The Hurricane

The Hurricanes childhood 

The Hurricane was born Hijimoto bloodrage, on the 6th of March, in Japan. He spent his early childhood in a small fishing village. His parents Kagura (mother) and Hijikata (father) Bloodrage. They were officially unemployed and made money by completing shadowruns, not that they told Hijimoto this. Their jobs filled Hijimotos early life with an absence of parents as they were "away on business trips". When at home they were often tending to the wounds they acquired "doing business".

Despite what they would call best efforts Hijimoto grew up with an insecure, and distant family life. He spent his free time with the neighbour’s son Christian Miagi (Jesus) play fighting, fighting and generally being nuisances. However Hijimoto was never satisfied with the life his parents had provided him, by the age of 10 he was aware that his parents were consistently involved in illegal activity. This lead to Hijimotos running away.

By 13 he was fed up with his parents, they were never around to care properly for him and provide him with any guidance. On their next "business trip" Hijimoto left. He left a note explaining to his parents that he had left for his own "business trip" and should return someday. He told Christian that he would be going where ever "that ship" (a random docked cargo ship) would take him and to meet him when he was strong enough.

Hijimoto arrived in Australia and lived the first few months on the street, stealing to survive. However he was caught stealing from a weird, few years older, elf with a metal arm. Naturally he and the elf got into a fight over it. When the elfs guardian, an unbelievably muscular man, broke up the fight he saw Hijimoto was clearly homeless.

The man,who called himself Typhoon, took in Hijimoto and trained him (in combat of course). Hijimoto stayed with Typhoon and Typhoons girlfriend Storm who cared for him, becoming better parents to Hijimoto than his real ones had been. Hijimotos only friend at the time was the cyber elf who claimed his name was Cyclone. His arm was really cool. Eventually Cyclone asked Typhoon is they could introduce Hijimoto to their other friends yet. Typhoon agreed it was time. Hijimoto followed Typhoon through the streets to a back ally where many others had congregated. Hijimoto was brought before them and introduced, as Hurricane. He was told that he was now a member of Storm To Pass.

He followed Typhoons guidance and was taught to fire almost every ranged weapon and how to swing in close, armed and unarmed, combat. Hurricane followed also the example of his closest friend at the time, Cyclone, and had his arms "upgraded" however he also got various other upgrades, including eyes and ears. Where Cyclone said it took a lot of getting used to metal limbs, Hurricane felt just as natural with metal as he had with flesh. Hurricane grew to become Typhoons right hand and one of the strongest members. He was loyal to Storm To Pass, and Typhoon for years.

Then the Jesus incident happened Hurricane was forced (my many a bullet) to leave Storm To Pass. However he couldn't bring himself to change the alias he had held for so long, so he simply became  The  Hurricane. He joined the group soon after.

Weapons
The Hurricane has many weapons, he is equipped with more guns than even he can wield. But that doesn't stop them all getting use.

He has eight guns, Tiffany Defiance Protector (taser) Ares Crusader II (machine pistol), Ares Predator V (heavy pistol),  Ares Alpha (assault rifle), Enfield AS-7 (shotgun), ArmTech MGL-12 (grenade launcher), Stoner-Ares M202 (machine gun), Rurhmetall SF-20 TEMPEST (machine gun). The Taser and machine pistol are cyber implant weapons in his left arm, the rest are normal weapons he bought from his trusty arms dealer, Aaron Ditchfield, with the exception of TEMPEST, which Tempest gave him.

Re-Meeting Storm To Pass
Soon after the group had arrived in their new (shared) house  The  Hurricane was out the front, admiring his newly bought red Highland Forged Claymore, when a black van pulled up out side. Two hazmat-suited people stepped out of the van and ran towards The Hurricane, they told from behind their gas masks that Jake Dragonfly was in grave danger and needed help immediately. That the other runners wouldn't survive where they were going, that there was only enough room in the van for one extra and that there was 15 thousand new yen in it for The Hurricane. It was the 15 thousand new yen that really got him on board.

The van sped away and quickly lost the pursuing Quick Silver. Meanwhile at the safe house N3on made a call to Jake, Jake confirmed that he, in fact, did not organise to have  The  Hurricane sent immediately. In the van gas vents opened up and fumed  The  Hurricane with pepper punch gas, dealing substantial stun damage. That, along with the injections from the people riding with him, knocked The Hurricane unconscious.

He woke up in a cell, feeling the spray of torrential rain through the barred window. The weapons he had on him at the time (claymore, machine pistol, taser) were gone or locked in  The  Hurricanes arms, useless. Two new men entered and injected  The Hurricane with a drug which cleared his blurry vision. He was then dragged down a hallway to an underground arena. He was dragged to one side of the raised circular arena, surrounded by jeering and cheering people, opposite his old mentor, Typhoon. On a raised catwalk, hanging from the ceiling, the shapes of Tempest, leaning casually against a machine gun aimed at the arena, and Cyclone standing next to her, we're visible.

