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Codename: Spitfire, issue 12!

Issue Guide #5

Issue 12:
Ghost in the Machine

After the harrowing experiences of the last few months, Project: Spitfire managed to wind down for a bit, allowing the team to make some serious repairs and necessary upgrades to the Mark 3 M.A.X. suit. Once this was done, and everybody had recovered from their injuries in Nicaragua, Jenny began to test out the suit again, training in its use even further.

Of course, things started out all too easy, but Jen was eventually flattened when Roth upped the ante, making several attacks that she simply couldn't counter. This was due to her ingrained 2-D sense of combat thinking, which was starting to hamper her aerial combat ability to some extent, though she was trying real hard to get over this limitation.

While reflecting on this, Jenny found a disk of her father's, a disk that held an almost intelligent program on it -- a disk containing a digitized copy of his personality! She was interrogating the program when she was called into action, after some madman arms dealer broke into an Air Force base and stole an experimental aircraft: the F-19A Quicksilver figher-bomber.

Since it was too fast for conventional fighters to deal with, Roth decided that the Spitfire suit had to do the job, and he had it armed with several experimental systems, such as the Piggyback jet thruster and the strap-on wrist-rocket brace. When all the new weapons were added in, Jenny rocketed into action, flying out after the aircraft thief before he could escape the country.

Flying at speeds four times the speed of sound, Jenny caught up to the thief, one Evan Reinger. She began to attack him at once, but her suit was seized up by that A.I. of her father's personality, who was attacking the suit from the Project: Spitfire mainframe. As a pacifist and hater of the military, the senior Swensen did all he could to stop Jenny from using his suit in battle.

Jenny ultimately figured out what was happening, and had Miss Pollicino pull the disk with the program out of the computer, thus allowing her to destroy the Quicksilver before Reinger could escape with it. Returning to base, she talked to the program for a time before deleting it, finally making her peace with her choice to use the M.A.X. technology for the government, despite her father's wishes for it.

Codename: Spitfire, Issue 13!

Issue 13:
If Only I Had A Heart...

After a special agent investigating Saxon St. John disappears, Project: Spitfire is called in to deal with the problem. As St. John is a member of the Club, and is believed to be performing experiments in cybernetics, his actions were proving to be a threat to United States national security, especially since they were taking place on a small island only ninety miles off the coast of Miami.

Meeting up with special roboticist Willy Deere, Edmund Roth and Jenny Swensen procured a special new M.A.X. prototype, the Mark 4, to be used on a mission to stop the mad Saxon's experiments. Though less versatile than the other suits, this version was much more smaller and agile, able to be used on more secretive missions.

Soon after, Jenny and Willy headed of to Puerto Rojo, and were assaulted by an armored local soon after their arrival. Once they beat the thug, the duo discovered that the man was, in fact, a cyborg, controlling the armor via some sort of neural interface on the back of his neck. They also discovered that the man had apparently been brainwashed, having no recollection of how he'd gotten there.

Learning what they could from the man, Jenny and Willy let the cyborg go, though they put a homing beacon on him first. Following the signal, the two American operatives found the place, an ancient castle overlooking the ocean. After getting some intelligence from the locals at a nearby town, the two set out for the place in earnest.

Breaking into Saxon's laboratory, the two techies found out the scope of the madman's cybernetic experiments: he was building interfaces so people could cybernetically opeate his robots from any distance by remote control! Finding the result of this ultimate experiment, the agent whose disappearance ultimately prompted this mission, the duo was interrupted suddenly by Saxon!

After gloating for a minute or so, Saxon sicced two of his new cyborgs on Jenny, who was hard pressed to defeat the two of them all by herself. She totally flattened one, and managed to snap the other out of his brainwashing (the one she'd fought earlier, upon arriving in Puerto Rojo). And, because of that, Saxon shot the man dead.

