Yesterday was the second wave for this story idea, as it explored the 1990s. The day before was the first wave as it explored the 1970s. Welcome to the 21 Century. Lots of new characters to go over here. And, there’s even a couple of pictures to go with these ones.
The year is 2000
Ending the 1990s, a manhunt began for Raven Running Cloud as an Amber Alert was issued. Raven went missing after a house fire killed Miranda Running Cloud, wife of Maxwell Running Cloud. Together with a colleague at the University of Saskatchewan where Max was a professor, they developed a suit and wing harness. He dubbed himself The Hawk as he began his search for his daughter in his own way, and fought street crime and tried to get First Nations kids off the streets and into a better life.
In 2001, the world watched as terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Centre. In Petawawa, Ontario, soldiers at the base watched the morning news in shock. It wasn’t soon after that Canada joined the United States in a large manhunt for the leader of the attacks, Osama bin Laden. Among those soldiers sent was Peter Simonson, captain in 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Unit, husband of Lieutenant Naomi Running Cloud. Together they have a son. Peter is ordered to join the operations in Afghanistan, while Naomi stays in Petawawa. Four months later, Peter is killed in action. Not long after, CSIS Paranormal Division approaches Naomi. She is given a suit and calls herself The Grey Kestrel.
CSIS Paranormal Division itself was an oddity. Officially, it didn’t exist. It was developed in the Second World War as a branch of a similar organization developed by the British Government. The reason why it officially didn’t exist was because only one operative within the agency was actually human; Naomi Running Cloud. The world she entered was one that was often thought to live in nightmare and fantasy. The director was a half vampire, the assistant director a Medusa, various goblins, trolls, half dragons, and other beings thought only to live in myth were among the in house agents, a few werewolves and half vampires were field agents. They even had mermaids among their ranks.
In 2002, Johnathon Tiberius Walker (known as Operative Violet Rose) sets in plan his and his unit’s escape from the underground paramilitary organization known as The Red Hand. Together with his operatives Omega Six, Crimson Luna, Indigo Beta, and Grey 6-2-6, Walker tries to deceive the deceivers during an op in Columbus, Ohio. It appears things may go wrong when Operative Pravda, a former KGB Agent named Dimitri Kovolenko, and members of a second secret organization called The Sisterhood. Filled with female assassins, the Sisterhood can lay claim to thousands of political assassinations over the last 100 years. They could, but they don’t. The Sisterhood is a ghost organization that The Red Hand has a loose alliance with. This group includes two operatives only known as Sister White and Sister Eventide. With the assistance of The Hawk and Grey Kestrel, Walker and his crew manage to part ways with The Red Hand, Dimitri Kovolenko is arrested, and Sister White breaks ties with the Sisterhood. Walker and Omega Six (also known as Malcolm Montgomery Watt) escape to the Mediterranean and are soon joined by Sister White. But not before she manages to stop an assassination attempt of Derek Stewart. Sadly, Maxine Wollcot, who has worked with the Stewart family for twenty years, is killed. Maxine’s sister, Marianne Wollcot was on hand to witness it. Marianne is also known as Sister White. (for complete details on the Columbus, Ohio incident, please see Canyons of Steel: A Modern Day Western). Kovolenko is taken to Siberia, where he is transferred to Major Lina Gregarin, a member of the Red Army who is also secretly known as the Russian hero, Soviet Wing.
In 2003, evidence comes to Max that points to a secret research facility in Northern Saskatchewan. It is suggested his daughter, Raven, is being held there. He contacts Naomi, she contacts her superior, Colonel Richard Adams. The three decide that it’s best to go in with a super team, and bring in Mariah, Tim and Tamara. What they don’t know is that the Mannekin also knows about this facility, and together with Black Bowman and recent operative, Moquette (who is, in fact, former Sisterhood agent, Sister Eventide, who killed Maxine Wollcot), are already aware of this facility. Donelda, who has finally woken from her coma, asks Melanie to look out for Derek. Melanie manages to talk to Regina, Jean Pierre and Richard, and convinces them all to come out of semi retirement to aid her. Their objective is to make sure Derek doesn’t do anything stupid. When the two groups meet, it’s Naomi and Melanie who manage to avert a superhero smack down (which was primarily instigated by Derek). The groups go into the facility, with Naomi’s group looking for Raven, and Melanie and Mannekin’s group gather information to implicate Mandrake.
Also, up to this point, Jean Pierre Turgeon discovers his daughter Dominique, has uncovered old newspaper clippings about his old heroics as Canadien. He believes it to be innocent, but it would turn out to be very different. In Windsor, Richard is pleased that his daughter Nikki has taken an interest in robotics, and feels a sense of pride when she wins a science fair award for her development of “Robbie”, a robot that is programmed to have a sensitive and emotional conversation with whomever it is talking to. Even to the point of stating to those who may interrupt the conversation “excuse me, but I am currently speaking with this person. I can talk to you once we are finished” in polite manners.
In Hamilton, Ontario, the Canadian Football League team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign non import receiver Harold Mimms to a multi year contract. No one puts together the connection that once Mimms arrives in Hamilton, so to does a mysterious crime fighter known only as The Owl.
Generation 3
The Hawk: A.K.A Maxwell Running Cloud
Physical Attributes
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 215 lbs
Place of Birth: Outlook, Saskatchewan
Date of Birth: June 2, 1970
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Racial Background: First Nation (Dakota)
Education: Native American history and Archaeology
Monetary Status: Middle Class
Marital status: widower
Base of Operations: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Grey Kestrel: A.K.A Naomi Simonson (nee Running Cloud)
Physical Attributes
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 195 lbs
Place of Birth: Silver Spring, Saskatchewan
Date of Birth: October 2, 1968
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Racial Background: First Nation (Dakota)
Education: Military, political science, engineering
Monetary Status: Middle Class
Marital status: widow
Base of Operations: Petawawa, Ontario
Operative Violet Rose: A.K.A Derringer, A.K.A Johnathon Tiberius Walker
Physical Attributes
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 200 lbs
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas
Date of Birth: December 15, 1954
Hair: Grey
Eyes: Hazel
Racial Background: White
Education: Career Military
Monetary Status: inapplicable
Marital status: single
Base of Operations: inapplicable
Omega Six: A.K.A Monty, A.K.A Malcolm Montgomery Watt
Physical Attributes
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 220 lbs
Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
Date of Birth: March 5, 1965
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Racial Background: White
Education: Career Military
Monetary Status: inapplicable
Marital status: single
Base of Operations: inapplicable
Sister White: A.K.A Marianne Wollcot
Physical Attributes
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 145 lbs
Place of Birth: Swansea, Wales
Date of Birth: February 27, 1963
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Racial Background: White
Education: inapplicable
Monetary Status: inapplicable
Marital status: single
Base of Operations: inapplicable
Sister Eventide: A.K.A Moquett, A.K.A Darla Drobsky
Physical Attributes
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 145 lbs
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Birth: December 1, 1967
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Racial Background: White
Education: inapplicable
Monetary Status: inapplicable
Marital status: single
Base of Operations: inapplicable
The Owl: A.K.A Harold Mimms
Physical Attributes
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 235 lbs
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Date of Birth: February 1, 1979
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Racial Background: Black
Education: mathematician, English literature, astrophysics
Monetary Status: Upper Middle Class
Marital status: single
Base of Operations: Hamilton, Ontario
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