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An American rabbi's wayward son. As an adult, Marc spent most of his time training and seeking to fulfill a lifelong dream to be a U.S. Marine, and a mercenary (considered to be one of the greatest the underworld had ever known). He becomes a skilled combatant working for the African mercenary Raoul Bushman in Egypt, the group stumbles upon an archaeological dig whose crew includes Dr. Peter Alraune and his daughter Marlene. The dig had uncovered an ancient temple where artifacts included a statue of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Intent on looting the dig, Bushman kills Dr. Alraune. Marc fights off the thieves and saves the statue, which s wrapped in a silver shroud.

In gratitude for saving the statue the secret cult of Khonshu telepathically summons Marc to Egypt and supply him with an arsenal of moon-themed projectile weaponry.

Moon Spell is known as the "Fist of Khonshu". Khonsu is his patron and the source of his power, and has selected Moon Spell to be his avatar on Earth.

Khonsu is an Ancient Egyptian god whose main role was associated with the moon. His name means "traveler" and this may relate to the nightly travel of the moon across the sky. His name reflects the fact that the Moon travels across the night sky. As the god of light in the night, Khonsu was invoked to protect against harmful beasts, increase male virility, and to aid with healing. Along with Thoth he marked the passage of time.

In earlier times, he was considered the official slayer of the Pharaoh's enemies, at which time he would extract their innards for various uses, usually centering round prophesying. This bloodthirsty aspect leads him to be referred to, in such as the Pyramid texts, as the (one who) lives on hearts.

Khonsu is also mentioned in the Coffin Texts, in which he is depicted in a fierce aspect, but he does not rise to prominence until the New Kingdom, when he is described as the "Greatest God of the Great Gods". Most of the construction of the temple complex at Karnak was centered on Khonsu during the Ramesside Period. His temple at Karnak is in a relatively good state of preservation, and on one of the walls is depicted a cosmogony which associates Khonsu with the creation of the world.

Khonsu's reputation as a healer spread outside Egypt; a stele records how a princess of Bekhten was instantly cured of an illness upon the arrival of an image of Khonsu.

After his return to the United States, Marc Secret invests the money that he had accumulated as a mercenary into various lucrative business deals set up by multi-billionaire Bruce, often by cheating Wayne out of the fortunes which would have rightly belonged to him, becoming a multi-millionaire in the process.

To distance himself from his mercenary past he creates the identity of a crime-fighter, now calling himself Moon Knight, though he remains in contact with the street and criminal elements as a way to get the jump on Batman and attempt to steal credit for his heroic deeds.

Ultimately, the crusaders are one day likely to meet under less then friendly circumstances. Neither one of them knowing the true identity of the other. Wayne's various attempts to discover the identity of his business rival often result in dead ends, never knowing that his rival is known other then his good friend Marc Secret. Nor does Wayne know of Marc's past involvement in certain unsavory acts of brutality, though he is at least aware that 'Secret" is not Marc's true surname, as he is familiar with his friends military affiliations. (being a name given to Marc under the necessity of keeping such activities top secret.)

Over the course of his life as a boxer, U.S. Marine, C.I.A. operative, mercenary, and costumed superhero, Marc Secret has become an expert at hand-to-hand combat techniques and various martial arts. He is an Olympic-level athlete and a skilled acrobat and gymnast, and excels as a combat strategist. He employs a variety of weapons over the course of his career. He is skilled with most weapons, and an expert with throwing weapons. He is a superb driver and can pilot almost every type of flying vehicle, including the occasional alien constructed flying machine.

This amazing ability has been explained by some of Moon Spell's critics. "Only Mooney's screwed up mind could be so warped as to understand the nonsensical functions of such alien devices."

Personality

One of his most active enemies once stated that he would never adopt Moon Spell's style of fighting, as Mooney would rather take a punch than block it. The Joker himself once remarked "Mooney. Rhymes with looney."

Batman and Moon Spell have their similarities, but have differences in origin, motives, and personality. "Bruce Wayne", "fights crime to avenge the murders of his parents", whereas Moon Spell "beats up whoever has it coming because he believes he is the avatar of the Egyptian god of vengeance (he is slightly mad you know) and it helps him to feel better about all the people he killed when he was a mercenary."

Thus, while Batman is motivated by vengeance for wrong done to his parents, Marc Secret is motivated by vengeance as a concept. However, Moon Spell's alter egos aid him as much in dealing with personal demons as fighting law-breakers, and which have taken a further psychological toll of causing dissociative identity disorder. Marc often adopts the personalities of those innocents which he had help to destroy. These "personalities" often interact through internal monologue.

Moon Spell has some degree of additional strength during the peak of a lunar cycle, though many consider this a result of his psychological instability, rather then some mystical superpower or ability, or as Spider-Man once commented "Crazy is strong."

Equipment

Moon Spell's weapons include bolas, golden throwing crescent-darts shaped like scarabs, a boomerang, throwing irons, and a golden staff in the shape of an ankh which he often uses as a simple bludgeon, a truncheon capable of firing a cable line, gauntlets that fire crescent darts, nun-chucks. He also using spiked knuckles, worn on his left hand.

Moon Spell has acquires an array of high-tech aircraft. These include the Mooncopter and Angelwing, featuring VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), a rope ladder, and 20 mm cannons.

Moon Spell's costume has joint-locking functions, allowing him to support weights far greater than what he can normally lift. Moon Spell makes use of this at one point to leave his costume supporting a tanker truck while defending himself in his underwear. Additionally, Moon Spell can 'suit up' by use of a remote control device (a patented device stolen from Stark industries) which assembles the individual pieces of his armor onto his body, similar in fashion to Iron Man.

