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<center>It was during this time with Quantum League that Glitch began to expand his connections with the larger hero community and grew a sense of comradery with team members, '''Chameleon''', '''Captain Mockery''', '''Coyote''', '''Flashpoint''', '''Overclock''', '''Reclusa''', and '''Sister Salem'''. Of these relationships, Darrell found himself becoming best friends with Coyote, developing a friendly-rivalry with Overclock, a mentor/apprentice-like relationship with Reclusa, an older-brother/younger-sister dynamic with Flashpoint, and possible love interests in both Chameleon and Sister Salem.</center><br><br> | <center>It was during this time with Quantum League that Glitch began to expand his connections with the larger hero community and grew a sense of comradery with team members, '''Chameleon''', '''Captain Mockery''', '''Coyote''', '''Flashpoint''', '''Overclock''', '''Reclusa''', and '''Sister Salem'''. Of these relationships, Darrell found himself becoming best friends with Coyote, developing a friendly-rivalry with Overclock, a mentor/apprentice-like relationship with Reclusa, an older-brother/younger-sister dynamic with Flashpoint, and possible love interests in both Chameleon and Sister Salem.</center><br><br> | ||
− | <center>Glitch's first mission ever with Quantum League consisted of a rescue mission that saw him and other Quantum Leaguers retrieving Reclusa from another dimension she had been trapped in for some time. But the mission where Glitch had a significant involvement in was one involving a cult that was tormenting the team's speedster, '''Vortex''' by digging up remnants of his past before he was a speedster and when he was a '''Danger Ranger''', a super-sentai-esque team where each member derived their abilities from a special power stone that would grant them their superhuman abilities. This cult successfully hunted down and slaughtered the former Danger Ranger members, one of whom was even Vortex's ex-boyfriend at the time. This case was significant because it saw Glitch become ensorcelled by magic for the first time and was forced to fight against his allies before eventually being freed from the cult's control. It was in the months after these series of events that Darrell would become close with '''Anna Trent''' a.k.a Reclusa as well as develop a budding crush and possible romance with '''Chanelle Perry''' a.k.a Chameleon. While attempts were made to start a relationship with the team commander, Anna regretfully informed Darrell that Chanelle's feelings for him were misguided as she really only saw traces of an ex-boyfriend she lost during the years before she even became Chameleon. While it hurt to learn this truth, Darrell came to terms with this unfortunate revelation and seized his pursuit of Chanelle shortly thereafter, deciding to keep this strictly professional between him and her.</center | + | <center>'''Search and Rescue: Target - Reclusa'''</center> |
+ | <center>Glitch's first mission ever with Quantum League consisted of a rescue mission that saw him and other Quantum Leaguers retrieving Reclusa from another dimension she had been trapped in for some time. But the mission where Glitch had a significant involvement in was one involving a cult that was tormenting the team's speedster, '''Vortex''' by digging up remnants of his past before he was a speedster and when he was a '''Danger Ranger''', a super-sentai-esque team where each member derived their abilities from a special power stone that would grant them their superhuman abilities. This cult successfully hunted down and slaughtered the former Danger Ranger members, one of whom was even Vortex's ex-boyfriend at the time. This case was significant because it saw Glitch become ensorcelled by magic for the first time and was forced to fight against his allies before eventually being freed from the cult's control. It was in the months after these series of events that Darrell would become close with '''Anna Trent''' a.k.a Reclusa as well as develop a budding crush and possible romance with '''Chanelle Perry''' a.k.a Chameleon. While attempts were made to start a relationship with the team commander, Anna regretfully informed Darrell that Chanelle's feelings for him were misguided as she really only saw traces of an ex-boyfriend she lost during the years before she even became Chameleon. While it hurt to learn this truth, Darrell came to terms with this unfortunate revelation and seized his pursuit of Chanelle shortly thereafter, deciding to keep this strictly professional between him and her.</center><br> | ||
− | <center>The second mission Glitch played a role in was the investigation of '''Serena Bradbury''', who was the young woman that would eventually become Sister Salem. Serena's story began with a flight from East Orange, New Jersey to Millennium City, Michigan until the plane was hijacked resulting several Quantum League members being forced to respond to the event. The end result was a tragic one as Serena's latent magical abilities violently manifested resulting in the plane coming down and crashing in the outskirts of Millennium City, killing most-if-not-all of the members onboard except for Serena and the Quantum Leaguers that were present. This resulted in a series of investigations that saw Serena seeking out her family's origins with Overclock and Glitch in attendance, meeting her mother and learning about the secrets that were Serena came from lineage of witches that spanned as far back as 1692 - the same year in which the '''Salem Witch Trials''' began. While Serena struggled with anxiety and the trauma that haunted following her 'incident' with the plane crash, she eventually overcame this ordeal and proudly embraced her destiny to become Sister Salem and continued onward as an active member of the Quantum League.</center | + | <center>'''The Salem Saga'''</center> |
