Rico Leon-Kelly

Brigadier General Anna Léon-Kelly (wife, age 45)

Captain Rico Leon-Kelly is an Argus officer, being the commander of its LCD Team 02. A long veteran of the organization, Rico is experienced in neutralizing dangerous metahuman threats, and has eliminated countless enemies of the United States government. Furthermore, Rico is also unique FOA asset, being the result of one of the organizations experiments with cybernetics, and possessing numerous enhancements which make him better equipped to deal with metahuman threats.

## Biography

Rico Léon was born on the 8th day of September, in the US colony of Puerto Rico. His father hadn’t been there that day, a young junior officer in the navy at the time he was often away for long periods. The focus on his own career was already straining his parent’s relationship, and they divorced when he was two with full custody going to his mother. He grew up under her care, and that of his godfather uncle, and came to idolize his father from a young age. The officer fighting for their country, every time he visited (which was very few) they would do something cool or he would hear a new story. Rico grew up nationalistic living a community heavily opposed to the US control of their island, something that led to conflict between his family and their surroundings. Soon he was dreaming of becoming a soldier himself. In school young Rico performed at the top of his class, though no protege he excelled in the more inquisitive tasks. His sports record was arguably even better, seeing himself become the captain of the school’s sports team in what were to be early signs of leadership.

When the war in Iraq broke out Rico was 16 and had aspirations to join the airforce as a pilot. He was lucky enough to receive a scholarship for his degree in strategic intelligence, which put his original plans of enlisting on hold with him no longer needing the military to pay for his study. After completing his bachelor's degree he did finally sign up. He went through basic smoothly, and eventually was selected for deployment to Somalia as a UN peacekeeper. Before being sent away however he came into contact with a government program, which sought out those who had performed best and asked them to do further testing in a number of fields. Though he originally thought it was for one of the well known branches of government, like the FBI, they were in fact from the Federal Office of the Abnormal, seeking people who they could bring in young and train as specialists. He didn’t hear anything more of it, and continued his deployment as planned.

It was after his deployment that he heard from the agency that had conducted tests again. They wanted to recruit him to the FOA, explaining the basics of the organization and making a job offer. Rico of course knew of metahumans, and his interest was peaked. His deployment hadn’t done much good for his outlook on the interventionism of the US military, so a more internal job that focused on security was appealing. Rico accepted, and was brought into the Argus branch FOA training program. After completing training he was assigned to a Locate-Contain-Destroy team as an operations specialist. These teams were self operating cells of Argus located across the states with as task to locate and monitor local metahumans, assess threat levels, combat criminal metas and bring those in that the FOA wants bringing in. For this they had soldiers and security personnel, intelligence specialists and the like within each cell. Rico’s task was to help plan and coordinate operations in aid to the officers, both beforehand and on the ground.

Rico soo started to further develop his career as he showed promise, being promoted to lieutenant after several years as second in command of a cell. At 27 he married Anna Kelly, who was a lieutenant colonel in the army at the time. In 2005 he first personally led an operation that managed to bring in a rogue gamma level with only a single casualty, something praised highly at the time for a man who was not a meta himself. Rico rejected several offers to be given ichor treatment throughout this time. He did not look particularly kindly on the concept of metahumans and intentional modification with ichor, as it was in his mind a diversion of the human body far beyond what should be allowed. Rico does not hate metas as people, but he thinks they shouldn’t exist, having seen the things they can do when falling to crime and the like.

By mid 2010 Rico had become captain of LCD team 02, one of Argus’ largest and most professional. It was in this year that he carried out an operation capturing the beta level meta nicknamed Stricker, an army veteran who had gained significant powers, including incredible durability and flight. They managed to track the Stricker’s close relatives, who were then used to lure him into a trap through somewhat unconstitutional ways. The smoothness of the entire operation earned Rico a reputation for something alike to ruthless efficiency.

