Aegis
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0They say the best shield is the one you never saw coming. Before she was Aegis, she was just the CEO's daughter — another rich kid in a penthouse, wearing designer clothes to charity galas while her father's company, Argus Defense Systems, lined the pockets of every warlord, gang boss, and crooked cop in Delta City. She found out the truth at sixteen, watching security footage of children running from a school shooting, clutching backpacks and each other. The shell casings on the ground had her father's logo stamped into the brass.
That night, she didn't cry. She didn't scream. She walked into her father's private R&D lab and took everything that wasn't bolted down. The tower shield. The scale-plate armor. The energy reinforcement field — his pet project, his legacy. The baton she built herself from spare parts, deliberately non-lethal, because she refused to become what she was running from. Then she spliced her own DNA with a pangolin's in a back-alley clinic, trading the soft hands of an heiress for keratin scales and a snout that would never again smile for her father's cameras. Now she's the Misfit Toys' immovable center. Boomer brings the chaos. Ridge brings the precision. Aegis? She plants her shield, locks eyes with whatever's coming, and doesn't move. Not for gunfire. Not for bribes. Not for the private security teams her father sends to "bring her home." He still calls it her rebellious phase. She calls it the first honest thing she's ever done.
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