Nanowarrior

 aka Dylan Harris First Appearance : Minor League Origins #1 (Mentioned in Overwatch #41) Member of : The Minors

Prowess 5 Coordination 7 Strength 5 Intellect 4 Awareness 4 Willpower 4

Stamina 9 Determination 2

Powers Regeneration 5 Fast Attack 2 Supersenses 2 (Nightvision, extended vision)

Specialities Acrobatics Expert Athletics Expert Martial Arts

Qualities Rivalry : [/Ion+Fist Ion Fist] Alien nanotech intelligence in my head Back from the dead

Challenges Enemy : Enemies of the Tel'var Imperium Weakness : EMP (the nanobots are extremely susceptible to EMP based weapons)

Background
Despite having the greatest mind of 21st century for a mother and the greatest hero of the modern age for an uncle, fourteen-year-old Dylan Harris is the last thing you’d think of when it comes to superheroes. He wasn’t a mutant or an alien refugee and his mother was way too careful to let him fall into a vat of toxic waste. Not that Doctor Harris kept that stuff around the house, she was smart enough not to bring the really dangerous stuff home with him and Dylan wasn’t smart enough to crack the keypad on the door to the basement lab. He was a regular, normal kid, living in an abnormal world. That was, until the night before his SATs, the night he died.

In the middle of the night, gunmen broke into his home where he lived in Newquay, Cornwall. They dragged Dylan from his bed and took him downstairs at gunpoint. The gunmen already had his mother in gunpoint and the leader was handing him a DVD. He told Doctor Harris to make sure the disk was given to Paragon and pass along a message. As her son was shoved up against a wall, she asked “what message?” The leader grimaced and replied, “Simple, either he stays out of our bosses business, or next time it’ll be his kid.” The gunmen waited just long enough for the message to sink in before turning their guns on Dylan and opening fire.

Dylan didn’t have to time to cry out before the bullets tore into his unprotected body. The gunmen quickly left as Doctor Harris ran over and cradled her dying son’s body. She was desperate, she had already lost her fiancée in a car crash shortly before they were due to be married, Dylan was all she had to remember him by. Baxter, the computer system she had designed to run the house (and keep an eye on her hyperactive son) had already informed the emergency services of the situation but the paramedics would never get to the house in time. There was a chance however, a slim one, but a chance nonetheless.

Her latest research project was assisting Overwatch in analysing a piece of alien technology recovered from a derelict alien ship discovered in orbit in the late 90s by Alpha Force. As far as she could tell, it was a species-neutral piece of medical nanotechnology. They were years away from animal testing, let alone human trials, but she was desperate; she was not going to lose her son.

She took Dylan to the basement lab and gently laid him down on a lab table. Taking a deep breath, she drew a sample of the nanobots and injected them into his arm. Within seconds, he was wracked by violent convulsions. They only lasted a minute before they suddenly ceased, as did his breathing and heartbeat. Dylan was dead.

The paramedics arrived to find her sobbing over the body of her son. Baxter had notified Overwatch over the breach in containment protocols when she had drawn the nanobots sample and injected Dylan. Paragon, the commander of Overwatch and Dylan’s uncle, arrived to comfort his distraught sister. Because Dylan had been infected with an untested strain of nanobots, his body was moved to Sentinel for quarantine purposes.

Two hours later, while Dylan’s body was being prepped for transport, one of the Overwatch medtechs suddenly detected renewed activity in his brain. The nanobots had placed his brain on life support and shut down the rest of his autonomic functions while they attempted to repair the worst of the damage. Dylan was alive but barely. He was rushed in to surgery where doctors battled to save his life. With the healing properties of the nanobots assisting their efforts, they were successful.

Dylan spent the next two weeks in level 4 biohazard quarantine. Eventually, they discovered that the nanobots inside Dylan were not in danger of unleashing a horrific nanotech plague on the world. Once that had been confirmed, he was released back into the custody of his mother.

However, what no one at the time knew was that the nanobots were not a piece of medical technology. While medical care was one of their functions, their primary function was combat enhancement and battlefield assistance. They had been developed by the Tel’var Imperium, a ruthless and expansionist alien empire. The Tel’var injected their soldiers with them to improve their effectiveness on the battlefield turning them into nanotech-enhanced supersoldiers.

It took the nanobots nearly a month to completely map and adjust to Dylan’s human physiology. When they were ready, they began the “biohost integration” procedure. Naturally, as his organic systems were supplemented or replaced with cybernetic implants, and as the nanobots began to speak to him, Dylan panicked.

Furthermore, the nanobots began emitting a subspace homing beacon as it tried to connect to the Tel’var battle net. However, there were no Imperial units in vicinity to pick up the signal. But the Tel’var weren’t the only ones to pick up the signal. The Imperium has many enemies and some of them picked up the signal and some of them journeyed to Earth to destroy or capture what they assumed was a Tel’var soldier.

After the third such attempt, Overwatch stepped in and offered to move him to a protected safehouse in North America.

It was here that he met [/Ion+Fist Ion Fist] (aka Joey McCallister). Joey had been at the safehouse for a couple of months already. 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: 48 point build, build & art by blaster219