Vega:
PL: 10
Strength 10
Stamina 10
Agility 2
Dexterity 2
Fighting 6
Intellect 0
Awareness 3
Presence 0
Skills: Insight 6 (+9), Perception 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8.)
Advantages: All-Out Attack, Close Attack 2, Diehard, Interpose, Luck [Determination], Power Attack, Ranged Combat 6
Powers: Energy Channeling: Blast 10 (Extra: Penetrating); (Feat: Accurate)
Flight 10
Invulnerability:
Immunity 10 [Life Support]
Impervious Toughness 10
Protection 2 (Extra: Impervious)
Super Senses: Senses 4 [Darkvision, Low-Light Vision, Vision (Extended)]
Super Strength: Enhanced Strength 5 (Flaw: Limited [Lifting only])
Offense: Initiative +2
Melee Attack +10
Ranged Attack +8 // Energy Channeling Attack +10
Defense: Dodge +8
Parry +8
Toughness +12* [*Impervious]
Fortitude +10
Will +10
Costs: Abilities 66+ Skills 6+ Advantages 13+ Powers 80+ Defense 15= 180 pts.
Background: Jon Armstrong lead a rough life, being given up to the foster care system. For several years he bounced around from family to family never being taken in by any one for more than six months.
Eventually Jon joined a street gang in an attempt to gain the family he had never had. He ended up being in charge of running the gang's protection racket, which led him to the encounter with an old store owner who wouldn't knuckle under the pressure to pay off.
Finally Jon had to lead his guys to roust the old man's store, it was a day he would never forget. As the crew entered the store and began to trash it the old man simply shook his head and said "Well, it looks like you boys want to do this the hard way. I tried to be nice." Then suddenly the old man jumped over the counter and into the middle of the crew and began to beat them up and throw them out of his store.
All until he got to Jon, then the old man simple offered Jon a hand up and asked him why he was with the gang. When Jon told him that the gang was his family the old man told him "No they aren't. They are only using you for their purpose." The old man offered Jon a meal and chance to talk about what made a family, by the end of that meal and talk it was decided that Jon would move in with the old man and help him at the store that was set up beneath.
Unfortunately though, Jon's old gang wouldn't let him out that easy. They firebombed the old man's store and house several months later in an effort to get rid of both Jon and the old man. Jon was able to dig through the rubble enough to find the old man who had been badly injured. The old man simply told Jon that his time was done and that it was now Jon's turn to "do the right thing for other people." With that the old man took Jon's had and suddenly Jon felt light-headed, and burning with a fever. Then it was over just as suddenly and the old man was dead.
Jon was so mad about what had happened to the only person that had ever been kind to him that he went straight to the gang's main hangout and confronted the leader and about twenty of his crew. Jon simple told them to disband the gang and go on their way... or else.
When the head of the gang was done laughing he asked Jon what the "or else" would be?
Jon simply said "Well, I guess its gonna be the hard way then." and then proceeded to try to beat the leader up. Unfortunately though the rest of the gang wouldn't let him finish and they began to beat him. Amid the punches and kicks Jon felt lightheaded and feverish again and then when it passed he couldn't feel their blows anymore. Then he heard the gang members yelling that they had hurt themselves hitting him. Suddenly Jon realized that the old man had somehow passed whatever abilities he had to him. So Jon proceeded to use them on the gang and in the process he destroyed their safe house.
Once Jon had dug his way out he found Sentry waiting on him. Jon asked him if he had known the old man and Sentry answered that he had fought with him more times than he could count. Then Sentry told Jon that there was a place for him to go so he could learn to control the powers he had gained and learn how to use them to help others like the old man had done for him. Jon has been a member of the Alliance, and even took the same name that the old man used when he was a hero.
In that year Jon discovered that the old man had been given his powers by an alien who had been a member of an coalition of beings that were empowered to protect planets that was called the Star Corps and with help from some of the other members of the Corps he has been able to expand his abilities somewhat. He has also found out that he has a younger brother and sister related to him by his father, and is currently attempting to get to know them better.
After that Jon has dealt with several threats to Drake City as Vega, from the antics of the vain villainess Tempest, to the cruelty of the Masters of Doom. Jon continued to grow in skill with his powers and made friends with his teammates in the Alliance, with Ashmoore becoming his closest friend and a budding romance with Blackstone.
The Curator, a mechanical entity that gathers all manner of things for it’s intergalactic collection, came back to Earth again; his interest in the planet had became renewed once again. During the Curator's thefts of various items about the different times in Earth's history Vega, Blackstone, and Echon worked to stop him. When the gathered heroes managed to gain access to the Curator's ship they managed to stop the Curator from transporting the items to his Archive but during the fight Vega ended up getting sucked into the fringes of the warp and was transported away.
He found himself in a place he named the “video zone” as he could see hundreds of other realities before finally entering into the World of Freedom. Right off the bat Jon found himself involved in a fight between Captain Thunder and Daedalus and the criminal Doctor Stratos, with the megalomaniacal villain damaging a passing by airplane in an effort to distract the heroes, which Jon immediately moved to save leaving his surprised allies to deal with Stratos.
Jon pushed himself too much however, not realizing just how drained he’d been from his time in the Video Zone and collapsed in front of Captain Thunder and Daedalus after the plane had been saved and Stratos dealt with. The two elder heroes took Jon to their orbital base, the Lighthouse and after treating him for extreme exhaustion and having him share his story the Freedom League investigated his claims as best they could until they came to the conclusion that Jon must be telling them the truth.
They offered Jon a place to stay while trying to help him return to his home dimension, as well as voting to make him a reserve member of League to help smooth over any potential problems he might find with local law enforcement. In the months since Jon, as Vega, has continued to show he is a hero by facing the likes of Goanna, Black Claw, Johnny Sixx, Ogre, Downtime, Barrage, and has found himself the new focus of mentally unbalanced villain Doctor Mayhem.
