Darien Fawkes (AKA: Daniel Turwin) | The Invisible man Player Details:
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There is a lotta back history that isn’t entirely needed for the bio, but I need it, so I added it. :P
Considering it tracks important events of the TV series ‘The Invisible Man’, I feel the need to state it contains spoils for the show, right to the last episode. So those watching the series might wish to avoid reading the history.
Updated Version – Meh… laziness prevailed, I just basically added that he has a son and that’s all regarding his relationship with Rebecca’s charrie. I’ll have another read over Wesley’s bio when I’m feeling more up to being creative and get around to finding out when Darien was up to his mischief activities behind my back!… quite obviously it would have been in the year 2005… which is now!! XD
Added more detailed explanation of his abilities to replace my ever so detailed explanation from years ago;
‘His unnatural ability is the ability to turn invisible amongst other side effects, these phenomenon occurs due to an implant placed into his brain.’ –Ahh… the joys of youth XD Character Details:
Name: Darien Fawkes. Nickname/s: Fawkes. Dan. Danny. Turwin. Alias: Daniel Turwin. Code Name: The Invisible Man Occupation: Crime Scene Investigator Team Affiliation: The Police Force School: N/a Legal Status:
As Darien – Was supposed to be serving life imprisonment after his third strike for repeated offences regarding theft, breaking in and entering, and other minor related incidents. Is currently reported to be on ‘Special Parol’. Though unofficially he is also being hunted by organizations wanting to have either him or the land in their custody.
As Daniel – No criminal records. Race: Human Cyborg (Only due to the implant) Place of Birth: San Francisco Marital Status: Single. Gender: Male. Age: 59 – Appears 35-ish due to his encounter with a demon named ‘Jool’ during his capture by A.Corp. Birthday: 23 October 1965 Hair: Short brown. Naturally sticks up, often baring a messy/ruffled look and if allowed to grow it does naturally wave slightly. Eyes: Brown, a charming look in his eyes with either a spark of mischief or grief that he can’t hide. Height: 6'2" Weight: 185 lbs
Other Physical Details:
A tattoo of an ouroboros (a snake eating its tail) is located on the bottom of his right wrist hidden under his watch band helps keep track of how far the Quicksilver has slipped into his system. When his system is clear of the toxic quicksilver it was green. As the toxic chemicals build up in his system then the snake would slowly turn red starting from the tail to the head. When the head finally turns red then he will hit stage one Quicksilver madness. There are a number of stages and symptoms to the Madness - for example, in the earliest stage Darien's eyes would turn red; by the fifth stage the eyes would be silver, and the Madness would be irreversible and incurable by the second day of a coma this stage will induce – chances are highly low that he’d manage to wake from the coma, likely he would die shortly after entering it.
Being almost sixty is hard to image for anyone who looks at Darien, but due to the de-aging touch of one of A.Corps operatives Fawkes lost a few years. It’s this altered state that enables the former criminal to impersonate a self made Investigator calling himself ‘Daniel Turwin’.
Usually Darien’s sense of hair styling is rubbing some gel over his palms and then ruffling his hair, what ever happens happens and that’ll be his style for the day. Often he enjoys simple casual clothes by Darien loves some style, his favourite jacket is his black leather one, usually he dresses in jeans.
Mother: Tiffany Case Fawkes / human / deceased / Non-Marvel, based on a TV Series Father: Mason Fawkes / human / alive / Non-Marvel, based on a TV Series
Other Important Relatives or People in their lives: Son: Wesley Fawkes / mutant / alive (Created & Played by rebalkatx – Rebecca)
Kevin Fawkes (brother, deceased), Celia Walters (aunt alive), Paul Walters (uncle - worked on the I-Man project, deceased), Madeline (grandmother)
Personality: Cynical and sarcastic, yet Charming and somewhat sensitive...kinda moody at times; this is Fawkes in a nutshell. Basically he was a once self serving cocky man who has a heroic streak he can’t hide – though tries to give the impression that it isn’t there for the sake of the ‘tough guy’ persona. Although he’s matured greatly there’s still that sense of arrogance at times. He enjoys his friends and is highly loyal though and doesn’t take well to being anyone’s lapdog, however as long as he thinks he’s doing some good, i.e. helping innocents, then he keeps his complaints to a minimal.
Being ordered to kill, hurt, or have a negative impact on anyone is a tough burden for Fawkes to grasp, and the only times he’s ever been swayed into causing negative actions was if the person in question was hurting others and Darien was able to convinces himself that he was doing some good… no matter how awful it made him feel. Causing someone’s death isn’t at all on Darien’s ‘can do’ list, even with the worst of them it’s always a final option and more often on those rare occasions a purely self defensive one.
Always lead by his curiosity and thirst to prove his own capabilities, it was this drive that eventually lead him into the ranks of his childhood and adolescent enemies - The Police Force. Fawkes has a hunger to learn and thrive off the crimes he takes part in, his darker side always gaining experience and knowledge, learning and growing and yet his need to help when possible keeping him on the straight and narrow. There’s always a sense of mystery around Darien, being so tight-lipped about his powers and secret past is of course what makes up his private personality.
If Darien’s powers were ever discovered, or if he shared his secret with someone, he will use the fabrication of being a mutant to explain his abilities. There’s a strong discomfort of having his ‘gifts’, and yet oddly enough he doesn’t mind having his fun with them. The constant threat of Quicksilver madness however keeps his mischief in check, but if he feels he needs to use his abilities to help someone, he will, even if it risks pushing him over the edge.
When in Quicksilver Madness Darien takes on an entirely different persona, the darker half of his soul that he hides away, much like the Jekyll and Hyde phenomenon. The darker personality lacks self control, the worse the madness the less control of will Darien has over his actions. The darker half is violent, threatening, unafraid to harm others though prefers the joys of toying with them, especially frightening them using his unusual abilities. Friends and enemies are one and same in his mind, however if there was personal dislike for someone, they usually gained his attention, which could be dangerous if that someone happened to be on the same team he was working for.
Likes:
· · Woman. Well… he is male after all…
· · Showing off his abilities in order to unnerve his opponents.
· · Sneaking around. Especially with his added abilities, makes the whole Clock and Dagger thing rather amusing at times.
· · Being a thief. Nothing like putting your brains and skills to the test then facing the newest snazziest of security systems, over coming them, and then keeping the rewards for yourself.
· · Being a Cop. Conflicts with his love for crime, but also enables him to put his crime skills to the ultimate test. Not to mention boosts his experience on the police’s handling of matters and how to avoid them, or reversely, how to help improve the weak spots for the better.
· · Freedom. As is to be expected from any lapdog in captivity, he likes his freedom, and isn’t willing to be dragged back to the hellish confines of life as a mindless Agent.
Dislikes:
· · The Gland. It has too many problems, too many restrictions, and too many times has caused him to become dangerous in the near insane state after suffering the poisonous effects without the counteragent.
· · Counteragent. He hates the dependency he has on it, and in the same sense as most drug addicts thrive upon their habits, he is always anxious to have his dose, wether he admits it or not, the anxiety is often easily seen.
· · The Agency. Always one lie after another. One false or half twisted honest white half truth after another that left Darien confused and unsure on many things save for one; He didn’t like how they were all using him for their own goals and purposes.
· · Agamemnon Corporation. As if the Agency wasn’t bad enough, two years ago he have been captured and tested and retested by another facility. This one managed to create an unstable replica of the gland, however it would deteriorate after a year and without the counteragent anyone who possessed the gland would usually not too long after the procedure.
· · The Government in General. Hates. Distrusts. Loathes. What else need one say to explain his reactions to anyone and anything involved with the government or the likes.
· · Needles. Try and stab him with a needle and chances are he’ll try and stab it right back at ya! It would take a doctor with impeccable bedside charms or strength to get a needle into Darien’s flesh, and he’d whinge and whine, even if all he could muster was a pout and disgruntled look.
· · Spiders. They creep him out. Especially if they are moving… and if they are speeding towards him he’ll panic and it wouldn’t be unlikely for his quicksilver to activate.
· · The Quicksilver Madness. An air of hostile residue from Simon Cole, the former host to the gland, can be seen resurfacing in Darien’s demeanour, this violence is only augmented by Darien’s darker half and so the I-man gradually loses all control of himself. And this is something that he fears due to the harm he can pose to others.
Powers and/or Skills:
Quicksilver:
Able to turn invisible by releasing a special chemical known as Quicksilver into his body. This is controlled by a gland implanted in the base of his skull. When invisible, his body temperatures drops to such a degree that he can freeze certain objects merely by touching them. Liquids tend to crystilize in his hold wether he desires it or not, but can freeze them intentionally by prolonging his contact and focusing additional quicksilver to coat whatever he wants to freeze. Generally a freeze burn is possible but mostly a person would only feel extreme cold unless Darien purposefully coated them with access quicksilver with intention of ‘freezing’.
He can also turn other objects invisible so long as he is in contact with them, although he (and the objects) remains visible to ultraviolet light. Darien can turn specific portions of his body invisible, while leaving the rest in plain sight - if he does this with his eyes, then he can see in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum, allowing him to spot other invisible people. His abilities are based on the flow of adrenaline through his system, with the result that he often turns invisible when feeling powerful emotions such as anger, excitement or fear.
If Darien stays invisible too long he risks permanent psychosis - "Quicksilver Madness" (in fact, even without being invisible, the chemicals would eventually cause madness if not treated daily with a counteragent), but his tattoo monitors the amount of toxin in his system.
Once his body stops seeping the quicksilver then it will dry and shatter into pieces and fall off his body or whatever it was coating, an almost instant effect save for the minute objects remain invisible before the Quicksilver becomes too fragile to remain covering it.
