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Spook...
 Name:
Peter "Pete" Wisdom
Code Name: Patch
Age:
32
Birthplace:
London, England
Known relatives:
Harold (father), Romany (sister), Mother-deceased
Height:
5' 8"
Weight:
really thin- 140ish
Hair:
Black
Eyes: Blue
Clothing habits:
Black suit, with white shirt, black tie, and black trench coat. No spandax
Distinguishing Features:
wears an eyepatch over his left eye, though it's not
really an eyepatch (explained later). Is a smoker and a drinker too.
Powers: Generates
"Hot Knives", aka blade-like projectiles of pure energy, from his
fingertips.
Other skills:
paranormal investigation, espionage and
assassination
Weapons:
carries a small handgun in a back holster underneath
his trenchcoat, though he doesn't like to use it. Also, the eyepatch: It's
a computer viewscreen taken from Black Air that can give him a visual
overlay of the London area, with the underground and the buildings and
such marked out. He can see out through it, though others can't see in.
Also, he has a small hearing-aid size ear plug that he wears in the left
ear with a tiny boom mike that lets him contact his headquarters, with
which they can feed him area information.
Group affiliation:
none currently revealed/named specifically
Base of Opperations:
The Warren, a converted ex-Black Air hanger located somewhere in London
As for his history:
Pete was one of several mutant opperatives for the British Intelligence's
black ops department known as Black Air. Pete's last mission for Black Air
involved killing everyone in Ronsaphan, Thailand. The place was a base
were some terrorists were taking part in drug-running and assisination,
and were in someway affecting the British, so Black Air sent Pete in to
deal with it. He did, but the experience made him strike a deal with his
empoloyers in Black Air to be Excalibur's non-combatant liason with Black
Air on a mission to Genosha (Explained in Excalibur 86) in exchange for
never being put in a combat position again. He and Kitty Pryde were
instantly antaganostic towards one another, though the rest of Excalibur
didn't trust him much either. After the mission, Pete returned with
Excalibur to Muir Isle.
While with Excalibur, Pete learned that a close friend and collegue in
Black Air named Ed Culley needed help. He went into London, with Kitty, to
attempt to find him and help him, however Culley was discovered to be dead,
of an undisclosed cause associated with his work through Black Air. Pete
was furrious, and broke into the Dream Nails base Black Air kept with
Kitty. Together, they discovered some of what Black Air had been up to,
and destroyed the base. They also discovered that they rather liked
eachother, and became romantically involved. It was at this point that
Pete officially quit Black Air, and became a member of Excalibur. (Excalibur
88-90, 91)
Pete was also instrumental in bringing down Black Air. Black Air had
plotted with the British Hellfire Clubs inner-circle to release an ancient
demon under London, to destroy the city and pave the way for a nation-wide
take-over. Excalibur discovered this information, and Pete used his
contacts in the intelligence business to leak the news out to the media.
Then Excalibur went in and defeated the plot, with the assistance of
Pete's inside knowledge on the workings of Black Air. And thanks to Pete's
friends who publicized the truth about Black Air, Excalibur came out of
Blackwall as respected heroes. (Excalibur 97-100)
After arriving home from this mission, the team learned about Onslaught,
and the first of several disagrements broke out among them. He and Kitty
had many an arguement over the issues that joining with Xavier's new
crusade brought with them, though what might of come is but speculation.
On a mission to Genosha to stop Mr Sinister, Pete was believed killed,
taking several bullets and a telepathic shock, and saving Kitty's life in
the processes. However, with dying not being a permanant state in the
Marvel universe, Pete was saved by his friends from The Crown. Doyle and
Pitman, with Mister Jardine and Stamford airlifted him out in a stolen
helo and getting him to a special hospital, thereby saving his life.
 Pete
disappeared into the spook community of Britian to nurse his wounds. It
was while recovering that he heard about Kitty leaving for Australia, and
later her marriage to Colossus. He also learned what Excalibur has become.
Through all these years he's remained 'dead' to the few people in the
world that knew of his existence, and has made no effort to contact any of
his former Excalibur teammantes, especially her.
Now, out of a psichically shielded small hanger base formerally belonging
to Black Air, Pete and some of his mates (Mister Jardine, formerally head
of Criminal Intel in Britian, now head of the small group of rebels; Doyle,
formerally of MI6; and Pitman, formerally of MI5; Stamford, formerally
with Black Air- to name a few) are living the secret life again. They're
not with Xavier, but they aren't the resistance either. They're simply
spooks out there doing their job; their way.
He's not James Bond, but...
