Camille Benally

Drax (Surrogate Father)

## Background

### **1993 - 2010: Cammi Benally**

Camille "Cammi" Benally is the daughter of an unknown absent father & an abusive alcoholic of a mother. She & her mother lived together in the small town of Coot's Bluff, Alaska. Her life mostly consisted on her mother coming home & passing out, leaving Cammi essentially raising herself for her childhood.

At the age of fourteen, she had a chance encounter with the Kylosian named Drax. Though neither can remember how, Cammi befriended Drax despite both stating they did not immediately get along. She decided to follow him off of Earth, tired of life with her mother & knew that she would be be missed. After arriving at their base, Cammi essentially became the newest member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Wanting some more independence, Cammi left the Guardians & became a space bandit. For two years, she committed various crimes against several others planets, races & empires. She was eventually apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intergalactic force S.W.O.R.D. while stealing from a Shi'ar Warhawk. Cammi was interrogated by Agent Abigail Brand, with one offering to "lose" her & return her to Earth rather than extradite her to another's jurisdiction. Cammi adamantly requested not to be returned to Earth, not wanting to ever see her mother again. But before the interrogation could continue, Cammi was abducted by Arcade.

Along with fifteen other young superheroes, Cammi was brought to Murderworld by Arcade for an all out deathmatch. Cammi almost immediately separated from the others after being attacked by Rebecca Ryker, setting traps & spying on other camps to protect herself. She ran into Rebecca again but this time, she tries to forge an alliance but Cammi refuses & refers to her as "Deathlok-ette" for her similarity to the Deathloks. She formed a temporary alliance with Darkhawk before he disappeared. She then joins Nico & Chase of the Runaways after the two save her from one of Arcade's weapons.

As time went on, she struggled to keep the peace among the other participants & was forced to take Chase by surprise & break his leg after he absorbed the Darkhawk amulet. Things were calm until Laura was exposed to a trigger scent, sending her into berserker rage. Cullen Bloodstone was force to remove his family ring to become his monstrous form in order to stop Laura. Cammi joins the others to find the ring & they are eventually able to subdue him. The battle seems to be over until Hazmat begins losing control over her powers.

Reptil turns into a dinosaur form to carry Hazmat out into the water away from everyone else. Apex tries to attack all the remaining survivors with the entire arsenal that Arcade had at his disposal. Death Locket then kills Apex, allowing the survivors to be rescued.

Cammi becomes acquainted with Agent Abigail Brand, who helps treat her. The two become close until S.H.I.E.L.D. decided to return her to her mother. Over the course of the next few months, Camille tries her best to blend in with normal society with her mother. The weight of mundane living was slowly eating away at her sense of self & sitting through her parent's personal help talk meetings did nothing to help. Cammi had no desire for this family reunion to work. However, her longing for adventure and redemption would lead her to seek out the other surviving teen heroes in response to Cullen's more erratic behavior posted on the web.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics**: She also possesses great agility, able to perform a handstand in zero-gravity, climb trees with ease & fall from a significant height without sustaining any visible injury.
* **Alien Tech Intuition:** Cammi boasts an innate understanding of extraterrestrial equipment & munitions, able to wield a laser pistol or other such high-grade munitions. Easily gaining an instant understanding of the Shi'ar Raptor Android she temporarily commandeered with ease.
* **Escapology:** Camille is also a skilled escapist, having been able to slip out of a decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. brig through unknown means all by her lonesome.
* **Hand to Hand Combat**: She possesses an uncanny skill with hand-to-hand combat, able to take on well trained S.W.O.R.D. operatives, having impressed Agent Brand by doing so singlehanded.
* **Marksmanship:** Benally is a particularly sharp shooter with a handheld pistol, able to blow out the kneecap of one of the Shi'ar without even looking.
* **Pilot:** She managed to comprehend advanced alien piloting controls & spacecraft controls, simply from having played video-games for most of her childhood.
* **Survival**: Cammi has keen survival instincts, most likely gleaned from both life in the Alaskan wilderness & time with Drax the Destroyer. She can set traps, hunt & track prey or opponents and avoid detection in a wilderness environment.
* **Tactical Analysis:** She knows how to make tactical observations & formulate strategies on the fly, use the environment to her advantage, manipulate others for her benefit & make split-decision judgement calls.
* **Spacesuit:** Her spacesuit not only protects her from environmental extremes, but also holds a variety of extraneous functions, such as thermal scanners & infrared vision.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 4 - High / Trained
* **Energy Projection:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strategy:** 5 - Learned / Exceptional
* **Fighting Ability:** 4 - High / Trained

## Trivia

* Her & Rebecca Ryker have shown romantic interest in each other. The timing is just off as both went through near death experiences & are quite traumatized.
* She used to cut herself.
* According to Agent Abigail Brand, she has "One Hell of a Poker Face," which allows her a resilience to torture, both physical & psychological.
* Cammi has a power ranking of 62, classifying her as Power Level 2 / Low Threat.

## Notes

* The original character of Camille Benally belongs to the Marvel Universe.
* In the series, she met Drax when she was 10 & came to Murderworld when she was 13.