+ | <center>The second mission Glitch played a role in was the investigation of '''Serena Bradbury''', who was the young woman that would eventually become Sister Salem. Serena's story began with a flight from East Orange, New Jersey to Millennium City, Michigan until the plane was hijacked resulting several Quantum League members being forced to respond to the event. The end result was a tragic one as Serena's latent magical abilities violently manifested resulting in the plane coming down and crashing in the outskirts of Millennium City, killing most-if-not-all of the members onboard except for Serena and the Quantum Leaguers that were present. This resulted in a series of investigations that saw Serena seeking out her family's origins with Overclock and Glitch in attendance, meeting her mother and learning about the secrets that were Serena came from lineage of witches that spanned as far back as 1692 - the same year in which the '''Salem Witch Trials''' began. While Serena struggled with anxiety and the trauma that haunted following her 'incident' with the plane crash, she eventually overcame this ordeal and proudly embraced her destiny to become Sister Salem and continued onward as an active member of the Quantum League.</center><br> | ||
− | <center>The next major threat that reared its head for Quantum League came in the form of a mirror group that called themselves, '''The Major League'''. The Major League was an investment made by Michael Trent to create superheroes out of the weak and powerless and have them take on threats that the Quantum League wouldn't handle; this resulted in the '''Star-Lite Initiative''' which took the harvested blood of an extraterrestrial superheroine known as '''Jadestar''' and using it to create a super-serum known as '''Star-Lite''', which was a dangerous process to undergo due to the alien blood having a high probability in killing its subjects. This didn't stop Trent though as he pressed forward with these experiments after the Quantum League refused to participate in the Star-Lite Initiative and instead turned to 200 test subjects to try the Star-Lite serum on. By the time these experiments were concluded, only 11 subjects were left and they became the dark counterparts of the Quantum League. Their names being '''Overclock''', '''Diva''', '''Tremor''', '''Hive''', '''Terabyte''', '''Impact''', '''Red Racer''', '''Catwalk''', '''Mister Sly''', and '''Weaver'''. Major League continued to taught Quantum League all over social media, advertising themselves as being the latter's replacement and jumpstarting a tense rivalry between the two groups, but ultimately Quantum League came out on top and were able to successfully shut Major League down by exposing the corruption that was going on behind closed doors at Trent Industries with Michael Trent conducting illegal experimentation, resulting in not just his arrest by Major League's as well. In the aftermath of the events following Major League's reign of terror and torment, Darrell became close with team member, '''Arielle Altomare''' a.k.a Flashpoint. The two developed a older-brother/younger-sister relationship with Arielle constantly worrying for Darrell's health and safety as well as helping him learn how to cook and make sure he keeps a full meal in his belly. She would also regularly supply him with cooking recipes that would keep his culinary skills honed and keep him from ordering out so much.</center> | + | <center>'''Dawn of the Major League'''</center> |
+ | <center>The next major threat that reared its head for Quantum League came in the form of a mirror group that called themselves, '''The Major League'''. The Major League was an investment made by Michael Trent to create superheroes out of the weak and powerless and have them take on threats that the Quantum League wouldn't handle; this resulted in the '''Star-Lite Initiative''' which took the harvested blood of an extraterrestrial superheroine known as '''Jadestar''' and using it to create a super-serum known as '''Star-Lite''', which was a dangerous process to undergo due to the alien blood having a high probability in killing its subjects. This didn't stop Trent though as he pressed forward with these experiments after the Quantum League refused to participate in the Star-Lite Initiative and instead turned to 200 test subjects to try the Star-Lite serum on. By the time these experiments were concluded, only 11 subjects were left and they became the dark counterparts of the Quantum League. Their names being '''Overclock''', '''Diva''', '''Tremor''', '''Hive''', '''Terabyte''', '''Impact''', '''Red Racer''', '''Catwalk''', '''Mister Sly''', and '''Weaver'''. Major League continued to taught Quantum League all over social media, advertising themselves as being the latter's replacement and jumpstarting a tense rivalry between the two groups, but ultimately Quantum League came out on top and were able to successfully shut Major League down by exposing the corruption that was going on behind closed doors at Trent Industries with Michael Trent conducting illegal experimentation, resulting in not just his arrest by Major League's as well. In the aftermath of the events following Major League's reign of terror and torment, Darrell became close with team member, '''Arielle Altomare''' a.k.a Flashpoint. The two developed a older-brother/younger-sister relationship with Arielle constantly worrying for Darrell's health and safety as well as helping him learn how to cook and make sure he keeps a full meal in his belly. She would also regularly supply him with cooking recipes that would keep his culinary skills honed and keep him from ordering out so much.<br><br></center> | ||
