Jaguar/History

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Jaguar is a young man with a mysterious past, but his feelings for Ulala and the people he loves and cared for helps him rediscover himself showing there's more to life besides the truth.

#### History

Born somewhere in the spring that occurred in the year 2464 (presumably March), Jaguar is born to an African woman and an American man who have been targeted by the mysterious Space Bandits for generations. As a young child, Jaguar celebrated Kwanzaa throughout the years allowing him to embrace more of his African culture thanks to his maternal grandparents. In 2472, an 8 year old Jaguar becomes friends with Pine and Texas after a few months later and learned a few things from them. Five years later, Jaguar, now 13 years old became friends with a young Ulala 20 months later after her birth on May 30th and helped took care of her and their friendship grew 4 years later. His parents worked hard as a doctor and a police officer, respectively unaware that somebody had found their location.

4 years later, Jaguar graduated from high school (presumably School M) at age 17 for completing an end of the year essay, which led him to choose a career in journalism and become a reporter. Just as he was about to ask his parents, Jaguar sees a group of bad people who came for him under the orders of the Space Bandit leader named Panther. Jaguar was told by his father to gather his things and escape with his mother until he saw her struck down and the only thing he took with him was the report he had written which contains the truth. Jaguar also fought against the Space bandits as self-defense but was no match for them and is struck down, but he manages to cling onto his life and escaped. Jaguar comes across to a 4 year old Ulala and her family badly injured pleading for help and falls unconscious afterwards. After coming to in the hospital, Jaguar receives the news of what happened to one of his parents and breaks down. Just as he broke down in sadness, his tears didn't shed and his screams became silent and the only one who stayed with him were Ulala, and the twins, Pine and Texas. However, after being released from the hospital, he is raised by someone who had a close connection to his maternal family and learned how to survive on his own. Eight years later, Jaguar worked for Channel5 Studios for 10 years but resigned after he overheard about what happened to Ulala in the Spaceship Accident and saved her life in 2489. However, Ulala never got a chance to thank him for saving her. Jaguar decided to become the "Voice of Truth" and became leader and reporter of the Space Pirates Broadcasters, which he now works for.

#### First Morolian Invasion Arc

10 years later, he meets up with Ulala again and challenges her to a dance-off and is easily defeated by the pink-haired reporter. He is impressed by Ulala's dance skills and leaves saying that he will see her later. After Ulala's fight with Morolina, Jaguar hears Ulala's song and leaves afterwards despite watching over her knowing how much she has grown. He meets Ulala again preventing her not to go any further but follows her after she goes to face Morolian Monroe alone. Jaguar extends his help to Ulala and helps her defeat the alien boss and everyone evacuates the exploding base and the Space Pirate reveals that someone has been using the same frequency as Channel5's and heads to the station to face the mastermind. After heading to Channel5 Studios alongside the girls and rescuing both Space Michael Jackson and a few aliens, the reporters are challenged to a dance-off by Evila and succeeded in beating her, however he is the second to be knocked off of his platform after Pudding. Jaguar saves Ulala after she is knocked off of her platform by Blank and gives her full support alongside everyone else as she defeats Blank saving everyone and the whole galaxy.

Shadow's Introduction and Othermoro Investigation

After the Morolian Invasion Arc, Jaguar sensed something and leaves to investigate without telling his teammates. After arriving in the Mystery Zone investigating big, he is later captured by Purge and brainwashed and transformed into the Rhythm Rogue, Shadow.

After being defeated for the first time in Operation: Let's Shoot and Rescue, Shadow heads to the Space Park after stopping by Channel5 Studios making sure Ulala was okay, but couldn't explain what happened and left as he felt guilty for what the Rhythm Rogues are forcing him to do and silently visits her behind Purge's back.

Shadow and the rhythm rogues attacked the Space Park and kidnapped President Peace again after he is defeated through the whole outcomes in the waltz battle. Afterwards, he talks with Ulala, who tells him about his teammates, the Jaguar Squad are all worried about and she, too is worried about him and asks if he will keep seeing her. Hesitantly, Shadow hugs Ulala and tells her to rescue him at the Mystery Zone after the Battle of the Bands challenge as the signal's energy wave starts to weaken a little on him, but he kisses Ulala on the cheek making her drop her headphones telling that he will see her later at the Mystery Zone and leaves with Ulala calling him by his real name, Jaguar as Shadow smiles at this as he teleports away.

