Obsidian Rush

## DETAINEE: Alyssa Holtin

**Obsidian Rush** is a renegade operative. She is arguably best known for her speed and obsession with Lunar Frost, demanding a rematch after a humiliating defeat.

## Biography

### Background

Alyssa Freya Holtin was born in the Panamoan Republic. She was the child of a family with a history of military service. She spent her childhood with a lot of time for developing her marksmanship and hunting abilities. Moreover, she is the only daughter of eight brothers in their family, which encouraged her to become a soldier, as most of them are soldiers as they became adults. When she was old enough, Alyssa has enlisted into the Panamoan Army, then later became a draftee for the Space Force, wanting to serve the planet's militaristic peacekeeping body, the NXSC Armed Forces.

However, all of her brothers are killed in combat and the only thing that she can do was to accept reality. Consumed by vengeance, she picked up a custom submachine gun and started killing people in vengeance, believing that she wasn't there to save them, nor do the planet cared. She also despised the megacorporation's era, proclaiming that it was a "bunch of overload bullshit in history", and despises Ashe.

### Bygone: The Uprising

Though she had no intention of assisting the renegades in their ultimatum to restore PROJECT, Alyssa adopted the codename "Obsidian Rush" and became a ruthless combatant. Some fighters can be impatient, wanting to get back into the action as soon as possible and returning to where they left off; she is one of them. If the Obsidian Rush is the renegades' primary combat operative, it's safe to say that they enjoy the speed of getting from point A to point B as quickly as possible, and being where the action is — even if it's on the other side of the battlefield.

#### Operation: New Troubles

Obsidian was in Avarshi because the convoy carrying Aether was intercepted and later destroyed by a prodigy known as Lunar Frost. S.O.L.A.C.E and renegade forces attempted to kill her after the prodigy has completed her first mission, but their efforts to kill her ended up being unsuccessful. Salazar Progektö has decided that the target is "hers," implying that she has full authority over her.

#### New Rivalry

Alyssa employs a temporal reality grenade projector to trap and confine Lunar Frost in a virtual arena. She has coldly stated to the prodigy, without any opportunity to run or hide, that there is no escape until someone inside the arena becomes the victor. Without further ado, Alyssa decided to reveal some facts about herself, such as attracting media attention and being Ashe's daughter.

The last fact did not impress Madeleine and she quickly fires a shot at her up close, whilst she does the same. She ends up getting shot in the chest, but without any injury. And they both decided to use melee weapons, with Obsidian Rush using batons while Lunar Frost pulls out a staff. Realising that she had the upper hand, she uses the latter's mother in an attempt to defeat her, but Madeleine does not falter and finally defeats her through Hand-to-hand combat.

Upset by the defeat, she demands a rematch. Madeleine accepts her requests before leaving Alyssa to suffer in her own predicament. She then returned to their headquarters, which she admitted that the prodigy should not be underestimated, like they all usually do.

#### Unshakeable Revelation

##### Reemergence

Obsidian Rush had been missing from previous operations for one reason: training. Not caring about what is going on in the planet, while the Corporate Renegades and S.O.L.A.C.E have effectively waged war on the heroes. The renegades have noticed that she has greatly improved herself in a variety of areas, including hand-to-hand combat, the use of melee weapons, marksmanship, and she has managed to write a book about Lunar Frost's moveset in her technique through hand-to-hand combat. Her motivation for training was simple: she wanted to finally defeat Lunar Frost, knowing that a rematch was on the way.

Later, Nightfall inquired about her unusually long absence. Obsidian Rush simply admits that she wanted to beat the prodigy, Lunar Frost, and is confident that she will win this time. Only when Salazar Progektö ordered everyone stationed in Vuraki to kill Lunar Frost, was able to get out of her personal time. She was not counted because she is stationed on Na'Raka instead. Fortunately, she was given the opportunity to capture her as the orders are changed by Templar Vanguard. That is when she prepared herself and ventured out to finally meet her rival again, eager for a rematch.

##### A Fair Duel

Obsidian Rush took it upon herself to find Lunar Frost before everyone else because Mimeographer was able to pinpoint her location. She effortlessly navigates the summit, only to discover that the prodigy is waiting for her. Madeleine, now referring to each other by their real names, admits that she has nowhere to go and that the only things she expects to happen are worse. Madeleine suggests hand-to-hand combat to Alyssa, who simply knows what she wants.

However, she didn't oblige yet and she pulls out batons to fight Madeleine. At her surprise, Alyssa was quickly disarmed after a short while and is forced to fight the dangerous Madeleine through good old fashioned Hand-to-hand combat. It is clear that Madeleine disliked her use of melee weapons and wants a challenge in an unarmed fight. Alyssa has spent months on training to improve herself, confident that she will win. She managed to narrowly defeat Madeleine in Hand-to-hand combat, until the renegades converged upon her position, and they all requested that they should capture her.

