Mark Welling/Steelex

Steelex

**NAME:** Mark Welling/Steelex

**KNOWN ALIAS:** The Silver
Guardian, Man of the Future

**OCCUPATION:** Student

**CLASSIFICATION:** Vigilante/Hero

**ABILITIES:** Super Strength, Speed, Flight, Durability, Ability to
generate energy shields and energy blades, Repulsor energy blasts, Shape
Changing, Energy blasts, Tasers, Active-Camouflage

**KNOWN RELATIVES:** Steven Welling (Father), Samantha Stanley Welling
(Mother)(DECEASED)

**GROUP AFFILIATION:**
None; Midtown High School Student

**EDUCATION:** Current High School Student

## **SUMMARY:**

Mark Welling was an exceptional young man
teaching himself more often than not. Ahead of the class in many ways, Mark
excelled is mathematics and science. From an early age he engineered working
with his father on a broken down 1972 Chevy Nova. They would work on it all the
time and keep busy and often bonded over their work. They came close to
rebuilding the engine from scratch. Mark Welling would lose his mother at an
early age due to cancer. His father during the time when his mother was sick went
to the wrong people for money to pay her hospital bills. Paying them
religiously he one day missed a payment which would cost him his life. By the
age of 18 Mark gained a lot of attention gaining a college leveled education
that amounted to almost a doctorate in technology, Engineering, math, and
science. Mark would gain money after his father’s death investing it into a
startup company. By age 20 Mark was a CEO and started a growing company with
cutting edge technology. During his time in college following an alien invasion
Mark would use materials to make the ultimate weapon The Steelex Armor.

## **History:**

Mark Welling was an exceptional young man
teaching himself more often than not. Ahead of the class in many ways, Mark
excelled is mathematics and science. From an early age he engineered working

with his father on a broken down 1972 Chevy Nova. They would work on it

   all the

time and keep busy and often bonded over their work. They came close to
rebuilding the engine from scratch. Mark Welling would lose his mother at an
early age due to cancer. His father during the time when his mother was sick
went to the wrong people for money to pay her hospital bills. Paying them
religiously he one day missed a payment which would cost him his life. By the
age of 18 Mark gained a lot of attention gaining a college leveled education
that amounted to almost a doctorate in technology, Engineering, math, and
science. Mark would gain money after his father’s death investing it into a
startup company. By age 20 Mark was a CEO and started a growing company with
cutting edge technology.

Mark was always ahead of his time. Mark used
alien technology from an invasion and cutting edge technology to make the
Steelex Armor. After making the armor Mark kept it a secret that he was using
the first armor to help people and fight crime. The first armor was more along
the casual side he used rocket gloves boots and a smaller jet pack system. Mark
used microfibers to make the suit more protective and durable but that
durability didn’t hold up after he was shot. Luckily it was only a flesh wound
but it would prompt Mark to make improvements in the armor one of them being
adding shielding to the suit. After the upgrade, the Steelex suit would become
capable of generating plasmic energy shields. While Mark was using the Mark I
Steelex armor he would update the suit using more alien technology a metallic
substance that was similar to nano-technology. Experimenting with this
technology from College up until he graduated Mark managed to upgrade the suit
in ways that made the suit cutting edge beyond anyone’s imagination. After
inheriting money from the death of his parents he would use the insurance money
and invest in a company. Producing cutting edge tech finally perfecting the
nano technology The Steelex armor Mark II was not completed but necessary to be
used during a massive invasion. With little to no time to worry about his
safety or the risks that would come with using alien materials he used the suit
and helped hold off an invasion in the city. After saving the city he continued
to make upgrades to the suit improving it adding more contingencies into the
suit eager to prepare for any and all dangers coming their way.

Mark
would keep his heroics a secret until his friend Josh Michelson figured out

what he was doing. **Josh Michelson** is a person that went to

   school with

Mark since elementary school. More well off than most Josh didn’t have many
real world issues that he dealt with being sheltered by his parents. By the
time he got into high school and college he was a care free and reckless person
at times. Josh despite all his issues with partying would try his best to
always be a good friend to Mark. Josh was not nearly as brilliant as Mark but
is intelligent and driven once he finds something he actually cares about. Josh
midway his college career would find himself in legal issues that would lead to
him being cut off financially by his family. Cleaning up his act Josh looked to
Mark to help keep him more so on the straight and narrow. Josh stills drinks
often but doesn’t get carried away like he once did. Josh eventually started
working closely with Mark after the company started up. Josh was ecstatic at
the fact that Mark was Steelex. Josh was so excited he begged to wear the suit.

