Post by carandini on Apr 12, 2010 6:47:27 GMT -5
Victoria Cross
Name: Dame Martine Price
Location: England
Group Affiliation: IMPERIALS
Powers: Victoria Cross is an expert acrobat and accomplished gymnast. She is a master in the arts of judo and savate and is also very capable with sword and pistol. She is very skilled in linguistics, speaking twelve different languages as fluently as a native. She almost unequalled in the craft of fabricating disguises and is capable of effecting extremely convincing disguises from the most common and unexpected materials.
Victoria Cross typically takes a variety of specialized tools with her on missions. Among the more common items in her ‘bag of tricks’ are a collapsible sword with a tungsten steel blade, a highly compact break-apart machine pistol, chemical explosives compressed into tiny ‘buttons’, and vials of concentrated acid which can be used to destroy locks or inconvenient documents. A micro-radio disguised as a pocket watch and a miniaturized camera which can pass for a mirrored compact are two of the more specialized tools she will often carry.
History: Martine Price was born in 1918 after her father returned from service in WWI. Stewart Price had served as a member of the British Secret Intelligence Service during the war, most prominently in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. A distinguished agent of SIS, Stewart Price was not to enjoy his rest for long. Tensions in the Middle East following the partition of the Ottoman Empire resulted in his being recalled and dispatched to the British Mandate of Mesopotamia to help authorities there quell the violent uprising of Iraqi nationalists.
Martine was left to be raised by her mother in Soho while her father again served the SIS. Growing tensions in Turkey caused Stewart Price to be reassigned to the British Embassy in the newly created Democratic Republic of Armenia as ‘Passport Control Officer’. From the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Stewart was able to monitor the growing aggression of Turkish nationalists. In September of 1920, the Turks invaded Armenia. Unknown to the world at large, however, was the fact that the Turkish nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal, was supported by the Soviet government and supplied with arms by Moscow. With all eyes focused on the Turkish invaders in the south, the subsequent Soviet invasion in the north two months later came as a complete surprise. The Soviets quickly captured Yerevan, allowing the Turks to retain most of the Armenian territory they had captured while absorbing the rest of Armenia as a new Soviet Republic of the USSR.
Stewart was captured by the Soviet Cheka when the Communist secret police arrived to dissolve the Armenian government. Among the Cheka agents present was an old adversary of Stewart’s, the turncoat spymaster Palach, with whom Stewart had clashed during the Russian Civil War. Palach did not allow the small problem of diplomatic immunity to allow Stewart to slip through his fingers. Coldly, the Soviet drew his pistol and put a bullet in Stewart’s brain. The official story sent back to England was that Stewart was so despondent over the fall of Armenia that he had committed suicide.
Martine grew up in the shadow of her father’s legacy as one of the British Empire’s heroes. She dedicated herself to emulating him and being worthy of his memory. Her dedication and iron-hard discipline drew the attention of her uncle, Lord Reginald William Rhodes. Lord Rhodes was a ranking officer within the SIS and knew the potential asset a capable female agent would provide his organization. He arranged for Martine to be withdrawn from school, instead being instructed by a battery of private tutors who would shape her into the top agent of the SIS. Under their instruction, Martine learned not only history and geography, but languages, vigorous athletics, martial arts, marksmanship and use of the sword.
By the time she was seventeen, Martine was already being employed by her uncle as a full agent of the SIS. The young girl was involved in operations ranging from unmasking subversive religious extremists in the British Mandate of Palestine to conducting espionage on the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. It was during a mission in Hong Kong that she dramatically proved her worth. Playing a role as a Chinese, Martine was sent to Hong Kong to help the SIS capture the infamous crime lord Professor Yao Shun, known by the more unpleasant title of Dr. Dragon.
Dr. Dragon had been exploiting the situation in China between the weakening Nationalist Chinese government and Japanese aggression along the Manchurian frontier, stealing arms and technology from both sides. His latest outrage had been the kidnapping of a German advisor to the Chinese military and a Japanese bio-chemist. It was feared by the Chinese that Dr. Dragon was intending to commit an unprecedented atrocity, one that would bring the Chinese government to its knees and allow him to assume power as supreme warlord of China.
