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Charon is not seen much in daylight, and is usually only captured on NightVision CCTV. From these CCTV images, we can confirm that Charon is a natural hero, and the only weapon he uses besides the gadgets he keeps in his utility belt, is a six foot long staff. The use of this staff has recently been discontinued for the favor of his fists.
Charon seems to be suicidal. He will take on much larger odds than one man can usually handle. He also doesn't seem to mind killing those that he deems deserve it, although this is actually quite a small number according to Police Files. However, there is not often someone who faces him and comes away with all body parts in tact. He is also an alchoholic, and addicted to narcotics, which is confirmed by CCTV footage taken in Perez Park. It is to be believed that the drugs Charon uses daily would be anti-depressants, but we cannot confirm this.
Charon seems to have been gunning for organised crime, having been known to take on The Russian Mafia, The Hellions, The Skulls, The Trolls, The Warrios, The Tsoo, and most of all, The Family, and most of all Knuckles LaRusso's cell of the Family, revealing Knuckles' true Identity to the public in 2002, leaving him tied to a chair, unable to speak,with his legs broken, and incriminating files and papers surrounding him. Knuckles, or Frank LaRusso, as he was revealed to be, is currently serving a twenty year prison sentence. Charon and his team seemingly do not just go after just Organised crime, it is reported that they were the ones who stopped mutant outcast Pythos from poisoning the water supply and turning the whole city into those of his own kind. They have also been reported to take on NightFire, arsonist demon turned toy of the rikti,and a NightMare creature, aswell as all of the villain groups currently operating in Paragon City. This includes Crey.
In conclusion, Charon does not pose an immediate threat to Crey industries. Charon does not seem to investigate...unnesseccary things. However, if Charon recieves even a tiny clue as to Crey being involved in some of it's more unorthodox business, he may investigate, and therefore become a threat. At this time, and only at this time, should he be eliminated. Charon knows a great deal of influencial heroes in the City. He could be alot more trouble than he is worth.
Below follows a timeline of Robert Ian Black's life, to the current day, mustered using a number of sources:
December 1970 – George Black dies in a fatal car crash.
January 1971 – Robert Ian Black is born in King’s Row, Paragon City. His mother, Rose Black dies in Childbirth. Robert is moved immediately into social service care. He is brought up in an orphanage for the next 18 years of his life. Throughout that time, he grows more and more violent, and confused. He has only one real passion that he hides from all the other people around him. Mythology.
January 1989 – On his 18th birthday, Robert learns that his father, George, has left him $20, 000 in a trust account that he could not gain access to until this day. Robert decides to turn his life around, and uses the money to get himself into university to study ancient mythology of the civilised world, with an eventual goal of moving to Greece.
February 1989 – Robert meets Maria DeMarco at Paragon University, Founder’s Falls. Maria becomes the most important thing in Robert’s life, he leaves the orphanage and moves into his own apartment using some of his father’s money.
July 1989 –Maria’s father, Salvatore, begins to receive threats from a member of The Family, Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso. He demands protection money on Salvatore’s small store in King’s Row. Salvatore refuses to pay.
October 1989 – Robert proposes to Maria. She says yes.
November, the evening of the 18th/morning of the 19th, 1989 – Robert leaves university one night after studying Charon, the boatman to the underworld in Greek mythology. He heads to King’s Row, where he parks his car and walks to Salvatore’s store, where Maria is shutting up shop. They begin to walk home. “Knuckles” LaRusso traps them in an alley. Robert is beaten into submission, and Maria is raped. Robert breaks free, but is held back. Because of his retaliation, Maria is murdered. Knuckles’ hired assassin then knocks Robert out with his quarterstaff, before dropping it down beside him. Robert has an unconscious delusion that he has been taken to the underworld. Charon, the ferryman over the river Styx, tells Robert he must go back to earth and bring evil to the underworld in his name, beginning first with those that murdered his fiancée. Charon tosses his rowing staff to Robert, just as he wakes up from this delusion in King’s Row medical centre. In the corner, he sees the staff he was knocked out with. He immediately picks it up and leaves the hospital, ignoring doctors pleads to stay in his bed. Robert then heads to the crime scene. He hears the mention of the name Frank LaRusso, and connections with the “Cloud 9” bar in Independence port. He immediately heads there; he kills all inside in a fit or rage, and burns the bar down. Frank LaRusso is not present.
November 1989 – March 1991 – Robert spends his time training to the peak of human physical ability, while becoming an alcoholic, and becoming dependant on anti-depressants. Robert becomes an expert in wielding his staff, but favours learning street fighting and boxing over martial arts for when not wielding his weapon. No one except himself has ever known who trained him.
April 1991 – Robert takes the name Charon, and dons his costume, operating out of his desolate apartment, now in ruin, and becomes a “hero” in Paragon City, obtaining a license simply through acting like a “do-gooder.”
