Steve

**Steve** (born 10 October 1991) is a warrant officer of the Szczecin police unit and the best friend of Philip Turner, considered to be an honorary member of Team Y and the group's secretary. Although he does not have superpowers, he sometimes helps his friends in battles, mainly using his gun. While in the Police Academy, he met his second best friend, Igor Possible. Thoguh at first they were inseparable, being roommates, they drifted apart after Steve reunited with Philip and those two became housemates instead.

After finding out from secret files about Philip's connections to Stanley Ant - a World War 2 superhero, Steve was visited by Igor to tell him about it. Exactly the same day, Phil also found out about his superpowers and after coming back home, they all discussed the matter. Together, they decided to make him a hero and merely the next day went to Japan, where Phil went through a training. After returning to Szczecin, Phil took on the moniker The Acrobat, with Steve and Igor often supporting him on his missions, especially against the three villains - General John, One-Armed Man and Wolf-Man. Eventually they were joined by Gregory Enius as well. When the villains found out about The Acrobat's identity from Igor, they kidnapped Steve and other people close to Phil. The hero instantly showed up for the showdown, in which Steve also took part, Igor sacrificed his life and One-Armed Man once again became good, saving Szczecin and dying too. Saying goodbye to a friend wasn't easy, but Steve coped with it and continued to stand by Philip's side.

Two months later he met Michael Foot, who brought the unconcious Phil home. Steve found out that he came from the future and after a long talk, they became friends. After Philip awakened, the two decided to work in a heroic duet and soon left for a battle with General John and Wolf-Man, while Steve lost the communications with them. Only after several minutes, Phil once again showed up home, explaining, that for him, more than half a year had passed and that he had an astonishing adventure in the past, to then ask him for help. Thus, Steve went back in time to seventy years earlier and met Team Y, as well as became an important ally in their battle against General John and Mr. Time.

## Biography

### Early life

Steve was born on 10 October 1991 as the only son of an unknown couple. On 1 September 1998, beginning his education in elementary school, he met his best friend for life, Philip Turner. Their friendship lasted long, as they went to the same middle school, although high school finally separated them. Despite that, they tried their best to maintain the telephonic contact and met once again in the first year of college.

Unlike his friend, he is not such a big fan of pop-culture, or at least not the American one. While he shares the love for the *Star Wars* saga with his friend, as they both went to Episode I together, he mainly prefers the Japanese culture. To this day he collects mangas and possesses several souvenirs from the Land of the Rising Sun, such as katanas, a samurai helmet or shurikens.

In 2010 he began attending the Szczecin Police Academy. On his first day he had a problem with finding a room. Eventually he was assigned to the only free room. His roommate was one year older Igor Possible, whom he quickly befriended. Igor became his best friend in the college, where he spent most of his time. Still though, in general, he was after Philip.

The same year he once again met with Turner and renewed the friendship. They soon moved in together as housemates in the house on Krasickiego Street 9. Since then, the two friends were once again inseparable. Due to that, Steve moved out from the college dorm and unfortunately stopped seeing Igor that much.

### Acrobat's origins

#### Involvement in the hero's creation

On 27 October 2014 when Philip came back home, he immediately began to tell Steve about his amazing experience, meaning saving some couple from a thief and defeating the criminal with unnatural strength. To his surprise, Steve was sitting by the table alongside Igor. Two men met each other and it turned out tht Igor came precisely to talk about Philip. As a policeman, having many secret files available, he discovered the huge probability that as a grandson of Stanley Ant, Phil could be a Superhuman. In this coincidence, Steve and Igor told Phil about Superhumans and based on the information gathered throughout 70 years, they aslo revealed that his great grandfather was a superhero called Hyper Man during the war. Eventually, they all decided that wasting such a power would be bad and they needed to use it correctly, making Phil a hero of the modern times. Thus, the next day already, they took leaves from their jobs, began Project The Hero of Szczecin and travelled to Tokyo, where Phil would train with Master Cheng, who would help him control his power. It was thanks to Steve that they went there, as being familiar with Japan, he had heard the stories of Cheng and knew that he was the only person able to help Phil.

After a few weeks long training, the three friends returned to their country to continue the project. Together, they built a base for the hero, which their friend would become.

#### Support and Acrobat's informant

After Acrobat's second mission, The Unity Incident, Philip was upset that he didn't manage to save a scientist John Smith, the robots, which caused a lot of damage, went through a portal built there, and The Unity CEO, Edmond Unary, was turned against the hero. Due to that, Steve gave him a motivational speech, which immediately gave Phil energy he needed and motivated to continue his activity as The Acrobat.