The investigation into Dr. Dragon’s activities uncovered an even more hideous truth. Dr. Dragon was indeed preparing to seize control of China. That scheme was already well-prepared with numerous commanders in both the Chinese and Manchurian armies ready to support his power-grab. The war machines Dr. Dragon had been secretly building would make his armies beyond anything the poorly equipped Chinese army could withstand. Dr. Dragon was only worried about the Japanese army and the possibility that the British would intervene on behalf of the Chinese to stop him. In order to prevent either eventuality, he had prepared a truly hideous contingency plan. Rats.
The rats Dr. Dragon had bred were giants of their kind, each the size of a sheep dog while losing none of the fecundity of their kind. With the captured Japanese scientist, Dr. Dragon had created a new strain of bubonic plague for his super-rats to carry. From the German military advisor, Dr. Dragon fabricated an entire U-boat in secret. The Chinese madman’s plan was simple. His agents would smuggle the rats onto ships in Hong Kong’s harbor. These plague ships would then bear their loathsome cargo to London and Tokyo, where the beasts would be released. The result would be a horrific pandemic that would cripple both nations. To further ensure his plan, Dr. Dragon would arrange for his imitation German U-boat to be discovered washed up on a beach somewhere, its crew apparently killed by the diseased cargo they carried. The world would believe his evidence: that the Germans were behind the plague and had unleashed the rats against Great Britain and Japan. It was no small leap of imagination to see that another world war would quickly develop from such a vicious accusation. And with the world at war, no one was going to care what Dr. Dragon did in China.
The rest of the SIS agents were unmasked by Dr. Dragon’s minions and disposed of in especially gruesome manners. Martine, however, was able to escape detection, Dr. Dragon never even considering that the British would be so decadent as to send a woman against him. It was a mistake that would cost the madman dearly. On her own, Martine was able to infiltrate the villain’s headquarters and sabotage his facilities. Faced with the prospect of the rats escaping and infecting the country he hoped to rule, Dr. Dragon was forced to destroy his own headquarters, the entire island vanishing in a fireball as the madman detonated the hidden cache of explosives buried beneath it. Martine managed to prevent Dr. Dragon from escaping, sabotaging the autogyro the madman intended to use for that purpose. As Dr. Dragon’s craft rose above the burning island, its fuel ran out and it pitched back into the inferno. However, when British troops investigated the ruins later, they found no sign of Dr. Dragon’s body.
For her sterling service against unspeakable odds and for preventing untold loss of life, Martine Price received a knighthood and the highest decoration her country could bestow: the Victoria Cross. Henceforth, her code-name within SIS became Victoria Cross.
Even without Dr. Dragon, the world was still menaced with destruction from all quarters. Victoria Cross found herself increasingly employed to gather intelligence about German activities and ambitions, particularly after the German annexation of Austria. She earned the ire of her superiors for condemning the British government’s part in allowing the Germans to occupy the Sudetenland, effectively robbing Czechoslovakia of its only natural barrier with the Third Reich. Her warning proved prophetic when the Germans moved in to occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia, absorbing much of the country and creating the puppet state of Slovakia from the remainder.
At this stage in her career, Victoria Cross was often operating within Poland and employing Polish contacts to assist her intelligence gathering operations. One incident in the Free City of Danzig nearly turned into a disaster when her cover was blown and she came into conflict with the deadly German spymaster Eisernteufel. But for the timely interference of a Polish Dwojka agent named Jerzy Skarbek, she would have fallen into the clutches of the Iron Devil and the Gestapo. Recovering from injuries inflicted upon her by Eisernteufel in a Polish safe house, Victoria Cross was attended by the dashing Polish spy. Soon, a relationship blossomed between Jerzy Skarbek and the British secret agent despite her misgivings about the dangerous lives they both led.
More missions ensued as the German military continued to expand. Victoria Cross at this time made contact with Udo Strasser, an agent of the German Abwehr with serious misgivings about the Nazis. Strasser began to leak information to Victoria Cross, and proved his worth when he revealed to her the plans for invasion of Poland. Terrified by the magnitude of this information, Victoria Cross reported to SIS, then in a flagrant breech of orders, raced to Poland to warn Jerzy and the Polish government of their peril. Before she could escape Germany, she again had an encounter with Eisernteufel, who had been given notice of her activities by a deliberate leak from the SIS in an attempt to stop her from warning the Poles and perhaps initiating a war based on unverified information. Only narrowly did she escape from the Iron Devil and his secret police.
