Miguel Ortega

Miguel "Mikey" Ortega is a CIA Agent with a reputation for being one of the agencies finest.

He's a former U.S Marine and the leader of the renowned Taskforce V; a specialised team of operatives originally dedicated to monitoring and preventing Supes from abusing Compound V., as well as getting it off the streets before humans or Supes could use it.

Following Homelander's assault on the White House, Ortega's team's ultimate primary objective has been changed to focus on gathering intel on Homelander and The Seven and feeding the information back to the agency for further utilisation by The Boys.

## History

### Early Years and Military Life

Ortega was raised in a reasonably fortunate household. His parents were both practitioners in medical fields, and as such, he received quite an exceptional education; courtesy of them. Despite their aspirations for him to be a doctor of some calibre, Miguel found that his interests lay in law and intelligence. As such, he pursued a career in Law which he studied through the U.S Military in order to serve his country as well as achieve his desired career path.

After some years of service and upon completing his degree in Law, Miguel ventured on to become an exceptional soldier and served for several years before trying his luck at the Marines. Successfully completing his recruitment, Ortega went on to serve as a U.S Marine for four years before being discharged after sustaining a gunshot wound which left him out of the field for an extended duration.

### CIA

As a result of his studies and his service to the country, Ortega had connections within the CIA which led to his eventual recruitment to the agency. Upon receiving his post, he served as an intelligence agent and a legal representative for the agency if ever they faced hardships in regard to their ethical practices.

As a result of a lacking of on-field agents, Miguel made the transition back into the field and soon became one of the CIA's most capable operatives.

#### Supe Child Sex Ring

Miguel's claim to fame came with his single handed shut-down of a child sex ring run by a notorious Supe paedophile. With his attention to detail and extraordinary ability to gain crucial intelligence in a timely manner, Ortega located the orchestrators, bringing them to justice before they could escape with the children that they had been abusing. The arrest of Goldstein Hardy, a human trafficker, led to one hundred further arrests as a result of a confession in order to lessen his sentence; manipulated out of him by Ortega himself. As a result of his wit and understanding of the law, Ortega managed to deny the lesser sentence for Goldstein and he faced the full wrath of the law.

#### Taskforce V.

Following his successes, Ortega was given his own Taskforce dedicated to the prevention of Supes causing harm on the streets as well as the prevention of distribution of Compound V.. With a hand selected team, Ortega commenced his war on drugs and his disciplinary measures towards Supes. Whilst acting within the parameters of the law most of the time, Ortega and his team oftentimes bent the law to suit their methods; allowing them to be one of the most effective and task forces ever unleashed on Supes and drugs alike.

### New America

Following Homelander's attack on the White House and the destruction of the United States as the present world knew it, Director Amanda Nakogwe repurposed Taskforce V. to act as a unit dedicated to gathering intelligence on Homelander and his newly appointed Council of New America (or The Seven). As such, Ortega formulated an effective and yet risky plan to plant sleeper agents within Homelander's base of operations; allowing them to gain information and to potentially be activated if the worst was to come.

As a result of this alteration in their main objective, the war on Compound V. has taken a backseat to the hopes of stopping Homelander's ambitions - however - with Miguel not being stationed as a sleeper agent himself, he continued to move aggressively against supplies of the drug.