Payback

Adina acquires a stockpile of computer hardware from Don Gar'barlo's server farm with the intent of accellerating Solo's ascension to AI status. She doe not tell Jack or Tc'aarlet she is performing the upgrade even after Solo explains the upgrade will take over a week. Unfortunately with the Fortitude reaches Miseria the Solo is still out of commission and when the Cold Front attacks the Fortitude crashes. In addition, when the team leaves the Fortitude essentially unguarded the Dark Tomorrow agent Benjamin gets into the Fortitude and before Solo can defend herself Dark Tomorrow agent Benjamin installs a kill switch in her that only he can control.

Benjamin has a triple threat/enticement on Adina. If she does as he asks, he can help her uncle's deteriorating health, he won't destroy Solo and he will help them take down Don Gar'barlo's mob. When he finally asks her to take the money the Shadows are about to steal from the Don and send it him, she realizes that is all Benjamin really wants. They keep the money from him and when he has wiped out Solo the AI, Adina recovers Solo the EI. Jack cryptically comments he knows Benjamin and something in Jack's past has Jack believe there is no help for her uncle from Benjamin. While Benjamin does show up later in the series the reason for Jack's skepticism is never revealed.

#### Alien Genocide

The Shadows are sent Renesta to help the Enkelites adjust to the planet. The Enkelites planet, Fruling, had become a battleground between two other races. The planet was being destroyed and the Enkelites, as members of the Empire were rescued and were being moved to Renesta which would need minimal terraforming to meet their needs. The planet is outside the Empire so the Shadows are considered a good alternative to resources directly associated with the Empire.

The environmentalist Bon Noh belives there is life on Renesta and blocks the Enkelites and Shadows from terraforming. The Shadows risk their lives to gather the single cell lifeform and are allowed to settle the planet. Shortly afterward there are 50 savage deaths of the Enkelites. The team finds out there is a race called the Onbir who have hidden themselves in status for over 16,000 years. Their robotic guards lead by Designate One consider all other forms of life a threat. After the Fortitude destroys most of the guards Jack convinces Designate One that the galaxy has advanced beyond the Onbirs and unless he backs off the mountain fortress will be destroyed. The best alternative is to wake the Onbirs and have them live with the Enkelites in peace. The awakened Onbirs not only agree, but are appalled by the deaths caused by Designate Oned and work to reprogram him.

Benjamin from Dark Tomorrow tries to steal the terraformer from the Fortitude. The other 2 members of his team are killed by Jack and Tc'aart. Adina injures Benjamin but he does escape after downloading the software from the terraformer.

Adina finds the medicine is no longer keeping her wolf suppressed. She agrees she needs to work with other women Wechsalbalg like Ecaterina Romanov-Lowell and Charumati to accept and control her wolf.

The crisis solved, the Shadows plan to go rekindle their effort to eliminate the Don and his crime family.

#### Family Reunion

Naka-Lee, a Mutanaraian, has developed a control collar to keep Wechsalbalg wolves controlled and in their wolf form. Benjamin offers to bring her Adina because of Adina's ability to partially change and defeat the suppressing medications. The reason she has the need is someone acquired one of the Pod-docs and modified a bunch of willing volunteers before anyone noticed it was happening. The resulting weres are weak compared to the Empire weres.

Adina has found out her Uncle Yousuf died, the only person in her family who was still attached to her has died. She is grieving the loss of the last of her family life. Her father, Usman, does come to the funeral and praise Yousuf for taking care of Adina. Adina rejects his offer to reconcile.

Naka-Lee turns out to be the cause of the drug crisis on the station as well as the werewolf problem. She has imprisoned Don Gan'baro and taken over his drug empire and is using the werewolves to supplement her enforcers. Naka-Lee has also been impersonating the Don, Kirandeep and Briona, the later two in order to trap Adina. Naka-Lee actually killed Yousuf to lure Adina to the station. Naka-Lee wants to clone Adina's ability to reject the suppression drugs into her werewolves as well as use Adina as a personal pet. After trapping and experimenting on Adina, Naka Lee freezes her and takes her her escape ship.

The team attacks Naka-Lee's planned escape ship which releases Adina. Draven had talked to Adina about being a werewolf. That she shouldn't try to control the wolf, but to be with the wolf as a partner. When Adina does go after Naka-Lee she is in control. The team does capture Naka-Lee as well as taking out her organization.

## References

1. ↑ Dublin, Tom; Anderle, Michael; Martelle, Craig. Shadow Vanguard Complete Series Omnibus: Books 1-6 (p. 204). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Dublin, Tom; Anderle, Michael; Martelle, Craig. Shadow Vanguard Complete Series Omnibus: Books 1-6 (p. 1292). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.