Exiles (Earth-93060)

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Contents 1 History 2 Paraphernalia 3 Notes 4 Trivia 5 See Also 6 Links and References

History

Some variation on the normal "jumpstarts" caused certain individuals on Earth to develop the Theta virus. The virus did not appear to actually be contagious (at least it was not shown to be), but rather than just cause people to become Ultras, it also would rapidly progress to death.
Dr. Rachel Deming, herself a victim of the Theta virus, developed a means to cure the terminal side effects. After curing herself, she set up a base on an island off the coast of California, which she named the Stronghold. From the Stronghold, she began to locate others developing the Theta virus, cure them, train them in their abilities, and recruit them to help her effort. She hired Heather Faraday as her assistant. Catapult, Deadeye, Ghoul, Mustang, Tinsel, and Trax were recruited. At some point Dr. Deming and the Exiles began to develop some opposition from Malcolm Kort, who sought to control the Theta virus-infected Ultras for his own benefit.

The Exiles succeeded in gathering Amber Hunt, despite the efforts of Kort's agent, the Supreme Soviet. Trax was injured in the battle and taken off active duty to recover. Deming sought to explain what was happening to Amber, and what it's potential consequences were, but the spoiled rich girl was initially quite resistant. Deming sent Mustang and Catapult after their next target, Timothy Halloran, but this time they were defeated by Kort's agents Bloodbath and Bruut. They killed Timothy's mother and brought Timothy back to Kort's base. Deming gathered the rest of the active Exiles, herself included, and headed off to Kort's base to rescue Timothy. Amber finally realized that she needed the treatment or she would die, and she was worried that Deming might not return in time. Deming assured her this would not be a problem. Kort's head scientists, Dr. Deeters was working on treating Timothy's virus, but he had not mastered the techniques which Deming had designed and kept secret. Halloran mutated violently and exploded from his containment device just as the Exiles arrived.

In their initial assault on Kort's base, Tinsel and Ghoul were captured, Deming herself narrowly escaped falling to her death, and Halloran escaped. Deming named the rescue/capture of Halloran as the number one priority, which they ultimately failed at--and it took much longer than expected. Tinsel was killed fighting off a sexual assault from Bloodbath. Ghoul killed Bloodbath, and then blasted Kort's equipment, which blew up, destroying Kort's offices and killing everyone in them. Amber, meanwhile, rightfully feared for her life if the treatment was delayed, and so she tried to rig the equipment herself. Heather Faraday probably could have prevented this and operated the equipment successfully herself, but she was distracted by Trax. Only when Amber overloaded the equipment and alarms started sounding, did Heather realize anything was amiss. Heather rushed in and managed to begin to reverse the damage, when suddenly a burst of energy from the sky (actually from the Entity) pushed the machinery beyond all limits. Amber, the recipient of the energy blast, survived, flying from the resultant explosion, her mind under the control of the Entity. Trax and Heather were incinerated instantly. The rest of the Exiles were returning to the Stronghold just as the explosion occurred. Dr. Deming was tossed through the air and ended up with cracked ribs and other injuries, Catapult was badly injured and ended up in a coma, Deadeye narrowly survived, and Mustang was killed by the combination of the explosion itself and the force with which he landed.

Ghoul was assaulted by what appeared to be the reanimated corpses of their past associates as part of a hoax perpetrated by Loki in an effort to occupy the various heroes opposing him.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

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Trivia

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See Also

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Links and References

• http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/exlsud.htm Exiles (Ultraverse) at marvunapp.com