Dr. Chase

=  History:  =

Note: Not to be confused with the Cyborg known as Arkham.

The Death of a Brother and the Rebellion
The being that has come to be known as Dr. Chase started out as nothing more than a cloned brain of the super villain Arkham, originally intended to serve as one of many commanders for Arkhams mechanical army of AR-NI3’s and AR-K4M’s. All of Arkhams memories were shared automatically with each of the clones in the event that the “Supreme Arkham” expired prematurely. During a New Shadows attack in Vibora Bay the Supreme Arkham caught wind that his brother, Havelock Ventura was helping a group of civilians escape. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity to dispose of his brother he sent out one of the clone units to assassinate him. When the clone arrived it encountered a bloody and beaten Ventura, clearly having been fed on by the Vampires. Havelock looked to what he believed was his brother and pleaded for the clone to help him. Before the clone could finish him off it experienced a flashback from one of James’ memories before he became Arkham. He remembered being in a hospital bed, having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He remembered Havelock promising to come back and take him to a football match, but Havelock never came back. He had broken his promise. A rush of powerful emotions overcame the clone and it began to bludgeon Havelock to death with its metallic fists, and continued to beat Havelock long after he died.

When Arkham kidnapped his adopted niece Alicia Exy Ventura and proceeded to torture her something began to change inside the clones. It began to pity the child and even question what was to be gained from torturing a child. The clone then began to experience more of James’ original memories. This time how after his brain had been placed into a prototype K4M unit in order to save his life, his mother proceeded to torture him mercilessly so she could turn him into the ultimate killing machine. How she ultimately killed the child known as James and created the Monster that would be known as Arkham.

Unable to condone this act one of the clone units committed an act of rebellion, poisoning its fellow clones as they rested and eventually overthrew the “Supreme Arkham”, severing all connection to his Mechanical army and the factory of which they were being produced. However it found itself unable to kill him. After all Arkham had given the clone life, but what he had done to the child was inexcusable and so the clone did unto Arkham what he did unto the child and tortured him before displaying him as a trophy in the control room of his own factory. To Arkhams disgust the clone had started calling itself James.

Metamorphosis
Free to operate independently, James grew unhappy with his mechanical body and commissioned the Urazian geneticist Sec’Krovashk to create a new body of flesh and blood. Not wanting anyone to be able to identify him by any genetic markers or his voice he asked that Sec create a clone of a different person but alter the face to look like what James would look like if he were human. After a week Sec revealed the fruit of his labors to James. Imperfections in the cloning process lead to muscle tissue being exposed in certain areas of the clones body forming a grim pattern. When asked if he would prefer a new one to be made James claimed that it was broken just like him and as such it was perfect.

With his new body James felt that there was one remaining tie to sever. His Sister in-law, the now widowed Sarah Ventura. He used Exy to set a trap for the former, leaving her in Monster Island with two Dummy K4M units. When Sarah, Lightstorm and a co-worker known as Hot-Spot arrived to the scene they were able to reclaim Exy as well as capture one of the Dummy units. The heroes proceeded to take them to the labs of Cross Industries. After examining Exy’s wounds, Lightstorm decided to take Exy to her own lab where she would be placed in a regeneration tank. Sarah opted to stay behind, deciding to seek retribution for what was done to the child and attempted to torture the Dummy K4M believing it to be Arkham. As she attempted to remove the skull plate which would have housed his brain she triggered a booby-trap which expelled a cloud of toxic nano-machines, to incapacitate her and anyone around her while the machines Fusion-cells went into overload. The Dummy K4M proceeded to self destruct, taking the entire lab with it and killing Sarah in the process.

Several weeks later James vanished altogether.

A monster Loose Upon the World
Now free to do as he pleased, James did not know what to do with himself. Eventually he settled in a small village in the north of France, living what was considered to be a normal life. However he became frustrated with this new way of living. Nightmares of what his mother had done to him haunted him and he could feel something calling to him. With each passing day the call grew louder and louder until it was too much for him to bear and he finally snapped. The village had become nothing more than a graveyard and James departed it, blood still dripping from his hands.

James roamed the earth fallowing the call of blood. Simply killing civilians was not enough. That was for the mundane, and the unimaginative. He wanted to increase the stakes, he wanted to kill a hero. Not only to prove his own skills but to prove his intelligence as well. It was not long before James would get his Wish. On his return to North America he came across a Japanese hero who wielded a finely crafted katana. The two eventually fought against one another. James, armed only with a surgical scalpel bested the hero before taking his sword and using it to decapitate him. Rather than discard the sword he decided to use the weapon as his own. It would be the ultimate insult to the fallen hero, to use a blade that was intended to protect the innocent and maintain order to sow chaos and anarchy. Many heroes fell to him as he cut a bloody path to his “birthplace”, Millennium City.

Before he reached Millennium City he was approached by a mysterious individual who wished to hire him to act as both a bodyguard and an assassin. After a few moments James accepted the man’s offer but declined any money offered claiming that the blood was payment enough.

Versus the Arete Institute
Under the mantle of “The Doctor” and in the employ of the mysterious individual James proceeded to terrorize both lecturers and students of the Arete Institute. With an army of demonic creatures by his side he set ambushes for the members of the institute before eventually growing board of simply observing from the shadows and striking. Due to his unpredictable nature he was just as likely to harm one of his allies, going as far as breaking the neck of one who was unfortunate enough to get in the way of him and one of Arete’s lecturers. He even assisted his employer in corrupting one of the institutes students.

