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Taki (mod)
Modified by the Norseman, reflects 20 years of self-improvement, for use in Marvel-X2K

Fighting: 

Gd

Agility: 

Gd

Strength: 

Gd

Endurance: 

Rm

Reason: 

Rm

Intuition: 

Gd

Psyche: 

Ex

Health: 

60

Karma: 

60

Resources: 

Ex

Popularity: 

4

Real Name: Takeshi Matsuya
Occupation: Owner, Matsuya Custom Vehicles
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Public
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Age: 33
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother and father (unidentified, deceased), uncle (unidentified, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: (Marvel 2000 X-Team)
Known Powers:
Transmutation:  Amazing.  Taki possesses the mutant ability to transmute metal, plastic, glass, and rubber into any shape or form that he can conceive with this ability.  Anything that Taki creates has Power Rank statistics:  a gun would do Power Rank Force or Energy damage, a helicopter would have Power Rank Air Speed.  Taki cannot create objects out of thin air: he must have something to work with.  Normally he uses his own wheelchair for transmutations, but he can alter other objects.  The only limitation his transformations have is that energy must be supplied.  The power source in his wheelchair only has enough power to provide the equivalent of Good lifting strength.  Other objects will have Strength equal to their own weight.  Taki can create generators that refocus energy from other sources, such as the mutant Boom-Boom's Time Bombs.

Immediately after the events of Inferno, Taki has lost much of his power and could only create objects that he can imagine in detail.  For instance, he would have to know how to design a computer to create one.  This will normally necessitate a Yellow or Red Reason FEAT roll, although simple objects (such as wheeled vehicles, simple projectile weapons, etc.) may require either a Green FEAT roll or no roll whatsoever based on the simplicity of the object in question.

Taki has been working on his ability, and although he does need to think out a design for any object he can create, he effectively can use his talents cumulatively.  For instance, creating a computer would combine the talents of Computers, Electronics, and Repair/Tinkering, for an effective Reason rank of +3CS.


Designs:
Power Source: Continuous Motion generator (Gd)
Equipment:
Brace:  Taki lost the use of his legs in an automobile accident and was unable to walk for a majority of his life. He has since effected repairs on his spinal chord, and while able to walk unaided, he is greatly hindered without his specially designed brace, which can be worn, undetected under his clothing. Without the brace, his movement is as if his Endurance were Poor.

Maxmilion Armor: Taki 'liberated' this armor from a robotic guard/soldier in service of the Warlock. The original robot suffered severe damage, the following is what was salvageable.
Levitation: Through the use of anti-gravity systems, the suit can literally defy gravity. The upper limit of gravitational forces that the suit can counter is unknown. (These anti-gravity systems are intriguing to Taki. It is expected that some MCV products will benefit from this new technology--If he can survive his current, adventure that is.)
Flight: Feeble. Impellers built into the Anti-Gravity systems can propel the suit in any direction.
Body Armor: The armor, improved upon by Taki, provides Incredible protection from Physical and Energy damage. There are ventilation holes located at difficult locations to hit. (Underneath the shoulder plastrons is but one example)
Plasma Projection: Incredible. Due to unsalvageable damage, Taki can only fire twice per round. Doing so, however, would deplete the energy source completely.
Disguised Voice: Taki has recently reactivated the robot's voice synthesizer, adding a microphone, when speaking through this system, he sounds very similar to the original robot.


Weakness:
Dyslexia:  Taki suffers from dyslexia, but he has gotten it under control to a point that he needs a Green FEAT to read, and a Yellow FEAT to write.
Talents:
Physics, Computers, Electronics, and Repair/Tinkering skills plus skills at constructing vehicles of any sort, and receives a + 1CS there as well

He now also has Biology and Engineering.


Contacts:
Leech
Artie Maddicks
other members of the "X-Terminators." (Rusty, Skids, Boom-Boom, Richtor)
X-Factor, X-Men (Jean Grey, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman)
Role-Playing Notes:
Originally, Taki had a large chip on his shoulder and considered himself superior to his fellow students and teachers alike.  He does want friends, however, and has become close pals with Artie and Leech.  He tends to be overconfident, and is not as experienced a fighter as he would like to think he is.
History:
Taki is the son of Japanese-American citizens who were killed in an automobile accident when he was about six.  That same accident cost him the use of his legs.  An uncle took him in, but viewed him as a burden and shipped him off to St. Simons Academy for Pre-Adolescents.  That same uncle felt a responsibility to attempt to have Taki healed, but the efforts of various doctors proved useless.

At St. Simons, Taki encountered the mutants Leech and Artie Maddicks who had been sent there by X-Factor.  At that time the demon N'astirh had been sent to Earth by S'ym to find children of power.  Leech and Artie were kidnapped and Taki's mutant power manifested for the first time when he transformed his wheelchair into a battlewagon to fight the goblins.  His inexperience and Leech's power-nullifying abilities allowed him to be defeated and the goblins escaped.

When the teachers refused to believe his story, Taki called in the other youthful proteges of X-Factor (Rusty, Skids, Boom-Boom, and Rictor).  Together they traveled to New York City but Taki was kidnapped by N'astirh's goblin minions.  N'astirh believed that Taki could create a computer that could handle the magic spells which N'astirh needed to open a gateway between Limbo and Earth.  Taki was able to, but stalled for time until the X-Terminators could arrive and rescue the babies that N'astirh was using to open a pentagram to Limbo.

In the final confrontation between N'astirh and S'ym, N'astirh allowed himself to be infected with the trans-mode virus which affected him in a way so that he could use Taki's computer whereas previously his demonic nature prevented him from doing so.  In a last ditch effort Taki caused the computer he had created to revert back to normal.  N'astirh, who was linked to the computer, was completely obliterated.

This effort cost Taki some of his power, limiting his abilities to transmute non-organics.  He, Artie, and Leech returned to St. Simons where Taki is still attempting to overcome his dyslexia while perfecting his abilities.

He has attained degrees from Harvard in Bio-Mechanical Engineering.  Though years of studies and trial and error, Taki has formed a bridge across the damaged section of his spinal chord.


Taki is currently a member of X-Force (as chronicled in the Marvel-X2K PBeM game) which is currently in the Negative Zone.