In the distance, on top of a shipping crate, a small shrine was displayed. Complete with a greyed out picture of Hail and torn to shreds pictures of  The  Hurricane and of Blizzard. The  Hurricane bowed to his former master but was forcibly pushed back up. Typhoon screamed at him that leaving Storm To Pass had made him weak and to show him his strength.

Having seen several of these fights in the past,  The  Hurricane popped out his spurs and charged Typhoon. Delivering a blow to his stomach. Typhoon followed this attack with one of his own, slamming his huge fist into  The  Hurricanes head. Knocked off balance,  The  Hurricane swung at Typhoon again but missed, making himself subject to another blow. As each fist swung the world erupted with thunder and rain, the heavens seamed to open and the sky broke with every punch. The immense strength of Typhoon was enough to knock  The  Hurricane out already, but as he was falling to the ground  The  Hurricane spun and delivered his spurred elbow into Typhoons face. When he awoke  The  Hurricane saw that both he and Typhoon had fallen unconscious, the massive wounds and blood loss too much for either to stay up, and been stabilised by a standing by medic.

Knowing that until one beat the other there could be no winner  The  Hurricane tried to rise. However his left arm had been torn, near clean off his shoulder, and was rendered useless. He walked towards the stirring form of Typhoon and heard a yell from the crowd "hey Hurricane, CATCH!". Looking up he saw Jazz, the rest of the party in various spots around the arena, throwing him a large metal, slightly singed, pipe. Catching the pipe with his good hand  The  Hurricane advanced towards Typhoon as his mentors eyes flicked open, to avoid possibly being beaten again, he delivered an arm-snapping blow with the pipe to Typhoons left arm. Beating him down, and back onto unconsciousness,  The  Hurricane had won.

There was immense uproar from the crowd, support, anger and bewilderment. But the angry screeches of Storm, who had urged for  The  Hurricanes death, could be heard above all others. As Storm fumbled with a gun Tempest kept the 'no guns at a street fight rule' by lighting Storm up with some machine gun fire. It seemed  The  Hurricane had support from within the crowd as the gangs patience with Typhoons uncontainable rage leading, grew thin. In the aftermath of the Jesus gun fight, Typhoon had ripped blizzards face apart on the basis that Blizzard had supported  The  Hurricane. Because of this, to many, Typhoons downfall was welcomed.

Having won,  The  Hurricane was returned his gear, but could not leave without a gift from Tempest. She handed  The  Hurricane a case before the group departed. Opening the case with his good hand  The  Hurricane found a wicked looking, left cyber arm, decorative piece which depicted a blue wavy storm usually, but when swung with force (like when punching) the storm grew in power, becoming a swirling white mass of wind and storm. However he was dumbstruck to see the other gift. An amazing, anti-dragon, gold plated SF-20 machine gun. Complete with the tri-pod, internal smart gun, bayonet, gas venting 3 and hip support upgrades. It was inscribed along the barrel with a single word "Tempest". Although  The  Hurricane loved his claymore, this machine gun became his prized possession, representing and reminding him not only of the 11 years he spent with the gang, his best friends, closest family, years of training, but also of the respect that the other members felt for him (ALSO TEMPEST). This very much set  The  Hurricanes mind at ease, where once he was troubled with wishes of establishing contact with STP, of leaving them on better terms, he felt conclusion. He felt that now this was how he had left the gang, with their contact details in hand, and a powerful epic gift from those he cares about.

This concludes the STP influence on the campaign for the moment, we assume.

WRONG!

Quick Fact check

-ultralight tactical generics (UTG) has all but taken over Australia

-footage of ultralights cruelty was made public

-many protests have lead to violence

-Thunder was shot and killed in such violence

Whilst laying low as the protests and violence continued nothing much was happening for The Hurricane. However one evening he was urgently called by Cyclone who needed all the help he could get, the entire group went with him and many other members of STP. They drove up to the site of a rebellion, hostages from ultralight were being held in a barricaded police station. The people there were de landing that they talk to the government to try and negotiate the state of Australia's essential rule by UTG.

A chirpy young girl, a recent recruit to STP but one who had earned the alias Zephyr, was the most active member, leading the efforts to make change. Many civilians joined in the resistance and had taken up arms.

The police response was to eventually, after a negotiator came and went from the barricades, that Zephyr was given a radio to the higher ups.

Upon opening a call to a chief in a helicopter hovering close by, the radio detonated, killing Zephyr. This spurred the fight to begin, the shooting lead to many casualties on both sides, notably no further main STP members were killed. The Hurricane runner Orc friend was there, serving UTG. In the fight The Hurricane was hit in the face by a flame thrower, but being epic he shrugged it off and gunned down the heavily armed and armoured soldier wielding it. Everyone then processed to escape via an underground escape rout, just as fire bombs were dropped from a jet that flew in.

Many were killed, mostly civilians and basic UTG soldiers. However, as a result of Zephyrs high protest activity, STP have become known as anti-ultralight rebels, which is a problem given ultralight run the country.

The remaining STP members literally ran for the hills to hide out until they figure out what to do next. The rebellion has begun.