Loxley

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Loxley is an archer hero that started as the sidekick to the hero Sherwood and is a member of Team Hope

## History

### Early Life

Harvey Hunter lived a pretty average life. As a young boy both his parents worked and his sister went to a prestigious academy in the United States. His father was a PE teacher and encouraged the young boy to be athletic and acrobatic. One day he was kidnapped by the mercenary supervillain Rex as bait for his sister- this was how Harvey learned of his sister's secret identity as Psionic Girl. Unfortunately, his sister was killed and the young Harvey blamed himself. And he swore that he would fill his sister's shoes as a hero.

### Sherwood's Sidekick

He trained his archery skills, hoping to emulate the archer hero Sherwood. When he was a teenager he finally decided to put his skills to the test, stalking the night and stopping a purse snatcher. He left a tag for the police- he spray painted crossed arrows on the floor by where the man was handcuffed to a lamppost. The police weren't the only ones who saw the tag- and Sherwood soon approached the young man with some advice on how to better hide his identity.

Sherwood was hesitant to take Loxley on as his sidekick after the loss of his last partner, but he came to realise the teen was going to keep going out with or without Sherwood's support so took him on as his official protégé.

While working with Sherwood, Loxley fought his first real supervillain in the acid-spitting mutant Komodo on Tower Bridge.

Later on Loxley's last night in London as Sherwood's sidekick before joining Atlas Academy, the pair fought against King Leer who was smuggling weapons (that were, unknown to Sherwood and Loxley, defective) into London on behalf of a shadowy figure.

### First Year at Atlas Academy

When Loxley arrived at Atlas Academy, the school where his sister learned to be a hero, he knew he had to sign up for the hero course to prove himself the equal to all the metahumans that surrounded him and to help the people his sister should still be alive to save. This conflict- between proving himself, doing good in his sister's name and the burning desire for vengeance would lead to him making a number of mistakes in his first year at Atlas.

On his first day he met the introverted Bloom who overcame her fears enough to break the ice and he was nice enough in return that the girl imprinted on him like a lost gosling. The two formed a mutual crush which made it much harder for her to speak directly to him than when he was just a stranger, but she persisted and the two were friends bringing their respective teams together.

On his first mission, helping victims of hurricane Irene in Florida- he and Firestorm prowled away to go to a prison that had overthrown the wardens much to the chagrin of their instructors- in particular Professor Horowitz. In the swamp they found an escaped metahuman prisoner- Shogun Mantis who was ranting and raving about not being recruited into a villainous freakshow. When they arrived they found that Ringleader of the Carnival of Carnage had taken control of the prison. The pair had to fight their way through the prison- facing off against Pillbug the Human Cannonball, Turbine the Carousel and Rocky the strongman. As they arrived to the control room they found that Ringleader had escaped- airlifted to safety by a mysterious benefactor.

Team Freedom's first mission as a group was to spend a night in the Burke Museum protecting a Babylonian tablet that was counterpart to a tablet stolen from a museum in Florida in the aftermath of Irene. Kid Spectacular pulled a prank on his teammates by moving a suit of armour to scare them. While scolding the immature teammate, a pair of thieves- Duckman and Baghead revealed themselves. The heroes chased the thieves out of the museum right into the trap of Rubber Bandit, Metalmark and Devil Ray.

On the orbital holding facility holding Killer-Volt, Komodo and a number of other supervillains a malfunction caused the villains to be ejected via safety pod down to Earth. Komodo landed at Yellowstone national park and Team Freedom was sent to recapture him as quickly as possible before he escaped into the wilderness. The three heroes fought the cold-blooded Komodo over a dangerous and unpredictable geyser field.