Hours ahead of the planned German invasion, Victoria Cross brought the news to Jerzy Skarbek. Both Jerzy and his superiors in Dwojka were incredulous, refusing to believe her. The threat to Poland was the USSR, not Germany. It was the Soviets who would invade, not the Nazis! The information Victoria Cross had brought them was some kind of deception to mask a Soviet invasion by making the Poles prepare against a German one! Until the Poles could decide if Victoria Cross was an innocent dupe or a deliberate agent of the communists, she would be held in custody. If it turned out she was a communist agent, she would be shot.
Although he did not believe her information, Jerzy would not accept the Victoria Cross was a Soviet spy. He arranged to free her from her cell, but as the two spies attempted to sneak out of Dwojka headquarters, complete chaos erupted in Warsaw. News from the border: the Germans were invading!
Victoria Cross spent the early part of the war trying to assist the embattled Poles. She was aided in her efforts when the British dispatched the hero Avalon to the theatre, hoping his presence would rally the Poles as it had the British in similar situations. However, a foreign champion wasn’t enough, the Poles needed entire armies to help them stem the German tide. The final reckoning came when the feared Soviet invasion erupted in the east as the Red Army roared across the frontier. Incredible as it seemed, Nazi and Soviet were working in unison, dividing the carcass of Poland between them.
The situation hopeless, Victoria Cross, Avalon and Jerzy Skarbek attempted to escape the doomed nation so that they might fight again. Elements of the German army under General Heinz Guderian were hot on their heels as they made for Brest. The heroes were frequently called upon to defend themselves against German forces. In one dramatic incident, they were pitted against Ubermann, the superhuman model of German superiority. Against the raw strength of Ubermann, Avalon was outmatched and beaten to a standstill. Jerzy Skarbek gave his life delaying Ubermann long enough for Avalon and Victoria Cross to escape. Victoria Cross could only watch helplessly as the frustrated Ubermann beat her lover to death with his bare hands.
Soviet forces invading from the east closed in upon Brest. At their head were members of the NKGB commanded by Palach. Not knowing he was the man who had killed her father, Victoria Cross tried to negotiate with Palach. Ruthlessly, Palach ordered the execution of the Poles who had joined Avalon and Victoria Cross in their escape. However, as the murderous Russian explained in his most pragmatic tone, there was no state of war between England and the USSR. He allowed Victoria Cross and Avalon to take the plane they had risked so much to reach. Their escape, however, was a hollow victory as they thought of all the men the Nazis and Soviets were killing as they fled.
Victoria Cross would be expelled from the SIS for not following orders, however no public charges could be made against her in light of the correctness of her information and what might have resulted had the warning been heeded. Instead, her skills were put to use with the newly founded Liberators, a joint Anglo-French team of superheroes. As the intelligence expert of the group, Victoria Cross found her skills in high demand. However, when information reached her that the Germans were planning to strike France from the Black Forest and that Hitler himself was engineering the invasion from a German castle in the forest, Victoria Cross warned her advisors against heeding the information. It came from Udo Strasser, the same Abwehr agent who had warned her about the Polish invasion. That was enough for SIS and the Liberators were sent to the castle to capture Hitler and end the war before it could really get started.
Victoria Cross was more suspicious, however. She could not forget that Eisernteufel had been waiting to stop her from escaping Germany. It was her opinion that Udo Strasser had been compromised and was now being used by the Nazis. It was because of these suspicions that she was ready to act when the attack on the German castle turned into a trap. Eisernteufel and a group of German superheroes was waiting for the Liberators. In the ensuing battle, the Germans killed many of the French and British heroes. Victoria Cross and Avalon were among the few to escape.
Victoria Cross managed to get Avalon to a Paris hospital where he could be treated for the damage he had suffered at the hands of Kriegeist. She was there when Sir George died and passed the mantle on to his son. Later, she helped the new Avalon escape as France fell to the Germans.
When Winston Churchill decided to create a team of heroes from across the Commonwealth, Victoria Cross was among the first to join the Imperials.
Description: Victoria Cross is a beautiful Englishwoman with stunning blue eyes and shoulder-length raven-black hair. She has a lithe, well-developed body that contains a surprising quality of muscle. She wears whatever her current disguise calls for, but on more overt operations she favours a sleek black uniform, leather gloves and reinforced boots. Her gear will commonly be concealed within the pockets of her uniform, under the cuffs of her gloves and on the inside of her boots.
