Alternate Future Damon

*Alternate Future Damon* is a fictional character created and written by Khaliq Trevor X and appearing in chronologically earlier chapters and story arcs of the Rage Knights: Red God universe. Is a founding member of the titular characters themselves and is one of the earliest characters dating back in 2006.

## **History/Background**

Alternative Future Damon, or born as Damon Jaeger Bradley was born in the alternate universe of A2, where he lived a relatively normal life. In his childhood however, there was a particular incident at his elementary school involving the sudden appearance of a strange kid with a sword that battled a demonic monster. This would become known as the Q.M. Rush Incident of 2000. Albeit the confusing and memorable events of QM Rush however, Bradley was a quiet student and usually preferred to keep to himself, Bradley was  also considered somewhat popular and even well-liked by his peers most notably a rather rambunctious and caring girl named Thaddea. The two hung out together frequently after class and would attend several classes together, especially when they reached their high school years (Indy Hills). The two would eventually marry and have a child together, Jasper.

In Bradley’s life directly after high school, the world was focused on the theoretical approach towards aliens and science. A universe that focused heavily on space and inter-dimensional travel. During the young couple’s new lives together, Bradley became more invested in larger pursuits of studying time, computer engineering and diagnostics. This would be a path that would lead him into trying to study the memories of the QM Rush incident of 2000 and solve the laws of physics that allowed the young man to journey to the school alongside the monster and mysteriously vanish into what he deemed a rupture in space. Bradley later became an intern working under Dr. Teacher Plutonium Klump. A straightforward and quick-witted man that spoke in a strict manner. The two became close associates, with Klump teaching Bradley many fundamentals about the aerodynamics of travel and the theoretical concepts of both space travel and the physics of time. These ideologies, especially the latter would take a stronger interest in Bradley’s plan to locate the teenage boy and learn more revolving around the QM Rush Incident of 2000.

In his days of being a level two engineer of SM Klump, Bradley had begun construction on a device that would, in theory, allow him to travel to and from space effortlessly without the needed rockets in many commercial carriers. This would also allow him to traverse into the unknown regions of the past, present and future as according to his and Klump’s beliefs. The device would be non-functional for many months, with Bradley ultimately choosing to leave the device hidden inside a garage in uptown Queens Mane while he focused more on his family with steady improvements and continuous testing to attempt Klump’s research on time travel. Little did Bradley know however, that time travel and its success would soon be known when Earth was under attack by rogue alien marauders known as the Beard’s Hand. This group of barbaric space pirates, led by Kaozu, the controversial “God of Ugliness”, ordered the attack on Queens Mane with the help of his General, General Geck. Bradley himself encountered Kaozu briefly for a moment’s time but was easily overwhelmed with Kaozu deeming him weak before taking off.

In order to properly confront this menace, Bradley moved ahead of schedule and testing procedures with the device and decided to attempt his own travel backwards into the past in an attempt to recruit the boy he had originally met and desperately bring him to his timeline to battle the advancing Kaozu. Despite Thaddea’s wishes and her pleading him to stay and help raise Jasper, Bradley disagreed and used the machine regardless of its success rate. Before taking off, he Officially dubbed it by its test flight name, *“Mark Dios”*.

## Formation of the Rage Knights

Bradley ran into a number of errors and the Mark Dios would crash in the Mediterranean Sea following his first-ever fun test run. When he landed, he was welcomed by a strange black cloaked figure that revealed himself to be Hades. In disbelief, Bradley was stand-offish and hesitant, believing he had died instead. The cloaked figure removed his hood and proclaimed that the Mark Dios had actually successfully traversed through time and that Hades was expecting his arrival as the Greek God was under an ordeal and needed assistance from mortals whom weren’t associated with High Heaven Council to defeat Lucifer, the Dark Prince. This resulted in the two joining forces temporarily to assist one another, Hades helping Bradley defeat Kaozu and Bradley helping Hades defeat the Dark Prince. Shortly after forming their alliance, the duo then traveled the deserts of Athens where they discovered a strange alien blade that only responded to human frustration. The two kept the sword as a weapon in defending themselves against their adversaries and continued along the way.

The following months, the two adventured together across the world, with their first large adventure taking place in Western Berlin, where they would meet an adolescent alien boy named Midlore, whom was an outcast that played in small gigs with his other schoolmates. Then, the group of three traveled to the UK where they would meet Spencer Holifeld, an adolescent that was left lineage to a powerful telepathic gauntlet that could control nature and fire. The group would become friends and close allies, with Bradley acting as a mentor of sorts as well as a scholarly voice of reason. During their formation and alliance, the group would battle the demonic entities known as the Diseased, with Hades and Bradley discovering their sudden appearance being due to the Dark Prince’s own powers and sovereign command over the likes of demons.