Ironhide sent the team to investigate the disappearance of the cast of a cheesy sci-fi show from the 70s called Star Explorers. As they found their first solid lead into the man who had followed the cast back to their hotels during the previous two days at the con the cast reappeared at the panel- but these were actually Fandroids and the team quickly realised something was wrong from the stilted responses given to questions. Approaching the Fandroids after the panel wrapped up so that Kid Spectacular could analyse them they triggered the Fandroid's self-defense measures. They were able to trace the signal back to an unassuming house- where an old woman told them about her lazy son and how he never put his great mind to proper use always playing with toys. They found the basement which doubled as laboratory and bedroom to Mr Omega. They found out about his plans to kidnap the cast and make them act in his fan scripted episode of the show- which he was filming at an abandoned film set on the outskirts of town. They rushed over and confronted the self-proclaimed supergeek, who sent legions of Fandroids with working phasers at the heroes. During the fight the Fandroids overwhelmed Kid Spectacular and Mr Omega used his disintegration ray on Loxley- which sent Firestorm into a wild fury- only Loxley wasn't disintegrated and was only teleported back to Omega's mom's house. She offered him a cookie as he rushed off to get back to the fight. When he returned he found the set aflame and Mr Omega being beaten severely by Firestorm. Loxley calmed Firestorm down and reassured him everything was okay.

First year students had homecoming later in the year to the other years, a celebration wrapped up with Halloween to become their first dance at Atlas- Halloweencoming. Students went into the novelty Halloween store- Low Key Halloween Supplies- in downtown where the eccentric owner sold them remarkable costumes at even more remarkably reasonable prices- even more there seemed to be the perfect costume for any needs. Loxley however decided he was going to just wear a green hoodie and a felt hat he made himself as Robin Hood. It looked lazy and was a terrible costume but that didn't matter to Loxley as he didn't have a date for the dance- Bloom was going with someone else. Although he didn't initially have a date, he went with Miss Militia who was trying to make KS jealous after he picked Siren. The two had a dance together and even joked around having fun- but ultimately they both spent most of the time watching the person they'd rather be there with. He watched as Sebastian slow danced and kissed the girl he was pining over. Loxley left the hall to get some fresh air before she pushed Sebastian away from her and admonished him for kissing her out of the blue like that. While sat outside the power on campus went out and Loxley looked around confused as red lights began flickering from inside the hall. His confusion only grew as he was attacked by a cowboy- not someone in a cowboy costume. A cowboy with a real gun. After he knocked the cowboy unconscious they dissipated into a glowing red dust that flew up into the sky. Then he saw Rouge who was jumping around in her astronaut suit as if she was affected by moon gravity when he went to see what was happening she freaked out about alien life and blasted off. But the strangeness didn't end there, as Firestorm and Kid Spectacular met up with him- Ethan spoke about vampires and mummies and KS was speaking in an English accent and claiming to be an actual spy here on a mission. They found Bloom on her own- she had been dressed as a devil- she was so thankful that they'd found her and not those horrible monsters and she thanked Loxley with a kiss- a kiss that he quickly realised was sapping his strength and so the three teen boys fought against the quiet, shy girl who had been transformed into a taunting, jeering devil. The trio found themselves face to face with Dr Geckenstein and a small army of zombies, deciding to run and regroup they were aided by Sheriff Max who brought them into safety in the science building. The team realised the monsters when knocked out exploded into glowing red orbs that all seemed to flow the same way- and decided to follow the orbs. *Kid Spytacular* informed the team he could fly the jet and so Max covered them while they got to the jets. Max shot one of the zombies and the team followed the trail to the Low Key Halloween Supplies store- and they realised that all of the people that had transformed had been wearing costumes they'd bought from this store. Inside they found the mastermind, the store owner revealed he was in fact the Norse god of trickery- Loki. True to his name as master of trickery Loki was quick to summon monsters from his accrued energy and reshaped the space inside the store to suit his fighting. After picking off *Kid Spytacular* and Loxley Loki had more than he bargained for when Firestorm exploded in rage, causing the store to catch alight and releasing all the captured energy from all of Loki's monsters. Loki defeated the trio but at the cost of having to end his spell and retreat.

A strange set of circumstances lead to the release of a highly classified artificial lifeform being released in the cafeteria- it formed a food golem and caused a literal food fight. Loxley and Firestorm were given the task of investigating the cause, which they explicitly left Kid Spectacular out of the loop for several weeks. Later they found that shapeshifter Jesse Knox was responsible for bringing in the lifeform- but that it had been provided it by Sebastian who had stolen a sample from the Sanderson-Shields facility and was using the oil in the cafeteria to feed it and make it grow. It had been carelessly left in there when Jesse tried to escape detection from the kitchen staff and that was what caused the food fight.