When invisible he is immune to freezing temperatures, the quicksilver forming a protective layer and storing some the heat of his own body. Which is why he himself doesn’t freeze when consumed within the substance. Of course he can’t not stay invisible forever, so once he loses the quicksilver coating, he is of course vulnerable to the temperatures again.
Stages of Quicksilver Madness:
Stage one a slightly paranoid will be noted in his actions and words, he will still be able to control himself somewhat however, though it takes great will on his part. The most easily notable effect of this stage is his eyes will remain persistently larger then average and taken on an eerie blood red colour and somewhat bloodshot in appearance. These eyes give him a unique vision of the ultraviolet spectrum yet he can not willingly change back to his ‘normal’ vision.
At stage two, due to prolonged effects of seeing things in the ultraviolet spectrum, there is a ‘ghost’ which haunts him, a constant shadow in the corner of his eyes that only increases his paranoia, temper and additionally his strength. At this point a general disregard for friend and foe would start to become evident, however there is still something of Fawkes struggling for control, even if it’s hard to notice beneath the unstable exterior that begins to settle over his demeanour.
Stage 3 he will continue to still becoming increasingly paranoid and his strength will augment somewhat as he becomes more violent. If friends or foe alike haven’t yet managed to subdue him, it’s best they do it now, as this is when Darien loses all morality in favour for a darker, sinister and cruel playful mischief and hardly cares for any damage he causes.
The fourth stage he will refuse to become visible, enjoying the fear he can involve by being there and yet not being seen. Also there is a need to protect himself from those who will harm him, by this time he is far more likely to strike out for little or no reason. His mind is clouded by the paranoid and feel that he is better, a slight egotistical shadow of his personality surfacing and often the desire to get back at those who do him wrong. It is somewhat possible to still reach Fawkes… as long as it’s something important to him, very important, as he has turned on his partner around the level of stage two. Mostly the only way to get to Darien at this stage is to offer him something ‘beneficial’, as he is very self serving as well as malicious, he may still strike a deal.
The final stage is number five on the Quicksilver scale of madness, his eyes will turn silver, and he will become frenzied, his own will now long gone and buried without any chance of being reached. He is violent to anyone, no matter who or what relations he has with them, it’s always wise to treat Darien as if he’d stab you in the back at any given chance, because if you don’t, then you may not live to regret the trust you had in his darker half. Once he is at this stage, he will fall into a coma within a matter of hours, sooner if he over exerts himself dramatically, he will die within 2 days if he doesn’t receive either a heavy dose of counteragent or more preferably the special ‘Stage Five Cure’ which is highly unlikely to be able to be reproduced so effectively as the one Arnaud had made. The chances of suffering brain damage is highly probably once he reaches the second day of his coma.
Interesting Facts on the Gland:
In the first instance, he learned that, prior to being inserted in his head, the gland had been used on a man named Simon Cole, an assassin for the C.I.A., but had been removed after Cole became permantly invisible and turned completely insane. Everyone thought Cole had returned on one occasion when they had been attacked by an Invisible assailant, but actually it was just the gland which retained an imprint of Cole's memories and personality, making Darien act like Cole at certain moments when in the madness. In the second case, Darien, Hobbes and Claire discovered that the original Quicksilver had been discovered in the dead body of a sasquatch - the species known to all as Bigfoot. A natural gland, the Quicksilver was the reason that Bigfoot's existence had never been confirmed; no matter how many people went hunting for it, the sasquatch could just turn invisible and run away to safety right under the hunter's noses. Extracting the gland, the government had set its scientists working on a synthetic version.
Agent/Police Training:
Familiar with basic weapon handling and a quick learner with new and improved weaponry, Darien however rarely carries anything other then his official police side arm. And even then it’s a last resort for him to use it, at best he may wave it about as a threatening tool to gain the attention of others.
Due to the fact he never had any real training and basically only learned what he could while out on the job, it means most of his knowledge is from experience and only some of everything. Crime is the one thing he knows basically everything about, crime scenes being the next best thing. He’s good at snooping but sometimes jumps to conclusions, with every mistake that has occurred because of his brashness he has learned to be a little more cautious and not charge in on a whim at all times. Although Darien may not be the most typical agent around, he still got his job done, and that is something he is proud of, the fact he can stand toe to toe with others regarded as ‘the best’ and still keep up with them and what they needed him to do for them.
History:
After the death of their mother Tiffany Case Fawkes and the imprisonment of their father, Mason Fawkes, Kevin and Darien Fawkes were thereafter raised by Celia and Paul Walters. Kevin demonstrated the family bent towards science, encouraged by Paul Walters he became an award winning science student and a medical student and biochemist. The family's connection to invisibility was known to Paul Walters who found it a fascinating theory. Although Kevin was kept in the dark about the family history as per his father and Grandmother's request, his Uncle's enthusiasm for the subject also fired his imagination.
They utilized known invisibility research in order to come up with a totally new approach.
Darien however grew up a troubled youth. Feeling constantly overshadowed by his older brother, knowing that his father was a career criminal, remembering his mother's drunken tales of being a master jewel thief and inspired by the tales of Raffles, Robie, Hewitt and MacDougal, Darien embarked on a career as a master thief and con man extraordinaire.
His exploits garnered him two felony convictions before he was thirty.
While Darien served his time in prison, Kevin Fawkes and Paul Walters managed to secure government financing for their invisibility project. Paul Walters had a theory derived from his fascination with crypto zoology that certain legendary species possessed a natural invisibility power that manifested when they were frightened or anxious. Among these might be species close to humanity such as the Sasquatch or Yeti. Paul Walters had actually first proposed his invisibility project in 1976 and in doing so became acquainted with Charles Borden (The Official) Mason Fawkes appeared to gone for good. Rumour had it that a covert group in the intelligence services had managed to gain skin and hair samples from a Sasquatch. The OSI however would not release them. In 1990 the invisibility research was approved by Dr. Augustin Gaither and financed by the Secret Weapons Research Branch. Dr. Walters and Fawkes were given the cellular samples they wished. After a number of failed approaches Dr. Kevin Burke finally with the aid of Dr. Arnaud de Thiel had managed to create a biological map of the Sasquatch from the DNA. Dr. de Thiel and a few other scientists were instrumental in making the breakthroughs that allowed for a biological model with the correct chemical and hormonal sequences to be generated. Kevin Fawkes often joked it was as if De Thiel and the others had cloned the samples and dissected the resulting offspring.
In 1998 Dr. Fawkes designed a biosynthetic gland which would produce invisibility in animals. The first results were not promising as the chemical continued to build up in the subject's system causing synaptic failure. A modified gland produced a reagent which would neutralize quicksilver substance. Chemically triggered by the adrenals, the fear, aggressive or anxiety responses in a subject would trigger the quicksilver gland to produce a chemical agent which reacts with the sweat glands to release the quicksilver compound. The compound was secreted through the skin pores and tear ducts and quickly dried to become a flexible sheath that normally covered the subject, their clothing and any small articles in their possession. However with the secretion of a sufficient enough amount of Quicksilver it was possible to render invisible another individual or even a large object such as a heavy door or a motorcycle.
The first subject for human testing of the synthetic organ was Simon Cole, a CIA operative culled from records of the various intelligence agencies top agents. Because of a genetic marker in Cole's DNA, he was unable to trigger the inhibitor catalyst to terminate the Quicksilver process i.e. become visible. After nine weeks he became irrational and violent. The Agency Official was forced to use deadly force to defend himself. The quicksilver gland was harvested from Cole's body.
Another subject had to be found. As fate would have it Kevin Fawkes found a way to kill two birds with one stone.
Despite his intensive mentoring from Liz, an older and wiser cat burglar, Darien made two fatal mistakes that lead to felony convictions. During a recent burglary of a retirement community, he made a third mistake that developed into a third felony conviction. Under the three strikes law he received a mandatory life sentence.
Kevin Fawkes arranged for Darien to receive a possible pardon if he would submit to being a human guinea pig. Darien agreed after being told that that the surgery would be reversible.
Darien Fawkes was taken to a laboratory in the Mojave desert. Darien was immediately suspicious of one of the scientists, Arnaud de Thiel, Kevin's right hand man. De Thiel seemed too smooth and slick to Darien. A con artist knows a con artist.
The quicksilver gland was implanted into Darien and the early tests went remarkably well. Darien learned the necessary control to shift between visibility and invisibility at will. Darien continued to be cautious about Arnaud de Thiel. After a few weeks however Darien began to develop the same sort of madness that Simon Cole had experienced. Arnaud de Thiel was able to deflect any of Darien's suspicions against him as being the result of quicksilver madness. He offered to try to come up with a counteragent for it. Darien wanted the gland removed but his body had become chemically dependent on the gland's secretions. Removing it would have killed him.
Once Arnaud had created the counteragent and saw that it was successful, he demonstrated that Darien's suspicions about him had been correct all along. Arnaud convinced everyone that Darien was dangerous and should be confined. After Darien was confined, Arnaud communicated with a terrorist assault team lead by his brother. Arnaud ordered them to attack the base and leave no one alive, especially none of the scientists. Arnaud had placed plastic explosives in all of the security staff's walk talkies Arnaud detonated the explosives prior to calling for the assault to begin. Arnaud's terrorists methodically exterminated all the base's personnel. Kevin Fawkes destroyed all of the base's data banks. Darien freed himself of his restraints. Escaping from his room he literally ran into his brother. They were shot at by terrorists. Kevin was killed by gun fire.
Arnaud was upset when he discovered that Darien escaped from the facility and lost the chance to extract the gland.