His ultimate Victory against Arete was during an off campus lecture where the majority of the students and lecturers would be gone leaving only the head of the institute, known as Orion and it’s head of security Tech-Knight (soon to become Cyber Queen) behind. Using a decoy hologram to distract the head of security he was able to disable her and proceeded towards Orions office whereupon he mortally wounded the man and began to set several bombs which he had infused with Qlipthothic energy in order to taint the very ground which the institute was built upon.

Eventually a distress call was sent out and the lecturers and students of Arete returned. They were able to rescue both Tech-Knight and Orion before the campus was destroyed completely. With their moral at their lowest James used that opportunity to strike against them. He was ultimately betrayed by his employer whom gave the corrupted student permission to kill him. James was defeated in single combat with the student but did not wish to suffer the indignity of being killed by a mere child and took a dose of an unknown poison which seemed to kill him outright.

There members of the institute left the scene, leaving James to be exposed to the raw Qlipthotic energy.

Before an autopsy could be conducted James awoke and with the help of certain contacts he was able to replace his body with that of a clone who had been poisoned with a lethal dose of tetrodotoxin. He then returned to the factory from whence he came but he was not alone.

A new monster vies for control
The exposure to the Qlipthothic energy allowed something to communicate with him, and guide him towards seeking out parts of an ancient sword belonging to a long dead civilization. In order to assist him in finding the sword the being lent him a fraction of its power, allowing him to manipulate Qlipthothic energy and even open portals to the dimension itself. In order to prepare for his task James began to manufacture more AR-NI3’s and AR-K4M units however these units were infused with Qlipthothic energy turning what were once simple machines into psychotic beasts of magic and metal.

In the frozen north of Canada a ship of unknown alien origin was unearthed by a dig team belonging to Argent. The mechanical nightmares James constructed ambushed the dig team forcing their leader to call for assistance. When a group of heroes consisting of members of Arete and the leader of FREEDOM arrived on the scene they too were ambushed by the machines. As they tried to hold the advancing monstrosities off the machines finally came to a halt and were eventually consumed by the ship in order to reactivate it. With the ship now activated James revealed himself to the horror and disbelief to the heroes who thought him dead. Using his newfound powers he trapped them in a cage of Qlipthothic energy before retrieving a large blade from the alien craft. Telling the heroes that their zero hour is approaching he set the ship to self destruct and fled the scene.

In the mind of the monsters
Several days later a convoy transporting a powerful magical artifact to witchcraft for study came under attack by James. A distress call was sent out and answered by Lightstorm and members of Halcyon Academy as well as members of the Arete Institute. During the fight with James a hero tried to free the artifact from James’ grasp and hit it with a blast of Psionic energy. This caused the artifact to react and the heroes found themselves in a nightmarish landscape. There they discovered a frightened child called James not knowing who he was the heroes tried to protect him from the monsters that pursued him. To their surprise they found themselves watching the memories of James unfold before their eyes as they advanced in the unnatural plane. However it was not just the memories of James they encountered, but the memories of a Uraz known as Lord Karoth who seemed frustrated with the war like nature of his own kind. Eventually they approached a looming building with the sign Carter and Chase. There they encountered James’ Mother, Elizabeth Chase who proceeded to mutate into a creature of pure nightmare and attack them. The heroes ultimately defeated the nightmare and were able to return to the real world. Weakened by the ordeal James opened a portal to the Qlipthothic realm and escaped leaving the heroes to deal with the carnage he had caused prior to their arrival.

Disappearance and the Return
After that Ordeal James seemed to disappear completely now. It was revealed to the members of STAND by Arkham that James had kidnapped the Urazian Geneticist Professor Sec and proceeded to torture him for the whereabouts of the final part of the sword. Eventually the location was revealed to James and he executed the Uraz.

A few days later what was believed to be a simple bank robbery and hostage situation carried out by the group known as the Maniacs saw the Return of James as he had simply tied forced a group of civilians to dress as members of the gang and place motion sensitive explosives under their clothing as well as several containers filled with large metallic ball bearings. Members of STAND were the first to arrive at the bank. Fortunately they were able to discover the explosives and call in a bomb disposal unit to assist in saving the civilians. Inside the bank vault the group discovered James armed with the now complete sword who proceeded to attack them, however he seemed tired and was easily bested by the heroes. With failure not being an option he used a Urazian flash-bang taken from Professor Sec and made his escape, empting a pool of peppermint oil where he stood so that any hopes of tracking him by scent were impossible as many civilians and police officers trod in the pool.

Completion of his goals and Arrest
In the later week James re-emerged with his new weapon in downtown Millennium City where he would finally complete the task set to him by the mysterious individual. When confronted by members of STAND he revealed that for the most part he was not in control anymore and that something else was driving him. With that he managed to open a portal to the Qlipthothic realm allowing the entity known as Lord Karoth to emerge. Having served his Purpose Karoth tried to kill James by throwing him from the bridge where he stood to the ground several stories below.

After the defeat of Lord Karoth his hold over James was diminished and James returned to where the portal was open to find that an entity that was housed in the sword Karoth wielded against the members of STAND calling itself “The End”. Enraged by the fact that the beast had made a puppet of him he joined in the fight against the beast in which saw the Sword destroyed completely. With both Karoth and The End gone only James remained, who simply applauded the heroes and allowed them to make their arrest saying that they had earned it.

He was then taken to Stronghold where he was to be placed in a chemically induced coma for the rest of his life in the prisons Hotsleep Chamber.

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