Ironhide gave them a mission to bring Shogun Mantis back in- as Loxley and Firestorm had faced the villain before. Ironhide had been tracking the man's movements and was positive a research facility that had been abandoned after the hurricane would be the next target due to their area of expertise- killer bees. The trio infiltrated the flooded facility and overpowered the mooks that Shogun Mantis had hired before quickly coming face to face with the insect controller and his new power boost- the genetically modified killer bees. These new buzzing allies gave Shogun Mantis the edge and he brought down both Loxley and KS triggering one of Firestorm's explosive meltdowns which blasted Shogun Mantis clear through a wall and out into the swamp. Firestorm collapsed from exhaustion and when the trio came to, they found no sign of Shogun Mantis. He'd actually been 'rescued' by the Ishtar Institute on behalf of Ringleader who still wanted to use him in the Carnival of Carnage.

Tracking the connection between a series of mysterious storms, Ironhide sends Team Freedom to investigate one such storm on the ground- they arrive to find what appears to be Killer-Volt going on a rampage destroying infrastructure at random. The team intervened but came to realise it was actually just a teen, like them, not fully in control of their power. Kid Spectacular batted for the unfortunate youth while Loxley was content to throw him to UNISON after all the millions of dollars of property damage he'd caused. Kid Spectacular undercut Loxley's authority and informed Ironhide of the situation and persuaded the principal to take the boy in to Atlas rather than putting him through the criminal justice system. Grateful for KS' help the kid decided he wanted to be a hero under the name Kid Thunder.

Another mysterious storm prompted the principal to send Loxley and Firestorm out into the field to investigate- this time they arrived to find a standoff between a pair of metapowered youths and the police at an orphanage. The roof of the building had been blown off and a man- badly beaten, burnt and barely alive at this point- had been tied to the front of the building with the words "MONSTER" and "ABUSER" smeared in red paint beside him. Loxley and Firestorm tried to talk the kids down, not feeling right about starting a fight with orphans but the police immediately re-escalated the situation causing a panicking Pyroman to release a fiery blast that exploded a patrol car. Loxley and Firestorm got the police out of the way and headed in to confront them personally, still hoping to talk them down but the orphans were convinced that it was a trick and the two were forced to reluctantly fight back- though it didn't take long for Firestorm to go all-out on them when he realised the two orphans had as much raw power as he does- a lesson Loxley learned the hard way. When Loxley comes to, the fight is over and the two leave the building into the path of Agent Simons. A member of UNISON that bears a grudge against Firestorm and was quick to point to all the fire damage at the orphanage as being his fault- ignoring that another pyrokinetic was involved. After Simons unfairly places the blame for the escalation on their shoulders they are told they've done enough damage and should leave. They did as they were told and left with Loxley doing his best to keep Firestorm in check. They pushed their way out through the crowd when they were approached by a little girl who asked them to help her find her papa. She introduced herself as Lily and lead the heroes back to her father's house to find clues. They saw the obvious signs of a break-in, Lily's father's belongings scattered about and then they found a secret entrance that had been pried open and they descended into what is obviously a mad scientist's laboratory. They contacted KS and he concluded that the girl's father could only be Dollmaker- a scientist who created complex robotic dolls back in the 80s but who had disappeared before being caught. Worried that they've walked into a trap Loxley decided to call in backup- Ironhide told them to let UNISON take over the investigation as neither of them is a trained investigator. Lily begged them for help but when Loxley tried to explain that UNISON would take over the search for her father she ran away. The two followed her- trying to bring her back to the house but she eluded them and the two ended up searching for her in an industrial park where they noticed some suspicious activity. They found a costumed villain monologuing to an old man restrained in a chair about the precious exotic matter his organisation had leant to the man and the weapon they were promised. Loxley quickly deduced the man tied to the chair was Lily's father and sprang into action fighting the villain and his thugs before the villain could inject the man with his wrist-mounted needles. Afterwards, Lily thanked the two heroes for saving her papa and Loxley told the man that his house was now being searched by UNISON, Dollmaker thanked Loxley and took Lily out of town.

