REAL NAME: COLIN KING
ALIAS: Ninjak, Ninja-K.
ABILITIES: Trained in all manners of martial arts; through deep meditation, he can enhance his senses and even travel the void of the mind.
KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS: MI6 (formerly); G.A.T.E.; Daybreak; Angelina Alcott; Roku; Livewire (former lover); Eternal Warrior (friends); Aric of Dacia (friends); Shadowman; Punk Mambo.
Colin King is the only child of Jonathan and Margaret King, two of MI-6’s top undercover operatives. His mother became pregnant with him while on a mission in Russia, the result of an affair with a former KGB agent called Alain who followed her back to the United Kingdom to be present in his son’s life under the guise of the family live-in butler at King Castle.
As a child, Colin ran away from home several times, preferring the wild of the woods, eventually leaving for good when he was a teenager. Ultimately, he followed his parents’ footsteps and joined MI-6.
A year into his first mission Colin got involved with his handler, agent Angelina Alcott, but their tryst was short-lived as an assassin named Xaman murdered Angelina. With help from his new handler, Neville Alcott, he tracked Xaman down to the monastery of the Undead Monk hidden in the Himalayas. Colin joined the brutal training of the silent monk and killed Xaman, but the Undead Monk banished him from the monastery before he could eliminate the rest of the elite group known as the Shadow Seven.
Becoming the lead agent in MI-6’s Ninja Programme, Colin adopted the designation of Ninja-K. As a child of privilege, he worked for the highest bidder, and accepted a contract to terminate X-O Manowar upon his return to Earth. When Alexander Dorian — a turned Vine Planting — explained the Vine Council’s plans to conquer Earth, Colin and Aric joined forces to take out the plants. Later, they formed the Unity team, with Eternal Warrior and Livewire.
The Ninja Programme began during World War II after the first Ninja agent, a man brought from Japan, first trained his successor. They both perished in 1945 in battle while the bomb fell in Hiroshima. Ninja-B was the first British member of the Programme, and he trained his successor as well. Ninja-D was the first to be trained by the Jonin, a ninja master of unknown origin (presumed Japanese but with no loyalty for Japan) hired by MI-6 to train all special ninja agents from the early 1950s through the 1990s.
Ninja-C reappeared in Colin’s time seeking revenge on the Acclimation Bureau, an agency dedicated to eliminating any influence in the agent’s lives that may distract them from their mission. When Ninjak learned of the brutal extent of the Bureau, his relationship with MI-6 broke down, leading to disavowal when Colin refused to apprehend the fugitive psiot — and Colin’s former teammate and lover — Livewire.
Colin had a brief affair with Songbird Agent Myna during a mission, but after Punk Mambo altered his mind to fight a powerful mind reader, he has no memories of their time together. Following the mission, Neville Alcott left MI-6, took the assets of the organization they brought down, and restructured it as a rogue agency codenamed Daybreak.
OTHER DETAILS: Ninja-K's equipment includes the Ninjet—a hypersonic stealth plane of Ninjak's own design—, jetpack, expansion armor—retractable but restrictive heavy armor—, mini-drones, shuriken—variations include flashbang, tranquilizer, explosive, and more—, battle mask with telepathic inhibitor.
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