June 1991 – Charon catches up with the final member of Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso’s gang on the night of his fiancée’s murder. Charon breaks his neck. Frank LaRusso and the hired assassin present on the night remain illusive.
January 1992 – Charon meets another hero, Mr.D. Mr.D was once a truck driver called John Doe until the day Freakshow hijacked his nuclear waste carrying truck in such of crey super drugs. When they found none, they dumped John in the waste. In a rage, he murdered the hero who came to save him, and as a sign of respect when he came round, he took the hero’s name, Mr.D, and fought on as a vigilante. Charon and Mr.D team up and stop the Warriors and the Outcasts from going to war in the middle of Atlas Park at 3am. The two heroes part ways.
January 1992 – June 1998 – for the next six years Charon operates as a solo hero, slowly falling into a pit of depression and alcoholism. During this time, he mainly fights crime at street level, dealing with the growing threat of the street gangs known as The Hellions, The Skulls, The Outcasts and The Warriors from a abandoned apartment block in King’s Row, after abandoning his much smaller apartment. During this time, between dealing with street gangs, Charon conducts inquiries into The Family, trying to find Frank LaRusso, while also trying to bring them down one peg at a time. During these 3 years Charon teams up with Mr.D on 6 separate occasions, usually to do with gang wars.
June 15th 1997 – Mr.D finds Charon on a rooftop, looking down. Mr.D manages to talk Charon out of suicide.
June 17th 1997 – Mr.D and Charon register themselves as a duo at Paragon City hall in Atlas Park. They produce licenses, and the fact that they are, between them, wanted for nine murders that the PCPD know about, is either overlooked, or never checked up on.
1997 – 2000 – Mr.D and Charon remain a duo, taking down street level crime such as the street gangs Charon waged war on during his six year solo career. They also start to take interest in the Fifth Column, although they were not known to be the Fifth Column at this time. Charon and Mr.D assume the Fifth Column to be a terrorist cell, and investigate. They get close to actually finding out the true identity of the militant group, but the cell they are investigating disappear before they can follow it up further.
February 2000 – Mr.D and Charon burst into a Crey lab after they hear of a disturbance that they believe may involve something they have been investigating. It turns out that a man known as Patrick Solomon has begun attacking security guards after he has found out they abducted and experimented on his father years before, turning him into a cyborg. Mr.D, Charon, and Patrick fight off the guards, and they disappear, Patrick taking stolen technology he had been working on, ice producing gauntlets and a jet pack, and calling himself Ice Claw.
March 2000 – Mr.D, Charon and Ice Claw register as a three-man team, The Bone Squad. Charon’s mental health improves with the creation of this new team. He feels bonds forming with these people, friendship is something he hasn't felt for years, even with Mr.D, who he saw as a convenience for a very long time. His attitude lightens slightly. He talks more.
April 2000 – The three investigate their first major crime. An assassin known as Rabidus begins to kill random people in Galaxy City. The three investigate, and catch up with the assassin in a hotel. They find out that he is killing people as a distraction from a casino heist, taking place on the east side of Galaxy City. The assassin, although Charon doesn’t know it yet, is the one who killed his fiancée, and knocked him unconscious. Charon throws the assassin out of a 30th floor window for his crimes, and supposedly kills him when he lands on a car in the street below. Rabidus’ body disappeared. The Bone Squad rush to the east side, and stop the casino heist. It turns out the man behind it all is known as Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso. Charon attempts to kill him after learning his name, but Knuckles manages to escape with the aid of his Family goons. Mr.D and Ice Claw move into Charon’s abandoned apartment block, and it becomes the Bone Squad HQ.
July 2000 – The Bone Squad stop an attempt by the snake mutant Pythos to poison the city water supply and turn the whole populace into snake people. The giant snake explodes, and destroys the water plant in The Aqueduct, King’s Row. The Bone Squad receives it’s first press attention – for destroying a vital water plant. During this mission they meet their 4th member, Skull Fire, a fire-creating mutant.
August 2001 – The Bone Squad take out NightFire, a pyrokenetic mutant, having his mind controlled by the Rikti, who are at this time planning their invasion, from assassinating two major senators living in Paragon City. They fail to save the first politician that NightFire attempts to assassinate. During this time, Omen becomes a member of The Bone Squad. An old contact of Charon’s that he knew in university, Omen is a disabled man using a massive suit he invented to enable him to walk, aswell as granting him super strength, and the power to leap long distances. With the help of Sen, another hero in the city, the Bone Squad take out NightFire in a daring last stand in the now-demolished Galaxy City clock tower, but not before he decapitates Skull Fire.
September 2002 – With the help of legendary hero Maveric, an ex-member of the Dawn Patrol, The Bone Squad stop Frank LaRusso using Crey technology to control heroes minds to his own ends. Charon once again tries to kill Knuckles in a rage, but he escapes; The Bone Squad rescue hero Ventus from him.
