Adaptation and Evolution
Darren Main was the subject for Project: Ultimate Lifeform, run by the UK government agency MI6. When the Project was almost shut down due to a pull out of funds, due to the long, costly life of the Project, the failures beforehand, and the inability of the scientists to provide satisfactory results, the heads of the Project agreed to use a prototype of the Project's chosen medium, a virus designed to keep the subject alive and elevate the adaptive nature of the body to godly levels, as well as hyper-accelerating the evolutionary response to damage the human body to a level well beyond human comprehension. In the past, it had been the closest thing to success they had achieved.
When they infused the virus with Darren, he was in incredible pain, and screamed in pure, intense agony for over 24 hours. This was as had been the case in previous trials, and the scientists waited for him to die, (as all their previous subjects had done). However, Darren clung onto life with a determination as he accelerated towards the event horizon, when the virus would completely bond with his immune system, his bloodstream, and all of his bodily tissues. After a day and a half of screaming in extreme pain, Darren fell silent. The heads of Project: Ultimate Lifeform expected him to have died. Instead, he had become precisely what they had aimed for. He adapted both physically and mentally, his brain creating more and more neural pathways so that his learning curve accelerated exponentially. Indeed, he also seemed to have gained an eidetic memory through the procedure, as well as an ability to learn and master fighting styles incredibly fast.
He was able to rival and defeat well-trained soldiers in hand-to-hand combat after observing them for mere minutes, and for every blow he took, his resistance to pain rose to allow him to withstand the punches. For a strike that actually caused damage, his natural healing accelerated faster and faster, and his durability increased as well. He was able to master weapons in mere days, and could gain the kind of shooting skill that it would take years to train normally, in weeks. Although the Project was considered to be a success, he also gained a massive increase in his base intelligence, and was able to logically devise that they were going to use him as a super soldier, or worse, an assassin. These fears were compounded when they displayed his costume, which was the black of the deepest shadow. Using his new abilities, Darren was able to escape, pacify the men sent to capture him, and fade from the map. The one thing that was noticed was that he had taken the suit.
Powers
Adaptive evolution – If Darren comes to harm, his body will evolve to counter the harm, such as an increase in his physical attributes or a resistance to burning should someone attempt to set him on fire. If being defeated in a fight, Darren’s physical attributes (his strength, speed, reaction time, durability, etc.) will not rise above the level of the individual who is defeating him.
Adaptive resurrection – Should an attack in fact succeed in killing Darren, he will revive after a period of time having developed immunity to the way in which he was dispatched.
Weapon proficiency – Darren has the ability to master the use of weapons in a far shorter time than a normal person.
Accelerated learning – Darren is able to learn things far more quickly than the average person. His greatest academic use of this was learning, to an amazing degree of accuracy, the language of Mandarin Chinese in the space of an afternoon. His most impressive combat use is defeating a well-trained soldier after observing his fighting style for a few minutes.
Environmental Adaptation – Darren’s body can alter itself slightly to help him survive in less than optimum conditions, such as a fair degree of night vision after being in the dark for a short time.
Longevity – The virus causes Darren’s body to continuously regenerate its cells, and as such, Darren ages very slowly. It is unknown to how much of a degree his aging has been slowed.
Evolved powers
Healing factor - Darren has adapted a healing factor, making him significantly harder to kill. He has healed from two shots to the head in a matter of seconds.
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