Registry of the Evolved Database
File #08 Feb 2010 02:50
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 Taylor Cole |
Rachel was born on April 29, 1984 in Newport, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Leona Mills. She doesn't know who her father is at all, or anything that may or may not have happened to him. Her mother never spoke about him, and by the time she was old enough to start asking, her mother wasn't around and her grandparent's were honestly clueless.
At the age of twelve, Rachel's mother (Leona) committed suicide. The young girl was then sent to live with Grandparents in Calabasas, California where she grew up. Her grandparents didn't have a lot of money, which made it hard for the girl to make friends and she remained a loner for the rest of her school career. At age 18, she joined the Marines, following in her Grandfather's footsteps.
Rachel joined the Marines in the Summer of 2002 immediately after graduating High School. Her grandfather was proud to see her follow in his footsteps by joining the Marines. Her boot camp experience was the same as everyone else's. A lot of yelling, a lot of training to be all that you can be. When she got out, she was immediately stationed first in Afganhistan and then in Iraq. She quickly gained something of a reputation around her almost unerring ability to be /right/ in the middle of something and her accuracy. She accumulated many different awards and distinctions while in Iraq, though she never had the misfortune to get shot and earn a Purple Heart. During the Summer of 2006, having no pressing matters to attend to back home and somewhat enjoying the comraderie that went along with being a soldier in Iraq, she signed up for another four years with the military.
In November, when the bomb blew in New York, she was glad that she had. She hated the helplessness that came with being on the other side of the world while civilians over in New York city were exposed to something that they had no right to ever be exposed to that kind of violence. Eventually, she managed to get over the grief and the feeling of powerlessness that came along with the explosion. The camp in Iraq whispered about it being another terrorist attack, and any that were encountered during that period of time were swiftly and mercilessly dealt with. When word came down that pipe of what had really happened however, that quickly burned off, though they still dealt with terrorists on a daily basis.
Later the next year, she was dealt with a second surprise as the revelation that there were honest-to-God superpowers out there. She was completely baffled by it for more than a little while, unable to come to grips with the fact that there were people out there who were so 'special'. She resolved that she didn't want to be one, especially when Sylar, the man supposedly responsible for the bomb in New York City was one along with the stories that Government gave them of all the trouble that these 'evolved' person's had caused in various terrorist activities.
In February of 2008, came the news down the pipeline of another terrorist attack by pro-evolved people that destoryed the COnsolidated Edison Power Plant, Eagle Electric and the Verazanno Narrows. Once again, she was filled with a righteous anger directed at those who carried out the plan, and she was steeped further into borderline evolved-hating sentiments. She wasn't quite at the point of Humanis First, but she definitely met anybody with suspected evolved traits with more than her fair share of sentiments.
Then in 2008, came the event that would end up as being a definite turning point in the then Coporal's career as a military member. While doing a routine check of a car, she heard a beeping noise which turned out to be a coded message. When she grabbed it, she heard distinct popping from the checkpoint and turned to see the rest of her squad being attacked. Quickly, she ran into an alley where she ran into the squad's translator. She spots two of their attackers, and notes that one is starting to remove his gas mask. The sharp order of the other causes the man to put the mask back on, but not before Rachel could tell that he was not Middle Eastern, and that the orders from the other man sounded suspiciously like English. Her attention shifted back to the coded message and she realized that it was Morse Code. Its message stated that their translator, Ammar was a traitor. Unfortunately, the realization came to late and he forced her into the street where she was captured.
Waking up to find herself in a muddy pit, Rachel realizes that her Captor's have taken her blood. She is kept there for twelve hours before a rope is put down for her and she climbs up it. She finds her captors and two men and a woman. They are led into a cafeteria where they meet an Arabic man named Harry and she is informed that she is in Iran. Harry asks about her mother, and Rachel goes tight-lipped. The man goes on about her mother, and Rachel realizes that she has been under survelliance by some unknown group for quite some time. When she is led back to her pit, she finds a man sharing it with her. His name is Jim and the two of them strike up a friendship in that pit. Later Ammar comes to talk with her, and offers her a way to get out using his motorcycle. Jim says that they should backstab him. Later, when Ammar comes to get her, she knocks him out with her fists, telling Jim that it would be more satisfying. Making their way out using the motorcycle the run into American Special Forces who have been monitoring the area. As they give them their story they say that they have recieved orders to destroy the place, and if there is any political fallout they will say they were rescuing Rachel and Jim.