Hockey Maniac, Captain Kangaroo and Horsepower were all stealing various components for Brainchild, Team Freedom stopped them. Brainchild was freed from his imprisonment when he finally accepted the Institute's offer.

Team Freedom was sent to Paris to protect an art gallery that had previously been targeted by a gang of art thieves. As Célérité explained he had stopped the first attempt at night, but all the perpetrators that had been knocked unconscious or captured had absolutely no memories of the plot or how they even got there- some had memories missing for weeks. Célérité believed that as he was going into low earth orbit in a highly publicised press event for the Alliance the gang would strike again- even during the day. The three waited growing increasingly bored for any action to spring up in the gallery and were shocked when finally the glass smashed in and the thieves attacked. They had not counted on their leader, a cunning sorceress named Allura, being with them, or on her notable effect on the male patrons of the gallery who joined the looters in fighting the heroes. Even Firestorm succumbed to her mental domination, starting a fire that allowed the villain and her lackeys (including the mind-controlled Firestorm) to escape. The two remaining members of Team Freedom prioritised rescuing innocents and artwork before pursuing the villain and their friend. They tracked their position into the catacombs thanks to Firestorm's thermal signature, they fought against the villain and their former friend until they managed to stun her- causing a lapse in her mental control enough for Firestorm to weaken her. She melted away into the shadows to escape the rage of her puppet cut loose. Loxley and KS managed to talk Firestorm down and returned to the surface along with all the confused men who had been her loyal minions only minutes before. To this day, Ethan does not remember visiting Paris.

Sherwood brings Loxley to his mission stateside- bringing down a major artery for the mafia's dirty money laundering scheme. After breaking into the house of a notorious mobster, Sherwood gets the location of the shadowy accountant responsible for the mob's money- on board a boat on the Hudson River. When they arrive the situation is complicated by the appearance of Devil Ray's vessel- as it seems the Mob and Devil Ray use the same accountant. Sherwood hops aboard Devil Ray's vessel while Loxley goes for the accountant onboard the mafia's ship. Loxley is defeated by the surprise appearance of two metapowered mob heavies- Leatherface and Pincushion. Sherwood comes to rescue Loxley after forcing Devil Ray to abandon his money to escape. Sherwood's appearance on board allows Loxley the opportunity he needs to break free from his constraints and start fighting his way out. He meets up with Sherwood who, as the more confident hand-to-hand combatant, gives Loxley his bow. Together they take down the mob heavies and find the accountant who surprises Sherwood by pulling a gun. Loxley disarms him with a well-placed shot that knocks the man off balance and over the railing into the cold rushing water of the river.

