Difference between revisions of "Captain Mako"

Scott Gamble was born to Angela and Derek Gamble on April 21st 1990 in Detroit, Michigan. His family evacuated during Dr. Destroyer's attack when Scott was just 2 years old. They later moved into the rebuilt Millennium City. Since a young age, Scott was fascinated by the sea and the creatures that inhabited it. He also showed great intelligence. He graduated school with flying colours and excelled in college, especially in Science and more specifically biology. He went on to earn a degree in Marine Biology at the University of Michigan. Scott thought he was dead set to earn a job, but in the harsh modern world full of superhumans and declining economy this proved to be harder than he expected. Then when he was down on his luck and flat broke, VIPER came calling. He saw no choice but to accept the job.

It remains unknown to most of the world that roughly 2 years ago VIPER created a secret sect dedicated to studying the Lemurians, and potentially finding a way to take them out for good. VIPER was afraid of the Mandragalore being re-activated and ravaging the surface world. They named this sect Project: WaveMaker. They had been scouting for potenial recruits and had come across Scott Gamble, an up and coming brilliant Marine Biologist who had been unable to find work. They immediately recruited him for the project. Specifically, Scott had been assigned to studying Lemurian biology and general marine biology to help with creating a mutagenic chemical. VIPER wanted mutant soldiers that could survive the harsh depths of the ocean with minimal equipment. Working the chemical side of things was Dr. Ellis Weaver, a fellow scientist who had struggled to hold a job and like Scott worked for VIPER out of necessity. They were overseen by Dr. Hidetada Hiyama, a harsh and cruel-natured VIPER scientist. One day, when the WaveMaker submarine was just off the coast of Millenium City, an accident (of which the origins remain unknown) severely damaged the sub and caused it to flood. Hidetada was killed, Ellis managed to escape and Scott was trapped in a flooded lab, becoming submerged in water and mutagenic chemicals. The sinking sub hit a rock formation which tore a hole in the lab walls, the releasing pressure pulling Scott out. He drifted ashore and miraculously survived. He soon discovered that the chemicals had changed him, giving him Hydrokinesis. He also discovered that they had mutated various marine life, creating many new monstrous threats in the waters around MC. Having become good friends with Ellis Weaver, he entrusted him with his secret. Weaver promised he'd do all he could to right their wrongs. Having lost all their research, VIPER abandoned Project: WaveMaker. That was 6 months ago.

Ellis had saved up money from his VIPER paychecks, and started his own lab dedicated to solving the issue of the mutant sealife. He also secretly helped Scott, who was now calling himself Captain Mako. After a few outings in a homemade costume Scott realised he had overestimated the resiliency of himself and his suit. Ellis developed body armour for him, patterned after a shark. Mako mainly operated in the water, fighting the monsters causing the biggest threats. Because of this, he was not been seen much publicly and therefore is still very unknown. Only very recently has Scott began to appear on land to fight your garden variety supercrime.