Blitzfire

*"I was originally just an assistant to Milton until I found out that my boss was a man running a secret organisation that to the rest of the world didn't even exist including the United Nations until now and being with him for that long allowed him to entrust me with this suit so yea not as fancy as you."* - Holly to The Sentinel on how she got her position as an agent

Holly Gates codenamed 'Blitzfire' was a human female who was born in Indianapolis in America who at some point became an executive assistant to Milton Nichols during his time of tracking down and locating terrorist cells across Europe and the Middle East believing that there was a connection to the bombings, whilst she was an assistant she was kept away from most of the confidential work that Milton was doing until one day Holly was entrusted to deliver a letter personally to the oval office to the president of the United States where she would be ambushed and nearly killed by a group of mercenaries. After her car crash and nearly being killed she would be rescued by Milton and some government agents where Holly revealed that they didn't get the letter and that she had saved it which only further proved her loyalty to her job, feeling like he owed Holly an explanation Milton would go on to explain that he had been building his own team from within the US government and military with permission from the president to try and stop the various recent terrorist bombings and attacks. Partly out of revenge Holly would offer her service to be more involved within the team that Milton was putting together on which he accepted and with that proceeded to give her military combat training, this training would consist of firearms training and mixed martial arts for close quarters combat allowing her to adapt to any environment should she need to. After many months of physical training she was introduced to a prototype suit that American scientists had been working on which was a heavily modified wingsuit allowing large wings to grow and retract from a small compartment in the back of the suit, it would also be built out of solid alloys and other metals making the suit very light but able to take a moderate amount of damage from either bullets or hard hits. Now putting it on Holly would begin testing the suit out getting used to it and once she had gotten used to it she would be given the codename 'Blitzfire' where she would be sent on various recon missions to uncover locations of terrorist cells however whilst she was out on the field she would proceed to file reports of modifications that could be made to the suit which were eventually made giving the suit small thrusters on the wings which meant that not only could it just glide but it could now practically fly. With approximately a year passing Holly would soon meet a new member of the team being The Sentinel who was a former Swiss special forces member that had agreed to join the team becoming an agent like Holly, the two would work together for the foreseeable future in many missions and eventually became the first two members of the Enigmas.

## Biography

### Early Life

Before Holly became Milton's assistant she was an editor at a local news company where she originally had hoped to become a top journalist but to succeed in her career she wanted to find a good story and so she became quite the investigative journalist, she would consistently question her dad about his work in the US government which he would always mislead her but she was very ambitious and persistent. At some point Holly would begin to realise that her career was not really going anywhere and so would leave in hopes of finding another job but had little luck, during this time her father would be of age where he decided to retire and since Holly was out of work he would speak to his former employer in the government who was able to give her an assistant job to a man called Milton Nichols. Being Milton's assistant Holly was not given a lot of trust from the man that she sought to assist and whom her father had known for quite sometime claiming to be one of the best men he had ever known, at some point in her tenure under Milton she would be given an assignment to hand deliver a letter to the oval office which unknown to her was going straight to the president of America but during her journey to Washington she was ambushed and attacked by a group of mercenaries who destroyed the car however whether it was fate or they had done a sloppy job Holly was still barely alive inside of the car. Within 5 minutes of the attack Milton and several government agents would turn up to the crash where they saved Holly who revealed to Milton that she saved the letter giving it to him which gave him a great impression of her loyalty to him and her mission, seeing her injuries Milton would feel responsible and proceeded to explain everything to her stating that he had been building a team of agents into a secretive branch within the US government and seeing as he had seen she was loyal he would offer her a spot within that team.

### Blitzfire

#### First of the Enigmas

Holly would accept the offer from Milton where she was brought into the fold more and would receive training in both mixed martial arts and firearms training making her into a deadly agent and first operative to work under Milton, her first mission would be an recovery operation of a scientist's project who used to work for Milton but had gone rogue into business for himself fleeing to Paris where he sought to use his project for himself selling it to the highest bidder. The operation consisted of Holly and a small handful of other agents who went undercover blending in to the streets of Paris after receiving intel of the scientist's location and to a buyer he was planning on selling to, after neutralising the scientist and securing the project Holly would realise that it was a suit of armour with large glider wings and upon returning it to Milton she would ask him about the suit and its purpose. Milton would explain to her that the suit was a prototype to allow soldiers to fly and glide into enemy territory without making a noise but the scientist who had designed it got greedy and wanted to make his own money from the suit and tried to sell it, seeing how intrigued she was by the suit Milton would suggest that she be the person to test the suit and hopefully become the operative who can master the suit's capabilities. Feeling that the suit could be used by someone else who may also use it for themselves Holly felt like she was responsible for the suit and decided to accept the responsibility and to wear the suit making it hers so that she may test it, Holly alongside the suit would be sent to Nashville where Milton had a facility outside of the city in the countryside that was originally set up to be a testing centre for weapons and explosives which was seen fit to work for the suit. Whilst the suit had no way to lift Holly in the air she was able to glide into combat allowing her for a good amount of air time to fire on her enemies from above which allowed her to train extensively in aerial combat adding to her training, during the following months she would be sent on missions to help the army in the east by using her new suit to infiltrate enemy lines weakening them from behind making her a local hero to the regiments that were stationed there.