The following year, Bradley would finally convince Hades into traveling to a middle school in the southern United States, where they would meet his younger counterpart. Despite the group’s initial hesitation, Hades finally agrees and Bradley leads the group to Queens Mane Virginia and North Star Middle School where they meet a young Damon Bradley, Bradley saves his young counterpart from a Diseased. However, the group discovers they are still being chased and under surveillance by Dark Prince whom had still been watching their interactions indirectly via his army of the Diseased. This leads into a rash and rushed method of navigating the United States and training Bradley. Despite Hades’ reluctance and ill-manner towards the boy initially, Bradley is the one that constantly urges Hades to allow him to train and join their group.

## Indy Hills Arc and Alternate Future Damon’s Death

Bradley successfully trains his younger incarnation for months following the attack from Dark Prince up till Indy Hills high when his young counterpart eventually becomes enrolled as a student. He helps the younger Bradley become more skilled with utilizing red magic and eventually accepting his fate.

Future Damon’s intervention in his younger self heightens during his enrollment in high school but during the timeline and history the series' main universe B2 chronology, Kaozu arrives back on Earth (much sooner than anticipated) and causes mayhem across the states. Future Bradley learns of his arrival and abruptly urges the other Rage Knights to attack the Ugliness God directly, this results in a major conflict and heavy loss as Hades and Future Damon are gravely injured and then saved the Mysterious Stranger, whom teleports the two back to the S.M. Tech house to recover. There, Future Damon learns more of not only the reality of the young boy that saved him in childhood during the QM Rush Incident but also Mysterious Stranger's true identity. Realizing that the Mysterious Stranger is/was in fact just an older incarnation of the young freshman aged Damon Bradley he taught and knew, whom would also eventually become the *same* young boy that would travel to his timeline and encourage him.

Finally Trusting Mysterious Stranger, Alternate Future Bradley accepted his fate and made the decision to face Kaozu alone, with the other Rage Knights to handle the other Beards' Hand pirates. Bradley faced the Ugliness God soon-after but was gravely wounded when Kaozu shot him through the chest. As he lay dying, he reflected moments of his life and was comforted by young Bradley and the other Rage Knights. He even told Bradley that his fate wasn't to die at the hands of Kaozu, but to become a better engineer unlike ever before and build inventions outmatching his (referring to his eventual role as the Mysterious Stranger and in some way, feeling he would become a demigod tied to anger or rage). After Kaozu dies from suffering a heart attack from exerting himself and trying to withstand the younger Bradley's red magic attacks, Future Bradley dies. The Rage Knights carry the ceased future incarnation back to the S.M. Tech house where the Rage Knights bury his body next to Persey. Hades tells young Bradley about his exact origins and the Q.M. Rush Incident briefly noting that Future Damon wasn't exactly him, albeit being uncertain about the exact future of young Bradley and where his future would lie.

### Personality

Alternate Damon Bradley displays a strong sense of urgency and is known as being a voice of reason in earlier adventures with the Rage Knights. He is notably a pacifist whenever engaging in smaller threats, whereas he shows reluctance but will act accordingly in certain circumstances such as a man attacking a woman or child, or whenever a fearsome adversary threatens him, his friends or the immediate public.

### Powers and Abilities

* Alternate Bradley is a peak-level fighter and engineer specialist whom mostly relied on strictly weapons and forms of combat to best his enemies. Many of Bradley’s items were essentially restorative items or basic projectile weapons such as grenades, boomerangs, Grappling Guns and customized Klump SM Technology weaponry.
* In addition to his fighting capabilities, Alternative Bradley is a skilled red magic user whom used forms of the magic type mostly after wielding the Rage Sword.

* With the Rage Sword, Alternate Future Damon was able to project Red Magic into his items for more explosive powers. This is exhibited in fighting attacks such as Kunai Rage, an explosive attack powered by mystic scrolls.
* Alternate Future Bradley is considered a *chemist*  as he can concoct various potions and elixirs, one of his plans whenever Hades fell ill or reverted to his mortal form was to collect the clouds of High Heaven Council and use them to create an elixir
* Though he possesses flight, Alternate future Damon can fly but cannot teleport or pass the atmospherical walls of the planet.

## Trivia/Notes and Disclaimer

* This character appeared as one of the earliest characters written and drawn by the *original author* alongside Hades and Midlore West-Stein dating from as early as 2006.
* Alternate Future Damon is an essential character and a founding member of Trevor X’s Rage Knights.
* Alternate Future Damon marks the 600th page on the Rage Knights: Red God wiki as of May 2020, Despite several mentions and hyperlinks beforehand.
* He is seemingly weaker than other larger incarnations of Damon Bradley, with less abilities and powers.
* In some stories, he is referred to as “stressed man”.

***Disclaimer:** To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against.*