Decided to tell the story of how Paxx Underbite and the Spectral Sentries came to be in my Fan Season 2 of Power Players to share with fans of mine
Within the state of Nevada, outside the city of Las Vegas, there is the government-funded Maze Compound. Founded by the “National Aeronautics & Military Co-Operative”, or for short, “N.A.M.C.O.”, the many, many people within the facility seek to find ways to help mankind with new breakthroughs in scientific technology. Supervised by the U.S. Army’s highest ranking officer Colonel Henry Midway, 4 specific people within the Maze Compound were chosen and tasked to create a new way to improve industrial workability.
Those said 4 people are Professor Toru Iwatani (the foremost authority on robotics within the Maze Compound & N.A.M.C.O. group), Miru Paru (the first of Professor Iwatani's 2 assistants within the Maze Compound & N.A.M.C.O. group and the chill technology maintenance expert), Razan Kade (the second of Professor Iwatani's 2 assistants within the Maze Compound & N.A.M.C.O. group and the street smart rendering maintenance expert) and Professor Ghalia Willow (a brilliant scientist with a passion in pushing the future of technology and robotics, no matter what the cost to the machinery). The team began development of mass-produced robotic beings known as “Spectral Sentries”,coming in colors of Red, Pink, Cyan, and Orange. Their original purpose was to make industrial jobs that involve teamwork more easy, due to their built-in abilities of flight and to transphase through solid objects, such as walls. However, after a few tests with the 4 prototypes alongside a special one called Haunt-a-boo, they all malfunctioned, often wrecking things within their path. Colonel Midway ordered the team to get rid of the prototypes & plans in order to start over. Toru, Miru, and Razan were on board, disposing of the 4 prototypes, but Haunt-a-boo was having none of it. Angered at how all her hard work would be dusted off like it was all nothing, she eventually stole the plans that were originally meant to be destroyed (along with a certain someone’s suit they’ve been working on) & went into hiding.
Overtime, Haunt-A-Boo perfected the Spectral Sentries with Dr. Toyman and created 4 special Spectral Sentries known as “Spectral Sentry Generals”. These 4 are sentient, all having the ability to think, feel, and act on their own, and were made to command the other Spectral Sentries in order to keep them in line. They’re known as “SSG-001: Shadow”/”Blinky”, “SSG-002: Speedy”/”Pinky”, “SSG-003: Bashful”/”Inky”, & “SSG-004: Pokey”/”Clyde”. Shortly after, she uses an untested serum the employees have been saving since the scientist days in the Maze Compound known as “Ecto”, meant to increase the intelligence and strength of humans. What she’s planning to do with it is so far unknown. But now, with his army of Spectral Sentries, she starts to cause havoc in the city, plotting for both world domination & to be recognized as “the greatest genius in the history of mankind”.
Back at N.A.M.C.O.’s Maze Compound, while everybody was struggling to come up with a way to combat this major threat, Toru eventually came up with an idea to make a robotic being of their own to stop the Spectral Sentries. After getting the green light from their superiors, Toru, Razan, & Miru went to work A.S.A.P., starting “Project: Yellow Sphere”! Though there were a couple power outages and the project eating through twice the federal budget in the past 4 months, he was ready. Yes, you read that right. “HE”. Eventually showing their collages, Toru, with the help of his 2 assistants, created a robot toy to not only seek out, catch and consume hazardous targets, but to also combat the Spectral Sentries & the Spectral Sentry Generals. He’s known as the Polymorphic Autonomous Compound Manipulator, otherwise known as Paxx Underbite! Like the Spectral Sentry Generals (or as Paxx calls them, “Ghost Monsters”), he’s able to think, feel, and act entirely on his own. But unlike the ghastly quartet, his ethical and moral programming was tested, making him be able to distinguish right from wrong. Also made alongside him were mass produced spherical items essential to defeat the Spectral Sentries known as Energizers (or as Paxx Underbite calls them “Power Pellets”)! When Paxx eats one, a special signal is sent to all Spectral Sentries within the area, including the Spectral Sentry Generals, causing them to turn a bright blue color and disabling their ability to transphase through solid objects. Only when they’re “blue in fear”, Paxx is able to eat them, leaving the only nonedible part of them behind, their hydrodynamic brain & optical sensor modules. In other words, their eyes.
However, he was animated with minergy by Dr. Toyman after being stolen before he got too weak to fight and got thrown out before being saved by the Power Players and nursed back to health by Slobot. he decided to form his own team of power Players known as T.E.C.H. which stands for Toys Enticed by Competing in Heroism which helps to battle the Evil Toys and also the Spectral Sentries