Left-Right: Mist, Monarch, Abyss, Thunderchild, Pitbull and Zero If all the law enforcement agencies in the world and all the “heroes” are considered to be bringing order to society by providing justice and thus building a better future then this group of individuals could be considered the polar opposite. Led by one of the most powerful Alpha humans, Abyss, the aptly named Chaos group’s apparent purpose only seems to be to destroy. Its warped goal is to eradicate the evil in society the only way possible, by tearing it down so that it can be replaced with a new enlightened order. Ironically its original members were all considered heroes until they encountered the Alpha Criminal Monarch who forever altered them. CLEA DATA FILE Group Identities: Joe Sinclair - Abyss Hao Meng - Mist Mathew Newman - Zero Jessica Ryan - Pitbull Tawni Glover - Thunderchild Pertra Korhonen - Monarch CLEA Classification: Alpha humans (entire group except Thunderchild) Tech Augmented human (Thunderchild) Special Skills and/or Abilities: Alpha ability - Sinclair (Abyss) has the means to open a subspace pocket inside his own body. This can be used to store people and objects on a temporary basis. Anything “organic” entering the pocket is kept in a form of suspended animation. Alpha ability - Meng (Mist) can change his body into a gaseous form and pass through narrow gaps. Allows him to become practically invulnerable in combat situations. Alpha ability - Newman (Zero) can generate ice from his hands which he can use this to freeze objects and people. Alpha ability - Ryan (Pitbull) increases her strength and resilience increases whenever she experiences negative emotions particularly anger, pain or fear. Her ability almost instantly kicks in as a threat responce only instead of fleeing she attacks Glover (Thunderchild) designed and built an experimental armoured flight suit. As well as allowing her to fly it greatly enhances her strength and resilience and protects her from projectile weapons of medium calibre and below. Estimated top speed of Mach 0.85 Alpha ability - Korhonen (Monarch) can emit a psychic mind "blast" that causes those hit to imprint themselves upon her. They instinctively see her as a leader/mother/matriarch and become her willing servants. Whilst victims retain some of their existing personality and emotional responses the mental imprinting causes them to lose their existing motivations, loyalties and some of their inhibitions. Those hit by the psychic blast at range are only temporarily affected lasting anything from a few minutes to a few hours but for those targeted with a sustained blast at point blank range the effect is permanent. Her victims actually see the psychic blast as a visible white beam of light emitted from Petra's head or hands when in actual fact there is no discern able energy actually present. Limitation(s)/Weakness(s): Sinclair's mind is so badly warped by the "voices" inside he is completely unstable and irrational. He is unable to think tactically, Korhonen's main weakness is down to the fact she cannot attack more than two minds at the same time and if her blast successfully connects for brief instant psychic energy flows in both directions so victims can see into her mind albeit it would not change the inevitable outcome. Also for the imprinting to work her victims must have a partly open mind at the instant when she performs an attack. Alpha's with psychic abilities or people with strong mental disciplines can survive her attacks providing they concentrate on keeping mental barriers in place so over time Petra has learned to counteract this defence by distracting her opponents and breaking their concentration. Ryan can easily defeated by psychic Alphas who can flood her mind with positive emotions. The rest of the team is only held together via Korhonen's influence at Sinclairs command Rap Sheet/Criminal Traits: N/A Notes: The first five members of Chaos, Abyss, Mist, Zero, Pitbull and Thunderchild were originally members of Peter Meyer’s (Striker) crime fighting group, the Guardian Alliance. Though they were destined to become heroes an encounter with the powerful psychic Alpha, Monarch on their very first mission changed all that. The team were supposed to keep Monarch occupied until Striker could disable her. However Striker was inexperienced as a leader and had not yet learned how to get the others to work as a team rather than a group of individuals. This resulted in the team’s downfall because Abyss’s impatience surfaced and instead of following orders he chose to take on Monarch alone without support. By acting unilaterally and without Striker’s psychic abilities Monarch was able to invade Abyss’s mind and causing him to follow her orders. Acting as her willing servant and brought her to Monarch where her mind was taken over as well. The process was repeated with Monarch acquiring more “followers” until only Striker remained. Digitise was the last captured by Monarch’s new minions but Striker intervened before the mind controlled Pitbull and Thunderchild could take her back to their new “leader”. Using his psychic blast he stunned the pair and snatched Digitise. The pair then had no option but to withdraw as together they did not have the means to capture Monarch. With Abyss, Thunderchild, Pitbull, Zero and Mist under her control Monarch was left with the problem of what to do with her captives. Though she had bend their will the effect was only set to be temporary as she converted them when they were not standing face to face with her. Figuring she had now been shown to be vulnerable, Monarch decided to use her abilities again at close range to make them all her willing slaves. Anyone that came after Monarch now found themselves facing a team of six Alpha criminals. However she did not know how Abyss’s abilities “worked” and could not foresee that not only would he turn against her but also take control of her team. Gifted with the means to create a subspace portal in his body Abyss could “absorb” people and objects and retain them for some time before ejecting them back out. This “portal” was directly controlled by Abyss’s mind and this had the side effect that whenever he “absorbed” a human being into his body, their psyche would be merged with his own temporarily. The major problem for him was upon release from the subspace portal a weak copy of that person’s mind in the form of fragment would remain behind. When he had first noticed this during his time as a hero Joel had decided to limit the exposure to the minds of others by only absorbing objects. However due to Monarch manipulating his mind she had removed Joel’s self-preservation mental safeguards. The upshot of this was that over time in “working” for Monarch he began to amass a huge amount of thoughts, memories, drives and desires of other people. This had the effect of diluting Monarch’s original conditioning and instead of following and protecting her without question Abyss became driven by the thoughts that had invaded his mind. As many of those that had fallen victim to Abyss whilst protecting Monarch were heroes the memory fragments often shared common traits. Negative thoughts were always stronger and because what drove most heroes to act were the failings in society the fragments inside Abyss’s head became a reflection of this. This constant chorus of voices all telling him what was wrong with society drove him insane. The only way he figured he could fix what was wrong with him was to fix society in general and as his twisted logic had concluded society was rotten to the core the only option he had was to destroy the old social order and replace it with a new order. Naturally Abyss figured to make sure the new society was being maintained correctly he had to be at its head. The first time Monarch and any of the others became aware of something wrong with Abyss was when he began communing with the memory fragments and having conversations with himself. After this had gone on for some weeks Monarch decided to put an end to it by further conditioning his mind but when she entered she became exposed to the legion of thoughts and it nearly destroyed her mind. Her intervention created a moment in clarity for Abyss which was enough for him to formulate his future plans for the world. To him the sudden unexpected silence was a sign he was on the right path. Ironically the massive psychic wave that hit Monarch caused her to unwittingly accept Abyss’s plan for whilst Abyss had no psychic abilities, in using her own abilities to enter his mind she had fell victim of the conditioning she normally performed on others. Following Monarch’s failed attempt to correct his mind Abyss announced his intentions to the others and made it clear that if they were not with him then they would be swept aside. They might have turned against him as they were still loyal to Monarch but since she was now “accepting” Abyss’s idea to lead a new society they were obliged to follow her as she followed him. After following Abyss’s plan for some the group began to be collectively referred to as Chaos. The press conjured up the name because during clashes with CLEA and other heroes Abyss often spelled out his intentions. It was not known if this was to try and intimidate them or was a misguided effort to get others to follow him but during once such clash he revealed that “from all the chaos a new order will begin”. The press picked up on the word “Chaos” and once that happened the name stuck when referring to Abyss and the others.