| Major Players
Zartan's Family: Zarana, Zandar, Zartan's father Zeke (deceased), Zartan's mother Melanie (deceased),
Dreadnoks: Original Zartan, Buzzer as Dr. Blinken-Smythe
Zartan as Mikey, Luke McKinney, Amaury Sanderson, Raymond Hoffman
Additional characters: Marie (friend of Melanie), Frank (Zartan's father's killer), Jimmy Blanch (deceased), Adoptive parents of Zarana & Zandar, Sister at Our Lady of Valour Orphanage, Tim (Zartan's teenage friend), Vince (Fake ID criminal), Moskin (Rusnia General)(See DD #19), Jean (deceased)(super soldier test subject)
Special Appearance: Pre-Masked Destro & Iron Grenadiers
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| Long Summary
Zartan as Raymond Hoffman, adult, Las Vegas, present.
Hoffman is running out of a casino with several guys chasing him and a large SUV. The SUV crashes into a wall cornering Hoffman. He fist fights with several of the guys, eventually getting a gun and shooting a couple of them, before he is shot with a tranquillizer dart.
Zartan as himself, pre-teen, Florida, seventeen years earlier.
His father, Zeke, is working on a special effects mask that is past its deadline for the movie he is working on. Zartan in an attempt to help cuts his father's hand, a very mad father screams at him to get out of the study, and for his mother, Melanie, to do something with him. Zartan runs downstairs where his mother is practicing for an audition with her friend Marie. Speaking in French, Zartan and his mother argue and his mother asks him where his pills are, his response is that he threw them away. Zartan is sent outside to play with his little sister (Zarana). Little Zachary (Zandar), around age 6, goes out to play also but he is carrying a box of donuts.
His father receives a phone call from Frank asking Zeke for the money that is owed. Zeke lies saying that he will bring him the money. Zeke grabs a gun from the cabinet and is leaving the house to meet Frank; Melanie starts a fight with him about the money. Outside the house, a man is sitting in a car talking to Frank about Zeke having the gun and no money, Frank gives the go ahead and the man pushes a button. The car that Zartan's father and mother are in blows up killing both of them. Zartan, Zarana and Zandar are all out in the yard watching the fight as the car blows up.
Zartan as himself, teenager, The Lady of Valour Orphanage, two years later.
(See America's Elite #5)
Zartan is running away from the orphanage, as one of the Sisters watches a boy named Jimmy Blanch being loaded into an ambulance. Jimmy had been picking on Zandar by locking him in a cabinet; Zartan beat him very severely, eventually causing his death. Zarana defends Zartan's actions and blames the Sisters for not giving him his medicine. A few months later, Zarana and Zandar are adopted.
Zartan as Mikey, early teens, somewhere, three years later.
Mickey is playing a board game and drawing with a friend, Tim. He asks if he can get a grape soda out of the fridge. When Tim leaves, he raids the fridge and steals the wallet out of his mother's purse. He takes off on his bike. He brings the wallet with three credit cards to Vince, who makes fake IDs and passports. In return, Mickey is allowed to live with Vince and is sent on a run to deliver a finished passport. Two years later, Vince returns to find his shop completely cleaned out. Mikey has stolen everything from Vince. Zartan learned how to create fake identities from Vince.
Zartan as Luke McKinney, late teens, Fort Benning, GA, a year later.
Zartan uses his knowledge of fake IDs to get into the US Army before he is eighteen. And he is ready.
Zartan as Amaury Sanderson now part of the French Military, early twenties, Rusnia, five years later.
He is being escorted to General Moskin's office. He delivers a disk with very important information about the movement of some nuclear weapons from Berlin to France and receives his payment. Having concluded that deal, he brings up a new one to Moskin. Sanderson has discovered that the French are about to perform a test on a soldier that may make him into a super soldier. Sanderson purposes to steal all of the information and destroy the facility all he requires is payment and support, Moskin gets his enemy's secret weapon destroyed and gets the information. And Sanderson gets the benefits of the super soldier process.
Buzzer as Dr. Blinken-Smythe (his real name), psychology ward, French Military in Paris, two weeks later.
The test subject, Jean, is being interviewed, in French, by Dr. Blinken-Smythe about the stresses of the test that he is about to go through. As a remedy for these stresses Dr. Smythe pulls out a gun and kills him. Zartan is going to replace Jean as the test subject. And Dr. Smythe, who has several books on bikers on his shelves, is part of Zartan's plan to gain access to the facility and the test information.
Zartan as Jean, adult, psychology ward Paris, a week later.
Having completed the tests, as results are being processed, the French military are now escorting Dr. Smythe out of the facility. But he kills his escort and then goes back to the processing room, where he kills several of his fellow scientists and then copies all of the information to a disk. He sends a signal to Jean and the destruction of the facility begins. As they exit the building with gas masks, a deadly gas fills the rooms and once they are clear Dr. Smythe hits the button that causes the building to explode.
Zartan & Buzzer as Amaury Sanderson & Dr. Blinken-Smythe, Egypt, later
In a helicopter, Sanderson is finishing the deal with Moskin; the funds have been deposited and the information exchanged. But Sanderson along with Dr. Smythe and two of Moskin's personal escort are making a detour to deal with some other business. Dr. Smythe hands over a file folder containing information on an Australian gang called the Dreadnoks. Dr. Smythe has just given up his boring life as a scientist and is excited to be working with Sanderson. As Sanderson reads the file he says "These guys have some interesting nicknames. Especially their leader." Dr. Smythe points out that the name comes from the Aboriginal language and the meaning is unknown.
The helicopter lands, so that Sanderson can do this second deal. He has arranged with a weapons dealer an exchange for a cargo container filled with weapons. The dealer, James, son of Laird Destro who hasn't yet earned the honor of wearing the family symbol, a silver metal mask, brings the weapons and suitcase. Right on time the Dreadnoks arrive on their very loud motorcycles and the leader introduces himself as Zartan.
Zartan as Raymond Hoffman/Amuary Sanderson, adult, airplane headed to unknown destination, present.
In an airplane, Hoffman has been captured and is being beaten by Rusnians sent by Moskin. They have discovered that he has multiple identities and were still able to track him down by using government resources. A brief comment that the October Guard is rumored to hunting for the Rusnians is made in front of Hoffman/Sanderson.
Some of how Zartan has snuck around the US Army and the French Military, able to gain access to their top secret operations is clarified. Basically, Zartan has sold out the US and France for his own personal gain. In the middle of this conversation, Hoffman/Sanderson grabs a knife, frees himself and starts to fight back. It ends with a man holding him at gun point as Zartan is trying to gain access to the airplane's cockpit.
Summary by Josh Eggebeen
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