Name: Dame Martine Price
Location: England
Group Affiliation: IMPERIALS
Powers: Victoria Cross is an expert acrobat and accomplished gymnast. She is a master in the arts of judo and savate and is also very capable with sword and pistol. She is very skilled in linguistics, speaking twelve different languages as fluently as a native. She almost unequalled in the craft of fabricating disguises and is capable of effecting extremely convincing disguises from the most common and unexpected materials.
Victoria Cross typically takes a variety of specialized tools with her on missions. Among the more common items in her ‘bag of tricks’ are a collapsible sword with a tungsten steel blade, a highly compact break-apart machine pistol, chemical explosives compressed into tiny ‘buttons’, and vials of concentrated acid which can be used to destroy locks or inconvenient documents. A micro-radio disguised as a pocket watch and a miniaturized camera which can pass for a mirrored compact are two of the more specialized tools she will often carry.
History: Martine Price was born in 1918 after her father returned from service in WWI. Stewart Price had served as a member of the British Secret Intelligence Service during the war, most prominently in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. A distinguished agent of SIS, Stewart Price was not to enjoy his rest for long. Tensions in the Middle East following the partition of the Ottoman Empire resulted in his being recalled and dispatched to the British Mandate of Mesopotamia to help authorities there quell the violent uprising of Iraqi nationalists.
Martine was left to be raised by her mother in Soho while her father again served the SIS. Growing tensions in Turkey caused Stewart Price to be reassigned to the British Embassy in the newly created Democratic Republic of Armenia as ‘Passport Control Officer’. From the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Stewart was able to monitor the growing aggression of Turkish nationalists. In September of 1920, the Turks invaded Armenia. Unknown to the world at large, however, was the fact that the Turkish nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal, was supported by the Soviet government and supplied with arms by Moscow. With all eyes focused on the Turkish invaders in the south, the subsequent Soviet invasion in the north two months later came as a complete surprise. The Soviets quickly captured Yerevan, allowing the Turks to retain most of the Armenian territory they had captured while absorbing the rest of Armenia as a new Soviet Republic of the USSR.
Stewart was captured by the Soviet Cheka when the Communist secret police arrived to dissolve the Armenian government. Among the Cheka agents present was an old adversary of Stewart’s, the turncoat spymaster Palach, with whom Stewart had clashed during the Russian Civil War. Palach did not allow the small problem of diplomatic immunity to allow Stewart to slip through his fingers. Coldly, the Soviet drew his pistol and put a bullet in Stewart’s brain. The official story sent back to England was that Stewart was so despondent over the fall of Armenia that he had committed suicide.
Martine grew up in the shadow of her father’s legacy as one of the British Empire’s heroes. She dedicated herself to emulating him and being worthy of his memory. Her dedication and iron-hard discipline drew the attention of her uncle, Lord Reginald William Rhodes. Lord Rhodes was a ranking officer within the SIS and knew the potential asset a capable female agent would provide his organization. He arranged for Martine to be withdrawn from school, instead being instructed by a battery of private tutors who would shape her into the top agent of the SIS. Under their instruction, Martine learned not only history and geography, but languages, vigorous athletics, martial arts, marksmanship and use of the sword.
By the time she was seventeen, Martine was already being employed by her uncle as a full agent of the SIS. The young girl was involved in operations ranging from unmasking subversive religious extremists in the British Mandate of Palestine to conducting espionage on the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. It was during a mission in Hong Kong that she dramatically proved her worth. Playing a role as a Chinese, Martine was sent to Hong Kong to help the SIS capture the infamous crime lord Professor Yao Shun, known by the more unpleasant title of Dr. Dragon.
Dr. Dragon had been exploiting the situation in China between the weakening Nationalist Chinese government and Japanese aggression along the Manchurian frontier, stealing arms and technology from both sides. His latest outrage had been the kidnapping of a German advisor to the Chinese military and a Japanese bio-chemist. It was feared by the Chinese that Dr. Dragon was intending to commit an unprecedented atrocity, one that would bring the Chinese government to its knees and allow him to assume power as supreme warlord of China.