Darien visited a Doctor of his acquaintance to have his gland removed. The Doctor specialized in discreet medical treatment for the criminal element. Darien suspected that the Doctor planed to harvest his gland and other organs and left the office when the Doctor stepped out to make a phone call. Darien tried his ex-girlfriend Casey O'Claire who was also a physician. She refused to believe his story when he was unable to turn invisible. Upon leaving his ex-girlfriend's clinic he was captured and subdued by members of the Agency.
Taken to the Agency's headquarters, Darien was told that due to recent governmental cutbacks the Agency is sponsored by a variety of government agencies with surplus budgets. This is only partially true. The Agency received its budget from and had different sponsorship agencies because like other agencies similar to it, The Agency was not officially sanctioned by any existing government bureau or agency. A rogue organization it hid within the maze of Bureaucracy. A man known only as the Official interrogated him about the debacle at the desert laboratory.
Darien Fawkes was informed that Arnaud de Thiel was a terrorist known as Arnaud de Fehrn. Several terrorist groups had begun gathering at Arnaud's hacienda in Mexico for an auction. Darien was offered a chance to get justice for his brother's killer and also to do good by removing the threat of terrorists having control of his brother's work. Arnaud experienced problems with his stolen data. He had smuggled the last bit of key data out of the Quicksilver laboratory by swallowing it. The stomach acids from his ulcer had corrupted the data. He needed the gland from Darien's head to make the glands he had created work properly.
Darien travelled down to Mexico and met up with Hobbes, the Agency's top man. They were spotted by Canadian terrorists who believe them to be CIA. Hobbes and Fawkes escape unscathed but stayed hidden. Arnaud de Thiel called Darien's ex-girlfriend and tells her that he was Hawley Griffin a CIA agent who has a line on Darien Fawkes. He lured Casey O'Claire to Mexico on the pretence that it would help Darien. When Hobbes and Fawkes checked in with the Official, they were informed that Casey O'Claire had gone missing.
Darien Fawkes succeeded in making himself invisible and enters Arnaud de Thiel's hacienda. He was deep in the Quicksilver madness by the time he entered the hacienda. De Thiel's men saw him with thermal glasses. Fawkes collapsed from the effects of the Quicksilver poisoning and was nearly captured. He realized that de Thiel needed the gland in his head and threatened to blow his head off with a shotgun. He demanded to be taken to De Thiel. Afraid that Darien would destroy the gland, Arnaud tried to bargain with him. Arnaud revealed that he had made alterations to Dr. Fawkes design of the Quicksilver gland making it so that continued use of the gland would be addictive. If the quicksilver secretions were not neutralized with a counteragent it would eventually destroy the brain and kill the invisible man. Further more Arnaud had designed the counter agent to addictive. In this way Arnaud de Thiel would be able to control those who had the gland.
Darien pretended to go along with Arnaud's plan but slipped and let the shotgun go off. He lay on the floor without a head. Shocked at the loss of the gland, Arnaud let his guard slip. Darien grabbed the syringe of counteragent from de Thiel's hand and ran away and searched for a secure place to use it. Darien had merely made his head invisible making it seem momentarily that he had been decapitated by the shotgun blast. Darien managed to blow up Arnaud's laboratory, apparently killed Arnaud, rescued Casey O'Claire and received a syringe of counteragent from De Thiel's severely wounded brother. The Agency's resident biochemist and physician, Claire aka The Keeper, recreated the counteragent. Darien would receive regular doses if he continued to work for the Agency.
Over the next two years Darien Fawkes became the Agency's invisible agent. Although many of the cases were mundane, routine cases that were only slightly aided by Darien's ability to turn invisible, he did encounter some very odd cases that related to other events in the WNU and also pointed to a darker organization behind Arnaud de Thiel. One the first cases that Darien Fawkes became involved was to track down another government experiment gone awry. A man had been created to be an assassin with the power to kill by touch. Apparently someone in the government tried to make Rappaccini's Daughter a reality. The man Fogerty nearly killed the Official with his touch, since the Official was part of the project that had created the Cataveri. Although Fogerty escaped, Darien tracked him down. The Agency's shooters gunned the Cataveri down over Darien's objections.
In another early case Fawkes and Hobbes are sent to investigate the activities of a psychic who sometimes advised his clients to commit suicide in order to save their families from evil spirits. It turned out to be a waste of time for Fawkes to become invisible when they visited the psychic, since Benjamin Scarborough was blind and sensed Fawkes anyway. He warned Fawkes of the evil within him and told him he would one day kill his partner. As Hobbes and Fawkes investigated the psychic's clients, they began to see that the blind man actually did have some strange ability. However some of the clients who had apparently committed suicide had actually been killed by Scarborough's daughter. Her purpose was to maintain her father's credibility and also to save the families of those people who refused to commit suicide. Many of these individuals were disturbed and would have committed atrocities on their families had they not been killed. At least these were the visions that Scarborough had.
A few weeks later Arnaud de Thiel lured Darien to his hometown by pretending to be Kevin Fawkes. Although Arnaud had hoped to scam Darien into letting him remove the gland, Arnaud's scheme was defeated. Even though Arnaud escaped Darien Fawkes learned that it was his Uncle Paul Walters who was the original impetus behind the invisible gland project. Paul Walters had known the Official. All of the early work that Paul Walters had done on the gland had been classified under the name of Peter Donovan.
On one crucial case Darien and Hobbes were sent to the small South American nation of Santa Ruego. They had been sent there to persuade the Prime Minister not to use chemical weapons in a war against neighbouring nation because there could be damage to the United States business interests in the region. Darien posed as a restless spirit and terrorized the superstitious Prime Minister. Darien's efforts were stymied from a woman who claimed to be an agent from another agency. This was a false cover story, she actually worked for a private firm which wished for the war between Santa Ruego and its neighbour to escalate into chemical and biological warfare. The woman also used local folklore to her advantage. She was known as the Dark Lady. She had the ability to kill men with a kiss. She held water in her lungs and expelled it in one gush, filling the lungs of those she kissed with water and drowning them. Alianora's ability came from genetic engineering. Overall however Darien was more convincing as a spirit and won out.
In another case Claire a.k.a. the Keeper, the medical doctor who regulated Fawkes levels of quicksilver and counteragent, attempted to murder a person with no personal connection to her. They discovered that the sleep clinic that she had been visiting for help with her insomnia was mind control techniques to implant programming in the clients so that they would kill someone of the programmer's chosing. After committing the crime the sleeper would commit suicide. Once initiated the sleeper would keep attempting to kill the target until successful or neutralized. Fawkes and Hobbes used the same sleeper technology to program the Keeper with the belief that she had fulfilled her mission, thus neutralizing her original programming.
Darien once again crossed paths with the Dark Woman, when Kate Easton a female scientist from a previous case fled from the Dark Woman. Dr. Easton told the Agency that several scientists have been kidnapped and that she was on a list to also be kidnapped. Despite Agency protection the Dark Woman, Allianora abducted Kate Easton and had her cryogenically frozen before Fawkes and Hobbes could reach her. Allianora was captured by the Agency and was resistant to all interrogation techniques. Playing off of their mutual attraction, Fawkes agreed to betray the Agency if Allianora would betray the Organization by helping him rescue the female scientist. Allianora took him to the warehouse where Kate Easton along with dozens of other noted scientists were being held. Allianora tried to double cross Darien and freeze him. Darien used his Quicksilver and was kept from being frozen. The quicksilver acted as an insulating agent. Freed from the cryo chamber Darien freed Kate Easton and took her to safety. A short time later, Darien and a group of Agency operatives returned to the warehouse but all the scientists in their cryogenic freezing pods were gone.
A couple months later shortly after another fruitless encounter with Arnaud; Allianora invited Darien to meet with "The Organization," a.k.a. "Chrysalis." Chrysalis had information that the Agency planned to replace Darien with a more tractable agent. Chrysalis offered Darien a place in the Organization. Darien confronted the Official with the evidence. The Official pointed out that Darien had replaced another agent. That was the information that the Organization was using. Darien agreed to work with the Organization, however their price for his entry was to kill Allianora. He shot her with the gun they provided. He had gambled that they would not want to lose one of their top agents. He gained information from the Organization before they suspected he is a double agent. He barely escaped with his life even with Allianora's help.
The files revealed the Arnaud was deeply connected to the Organization and sent them funds from his casino. The Official had a plan to cripple Arnaud and cut off one source of funds for the Organization. Hobbes and Fawkes would skim money from the Arnaud's Mexican casino using the quicksilver process. The Official called a halt to the operation after they had skimmed five million dollars. Darien was not satisfied and wanted to break Arnaud. He was told he would not get any more counteragent until he stopped being insubordinate. Darien refused to listen and eventually developed stage five quicksilver madness that was very near to being permanent brain damage.
Hobbes was sent to bring Fawkes in. Fawkes learned that Arnaud had recently been implanted with a new Quicksilver gland. Hobbes was approached by Arnaud with a proposition. The gland that had been implanted in Arnaud was not done so properly. Arnaud needed to refer to Darien's gland to correct the surgical flaws. In return Arnaud would supply Hobbes with a level five counteragent which would bring Darien back to sanity and stop the possibility of permanent brain damage. For Fawkes sake, Hobbes agreed.
Fawkes was captured and a surgeon used Darien as a model to realign Arnaud's Quicksilver gland. Darien was given the counteragent but it did not take effect immediately. Darien attacked Arnaud. The two invisible men fought. When the counteragent took effect, Darien was stunned, Arnaud used that momentary relapse to escape. Arnaud later discovered that the gland he possessed malfunctioned. He was permanently invisible.