A year latter, in 2011, Rico was targeted by a hit team whilst off duty and suffered utterly incapacitating damage that would leave him unable to survive without medical machinery and in a seemingly permanent coma. With little hope and some amount of pressure from the Argus robotics branch, Anna authorized cyborg experiments to be carried out in an attempt to save her husband’s life, as well as improve the human body without ichor. The first stage was a success, as Rico awakened and received successful organ replacements. Though grateful, he was reluctant to allow them to continue further at first. After spending a few months in recovery however, he began to realize how severely it would limit his ability to act in a direct service role. He gave the green light for further modifications, and more have been added or improved ever since. Rico remains the commanding officer of Team 02, and has become a notorious and famous individual within Argus itself.

## Physical Appearance

Whilst Rico is an intricate combination of biological and technological components down to a very small level, from the outside this is little visible. There are places where the technology peaks out of the skin however, such as the top of his arms and his eyes with artificial lenses. He is a broad, strong looking man with a rather hard face and an aura of authority. He keeps his hair short, and when not in working clothes prefers suits.

## Personality

Not given in submission for some reason, but based on rp so far, Rico seems reasonably level headed and compassionate enough to be concerned with civilian wellfare.

## Powers

Cybernetic Enhancements: Not being a metahuman, Rico has no meta powers to employ. Instead, his body offers a whole host of enhancements and additions. A part of these come from his combat suit, which directly links to his body.

* Organ Improvements - All his major organs have technological components added to them to improve capability. He also has a second heart, and an emergency system that keeps his brain alive for a short time should the body shut down or fail to deliver oxygen.

* Reinforced Skeleton and Mechanical Bones - His bones are reinforced with special alloys and mechanical parts to increase his speed and their strength and endurance, as well as supporting the internal technological connections. These enhancements allow Rico to lift approximately one ton when bereft of his exosuit, while his reinforced bones enables him to withstand the force of delivering superhuman blows.

* Holo Lenses - Rico’s eye lenses are like tiny screens that provide him with a passive feed with links to the brain and connects to the skeleton for aided aim. They can also do things like zoom, direct camera view and heat or night vision.

* Weapon Slots - Ports in his arms for weapons. Two in his right and one in the left. One is usually an experimental laser weapon, whilst the others might be things like a small grenade launcher or a small machine gun.

* Active Feed - A control screen on his lower left arm provides active feed as well as a number of other things.
* Armor - A layer below the skin protects him against EMP attacks or things like knife attacks, whilst his greater endurance allows him to carry a suit with heavier armor than any normal soldier might.
* Cognitors - An experimental device that uses chemicals and stimulators to speed up his ability to process things, allowing him to actually make use of the increased speed and reflexes and think fast when needed. It’s unhealthy however to keep it on for extended periods of time, so not used outside high stress or risk situations. Outside of his exosuit, Rico is capable of sprinting at speeds reaching 40 miles per hour.
* Internal Comms - Self explanatory, comms directly linked to his speech and hearing without requiring an outside device.

Combat Suit: When clad in the unique combat suit personally tailored to interface with his cybernetic augmentations, Rico gains access to a host of additional abilities.

* ExoSkeleton - His combat suit includes an exoskeleton that attaches itself to ports along his body, providing increased strength, speed and stamina on top of his ‘natural’ increased abilities. Within his exosuit, Rico can lift approximately three tons.
* Other Combat Suit Features - Magnetic boots, additional charge and ammunition for internal weapons, grappling hook, a variety of ichor charges for use during combat, high grade shocker that can be set at power various levels.
* Helmet Features - Additional Feed and Comms, gasmask, ability to flash like a flashbang grenade, sonic ray to suppress with directed unbearable high pitch sound.

## Skills

Marksmanship, investigation, analysation, interrogation, leadership, tracking, fluent in english and spanish with limited french.

## Notable Equipment

C-2 Anti-Meta Rifle - Experimental weapon that’s more a hand cannon than it is a rifle (see picture).

Side Arm Pistol - Normal pistol.

Secondary Pistol - Small pistol loaded with gas capsules.

## Stats

**Maximum Threat Level:** Delta

**Durability:** Class 1 (outside exosuit) Class 2 (in exosuit)

**Senses:** Class 2 (Sight)

**Speed:** Class 1

**Strength:** Class 1 (outside exosuit) Class 2 (inside exosuit)