Real
Name: Jon Grey
Occupation: Super
Hero
Base of Operations: the
Weasel Cave
Marital Status: Single
Current Status: MIA
Jon Grey’s parents met in a Dystopian hospital,
where each was being treated for a condition that accelerated their
aging process. Falling in love, they married and bore a son – and
soon after perished in their early twenties. At first it was feared
that Jon suffered from their ailment too since he matured at a
faster rate than the other children did. The hospital staff had
no idea what could be done for him, so he ran free studying all
the books he could find and playing on all the furniture – he’d
be dead soon enough. Oddly enough though, most of the staff perished
first. They, along with the Hospital Director, were selling drugs
made in the labs which is a big no-no in Ferret Man’s “Big Book
of Things I Shoot People For” (Available in both soft and hardcover
from Pulver Publishing).
Having a thing against shooting kids he doesn’t
know deserve it, Ferret Man grabbed Jon before burning the hospital
to the ground. Jon, figuring he was going to die soon enough, pleaded
Ferret Man to take him in. The idea of having someone to draw fire
appealed to him, so Jon was soon dubbed Mongoose Lad. It was a
title that would stick with him for far longer than he had ever
hoped! For you see, he inherited both his parent’s genetic defects,
and they canceled each other out in a big way, so instead of aging
quickly, his body’s ages more slowly every year. He was Ferret
Man’s boy sidekick for THIRTY YEARS.
Eventually, he was able to become his own man
as Mongoose Guy. And Ferret Man took on a second Mongoose Lad…
but ouch… oh, that ended badly. Moving along… MG took well to being
his own boss, especially after Ferret Man disappeared, because
he had never stopped calling him Mongoose Lad.
Now always Mongoose Lad, errr, Guy, has put his
energies toward training the next next generation of heroes (he
is after all fifty years older than the kids he’s training), and
remained a resident of Vayne Manor before his own disappearance
after a trip to the SMT Labs. I’m sure he’s doing just fine.
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