Spaceman n'avait pas été dans la ville depuis longtemps, peut-être environ deux mois, et était encore en train de s'y habituer. Le plus grand changement a été la quantité de travail, à savoir les super méchants. De retour dans l'Ohio, les héros sont surtout à temps partiel, gardant les ruelles sombres à l'abri des voyous, et la plupart des méchants sont des blagues. Ici, à Astro City, il semblait y avoir des occurrences quotidiennes de super-crime, ou du moins de crime bizarre. Dernièrement, ça a l'air de devenir encore plus bizarre.
Heureusement, l'après-midi n'était pas aussi bizarre que le matin. Spaceman avait entendu parler de punks anarchistes défiler dans le parc. C'est plus comme des méchants de l'Ohio. Normal. Pas d'aliments vivants. Pas de vidange d'énergie. Juste de bons vieux idiots.
L'homme de l'espace a survolé le parc pour avoir un aperçu général de la situation. Il a reconnu son compagnon Irrégulier, Midas l'Homme d'Or, qui défendait la statue de Silver Agent avec un arbre. Il avait l'air d'empêcher la foule d'occuper le parc.
De l'autre côté du parc, Spaceman a vu une jeune femme assise seule sur un banc. Les voyous rouges se rapprochaient d'elle. Décidant que le seul civil aurait probablement besoin de plus d'aide que Midas, Spaceman a incliné son vol pour intercepter les hooligans.
Name: Christopher Roberts
Alias: Phoenix
Age: 19
Powers: Peak physical and mental conditioning. Genus level intellect. Skilled hand to hand combatant. Various hi tech gadgets to supplement his combat skills. Skilled in the use of stealth. Access to a vast fortune.
Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses. Relative inexperience at the hero game. Cocky.
Personality: cynical, brave, analytical
Enemies: The Reaper, highly trained mercenary who specialises in hand to hand combat, full black combat gear with a skull-like mask and a hi-tech hand scythe.
Dr Whitechapel, misongystic-knife nut-surgeon who dabbles in the occult, well dressed, black tophat, black great cloak, sideburns.
Hometown: New York
How long in Astro City: two weeks
Hero Experience: 3 years
Appearance:
similar to the above except for a few key differences. The head piece doesn't have the chin flaps, instead having two red pieces around the eyes that wrap around the head to form a winged head dress, kind of like a mix of hawk-woman's helmet and batman's ears. The inside of the cape is red. The colours of the chest piece are reversed, with a large, flaming red bird logo, a mix of the DCAU nightwing emblem and Jean Greys Phoenix. The belt would be black and red, with several utility compartments.
BRIEF Bio: Chris Roberts was born to inherit a heroic legacy, he just never knew it.
The last Phoenix first fought the good fight during the second world war. The result of multi millionaire Jonathan Valiant self funded experimentation in creating a superhuman weapon to fight crime. Jonathan's first and only test subject was himself, as he deemed the process too dangerous to put anyone else through it. The Phoenix spent several decades fighting crime, but slowly came to realise that he was not immortal, and needed to find a successor. He, and his partner Ambrose Richards, The Highwayman, found a like minded woman, Mary Roberts, an ex-military woman. Together they created Chris, a genetically engineered peak human. Chris was supposed to take over his fathers role in crime fighting, but Jonathan disappeared before he was born. Ambrose took over Jonathans company, Valiant enterprises, and he and Mary decided it wasn't right for them to force Christopher into a life of their choosing. Mary raised him in New York, with Ambrose becoming his Godfather and part time guardian. Although they didn't tell him of his one time destiny they both trained him in the skills he would need if he chose to become a hero in secret. shortly before his sixteenth birthday Christopher stepped in to stop a gang from mugging an elderly woman. Chris won the fight, but was severely injured. After this it was decided that Mary and Ambrose should reveal his lineage to him, and offer him the chance to become a hero. He accepted, taking up the mantle of the Phoenix, with Ambrose's help. Chris has faced off with two of his most terrible foes already, the deadly Reaper, an insane French mercenary who is obsessed with the idea that it his divine mission to bring death to those who's time has come, and the brilliant Dr Whitechapel, who was at one time called Jack the Ripper. Whitechapel, though not presenting the same physical threat as The Reaper, is a much more dangerous foe as he was the head geneticist who worked on Chris in the womb, so knows the Phoenix's true identity.
The Dr has recently proven just how dangerous he can be when he murdered Christophers mother. Chris and Ambrose have received word that Whitechapel has fled to Astro city, so the Phoenix has chased him there.
Notes: Ambrose and Chris have spread the word that the Phoenix is unkillable, and that every time he falls he will simply rise again. A valuable misdirection when dealing with the criminal underbelly, this also leads some to believe that Chris is the same man who originally wore the mantle of the Phoenix.