History
At the Humans compound, Rex sleeping in the skin stables, was awoken by Bricks calling the fighting skins for breakfast. Rex scampered to the feeding trough, stuffing his face with the slop and refuse Bricks prepared before they headed out to Flex Trucking for the skin-fights. He was joined by a husky male skin and blonde female skin at the trough, though Rex paid no attention to them as he shovel the rubbish into his mouth. But when a dark skin tried to push Rex out of his eating spot. The smaller skin took offence and tried to attack the other skin, but were pulled apart by Bricks. Brick particularly noticed how eager Rex was to get into a fight. Rex and the other three skins were loaded into a caged pen and towed by motorcycle to Flex Trucking.
At the facility, Rex and the skins were taken out one by one to have their heads shaved and cleaned for the fight. He was placed back in the cage while Bobby Moore and Bricks tried to decided which skin to send out into the pit against Bubba in order to win a wager against Abe Simian. Johnny Moore, looking into the feral eyes of Rex, made him recognize that Rex was a kindred spirit, a killer and caged animal on untapped fury who could be their champion. However Rex's small size placed his chances of winning against Bubba in doubt, but Bobby trusted his littler brother's intuition. To give Rex an unfair edge, the apes injected him with spazm. They placed $300 on Rex to win, which was seen as a fool's loss by the other betters.
Rex experiencing the drug, went crazy, throwing up before being released into the fight. Under the effects of spazm, Rex proved more agile and faster than the giant Bubba, easily scaling the other skin to bite his face. He was then grabbed and throw to the ground, which Rex counter by kicking Bubba between the legs. Rex climbed on Bubba's back and used the position to rip off Bubba's cheeks, and then using his bloody fingers to mark his face. Rex managed to use the metal wires of the cage fencing to spring and kick Bubba to the ground. Once on the ground, Rex wasted no time in removing what was left of Bubba's jaw, and wearing it like a crown. Rex was deemed the winner of the match to the shock of the apes. After the match, the Humans collected their winning to head out to a bar and celebrate, packing Rex and his fellow skin slaves in the cage cart once more.[1]
Rex was later seem at Kirby's Saloon, having been cared for by Larry whilst Bricks was away with the Humans doing a drug run to L.A. The skin was seen chained near the bar, sitting by his bowl and jaw of Bubba. Bricks cam over to check on his skin, to see if Larry was taking good care of him. Seeing how he was behaved, Bricks asked Bobby if Rex could have some beer, which the chimp obliged and told Larry to pour a bowl for the slave. Later when the bar came under attack by the Skabbs and apes from Flex Trucking, resulting in the deaths of several civilians, Larry, Bricks and Bobby, Karns managed to grab Rex's chain to pull him away from the areas that were in flames. Rex was seen kneeling by the corpse of Brick, sadden by the loss of his master.[2]
Some days after the Humans killed all the Skabbs in retaliation for their friends deaths, Johnny led an assault on the the one responsible for his brother's death, Abe Simian. To even the playing field when they assaulted Flex Trucking, the Humans brought all their skin slaves with them, injected them with spazm to turn them into berserkers and used them as cannon fodder. The skins were then let loose on the cops guarding the compound, taking the apes loyal to Simian by surprise. Rex participated in the battle leaping on a ape officer. He momentarily enjoyed wearing the ape's hat, whilst a female skin, Florence, straddled the ape to the ground and gouged out his left eye. When Johnny used a pineapple grenade to blow the gates of Flex Trucking, Rex and the other skins piled into the compound with the rest of the Humans. Rex following close behind Florence charged into the area searching for more opponents, finding another victim to attack.
When the battle was turning in favor of the Humans, the effects of spazm, supposedly wore off on the skins. Florence rather than continue the senseless bloodshed, chose to escape. Rex subsequently followed her, slipping behind Nada and Marra past the gates. The two briefly came across several dead apes as they crossed the threshold. While Rex was appalled by all the death surrounding them, Florence grabbed his hand pulling forward to continue on moving. Their departure was noticed by Officer Pierson, though did nothing due to his aversion to skins.
While the conflict between the apes from Flex Trucking and Sheriff Rugg's apes against the Humans raged on, Rex and Florence managed to put some distance from the conflict. Together the pair reached the edge of a nearby forest. Now finally free from the control of the apes and their past as slaves behind them, Florence on her hands and knees allowed Rex to mate with her in order to celebrate their freedom. Rex was seen howling in pleasure as he made love with his new mate. It was said that both Rex and Florence having escaped to the wild lived happily ever after.[3]Attributes
Abilities
Weaknesses
- Diminished Intellect: Rex like most skins appears to possess limited intelligence, more at the level of an animal in comparison to the dominant apes who own him.
- Item Dependency: His enhanced berserker mode relies on her injections of Spazm, which has a limited time frame that can only last a few minutes.
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Collar: The only ornament that Rex was allowed to wear.
- Chest Harness: A leather cross-belt Rex wore during the skin-fights, used by Bricks to grip his charges.
- Spazm: A new hallucinogenic form of speed that acts as a berserker drug. The drugs was not ready for ape trials but on skin trials it has been shown that it causes a subject to temporarily become insane, hyper violent, and wickedly fast. Once forcibly administered with spazm,
- Enhanced Agility: Under the effects of Spazm Rex is granted greater agility.
- Enhanced Speed: Under the effects of Spazm Rex is granted greater speed.
- Enhanced Strength: Under the effects of Spazm Rex is granted greater strength. Enough to overpower an intelligent gorilla.
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ The Humans #4
- ↑ The Humans (Volume 2) #7
- ↑ The Humans (Volume 2) #9