However, before Saxon could eliminate Jenny and Willy, that kidnapped agent stuck out and killed Saxon, using the last of her strength to operate her new robotic body before dying in order to do so. Enraged about all this, Jenny destroyed all the Synergy cyborg information that Saxon had developed on the island, and left in a rage.

Codename: Spitfire, Post Series Summary!

Post Series Summary:

After that last issue, Jenny Swensen next appeared as Spitfire in the Pitt, the story that dealt with the aftermath of Ken Connell's inadverdent obliteration of the city of Pittsburgh with the Star Brand. She was there to survey the damage done, and managed to save several individuals from the carnage that took place right after the city's demise.

However, this got her on the outs with the government, who had ordered her not to search for individual survivors, and instead look at the big picture to see what was going wrong with the area around Pittsburgh. She didn't care, however, after seeing all this death and destruction. She landed the M.A.X. suit once it was out of power, and tried to escape the Pitt area on foot.

While roaming about the decimated wastes, Jenny ran into several paranormals, the group known as D.P. 7 (who were also investigating the destruction of Pittsburgh). She stayed with this group for a time, starting to notice that her own body was undergoing some sort of change as a result of her being exposed to 'Pitt-juice', a sort of goop at the bottom of the Pitt.

Meanwhile, Project: Spitfire had managed to recover the Mark 3 suit from the wastes around the Pitt, and they put Jake Travest into the pilot seat. His first mission was to capture Wayne Tucker, a psionic paranormal in the group known as Psi-Force, who had eluded government capture for quite some time, and frankly, the C.I.A. was tired of this state of affairs.

Descending upon him in Vancouver, Travest captured Tucker and held him hostage against the return of Tryone Jessup, another Psi-Force paranormal who was recently spotted with the telepath. However, Travest didn't deal with Tucker's girlfriend, Lindsay Falmon, who called in the Medusa Web to help liberate Tucker by trashing Travest and the Mark 3 M.A.X. suit.

As she lost feeling in her skin, Jenny and most of D.P. 7 were captured by the U.S. military, and taken to be Drafted (or otherwise conscripted into government service). Over time, Jenny's change fully realized itself: her skin had transformed into some sort of steel-like shell, a natural sort of body armor that could protect her from injury.

After this change became apparent, Jenny became a sort of paranormal C.I.A. operative, working with them for a time until she and the others managed to escape to New York City, which had become a sort of paranormal mecca. She stayed there with most of D.P. 7 until the end of that title's run, where some of that group had their powers removed by a man with a Cure for paranormality.

On the other hand, Jake Travest wasn't doing so good; the Canadian authorities had locked him up after his blatantly destructive operation in their country against Psi-Force. He was eventually broken out by the Medusa Web, however, who wanted to use him to get at the M.A.X. technology, and in his damaged mental state, they managed to dupe him into getting it for them.

They told him that they were working for Project: Spitfire, and as such, he led him to where the Canadians were storing the Mark 3 M.A.X. suit. After he got the suit's internal schematic out of the suit's remains, the Web agents blew the facility to smithereens, along with both the Mark 3 suit and Jake Travest, in order to prevent anybody from following their trail.

After all, they didn't need the suit when they had a complete schematic to rebuild it...

Though her former compatriot was dead, Jenny herself lived on for several years as a friend of the D.P.7 paranormals, and as the sidekick / possible girlfriend of Captain Manhattan, fighting crime and generally doing good deeds for the remaining residents of New York City, all but abandoned by non-paranormals in the aftermath of the Pitt debacle and the sooty years that followed.

In one such instance, Jenny Swensen was but one of many paranormals collected by Nightmask and led by Quasar against an invading army of extraplanar (to them) aliens, bent on stealing the power of the Star Brand. The mastermind behind this plot, the evil alien known only as Skeletron managed to swipe the Brand, but his machinations stranded Jenny's earth in a variant earthly plane.

How Jenny and her fellow paranormals have dealt with this state of affairs has yet to be seen...

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