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Ultimate Marvel Presents: Mockingbird
"Hum", Parts 1-4
Barbara "Bobbi" Morse has spent her entire life attempting to live down her reputation as the niece of respected SHIELD director Nick Fury. Even as a spunky bi-racial child prodigy (displaying Mary Sue-level talents), she established that her mission in life was to become a SHIELD operative, and prepared herself accordingly, inteding to grow along with the fledgling organization.
Despite having a natural genius-level intellect and possessing the same technical know-how and intelligence-gathering skills as her famous uncle, she is regarded with suspicion of nepotism, after graduating with top honors from SHIELD's training program. (She's an excellent marksman and can hold her own in field combat, despite the fact that a gimp leg -- disfigured by polio since childhood -- requires her to walk with the use of a cane.)
When an inter-agency dispute with Interpol forces SHIELD to back away from an investigation into Irish arms dealer Tom Cassidy, Bobbi snoops around, hacking into Interpol's database, with Fury's tacit approval. But her intrusion is detected, and Fury mercilessly leaves his niece to take the rap, trusting her to be able to take care of herself.
Bobbi escapes Interpol custody, and officially goes rogue.
On the lam in upstate New York, she is tracked down by Lee, the silent driver/emissary of billionaire Jack Danner, a.k.a. Hawk-Owl (from Ultimate Adventures), who has been conducting his own private investigation into Black Tom, who is dealing weapons to Danner's corporate rivals, Fenris International.
Danner gives Bobbi full access to his workshop in his headquaters, The Nest, and she crafts a gimmicked version of her cane that separates into two smaller staff-like weapons, as well as her own new costumed identity, Mockingbird, to match the 'bird of prey' theme.
Bobbi uses the Nest's computer to decrypt an Interpol file, attempting to cover up Fenris' plan to disrupt the world economic system by launching simultaneous terrorist attacks on major financial institutions -- the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and so forth.
Racing against time, Hawk-Owl, Woody, Mockingbird, Lee, and Tolliver split up to the raid the various Fenris offices from which the attacks are being coordinated. They are pursued intently by SHIELD, Interpol, as well as rogue Interpol agents on Fenris' payroll.
Mockingbird and Lee end up in Fenris' Hamburg headquaters, facing both Andrea and Andreas Strucker, whose last-ditch effort to salvage their plan ends with a crippling bioelectric blast that severs the nerves in Bobbi's good leg. The heroes' combined efforts averts disaster -- for now -- but for wheelchair-bound Bobbi, it's a Pyhrric victory.
She says 'thanks but no thanks' to her uncle's offer to rejoin SHIELD as a full-time intelligence officer, moving in with her new-found allies.
She resolves to carry on keeping the world safe by using The Nest's computer system to transmit encrypted intelligence reports -- her Mockingbird's Hum -- to a network of independent crime-fighters, functioning as a information broker for heroes that refuse to play by SHIELD's rules.
"Hum", Parts 1-4
Barbara "Bobbi" Morse has spent her entire life attempting to live down her reputation as the niece of respected SHIELD director Nick Fury. Even as a spunky bi-racial child prodigy (displaying Mary Sue-level talents), she established that her mission in life was to become a SHIELD operative, and prepared herself accordingly, inteding to grow along with the fledgling organization.
Despite having a natural genius-level intellect and possessing the same technical know-how and intelligence-gathering skills as her famous uncle, she is regarded with suspicion of nepotism, after graduating with top honors from SHIELD's training program. (She's an excellent marksman and can hold her own in field combat, despite the fact that a gimp leg -- disfigured by polio since childhood -- requires her to walk with the use of a cane.)
When an inter-agency dispute with Interpol forces SHIELD to back away from an investigation into Irish arms dealer Tom Cassidy, Bobbi snoops around, hacking into Interpol's database, with Fury's tacit approval. But her intrusion is detected, and Fury mercilessly leaves his niece to take the rap, trusting her to be able to take care of herself.
Bobbi escapes Interpol custody, and officially goes rogue.
On the lam in upstate New York, she is tracked down by Lee, the silent driver/emissary of billionaire Jack Danner, a.k.a. Hawk-Owl (from Ultimate Adventures), who has been conducting his own private investigation into Black Tom, who is dealing weapons to Danner's corporate rivals, Fenris International.
Danner gives Bobbi full access to his workshop in his headquaters, The Nest, and she crafts a gimmicked version of her cane that separates into two smaller staff-like weapons, as well as her own new costumed identity, Mockingbird, to match the 'bird of prey' theme.
Bobbi uses the Nest's computer to decrypt an Interpol file, attempting to cover up Fenris' plan to disrupt the world economic system by launching simultaneous terrorist attacks on major financial institutions -- the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and so forth.
Racing against time, Hawk-Owl, Woody, Mockingbird, Lee, and Tolliver split up to the raid the various Fenris offices from which the attacks are being coordinated. They are pursued intently by SHIELD, Interpol, as well as rogue Interpol agents on Fenris' payroll.
Mockingbird and Lee end up in Fenris' Hamburg headquaters, facing both Andrea and Andreas Strucker, whose last-ditch effort to salvage their plan ends with a crippling bioelectric blast that severs the nerves in Bobbi's good leg. The heroes' combined efforts averts disaster -- for now -- but for wheelchair-bound Bobbi, it's a Pyhrric victory.
She says 'thanks but no thanks' to her uncle's offer to rejoin SHIELD as a full-time intelligence officer, moving in with her new-found allies.
She resolves to carry on keeping the world safe by using The Nest's computer system to transmit encrypted intelligence reports -- her Mockingbird's Hum -- to a network of independent crime-fighters, functioning as a information broker for heroes that refuse to play by SHIELD's rules.
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