Pacifica Watch
“We may roll cool around these parts, but that don’t mean we cool with bad behavior.”
The Pacifica Watch was born from a need for the APF to strengthen their west coast presence, and establish a group with wider ranges and jurisdiction than a typical super team might have. The APF typically kept teams more localized to a city or district that would most need their support, but the Pacifica Watch was formed because of an attack from the L.O.C.U.S.T, units near the Sierra mountains. The APF didn’t have enough of a presence in the area to stop the attack, and realized they needed a group with greater resources in order to track and curtail the L.O.C.U.S.T. units and rescue those taken by the swarm. Felicity Truffaut, aka Multiplicity, was chosen to lead the group, having had years of experience in the San Pedro region, and a personal stake in the mission (one of her close friends from a research team had been one of the people taken by the Swarm).
She was joined by Hank Douglass, the Mechanical Man, and his ward/project Calvin Isaacson, a teen’s mind and memories trapped in a CADET grade army android. Hank was a mechanical genius and Felicity knew she’d need his help in puzzling the L.O.C.U.S.T. units and their next moves. Cadet brought muscle to the group, having such an advanced piece of tech was a massive boost, even if it was a little strange to hear an android talk about missing hamburgers. To his credit, Calvin brought a lot more to the team than a joy for greasy sandwiches and a young view, the CADET android had powerful weapons capabilities, along with the ability to fly at hypersonic speeds. Hank himself was also an asset for more than just his mind. While Hank had a debilitating accident that left him without his legs, the nano bots in his blood and sophisticated ideas in his mind mean he still packs quite a punch, and can build some hellacious tech to keep upping the ante.
A surprise for Felicity was the insistence of one Misha Dabrowski to join the group. Misha didn’t have a ton on her resume, but Felicity had seen how powerful Misha, aka Godiva, could be. Misha’s body is able to store energy created by momentum, using it to construct an psionic exoskeleton of sorts. She can grow this form in any number of ways, and gets stronger the more she moves around. Felicity saw a great opportunity in Misha, though when Misha asked to also bring on her brother Demas, there were concerns. Demas, known at that time as Impact, was a supposed reformer who had flunked out of the program several times. Misha had taken his last failure as a final straw, and had single handedly dragged her brother out of the Trinity Underground, where he had been holding up. The twins kept secret what happened between them, but one thing was certain; Misha wasn’t letting her brother out of her sight again. She believed that Demas had been held back by his cynical view and history, and that being part of something with higher stakes on a greater level, where others would be more reliant on him, would finally push Demas out of his bad habits. After pushing Demas through the Reform program for real, she helped him find a new name, going by Meteor now.
On a mission to the south west, the group was introduced to Desert Arrow, who quickly took up a regular spot on the team. DA was a get along kind of guy, who didn’t let his jovial nature belay how serious he was about the hypocrisies he’d seen and the damage they had done. He jumped at the chance to join the team and bring along both his kind nature and his control over sand, stone and dust particles.
The group is still coming together in some ways, experiencing both the usual new team choppy waters, but also forming a strong foundation of trust and comradery.