The investigation into Dr. Dragon’s activities uncovered an even more hideous truth. Dr. Dragon was indeed preparing to seize control of China. That scheme was already well-prepared with numerous commanders in both the Chinese and Manchurian armies ready to support his power-grab. The war machines Dr. Dragon had been secretly building would make his armies beyond anything the poorly equipped Chinese army could withstand. Dr. Dragon was only worried about the Japanese army and the possibility that the British would intervene on behalf of the Chinese to stop him. In order to prevent either eventuality, he had prepared a truly hideous contingency plan. Rats.
The rats Dr. Dragon had bred were giants of their kind, each the size of a sheep dog while losing none of the fecundity of their kind. With the captured Japanese scientist, Dr. Dragon had created a new strain of bubonic plague for his super-rats to carry. From the German military advisor, Dr. Dragon fabricated an entire U-boat in secret. The Chinese madman’s plan was simple. His agents would smuggle the rats onto ships in Hong Kong’s harbor. These plague ships would then bear their loathsome cargo to London and Tokyo, where the beasts would be released. The result would be a horrific pandemic that would cripple both nations. To further ensure his plan, Dr. Dragon would arrange for his imitation German U-boat to be discovered washed up on a beach somewhere, its crew apparently killed by the diseased cargo they carried. The world would believe his evidence: that the Germans were behind the plague and had unleashed the rats against Great Britain and Japan. It was no small leap of imagination to see that another world war would quickly develop from such a vicious accusation. And with the world at war, no one was going to care what Dr. Dragon did in China.
The rest of the SIS agents were unmasked by Dr. Dragon’s minions and disposed of in especially gruesome manners. Martine, however, was able to escape detection, Dr. Dragon never even considering that the British would be so decadent as to send a woman against him. It was a mistake that would cost the madman dearly. On her own, Martine was able to infiltrate the villain’s headquarters and sabotage his facilities. Faced with the prospect of the rats escaping and infecting the country he hoped to rule, Dr. Dragon was forced to destroy his own headquarters, the entire island vanishing in a fireball as the madman detonated the hidden cache of explosives buried beneath it. Martine managed to prevent Dr. Dragon from escaping, sabotaging the autogyro the madman intended to use for that purpose. As Dr. Dragon’s craft rose above the burning island, its fuel ran out and it pitched back into the inferno. However, when British troops investigated the ruins later, they found no sign of Dr. Dragon’s body.
For her sterling service against unspeakable odds and for preventing untold loss of life, Martine Price received a knighthood and the highest decoration her country could bestow: the Victoria Cross. Henceforth, her code-name within SIS became Victoria Cross.
Even without Dr. Dragon, the world was still menaced with destruction from all quarters. Victoria Cross found herself increasingly employed to gather intelligence about German activities and ambitions, particularly after the German annexation of Austria. She earned the ire of her superiors for condemning the British government’s part in allowing the Germans to occupy the Sudetenland, effectively robbing Czechoslovakia of its only natural barrier with the Third Reich. Her warning proved prophetic when the Germans moved in to occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia, absorbing much of the country and creating the puppet state of Slovakia from the remainder.
At this stage in her career, Victoria Cross was often operating within Poland and employing Polish contacts to assist her intelligence gathering operations. One incident in the Free City of Danzig nearly turned into a disaster when her cover was blown and she came into conflict with the deadly German spymaster Eisernteufel. But for the timely interference of a Polish Dwojka agent named Jerzy Skarbek, she would have fallen into the clutches of the Iron Devil and the Gestapo. Recovering from injuries inflicted upon her by Eisernteufel in a Polish safe house, Victoria Cross was attended by the dashing Polish spy. Soon, a relationship blossomed between Jerzy Skarbek and the British secret agent despite her misgivings about the dangerous lives they both led.
More missions ensued as the German military continued to expand. Victoria Cross at this time made contact with Udo Strasser, an agent of the German Abwehr with serious misgivings about the Nazis. Strasser began to leak information to Victoria Cross, and proved his worth when he revealed to her the plans for invasion of Poland. Terrified by the magnitude of this information, Victoria Cross reported to SIS, then in a flagrant breech of orders, raced to Poland to warn Jerzy and the Polish government of their peril. Before she could escape Germany, she again had an encounter with Eisernteufel, who had been given notice of her activities by a deliberate leak from the SIS in an attempt to stop her from warning the Poles and perhaps initiating a war based on unverified information. Only narrowly did she escape from the Iron Devil and his secret police.