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+ | <center>In the Spring of 2022, Glitch would be nearing the end of his tenure with Quantum League. Developments would occur where Darrell would be made the newest Team Captain of Quantum League after serving time as an Officer for about a year and a half. While the pressure and responsibility would weigh on his shoulders quite heavily he try his best to lead the team as best he could, this also meant having to adopt a more serious demeanor and leave behind his more cocky and wisecracking demeanor he became known for. As all of this was going on, trouble began to brew behind the scenes without Glitch's knowledge. At this point in time, he had finally apprehended all of the rogue eLite_Circuit members in between the time he wasn't preoccupied with the duties he had with Quantum League. All the members were detained at Dynamic Innovations and were monitored 24/7 as the scientists worked endlessly to try and find a cure for their "affliction." As this was going on, Quantum League began to a rift that popped up in Millennium City, but this one was unlike the ones the team had encountered before as it appeared to have the ability to teleport. Piloting the group's personal ship, the '''Andromeda''', Quantum League set out to investigate this strange rift where their investigation eventually led them into outer space where the rift allowed what could only be described as "cosmic space whales" to pour in from another dimension and into our universe. The team was able to lure the space whales back into the rift and use the Andromeda's onboard energy/temporal weaponry to seal the rift and put a cap on that mini-episode. But their troubles didn't end there as in the two years that Glitch served alongside other like-minded heroes that only wanted to use their powers for good, Glitch had managed to avoid questions and topics regarding origin stories and how exactly he gained his powers. Usually he kept these answers brief and vague, not wanting anyone to know too much about him and who he was, at least in his past life. But now those revelations were about to finally be told.</center><br> | ||
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+ | <center>It all began with the mass murder of Ramsey Deacon (Firewall), Eugene Hawkins (Trojan), Kristen Ladner (Uplink), and Elmer Bradler (Golden Gizmo) along with several scientists and researchers at Dynamic Innovations. The only survivor left to tell the tale was Eric Williams a.k.a the Machinist, he stated that it all happened so fast, but the threat came in the form of a "digital ghost" that called itself: ''''W0RM'''' and that its main objective was to ''"Consume the Glitch, Destroy the Virus."'' An incantation that it spoke repeatedly. Whatever W0RM was, it was after Glitch and the fact that it knew where to find the outstanding eLite_Circuit members and slaughter the scientists that were watching over them let Glitch know that this thing wasn't just out for blood, but it was seeking vengeance. Over the course of several weeks, Glitch and his allies in the Quantum League attempted to track down and apprehend W0RM, most of the time they arrived too late to stop the senseless killings he left in his wake. It didn't take long for Glitch to figure out though that W0RM's attacks throughout the city weren't just random, they were specifically at locations that eLite_Circuit broke into or targeted during their time attempting a city-wide takeover. Glitch had one likely suspect as to who W0RM could actually be, but he didn't want to believe it. Not until he knew for sure. Glitch's fears would soon be realized when him and Quantum League would be cornered in a warehouse, the same warehouse where Glitch's story initially began. W0RM proceeded to trap Glitch's team in electro-stasis traps, but left Glitch free in order to engage him in a one-on-one fight. The fight didn't last long as W0RM was quick to overwhelm Glitch with his holographic duplicates and advanced phase-shifting abilities. In the villain's monologue he delivered to Glitch, he told the hero about his commitment to his new family caused him to take his eye off the ball. That while he was able to apprehend Ramsey, Eugene, and Kristen; why didn't he think to look for him. Why didn't he save him? It was at that moment, Glitch knew who this figure was. Deciding to remove his mask and look this blue-faced demon in the eyes, Glitch was now speaking to the entity as Darrell and addressed the figure by its real name: Russell Lyman.</center><br> | ||