At some point back in America Holly would be called to a meeting with Milton which was highly confidential and only had a few members within the branch that he had put together within the meeting alongside a new girl who Holly would meet called Jade Hawkins, the meeting would be about the formation of a team called Enigmas which would be formed to protect the world with sanction from the United Nations but was secretly being made to stop a conspiracy from within the UN. Having accepted their roles both operatives would be assigned operations in which some would have them working together and some where they worked on their own with Holly going to London for one of her assignments to infiltrate an underworld criminal auction selling weapons which included weapons of military grade to numerous terrorist organisations, at this auction she would meet The Warden who went under the alias of Warren Russo. Whilst they only had a short conversation Holly would keep her suspicions of Warren to herself as he was not her objective which after their conversation she would continue to focus on, eventually she would see the large stash of rocket launchers that were being sold to the highest bidder in which there seemed to only be one group of people offering a large amount to then be sold to them. Holly would make her way to the rooftops of London following the car that the launchers had been loaded into in which she would use her suit to glide across the roofs at a greater distance tailing the car back to their hideout, upon locating the hideout she would sneak in to disable the weapons and destroy them also locating a bunch of codes that allowed this terror cell to communicate with other groups across Europe which only confirmed Milton's point of a conspiracy within the UN. After destroying the site and eliminating any other terrorists that were inside or around the hideout Holly would return home where she would make numerous new suggestions and modifications for her suit such as new miniature thrusters on the wings now allowing her to actually fly and not just glide, these modifications would come in handy for her later missions allowing her to overcome obstacles with relative ease.

#### The UN Conspiracy

After confirming a conspiracy plot Milton would call a meeting with all of his close operatives and trusted people to discuss the plan of action to uncover the identities of the people within the UN to stop them and to locate the many terror cells across the world in the hopes of stopping them as well, Milton would assign the majority of the harder and challenging missions to both Jade and Holly with their enhanced suits making these assignments a lot more easier with eventually the two being sent to Yemen after having disabled numerous terrorists. Arriving at the supposed site the two began doing reconnaissance to locate the specific area in which the weapons stash was, after some time they had located it and proceeded to go and destroy what was going to be the biggest weapon depot they had seen but the site would be a ruse and both Holly and Jade would be attacked by the Iron Fighter who was a well known mercenary. The fight would go on for a fairly decent time but his own suit consisted of hardened metals and alloys which acted as a big shield to any physical damage coming towards him making him more durable to pain and thanks to his own training he was able to fend off both Jade and Holly with their suits but Holly would come up with a strategy of using Jade's large arms to pick up a car and throw it towards him whilst Holly flew into him sending him into the car doing double the damage and knocking him out, Holly would detain him with her electrical cable ties from her suit that would keep him from escaping whilst they brought him to an undisclosed location. Milton would begin his interrogation with Holly and Jade present as they still saw him as dangerous even with his hands being tied behind a chair they kept their focus on him, after some time of being interrogated the Iron Fighter would reveal that he was being paid to prevent any other weapon sites from being destroyed but did not know the identity of his employer until he did his own research to find out that it was the President of Switzerland who Jade had served on his orders at the UN conference that was being held in her country that coincidentally was bombed.

Milton knew that the next objective was to covertly take down the President of Switzerland and go undercover whist they did so they did not accept the delicate balance and tension within Europe with many of them threatening action on each other, the two would make their way back to Switzerland where another UN meeting was happening due to the recent terrorist attacks with many other countries trying to join the UN believing that it would protect them. Both Holly and Jade would infiltrate the meeting at different points in hoping of trying to catch the president in case he tries to run in another direction but it would not matter as both of them were caught and brought before the UN being framed as the leaders of the terrorist acts being committed across the world, knowing he had no choice Milton would send his some of his other agents to free Holly and Jade who proceeded to chase the president but Holly would go and help the other agents fight off the Swiss army who were on the president's orders to kill them. At some point in the battle the Iron Fighter who had broken out of his detainment a couple of days prior would be beaten by Jade who had sent him towards Holly, she proceeded to keep him occupied whilst Jade went after the president using her new gadgets and suit's capabilities to subdue him in the fight. Jade would manage to capture the president who revealed his plan and was arrested for him crimes before the UN who realised that there should be a team of people who could represent the world and UN in times of crisis calling them the Enigmas having Milton run point on the team, both Jade and Holly would be made the first two official members with Jade now going under the name The Sentinel and Holly keeping to her operative name of Blitzfire.