Darien Fawkes received a surprise visit from Allianora. She told Darien that Chrysalis believed her to be a security risk. She asked for his help before Chrysalis put an end to her. While at his apartment she and Darien took their relationship to a new, passionate level. She disappeared the next morning. From this moment on, Darien took a rather bland outlook onto relationships. As far as he feels is right, one night stands and short time flings are all he can ever have, he had no idea it was this sort of thinking that would lead to a son he’d never have the chance to watch grow.
Darien and Hobbes went to pick up the man they believed was the security leak. The informant had already been assassinated. Hobbes and Darien visited the dead informant's home, looking for information. Upon their arrival they were met with a Chrysalis gunman. Although he got the jump on them Hobbes and Darien managed to get away from him. They wondered how Chrysalis had known of their plans. A simple scan revealed that Darien had been injected with a nano-bug that transmitted everything he saw or heard back to Chrysalis. The nano-bug had to be injected or passed on through sexual contact. Allianora had given the bug to Darien during their romantic encounter.
Upon his arrival at the Agency the next day, the Official requested his presence. The Official pointed a gun at Darien's head and told him that he betrayed the Agency. The Official fired at point range. At Chrysalis the screens from Darien's nano-bug go black. Allianora believed that he been killed and the news devastated her. Actually as the Official was firing the gun Hobbes slipped a signal blocking helmet on Darien to contain the nano-bug's signal. Until the bug was removed the helmet had to stay on. The Keeper believed that Chrysalis would use the nano-bugs to infect the children of America's elite in government in business under the pretence of flu vaccinations. This would let Chrysalis spy on these subjects at home and give them a good deal of private information about the leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow.
During the mission to stop the flu vaccines from being injected at an elementary school, Darien lost his helmet and Allianora learned he is still alive. The Keeper and Hobbes raced to stop the injections from being carried out while Darien led the Chrysalis agents away as a decoy. Darien was knocked unconscious and dumped into a pool to drown, but Allianora rescued and resuscitated him. Just as Darien regained consciousness, Stark, the head of Chrysalis, shot Allianora. Stark escaped when Hobbes arrived with the police. Allianora tried to reveal what Chrysalis has in store for Darien, but she died before she could get the words out.
The Keeper used a new specimen of the nano-bug to develop a "nano-vaccine" that purged the bug from Darien's brain and ensured that Chrysalis would not be able to use nano-bugs in the future. As a consequence of their hiding in the maze of government bureaucracy, the Agency often received assignments from its temporary sponsors. Usually the Official ignored these. However one case from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, intrigued him. He sent Fawkes, Hobbes and the Keeper to investigate several murders on an Indian reservation, which were said to have been done by a monster called the Wendigo. Although Hobbes complained that they were stepping into X-Files territory find evidence to support the supposition. Darien is attacked by something invisible that attacks him and licks him. Using his quicksilver vision, he sees that it was a hairy humanoid, approximately eight to ten feet tall.
After analysing the saliva, the Keeper discovered that it was laced with quicksilver. Darien believed that his brother used cellular samples from this type of animal to create the quicksilver gland. The Keeper told Darien that from her analysis of the Wendigo's saliva, the gland that Darien possessed was a female's gland so that possibility existed that the Wendigo wanted to mate with Darien. In the course of their investigation, Fawkes, Darien and the Keeper met up with a Mountain Man obsessed with capturing or killing the Wendigo. He wished for revenge since the Wendigo killed his wife. Fawkes and Hobbes were unable to capture the Wendigo because the crazed mountain man blew himself and the Wendigo up with a homemade grenade.
The Official was pretty angry with the investigation team and insisted that they made it all up, that there were not any invisible ten-foot-tall monsters. The Odd thing was that Fawkes never said how tall the thing had been. The true story of this investigation bears a bit more scrutiny. The Official heard about another living source of the quicksilver gland which Kevin Fawkes had based his design on. This living source that could be captured. Because the monster was the subject of a murder investigation no one would be that upset if the thing disappeared. The Keeper discovered evidence that the Wendigo had scavenged the remains of the victims but had not killed the victims. All the evidence pointed to the crazed mountain man as being the killer. It was just bad luck that the Wendigo had been blown up with the Mountain Man.
Fawkes and the Agency had another agent foisted upon them by one of their "sponsor" agencies. Alex Monroe, a no-nonsense female agent was investigating the abduction of more than 1,300 newborns from hospitals during the past few years. Almost all the abducted kids were conceived at fertility clinics owned by the same corporation.
Darien Fawkes did some invisible snooping and managed to stop another abduction. He followed the would-be kidnapper to a youth camp. The kids were going through some sort of intensive boot camp training. www.pjfarmer.com/secret/invisible/ - ChrysalisThere was also a hangar full of newborns. The youth camp was owned by Chrysalis. Since the Agency needed proof that the children had been abducted before they could legally raid or shut it down, Darien obtained DNA samples. The Keeper matched several DNA samples to those of abducted children. She also discovered the disturbing fact that they had all been genetically engineered not to grow old.
The Agency and several other government enforcement agencies raided the camp. However Chrysalis had gotten wind of the raid and armed the kids. Fawkes broke this stand off by turning invisible and taking the camp counsellors as hostages. Mr. Stark, the head of the Chrysalis Corporation, allowed the children to be taken without violence although he continued to claim that legally Chrysalis owned the children. They had supplied the zygotes and eggs, the mother's were merely incubators. Alex Monroe had been one of these living incubators. Unfortunately her abducted child was not among those found in this camp. In the next few months Fawkes and the Agency encountered Arnaud de Fehrn twice and sting the Chrysalis once.
The past of the Official, of the Agency and of Kevin Fawkes caused trouble for the current agents. A man who was deaf, dumb and blind and whose only remaining sense was touch used a device of his own making to see and hear and speak. Desperate for help he broke into Darien's apartment. The man who was named Tommy Walker claimed that he was a test subject for an experiment which Kevin Fawkes and a man named Dr. Augustin Gaither had worked on for the Special Weapons Research Branch. Dr. Gaither was trying to kill him. Tommy Walker refused to go with Darien to the Agency not trusting the government. He led Darien to a building which was a government hospital. Inside the hospital was a ward of people who had also been robbed of all but their tactile sense. Unfortunately they were all incurable insane. Walker and Fawkes returned to Fawkes apartment. Hobbes showed up asking what Fawkes was up to.
A SWRB swat team surrounded Fawkes, Hobbes and Walker. Fawkes and Hobbes were released from the SWRB by the Official's efforts. They were told to forget about Tommy Walker. They disobeyed orders and went back to the hospital. They discovered Tommy being tortured and rescued him. Hobbes took Tommy to his house. Darien did some invisible snooping. He discovered that the project's name had been Tommy Walker. Tommy Walker was Augustin Gaither who had experimented on himself and had gone insane.
The SWRB blew up Hobbes house to destroy all the evidence of the existence of the project including Tommy Walker but Fawkes managed to rescue Hobbes and Walker in time.
Under the pretence that the Agency was strapped for cash the Official had Hobbes and Fawkes investigate an agency with a very large budget which no one else in the government bureaucracy seemed to know about, The Agency of Sequestered Seclusion. Hobbes and Fawkes checked the Ass' payroll and discovered that most of the agency's money was going to dead agents. Among these was Hobbes former partner. Hobbes and Darien figured it for a scam. Hobbes located a couple of agents on this payroll that were still listed as being active. Hobbes and Fawkes visited one of them. Hobbes and Fawkes were interviewing the man inside his home when two men in beige suits showed up and tried to abduct the agent. Hobbes, Fawkes and the agent were tranquilized. They awoke in the man's living room however when they left his house they were on a street they had never seen.
As it turned out the Agency of Sequestered Seclusion was a retired community for spies, in reality a large holding pen for intelligence agents with blown covers. They were supposed to be dead but living in this vast community without any chance of ever leaving. According to Hobbes and Fawkes report they met a man who was the basis for the Avengers John Steed Despite the chance to live a rather cushy life in early retirement Hobbes and Fawkes are forced to find a way to escape before Fawkes is taken over by the Quicksilver madness. The Official later told them that he made a deal with the Agency for Sequestered Seclusion that for a part of their operating budget, he and his organization would keep quiet about the work that the Agency of Sequestered Seclusion was doing. So helping to keep all the retired spies "safe."
Chrysalis had stolen a laser which could create lightning. Hobbes and Fawkes were dispatched to retrieve it. In doing so Fawkes was accidentally struck by lightning. Hobbes however thought that Fawkes had turned invisible and went after the Chrysalis bad guys. Computer records search showed that a person matching Fawkes description had been admitted to a nearby hospital suffering from amnesia. Stark, the head of the Chrysalis Corporation had also discovered that Fawkes was amnesiac. Having arrived before Hobbes and Monroe, Stark convinced Fawkes that he was his boss at the CIA. He was leaving with Fawkes when Hobbes and Monroe arrived to stop him. In the ensuing gun battle Fawkes escaped. He went to the local police precinct only to discover that he had a rap sheet. The police tried to arrest Fawkes and he turned invisible. Stark and his goons had followed Fawkes and captured him once more. Another invisible man showed and rescued him from Stark. The other invisible man told Fawkes he was Fawkes brother Kevin and that they were both the result of a government experiment, test tube babies grown to be super agents. Kevin was permanently invisible. They needed to break their other brother Johnny out of prison because he was the only one that could reverse Kevin's disability.
Darien helped to spring Johnny out of prison. Johnny did not look anything like Darien and he spoke with a French accent. Hobbes and Monroe showed up once more. Darien remembered who he was. Darien Fawkes, ex-thief turned federal agent. "Kevin" was Arnaud De Fehrn, the man who had killed his real brother Kevin, and modified the Quicksilver gland to make Darien dependent on Counteragent. "Johnny" was Arnaud's brother, Huiclov, who gave himself up to the cops while Darien went after Arnaud. Darien was struck with a bout of Quicksilver madness and Arnaud slipped through Darien's fingers again.
