Ion Fist

 aka Joey McCallister First Appearance : Minor League Origins #1 Member of : The Minors

Prowess 4 Coordination 6 Strength 5 Intellect 3 Awareness 8 Willpower 4

Stamina 9 Determination 1

Gauntlet Powers Flight 8 Force Field 8 Life Support 8 (Breathing, Cold, Eating, Heat, Pressure, Radiation, Toxins, Vacuum) Cosmic Energy Control (Wizardry) 8


 * Blast
 * Telekinesis

Specialities Languages Athletics Expert Survival Master

Qualities Identity : Aborigine Kid Untrained rookie user Catchphrase : "Eat Ions!" Rivalry : Dylan Harris

Challenges Weakness (Gauntlet) : Magic Enemy : Enemies of the Ion Guard (despite not actually being a member of the Guard, by having a Gauntlet, Joey has inherited all that organisations enemies) Motivation : Proving himself

Background
Fifteen-year-old Joey McCallister is 5'9" in height and weighs 130 lbs. He's an Australian citizen of aborigine descent.

Joey always liked the outdoors. Raised by his uncle who was ranger at Kakadu National Park, he often joined him on patrol in the park. In addition to the education he received at the local school (when he bothered to attend), he learnt how to track animals, hunt and kill small game and how to survive in the wilds. By the time he was ten, he was capable of camping out overnight in the area around Jabiru (his hometown) on his own. It was on one of these camping trips that Joey’s life would change forever.

On his fifteenth birthday, Joey went camping with a group of friends in the park. Sitting around a campfire, sharing a crate of beer to celebrate, the teenagers were startled by a blinding light that streaked overhead. The light disappeared over a nearby ridge where it stuck the ground with a deafening boom. Concerned that they may have just witnessed a plane crash, Joey grabbed the first aid kit and walkie talkie from his rucksack and hurried towards the crash site while his half-drunk friends where still picking themselves up off the ground.

However, what he found was not a crashed aircraft. At least, not one designed by human hands. It was an escape pod from an Ion Guard patrol ship, an interstellar peacekeeping and law enforcement organisation that upheld peace and justice throughout the known galaxy. Joey, a mere earthling from a planet that had yet to be formally contacted by the Guard, knew none of this; all he cared about was the figure that appeared trapped and injured. He rushed over and skidded to a stop as he saw the three-eyed, blue-skinned alien trapped in the wreckage. However, he only hesitated for a second before pulling the alien from the burning spacecraft.

Joey set him down some distance from the crash site as his friends arrived at the top of the ridge and gasped in astonishment. The alien looked badly injured and he had no idea how to perform first aid on an alien but at least he could try the basics. As he tried to stop the bleeding, his friends cried out and pointed towards the sky. A ship, bristling with weapons, was descending through the clouds. His friends took one look at the ominous-looking warship and ran but Joey stayed where he was.

The alien’s eyes snapped open, he took one look at the approaching ship and grabbed Joey’s arm. Speaking telepathically, the alien told Joey to run; the Tel’var would kill anyone they found at the crash site. But Joey was never one to back down from a fight and he wasn’t just about to run off and leave the alien to its fate. He told the alien so before drawing the hunting knife strapped to his side and turning to face whatever these “Tel’var” would throw at him.

The alien knew that it was dying and that the human’s efforts were ultimately futile but he was impressed by his convictions and courage, however misplaced. Had he been aware that Joey was not as adult member of his species, then he would have probably used his telepathic abilities to force the boy to flee. Instead, he reached out and took hold of Joey’s wrist, saying that he was going to give him a gift to aid him in his fight. Before Joey could respond, the aliens had extruded a glowing liquid that flowed from the alien onto Joey’s forearm. The liquid was absorbed into Joey’s skin, changing the colour of the skin around his fist and forearm black. Yellow glowing nodules erupted from skin on the back his hand, up the entire length of his arm, across his shoulder and into the side of his neck, all connected by circuit like patterns down to the nodules on his hand. Joey stumbled back in surprise, scratching at the strength growths on his arm.

Telepathically, the alien calmed his mind and told him that the “gauntlet” would protect him. As the alien did so, Joey noticed that similar growths on the alien’s arm had disappeared. However, before Joey got a chance to question this, a squad of battlesuited Tel’var soldiers beamed down to the crash site, their vicious looking energy weapons charged and ready. They didn’t wait to ask any questions before opening fire on Joey and the alien.

A force field sprang up, generated by the gauntlet, and deflected the energy beams. Seeing this, the soldier’s focused their fire on Joey. With the alien’s guidance, Joey laid down barrage of ion blasts from the gantlet. For several minutes, he fought the enemy soldiers, exchanging energy blasts, telekinetic attacks, even taking to the air at one point. However, there were too many of them. Even after defeating more than a dozen of them, he soon found himself exhausted and surrounded by several Tel’var soldiers. Then a salvo of missiles struck the side of the alien warship and in squadron of jet fighters streaked by. They were interceptors sent by UN Overwatch. The organisation had tracked the alien ships entering the atmosphere.

With the arrival of the UN forces, the Tel’var decided to cut their losses and fled. Joey ran over to the alien but it was too late, it had died sometime during the fight. Shortly after, Overwatch agents arrived to secure the crash site. They found the aborigine boy sitting emotionally and physically, surrounded by over a dozen bodies. With the markings on his arm and the growing nodules, he had obviously been exposed to something.

After being released from Overwatch quarantine, Joey returned to his hometown. However, things didn’t settle down as he had hoped. Over the next few months, he was attacked by Tel’var mercenaries looking for revenge and metahuman terrorists wanting to get their hands on the alien device. Taking the name Ion Fist, he fought them all off becoming a minor hero in the process. Eventually though, he was forced to accept Overwatch’s offer of protection in exchange for allowing them to study the Gauntlet. Joey was moved to a safehouse in the US and enrolled at a nearby private school.

It was here that he met Nanowarrior (aka Dylan Harris). Joey had been at the safehouse for a couple of months when Dylan arrived fresh off the plane from England. As soon as their eyes met, Joey raised his gauntlet preparing to fire an energy blast while Dylan dropped into a combat crouch. Thankfully, they managed to override the instinctive reactions imposed by their various enhancements. Dylan’s nanobots had recognised Joey’s gauntlet as being Ion Guard technology. Joey’s gauntlet had detected the Tel’var nanobots inside Dylan’s body. Both the Imperium and the Guard were mortal enemies.

While Dylan and Joey did not beat each other to a pulp in the end, it didn’t stop a friendly rivalry develop between the boys that could get quite heated at times.

Notes: 60 point build, build & art by blaster219, background and character idea inspired by Ion Guard (with a little help from Ben 10)