Team Freedom was assigned patrol around Seattle due to a number of unusually loud and flashy robberies from the criminal partners- Duckman and Baghead. During a patrol the team spotted the pair and gave chase only to be lured into a trap- Maxim Challenger opened the Box of Moloch trapping KS, Firestorm and Loxley inside along with Duckman and Baghead. Loxley woke up hazy, his memories a blur. He found himself in London outside his home on a grey, overcast day. He tried to enter the house only to find his hand go through the door, with a sinking feeling in his gut he entered the house- passing through the door. His worst fear had come to life- he was dead and he left his parents alone in the world. He watched as they grieved and mourned his loss, Harvey watched his father calmly console Harvey's mother and then sink to his knees clutching his chest and sobbing silently as soon as he was out of the room. Harvey felt a heaviness overcome him and started sinking into the earth but he was grabbed by a hand before he was gone entirely. Kid Spectacular, accompanied by Duckman, revealed it was all a nightmare made real. Duckman nervously rubbed the back of his neck and revealed they'd been paid to lure them into a trap- and that this was the trap. When pressed on how to escape Duckman nervously deflected but said that Baghead would be able to use his powers to get them out and they could get into each others dreams through special doors- they just needed to find him. The first door they opened lead them to Ethan's nightmare- the burnt out husk of his old school. As they walked through the corridors they saw the black shadows of children burnt into the walls until eventually they found Ethan burning out of control. Together they calmed him down and explained it wasn't real- causing a split to happen and a shadowy fake firestorm to appear who tries -with sadistic glee- to burn the others. While trying to regroup with baghead they were approached by the warden of the box- a sneering man in a purple suit who gleefully informed them his name was Moloch and that he would just have to make them forget what they'd learned and make them face their fears alone again. KS began glowing with power and Moloch rolled his eyes, realising he'd have to beat the will out of them first and transformed into a purple skinned minotaur. Team Freedom fought against Moloch while Duckman looked for a doorway to Baghead. After they staggered Moloch and the construct started to fall apart they followed Duckman through the door into a space where nothing made sense and strange whispers tugged at their consciousness, Duckman shouted that it was time to leave and suddenly they were all sat on solid ground, reeling from the experience. They found themselves in some sort of trophy room that looked, at first glance, to be a shrine to Mr Spectacular. Hearing the commotion Professor Challenger entered the room to find himself face to face with three very angry teens and two disgruntled former allies. Baghead lifted up the bag a slight fraction while stood behind his allies and Challenger dropped to his knees babbling incoherently about how it wasn't fair. Loxley called it in to Ironhide and Challenger was taken in to UNISON custody while Duckman and Baghead fled the scene.

Loxley is told to be a better team leader after KS and Firestorm instigate a fight against the outcast Glacier.

Osprey sent information to Ironhide about the Carnival of Carnage's unusual movements, together they inferred a pattern and believed the carnival was using circuses and carnivals near to their targets as cover to get close before attacking. This time a Sanderson-Shields manufacturing facility at an airfield was the target- an airfield that is hosting a carnival for the nearby town. Team Freedom went undercover at the carnival with Team Unity as backup for the second year team. Loxley and Bloom played carnival games together, he won her a stuffed monkey and the two went on the ferris wheel together but things got awkward as Bloom was much too shy to ask or even indicate for her crush to kiss her and Loxley was far too much of a gentleman to make assumptions. All hell broke loose and the two first year teams desperately moved to save people from the rides suddenly thrown into disarray, Loxley had to help snap Bloom out of her panic. Team Freedom fought the new Carnival of Carnage line-up: The GREAT Boris, Rubber Bandit, Twin Dragons and all while getting hit by the disorienting nausea of Dizzy Darling's powers. After a series of fights across the fairgrounds, with each side alternating between withdrawing and pressing their advantage like a pendulum, the carnival decided to cut their losses and escaped to the Ziggurat which imposed in the skies above. The second year team was out of commission from a simultaneous attack on the manufacturing facility from another Institute team and Team Unity wasn't prepared for a prolonged combat engagement but the trio pursued the carnival alone, hoping to prevent them from regrouping. Instead they met the Iron Bull for the first time, the injured heroes no match for his overwhelming firepower and years of combat experience. One by one, the Iron Bull brought the team down.

Loxley awoke in a cell where he was informed he had an opportunity to prove himself to the Institute. After he completed a variety of trials similar to those he completed for the hero course at Atlas he came face to face with Firestorm- who had similarly been abducted- and the leader of the institute, Hammurabi. Hammurabi offered them both membership in exchange for things he could offer them- to Loxley he promised to help him exact revenge against Rex by giving him the assassin's location and to Firestorm he told him he could help him find his father. Firestorm was apathetic to Hammurabi's offer but was shocked when Loxley accepted. Hammurabi then told Loxley he needed to prove his loyalty to the Institute by subduing Firestorm. Firestorm was further shocked when his former teammate and friend turned on him. Hammurabi goaded Firestorm to fight back with his full strength- by reading out Ethan's mother's address. This lead Firestorm to go all out against Loxley who managed to stay out of his angry former teammates grasp until he could bring the raging force of nature down. After it was over Hammurabi offered an exchange- the location of his sister's killer for the location of Atlas Academy. Loxley readily agreed.