November 2002 – The Bone Squad stop a nightmare creature created by a small child in a coma from bringing out people’s nightmares. They also stop Knuckles from trying to control it, although he manages to slip through the net, once again.
2003 – The Rikti invade. During the Rikti war, The Bone Squad is split. Ice Claw is separated from the rest, as is Omen, and the two of them are solo for the duration of the war. Mr.D and Charon stick together during the war, but Mr.D dies towards the end when he saves Charon from a collapsing bridge in Founder’s Falls, as Rikti and heroes fight on either side of it. Charon's mental health begins to deteriorate once more, the recurring nightmares he used to experience come back, and he finds himself once more addicted to drink and anti-depressants in the wake of Mr.D's death. He pushes people away and his attitude once again worsens.
Early December 2003 – The Bone Squad are reunited in the aftermath of the war, and heroine T.K. joins the team for a brief time. Together, Ice Claw, Charon, Omen and T.K., along with Blood Atonement member Ego, stop a Circle of Thorns plot to raise the many dead heroes who died in the rikti war as a ghost army to rule Paragon City, while they figure out a way to raise Oranbega from underneath Paragon City, to the surface.
Late December 2003 – T.K. leaves The Bone Squad. They meet Goldram, a survivor of the Rikti war, and he joins with The Bone Squad, with a lack of anywhere else to go. Dark, the student of 2000-year-old Skull seeks out Charon as a new mentor. Charon reluctantly takes him on as a student, and Dark joins The Bone Squad.
January 2004 – Charon and Xanatos stop a plot by an old enemy of The Freedom Phalanx to frame Statesman for the murders of the original Golden Age members of the team.
Febuary 2004 – Charon, Xanatos, Tuetonic, Yin, BugBite, Ohms, The Green Knight and Rottweiler with the help of technical genius Joe, fight against the government that seeks to ban heroes after a superspeed hero went insane and raped 200 women. They succeed, and all heroes are re-instated. The military genius behind the plan is jailed.
Late Febuary/Early March 2004 – The Bone Squad stop a plot by a cult group of vigilante’s who believe in death for all criminals to wipe out all other vigilante’s, as they believe they do not do their jobs well enough and leave some criminals alive. The cult gathers a group of villains, bounty hunters and assassins, including Rabidus and insane villain Showtime, to hunt down the vigilante’s and kill them, although the cult’s plan is too double cross both groups and to wipe out some of Paragon City’s major heroes and villains, leading the way for the cult to wipe out crime. The villains and Heroes, including the Bone Squad, Skull, and others, end up working together against the cult, and Charon eventually manages to kill the leader of the cult, which then either goes underground, or disappears. The Bone Squad also go to prison for a short time during this period, along with Skull, after being caught up with by the police for their many crimes. Joe, technical genius, breaks them all out. During this time Charon also faces a new enemy, 'Black Jack', for the first time. Black Jack is a gambling obsessive.
March 5th 2004 – Charon finally finds out Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso’s residence, and heads there in the middle of the night. He wakes up Frank holding 18 files full of incriminating evidence he has been gathering for over 10 years, and then drags him out of bed. Charon breaks both of Knuckles’ legs, and leaves him lying on his office floor, the incriminating evidence all around him.
March 7th 2004 – Joey LaRusso, the son of Frank, traces Charon back to his HQ. His father has been arrested, but surprisingly, Joey asks Charon to train him to be a hero to take down his father’s own organisation. Joey had never known his father was a gangster until the night of his arrest, and full of hatred, he asks Charon to train him to take on The Family. Charon reluctantly does so, and then retires, and disappears. Joey takes the name Noctis and joins The Bone Squad. Only Joey knows where Charon has gone, and refuses to tell the other members of the Bone Squad. At this point, Goldram and Dark disappear.
March – April 22nd 2004 – Noctis remains a hero and the Bone Squad fights on once more as a three-man team, taking on all manor of crime. But, that all comes to an end on April 22nd 2004, when the Rikti perform a much smaller, but deadly assault on the city. Charon, who has been holed up in a warehouse in The Aqueduct, King's Row, mentoring Noctis from the shadows, tells Noctis he isn't ready to deal with Rikti. Noctis simply replies "You'll never think I'm ready," and steps out into the street. He is immediately slaughtered by a rikti general. Noctis is one of the many heroes who dies fighting, Dark also dies at the hands of the rikti, trying to take on an immensely powerful rikti commander in Founder's Falls, at Skulls side. Goldram remains AWOL.
April 28th – Charon reappears in the city, sans staff. He fights on with simply his fists. He is solo for a short time. Omen, now carrying the name Pylon, is a hero in the city, although Charon has trouble tracking him down, he suspects another name change has taken place, either that, or Omen simply doesn't want to be found. Ice Claw appears to have disapeared in the wake of the second Rikti assault, although he is not dead. Goldram remains AWOL.