Neuro-scrambler: device worn around the cranial region that scrambles
percieved brainwaves. It is by no means full-proof, and does not act as a
blocker of that psyche's existence, but rather as a deception device. To a
telepath who was picking up these signals, the person might appear to be
heading in several directions at once, only one of which is correct; may
have seemed to have altered brainwaves, marking them as someone else in
the near vicinity around them, or just sporadically disappearing and
appearing about within a rane of one mile every few secondsd, among other
metods of confusion. Of course, the more powerful the telepath, the less
this works well, but it is sufficient to avoid most of magneto's patrols
who might have a telepath about them.
Force-field suit: device worn over the entire body that, when activated,
emits a small electro-magnetic energy field around the wearer for up to
five minutes (it doesn't have the power to sustain longer). It is capeable
of defelcting both energy blasts and bullets, but any direct hit with
either hurts like ^@#%. Which is why it is often better to be a moving
target.
And finally, a note on the way the Warren is protected:
Pete isn't the only mutant among the people that call the Warren something
close to home. There are two telepaths, their level so low that they can't
activly do anything like project their thoughts or read the thoughts of
others with any accuracty even if the person is standing right next to
them; however, they are telepathic enough to have their powers utalized
with technology developed by Black Air at Dream Nails, in which their
powers are amplafied with the machines, and then used to create a
shielding around the hanger that subtly nudges passerby (the few that come
by here) with the feeling that when they look upon the place they see just
a run-down hanger in a run-down abandoned airport. They then remember
something they urgently have to do, or someplace else they desperetly need
to be. For telepathic searches, the 'inner eye' simply slides right over
the place, as the aura projected is one of 'nothing to see here, boring,
move on', in a manner realistic to the whole TP search method. This is not
to say that a specific pinpoint search for the place wouldn't root them
out or anything, just that they are not some big telepathich null-zone
that looks suspicious.
Pete's about 35 now, and living at St
Cyrus' Girl School outside of London, along with the other members of the
group calling themselves 'The Warren', after the base they holded up in
during the Onslaught Years.
First, a bit about St. Cyrus':
It's an old-fashioned school run by a woman known as Huntsman, and it's
for the hard-luck, kicked out of every other girl's school out there. The
place has a natural ability favored by those of The Warren- it naturally
cancels out the powers of mutants that enter it's grounds. How and why it
does this is unsure, but it does it all the same.
Under the school, which is rather old, is a large basement bomb shelter,
dating back to the Blitz of London during WWII. It is there that the
Warren has set up their shop, with an area reserved for working, and a
second for personal sleeping space.
The Warren:
they're the members of the British Intel comunity that didn't accept
Onslaught as their overlord, and they weren't about to officially join the
resistance. Their base of operations used to be a Black Air hanger, but
they moved to St Cyrus' Girl School after Pete struck a deal with Huntsman.
They did join with the Resistance against the Skrulls, and provided
assistance to the Order of Phoenix (very minimal).
What they do now- they're an independant community of merc-types, ready
for hire by agencies that need their special expertice. They specialized
in security and information work. After all, they survived Onslaught, and
the Skrulls, and that takes skill. Jardine still heads the group, with
Pete as his second in comand, and from there they do what needs doing, and
make sure they get paid for it too.
About Huntsman:
Her full name is Phoebe Huntsman, and she went to St Cyrus' with Kitty
Pryde way back (early Excalibur issues), and though the two were at first
enemies, they became friends in the end. She knew Kitty's secret (the
mutant thing), and demanded that if anyone in the Warren was to make
contact about their moving base, Pete would have to negotiate. Pete went,
against his personal wishes, and the end result was that the Warren was
moving to secret underground sections below the surface of the school.
What Pete had to promise is something that neither he nor Huntsman have
ever revealed.
Other stuff:
Scuttlebut has it that he and Huntsman have 'an understanding' and that's
why the Warren got in to St Cyrus', however no one dares to comment on his
relationship with her to Pete's face, as he's held in awe by most of the
members of the Warren. Jardine might say something, especially as he's
always believed that Pete was ment for his daughter Amanda, but he hasn't
in the last two years, and it looks like he may never comment. There are
several possible reasons for this. One is that Jardine has been like a
father to Pete, and he does want to see Pete happy. The other is that
Huntsman is the person that lets them stay, and if she and Pete are
romantically involved, he doesn't want to agitate her in such a manner
that she might kick them out.
Pete is also considered by most of the students to be even hotter than
their gym coach. As such, when he is in the public quarters of the school
(as opposed to the Warren section, which is off-limits to students) he is
often stared at, sighed after, and occasionally 'mobbed' by pre-teen and
teen students.
Update: November 2002
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Pete has currently been spotted in Europe, showing up at Castle Doom right
before Onslaught colapsed the building. He appears to be activly searching
for Kitty Pryde, whom he watched disappear on television. He confronted
Xavier about her location, but was forced to retreat from the castle
before any information could be found.
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