Later on, the rhythm rogues invaded and attacked Channel5 Studios, Shadow challenges Ulala to a dance to rescue Space Michael and is defeated by her until all of sudden the brainwashing signal starts to wear off, but he teleports away after realizing what he has done as Ulala witnessed this and decided to save him.

After the destruction of Channel5 Studios, Shadow decides to act in one more battle and is defeated by Ulala's group. Shadow's form starts to flicker again and Ulala saves him after a painful game allowing to return back to his default state as Jaguar and thanks Ulala for saving him in return by giving her a crimson rose.

Before the final battle against Purge, Jaguar stays behind and talks with Ulala then apologizes for what Shadow made him do but receives a hug from her instead. Ulala tells him that it wasn't his fault and then tells him not to go on crazy missions on his own again and he promises her that he won't do it again and both reporters catch up with Pine and the others afterwards holding hands in the process.

After being blocked off by an invisible wall with the others, Jaguar and the others witnessed Ulala being defeated in a dance-off and lends her his support and along with everyone else allowing Ulala to become Super Ulala. With the help of everyone, Ulala was able to save the galaxy once more. Jaguar was able to explain his disappearance and apologize to his teammates in the end.

Now 38 years old and currently a senior reporter for the Space Pirates Broadcasters, Jaguar recruits three young women, Kell, Bello, and Soon-Soon also known as the Jaguars and some time ago after Ulala recruited Lou and Kee. He is seen investigating why the groove moxie is being targeted and allows the Jaguars to make their move which they do so. After the Jaguars are out danced by Ulala and her group, Jaguar's ship gets attacked and all of the girls were captured by Great Glitter, but Jaguar managed to escape capture and decides to help Lou and Kee rescue the others then celebrated their victory over Great Glitter's defeat.

#### Rhythm Rogues Redemption Arc

He appears in the Mystery Zone, infiltrating as Shadow and rescues a hypothermic Ulala from the Rhythm Rogues and performs CPR to bring her back then takes her to the Space Pirates Channel, through the Rogueship A-Go-Go to recover and letting her spend the night there until he escorts her back to Channel5 Studios on the next day. After conversing with two of his teammates, he talks with Ulala alone and kisses her forehead telling her it's a "good luck charm."

After escorting Ulala back to Channel5 Studios, he senses another brainwashing signal and converses with her saying that even though he transforms back into Shadow, he will not hurt her and the people he cares for as he calmly tells her that if he attacks her by force, he'll stop himself no matter what happens and promises to return back to her then heads outside to the balcony for some fresh air thinking about his feelings for Ulala and decides to tell his love for her as he is about to head back inside until he encounters Purge and is transformed into his Shadow form against his own will and is forced to attack Ulala who witnessed his painful transformation.

#### Redemption and Blossomed Romance

Jaguar shortly regains control of his Shadow form and tells Ulala to run and get to safety so she won't get blasted and is later sent by the evil genius to find and retrieve the young girl and succeeds after realizing the young girl's herpetophobia which almost caused her to scream and silences her then goes after her realizing she escaped his grasp for a while and reveals that he knows every area in Channel5 Studios and saves her from a falling bookshelf then takes her to Purge and becomes patient for her to wake up after he calmly smiles showing that she has fallen unconscious and received minor damage from the crash. After returning to Purge while still brainwashed by him, Shadow/Jaguar calmly states that he was sidetracked by a crash that the bookshelf made when it gave out after placing Ulala down with Purge confirming that some old bookshelves are giving out due to too much pressure then orders him to hurt Ulala and harmfully incapacitate her through a dangerous, yet powerful shock therapy.

Just as Shadow is about to hurt Ulala while she's still unconscious under Purge's orders, Jaguar stops him from the inside and telling him that this is still his body and prevents him from hurting Ulala any further shedding tears in the process not knowing what he's supposed to do and his dance energy goes out of control creating a powerful black storm combined with red electricity enveloping both him and Ulala in this emotional storm. As Ulala wakes up from unconscious and saves Jaguar by telling him that she will always love him no matter what form he's in and breaking off the mind control for good as she embraces him into a hug and he is freely able to use his Shadow form at anytime now and uses his newfound rhythm rogue powers to saving Ulala in the process, halting the emotional storm. Purge sees his brainwashing device destroyed due to Shadow/Jaguar's emotional breakdown and tells him that he'll continue his battle with him and Ulala another time knowing that the Space Pirates are heading in their direction and leaves.