May 2004 - Charon meets a telepath. First off they fight, as the young telepath believes Charon to be a threat. When the fight is at an end, Charon gives the telepath an option, Charon could either help him, or kill him. Of course the telepath chooses the former. They register the telepath as a hero under the name of Psylex. Charon then seeks out a heroine he has worked with on a few occasions and meets her on a rooftop. He invites this particular heroine, Sable Phoenix, to form the new Bone Squad with him and Psylex. Charon begins to realise he can't go on forever on his own. Sable Phoenix eventually agrees. he new Bone Squad is formed. During this time, Charon tracks down many former associates and invites them to join the new Squad. Makis, Icelander and Rottweiler join through Charon contacting them. The Bone Squad then set out to find a HQ. In their exploits, they find an abandoned warehouse with control tower in the King's Garment Works, King's Row. It's inhabitant, Wolf, reluctantly joins the Bone Squad after teaming up with them. During this time frame, Icelander finds a teenager who has been caught up in a Circle of Thorns ritual when attempting wiccan activities with friends. After seeing some kind of hallucigenic cat, the girl then morphed into some kind of demon, striking a resemblance to a cat, with the control of illusions, and the power to heal and ressurect others. She is nicknamed Catastrophy. The new Bone Squad is born.
Also, during this time, Charon tackles the Vahzilok Pollutant Plot, and the Clockwork Captive. He also fights and apprehends Dr. Vahzilok, although it is not known if this was the actual Dr. Vahzilok, or another of his undead clones.
During this time, Rabidus, believed dead after his plunge from 13th floor hotel window 2 years before, is spotted skulking on the rooftops in Independance Port.
It is announced that Omen died in the second Rikti invasion. Ice Claw has been spotted on numerous occasions after dark in Paragon.
June 2004- During this time period there are many new additions and losses to the new Bone Squad. ArcLight is the first major addition to the team, once a military man, operating new technology for the government, codename: ArcLight was caught in a nuclear blast and given the control of raw energy, he joins the Bone Squad after disapearing from more high profile team, The Justice Force, and seeking a team more on street level. No-Show, a mysterious, timid teenager and misfit with the ability to turn himself completely invisible and grant others the protection of forcefeilds, aswell as very minimally emmit an offensive energy beam, seeks out the Bone Squad and is taken under their wing, as is another misfit teenager, Achluo, a shunned mutant with dark powers, aswell as black skin and a very demonic appearance. Carbine also joins the team at this time, but shortly after leaves the team, with a vision to start his own team, 5. Soldier Blue also joins the team during this time frame, an ex-military and D.A.T.A. weapons and tech designer, he stole all his technology and disapeared, and now works out of an abandoned apartment in King's Row, and has been snatched up by the Bone Squad to join their ranks and to repair damaged equipment.
During this time period, Psylex leaves the team and disapears in disgrace and insanity after seemingly going completely mad inside his own mind, and then believeing himself to be a god. After the Bone Squad have brought him down, Psylex disapears and in effect becomes homeless, drifting without a home. The Bone Squad provide him no help. They wish to, but Psylex purposely makes it impossible for them to find him. Sable Phoenix seems to take on a new evolution, constant flame now licking her body.
Charon also breaks up a gang war in this time between the skulls and hellions, learning that higher powers such as The Family and the Tsoo are also involved, in underground artifact dealing, and the pushing of a drug know as superadine.
During this time, Charon contracts the Vahzilok wasting disease, and is forced to go face to face with Dr. Vahzilok deep in the sewers once again. A determined Makis and Charon bring down Dr. Vahzilok on their own, other members of the Bone Squad seemingly unavalible. With the odds stacked against them, Makis and Charon emerge from the sewers battered, bruised, but victorious.
After the official opening of the ferry service between Talos Island and Peregrine Island, Styx arrives in the virtue dimension through Portal Corp, along with various other dimensional entities, including The Rotting, a version of Poison from another dimension, HellHorn, an alternate version of Horntail, Antiscendant, an evil version of Ascendant, and others. Styx seems to be Charon from a universe where a hero was responsible for the death of Maria DeMarco. A bounty hunter and mercenary, Styx arrives in the virtue dimension under the command of Emporer Xanatos, as he tries to take over the virtue dimension. The plot is foiled, and Styx is forced to disapear, but it is unknown if the mercenary version of Robert Ian Black, rumoured to originally be from the Pinnacle Dimension, will ever return.
During this time, all traces of Omen seemingly disapear from Paragon. Ice Claw is frequently sighted in Independance Port at night, but Charon still fails to make contact.