Hours ahead of the planned German invasion, Victoria Cross brought the news to Jerzy Skarbek. Both Jerzy and his superiors in Dwojka were incredulous, refusing to believe her. The threat to Poland was the USSR, not Germany. It was the Soviets who would invade, not the Nazis! The information Victoria Cross had brought them was some kind of deception to mask a Soviet invasion by making the Poles prepare against a German one! Until the Poles could decide if Victoria Cross was an innocent dupe or a deliberate agent of the communists, she would be held in custody. If it turned out she was a communist agent, she would be shot.
Although he did not believe her information, Jerzy would not accept the Victoria Cross was a Soviet spy. He arranged to free her from her cell, but as the two spies attempted to sneak out of Dwojka headquarters, complete chaos erupted in Warsaw. News from the border: the Germans were invading!
Victoria Cross spent the early part of the war trying to assist the embattled Poles. She was aided in her efforts when the British dispatched the hero Avalon to the theatre, hoping his presence would rally the Poles as it had the British in similar situations. However, a foreign champion wasn’t enough, the Poles needed entire armies to help them stem the German tide. The final reckoning came when the feared Soviet invasion erupted in the east as the Red Army roared across the frontier. Incredible as it seemed, Nazi and Soviet were working in unison, dividing the carcass of Poland between them.
The situation hopeless, Victoria Cross, Avalon and Jerzy Skarbek attempted to escape the doomed nation so that they might fight again. Elements of the German army under General Heinz Guderian were hot on their heels as they made for Brest. The heroes were frequently called upon to defend themselves against German forces. In one dramatic incident, they were pitted against Ubermann, the superhuman model of German superiority. Against the raw strength of Ubermann, Avalon was outmatched and beaten to a standstill. Jerzy Skarbek gave his life delaying Ubermann long enough for Avalon and Victoria Cross to escape. Victoria Cross could only watch helplessly as the frustrated Ubermann beat her lover to death with his bare hands.
Soviet forces invading from the east closed in upon Brest. At their head were members of the NKGB commanded by Palach. Not knowing he was the man who had killed her father, Victoria Cross tried to negotiate with Palach. Ruthlessly, Palach ordered the execution of the Poles who had joined Avalon and Victoria Cross in their escape. However, as the murderous Russian explained in his most pragmatic tone, there was no state of war between England and the USSR. He allowed Victoria Cross and Avalon to take the plane they had risked so much to reach. Their escape, however, was a hollow victory as they thought of all the men the Nazis and Soviets were killing as they fled.
Victoria Cross would be expelled from the SIS for not following orders, however no public charges could be made against her in light of the correctness of her information and what might have resulted had the warning been heeded. Instead, her skills were put to use with the newly founded Liberators, a joint Anglo-French team of superheroes. As the intelligence expert of the group, Victoria Cross found her skills in high demand. However, when information reached her that the Germans were planning to strike France from the Black Forest and that Hitler himself was engineering the invasion from a German castle in the forest, Victoria Cross warned her advisors against heeding the information. It came from Udo Strasser, the same Abwehr agent who had warned her about the Polish invasion. That was enough for SIS and the Liberators were sent to the castle to capture Hitler and end the war before it could really get started.
Victoria Cross was more suspicious, however. She could not forget that Eisernteufel had been waiting to stop her from escaping Germany. It was her opinion that Udo Strasser had been compromised and was now being used by the Nazis. It was because of these suspicions that she was ready to act when the attack on the German castle turned into a trap. Eisernteufel and a group of German superheroes was waiting for the Liberators. In the ensuing battle, the Germans killed many of the French and British heroes. Victoria Cross and Avalon were among the few to escape.
Victoria Cross managed to get Avalon to a Paris hospital where he could be treated for the damage he had suffered at the hands of Kriegeist. She was there when Sir George died and passed the mantle on to his son. Later, she helped the new Avalon escape as France fell to the Germans.
When Winston Churchill decided to create a team of heroes from across the Commonwealth, Victoria Cross was among the first to join the Imperials.
Description: Victoria Cross is a beautiful Englishwoman with stunning blue eyes and shoulder-length raven-black hair. She has a lithe, well-developed body that contains a surprising quality of muscle. She wears whatever her current disguise calls for, but on more overt operations she favours a sleek black uniform, leather gloves and reinforced boots. Her gear will commonly be concealed within the pockets of her uniform, under the cuffs of her gloves and on the inside of her boots.