### The Enigmas

#### SHRIEK Crisis

After stopping the plot that was occurring within the United Nations Holly was given free time away from her duties to Milton however she kept to her duties always ready and prepared in the event of another global incident that could arise, during this period she would often visit her father from time to time as his retirement was hit by news that he had a heart disease which wouldn't give him much longer to live for and whilst Holly was not ok with this her father was content with the life he had left and chose to live it in peace. In the following months she would be called back to her duties by Milton Nichols who had also called The Sentinel back to action in which the two would once again meet for another mission, this time the two would also meet Orothos for the first time in which they shared banter with each other before all sitting around a large table meeting with Milton. As the meeting begun he would reveal that they were all here to officially form the group of Enigmas but he now wanted to add another member into the equation to which he brought in The Warden who Holly immediately recognised from a previous mission, Milton went on to tell the group that he had been investigating a group called Sparrow who he found evidence of their involvement with the UN from the former president of Switzerland's private computer and that The Warden was a previous member of the group that had now come to warn Milton that he was a target of their organisation claiming that a scientist called Josef Gruber who was a high ranking member of Sparrow was helping to create a robot from an AI chip named Shriek. The Sentinel would stand up being outraged by the fact that Milton had hidden this information from both her and Holly who both had helped him stop one global catastrophe, having felt like her trust was betrayed Jade stepped out of the room and Holly who looked up to Milton like a second father was now conflicted on what to think about him alongside the fact that she knew who The Warden was and already distrusted him she would leave to go and speak to her father. She would arrive to the new retirement home that Holly had now put her father in so that he could be looked after for the time he had left, upon visiting him Holly questioned her dad on why Milton was someone that he trusted and why he told her to trust him if the trust never went both ways to begin with. Holly's father told her that sometimes Milton would not tell him things but it was only because he thought he could do things on his own and that Milton has his own trust issues especially when it comes to dealing with the highly classified stuff that he handles, he would then go on to tell her that his last wish would be for her to help him in any way possible when it came to the protection of the world. Upon leaving the retirement home she would be met with Warren who was waiting outside for her to apologise to her for not being able to tell her who he truly was and who he once worked for, the two would sit for a time speaking to each other with Holly stating that it would take her time which The Warden knew was the case and that he had his own doubts about leaving Sparrow to tell Milton of what he knew and that he spent a lot of time soul searching to find a purpose other than being a cyborg killer. As they continued talking there would be hints of a romantic interest between the two however it would be cut off as Milton made a call to Warren telling them that he needed them to go to Rome to uncover one of Sparrow's secret sites which possibly could be the location of Gruber's laboratory, the two would put aside their conversation to head to Italy immediately where they would indeed find a building that was being protected by Sparrow security.

Warren would suggest that Holly do recon of the building whilst he utilised his own stealth and assassin skills to infiltrate and locate where the laboratory was situated which she would agree with stating that if he runs into trouble she will help, having made his way through the building he was able to locate a room that wasn't a lab but was extremely well protected which looked like a large data centre room but Warren was quickly ambushed by another assassin named Caliber who Warren once trained with. The two engaged in hand to hand combat which would alert the other guards that Warren had managed to sneak by forcing Holly to take action utilising her suit to fly into the building and take out the various guards, after dismantling the guards Holly made her way into the data centre room where both Caliber and Warren were still fighting which allowed Holly to provide tactical help by using her wings to propel herself at the assassin who to her surprise was able to quickly dodge her incoming attacks. The fight would continue for a minute longer until Warren was able to break though his defence and trip him up forcing him to talk, Caliber would tell Warren that he considered him to once be his brother and that he will take pleasure in eventually killing him but Warren ignored this and questioned him on the purpose of this data centre. The assassin would simply laugh claiming that for all Warren's power he still knew nothing about the true plans that Sparrow had in mind and that whatever they had hoped to achieve it would be impossible to stop revealing that they had already used the AI chip before he stole it, both Warren and Holly weren't exactly sure what this was supposed to achieve but before they could question Caliber any further he would offer Warren the chance to kill him and show Holly who he truly is but Warren would step away from him responding to him saying "your own actions will eventually be the cause of your own destruction." leaving him with those words as the two left the building making their way back to Milton. On their way back Holly would question Warren as to why he didn't kill Caliber knowing that he could go and warn Gruber of what they were doing to which he responded by stating that he still thought of him as a brother but he knew the path that Caliber was on as it was a similar path to his own and the choice was not his to end their path, the two would manage to make it back to Milton of which they provided the mission details and what had happened including what they had discovered and in the following hour both The Sentinel and Orothos would return from their mission sharing their details from Egypt having uncovered the secret lab that Gruber had which was being protected by the Iron Fighter. Orothos would explain that she had found a ton of digital files within Gruber's lab including one of them which spoke about the project Shriek and how he had planned to replicate the robot's data to make a mass amount of it but for what purpose she did not know, Holly would fill in the gaps to Norah claiming that the assassin Caliber revealed to her and Warren that Gruber was going to replicate that data in order to create an army of robots which would eventually be deployed at an unknown location. The group all had figured out the plan but were simply missing one crucial piece and that was where these deadly robots where going to be and when which lead Orothos to remember that she still had a lot of encrypted files from Gruber's lab which she had recovered and that there was a possibility the time and place could be on one of them, with this being the only lead the group would get to work on cracking as many files as possible.