After a few routine cases Fawkes and the gang got word of another Chrysalis youth camp. The raid was successful and the children were rescued. Monroe's child is among this batch. When the Keeper checked out to see if any genetic modifications had been made to the child, she discovered that the child's DNA was from Stark and his wife, none of it was Monroe's. Monroe however wanted to keep the baby and went on maternity leave. Fawkes accompanied Monroe and her child as they left the Agency. A Chrysalis commando team tried to snatch the child back. Fawkes defeated them and took the kid back to the Agency for protection. Monroe then marched right into Chrysalis HQ, confronted Stark and barely got out alive. While the Official was chewing her out, a woman showed up at the Agency HQ with a tip that someone had put a bomb in the water cooler. Hobbes' quick thinking eliminated the bomb threat. The tipster was Stark's wife, Eleanor. She said Monroe's crazy-Mom act had sent Stark over the edge. He said he'd rather his child dead than stay with Monroe. Eleanor wanted to protect her son. She was even willing to steal some intelligence from Chrysalis — but she insisted on getting it by herself. She insisted that she get it alone, which wasn't an option. Darien saved Eleanor from a squad of Chrysalis commandos The Official announced that Eleanor was going into witness protection — Monroe announced that she wanted her son James to go with Eleanor. She felt that was the only way the boy would be safe from Chrysalis A few hours after Eleanor and the baby left with another team of agents. Mother and child were AWOL and the agents were dead.
In one of the most important cases, so far as we are concerned, Fawkes and Hobbes were assigned along with agents from various agencies to help locate and neutralize a NSA sniper named Forrester Perdue. Forrester had been a sniper who "neutralized" foreign assassins for the U.S government for nearly 30 years but no one knew what he looked like. For reasons which they did not bother to explain, The NSA figured Perdue would go after some foreign dignitary at an embassy reception.
Hobbes and Fawkes located the best sniper spot and Darien saw a possible shooter. He gave invisible pursuit, but the sniper put a gun in his face, told Darien to "let it go," then escaped. Darien was Quicksilvered, and the sniper was not wearing thermals but he still knew Fawkes was there. Fawkes recognized him. The next day Fawkes went to see his grandmother. Forrester was her married name. He was certain that Forrester Perdue was his father, whom he believed had walked out on his Mother, Kevin, and him. Forrester Perdue was a small-time thief who'd disappeared without a trace.
Hobbes and Fawkes visited the NSA main office and managed to swipe Perdue's file. It had been his handler who had reported that Perdue had gone rogue. Perdue's list of assignments matched up with Mason Fawke's rap sheet. Everything matched up until 1975 when his file became classified. Fawkes paid another visit to his Grandmother. While he looked over the family album, Hobbes spotted a bunch of spooks surrounding the house. Hobbes surprised them and Fawkes and Hobbes gave chase. They were lead into a trap. They were as good as dead until Mason Fawkes used his sharp shooting skills to help them get away. Mason Fawkes explained to Darien that he had not gone rogue, he had simply refused to kill an American Senator who was not traitor but who wanted to scrutinize the budget of the NSA. For some reason Royce did not want that to occur.
Darien made a deal with Royce to take Mason Fawkes place if he would lift the death sentence on Mason Fawkes. Royce admitted to arranging for a hit on an U.S. Senator. Mason Fawkes disappeared once more.
Darien Fawkes received a gift basket of wine from a local winery from Arnaud de Fehrn. Enclosed was an invitation to see him. Fawkes and Hobbes thought this was a joke because last time they had encountered Arnaud he had been invisible. Fawkes and Hobbes visited the winery and found it to be a Chrysalis front. Fawkes investigated while in the invisible mode and found a visible Arnaud in a laboratory. Arnaud's quicksilver gland was in a jar. Chrysalis had been able to remove Arnaud's gland without killing him and had successfully cloned other glands from Arnaud's. However they needed Arnaud's adrenaline to activate their glands. Arnaud was Chrysalis permanent guest and wanted Fawkes to rescue him.
After Arnaud killed his guard Chrysalis became alerted to a problem in the Winery. Arnaud managed to break Fawkes out of the winery just as Fawkes became stricken with quicksilver madness. Over the past few months Fawkes' body had grown increasingly immune to the counteragent. He needed higher and more frequent doses of the counteragent to function normally. Arnaud claimed that he could cure the quicksilver madness. To ensure his cooperation, Fawkes shot Arnaud in the leg and then took him to the Keeper.
Arnaud explained Chrysalis' plan: They genetically engineered themselves to stay at age 25 forever. Their long-term goal is to take over the world — and, since they're functionally immortal, they can take their time. Arnaud had no idea what their short-term use was for the Quicksilver farm.
Hobbes and Fawkes returned to the winery but found that the quicksilver that taken but the cloned quicksilver glands had been planted in a bunch of cows. A booby that had been left behind by Chrysalis triggered. The cows and the winery disappeared in an explosion.
Fawkes and Hobbes discovered what Chrysalis did with the supply of quicksilver it had created. An invisible force was devastating crops of genetically engineered wheat and corn in the Midwest. A farmer had found a bunch of dead locusts. The locusts had traces of quicksilver. An explosion at Terra Gen, a genetic engineering lab triggered Fawkes and Hobbes Chrysalis alarms. Terra Gen was very close to a cancer cure. One of the important components was grown in genetically engineered Wheat. Fawkes and Hobbes managed to convince them to spray for insects before Chrysalis dropped their invisible locusts on the fields.
After finishing his work with Claire Arnaud escaped taking with him his knowledge of the cure for quicksilver madness. Or so it appeared. The Keeper told Darien that Arnaud had given her the cure but the Official had ordered her not to give Fawkes the cure. However she felt obligated to give it to him since the increased frequency and magnitude of his attacks endangered his brain function. Angry Darien Fawkes quit the Agency after receiving the cure for quicksilver madness. The first thing he did was to rob an armoured car He immediately gave back the money because he knew it was wrong, felt it was wrong and had in fact liked being one of the good guys.
Although the records claimed that Darien Fawkes joined the FBI after leaving the Agency and worked there for a short time before returning to the fold of the Agency with a higher negotiated salary, this was merely dramatic license. Fawkes never left the Agency but did manage to negotiate for more money by threatening to do so. He did spend time helping on small cases, and so easily gave the impression of having joined their ranks, but he had never been an official agent of the FBI.
During the last two years Darien has laid low, taking on the alias of ‘Daniel Turwin’ in order to gain a job as a police officer. The last few months he has slowly started to develop the stages of Quicksilver madness, at the moment he isn’t aware, or more importantly is ignoring any possible chances of it occurring. Only Arnaud had known that it was not a cure for the genetic modifications he had made to the gland, so Darien no idea that the cure was not permanent, but more of a long term resistance to the use of his ability, instead of taking it every day he could quite easily manage to last a whole year of constant use of the gland without suffering the threat of the madness. Since he hasn’t been using his abilities as often as used to be required the ‘cure’ had lasted longer then usual. However since the madness still approaches even when not using his abilities, it means that it is only inevitable before he starts to enter the final stages of Quicksilver madness.
Eventually Claire risked her career to permanently cure Darien of his quicksilver madness; however, despite a brief period of employment for the FBI, Darien returned to work at the Agency on one condition; that he could work on his own time, gets better pay, and with Claire reinstated to her job.
by Dennis E. Power
(with much assistance from Matthew Baugh, Win Eckert and Chuck Loridans)
PART TEN
DARIEN FAWKES 1965-
After the death of their mother Tiffany Case Fawkes and the imprisonment of their father, Mason Fawkes, Kevin and Darien Fawkes were thereafter raised by Celia and Paul Walters. Kevin demonstrated the family bent towards science, encouraged by Paul Walters he became an award winning science student and a medical student and biochemist. The family's connection to invisibility was known to Paul Walters who found it a fascinating theory. Although Kevin was kept in the dark about the family history as per his father and Grandmother's request, his Uncle's enthusiasm for the subject also fired his imagination. (1)
They utilized known invisibility research in order to come up with a totally new approach. (2)
Darien however grew up a troubled youth. Feeling constantly overshadowed by his older brother, knowing that his father was a career criminal, remembering his mother's drunken tales of being a master jewel thief and inspired by the tales of Raffles, Robie, Hewitt and MacDougal, Darien embarked on a career as a master thief and con man extraordinaire. (3)
His exploits garnered him two felony convictions before he was thirty.
While Darien served his time in prison, Kevin Fawkes and Paul Walters managed to secure government financing for their invisibility project. Paul Walters had a theory derived from his fascination with cryptozoology that certain legendary species possessed a natural invisibility power that manifested when they were frightened or anxious. Among these might be species close to humanity such as the Sasquatch or Yeti. Paul Walters had actually first proposed his invisibility project in 1976 and in doing so became acquainted with Charles Borden (The Official) Mason Fawkes appeared to gone for good. Rumor had it that a covert group in the intelligence services had managed to gain skin and hair samples from a Sasquatch. The OSI however would not release them. (4) In 1990 the invisibility research was approved by Dr. Augustin Gaither and financed by the Secret Weapons Research Branch. Dr. Walters and Fawkes were given the cellular samples they wished. After a number of failed approaches Dr. Kevin Burke finally with the aid of Dr. Arnaud de Thiel had managed to create a biological map of the Sasquatch from the DNA. Dr. de Thiel and a few other scientists were instrumental in making the breakthroughs that allowed for a biological model with the correct chemical and hormonal sequences to be generated. Kevin Fawkes often joked it was as if De Thiel and the others had cloned the samples and dissected the resulting offspring. (5)
In 1998 Dr. Fawkes designed a biosynthetic gland which would produce invisibility in animals. The first results were not promising as the chemical continued to build up in the subject's system causing synaptic failure. A modified gland produced a reagent which would neutralize quicksilver substance. Chemically triggered by the adrenals, the fear, aggressive or anxiety responses in a subject would trigger the quicksilver gland to produce a chemical agent which reacts with the sweat glands to release the quicksilver compound. The compound was secreted through the skin pores and tear ducts and quickly dried to become a flexible sheath that normally covered the subject, their clothing and any small articles in their possession. However with the secretion of a sufficient enough amount of Quicksilver it was possible to render invisible another individual or even a large object such as a heavy door or a motorcycle.