After he and Ulala meet up with his teammates, Jaguar reverts back to his default state offscreen at first and passes out in Ulala's arms and worrying the others in the process knowing that she'll fill them in about what happened while he recovers. Hours later, he regains consciousness and sees Ulala by his side which helped him remember that day from 18 years ago and she tells him that his teammates already know the truth about him being Shadow.

However, Jaguar reveals that it wasn't Ulala's fault, and he tells Pine to give them some time alone after asking her to rely his message to the rest of the Jaguar Squad then asks Ulala about what happened since they both might predict about what Fuse will say to them about not telling them about what has happened today and comforts the young girl as she talks with him saying that she doesn't want him to suffer anymore and he tells her that he's still here by placing her hand on his heart showing that he's still here for her and doesn't want her to suffer either, then sees Ulala leaving in embarrassment after she gives him his Space Pirates shirt after patching up the hole in his sleeve where the injury was located then tells him that she'll have to escort him to the hangar to meet up with his team.

After recovering and dressed in his Space Pirates Uniform, Jaguar was seen in front of Ulala asking if she was okay then asks her out on a date for the first time after seeing her embarrassed and gives her a crimson rose necklace he made from his own hands and placed it around her neck saying that it'll protect her telling her that to treasure a part of him before leaving.

Later on, he meets up with Ulala at the Pala Paya Lounge and they spend time together and goes to the Space Park as they realized Channel 42 is there investigating as well, but Jaguar decides to ignore Channel 42's presence and converses with Ulala in Fountain Square and reveals that he never forgotten Ulala's words to him and calmly reacts to her own "good luck charm". Hours later, as the reporters were about to leave Space Park, they reencounter Purge, who attacks them after their reacted feelings toward each other knowing that their feelings for each other are slowly coming to surface. After the battle against the Rhythm Rogues and Purge is arrested after the young genius has decided to turn himself in after Ulala asks Pine that he might have a second chance at life by redemption, Jaguar meets up Kell, Bello, and Soon-Soon who witnessed him protecting Ulala and teaming up with her to stop the rhythm rogue robots and learns that the former Space Police Agent and her team also prevented the attack and reveals they heard what happened and decided to help while they were worried about him and Ulala. Before Kell leaves, she reunites with her former mentor and asks her about how she was doing then turns to Jaguar and asks him to try Space Yoga to calm down from stress despite that he decided to let the Jaguars off the hook from spying on him and Ulala knowing that they secretly made sure that Channel 42 doesn't see them.

After escorting Ulala home and decided to tell her his feelings for him on the next day after promising her that he's really going to reveal his love for her, Jaguar starts to have painful memories of what happened 21 years ago then is forced into his Shadow form transformation and hides in the Bad Tuning's Cargo Hold where he wonders if Ulala might be watching the same stars as he does and wonders if his mom could be surviving like he is since back then.

#### Aftermath and True Feelings

The next day, he arrives at Channel 5 Studios and watches Ulala doing her morning show then goes to see her as he does his best to avoid his friend and fellow colleague reporter from Channel 42 named Pudding. He stops Ulala from running off after he admits his feelings for her against Pudding, who already caused a commotion offscreen. Ulala takes Jaguar to her room so she can talk with him after allowing Noize to deal with the other Channel 5 Workers then the two colleagues have a conversation and admit their feelings for each other. Jaguar realizes how much Ulala really loved him no matter how hard she tried and kisses her revealing his feelings and love for her and reverts back to his default state as his tears revealed themselves in the process and embraces Ulala, who tells him that it's okay to cry once in a while and promises him that she won't let anyone else but her see him cry like this. Later on, both Jaguar and Ulala tell Space Michael about their relationship knowing that they're dating in secret and the Channel 5 CEO decides to tell Fuse to make their relationship official, relieving both reporters. Later on that night, Ulala decides to see Jaguar leaving Channel5 Studios to head back home to the Bad Tuning, but they are forced to hide from the Space Bandits after realizing that *someone* from Jaguar's past is spying on him and Ulala after destroying the spy cam.