July-August 2004 - During this time Soldier Blue leaves the team, perfering to work on his own as D.A.T.A. agents work to track him down. Ice Claw breifly re-joins the Bone Squad, but leaves again promptly after around two weeks working under the name of the Bone Squad. No-Show leaves the team at this point, his reasons being that he joined the Bone Squad for protection... and now no longer needs it, and leaves the vigilante lifestyle.
The Bone Squad goes strong during this time, and the entire team mounts a Task Force and reluctantly takes a job from Sister Psyche to take out Eve van Dorn... Otherwise known as Clamor of the Freakshow. The Bone Squad successfully bring her down.
Charon himself continues to work to take out Paramilitaries and organised crime on all levels. During this time he foils a Tsoo plot to become the single most powerful syndicate in Paragon City, and begins investigations into a rogue paramilitary group known as the Sky Raiders, and unveils some of their secrets, and learns the name of their leader, Duray. He also goes further into Freakshow business, to try and rescue an undercover Police officer, but fails to reach him before he is sucked into the Freakshow lifestyle and becomes one of their own. Charon also changes his usual investigations at this time... As, while still investigating organised crime and paramilitaries, he delves into some super natural crime, with guidance from his mentor of sorts, Skull. Charon successfully takes back the Wheel of Destruction from the Banished Pantheon.
During this time Sable Phoenix becomes wanted by the Paragon City police after a Crey operation to... rid us of her presence. After this time Charon is less regularly seen in Paragon.
Charon has since the last date added to this timeline, disapeared. Two peices of CCTV footage are the last sightings we have of him. The first is Charon almost being beaten by one of his previous enemies, known as Black Jack. This is quite strange, as Charon has always been able to handle Black Jack before now. We also have CCTV footage of Charon fighting someone we believe to be the hero known as Geist Wulf, who is now a leader of Charon's team, The Bone Squad, but the fight moves to an area where we do not have a camera deployed. This could mean Charon is deceased but no evicence has been found to prove this. Charon is believed to be in hiding somewhere inside the city limits, Crey does not believe that Charon would leave King's Row. It is assumed that due to these two defeats, Charon decided that he was not well enough trained as he used to be in his original crime fighting days, and has gone into hiding to re-train himself. It is to be assumed that this training would take place with his original mentor, but as we do not know this person's identity it cannot be confirmed. The basis for these assumptions are that Charon only returned to Paragon as the replacement he made for himself, Noctis, was killed, and Charon felt he needed to build a new Bone Squad to protect the City in his absense. We have, however, checked and kept surveilance on all of his known safe houses and have found no evidence of him at any of them, except for traps and security mechanisms which leave no clues as to his current whereabouts. Agent Lee Genson was lost to one of these such traps, Charon does not wish for people to be investigating him.
The Bone Squad continued to operate in Paragon City until around November. Without Charon's presence, the team slowly fell apart, with various members of the team leaving Paragon, retiring or simply disapearing. Between August-November, many great things are acheived by the Bone Squad, but this is not enough to save the team, and after a mere seven months in operation, the new Bone Squad falls apart.
It is believed Charon will be back. We cannot drop our guard in regards to this subject, and it is likely he will reform his team when he returns... Charon and the Bone Squad could present a significant future threat.
UPDATE 05/28/05: Charon has been spotted in Paragon working with his former associate, Icelander, as well as original Bone Squad member Psylex. He has also been seen regularly working with Solario and Got. Charon could be reforming the Bone Squad. Eliminate if possible.
UPDATE 06/12/05: It has been confirmed that the Bone Squad has been officially reformed. The timeline will now be continued.
Febuary 2005 - Charon is spotted in Independance Port.
March - May 2005 - Charon is seen regularly working with Icelander again. He is also spotted occasionally working with one of the original Bone Squad members, Psylex.
Charon is also working with a teenager calling himself Mr. D, who was infected by Mr.D's radiation when he saved him from being mugged, five years before his death in the Rikti War. When hearing about the original Hero's death, now aged 18, Jack Duffy took the name Mr.D, and began to train himself with his newly manifested powers. Recently, he has crawled out of the woodwork as a new hero in Paragon, shaky in use with his radiation powers, but learning fast with Charon's reluctant help.
Charon is also seen regularly working with two of his former associates, Got and Solario. These two become loosely allied with Charon in the beginings of a new Bone Squad.
June 2005 - After Charon helps Solario to flee the police after the accidental death of a civilian during a firefight with a villain that got out of control, Solario allies himself to Charon officially. Got does the same for reasons unknown. Icelander officially comes out of semi-retirement with Charon's return.
Charon, Got, Solario and Icelander reform the Bone Squad officially, and begin a search for more members to fill out their ranks. Makis, somewhat retired after Charon's disapearance from the City, emerges from his safe house which he has been staying in for the last six months. He reluctantly re-joins the Bone Squad out of loyalty to Charon, although he is still feeling stung from Charon's disapearance without word.
