Monterey Jack

Monterey Jack was a powerful martial artist and a significant figure in New Crunk City. Despite holding no official titles, he had strong connections with the New Crunk City government and was among the first insurgents sent by the city to infiltrate the Crandis Federation. He was also the founder of the Fromagerie, which would become the Watermelon Alliance. He was Watermelon Michael's first encounter when he came to the city, and introduced him to the Fromagerie as a new member/intern. He is famed for being one of Watermelon Michael's first teachers, building the foundation for the legendary Watermelon Technique. He could also make a mean beer cheese.

## Origin

Monterey Jack was born 76 years ago in a Crandis Federation colony somewhere near the Earth's solar system, in particular he was born to a line of fighters that have been lost to history. In his family, it was destined that once in a generation a child of the family will gain the power of the Almighty Cheddar, an extremely powerful special move that was extremely powerful. However, the power of the Almighty Cheddar did not manifest in him, but instead in his little brother Colby. Throughout his life, Monterey never garnered the same attention and training that his brother received. He was mostly cast aside, and as he grew older he strayed farther from his family and began to look for out ways to become strong without the Almighty Cheddar.

By age 20, despite becoming a respectable fighter and martial artists, he could not overcome the power of the Almighty Cheddar. In a confrontation between himself and the rest of his family, Monterey Jack would leave the Crandis Federation and head for New Crunk City, where he heard many martial arts masters had set up their dojos. Jack soon realized he was way out his depth, with many of the martial artists across the city strong enough to defeat him with relative ease. This invigorated the young man, however, as he knew he could learn the strength of the city and make it his own.

## The Fromagerie

For the next 20 years Monterey Jack would train under several dojos simultaneously. The strain of this unorthodox lifestyle crushed him many times, often requiring Jack take months off from practice. Each time he would return, though, with the same intensity and desire to learn to fight. He didn't work a job at this time, so all his money went into creatine and Adderall. By the age of 40, Monterey Jack had become a citywide celebrity for mastering several forms of combat. Aside from skill, his body had been honed to its peak.

Soon, due to rapid corruption from Crandis Federation Insurgents into the New Crunk City government, Monterey Jack became aware that the city where he found himself was being destroyed from the inside. Despite no previous spy experience, Jack and some mutuals formed the first recognized rebel group in New Crunk City, the Fromagerie. Beginning with low-level operations to take out corrupt leaders in the NCCPD, the crew quickly rose to infamy among the government. This would bring the attention of officials within the government and other bodies like the military, those left who still held loyalty to New Crunk City. In private, the Monterey Jack would become a partner to the government who opposed the Crandis Federation. The Fromagerie became the resistances most powerful asset, as the soon gathered the skills and experience to overtake the Crandian stranglehold on the New Crunk City Government. A decade after the Fromagerie was founded, it had successfully given a majority of the power back to those who were still loyal to the city.

After all this, Monterey Jack still desired to remain separate from the government, acting independently as vigilantes. Due to the debt owed to them by the current city government, they kept this privilege.

## The Coveters Emblem

While the Fromagerie still handled missions in the shadows, the government still occasionally enlisted their help. This was the case during the first mission to scout the newly constructed Crandian observation post that had recently been put into orbit around Earth. Monterey Jack was given this as a solo mission, where he was to orbit the observation post quietly for a few days to gain intel on any activity they could observe. During the mission, the ship Jack was piloting was intercepted and caused a dogfight that ended with Monterey Jack being stranded on the Dark Moon. Being especially dark, Monterey Jack accidently walked into an old abandoned mine from times long past. When he reached the bottom, he saw a cracked wall with light seemingly on the other side. Breaking through, Jack encountered Hephaestus. Before he knew it, Jack had received the first documented Sacred Artifact from Hephaestus, the Coveter's Emblem. The abilities of the artifact were well tuned to his own, and as such upon return Monterey Jack was the strongest mortal on Earth for quite some time.

## Death

Monterey Jack and the Fromagerie's last mission was an infiltration mission into the Crandis Federation megaplex that was stationed in their solar system. This mission, Operation Hot Llama, was to determine with the utmost certainty what the cause of the Crandis Federations new regime was. Designated the head of a small squad consisting of himself, Watermelon Michael, and Tito Tyrannical were mostly successful in finding the root cause of the problem, but near the end of the mission their identities were compromised and were confronted by a Crandis Federation squad headed by his brother Colby. Since the time Monterey had left, Colby had used the power of the Almighty Cheddar to raise through the ranks, eventually being given the position of overseer for all operations targeting Earth. The three were faced with no other choice but to fight their way out, and left the rest of the Crandis soldiers to his partners. In the mean time, he fought directly with his brother. After all this time, Monterey was surprisingly able to match the power of the Almighty Cheddar with his combined martial arts experience and the power of the Coveter's Emblem. Through sheer will and determination, the trio triumphed over the squad.

During their getaway, the three were stopped by Supreme Commander Voltheim. This was an off-schedule visit for the Minister, as it wasn't in the teams intel that he'd be here today. Realizing that none of them were in the right shape to fight the man, Monterey allowed for enough time for Watermelon Michael and Tito Tyrannical to escape. He was tragically killed by Commander Voltheim. Before he died, he used the Coveter's Emblem to severely wound Voltheim and cause him permanent brain damage (just some bad short term memory loss).

## Powers and Abilities

Monterey was a powerful close combat fighter, boasting mastery in many of the dojos in New Crunk City. During his travels across the solar system, he even picked up some tips from the Light Dojo. As such, he was regarded as the most knowledgeable martial artist of his time. Overall it's estimated he mastered 149 different fighting styles. Through training, he awakened a vast reserve of Yi that further enhanced his abilities to near deity-like levels. Beyond his fighting capability, he was a genius-level tactician and social engineer. With years of sleuthing under his belt, he was a world-class spy capable of taking out a small-nation on his own.

He wielded the Coveter's Emblem, one of the strongest and broken Sacred Artifact's created by Hephaestus. Manifesting his will to master fighting, the Coveter's Emblem allowed for Monterey Jacks willpower to be converted into a replication of an opponents abilities. While some godlike powers couldn't be copied, it was able to copy any fighting style or Sacred Arts. He didn't know the innate knowledge of the ability copied like his opponents, but his high intellect allowed for bizarre combinations of abilities and martial arts that made Monterey almost unpredictable.

His special move, Jack of All Trades, is general name for any interesting combination of abilities Monterey might whip up. It is a move that combines all of ones battle experience and the power of the Coveter's Emblem.