SHADOW: Ninja of the Megacorporation

## SHADOW: ℕ𝕀ℕ𝕁𝔸 of the Megacorporation

**Ninja of the Megacorporation**: Effectively chronicled 9165's operations throughout a corporate war involving PROJECT and their competitors, which are numerous private military groups, attempting to seize their technology through urban warfare and the arms market. The megacorporation has authorised their elite operative to defeat them at all costs, with or without assistance.

## History

### Operation Draught

While providing security detail for several pro-PROJECT politicians, SHADOW is quickly pursued by DREDGE, a private military contractor. As a result, he easily defeats them and does not consider them a threat. Following that, another group known as the LOTUS, known for their stealthy operatives, is on the verge of assassinating him in order to dismantle his cybernetics and use it for their own benefit, which they eventually lost against him after a single fight. On later missions, he is joined by Muldoon Lundgren, Gray Wolf, and even the infamous INTERCEPTOR-409.

The *Operation: Draught* has begun. The mission was straightforward: pull PROJECT away from their competitors. Beginning with the **RMCD** (**R**azikstan **M**echa **C**ybernetic **D**efence), a Razikstani military firm with unlicensed mechas and robots that SHADOW must overcome in order to eliminate a competitor. They were still too easy for him, insisting on him fighting one of their mechas rather than sending in canon fodder he could easily slaughter regardless of the odds. He gets his demands when a KANGAROO mech is launched in order to kill him, which he destroys after a long fight. To add insult to injury, he tosses a small part of the mech into its owners.

After that, he delegated command of the remaining PMCs in the operation to the Command Line forces, as he had saved a few politicians from a massive cyborg whose affiliation is the Red Barons, a syndicate, but it is actually a private military corporation. As a result, SHADOW met with the Executive Circle, explaining that the PMCs attempting to seize their technology are merely competitors *rather* than actual threats, and requesting an order to fight the Red Barons. However, his request was denied because they were extremely skeptic of losing their best warrior in combat, and he was one of the most expensive warriors built using their cybernetic technology.

### Operation Taken Forge

In *Operation: Taken Forge*, HOUND is a private military company that stole thousands of resources from the megacorporation with the intention of building their own mecha arsenal to counter PROJECT's very own and military force. As a result, SHADOW has been deployed all over the planet to intercept their stolen advanced technology and safely return it to any headquarters, knowing that their technology falling into enemy hands would be extremely unfortunate. However, as the quest progressed, his ability to operate in solo missions became limited, forcing him to rely on assistance on subsequent operations.

SHADOW discovered that some stolen resources are fraudulent, fake, and inefficient while on duty at Zawernia; allowing him to simply destroy them, knowing that PROJECT should not recover any defective assets, only functional assets and if he fails to do so, he may be demoted. He then tracks down a shipment of a PHALANX-ECT mecha in Masada, which he recovers by piloting it and fighting his way out of the country, before returning the mecha to the DELUXE headquarters. Later, he travelled to Heliga, Glaz'Ian Islands, and various parts of Evalka to do the same thing, with complete success thanks to having people in his comms to relay information and occasional backup from Command Line snipers.

However, the Red Barons were able to capture his elusiveness and unrivalled skills, forcing them to target specific PROJECT garrisons on the planet. They sent Muldoon Lundgren a video in which they challenged his prime stealth operative to a fight. Lundgren prevents SHADOW from fighting them right away, knowing that their forces are too numerous for even him to handle effectively in a fight. INTERCEPTOR-409 gives him a head start on future operations by assassinating key members of the HOUND private military company, most notably Guillaume Rousseau (The CEO responsible for sending three mechas against him). Gray Wolf notices that LOTUS is only partially active, which he penultimately ends with a brutal slaughter that the megacorporation quickly covers up.

### Operation Confinement

This operation was simple: imprison all of the megacorporation's competitors while destroying them. Following that, the Command Line forces established their superiority by successfully containing and defeating PMCs such as DREDGE, LOTUS ELITE, TECH-FATHERS, and, eventually, the HOUND. The loss of HOUND has prompted all other PMCs to shy away from stealing their technology due to one cybernetic ninja with enormous combat ability, outstanding cybernetics, and a tendency for manipulating the shadows in a fight to his advantage. The Red Barons have focused all of their savage activities to commit genocide and focus on PROJECT itself, stealing their technology, which is reported to be unrivalled in terms of breakthroughs, after being impressed by this one stealth operative.

As a result, Defiance seeks to challenge SHADOW himself.

### Operation Deep Zero

While providing another security detail in an unknown Heligan city for its prime minister, Ogunwande, SHADOW and his team are attacked by rogue PMC Red Barons. While SHADOW is defending their forces, Mauler kidnaps and executes Ogunwande. In a duel with Mauler's companion, Defiance, he is seriously wounded, but Frazier Lashley saves him as the Red Barons flee. He later upgrades SHADOW with a more powerful cybernetic body, improved armour, and considerably amplified enhancements, as well as a dramatically altered appearance, no longer having the white and gold colour scheme, a lack of hair owing to his head being enclosed by a helmet, and recoloured paint.