During this time Stan Walker joins the Bone Squad, after he and Charon are thrown together, forced to fight Sky Raiders when they are both caught in an ambush during routine investigations. Stan Walker identifies with Charon and the loss of his wife, as Walker has been dropped into Paragon from another dimension, and now needs to find his wife who was kidnapped by the Tsoo as soon as they arrived. The reasons for her kidnapping are unknown. Due to their similar circumstances, Stan Walker accepts the offer to join the Bone Squad when Charon offers.
Charon also contacts an old associate to join the Bone Squad during this time. Phobias, once a member of the long deceased team 'Blood Atonement,' agrees to join the team on the basis that the Bone Squad was a long time ally of her original team, and she knows that Charon can help her find out what happened to Kodiak and Malice, the original leaders of the Blood Atonement. Due to experiments preformed upon her by former Squad member No-Show, she now has control over darkness, and the weather, as well as her ability to strike fear in the hearts of men.
John Redgate, once known as Countryman, a former employee of a government agency called 'The Agency,' manages to gain the respect of Charon during this time period, and joins the Bone Squad. Firstly he is sent to kill Charon, as 'The Agency' sees him as a hurdle which they must cross before they can continue in their investigations. They send Countryman to do the job, but in the process attempt to double-cross him, and kill them both. Charon reluctantly allies himself with the man who was sent to kill him, and helps him bring down the core of 'The Agency' inside one of their Paragon City based head quarters. Countryman then drops all ties to America and it's government, including his name, adopts a new costume, and calls himself simply 'Redgate.' Charon, although with opposition from some of the existing team, reluctantly allows him to join the Bone Squad.
Charon also recruits other members into the team during this time including undead Golden Age vigilante, Alpha Sentry, and the Wailing Whisper: Sonic Riot.
Charon during this time also takes down former Fifth Column scientist turned Council madman, Vandal. He is pulled into 'TaskForce Brass,' with a mission from Citadel, by Got. He, Got, Dr. Blight, The Phantom Visage, Elemental Moon and others set out to find out the mystery behind the Council's new breed of Mek Men. During their investigations, they find out that these Mek Men are made from the same technology that made Citadel himself. The Task Force brings Vandal himself down, and he is taken to the Ziggurat. Unfortunately, it is not long before the Council break him out, and he is once again back on the streets.
Charon and Got, again with the help of Charon's mentor of sorts, Skull, investigate more super natural crime than is usual for the Bone Squad. During these investigations, he finds out about a Devouring Earth plot to poison the City's water supply with a mutagen known only as 'The Will of the Earth.' By defeating Dr. Theron, Charon and Got stop this plot, and keeps a sample of the 'Will of the Earth,' for further examination and tests.
Charon also, while conducting routine investigations, begins to dig deeper into the Sky Raiders at this time, with the help of an anonymous tipster 'General Z.' He finds out that Colonel Duray, the leader of the Sky Raiders is a U.S. defector, and that his small mercenary group is actually employed by many individual organisations, including the U.S. Government, to do their dirty work. Charon also finds out that this small group of mercenaries is responsible for the death of many heroes during their early days: For seemingly no good reason. He founds out that they pick targets, they lie in wait for them, and then they execute them. It seems that the Sky Raiders have a personal grudge against the heroes of Paragon City, and it runs deeper than just the fact that these heroes often get in their way.
Requiem also comes into contact with Charon at this time, although he does not know it is Requiem at the time. With the help of an anonymous tipster, later revealed to be Requiem himself, Charon stops the plot of one 'Wolfgang Ubelmann.' Ubelmann plans to gather information from the present day, and use a time machine to travel back to where he came from: The midsts of the Second World War. With the intellegence he has gained from the here and now, he has the potential to swing the war in the favour of the axis armies if he succeeds. Charon stops him, and later finds out that Requiem's motives for helping him to do so, were simply because if Ubelmann had enabled Hitler to win the war, Requiem would not be in his current position of power.
Got and Charon are also, on the way to a routine Council ivestigation, caught up in a fight with the giant squid that resides in the waters of Independance Port. With the help of numerous other heroes on hand at the time, they manage to back back the giant squid, but not kill it. It disapears back into the waters.
Charon also makes an uneasy alliance with the Silent World Order. Neither party really trusts each other, but they recognise the fact that they can use each other.
Xanatos also during this month puts Charon forward to recieve the 'Atlas Medallion,' putting Charon on the honours list by talking to his connections high in the city's hierachy. Charon refuses the award, although it is recorded that he has recieved it on the license that Charon, somehow, manages to maintain with a criminal record and crimes still hanging over his head.
The Bone Squad is reborn.