Later, Loxley repented what he had done and after finding out Ethan would be imprisoned until he joined the Institute- which Loxley knew would take a while as the teen was too stubborn for his own good- decided to steal the information he needed and help Ethan escape. Firestorm refused to acknowledge Loxley and gave him the silent treatment even as he was helping him escape. He didn't say a word until they touched down at Atlas with the stolen Institute jet and he refused to speak to his treacherous team leader.

Realising the lost potential to get a man inside the Institute, Ironhide concocted a plan to create new villainous identities- backdated online with fake news stories about their exploits and- to really prove their worth and that they are not Team Freedom- he had Mal use modified fandroids to create duplicates of KS, Fahrenheit and Loxley. Firestorm chose a villainous identity that's mute so that he didn't have to speak to Loxley- ignoring the other obvious downsides. The fandroid Team Freedom faced down the new villains Orbit, Coal and Darkbolt who quickly found themselves being brought up to the Institute Ziggurat and recruited as members. They completed the trials and were brought into the school to meet their peers. Who demanded they prove themselves in combat- letting them choose their opponents from the gathered crowd. They picked Kid Carnage, Sister Savage and Nightstrike and defeated them- which they would later learn had placed a target squarely on their back as those three were considered three tough individual opponents.

The three heroes settled into their new lives as members of the institute to varying degrees. As his new identity Darkbolt befriends Malice Magick and her team. Harvey also learned to his chagrin that the orphans they had tried desperately not to fight had now wholly embraced Hammurabi's creed. All the while during their secret mission tensions between himself and Firestorm/Coal continued to grow especially with Firestorm refusing to talk. The two end up in a duel, where Darkbolt humiliated Coal before an audience of their new classmates. The Institute gave the newly forged team their first chance at a mission-during briefing and they learned of the redundancies planned into mission assignment: two teams are sent and the victorious team will earn special privileges. Darkbolt talked with Malice about his assignment and she offered him a massage to relieve his stress- leading a team with a guy who hates him and being the only non-powered in the Institute must be hard. Only later did he realise that Malice's team was the other team selected for the mission and even that she had actually placed a glyph on his back. The mission was to infiltrate a cutting-edge lab and steal a prototype device, both teams infiltrated the compound, able to evade the high-tech security systems. The two teams engaged in a fight after Orbit retrieved the device, which lead to the alarm triggering and hundreds of robotic drones being activated to apprehend the intruders. Eventually, after more back and forth and attempts to snatch the device from the other team they were forced to work together to get out without being captured.

The trio decided to learn what the device was stolen for and learned it is to power a huge weather machine designed by fellow Institute student Apex- similar to the ones used by the Ziggurat to hide it's location from satellites- only this one could potentially reverse the effects of global warming at the potential cost of hundreds of thousands of people. Kid Carnage caught them stealing the data and, already bearing a grudge against the trio, tried to bring them down. After they had defeated him along with a squadron of Hammurabi's trained Eyes of Judgement, they broke into the Iron Bull's locker and sabotaged the suit before heading for the hangar and stealing a jet. They were headed for the site in Canada where the Institute was assembling the weather machine at an abandoned observatory. They only narrowly escaped the anti-air defenses and missiles of the Ziggurat. They changed into their heroic identities and landed on a frozen lake near the observatory. They fought against Apex, Hockey Maniac and Metalmark as the machine began to power up but ultimately they were able to defeat the villains. They finally broke radio silence after weeks undercover trying to reach Atlas Academy- but they received only silence in response.