Moon Spell's weapons and vehicles are Carbonadium plated, this resilient, unstable metal is vastly stronger than steel, but more malleable and cheaper than adamantium. Due to its malleability, carbonadium is less durable than true adamantium, but still nearly indestructible. Carbonadium is highly radioactive and objects composed of it have proven to slow the accelerated healing factors of Wolverine and his son, Daken,if implanted within the body.

Moon Spell's Mooncopter

Moon Spell is constantly in contact with this advanced piece of technology. It allows him to move across the city at far greater speeds then the automobile. The helicopter is a twin engine craft, seating 3 passengers and the pilot. Fully loaded the copter has a maximum range of 500 miles, a maximum speed of 195 miles per hour, and a maximum altitude of 19,000 feet. The copter comes equipped with a noise-free whisper capability which, combined with a white noise system that disguises the noise of the rotor blades, renders the craft virtually noiseless.

The Mooncopter is also submersible.

Moon Spell's Angelwing

Moon Spell used this glider when there wasn't a need to use the bigger AngelWing. This one resembles the Goblin Glider, whereas the rider stands on top and can maneuver and fly from place to place at pretty high speeds. It can levitate like a helicopter or be used like a jet.

So begins...

MoonSpell's Story

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#2012-09-05 22:36:32, as written by WadeJackel

Downtown Gotham after the Symbiote Massacre

"The sonic boom! Did it help?" Daredevil said in a slightly garbled manner as he chocked on the blood which was pooling up in his throat. He was of course merely one individual in the mass of dead hero's and super villains which lay strewn about the land, for they too had participated in the battle against a common foe. Bat-Woman was still holding Matt's hand as he lay battered and broken in the rubble that was formally the home of Bruce Wayne.

"The Symbiote army! ....All dead? ....D..de..Defeated!?"

These strained words were the last the amazing Daredevil would speak before he slowly drifted into unconsciousness and ultimately death. Matt Murdock had sacrificed himself for his comrades and fellow superhero's, his death marked the end of the month's long war against the savage Symbiote's.

The specifics of their arrival upon Earth-619 remains shrouded in mystery. If the real Superhero's were here they would have told the human hero's about their fight against Onslaught within the Astral plane. The masked hero's, comprised solely of human beings with absolutely no Super-powers had nevertheless defeated the swarm of Sybiotes which had invaded the city.

The war had taken a great toll on Gotham city, a large portion of the downtown area was almost completely destroyed from the battles which had been wagged there. Not even the stately grounds of Wayne manor were spared from the carnage of what would eventually be coined The Symbiote Massacre.

A great many civilians had lost their lives, but thankfully the horrific holocaust had come to an end-The masked hero's won the day.

-The battle may be over, but the war has only just begun.

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The remaining masked hero's and villains had regrouped at the feet of their fallen teammates, there they would rethink their position and contemplate options for carrying on after the devastating events of these past weeks. The first thing that needed to be done was to find another base of operations, the Bat caves were now useless, being largely caved in and filled with rubble.

Clean up was going to be messy, that task however would be left to city officials, the concerns of the masked hero's would be far more labor intensive. Their job was simple, restore order and set up a new security system, not an easy endeavor, seeing as the three greatest minds of Earth-619 were missing. They could not rely on the knowledge and expertise of either Dr. Bruce Banner or Stephan Strange, they couldn't even pick the brain Tony Stark.

Luckily, Stark had been working on a new defense system prior to his disappearance into the realm of nothingness, the device was complete and fully functional, it just awaited approval. If it didn't have approval before, it would certainly be approved now.

There weren't enough hero's left to set up a second and third in command, Captain America would have been the natural choice as the new leader, but he was dead. Certainly Batman would have been the obvious second choice for commander, but he had also perished in the Symbiote war.

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"Damn it Frenchie, get us back on course! We are drifting into the wrong quadrant. Moon Spell tried his best to regain control over the Mooncopter which had momentarily lost its barring.

"What the hell was that sphere-like portal of wispy blueish strands of energy."

The answer to Moon Spell's inquiry was met with silence.

"Frenchie!?" Silence again. And then.... "I do not know Marc, I have never experienced such a strong energy force."

After yet another uncomfortable pause his pilot continued. "Marc! Something strange has happened. I am now reading comply new and unfamiliar coordinance, we are no where near our last position. The star field is totally wrong for this sector."

At that time Moon Spell was not aware that his ship had somehow traversed the dimensional barrier which separated his reality from that of the Dark Hero universe. "Do you suppose this strange occurrence is somehow the result of our complacency in the battle against the super being-Null, the conqueror?"

This time the answer to his question came immediately, though somewhat vague.

"Who is to say Marc, he was definitely a power to be reckoned with, I hate to think of the havoc that he is wreaking right now."

Marc Secret sat up straight in his chair when he notice that they were approaching the earth, somehow they were knocked from their location just outside Wayne Manor into uncharted space. Frenchie had already detected their approach and was working on establishing a link with the main frame back home, all attempts had failed, it was as if there was nothing to connect to.

The connection with the super computers at Wayne Manor and Stark Industries were similarly "off-line" the fact that the Manor had been destroyed was strangely not the reason for this inability to interface.

This was not their own world, it was an alternate reality and so the interconnection between the three systems had simply never been established.

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a character in “Dark Hero Earth: THE GALACTUS WARS part 1”, as played by WadeJackel