Three weeks later, He infiltrates the breakaway nation of Radrenia after learning that Red Barons is leading a military coup there. He plans to capture Sergey Harib, an extremist leading the Radreeian forces, to force Red Barons into standing down. The Barons anticipates the move and assigns a wolf-mecha to stop him. SHADOW defeats DAUNTLESS in combat and later has it rebuilt as an ally, naming it Silver Wolf. He faces further opposition from Carmine, the commander of Red Barons' forces in Radrenia. After he kills Carmine in combat, Harib commits suicide by blowing up an oil tank he is standing on. Magnus Crowder assigns SHADOW and Silver Wolf to investigate a research facility in Mehijal, Ardona.

There, SHADOW meets an orphan named Glenn, who was brought to the facility to have his brain—along with the brains of several other orphans—surgically removed and shipped to the Aryaine Kingdom. He learned that Mauler inspected the facility in the company of businessman Brock Swolestrong, creating an alliance between Red Barons and Global Marshal, another PMC. They plan to condition the children's brains to become killers through VR training and place them inside cybernetic bodies to create new soldiers, similar to SHADOW. He rescues Glenn and the unharvested orphans and takes them to Frazier, only to use them for their evil agenda.

He resigns and, with Silver Wolf at his side, launches a one-man assault on Global Marshal's headquarters in Ruxas, Panamoan Republic. Though no longer employed by them, Maverick unofficially provides discreet support throughout despite the loss of Silver Wolf. As he fights his way through the city's privatised police force and Red Baron soldiers, SHADOW becomes merciless over those he has killed. Before exciting the headquarters, PROJECT emblazoned a projection of their emblem on the top of the building, with SHADOW earning his approval over the "message".

Deep Zero has been relaunched. It involved SHADOW infiltrating the Red Barons' underground secrets, allowing him to kill all the personnel while leading a bunch of PROJECT cybernetic and research teams to clean the place up, so they could use it as an experimentation facility to create their own race of cybernetically enhanced super soldiers, in order to replace their naturally capable Command Line soldiers. Swolestrong was only knocked out after INTERCEPTOR-409 shot him in the face. Gray Wolf sniped thousands of Red Barons while hiding in a rock, proclaiming that they are capable but not powerful as their megacorporation that knows power has no limits.

Now for the last operation, killing Swolestrong can potentially end this competition and madness once and for all; As PROJECT prepares all their resources and soldiers for Operation: Whiskey.

### Operation Whiskey

While Frazier recovers the children's brains, SHADOW seeks help to all Command Line forces as they jumpstart Operation: Whiskey. He encounters Defiance on the way and the pair engage in a final duel from which SHADOW emerges victorious, but he shows his PROJECT-esque merciless nature. At the DELUXE h.q., INTERCEPTOR-409 helps SHADOW travel to Paguidian Air Base in Heliga, where he is attacked by the FIREPOWER, a hexapedal mecha piloted by Swolestrong. He reveals that the entire competition against PROJECT was a false flag operation, and his true plan was to frame Red Barons for killing the few Panamoan military personnel at the base, as this is enough to agitate the Panamoan people; And use PROJECT to his advantage.

Swolestrong, with his connections to various PMCs, would win any subsequent election in a landslide, giving him free rein to realise his vision of a social Darwinist society, fighting and dying only for what they believe in. SHADOW destroys the FIREPOWER mecha alongside the help Command Line vehicles and artillery but discovers that Swolestrong has augmented himself with nanomachines that give him incredible god-level strength comparable to an Omega and near-invulnerability, destroying SHADOW's high-frequency wrist blades. Silver Wolf intervenes and gives SHADOW the sword of Defiance, which allows him to kill Swolestrong.

## Aftermath

In the epilogue, SHADOW has been valued for all his actions that made the megacorporation continue their streak of global domination. However, he kept Defiance's sword in respect, as he upgraded his formerly destroyed wrist blades into a more powerful form, now a highly advanced HF blade enhanced with Redstone crystal, causing the blades to glow red hot when in use, which explains its heat when sliced on any substance. Silver Wolf on the other hand, was no longer repaired as he simply downloaded his data regarding combat algorithms, furthermore enhancing his natural fighting skills.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* PROJECT SHADOW, 9165
* Muldoon Lundgren
* INTERCEPTOR-409 (Rumoured)
* Gray Wolf

### Exclusive Only

#### Red Barons

* Defiance
* Fragmentation
* Carmine
* Mauler
* Brock Swolestrong

#### HOUND

* Faye Gunther
* Boyd Gyllenhaal
* Chris O'Neal
* Guillaume Rousseau

## Trivia

### General

* The reliability of this article is highly debatable, but there are more than enough war footages to solidify this.
* SHADOW was partially a hero during his early days, evidenced by taking out PMCs with malicious intents on seizing technology from various corporations, until he became the ruthless ninja of the megacorporation afterwards.
* He had his body upgraded thrice, the current version is the most frequently seen nowadays.
* SHADOW's match is actually Defiance, before SHIRO-113, FIONA-384 and PSYLOCKE-832.
* He has rescued at least a few politicians, ironically.
* At least 25 Private Military Contractors have targeted PROJECT, apparently jealous of their Nexima technology. Some are smaller corporations, which was unsurprising.

### Developmental Notes

* The thumbnail symbolises PROJECT's dominance and SHADOW looking forward to do anything for the megacorporation.
* PROJECT notably shines their emblem throughout the planet in a neon red colour to assert his dominance.
* This is CLASSIFIED.