American James Bond (Version 2)

Name: James Bond Occupation: U.S. government clandestine services officer Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Identity: Secret Other Aliases: Various Place Of Birth: New York City, New York, USA Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Andrew Bond (father, deceased), Monique Delacroix Bond (mother, deceased), Charmain Bond (aunt, deceased) Group Affiliations: United States Navy, Overseas Operations Group Base of Operations: Mobile

History: James Bond is the son of Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond. His English-American father was a senior accounting manager for General Dynamics originally from New York City, while his mother was originally from Yverdonm Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. When Bond was eleven years old, his parents died in a climbing tragedy while attempting to scale north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Persévérance. After their deaths, he was homeschooled by his aunt and guardian, Charmain Bond of Saratoga Springs, New York.

From age 14 to 15, Bond attended Phillips Academy preparatory school until "trouble" with one of the maids. He then transferred to his father's alma mater, New York Military Academy. While there he won numerous athletic competitions and twice boxed for the school as a light weight. He also formed an intermural judo league. Throughout his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser during term breaks at NYMA. Bond's one strong relationship, this friendship ended when Oberhauser disappeared mysteriously. He considered Oberhauser a second father.

After graduating from New York Military Academy, Bond began attending the United States Naval Academy. While there, he excelled in all areas of training and matriculated through his coursework with exceptional grades. However, whilst excelling at athletic competitions, strategic operations, and counter-intelligence courses, his unconventional approach to his education and his diffident attitude to some of his superiors drew him a few demerits. While at the Academy, Bond was a member of the intramural karate team. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a commission as an Ensign in the United States Navy. Sadly, Bond lost his one surviving close relative, his aunt Charmain Bond, a few weeks after graduation.

While at the Academy, he decided that he would become an intelligence officer. Soon after his commission, Bond began a five-month basic course of instruction at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After graduating from basic intelligence training, he was assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 130 as an aviation intelligence officer. In that capacity, Bond deployed aboard the USS Harry S. Truman. Following his fleet tour, he was assigned to the Joint Intelligence Center at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Bond later served as an operational intelligence officer attached to SEAL Team 3. In that capacity, he served a deployment in Afghanistan. After that deployment, Bond was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as a political-military analyst. Eventually, his exemplary work caught the attention of a high-level DIA official who believed he would be perfect for a newly-established and highly unconventional clandestine services organization. In short order, Bond was recruited into a top-secret agency called the Overseas Operations Group.

Under the cover of being an obscure private firm that assists U.S.-based companies in opening or expanding foreign operations and investing abroad, the OO Group is a covert operational and tactical unit mandated to identify and eliminate threats to America by extraordinary means. Created by high-level military and intelligence officials, it's modeled after the UK's World War II-era Special Operations Executive espionage and sabotage organization. The Overseas Operations Group operates in ultra secrecy, independent of the official U.S. national security apparatus. That allows its personnel to operate outside of the law. They are given carte blanche to do whatever is required to fulfill a mission and can use any means they deem necessary to protect U.S. national security. Success is all that matters. For example, the OO Group's field operatives are essentially entrusted with a license to kill -- the authorization to, at their own discretion, commit acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete a mission, without having to seek permission from headquarters first.

Soon after accepting the position with the OO Group, Bond was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after eight years of distinguished service. He then underwent an intensive operational training course to train him in so-called "operational intelligence" or "tradecraft" espionage skills. Afterwards, Bond was given the code name "OO7" and the cover legend of a risk analyst who travels the world assessing business risks for the OO Group's clients.

For his first assignment as Agent OO7, he was tasked with killing two people. The first was a cryptologist in London who had cracked an NSA code and was attempting to sell it to the highest bidder. The assignment was on the thirty-sixth floor of a skyscraper. Bond took a room on the fortieth floor of the next-door skyscraper where he could look across the street into his room and see him working. Then he and a fellow OO agent sat for several hours waiting for their chance. The other agent shot at the cryptologist a second before Bond. His job was only to blast a hole through the windows so that Bond could shoot the man through it. Bond did exactly that, shooting immediately after the other agent, through the hole he had made. Even though it was three hundred yards away, he got the cryptologist in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window. The other person Bond had to kill was a CIA analyst in Karachi who was selling secrets from within the agency. He'd managed to get two CIA officers captured and killed. For various reasons it had to be an absolutely silent job. Bond chose the bedroom of the traitor's apartment and stabbed him to death after a brief hand-to-hand fight.

For his next assignment as Agent OO7, he was sent to the outskirts of Novi Sad in Serbia. There, an Irish combat engineer-turned-enforcer named Niall Dunne was planning to derail a train carrying three hundred kilograms of methyl isocyanate, dumping it into the Danube. Bond was able to prevent the catastrophe by derailing the train himself at a much safer place along the line. However, he was unable to detain Dunne, who killed Bond's Serbian contacts in the course of his escape.

Using what little intelligence Bond was able to gather from the operation in Serbia, the OO Group was able to establish a connection to Green Way International, a waste disposal consortium contracted to demolish a US. Army base in Ohio. Because Bond was not authorized to act on U.S. soil, he was forced to work with Percy Osborne-Smith, an agent of a covert unit within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The two men clashed over the interpretation of the intelligence, prompting Bond to manipulate Osborne-Smith into pursuing a lead Bond knew to be false, and allowing him to investigate the Ohio Army base on his own. While exploring the base hospital, he was sealed inside by Niall Dunne, who intended to kill him by bringing the hospital down in a controlled demolition. Bond escaped by improvising an explosive device.