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+ | <center>Darrell then finally after all this time decided to unload his secret origin to his team for the first time ever, explaining that Russell was his best friend that brought him into eLite_Circuit under the guise that it was a hacktivist group set on changing the world by exposing the lies and corruption that went on beneath the noses of Millennium City residents. But little did Darrell realize that Russell, all that time, had been lying to him. eLite_Circuit wasn't a hacktivist group but a cyber-terrorist organization that wanted to takeover the city by disabling SOCRATES and gaining control over the city's infrastructure. They were going to do so by retrofitting a virus that Darrell and Russell created together as a side project in their local community center where they took computer programming classes. Darrell managed to stop this plan from ever being executed by uploading a type of malware into eLite_Circuit's main network server but this wasn't just any virus, it was something...otherworldly. The server exploded and unleashed a wave of energy that altered the physiologies of everyone that was present in the same warehouse they were all occupying at that very moment. That energy wave was what gave Darrell his powers but also created his particular rogues gallery, the deal was that he was apprehend all of them and hand them over to the researchers at Dynamic Innovations as the algorithm Darrell used to overload the server was stolen from their computer archives. All this time, Darrell believed Russell to have been unaffected by the explosion and went on to live a normal life elsewhere. That was when Russell interrupted Darrell and proceeded to explain that he was very much affected by the Phantom Equation. It broke his body down atom-by-atom and effectively digitized him into cyber-space where he was trapped for years. His mind became scrambled until he finally found a way out and caught up all the things he missed in the last couple of years like Darrell becoming Glitch, joining a super-team, apprehending their former friends who also got similar powers to him, and when this was all said-and-done, Darrell just moved on. Never thought on trying to look for him or anything, he proceeded to build healthy, normal relationships with other people while he, Russell, continued to rot away in cyber-space.</center><br> | ||
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+ | <center>Initially, all Russell wanted to do was kill Glitch as he found himself repeating the phrase: ''"CONSUME THE GLITCH, DESTROY THE VIRUS!"'' he didn't know why or what it was, but he felt the urge there was a bigger threat out there and that he knew Darrell didn't have the power or will needed to stop what was coming. Of course, this led Darrell to asking about what did Russell mean by "destroy the virus" to which Russell replied, ''"I'd like to think of him as something like you but more twisted and malicious. I would say he's something of the '''inverse''' of everything Glitch embodies."'' The pronoun game that Russell was playing clearly implied that "Virus" was a person or an entity not unlike what Russell had become. Russell doubled down by stating that he killed their former friends so that he could drain them of their digital energy, absorb their power so that he could stop the reckoning that would soon be upon them, including him (Darrell). With that, Darrell knew where Russell was going with this as his ex-friend rushed him and attempted to tackle him so that he could absorb Darrell's powers too, but Chameleon managed to use a gadget in her utility belt to counteract the effects of the stasis trap her and the rest of her team were held in and where able to quickly help defeat W0RM. Russell, again, declared that Darrell couldn't stop him and it's only a matter of time. It was time for Darrell to pay the piper and face his sins. Russell that teleported away.</center><br> | ||
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+ | <center>In the aftermath of this entire event, Darrell became visibly distraught with nowhere left to turn to. By this point in time, Overclock, Flashpoint, Vortex, Reclusa, and other original Quantum League members had departed from the group to either retire from the hero life completely or live out the rest of their hero careers elsewhere. Without his support net, Darrell shut down completely and went into a deep depression. Now he had felt like he had truly lost everything, eLite_Circuit was officially dead, slaughtered by someone he used to call his best friend and now that friend not only has become a supervillain in his own right, but despises him for not saving him or trying to find him. Now his mind has been corrupted and twisted by the massive ball of yarn that is the World Wide Web. While efforts were made to console Darrell, it all became too much and Darrell stepped down from leadership and departed from Quantum League as a whole. Deciding that it was better that he focused on his own mental health and get himself in a better place mentally before stepping back out to tackle big threats with his team again. This, of course, left an aching feeling in his heart as he was about to finally officialize things with Sister Salem and think about asking her to be his girlfriend, but after everything he's been through he just couldn't. He had finally move past the skeletons he thought he had buried deep away in the back of his closet, only for them to come rushing back out like a bullet train. With that, Darrell left a departing statement for Quantum League find on their computers aboard the Andromeda and left without saying a word to anyone.</center> | ||
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