Alyssa was more than satisfied that she managed to beat her down, and is amused to see Madeleine kicking Nightfall, Chaos EXO and even Reaper, though the prodigy becomes powerless as she is electrocuted by her as she puts on her armour again for an enhanced kick that renders Madeleine unconscious, taunting her for having little to no gadgets with her. Bloodlust later meets her and asks how the fight went on. Alyssa confirms that she has beaten the prodigy in a physical fight, which the latter teased her for getting disarmed when she had batons.

Obsidian Rush looks forward to assault her if she is imprisoned and interrogated for information. When Lunar Frost was captured, the renegades have celebrated and they tortured her using tasers and assault when she refused to say anything regarding the legionnaires' whereabouts. She was among the renegades responsible for physically beating her up, until Bloodlust declares that the interrogation will be handled by herself. She sounds surprised and skeptical about the decision, but chooses no to reveal it.

##### Unfortunate Events

As Lunar Frost "revealed" the truth, Obsidian Rush was ecstatic to go outside and kill the legionnaires that she can find. However, Templar Vanguard is unsure of her decision, knowing that they have to double check the prodigy's assumptions through their outside patrols, only to find nothing yet. However, Salazar Progektö knows that her words may be true, as they would obviously look for the prodigy to rescue her, which they will prevent them from doing so.

However, Bloodlust was knocked out after the interrogation and Lunar Frost attempted to escape. Despite being able to corner her at a door way out, Salazar's intention to shoot her were foiled. That is, because of the tribe Clementia, freezing everyone in place as they all disabled the renegades, all while pulling away Madeleine to safety. She was highly disappointed when stuck in ice to the point of wanting to fight the tribal warriors given the chance. When she is freed by the Reaper, Alyssa was eager to meet the tribe and kill them.

##### Treaty Preparations

Templar Vanguard then required her to prepare for their training to condition themselves against the frigid cold of Avarshi itself. Obsidian Rush complained, but Nightfall silences her by pushing her harder to exceed her limits as they all extensively train to become better. After all the preparations are complete, they have planned routes should the negotiations fail or succeed. Not caring about the entire thing, she only wanted to join so that she can kill the local warriors.

##### Failed Treaty: Retreat

As the entire negotiations have failed, Obsidian Rush has longed for the moment to kill as many Clemirosans as possible, pulling the trigger with sheer determination as she effectively cuts down their thousand-strong tribe with gunfire. However, she ends up being wounded after Madeleine, which she knew was formerly the Lunar Frost, knocks her out cold. Despite her intentions of facing her rival, Madeleine was unimpressed to the point of taking her out quickly, all while leaving Obsidian Rush lying in the snow, drifting in and out of consciousness.

She later managed to enter their new, secret headquarters after they lost the war on the Northern lands. Safe to say, Alyssa was infuriated.

#### New Heroes, Another Ultimatum

##### The Calm Before the Storm

Alyssa was then interrupted by Salazar Progektö on her hermit. The leader asked her if she can still fight, to which she stated that the once prodigy they knew grew more powerful than ever before, which Salazar confirms her assumption after describing his fight with Madeleine, summarising that her impressive skills have already skyrocketed and her lack of armour did not bother her toughness in their duel. Templar Vanguard then states that they have planned to stay in Avarshi, having grown adaptive to their frigid environment already, which they can use it to their advantage for a rematch.

She declares that she did not waste her time getting better just to be sidelined by Warmother. As a result, the renegades has declared her to be the only person to kill the Lunar Frost. Upon hearing the codename, she states that they should never refer to their enemies in codenames, but rather their real names.

##### Preluding the Finale

Obsidian Rush was then ecstatic to kill the Clemirosans, admitting that she prefers them rather than the legionnaires, particularly so that she can eliminate Madeleine all by herself. As the renegades have a sniper team stepped outside their rooftops and the base, she took it upon herself to travel up close to the tribe, advising the renegades to have a close watch on her, which made her a valuable member once again.

##### Salazar's True Power

She later saw Sinister Teeth's head blown off from a shot fired by Nightfall, which was so quick that they are not able to countersnipe. Obsidian Rush, their leaders and some of the sniper team has survived owing to an energy shield, but Brienne CRIMSONITE's JUDGEMENT upon them has forced them to disperse and are now thrown into a massive trench, whilst Salazar has shown his true power. His true power, is to unleash everyting that the Corporate Renegades got, starting from tanks, cloned "soldiers", aircraft, and even dropships. Obsidian Rush took the chance to operate a spare WAR MACHINE mech and used it to maximum effect.

Her use of the WAR MACHINE was exceptional, and she was able to bulldoze through formations with ease, until she was forced to eject out of the cockpit after the mech has sustained heavy damage from anti-armour weapons, forcing her to go on foot and use guns for combat. However, her mech and the rest of the mechas are sabotaged, forcing her to exit the cockpit and resume fighting on foot, unfortunately, things are not what they seem to look for her.

### Captured: Imprisoned

Before she is able to shoot anyone, Obsidian Rush is disarmed by Lunar Frost when she shot an arrow that takes her gun away. Angered, she tries to chase Madeleine herself with a knife, only for Panamoan soldiers to interrupt her momentum, and one soldier sweeps her leg, and takes off the helmet, putting her at gunpoint. At first, she managed to take down three soldiers, until one managed to knock the wind out of her by stomping in her kidney, forcing her to surrender.