The first subject for human testing of the synthetic organ was Simon Cole, a CIA operative culled from records of the various intelligence agencies top agents. Because of a genetic marker in Cole's DNA, he was unable to trigger the inhibitor catalyst to terminate the Quicksilver process i.e. become visible. After nine weeks he became irrational and violent. The Agency Official was forced to use deadly force to defend himself. The quicksilver gland was harvested from Cole's body. (6)
Another subject had to be found. As fate would have it Kevin Fawkes found a way to kill two birds with one stone.
Despite his intensive mentoring from Liz, an older and wiser cat burglar, Darien made two fatal mistakes that lead to felony convictions. During a recent burglary of a retirement community, he made a third mistake that developed into a third felony conviction. Under the three strikes law he received a mandatory life sentence.
Kevin Fawkes arranged for Darien to receive a possible pardon if he would submit to being a human guinea pig. Darien agreed after being told that that the surgery would be reversible.
Darien Fawkes was taken to a laboratory in the Mojave desert. Darien was immediately suspicious of one of the scientists, Arnaud de Thiel, Kevin's right hand man. De Thiel seemed too smooth and slick to Darien. A con artist knows a con artist.
The quicksilver gland was implanted into Darien and the early tests went remarkably well. Darien learned the necessary control to shift between visibility and invisibility at will. Darien continued to be cautious about Arnaud de Thiel. After a few weeks however Darien began to develop the same sort of madness that Simon Cole had experienced. Arnaud de Thiel was able to deflect any of Darien's suspicions against him as being the result of quicksilver madness. He offered to try to come up with a counteragent for it. Darien wanted the gland removed but his body had become chemically dependent on the gland's secretions. Removing it would have killed him.
Once Arnaud had created the counteragent and saw that it was successful, he demonstrated that Darien's suspicions about him had been correct all along. Arnaud convinced everyone that Darien was dangerous and should be confined. After Darien was confined, Arnaud communicated with a terrorist assault team lead by his brother. Arnaud ordered them to attack the base and leave no one alive, especially none of the scientists. Arnaud had placed plastic explosives in all of the security staff's walk talkies Arnaud detonated the explosives prior to calling for the assault to begin. Arnaud's terrorists methodically exterminated all the base's personnel. Kevin Fawkes destroyed all of the base's data banks. Darien freed himself of his restraints. Escaping from his room he literally ran into his brother. They were shot at by terrorists. Kevin was killed by gun fire.
Arnaud is upset when he discovered that Darien escaped from the facility. He had planned to extract the gland.
Darien visited a Doctor of his acquaintance to have his gland removed. The Doctor specialized in discreet medical treatment for the criminal element. Darien suspected that the Doctor plans to harvest his gland and other organs and left the office when the Doctor stepped out to make a phone call. Darien tried his ex-girlfriend Casey O'Claire who was also a physician. She refused to believe his story when he was unable to turn invisible. Upon leaving his ex-girlfriend's clinic he was captured and subdued by members of the Agency.
Taken to the Agency's headquarters, Darien was told that due to recent governmental cutbacks the Agency is sponsored by a variety of government agencies with surplus budgets. This is only partially true. The Agency received its budget from and had different sponsorship agencies because like other agencies similar to it, The Agency was not officially sanctioned by any existing government bureau or agency. A rogue organization it hid within the maze of Bureaucracy. A man known only as the Official interrogated him about the debacle at the desert laboratory.
Darien Fawkes was informed that Arnaud de Thiel was a terrorist known as Arnaud de Fehrn. Several terrorist groups had begun gathering at Arnaud's hacienda in Mexico for an auction. Darien was offered a chance to get justice for his brother's killer and also to do good by removing the threat of terrorists having control of his brother's work.
Arnaud experienced problems with his stolen data. He had smuggled the last bit of key data out of the Quicksilver laboratory by swallowing it. The stomach acids from his ulcer had corrupted the data. He needed the gland from Darien's head to make the glands he had created work properly.
Darien traveled down to Mexico and met up with Hobbes, the Agency's top man. They were spotted by Canadian terrorists who believe them to be CIA. Hobbes and Fawkes escape unscathed but stay hidden. Arnaud de Thiel called Darien's ex-girlfriend and tells her that he was Hawley Griffin (7) a CIA agent who has a line on Darien Fawkes. He lured Casey O'Claire to Mexico on the pretense that it will help Darien.
When Hobbes and Fawkes checked in with the Official, they were informed that Casey O'Claire had gone missing.
Darien Fawkes succeeded in making himself invisible and enters Arnaud de Thiel's hacienda. He was deep in the Quicksilver madness by the time he entered the hacienda. De Thiel's men saw him with thermal glasses.
Fawkes collapsed from the effects of the Quicksilver poisoning and was nearly captured. He realized that de Thiel needed the gland in his head and threatened to blow his head off with a shotgun. He demanded to be taken to De Thiel. Afraid that Darien would destroy the gland, Arnaud tried to bargain with him. Arnaud revealed that he had made alterations to Dr. Fawkes design of the Quicksilver gland making it so that continued use of the gland would be addictive. If the quicksilver secretions were not neutralized with a counteragent it would eventually destroy the brain and kill the invisible man. Further more Arnaud had designed the counter agent to addictive. In this way Arnaud de Thiel would be able to control those who had the gland.
Darien pretended to go along with Arnaud's plan but slipped and let the shotgun go off. He lay on the floor without a head. Shocked at the loss of the gland, Arnaud let his guard slip. Darien grabbed the syringe of counteragent from de Thiel's hand and ran away and searched for a secure place to use it. Darien had merely made his head invisible making it seem momentarily that he had been decapitated by the shotgun blast.
Darien managed to blow up Arnaud's laboratory, apparently killed Arnaud, rescued Casey O'Claire and received a syringe of counteragent from De Thiel's severely wounded brother.
The Agency's resident biochemist and physician, Claire aka The Keeper, recreated the counteragent. Darien would receive regular doses if he continued to work for the Agency.
Over the next two years Darien Fawkes became the Agency's invisible agent. Although many of the cases were mundane, routine cases that were only slightly aided by Darien's ability to turn invisible, he did encounter some very odd cases that related to other events in the WNU and also pointed to a darker organization behind Arnaud de Thiel.
One the first cases that Darien Fawkes became involved was to track down another government experiment gone awry. A man had been created to be an assassin with the power to kill by touch. Apparently someone in the government tried to make Rappaccini's Daughter a reality. The man Fogerty nearly killed the Official with his touch, since the Official was part of the project that had created the Cataveri. Although Fogerty escaped, Darien tracked him down. The Agency's shooters gunned the Cataveri down over Darien's objections.
In another early case Fawkes and Hobbes are sent to investigate the activities of a psychic who sometimes advised his clients to commit suicide in order to save their families from evil spirits. It turned out to be a waste of time for Fawkes to become invisible when they visited the psychic, since Benjamin Scarborough was blind and sensed Fawkes anyway. He warned Fawkes of the evil within him and told him he would one day kill his partner.
As Hobbes and Fawkes investigated the psychic's clients, they began to see that the blind man actually did have some strange ability. However some of the clients who had apparently committed suicide had actually been killed by Scarborough's daughter. Her purpose was to maintain her father's credibility and also to save the families of those people who refused to commit suicide. Many of these individuals were disturbed and would have committed atrocities on their families had they not been killed. At least these were the visions that Scarborough had. (
A few weeks later Arnaud de Thiel lured Darien to his hometown by pretending to be Kevin Fawkes. Although Arnaud had hoped to scam Darien into letting him remove the gland, Arnaud's scheme was defeated. Even though Arnaud escaped Darien Fawkes learned that it was his Uncle Paul Walters who was the original impetus behind the invisible gland project. Paul Walters had known the Official. All of the early work that Paul Walters had done on the gland had been classified under the name of Peter Donovan.
On one crucial case Darien and Hobbes were sent to the small South American nation of Santa Ruego. They had been sent there to persuade the Prime Minister not to use chemical weapons in a war against neighboring nation because there could be damage to the United States business interests in the region. Darien posed as a restless spirit and terrorized the superstitious Prime Minister. Darien's efforts were stymied from a woman who claimed to be an agent from another agency. This was a false cover story, she actually worked for a private firm which wished for the war between Santa Ruego and its neighbor to escalate into chemical and biological warfare. The woman also used local folklore to her advantage. She was known as the Dark Lady. She had the ability to kill men with a kiss. She held water in her lungs and expelled it in one gush, filling the lungs of those she kissed with water and drowning them. Alianora's ability came from genetic engineering. Overall however Darien was more convincing as a spirit and won out.
