Agents of Monarch
By H.R.C. Stanley
Audrey Timmonds
Date of Birth: 8th January 1965
Nationality: United States
Monarch Activation: 30th March 2002
Occupation: Former newsroom assistant, independent news reporter
Areas of Expertise: Journalism, surveillance, data recollection
Education: Mahwah High School, Northern Highlands Regional High School
Background:
Ever since she was young, Audrey always dreamed of being a news reporter. In 1998, when she asked her boss Charles Caiman to be promoted from an administrative assistant to a reporter, he asked her on an extramarital date, causing her to storm out of the building. She later met her friend and co-worker Victor "Animal" Palotti and his wife at a restaurant, where they told her that she needed to toughen up to become successful in New York. At that moment she saw and recognised her college sweetheart Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos on a TV news report regarding a recent shipping accident caused by an unknown force. Shortly afterwards, a giant monster came ashore in New York while Audrey was in the restaurant, with Animal leaving to film it.
After Manhattan was evacuated by the military, Audrey snuck back into the city using a fake press pass. She eventually tracked Nick down and reconnected with him at his research station, where he told her of his research into the giant monster. When Nick discovered that the creature reproduced asexually and was soon going to lay eggs and left to tell the military leaders about it, Audrey, deciding to take her friends' advice to "toughen up", took some tapes and Nick's research to her news station in a pre-recorded news story with herself as the reporter. When the story finally aired, Audrey was shocked to discover that Caiman had edited himself into the report, taking credit for her story and mispronouncing the creature's name, "Gojira," as "Godzilla."
Later on, she and her friend Victor "Animal" Palotti discovered Nick's plan to find Godzilla's nest and travelled into the subway tunnels to follow him and some French secret servicemen into Madison Square Garden. Eventually Nick and the French team leader Philippe Roache discovered Audrey and Animal, but at that time the Baby Godzillas had hatched from their eggs and were running rampant in the arena. Using the arena's broadcasting equipment, Audrey broadcast a live news report across the city, showing the hundreds of Baby Godzillas roaming through the arena. Anthony Hicks gave the order to destroy Madison Square Garden, and gave the group a few minutes to escape before the demolition.
Roache managed to get all of them safely out of the arena before the military destroyed the building with F-18 fighter jets, only for the adult Godzilla to emerge from below the street and discover his dead offspring. Godzilla, associating Audrey and the others with the death of his young, gave chase to them across the city. The humans managed to jack a taxi cab to escape from the monster, but were contacted by Hicks, who told them to lure Godzilla to the Brooklyn Bridge. The taxi eventually reached the bridge, where Godzilla became entangled in the suspension cables, allowing three F-18s to easily kill him with missile fire. As the monster lay dead on the bridge, Audrey broadcast herself interviewing Nick, the man responsible for stopping Godzilla's reign of terror. When Caiman asked Audrey to work as his co-anchor, she informed him that she quit.
Since then, Audrey became an independent news reporter, with Victor "Animal" Palotti working as her cameraman. Crossing paths with her fiance and his team, HEAT, she soon learnt of the surviving offspring, eventually dubbed 'GINO II', protecting humanity from other mutants and creatures. Upon this, she too was recruited by Monarch to work as an official member of HEAT; being able to work closely with Nick, and even get married.
However, in 2019, she and the rest of HEAT Team were told of the sudden awakening of Titans around the globe, as GINO II is set out to find them...
To be continued...