On the day of the mission, the Special Forces Lieutenant tells them that the Iranian military will probably respond quickly as soon as the charges go off and that they had best be prepared to run. Rachel and Jim watch from a nearby hill as the team goes in. Rachel spots a man going in from a hiddin entrance and tells Jim to warn the squad. However, it is too late and she watches the squad disappear in a blinding flash of light and chest-rattling boom. Telling Jim to go back to the Camp and radio in for help, Rachel goes towards the building, not willing to leave without the mission being accomplished. Spotting the man who had run in earlier, Rachel grabbed him and held him hostage. With the gun pointed at his head, she learns that he can speak English. Moving to the next room, Rachel can smell the scent of rot and chemicals despite the mask that she is wearing. She finds a desk with pictures and files spread out along it, along with a file cabinet. All of the pictures show what used to be humans, but appear to be deformed, bloated, and twisted. A lot of them are blackened as if by an internal explosion. Trying to ascertain the files, she asks the man to find hers, only to find that it is empty.
Hearing a weird moaning sound, Rachel moves to investigate it. She finds a girl her arms and legs were swollen, bulging, as if full of liquid. The girl had IVs in both arms with her eyes half-open. Rachel notes that she seemed to be unconscious. She was in a vat of blue liquid tht was beginning to fill up. What happened next, is hard for Rachel to recall and it only keeps in bits and pieces. She distinctly remembers feeling rather disgusted at the whole thing, as to why someone would do that to just a little girl. So naturally she had to disconnect the IVs. However, when she disconnected the IVs, the girl immediately jumped up and started attacking her. Rachel's only saving grace was the men who came in, the girl turning on them and Rachel took the moment to escape. Finally making her escape from the place as reinforcements arrive and mop things up. The US Government put a cover story on it saying that they crossed the Iraq-Iran border, attacked an Iranian army convoy and were captured. This caused a stir in the local media, and the U.S. government demoted Rachel to Private, punishing her to hush the situation. Rachel was interested in what had truly happened at that place since she had seen it. Her resolve to find out what was truly there was only intensified by the discovery of the girl and her government's efforts to make sure that everything was covered up very nicely.
As Humanis First became more and more prominent back over home, Rachel was rather torn between supporting them in an effort to stop actions like the New York City bomb and the other terrorist attack of Febraury of 2008, and denouncing them for the very tactics that she used, seeing them as little more than terrorists who were fighting the good fight but more definitely in the wrong manner. They way that they went about proclaiming their goals is ultimately what kept Rachel at arms length from them. She could silently support them, but she would never vocally throw her weight in with them.
After that failed operation, Rachel was approached by General Autumn to participate in a 'military experiment' with Pinehearst. Before she could begin, however, Pinehearst was destroyed and she was put back in Iraq. About a year later, she was taken from Iraq and briefed in on Operation Apollo by General Autumn. She served as reserve aboard the carrier, and was going to be sent in to help with the extraction team, but missed a briefing and is instead going to be sent in during the assault of the Capital. It was here that she learned that the perpatrators of the attack in Febraury of 2008 were not pro-evolved terrorists at all, but a paramilitary organization called Vanguard. The very organization that she was now charged to attack. Suffice to say, that she had to completely re-evauluate where she stood on the issue of evolved people, and with a boat full of them she needed to deal with it now.
However, she was happy to be somewhat closer to fellow Americans, and fighting a fight that she was told she would have a very direct impact on the security of their nation. For seven years, Rachel has been overseas fighting in the sands of Iraq, and it has gotten to her. She her not seen the shores of her birth in as much time, except for the occasional week or so leave, and she doesn't have any friends back home to come home too. Let alone any kind of significant other.
In Rachel's psychological profiling for the Marines, she was listed as a Type-E personality. She feels the need to always be challenged, and she has trouble allowing others to come in and do things for her. Always thinking that she can do a much better job than what they are capable of. She hates to be stuck in a daily routine, often trying to go and do somethng for herself. Part of why she at least somewhat enjoyed Iraq, there was never really a routine to get into. Firefights were common, and completely random.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, she is very insecure about being 'different' from everyone else. With first no father, and then her mother being killed, she coped by trying harder and harder to be no different than the normal kids. Anything that threatens to make her 'special' is met with disbelief and denial.
Rachel Mills has the capability of quickly teleporting in order to escape from dangerous situations. When she teleports, she glows, and then disappears. Rachel is also capable of accessing her ability unconsciously, she is able to teleport herself out of bed and onto the floor of her room while sleeping. It also functions as a way to keep her safe, though it is not instantaneous. She can not teleport out of the way of a bullet, but she can teleport out of the way of something falling on top of her. She is only capable of teleporting small distances, about a few dozen feet. However, she is capable of teleporting vertically in addition to horizontally, such as onto the roof of an apartment building.
She may be eventually able to teleport miles away at a later date, if her ability is able to mature and grow as she becomes more used to it. Her teleportation ability also enables her to land safely from falls that would most likely kill her, as it stops her momentum with each hop, allowing her to land safely when she teleports to the ground. She is also able to teleport into moving objects, given enough practice, the first couple of times undoubtedly won't be pretty. She is able to teleport at least one person with her as long as she is touching them or their clothes. When combined with ability charging, she is able to teleport from coast-to-coast with ease.