In another case Claire a.k.a. the Keeper, the medical doctor who regulated Fawkes levels of quicksilver and counteragent, attempted to murder a person with no personal connection to her. They discovered that the sleep clinic that she had been visiting for help with her insomnia was mind control techniques to implant programming in the clients so that they would kill someone of the programmer's chosing. After committing the crime the sleeper would commit suicide. Once initiated the sleeper would keep attempting to kill the target until successful or neutralized. Fawkes and Hobbes used the same sleeper technology to program the Keeper with the belief that she had fulfilled her mission, thus neutralizing her original programming. (9)
Darien once again crossed paths with the Dark Woman, when Kate Easton a female scientist from a previous case (not related here) fled from the Dark Woman. Dr. Easton told the Agency that several scientists have been kidnapped and that she was on a list to also be kidnapped. Despite Agency protection the Dark Woman, Allianora abducted Kate Easton and had her cryogenically frozen before Fawkes and Hobbes could reach her. Allianora was captured by the Agency and was resistant to all interrogation techniques. Playing off of their mutual attraction, Fawkes agreed to betray the Agency if Allianora would betray the Organization by helping him rescue the female scientist. Allianora took him to the warehouse where Kate Easton along with dozens of other noted scientists were being held. Allianora tried to double cross Darien and freeze him. Darien used his Quicksilver and was kept from being frozen. The quicksilver acted as an insulating agent. Freed from the cryo chamber Darien freed Kate Easton and took her to safety. A short time later, Darien and a group of Agency operatives returned to the warehouse but all the scientists in their cryogenic freezing pods were gone.
A couple months later shortly after another fruitless encounter with Arnaud; Allianora invited Darien to meet with "The Organization," a.k.a. "Chrysalis." Chrysalis had information that the Agency planned to replace Darien with a more tractable agent. Chrysalis offered Darien a place in the Organization. Darien confronted the Official with the evidence. The Official pointed out that Darien had replaced another agent. That was the information that the Organization was using. Darien agreed to work with the Organization, however their price for his entry was to kill Allianora. He shot her with the gun they provided. He had gambled that they would not want to lose one of their top agents. He gained information from the Organization before they suspected he is a double agent. He barely escaped with his life even with Allianora's help.
The files revealed the Arnaud was deeply connected to the Organization and sent them funds from his casino. The Official had a plan to cripple Arnaud and cut off one source of funds for the Organization. Hobbes and Fawkes would skim money from the Arnaud's Mexican casino using the quicksilver process. The Official called a halt to the operation after they had skimmed five million dollars. Darien was not satisfied and wanted to break Arnaud. He was told he would not get any more counteragent until he stopped being insubordinate. Darien refused to listen and eventually developed stage five quicksilver madness that was very near to being permanent brain damage.
Hobbes was sent to bring Fawkes in. Fawkes learned that Arnaud had recently been implanted with a new Quicksilver gland. Hobbes was approached by Arnaud with a proposition. The gland that had been implanted in Arnaud was not done so properly. Arnaud needed to refer to Darien's gland to correct the surgical flaws. In return Arnaud would supply Hobbes with a level five counteragent which would bring Darien back to sanity and stop the possibility of permanent brain damage. For Fawkes sake, Hobbes agreed.
Fawkes was captured and a surgeon used Darien as a model to realign Arnaud's Quicksilver gland. Darien was given the counteragent but it did not take effect immediately. Darien attacked Arnaud. The two invisible men fought. When the counteragent took effect, Darien was stunned, Arnaud used that momentary relapse to escape. Arnaud later discovered that the gland he possessed malfunctioned. He was permanently invisible.
Darien Fawkes received a surprise visit from Allianora. She told Darien that Chrysalis believed her to be a security risk. She asked for his help before Chrysalis put an end to her. While at his apartment she and Darien took their relationship to a new, passionate level. She disappeared the next morning.
Darien and Hobbes went to pick up the man they believed was the security leak. The informant had already been assassinated. Hobbes and Darien visited the dead informant's home, looking for information. Upon their arrival they were met with a Chrysalis gunman. Although he got the jump on them Hobbes and Darien managed to get away from him. They wondered how Chrysalis had known of their plans.
A simple scan revealed that Darien had been injected with a nano-bug that transmitted everything he saw or heard back to Chrysalis. The nano-bug had to be injected or passed on through sexual contact. Allianora had given the bug to Darien during their romantic encounter.
Upon his arrival at the Agency the next day, the Official requested his presence. The Official pointed a gun at Darien's head and told him that he betrayed the Agency. The Official fired at point range. At Chrysalis the screens from Darien's nano-bug go black. Allianora believed that he been killed and the news devastated her.
Actually as the Official was firing the gun Hobbes slipped a signal blocking helmet on Darien to contain the nano-bug's signal. Until the bug was removed the helmet had to stay on.
The Keeper believed that Chrysalis would use the nano-bugs to infect the children of America's elite in government in business under the pretense of flu vaccinations. This would let Chrysalis spy on these subjects at home and give them a good deal of private information about the leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow.
During the mission to stop the flu vaccines from being injected at an elementary school, Darien lost his helmet and Allianora learned he is still alive. The Keeper and Hobbes raced to stop the injections from being carried out while Darien led the Chrysalis agents away as a decoy.
Darien was knocked unconscious and dumped into a pool to drown, but Allianora rescued and resuscitated him. Just as Darien regained consciousness, Stark, the head of Chrysalis, shot Allianora. Stark escaped when Hobbes arrived with the police. Allianora tried to reveal what Chrysalis has in store for Darien, but she died before she could get the words out.
The Keeper used a new specimen of the nano-bug to develop a "nano-vaccine" that purged the bug from Darien's brain and ensured that Chrysalis would not be able to use nano-bugs in the future.
As a consequence of their hiding in the maze of government bureaucracy, the Agency often received assignments from its temporary sponsors. Usually the Official ignored these. However once case from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, intrigued him. He sent Fawkes, Hobbes and the Keeper to investigate several murders on an Indian reservation, which were said to have been done by a monster called the Wendigo. Although Hobbes complained that they were stepping into X-Files territory find evidence to support the supposition. Darien is attacked by something invisible that attacks him and licks him. Using his quicksilver vision, he sees that it was a hairy humanoid, approximately eight to ten feet tall.
After analyzing the saliva, the Keeper discovered that it was laced with quicksilver. Darien believed that his brother used cellular samples from this type of animal to create the quicksilver gland. The Keeper told Darien that from her analysis of the Wendigo's saliva, the gland that Darien possessed was a female's gland so that possibility existed that the Wendigo wanted to mate with Darien.(10)
In the course of their investigation, Fawkes, Darien and the Keeper met up with a Mountain Man obsessed with capturing or killing the Wendigo. He wished for revenge since the Wendigo killed his wife. Fawkes and Hobbes were unable to capture the Wendigo because the crazed mountain man blew blow himself and the Wendigo up with a homemade grenade.
The Official was pretty angry with the investigation team and insisted that they made it all up, that there were not any invisible ten-foot-tall monsters. The Odd thing was that Fawkes never said how tall the thing had been.
The true story of this investigation bears a bit more scrutiny. The Official heard about another living source of the quicksilver gland which Kevin Fawkes had based his design on. This living source that could be captured. Because the monster was the subject of a murder investigation no one would be that upset if the thing disappeared. The Keeper discovered evidence that the Wendigo had scavenged the remains of the victims but had not killed the victims. All the evidence pointed to the crazed mountain man as being the killer. It was just bad luck that the Wendigo had been blown up with the Mountain Man.
Fawkes and the Agency had another agent foisted upon them by one of their "sponsor" agencies. Alex Monroe, a no-nonsense female agent was investigating the abduction of more than 1,300 newborns from hospitals during the past few years. Almost all the abducted kids were conceived at fertility clinics owned by the same corporation.
Darien Fawkes did some invisible snooping and managed to stop another abduction. He followed the would-be kidnapper to a youth camp. The kids were going through some sort of intensive boot camp training. (11) There was also a hangar full of newborns. The youth camp was owned by Chrysalis. Since the Agency needed proof that the children had been abducted before they could legally raid or shut it down, Darien obtained DNA samples.
The Keeper matched several DNA samples to those of abducted children. She also discovered the disturbing fact that they had all been genetically engineered not to grow old.
The Agency and several other government enforcement agencies raided the camp. However Chrysalis had gotten wind of the raid and armed the kids. Fawkes broke this stand off by turning invisible and taking the camp counselors as hostages. Mr. Stark, the head of the Chrysalis Corporation, allowed the children to be taken without violence although he continued to claim that legally Chrysalis owned the children. They had supplied the zygotes and eggs, the mother's were merely incubators.
Alex Monroe had been one of these living incubators. Unfortunately her abducted child was not among those found in this camp.
In the next few months Fawkes and the Agency encountered Arnaud de Fehrn twice and sting the Chrysalis once.
The past of the Official, of the Agency and of Kevin Fawkes caused trouble for the current agents. A man who was deaf, dumb and blind and whose only remaining sense was touch used a device of his own making to see and hear and speak. Desperate for help he broke into Darien's apartment. The man who was named Tommy Walker claimed that he was a test subject for an experiment which Kevin Fawkes and a man named Dr. Augustin Gaither had worked on for the Special Weapons Research Branch. Dr. Gaither was trying to kill him. Tommy Walker refused to go with Darien to the Agency not trusting the government. He led Darien to a building which was a government hospital. Inside the hospital was a ward of people who had also been robbed of all but their tactile sense. Unfortunately they were all incurable insane. Walker and Fawkes returned to Fawkes apartment. Hobbes showed up asking what Fawkes was up to.
A SWRB swat team surrounded Fawkes, Hobbes and Walker. Fawkes and Hobbes were released from the SWRB by the Official's efforts. They were told to forget about Tommy Walker. They disobeyed orders and went back to the hospital. They discovered Tommy being tortured and rescued him. Hobbes took Tommy to his house. Darien did some invisible snooping. He discovered that the project's name had been Tommy Walker. Tommy Walker was Augustin Gaither who had experimented on himself and had gone insane.