He then turned his attention to Green Way International, led by the enigmatic Severan Hydt. The Dutch-born Hydt was a "rag-and-bone man", who made his fortune in the disposal of waste. He had an intense fascination with death, which OO Group intelligence analysts believed to be a sexual fetish. The OO Group authorized Bond to investigate Hydt when intelligence surfaced suggesting he was also known as "Noah" and a key player in the train derailment in Serbia, which was believed to be a prelude to a much bigger attack that would effect U.S. interests. Bond got wind of a second attack, to occur later in the week, killing up to one hundred people. He tracked Hydt to Dubai and with the help of MI6 officer Felix Leiter, eavesdropped on a conversation with one of Hydt's senior researchers. Concerned that the attack was imminent, Bond attempted to anticipate Hydt's next move and was on the verge of evacuating a crowded museum when he realised that Hydt was there for an exhibit of the bodies of ninety tribal nomads who were killed a millenia ago. Aborting his planned evacuation, Bond returned to Hydt's facility to find that Leiter had been attacked by an unknown assailant and a local MI6 asset has been murdered.

Hydt left Dubai for Cape Town, with Bond following closely. Once inside South Africa, he met Bheka Jordaan, a local police operative. Bond was able to get close to Hydt by posing as a Durban-based mercenary, and fueled Hydt's fixation with death by promising him access to mass graves across the African continent. Hydt was taken by Bond's proposal of exhuming the bodies and recycling them into consumer products such as building materials, and gradually welcomed him into his inner circle. Bond attended a fundraiser for the International Organisation Against Hunger with Hydt, where he met Felicity Willing, the charity's spokeperson. After helping Willing deliver the left-over food from the fundraiser to a distribution centre, the two began a relationship.

Using his cover legend, Bond was able to infiltrate Hydt's operations in South Africa. His relationship with Bheka Jordaan soured, particularly when he encountered the assailant who attacked Felix Leiter in Dubai: the brother of one of his contacts who was killed in Serbia. As the deadline for the attack - known as "Gehenna" (derived from the Hebrew word for Hell) - approached, the OO Group was ordered to pull Bond out of South Africa and sent him to Afghanistan as the CIA believed the attack would happen there as their analysts could see no connection between Hydt and Gehenna. M was not convinced and managed to keep Bond in South Africa, but the future of the Overseas Operations Group depended on his being correct in suspecting Hydt.

On the day of the Gehenna attacks, Bond deduced that the target was somewhere in Los Angeles, but his report was ignored by Osborne-Smith, who believed it was aimed at a security conference in Washington, DC. Bond managed to access Hydt's research and development facility, where he uncovered plans for a weapon developed by Serbia known as "the Cutter", which fires razor-sharp shards of steel at hypervelocity. Hydt had been using his operations to steal sensitive information, from which he had acquired the blueprints to the Cutter. Bond realized that the derailment in Serbia was a false flag operation: its intention was not to drop methyl isocyanate into the Danube, but to allow Niall Dunne the opportunity to steal scrap metal from the train for use in the prototype Cutter. Hydt was employed by a pharmaceutical company to detonate a Cutter on the campus of UCLA, killing a cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough that would bankrupt the pharmaceutical company. Evidence planted at the scene would suggest the attack was aimed at a fellow lecturer who was a vocal opponent of the Serbian government. With the help of Hydt's personal assistant, Bond was able to stop the attack. Hydt was arrested, but Dunne escaped and shot his employer at long range.

Bond was uncomfortable with the conclusion, feeling that there were too many loose ends at hand. Research showed that the OO Group had been misled, and their intelligence misinterpreted; Severan Hydt was never known as Noah. Rather, was an acronym for the National Organisation Against Hunger, which recently expanded to provide food aid on an international scale. Niall Dunne was an associate of Felicity Willing, whose organization had expanded to the point where she directly controled one-third of all food aid arriving in Africa. She intended to use this power to strategically distribute food throughout east Africa, giving the Sudanese government a pretext to go to war with rebels and prevent southern Sudan from seceding. Bond lured Willing into a trap at an abandoned inn where she confessed the plot. Niall Dunne reappeared, attacking the party before Bond and Bheka Jordaan shot and killed him. Willing was then taken to a CIA black site after the Agency spread stories suggesting she was embezzling from her own charity.

Since that daring and death-defying assignment, James Bond has distinguished himself as the Overseas Operations Group's premier field operative and one of the most extraordinary secret agents employed by the U.S. government.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 170 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Black

Strength Level: James Bond possesses the normal strength level of a man of his size, height and build who engages in extensive regular exercise.

Abilities: James Bond is muscular and an impressive physical specimen, but is infinitely more scientific. In general, he fights with tenacity and has a high tolerance of pain. He is an expert in karate, can kill with a chop of his hand and with the well-placed pressure of his fingers. In addition to being an expert pistol shot and boxer, Bond is an expert knife thrower; he knows how to use knifes and he knows how to use razors. Long before he joined the OO Group, Bond has used a system of mnemonics, where he can store thousands of pieces of information of any kind to memory or filed away, available for immediate recall, in the computer of his memory. Most information was related to work, so were best not committed to writing in any case. Bond is also skilled with languages, and speaks fluently without accent in Italian, French, Spanish and German, and speaks a passable Dari, Mandarin, Arabic and Japanese.