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The following is a file from Interpol's special investigations unit.

Case Number: SIF-8431-LL
Classification: Confidential
Case Status: In Progress
File Updated: 220740Z JUL 05
File Updated By: Special Agent Simon Graves (FBI)
Subj: Menthu a.k.a Fallbrook, Samuel former covert operative for Interpol Taskforce: Nomad

Three years ago Samuel Fallbrook was the lead field operative for Interpol Taskforce: Nomad, a mobilized group of highly trained covert specialists who's expertise ranged from counter terrorism, narcotics, search and rescue, counter-paranormal and S.W.A.T. like operations. Agent Fallbrook himself was an expert marksman, had high ranks in hand-to-hand combat ratings, and was almost prodigal with his investigative measures. A dedicated operative without peer who displayed valor and compasion far above and beyond the call of duty. He never left a teamate down on the field, and led his team over 200 missions which has lead to the arrests of over 300 fugitives, terrorists, and crime lords, the recovery of 30 missing persons. Which made the incident at Barcelona all the more tragic. On the pursuit of the ruthless metahuman assassin, Barnibus Farrady, a.k.a. Funny Bonez rumored to be under the employ of a cell of The Family working out of Spain. Fallbrook's team had the situation well in hand till his contact on the inside blew his cover and comprimised the entire investigation. Fallbrook's field team were all captured including Fallbrook who was tortured and made to watch his team killed off one by one. It is still unknown to all parties, even Agent Fallbrook how he escaped with Farrady's unconscious body in toe, but he was nonetheles found barely alive broken and bleeding in Interpol's Barcelona office. Two weeks later Fallbrook was put on inactive duty status pending a full psychiatric review and internal affairs investigation. Unbeknownst to Fallbrook he was put under surveillance due to the still unanswered question of his escape. The weeks that followed his forced vacation he was seen in the company of his girlfriend, photo-journalist and Interpol press liason, Kelly Oceans (see file CPI-2280-DD-4). During there globe trotting vacation, Fallbrook happened to be in "the right place at the right time" assisting in the capture of criminals in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Austrailia to name a few of the places that happened to conincide with Ms. Oceans's world of crime series of articles in the New York times. All seemed normal, as far as Fallbrook was concerned till 15 SEP 02 when Interpol's office in Kingston, Jamaica recieved a frantic call from Oceans. When authorities arrived on the scene they found an unconscious Oceans, an injured alien, a smoldering crater, and no sign of Fallbrook. When Oceans regained consciousness she was frantic and erratic for three days. After sedation and clearance from the local doctors, she gave an account of the events that transpired. A group of, from what Oceans described, extra terresteral pirates, had decided to make Earth, in particular Jamaica their base. Fallbrook had initially thought them to be just another group of high tech mercenaries until one revealed his true identity to him in an attempt to defect to an Earth authority. As things tend to go wrong on an unorganized operation, Fallbrook, Oceans, and the alien defector were captured by the pirates. The alien managed to help them escape, but during the resultant gun battle Fallbrook's mutant abilities sprung to life allowing him from to stand toe to to with the leader of the band of pirates. At some point one of the many devices in the facility, the defector called it a teresect generator, exploded creating a fissure in time and space, destroying the base and presumably Fallbrook. Before agents could question the alien, a Crey's science team had taken him into custody. However the Crey's team did supply the information that there were no DNA traces of Fallbrook at the disaster site. This case file was closed up to three days ago when a UFO broke the atmosphere two miles outside of Paragon City, RI and crash landed on a New England farming commune. Before local authorities could respond the lone pilot of the craft was already in a pitched battle with a group of the miscreants known as the Skulls. Two minutes and eight broken jaws later the Skuls were in police custody (well in ambulences on their way to police custody). The pilot called himself Menthu to the local authorities and then told them to contact the Interpol office in Paragon City. While in Interpol custody, Menthu removed his mask and revealed himself to be Samuel Fallbrook. It turns out the explosion that resulted from the teseract generator's explosion teleported him several light years away onto the deck of a ship of interstellar bounty hunters. Somehow he managed to join these hunters and for the last three years Fallbrook has in a way, continued his line of work in areas never before seen by earthborne eyes. Though Fallbrook was glad to be back on Earth, he revealed information that a group of fugitives that escaped an alien society near Alpha centari, was currently hiding on Earth (see file SIF-1831-AL). After a closed door meeting with NSA, FBI, and the costumed adventurerer Statesman, Fallbrook was given the authority to pursue the alien fugitive as well as fight crime in Paragon City. As directed by the senior director of the Interpol Special Investigations division, I will continue my surveillance of Fallbrook's operations.

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