John Collins

* 2011
* 2014

> Hold on a minute there. I never said I was going to take any mission, and besides, if a full squad of our best troops is wiped out, what chance is one man? What chance have I?
>
> -John Collins

**John Collins** is the main protagonist of The Gate, in which he is a retired Navy SEAL who is forced back into work in order to stop the Nazis from activating a Time Gate by going back in time to World War II, and The Gate 2, where he would go on a mission across time and space to defeat the New World Order and join a resistance group against them.

## Biography

### Early life

John Collins was born on November 6, 1982 and was raised on a small plantation in Southern Missouri. At a young age, when he was just a child, John and his family were abducted by Grey Aliens and were taken to a desert, presumably in Egypt, as a part of their experiment, although he would seemingly forget this.

### Career

John would later go on to be apart of the United States special operations forces as a Navy SEAL and would also serve in Panama with a 'crack' Delta Force regiment. John was also described to have been 'tops' in his squad. He would then eventually stop serving as a special operations soldier and move to a cabin in a patch of land near Denver, Colorado.

### Another mission

One day, after waking up, John notices the sound of a helicopter outside his cabin; after walking outside, a colonel greets him. John, already knowing what he is here for, immediately protests saying that he's "finished" with his missions and is confused on how he found him. The colonel explains that this new mission will be unlike any other mission he has ever served, and that President Bush has personally asked of him to participate.

At 0700 hours, John arrives at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and, after being checked by security using a retinal scan, goes into a meeting with the general. She explains to John that he will be sent into a Time Gate as they have lost contact with squad of Rangers and another agent that were sent in beforehand and that his mission will be to stop the Nazis from acquiring knowledge of a time gate in Egypt. She also explains that John will have to go in weapon-less otherwise he will be disintegrated. John then makes his way to the gate chamber where there is a number of soldiers saluting him while he goes through the time gate.

### Arriving in Egypt

After travelling through the time gate, John finds himself in an ancient, seemingly abandoned Egyptian tomb. Whilst exploring, he makes it his first goal to find a weapon and comments that the place is 'beautiful'. He also realises that he has been successfully been sent back to July 5th 1942 after finding a German magazine. Eventually, after getting into a few fire fights with Nazi soldiers and avoiding traps, John meets an imprisoned old man who explains that a local German commander ordered the bombing of his village and forced residents to dig in a German mine near the tomb, and that he was imprisoned for warning the commander for trying to disturb the tomb. John frees him and the old man shows him a quick way to get out of the tomb.

After sneaking through a Nazi outpost using the cover of night, John finds the same old man captured again in the back of a truck. John kills the nearby officer and obtains his keys in order to free him from his capture. The two of them, after sneaking though a captured town, plan to sneak out of the town during the arrival of a supply truck. Whilst sneaking out of there, John is knocked abruptly knocked out by someone.

### Meeting Anna

A woman named Anna apologizes to John and explains that he was knocked out to prevent alerting the Germans. She also explains that her family was Jewish and were captured by the Nazis, however she managed to escape and fled to Egypt with the help of the German resistance. She interrogates John Collins on who he is, to which he, with little resistance, explains that he is from the future to stop the Nazis from acquiring knowledge of a time gate. He comes to the conclusion that the Germans must be looking for the golden skulls needed to power the time gate, and a second time gate itself. Anna explains that the Germans started several new excavations in the area, but was unable to deduce why. Anna then tells John to plant dynamite inside of an outpost to prove that they are on the same side.

John then walks through the streets and eventually reaches the compound where he plants pieces of dynamite near two trucks. He then triggers the detonation and the area goes up in flames, alerting the nearby German forces. After a harsh and tough fire fight, John manages to overpower them and flees the scene whilst taking on German soldiers through the narrow streets.

He then meets with Anna again who is glad to see him, John explains that dozen of Germans came after him and that they will surely be discovered soon. Anna tells him to take the old sewer systems to escape the city and that she'll be staying to tie up some loose ends.