Mark
continued experimenting on the suit and adding more upgrades and the recent
updates used more alien materials and triggered a beacon to be sent out to the
depths of space. That beacon led to extraterrestrial being coming to Earth
eager to wage war after learning that the Orb of Mobius was left on Earth. Mark
used his abilities to take on the invaders however they have tech that was
advanced even beyond the Steelex Suit. Outnumbered and outgunned their
onslaught is too overwhelming leading to Josh and another friend of Mark
Welling, Becka Blaire to share in this fight giving them his older armor to
have them help defend the planet. **Becka Blaire** used the Armor and became
known as Armora when she would accidentally find herself in the ships lab
exposed to their technology when it merged with her Becka would enter a coma
for nearly 48 hours. Meanwhile, Steelex would try to take on the leader of this
onslaught.

**Isrex**
the Eradicator **is a powerful alien creature**
that has the intentions of taking what he feels is his rightful place alongside
the Dark Gods. Searching for the Apocalypse Spheres eager to be more powerful
than the Dark Gods he officially has one of the Apocalypse Spheres. Mark and
countless others fought back but in the end many lives were lost and many
cities had been severely damaged. Leaving only 12 heroes standing [The
Outsider, Sentinal, Steelex, The Hell Haven Demon, Patriot, Omega, Aara,
Atherena, Marvel-Girl, Eon, Haley Crowell, and The Commander.] as the rest
tried to fight to keep the city safe. Certain parts of cities all over the
planet were almost leveled. Isrex would be defeated and would be forced to
retreat and would lose one of the Apocalypse Spheres. During the battle Becka
would wake up and be changed becoming **Armora**. Using her new found
abilities she would help tip the odds in the favor of the heroes. The group of
heroes manage to defeat him and send him retreating with his forces. Feeling
that the suit Armora has is alien weaponry he keeps an eye on her and tries to
analyze the suit that has bonded with her. Learning a lot from her suit learned
about this metal and attempted to learn more about the technology to the point
where he was able to upgrade the suit and modify it further. Armora however

would start to be poisoned by the alien metal. As she starts

    to die Mark

manages to save her extracting the metal saving her life. Mark keeps his
identity secret and is not open about his being Steelex.

The
Steelex Armor is capable of doing many amazing things and is constantly
evolving and being modified. The suit is capable of changing shape and shape
shifting into almost anything that Mark Welling wills it to be. The armor is
capable of flight and early on can generate shields but due to the amount of
energy that it requires to keep it up during attack it eventually dissipates
leaving Mark vulnerable to the attacks. This prompts Mark to make a full body
suit that is durable. Using alien metal and materials Mark was able to make it
where he has the suit fit into a small disk. When willed to the suit activates
over him. In the form of what is almost similar to alien nano technology. This
suit is capable for space travel and allows him to be in extreme environments
for long durations. The suit is capable of self-repair during mid-battle and
regenerates even after being removed from Mark. Due to the alien technology
Mark manages to at times have the suit adapt to situations and allow him to have
countless contingency scenarios.

The Super Computer
launches a major attack against the entire planet. The ultimate Intellect. An alien being that is bent
on knowledge and being the ultimate intellect. The Super Computer is always
steps ahead and an adversary that proves to be more dangerous after each
encounter. The super computer was created to store knowledge as a library for
the alien planet but when it became so conscious it attacked and went against
its creators killed nearly half the planet before they manage to send him to
Earth and it remained in a shutdown state until he is turned on and makes an
attempt to destroy Earth. He and Michael go toe to toe countless times as he
tries to be always one step over Michael trying to make the ultimate strategy
that will help him triumph. Working alongside Armagedon and Nexa leads to
untold destruction and countless lives lost. After The Outsider, Zara and many
others fight Armagedon’s forces. After Armagedon and Nexa disappear Michael
learns that the heart of the Super Computer managed to remain on Earth after
the metallic heart is captured by Vincent Adonis he orders his scientists to
run tests on the Super Computer after a scientist falls ill during the
experiment. With bodies starting to fall ill with the same symptoms when they
all start falling prey to it Mark finds out that Lina [his current fiancé.] is
ill with the same symptoms. Learning of the metal poisoning Mark learns the
symptoms from the metallic poisoning is from a metal unlike anything on Earth.
With the metal still in her system he continues to grow stronger and stronger
eventually leaving Lina in a coma the ACOH system infects Mark Welling. Mark
being so intelligent the Super Computer learns from Mark in the subconscious
how to stop the poisoning of the metal that is the Super Computer. Armora tries
to fight off a possessed Mark Welling Steelex. Super Computer controlled
Steelex and Armora faceoff against one another. Despite her efforts she is
defeated and nearly killed when reinforcements come in to help her: **The**
Runaways**. Armora shortly after gaining her abilities joined the Runaways**
and started working with them. While they battle against Steelex Mark and The
Super Computer are battling within his subconscious. During their fight Mark

