FIRST PAGE RECAP
While on a mission to Mars, astronaut Chet Edwards discovers strange ruins and a glowing pool hidden beneath the planet's surface. When a sudden explosion nearly kills him, Chet is also splashed with the unearthly liquid and exposed to uncanny alien nanotechnology. Chet's body is returned to Earth, where a secret organization combine cutting edge Earth technology with the Martian nanites to rebuild him and restore him to life. Still haunted by this mysterious past, Chet re-entered and shortly left the service of the U.S. government, who no longer employed him for space exploration, but for espionage. And today, members of the intelligence community compare rumors about the exploits of a freelance spy and adventurer named only in whispers as… the Cybernaut!
Splash Page: Cybernaut riding his Cybercycle at night, in the rain on big city streets. He is talking to someone called "Sketch". Sketch is a female voice, he hears via radio and is his contact to the "Black Box", a vigilante spy network who assists Cybernaut (and presumably, others). They have an easy rapport. Sketch relays information regarding a Chinese spymaster who runs a spy ring which has been stealing military secrets for years. They operate near Ivy Town.
Cybernaut investigates and engages in surveillance attempting to locate the base. He has run in with hooded assailants, and discovers that they are much more powerful martial artists than he has encountered before.
Meanwhile, a mysterious red-clad martial artist is investigating a person known as Rat, who may be in Ivy Town. Tracking the agents of Rat, this martial artist comes upon the Cybernaut in battle against the the agents of the spy ring. He chooses to assist the Cybernaut, and together they defeat the badguys, but this mysterious martials artist clothed in red disappears into the night.
Later, in a hotel room in Ivy Town, Sketch reveals that the assassins were elite Kobra agents called "Hoods", The other hero was unknown, but Sketch translates the Chinese symbols that were sewn onto the martial artist's clothes: "Red Phoenix."
Continued in Cybernaut #2
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