### Meeting Agent X

Navigating through the sewers, John uses the machinery to make his path easier so he can get out. He then ends up in a Nazi base where he finds a heavily injured Agent X. Agent X explains that he was captured by Nazi forces shortly after entering the time gate but was able to escape, he also explains that there were radio communications asking for extra men in order to find John. Agent X also says that he has been working the Egyptian resistance, who have plans to destroy the German frontlines and who need someone to infiltrate a German outpost and plant beacons to signal the British Air Force. John tries pointing out that he has his own mission to deal with, but Agent X says that he will provide information that will aid John in his search. John, annoyed at this new mission and withdrawal of information, threatens to shoot him, but Agent X quickly sees through this. John asks Agent X who's side he's on but is only given a radio to communicate to Agent X with.

John travels through the desert whilst looking out for German turret gunners and quickly gets into a fire fight. He takes out the outpost and plants the beacon, Agent X is pleased with this and tells John to get out of there over the radio. After regrouping with Agent X, he asks John to get in the nearby truck for the information.

4 hours pass and the truck stops at a deserted area. Agent X tasks John to go into an abandoned German mine, which was being set up for the search of a time gate, and reach the main complex. After this he should come back for Agent X and they'll go in together, he explains. John enters and travels through a mineshaft, eventually getting on a minecart and being chased by Nazi soldiers on their own minecarts. This grand chase is eventually halted once John's minecart plummets into a body of water inside the cave. John, trying to find a quick way out of the caves, is once again knocked out after stepping into a dark room. Two Nazi soldiers then loom over him.

### Familiar face

John is woken up by Anna inside of a train carriage containing chickens in cages and other crates, it is now visibly dusk. Anna explains that she was captured inside her house while the Germans were looking for John. John also explains that he found nothing in the mine he was searching in and was knocked out soon afterwards. He asks where the train is headed but Anna doesn't know exactly, only that she heard the name 'La Rochelle'. John questions why they would be heading there but remembers that there is a U-Boat base there.

John finds himself in a dirty cell, where distant screams and wails are heard. He then demands a passing guard for food but is ignored. After a few moments John is let out of his cell and is forced to take a shower by the guards, however, once he turns the valve in the shower room boiling steam appears in an attempt to kill him. John manages to survive this by hiding in a corner of the room and once a door is opened by the guards, who think he is dead, he rushes in and collects his weapons. John fights his way through the Gestapo Headquarters and spends some time searching for a missing gear used to operate a door he needs to go through. He then fights through the streets of La Rochelle and ends up in the sewers. A man then guides John to the secret underground base of the La Rochelle resistance, where Anna is present.

Anna explains to John that she was able to escape her capture and found out that the time gate is being stored on a ship called the Bismarck. She also tells him that Hitler himself is going to be on the ship overseeing the transportation personally. She then tells John the plan: tomorrow they will sneak John into the U-Boat base via the sewer system and he will then meet up with an informant. He will then blow up the time gate stored on the Bismarck and the Bismarck itself. John asks where he'll be sleeping for tonight and Anna suggests he should do so with her.

### Finishing the mission

The following day, John thanks Anna for the previous night and leaves the sewer system to get into the base. Making his way through the various halls and 'dungeons' of the base while taking on German forces, he eventually finds explosives that would be enough to 'sink 10 U-Boats'. He then gets into a fire fight inside the main complex and blows up a large U-Boat using the explosives. He then fights his way to another area of the base and meets Agent X who is waiting for him on his own small boat.

9 Hours Pass, John and Agent X are beside the Bismarck 16 miles off the French Coast, the night has left them undetected. After climbing aboard the ship, John engages in a fire fight on the deck and the alarms start roaring. John enters the ship and eventually finds the chamber where the time gate is being stored. More soldiers come after him, but John is able to overpower them. He then finds a switch which he flips to cause a meltdown, before the explosive material onboard is able to devastate the ship, John travels through the time gate safely. The Bismarck then sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

### Interval

Sometime after these events, John becomes disillusioned with the United States government. He spends time researching aliens and Roswell, hanging various posters about alien-life around his cabin and reading various magazines and novels about aliens, such as The Roswell Incident. John also hangs various anti-US Government posters and satirical posters about various US presidents around his cabin. He may have also developed a serious case of paranoia, perhaps even unhinged, as illustrated by the various rifles and explosive devices inside of his cabin.