July 2005 - Charon, during this time, begins to dig very deep into the affairs of Crey Industries. Owing to a tip from Manticore, Charon and Sebastian Kain set out on an all out assault on the Countess herself, with the rest of 'Task Force Pegasus,' which includes the Tone Death member Sabbath, and heroine Sechmeth. She evades them at every turn, but they end up encountering our very own Hopkins. Charon breaks his arm, and he is momentarily arrested before Countess Crey manages to get him released and the charges against him dropped, claiming something to do with an industrial accent, and a misunderstanding concerning the heroes Charon and Sebastian Kain. However, Charon apparently knows better, and continues his investigations into Crey Industries. He, with the help of various members of the new Bone Squad, finds out that Crey use mind control and memory altering techniques to keep their staff easily controlled.
Charon during this time also conducts further investigations into Crey, and finds out their connection with the Freakshow. During these investigations, the group splits into warring factions due to Bile the Technophile allowing his minion, the Zik Zak Man, to publish the entirity of the Freakshow's dealings, including their connection with Crey Industries, on the internet. The Freakshow then splits into several factions. Two main ones go to war with each other however, Dreck Loyalists, and Bile Loyalists. Charon, in a team up with the Dawn Patrol, puts a stop to the wars on the streets.
Charon, in a further team up with Alumette and Stalking Shadow of the Dawn Patrol, as well as a number of other Patrollers, stops one of the splinter factions of the Freakshow from breaking Clamor, who the Bone Squad sent to the Ziggurat only a year before, out of her prison cell. With the help of the Dawn Patrol, he keeps Clamor, and Upstart, another Freakshow scheduled to be sprung from the Brick House, in their cells, and at the same time defeats the man behind the conspiracy to break them out, Clamor Boi.
Charon, once again solo, stops the final war between the Freakshow factions in a warehouse in Brickstown, and the Status Quo is restored, with Dreck taking full control of his group once again, and disapears before Charon can get ahold of him or his whereabouts.
During this time, Charon forms a solid relationship with the aforementioned Dawn Patrol members, Alumette and Stalking Shadow. Although the relationship between Stalking Shadow and Charon is rocky at first, as they have disagreements over the 'chain of command', mutual respect is formed and they agree to work together under compromise. Alumette sees the same thing in Charon that she once saw in Stalking Shadow, and seeks to, at least on some level, help him. On Alumette's recommendation, a coalition is formed between Charon of the Bone Squad and Major Britain of the Dawn Patrol.
A coalition is also formed at this time between the Bone Squad, and the Centurians, as the Bone Squad has always found an ally in one of their leaders: Poison.
During this time, the bond between Sebastian Kain and Charon also grows, as they reluctantly accept an assignment that is brought to them by Positron, to stop the Circle of Thorns, Clockwork and Vahzilok from tampering with the Paragon City dam in Faultline. They, as a duo, stop anything from happening to the dam at the hands of any of the three groups, and recieve Positron's unwanted thanks under the name 'Task Force Offenheimer.'
Charon is also at this time seen using the legendary weapon 'The Nemesis Staff', a steam powered weapon developed by the soldiers of the mysterious Nemesis. D.A.T.A. asks Charon to test the staff, but rather than using it as a ranged weapon as intended, Charon favours using it as a hefty melee weapon, and it is delivered back to D.A.T.A. in less than perfect condition.
August 2005 - In this month, Charon seems to go to all out war with what is seen to be more of a low level threat, The Clockwork King.
As of recent months, it has been observed that the Clockwork King is building something big. The construction of said Clockwork Monster has mostly been taking place in King's Row. This monster so far has no other name than 'Paladin.' Charon becomes much more involved in trying to take down the Clockwork King due to the fact that it is being built on his turf, and poses a very large threat to those he protects.
Charon first of all investigates the king himself, taking out some small warehouses where the clockwork robots are being built. Due to previous encounters, Charon already knows they are indeed not robots, but are controlled by remote telekinesis. He takes out five warehouses full of the robots before he finally attracts the attention of the King himself.
Charon faces Babbage while he is teaming up with Meltman of the Silent World Order, trying to bring the Clockwork King's Kings Row operation to it's knees. Between the two of them, Meltman and Charon manage to fend off Babbage, however the monster escapes and inexplicably manages to dodge out of sight. It is thought Babbage disassembled himself into smaller robots and escaped into the sewer system.
Charon and Meltman, with the help of tips from Positron and Synapse, track the Clockwork King across seven of his construction centers, until they finally find his major production line. While this particular warehouse is not the Clockwork King's palace itself, he is inside overseeing the construction of more of his robots. Charon and Meltman fight the King back, and just as the King is about to be brought to his knees, a massive wave of cogs and sprockets fill the room. Charon and Meltman are forced to fight off the lesser minions, and the Clockwork King manages to escape through a secret tunnel beneath the assembly line.