While Alyssa is being brought away, she notices that the renegades have mostly been slain or arrested. Unfortunately, this was the end of her career as a renegade. After only a few days in prison, Alyssa quickly became an infamous inmate, randomly picking fights and assaulting fellow inmates, quickly becoming a dreaded criminal. The only thing she wanted in order to stop her bad behaviour was a visit from her rival, Madeleine. Unfortunately, it will be some time before her request is granted and her rival comes to speak with her one-on-one.

When LORD ANNIHILATOR has cause far more chaos by causing a disturbance in Avarshi and hijacking NXSC warships to enact his goal of vengeance against nevanity. Alyssa saw the news as an opportunity to escape and ultimately join him.

## Personality

Obsidian Rush is best known for being very action-oriented and having a shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality during her renegade career; yet, she was not incapable of seeing reason and was level-headed enough to know when to keep her emotions in check. As one of Renegade's sharpest operators, she possessed a fun-loving image, but in a very warped way. She lives for the excitement of killing and warfare, as seen by her employment of flamboyant combat tactics and disregard for collateral damage that she causes along the way.

She also shows a lustful personality, as she wanted to face Lunar Frost as often as possible, only to become sidelined after two fights, where their rivalry was only exemplified during *Operation: New Troubles* and *The Next Warmother*, the latter duel, has Alyssa emerging as the victor in the use of Hand-to-hand combat. Later on, Alyssa never got the chance to fight her, showing signs of desperation to kill her rival, even if Madeleine shows extreme disinterest on her attitude.

When Alyssa was imprisoned, her violent personality deteriorated, and she became more aggressive, similar to VI-516, who had the same tendency of punching anything in her path to solve problems, such as arbitrarily picking fights in the G/ARCHIVE prison. Madeleine pushed her aside after they had equalised bouts in their rivalry, claiming that she was a coward. This also reinforces Alyssa's status as a blatant hypocrite and delusory individual.

This resulted in her literally becoming insane and obsessive on getting her next rematch with Madeleine, upset with their fight ending in a stalemate, having one win, and one loss. Alyssa seeks to win their next duel, but the victor shall stay alive, while the loser is killed. In conclusion, Alyssa seeks to win and kill Madeleine should they reunite for a great duel again, in the future.

## Abilities

Obsidian Rush is distinguished by her artistic colours, fashion sense, abilities, and her hallmark; speed. It is her critical role in the Renegades' operations, moving as quickly and as agilely as she can to achieve the objectives at any cost, even if the success rate is exceedingly low.

### Skills

* **Master Combatant**: Obsidian Rush is an extremely skilled combatant, owing to her extensive knowledge and experience in marksmanship, melee weapons and Hand-to-hand combat.

* **Skilled Marksman**: Obsidian Rush's marksmanship is exemplary, though this mostly applies on close range weaponry, such as throwing knives, pistols, submachine guns and carbines. This concludes that she is incapable of using rifles and sniper rifles for long range combat. Her skill of throwing bladed weapons and explosives are on par to that of Bloodlust.

* **Skilled Manipulator**: Alyssa is known to manipulate people, particularly men.

## Trivia

### General

* Alyssa and Madeleine's rivalry is simple: competition. She wanted to surpass Lunar Frost in skill by defeating her in a fight, though she had failed her first encounter against her.
	+ Unfortunately for her, she only faced her once. Alyssa gets progressively annoyed when Madeleine turns down any chances of facing her in combat, claiming that she is a coward, but when in reality, she is simply outmatched.
	+ Alyssa may get her chance on facing Madeleine should *True Ultimatum* succeed.
	+ Madeleine has given her desire for a one-on-one conversation someday. However, understanding the Warmother, she must first help the heroes to vanquish LORD ANNIHILATOR's ultimatum against nevanity.
* Some say she's Salazar Progektö's *girlfriend*.
* Dislikes Ice. Good for Lunar Frost, she can use Avarshi as their battleground.
* Prefers close range combat. This explains her polarity to Madeleine, more used to long range.
* Frozia views her as someone that can oppose Lunar Frost in so many ways, likely respecting her abilities.
* She's arguably the most skilled among the female renegades. In fact, she is able to defeat Bloodlust within two minutes, similar to Lunar Frost.

### Developmental Notes

* Alyssa is said to be ambidextrous, capable of using her weapon both in left and right hands with equal proficiency.
* Obsidian is her favourite word, and is fascinated by the eponymous rock. It has been confirmed that most of her knives are obsidian plated.
* When Alyssa was incarcerated, the inmates have been subject to being assaulted as she periodically offers one night stands to alleviate her pain after the renegades have been defeated.
* Alyssa acknowledges that she despises the renegades' genocidal plan to bring back the megacorporation, and that her primary motivation for joining the cult was her desire to kill everybody who came within her line of sight.
* She promises to become a decent person should Madeleine ever visit her for a talk.
* She may help the entirety of nevanity should LORD ANNIHILATOR destroy the G/ARCHIVE and forcing them to fight. If that is the case, she needs to shed her aggression and build a desire to help the heroes.