### Assassination attempt and escape

During the 18 Months after John escaped the destruction of the Bismarck, Anna was able to travel to the modern day and find John's place of residence. One day she knocks on his door, much to John's surprise, and quickly tries to warn John that the time gate isn't what he thinks it is and that the people at the Central Intelligence Agency are not his friends. Immediately after she warns John to get out while he still can, she is then shot by a nearby sniper and is killed. John, extremely saddened by this, runs to his jeep to escape the soldiers coming after him. He is then chased by the Denver Police Department and SWAT into nearby Tuckerton whilst trying escape in his jeep. Eventually a man in a suit signals John towards him while he holds off the police, he then tells John that 'they're waiting for you' in the nearby sewers.

A mysterious man greets John and explains that he's been sent to help him. John protests, saying that he doesn't need his help, but the man says that if John wants to know why Anna was killed, he will come with him. A portal opens behind him and the man says that he'll explain everything. John is then transported to Orbital Earth Station One, a space station orbiting earth, and the man says that they've had an emergency message transmitted from their base on Mars.

John asks why Anna was killed. The man says that Anna tried to warn John, and that she got caught up in her web of 'evil' and 'deceit'. He alludes to a mysterious group not allowing anyone to disrupt their rule and wanting to take Anna out as she knew too much. He shows John the emergency broadcast from the base on mars: there is carnage occurring in the background and a scientist is seen pleading for help, he is then shot and a Nazi soldier appears on screen before another one shoots the camera. The man says to John that he must visit mars on an investigative mission to find out why contact was lost, and that he will lead the Space Navies Elite alongside him.

### Mission on Mars

It takes John and his squad 6 months to reach Mars Base Alpha. their ship finally lands on the surface, and they enter the facility. Upon discovering a locked airlock, one of the men cuts a hole through it using a blowtorch and the squad proceeds forward through the corridors and its blood-stained walls. After going through a biometric scan, they make their way through more carnage-ridden corridors before entering the main hall of the base where they get into a fire fight with Nazi soldiers that have taken over. John's squad quickly defeats them and eventually make their way down an elevator shaft where they encounter zombie-like creatures. Managing to overpower them, they stumble upon a large cavern containing a time gate and decide to go through it, ending up in an Aztec tomb in World War II

They once again get into fire fights with the Nazis and see some of the horrific experiments that have taken place, after wandering through more corridors they stumble upon a room with cages. A German scientist tells somebody to 'Open up the cages, let them out' and to 'Kill the lights'. Shortly afterwards, a group of creatures attack John and the remainders of his squad are wiped out. He is able to escape them though and ends up in the main part of the Nazi base, seeing more of the cruel experiments that have taken place. Eventually ending up in a massive excavation hall, he sees more creatures running out of another time gate that is up ahead and sprints towards it whilst fighting them off. The time gate suddenly deactivates and a portal, similar to the one that opened behind the mysterious man, opens up next to John, to which he then enters.

### Prevention

John is teleported back to Orbital Earth Station One and questions what just happened, to which the man explains that they used a 'time portal flux' to bring him back before he would get 'eaten'. He admits that he wasn't entirely truthful with John. John then asks, because of this, if he is able to be sent back to a time before Anna was killed. The man explains the dangers of doing so, but John protests and explains that he must as he loves her. A portal then opens, and John is transported back to his cabin where he quickly tells Anna to get down to avoid the sniper fire. The two fight off the incoming New World Order troops as they rush to the nearby portal back to Orbital Earth Station One.

Arriving back, John explains to Anna what just happened. The Man then proceeds to explain that because John had saved Anna, a temporal time paradox was created and that they have two options: Kill Anna or deactivate the explosive charges that John planted on the U-Boat in 1942, as it is linked to Anna's father, James Frankreich. The Man asks John to avoid running into his past self at all costs as, if he does this, it will lead to the present John and 1942 John vanishing into time-flux obscurity. John is told to meet Agent X for assistance once he arrives.