A few days later Edmond began his career as a villain called One-Armed Man. Steve notified Acrobat about his change, having access to the city's security system, which spotted One-Armed Man and showed the similarity. After the disappearance of Edmond from the area monitored by the camera, an explosion in a bank happened. Thus, Acrobat went to find the villain, but it turned out that all the explosions were a way to get his attention and force him to fight. A huge fight on the Kościuszko Square took place and at the end of it, the local police showed up, including Steve and Igor, as well as their boss - commisioner Albert Oaksley, with whom The Acrobat began a collaboration.

Five days had passed and One-Armed Man got an ally using the Werewolf Crystal - Wolf-Man. Alongside him, he kidnapped the city council and demanded Acrobat to show up. It was Steve who informed him about it. About ten days later, Steve once again fulfilled his role as an informant, telling Phil about a mysterious person around The Unity building. Later, when John Smith returned to their universe as the general of the Transforming Robots, Steve took part in a fight against him, One-Armed Man, Wolf-Man and the goons, in which he was fighting alongside Acrobat, Igor and Gregory Enius. After the battle, Enius joined Team Acrobat and temporarily moved in with Steve and Philip.

#### Collaboration with the hero

Before the Christmas Eve, Steve went with Phil to the "Star" Shopping Center, where they were supposed to do the usual pre-holidays shopping. They were surprised by a spontaneous attack of One-Armed Man, Wolf-Man and General John, however. The day of 24 December, Steve spent among his friends, when he, Phil, Greg and Igor were also joined by the latter's brother, Nate. The calm supper was interrupted by a surprise visit by the villains, who had located The Acrobat's lair underneath Philip's house and attempted to storm it. This led to a siege of Phil's house, which though was quickly stopped, didn't stop the rogues. During the said action, Steve had shown his heroic side, rebelling against General John and holding it so that Phil could safely get their neighbour, Curt Twitcher, out of the house, after he unexpectedly showed up, and then run to the Acrobat's Cave to get his suit.

Unfortunately, as he came back, it turned out that Wolf-Man had used The Werewolf Crystal to turn random people into the beasts. One of them was also Steve, with whom Acrobat and Igor had to fight. Fortunately, although the hero of Szczecin left the battlefield to free Greg, kidnapped by One-Armed Man, Igor managed to defeat Wolf-Man alone and turn everyone back, including Steve. After coming back to his regular form, Steve and his friend forced John and Wolf-Man to run away. Weeks later, Steve was celebrating the promotion of his friend and his successful interview with the "Acrobat". Igor, Nate, Gabriel Gajewski, Gregory, Olivia Fridayton, Jacek Wróblewski, as well as Philip's sister and parents, had also showed up on the party. It was first left by Igor, who as it turned out later, was tracked by the villains and cruelly beaten in order to get The Acrobat's identity from him. Fortunately, he was found by Curt A. Twitcher, who notified Steve and Phil and they then called an ambulance.

#### Battle on PAZIM

Two weeks later, Steve was kidnapped by General John alongside Gregory, Gabriel, Olivia, Curt Twitcher and Stephen Dudzik and put on the roof of PAZIM building. The Acrobat was then presented with a condition: all of them would die if he didn't show up. However, even when the hero arrived at the place, John didn't keep his promise and trapped the hero without releasing his close ones. Instead he decided to kill them as well and he first led Steve to death, so he would be thrown down from the roof. But when he was led out of the cage, he used the opportunity and knocked out the Robot walking him and took his keys, allowing himself to get out of the handcuffs and free the remaining people. After being released, The Acrobat, the prisoners and the redempted Edmond began a fight with John, Robots and Wolf-Man in a mecha robot shaped to his likeness. Steve and the others were trying to stop the cyborg and his henchmen.

After the hero captured the Reality Crystal, which was powering the mecha, John began to threaten to kill him. However, when he loaded his laser cannon, Igor showed up in the last minute and sacrificed his life for Philip. It wasn't easy for Steve to watch his friend die in front of his eyes. Unfortunately, there wasn't much time for grief, as General John and Wolf-Man still remained a danger. In that case, all the civilians ran away, while Steve remained on the roof along with Acrobat, Greg and Edmond. Thus, he and the other two were protecting Edmond, when he was closing the giant portal ot another world, which was being exited by hundreds of Transforming Robots. Eventually, the scientist succeeded, while Acrobat managed to delete his true name from John's memory. Ultimately on this day, Steve was the witness of two deaths, where the other was Edmond's sacrifice, when he wanted to get the Crystal back from one of the Robots, which caused him to fall from the roof. After the battle ended, Steve and Gregory went home, while Phil remained in the city as The Acrobat to answer to journalists' numerous questions.