The SWRB blew up Hobbes house to destroy all the evidence of the existence of the project including Tommy Walker but Fawkes managed to rescue Hobbes and Walker in time.
Under the pretense that the Agency was strapped for cash the Official had Hobbes and Fawkes investigate an agency with a very large budget which no one else in the government bureaucracy seemed to know about, The Agency of Sequestered Seclusion. Hobbes and Fawkes checked the Ass' payroll and discovered that most of the agency's money was going to dead agents. Among these was Hobbes former partner. Hobbes and Darien figured it for a scam. Hobbes located a couple of agents on this payroll that were still listed as being active. Hobbes and Fawkes visited one of them. Hobbes and Fawkes were interviewing the man inside his home when two men in beige suits showed up and tried to abduct the agent. Hobbes, Fawkes and the agent were tranquilized. They awoke in the man's living room however when they left his house they were on a street they had never seen.
As it turned out the Agency of Sequestered Seclusion was a retired community for spies, in reality a large holding pen for intelligence agents with blown covers. They were supposed to be dead but living in this vast community without any chance of ever leaving. (12) According to Hobbes and Fawkes report they met a man who was the basis for the Avengers John Steed (13) Despite the chance to live a rather cushy life in early retirement Hobbes and Fawkes are forced to find a way to escape before Fawkes is taken over by the Quicksilver madness. The Official later told them that he made a deal with the Agency for Sequestered Seclusion that for a part of their operating budget, he and his organization would keep quiet about the work that the Agency of Sequestered Seclusion was doing. So helping to keep all the retired spies "safe."
Chrysalis had stolen a laser which could create lightning. Hobbes and Fawkes were dispatched to retrieve it. In doing so Fawkes was accidentally struck by lightning. Hobbes however thought that Fawkes had turned invisible and went after the Chrysalis bad guys. Computer records search showed that a person matching Fawkes description had been admitted to a nearby hospital suffering from amnesia. Stark, the head of the Chrysalis Corporation had also discovered that Fawkes was amnesiac. Having arrived before Hobbes and Monroe, Stark convinced Fawkes that he was his boss at the CIA. He was leaving with Fawkes when Hobbes and Monroe arrived to stop him. In the ensuing gun battle Fawkes escaped. He went to the local police precinct only to discover that he had a rap sheet. The police tried to arrest Fawkes and he turned invisible. Stark and his goons had followed Fawkes and captured him once more. Another invisible man showed and rescued him from Stark. The other invisible man told Fawkes he was Fawkes brother Kevin and that they were both the result of a government experiment, test tube babies grown to be super agents. Kevin was permanently invisible. They needed to break their other brother Johnny out of prison because he was the only one that could reverse Kevin's disability.
Darien helped to spring Johnny out of prison. Johnny did not look anything like Darien and he spoke with a French accent. Hobbes and Monroe showed up once more. Darien remembered who he was. Darien Fawkes, ex-thief turned federal agent. "Kevin" was Arnaud De Fehrn, the man who had killed his real brother Kevin, and modified the Quicksilver gland to make Darien dependent on Counteragent. "Johnny" was Arnaud's brother, Huiclov, who gave himself up to the cops while Darien went after Arnaud. Darien was struck with a bout of Quicksilver madness and Arnaud slipped through Darien's fingers again.
After a few routine cases Fawkes and the gang got word of another Chrysalis youth camp. The raid was successful and the children were rescued. Monroe's child is among this batch. When the Keeper checked out to see if any genetic modifications had been made to the child, she discovered that the child's DNA was from Stark and his wife, none of it was Monroe's.
Monroe however wanted to keep the baby and went on maternity leave. Fawkes accompanied Monroe and her child as they left the Agency. A Chrysalis commando team tried to snatch the child back. Fawkes defeated them and took the kid back to the Agency for protection. Monroe then marched right into Chrysalis HQ, confronted Stark and barely got out alive. While the Official was chewing her out, a woman showed up at the Agency HQ with a tip that someone had put a bomb in the water cooler. Hobbes' quick thinking eliminated the bomb threat. The tipster was Stark's wife, Eleanor. She said Monroe's crazy-Mom act had sent Stark over the edge. He said he'd rather his child dead than stay with Monroe. Eleanor wanted to protect her son. She was even willing to steal some intelligence from Chrysalis — but she insisted on getting it by herself. She insisted that she get it alone, which wasn't an option. Darien saved Eleanor from a squad of Chrysalis commandos The Official announced that Eleanor was going into witness protection — Monroe announced that she wanted her son James to go with Eleanor. She felt that was the only way the boy would be safe from Chrysalis A few hours after Eleanor and the baby left with another team of agents. Mother and child were AWOL and the agents were dead.
In one of the most important cases, so far as we are concerned, Fawkes and Hobbes were assigned along with agents from various agencies to help locate and neutralize a NSA sniper named Forrester Perdue. Forrester had been a sniper who "neutralized" foreign assassins for the U.S government for nearly 30 years but no one knew what he looked like.
For reasons which they did not bother to explain, The NSA figured Perdue would go after some foreign dignitary at an embassy reception. (14)
Hobbes and Fawkes located the best sniper spot and Darien saw a possible shooter. He gave invisible pursuit, but the sniper put a gun in his face, told Darien to "let it go," then escaped. Darien was Quicksilvered, and the sniper was not wearing thermals but he still knew Fawkes was there. Fawkes recognized him. (15)
The next day Fawkes went to see his grandmother. Forrester was her married name. He was certain that Forrester Perdue was his father, whom he believed had walked out on his Mother, Kevin, and him. Forrester Perdue was a small-time thief who'd disappeared without a trace.
Hobbes and Fawkes visited the NSA main office and managed to swipe Perdue's file. It had been his handler who had reported that Perdue had gone rogue. Perdue's list of assignments matched up with Mason Fawke's rap sheet. Everything matched up until 1975 when his file became classified (16)
Fawkes paid another visit to his Grandmother. While he looked over the family album, Hobbes spotted a bunch of spooks surrounding the house. Hobbes surprised them and Fawkes and Hobbes gave chase. They were lead into a trap. They were as good as dead until Mason Fawkes used his sharp shooting skills to help them get away. Mason Fawkes explained to Darien that he had not gone rogue, he had simply refused to kill an American Senator who was not traitor but who wanted to scrutinize the budget of the NSA. For some reason Royce did not want that to occur.
Darien made a deal with Royce to take Mason Fawkes place if he would lift the death sentence on Mason Fawkes. Royce admitted to arranging for a hit on an U.S. Senator.
Mason Fawkes disappeared once more.
Darien Fawkes received a gift basket of wine from a local winery from Arnaud de Fehrn. Enclosed was an invitation to see him. Fawkes and Hobbes thought this was a joke because last time they had encountered Arnaud he had been invisible. Fawkes and Hobbes visited the winery and found it to be a Chrysalis front. Fawkes investigated while in the invisible mode and found a visible Arnaud in a laboratory. Arnaud's quicksilver gland was in a jar. Chrysalis had been able to remove Arnaud's gland without killing him and had successfully cloned other glands from Arnaud's. However they needed Arnaud's adrenaline to activate their glands. Arnaud was Chrysalis permanent guest and wanted Fawkes to rescue him.
After Arnaud killed his guard Chrysalis became alerted to a problem in the Winery. Arnaud managed to break Fawkes out of the winery just as Fawkes became stricken with quicksilver madness. Over the past few months Fawkes' body had grown increasingly immune to the counteragent. He needed higher and more frequent doses of the counteragent to function normally. Arnaud claimed that he could cure the quicksilver madness. To ensure his cooperation, Fawkes shot Arnaud in the leg and then took him to the Keeper.
Arnaud explained Chrysalis' plan: They genetically engineered themselves to stay at age 25 forever. Their long-term goal is to take over the world — and, since they're functionally immortal, they can take their time. (17) Arnaud had no idea what their short-term use was for the Quicksilver farm.
Hobbes and Fawkes returned to the winery but found that the quicksliver that taken but the cloned quicksilver glands had been planted in a bunch of cows. A booby that had been left behind by Chrysalis triggered. The cows and the winery disappeared in an explosion.
After finishing his work with Claire Arnaud escaped taking with him his knowledge of the cure for quicksilver madness. Or so it appeared. The Keeper told Darien that Arnaud had given her the cure but the Official had ordered her not to give Fawkes the cure. However she felt obligated to give it to him since the increased frequency and magnitude of his attacks endangered his brain function. Angry Darien Fawkes quit the Agency after receiving the cure for quicksilver madness. The first thing he did was to rob an armored car He immediately gave back the money because he knew it was wrong, felt it was wrong and had in fact liked being one of the good guys.
Although the television show claimed that Darien Fawkes joined the FBI after leaving the Agency and worked there for a short time before returning to the fold of the Agency with a higher negotiated salary, this was merely dramatic license. (1 Fawkes never left the Agency but did manage to negotiate for more money by threatening to do so.
Fawkes and Hobbes discovered what Chrysalis did with the supply of quicksilver it had created. An invisible force was devastating crops of genetically engineered wheat and corn in the Midwest. A farmer had found a bunch of dead locusts. The locusts had traces of quicksilver. An explosion at Terra Gen, a genetic engineering lab triggered Fawkes and Hobbes Chrysalis alarms. Terra Gen was very close to a cancer cure. One of the important components was grown in genetically engineered Wheat. Fawkes and Hobbes managed to convince them to spray for insects before Chrysalis dropped their invisible locusts on the fields.
This small victory against Chrysalis is the last known case of Fawkes and Hobbes
They say the Human mind can twist and bend under the stress of reality
But sometimes...it can begin to crack, before shattering in pieces
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