After several hours of ciphering through many files Orothos would crack and uncover a file that revealed the location of the attack being in the city of Chicago during the president's speech which Holly pointed out that the speech was happening tomorrow, the group would take time to rest and prepare for the next day as they knew the importance of their mission and Holly would practice with The Warden using her suit and hand to hand combat. During their practice the two would eventually stop to rest and spoke with Holly trying to grasp at the possibility of Sparrow actually ruling the world through sheer force and domination which Warren would say is entirely possible and is now why he seeks to stop them but also because he believes there is more to his life than just being their pawn, it would be in this moment that the two shared a moment of romance and had kissed each other both revealing their feelings towards one another. Despite having these feelings now known to each other Warren would convince Holly to put them to one side in order to be prepared fully for the oncoming threat and that once the threat was dealt with and Gruber faced justice they would be able to talk about it after, the following day the group of Enigmas were now in the city of Chicago alongside Milton who had taken over as head of security for the president making his speech. As Orothos began scanning for any possible location within the city for Gruber or any of the robots the others including Holly would be strategically placed around the city in order to scout for any suspicious activity, eventually by surprise a large amount of Shriek robots would emerge across the city with all of them to begin reigning down terror on the civilians whilst many others began targeting the president. The Sentinel who was now the active commander over the Enigmas would order Norah to continue scanning for the central computer that Gruber was using to program the robots whilst Holly conducted air recon and helped quickly evacuate the citizens leaving Jade and Warren to begin dismantling as many of the robots as they could alongside helping any citizens that they could, Holly began traversing the city at quick pace utilising her suit's wings and boosters for extra speed whilst getting a few air kills on some of the airborne robots in what would be the Battle of Chicago and the first time that the Enigmas appeared as a group. After helping the national guard establish safe zones across the city for civilians to make their way to Holly would be contacted by Orothos who had managed to locate the building which contained Gruber and the central computer inside but Norah would need a "boost" to reach the building in time, Holly would immediately fly to her location picking her up and taking her to the building that she needed to get to. The two would locate the central computer however they would be confronted by Gruber now donning the name of Electrode using his portable electric pack to strike a large hit on Holly sending her out of the building and disabling her winged suit grounding her on the street level, seeing only moments later both Electrode and Orothos fall out of the building together Holly would contact Jade and Warren asking them to come to her position and reinforce Norah. Both Jade and Warren would be able to overwhelm Electrode disabling his electric pack leaving Norah to use her own power to propel herself up to the level she previously fell from making her way to the central computer to input a shutdown code on the Shriek robots stopping their onslaught, the group would stop the mad scientist and the robots that threatened the city of Chicago which was enough of a job for each member to receive medals from the president and recognition as heroes. After the battle and ceremony Holly would return to the retirement home where her father resided however upon her return she would be informed by the manager of the care home that her father had passed only moments ago, Holly would be informed that before he died he was watching live news coverage of the Battle of Chicago which gave her comfort knowing that before he died he watched his daughter help stop a great evil.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Extendable Wings**: Holly's main point of her suit was originally a prototype for soldiers to glide silently over enemy lines by using large extendable wings that can retract back into the suit after being used alongside having the suit's light protection allowing Holly to be mobile in her fights and agile to attack at different angles, during her time using the suit Holly would suggest new upgrades which were later implemented giving her things such as small thrusters on the wings giving her the ability to actually fly rather than just glide allowing her to use the power of her thrusters to throw her kicks into her opponents at a quicker pace making them more impactful.
* **Gadgets and Tech**: Whilst her suit's wings were the main focus point of the suit Holly would later have many improvements be made such as thrusters to the wings but also things like wrist cables that she can fire out to subdue targets and also tracker chips she can fire from her wrist to track people with, as her enemies became bigger and more deadly she would have other improvements such as having a compartment in the back of her suit which she can control from her wrist to fire out small homing missiles which can do increased amount of damage to her foes.