Fearing the worst, the exhausted heroes got back in their commandeered jet which was already running low on fuel and headed back south to Atlas Academy. When they arrived back, their worst fears were realised- the Ziggurat dominated the sky and the Academy was clearly besieged by Institute forces. As the three entered the school they heard the broadcasts from the Institute- offering clemency and a good position at the Institute if they joined the true fight for justice. They first aided Kid Thunder and Mal who were fighting against Blacksun, Pyroman, Quake Kid and Brimstone. They then headed to their dorms to try and rally the other first year heroes- but when they got there they found that the other heroes had been sealed into their dorms by thick ice- Glacier had switched sides. Stood alongside him were Malice, Miss Chievous and Dust Devil who encouraged him to torment his former teammates Bloom, Siren and Miss Militia a little. The three heroes fought their former enemies-turned-comrades-turned-enemies, with Malice being the first of the villains to recognise their identities. Afterwards they held off Kid Carnage and helped Mal repair the broadcast tower so that they could summon Team Justice back from their assignment and call for reinforcements from the Alliance and UNISON. Blueshift arrived back in less than a minute, helping in evacuation efforts by getting the most vulnerable students far removed from the battle. Ultimax was next of Team Justice to return, he helped carry Firestorm and Loxley up to the Ziggurat before being forced to defend his teammates jet on their return. Loxley and Team Freedom fought against a weakened Iron Bull- who had not had a chance to fully recover from their sabotage. After defeating the formidable villain they found themselves face to face with Hammurabi who admitted his assault on the Academy had been triggered by their defection- all thanks to the information Loxley had given him. During the fight they found themselves overwhelmed by the might of his weather gauntlets- a miniature version of the weather machines but Loxley was finally able to beat the howling gales and land a hardening capture foam arrow that trapped Hammurabi in place and prevented him utilising his gauntlets.

While Loxley was among the school's heroes who had stopped Hammurabi it soon became widely known- thanks to Sebastian- that he was responsible for the Institute learning the location of the Academy in the first place and the remainder of his first year was spent unable to connect with many of his peers and even Sherwood would begin dodging his calls and ignoring his messages- after giving his protégé a very simple dressing down. The dressing down he received from Bloom dwarfed Sherwood's by comparison with the normally shy girl going on a tirade about how she had been worried about him and he hadn't even told her he was leaving to go undercover- and hadn't spoken to her since his first kidnapping. She told him they were **friends** and that's not how you should treat your friends.

Before the school year was over he was made to participate in a community service program with his teammate Firestorm (who had been caught shoplifting and trying to intimidate the shopkeeper) where they first met the teen villain Grunger. While picking up litter they were attacked by Snakebite and Blue Racer who asked the pair where Dollmaker was hiding and decided to beat the answer out of them when they weren't forthcoming enough for their liking. Despite being equipped with only a litter picker, Loxley was able to aid Firestorm in forcing the villains to retreat.

### Summer Break

Fought Huntsman who was impersonating Sherwood.

Went to Kid Spectacular's beach party but wore long sleeves most of the weekend to hide his scars. Loxley helped during the standoff at the beach when three alien bounty hunters appeared- with two of them seemingly after Rouge. He also learned Bloom had started dating someone back home which lead to him spending half a day crying in a room on his own.

Loxley and Sherwood came across Firestorm and Osprey while both pairs were investigating the shadowy organisation profiting from the demise of the Institute. They pursued their leads to the docks where they found Devil Ray and a mysterious ninja- they were noticed quickly and the ninja managed to hit Sherwood with a dart before making a swift escape. Osprey entrusted stopping Devil Ray from reaching his ship to the two sidekicks as he pursued the ninja hoping to acquire an antidote. Firestorm and Loxley had both faced Devil Ray before but this time a large hulking figure burst through a wall to help their foe- a monstrous creature that announced himself to be the King Crab. Unfortunately, King Crab distracted the pair just long enough for Devil Ray to call for fire support from his crew and slip aboard his ship. King Crab managed to get a lucky grab on Firestorm who he bowled at Loxley before jumping into the water, cackling madly all the while. The boys tried their best to stabilise Sherwood who was maintaining a stiff upper lip about the whole being poisoned thing. Osprey returned with the antidote and administered it to Sherwood. They discussed the newcomers, both believing that the ninja was Fugu.

## Powers, Abilities & Equipment

### Skilled Archer

Harvey is an Olympic level archer who turned down an invitation to try out for the national GB team.

### Trick Arrows

Loxley uses many trick arrows, a non-exhaustive list: Explosive, Flashbang, Hardening Capture Foam, Rapid Expanding Jelly, Focused Ultrasonic and Spycam arrows

## Trivia

* He was the first Player Character in the Superverse
* For his first adventure- the archers fighting on the bridge while talking about whether the sidekick was excited for the future was drawn from the first episode of Young Justice