manages to defeat the Super Computer and takes back

    control overwhelming the

base instincts of the ACOH system making the Super Computer dormant. While the
Super Computer survives in another form somewhere else Mark Welling manages to
keep the Liquid metal and uses it to make the new Steelex suit that is
comprised of this advanced liquid metal capable of shape shifting and do all he
was originally able to do it also allows Mark to access the information that
The Super Computer had access to involving the known universe and other worlds.

Due to the Ultimate Guardian
Suit, Mark is able to move faster and is stronger than any version of the suit
prior before. As his thoughts evolve Mark is able to upgrade the suit and its
capabilities just with the mere thought as opposed to having to mechanically do
it. The suit’s capabilities can shift to almost anything he imagines. The
Steelex suit is capable of firing rounds and Mark is capable of grabbing back
those same rounds from the target.

Due to the suit and Mark’s
high intellect he has been capable of going toe to toe with powerful people and
holding his own such as **Sentinal, The Outsider, Isrex The Eradicator**, at
one point he even manages to takes on the full might of the **Runaways**. He
is a capable fighter and has knowledge in combat and weaponry. The suit is
capable of healing the host. Steelex has rocket repulsor boots and repulsors in
the palm of the gloves and a jet back located on the back that is where most of
the propulsion comes from. Steelex suit has prompted criminals to make higher
tech gear and weaponry.

## **VIGILANTE:**

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## **Physical Description:**

**Height:**
**6’1” [In the Suit 6’4”]**

**Weight:** 172 LBS [In the Suit 230 LBS.]

**Eyes:** Blue

**Hair:** Black

**Gender:** Male

**Distinguishing Features:** Facial Hair

## **ABILITIES:**

·
Super Strength:

·
Speed

·
Flight

·
Dashing

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Durability

·
Electricity Manipulation

·
Energy Blasts

·
Energy Blades

·
Energy Shields

·
Fighting Skills

## **Silver Guardian: Steelex [ULTIMATE OUTSIDER.]:**

Mark Welling was an exceptional young man
teaching himself more often than not. Ahead of the class in many ways, Mark

excelled is

    mathematics and science. From an early age he engineered working

with his father on a broken down 1972 Chevy Nova. They would work on it all the
time and keep busy and often bonded over their work. They came close to rebuilding
the engine from scratch. An accident would lead to Mark Welling having a disk
shaped device falling to earth keeping it. The disk would start to glow with
Mark freaking out he was about to run but then a flash of light would happen as
the disk would disappear and he would wakeup hovering in low orbit. Coming to
Mark would start to fall as the suit would take over and try to comfort him
with its Artificial Intelligence. Mark would try to start learning what the
suit was capable of but the suit bonding with Mark that night triggered a
beacon. Mark would start expanding further on the suit and use the suit to save
people. Mark Welling in this iteration of the character has his story told from
an early age as a primary narrative of the comic series. Power wise the
character is one of the few characters that remains around the same power
levels as the main line of stories. The suits origins are different and has a
much sleeker and special design.

## **Steelex: Ultimate Guardian Armor**

In The Ultimate
Guardian Armor, Mark discovers a living metallic substance that is almost
symbiotic. The suit chooses Mark as its host when he is a teenager. After
bonding with him he falls ill the metal had moved from host to host prior to
finding Mark Welling and was actually tied to the Super Computer [Alien Computer Organic
Humanoid (ACOH).]. Mark falling ill from
this metallic poisoning would lead to him blacking out and becoming a weapon
for the Super Computer attacking all of the Earth’s heroes. During the battle,
bonding with Mark Welling overwhelmed the base programming of the Super
Computer making it inept. With the living metal was under Mark Welling’s
control instead of it controlling him, Mark Welling has access to the Super
Computers systems allowing him information. The living metal under his control
is able to shape change and take many different forms.