Charon and Meltman part ways. Charon continues his efforts to bring down the Clockwork King, this time enlisting the help of Xanatos and Poison. They run through six more of the Clockwork King's construction centers before Charon and his new found team mates are found facing Babbage again. However, Babbage leaves the fight even more worse off than he did in the first fight. With the help of Yellow Wolf of the Defenders of Paragon and Tilia of the Centurions, Babbage is beaten, and leaves the fight with a missing arm. He once again dismantles himself and disapears into the Aqueduct.
With the help of Blue Steel, the team rips through two more large assembly lines before finding themselves in the Palace of the Clockwork King himself. Blue Steel tells the heroes the tale of the Clockwork King, how he was once a young and promising inventor, until the faculty at his university found out he was creating his robots through some sort of unorthodox means. Blue Steel even reveals the not well known part of the story, that he was the one who killed the Clockwork King's human body and turned him into the robot he is today, after the King had killed Police officers in a fire started in his original Head Quarters. Blue Steel parts ways with the heroes as they enter the warehouse, and the team faces the Clockwork King himself.
A grueling fight takes place between the Clockwork King and his minions, and Charon, Xanatos and Poison. Eventually, the Clockwork King finds himself beaten. He once again tries to cover his escape by re-animating many of his fallen robots, but to no avail. The team beat back his next wave of his minions, and then dismantle his metal body. The jar which contains the Clockwork King's brain is turned over to Blue Steel, who then locks it away in a secure wing of the Paragon City Police Department Head Quarters.
Charon then spends a large amount of his time stopping the Clockwork still on the streets from building parts of the metal monstrosity Paladin. Charon manages to slow, but not entirely stop the Clockwork King's plan to construct his Clockwork Monster, and the King is broken out of the Paragon Police Department by Babbage, who conducts a Clockwork assault on the Police headquarters. The Clockwork King then goes into hiding.
Manticore suggests to the Freedom Phalanx that Charon be put forward for Reserve Membership of the Freedom Phalanx for his efforts, specifically against Crey Industries, Clockwork and the cities many street gangs. Charon is fianlly offered the Reserve Membership by Manticore himself. Charon accepts, but makes it clear he doesn't leave Paragon City.
September 2005 - Charon sparks up a relationship with his ex-mentor's once Sidekick, Kid Vamp in this month.
Together, Kid Vamp and Charon spend a significant amount of time on Striga Isle, beating back the Council and their attempts to set themselves up for an assault on Paragon City.
Charon and Kid Vamp eventually find themselves being ambushed by The Ascendants in a Council Lab on Striga Isle. They are forced to fight their way out of the lab through waves and waves of the Ascendants, who are traditionally used as the personal bodyguards of the leaders of the Council, and for assassinating troublesome heroes who begin to probe to far into Council business. The Council under estimate Charon, forgetting their experiences with him when they were still named the Fifth Column. The Ascendants present a challenge to Charon and Kid Vamp simply through quantity, not quality. Charon and Kid Vamp beat through waves and waves of them, until they come to the top room of the lab.
Charon and Kid Vamp at this time realise why the security has been tight. From a tip from Manticore about a Council arms factory, they have actually found the home of a top man in the Council: Maestro.
Charon and Kid Vamp call in the help of Rottweiler, who has since joining the Bone Squad left and joined hero team The Underground. Rottweiler arrives, and after working out a strategy, they enter the inner sanctum of Maestro's head quarters. Maestro's sonic powers are no match for the sheer force of the three heroes in Melee range, and after a short battle of Maestro attempting to hold the heroes back with his powers and the help of a handful of elite Ascendants, Maestro is beaten to his knees and is forced to surrender. He is arrested. Three days later, he is broken out of PCPD HQ by Vandal and a group of elite Mek Men.
Charon also continues his efforts against Crey Industries in this time. Spending alot of his time in Eden and Crey's Folly, Charon manages to peice together a larger peice of the wide spread conspiracy Crey is involved in, and un-covers the secret behind the Paragon Protectors with the help of an undead Hacker known as The Doctor, who has managed to download his mind into a computer system. Charon manages to steal a CBX-9 freeze pistol and tank suit from Crey on this crusade, which seems to come to an end at the start of October.
October - November 2005 - Charon lays low during these two months. He is still seen out and about at night, but rarely outside of his turf of King's Row. Charon concentrates his efforts inside the boundaries of the Row, and mostly deals with low level street crime and muggings.
It is interesting to note that this time is around the anniversary of Maria's death. This could be the reason for down grading his efforts to King's Row, and specifically High Park, where Charon concentrates most of his time. In the months before October, Charon had become increasingly more adventurous in dealing with higher level threats. In these two months, however, Charon once again becomes determined to stop anything like what happened to him from happening to anybody else, and therefore does not leave the Row.
As of recent events, Charon's threat level has been significantly increased.
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