Contingency
PURPOSE: Once a Black Ops team for SHIELD, it has since gone Rogue
AFFILIATIONS: Unknown
ENEMIES: SHIELD, Weapon X Operative Kane, Captain America, Wolverine
CURRENT MEMBERS: Rapture
FORMER MEMBERS : Condor, Killdeer, Kite, Shrike
UNIVERSE : Marvel Universe, Earth 616
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Unknown
FIRST APPEARENCE : Captain America #1
HISTORY :
The woman known only as Rapture was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. by Brent Jackson, who was in turn,
a double agent for the new Weapon X program. She joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Psi Corps and was later put
in charge of their Black Ops team called the Contingency. When Jackson betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. and
returned to Weapon X, Rapture and the Contingency separated themselves from S.H.I.E.L.D. and became
a rogue unit.
Some time after her desertion, Rapture was attacked by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. After trying to fight them
off, Rapture was rescued by Weapon X operatives Kane and Brent Jackson. Her former friend Jackson offered
Rapture to join Weapon X, and they would give her real psychic abilities, unlike those provided by the
neuro-net suit she stole from S.H.I.E.L.D. When Rapture refused Jackson’s offer, Kane tried to kill her.
During the fight, Rapture lured Kane into an abandoned building once owned by S.H.I.E.L.D.. She then
tricked Kane into collapsing the building on top of him and teleported away. Rapture's current whereabouts
are unknown.
Leader of the Contingency and perhaps the most ruthless member of the team, Rapture has the moral ambiguity
to be an assassin. As a low level telepath she can anticipate her opponent’s next move, making her very good
at hand-to-hand combat. She has equipped herself with an experimental Neuro-Net Exoskeleton, which makes her
impossible to track or detect, in addition to augmenting her strength by a factor of ten. Rapture, along with
the rest of the Contingency, battled Wolverine, Captain America and Warbird. During a battle with Wolverine,
his adamantium claws damaged the suit she wore and an electrical reaction took place, fusing the suit’s abilities
to her central nervous system. She now possesses the suit’s abilities, but it causes her constant pain. She is
the only member of the Contingency not being held by SHIELD.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Rapture is a low level telepath. Due to neuro-net exoskeleton suit she possesses psychic abilities and
teleportation
Abilities
The neuro-net suit Rapture wears allows her the ability to anticipate an opponent’s move by a split-second,
and can also make them misjudge her position. This suit allows Rapture to teleport as well. Being a former
agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Rapture is capable of firearms and hand-to-hand combat.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES :
Captain America 1-4
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