#### The big funeral

Five days later, a huge funeral of Igor Possible and Edmond Unary took place, in which Steve took part, as did a vast majority of the city. After the celebration and returning home, Steve and Phil had found out that Greg took over The Unity after Edmond, as well as sold some of his projects to the government to earn some money and booststart the company again. This also caused him to move to Cracow, which meant the new friends had to say goodbye. Additionally, Steve revealed to Philip that Edmond could have survived the fall as his body wasn't found anywhere in the investigation and only a part of him was buried - his right arm. After saying goodbye to Enius, the two friends went down to Acrobat's Cave, where Phil temporarily put off the hero suit, saying that the evil in town had been stopped for a while.

### The forming of Team Y

#### Meeting the time traveller

At first, 14 March 2015 was a regular Saturday for Steve. He was at home, while Philip went shopping and everything seemed monotonous, until he received a notification from the Artificial Intelligence located in the cave, S.T.E.V.E 2.0, about an intruder in the base. It was especially intriguing, as none of the entrances was used and a portal appeared on one of the rock shelves. Steve immediately went down to Acrobat's Cave by elevator to meet the incomer, but they quickly escaped with an extraordinary speed. The disoriented man came back upstairs to continue with his daily routine. After a quarter of an hour, Steve heard the doorbell and it turned out that it was the intruder from earlier, along with an unconcious Phil. Steve found out that the trespasser's name was Michael Foot and he was the great grandson of his best friend, who came from the future and that Phil passing out was a reaction to that information. The two men then put Phil in his room, while they went down to the living room, where they talked for a while and got to know each other better.

After a few hours, Philip finally woke up and caught up on a talk with the time traveller. It turned out that Mike went back to his times, so that Phil could learn him something about his gene, which he had himself, making him another Superhuman. It was complicated by the fact, that the young Turner didn't know much about his power. In that case, they decided to work as a superhero duet in the present for some time. That was met with a disapproval of Steve, who also wanted in, but Philip was sceptical, due to Edmond and Igor's death two months prior. He didn't want to risk his powerless friends' lives anymore.

#### Into the time vortex

Soon, Philip and Michael, as Acrobat and Flare, left for their first mission together, under an old brick factory, however they weren't coming back for some time. Steve was a little worried, until at one point, he once again met his best friend, who told him about a huge adventure he had been through with his descendant, that they had fought at World War and created a group of heroes called Team Y, along with the historical heroes such as Polish Patriot, The Living Ice and The Hunter. Acrobat also asked Steve to travel back in time with him to Szczecin in 1945 to help the team in a final showdown with General John, who was also travelling through time, as well as a new enemy and the latter's ally, Mr. Time. He agreed and soon met with the new surroundings and people. Although he didn't have powers, he bravely fought in the battle, using his two guns. He was mainly by the side of Victoria Markowska, Adam Crow, Jędrzej Goose and Jacob Knot, who were also using the firearm.

After General John was defeated, Mr. Time decided to escape to 2115, which was the time he came from. However, due to the change of the timeline, he wasn't able to return to his version of said year and instantly came back to 1945, where he was also defeated. Soon, both villains were arrested by the Time Police and all the heroes, including Steve, went to celebrate their victory. Eventually, Philip, Steve and Mike had to come back to the future and left their newly-met friends. Michael decided to stay for a while with Phil and Steve in the present times. After the return, Phil immediately went to sleep, while Steve and Flare once again were left alone to talk, this time about the incredibleness of Team Y.

A few months later, Steve and Phil told the whole story of the team's creation to Gregory through a ideo chat. Although their friend seemed to be bored by the story, the men convinced him, that he had to be caught up with the Team's history, as soon, they would need his help in fighting a new danger.

## Personality

Steve is mainly a jokeful person, with his sense of humour sometimes coming up in an inappropriate moment. However, he does his best to adapt to a situation and is Phil's loyal ally, both in the private life and on the missions.

He is also interested in Japanese culture and Japan history. He is also passionate about mangas and anime.

## Abilities

* **Hand-to-hand fight -** Steve isn't a Superhuman, thus he doesn't have powers. However, he can fight very well, using his fists.
* **Firearm user -** as a police officer Steve possesses two guns, which he often uses in the battles.

## Enemies

* **Walter Huntsman/Wolf-Man**
* **John Smith/General John**
* **Edmond Unary/One-Armed Man**
* **Transforming Robots**

## Appearances

1. *The Acrobat*
2. *Team Y*

## Trivia

* Although he does not seem like it, Steve is quite mysterious. His family or even his surname are unknown and he constantly wears sunglasses, hence his eyes aren't visible.
* He is one of the first FJM Heroes characters ever created and the second most important character in The Acrobat mythos.
* A prototype of Steve existed in 2013 already.