Darren Cross (Earth-61615)

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 * Image = Darren_Cross_Earth-61615.jpg
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 * RealName = Darren Agonistes Cross
 * CurrentAlias = Yellowjacket
 * Aliases =
 * Identity = Public
 * AlienRace = Humans
 * Alignment = Good
 * Affiliation = Movement Alliance: Hydra, The Yellowjackets; former founder and owner of Cross Technologies (defunct)
 * Relatives = Unnamed man (father; deceased), Unnamed woman (mother; deceased)
 * Alignment = Bad
 * Universe = Earth-61615
 * BaseOfOperations = Mobile; formerly Cross Technological Enterprises Facility and Cross Mansion, San Francisco, California
 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 6'1
 * Height2                = (variable)
 * Weight                 = 185 lbs;
 * Weight2                = (variable)
 * Eyes                   = Green
 * Hair                   = Bald
 * Citizenship = American
 * MaritalStatus = Single
 * Occupation = Adventurer, Biochemist, Scientist, S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist, Scientist Supreme of Earth; former manager of Avengers Tower
 * Height = 6'0"
 * Height2 = (Variable)
 * Weight = 435 lbs
 * Weight2 = (Variable)
 * Education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Origin = Human powered by Pym Particles and using a modified, upgraded Yellowjacket's Suit
 * PlaceOfBirth = New York City, New York, United States of America
 * First                  = Modern Comics: Ant-Man Vol 1 1
 * Last                   = Modern Comics: Ultimate War Vol 1 8
 * Quote = Just imagine a soldier the size of an insect. The ultimate secret weapon...
 * Speaker = Darren Cross
 * HistoryText =

Early Years
Darren Agonistes Cross was born in New York City to an unnamed father who was a scientist and an unnamed mother who was a saleswoman. Throughout his teenage years, he went on to learn at the high school and gained high-level popularity as he became a scientific genius, gaining him a proficient scholarship into Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later graduated as valedictorian at the age of nineteen.

Starting up his own business industry, Cross became a self-made millionaire due to his scientific mastery, with him eventually creating and heading his company, Cross Technologies, and finally made it a success to rival the top competitors, all thanks to the advice and counseling his former mentor and close friend, Hank Pym. However, he became obsessed with learning the secrets of Pym's Ant-Man Suit, and his size-reducing Pym Particle technology, despite Pym's constant attempts to convince Cross that it was nothing more than an urban legend and should not be taken seriously.

Recreating the Yellowjacket
For several years, Cross continued to obsess over Pym's previous experiments that had remained hidden from the world, focusing much of his energy into understanding the science behind the fabled Ant-Man Suit. Eventually, Cross' obsession paid off and he was able to make his own weaponized version of the Ant-Man Suit, that was called the Yellowjacket Suit. Little did everyone else knew at his own company, Pym already had the exact idea of the Yellowjacket way before Darren did, which would later reveal that Darren has indeed, loosely stolen the mantle of the Yellowjacket in secret.

Facing the Ant-Man
After having to successfully recreate the Yellowjacket Suit, he ultimately commenced his schemes to sell the suit for military and terrorist use, and among those costumers he found the most pleasing and trusting was the ruthless terrorist organization Hydra. Because of this, a momentarily retired and recovering Hank and his wife Janet, decided to recruit and train the ex-con Ant-Man into donning the mantle of the Ant-Man in order to stop Darren's plot, which ultimately results in the Pym Technologies facility being destroyed.

Humiliating Defeat
Enraged by their heroic heist and his ultimate failure, Darren dons the Yellowjacket armor and tries to kill Scott, who has now become the new Ant-Man. He attempts to kidnap and possibly even kill Scott's daughter Cassie as payback, leading to a final confrontation between the Ant-Man and Yellowjacket. Scott ultimately manages to shrink down and sabotage the Yellowjacket Suit from inside, finally destroying the suit's weapons, and the suit itself, for that matter, without having to extremely damage the internal mainframe and miraculously not killing Cross.

Later on, Pym had help, having the assistance of S.H.I.E.L.D. in creating a cover about story regarding Cross' whereabouts since the incident on Cross Technological Enterprises Facility, claiming to the public that Cross committed suicide inside the bathroom of his mansion located in San Francisco, the night after the incident out of depression, though in actuality, he was alive but not that well, currently being imprisoned at a classified S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where he was being questioned about the possible duplicates for the Yellowjacket Suit, and where it could be hidden.

Cross remained in silent during the long while interrogation, smirked, and answered nothing, implying that there were secret duplicates of the suit. Later on, it was then revealed that the rest of the Yellowjacket suits were located in a secret vault below the destroyed headquarters of Cross Technologies, and was eventually found by the operatives of his most trusted customers, Hydra, led by Hydra superior Mitchell Carson, as Cross has once promised them before.

Hydra's Recruitment
After the events of Hydra Uprising, Darren's prison facility was suddenly been infiltrated by Hydra forces and his cell was eventually been destroyed, freeing Cross from his supposedly lifetime of imprisonment. Finally freed by his former business partners, he was confronted by Baron von Strucker and convinced him to join their organization since they already had a partnership regarding the Yellowjacket deal, along with Cross and Strucker having both the same ideologies on the new world order. Cross immediately agreed to join and was now a powerful lieutenant of Hydra so he could eventually seek his revenge against Lang, Pym, van Dyne, and everyone else who had suddenly ruined his unethical career and his entire life.

Ultimate War
During the starting events of Ultimate War, Cross unleashed his ultimate power for the very first time, leading an entire army of his own, composed of volunteered operatives from the Movement Alliance, wearing the duplicates of his designed Yellowjacket Suits, to which he dubbed his lethal army as the the Swarm of Yellowjackets. Little did everyone else know, Cross and his little Yellowjacket army were held responsible for secretly bombing several historical monuments and every other sacred structures all around the Eastern world that ultimately started the Movement, done as an act of temporarily framing the United States of America, the European Union, and even their superheroes in the process, gaining them extra time so that the Movement Alliance could prepare a little bit more.

Both enraged and saddened by the deaths of countless civilians, several countries all around the world did blame and accused the Western countries, as planned, most especially the United States for being so irresponsible with their country's heroes by not giving them any limit or given any government supervision. Several days, after the worldwide bombings incident, the peak of the event known as the Movement has finally been commenced by the Alliance, just as expected. The war lasted for several weeks, and unfortunately, more and more bodies from both sides have started falling, as each day has passed.

Killing Spree
Later on during the non-stop skirmish on New York, Cross led his Yellowjacket army once again in order to decimate all of the defensive forces from the U.S. Army, the New York City Police Department, and many more in order to infiltrate to the secured evacuated areas. Unluckily enough, the authorities have started becoming defenseless overtime, and eventually, they had no other choice but to retreat back as they tried protecting all the civilians, having the Yellowjackets' power extremely surpassed and destroyed most of their defenses effortlessly, like it were nothing.

As days have passed, the city's defenses were only left into the last few designated units of the NYPD. Having no other solution regarding the protection of the civilians, the current commander of the NYPD, Lieutenant Kris Keating, along with most of his men, have agreed to fully surrender themselves to the Yellowjackets as their prisoners, as long as the civilians have been left unharmed. At first, Cross have accepted their surrender, only to reveal that he intently lied to them, as they were all disintegrated while they were still on their way to the established mega-prison, with Cross' oversimplified "explanation" that the prison was already filled with filthy authorities just like them.

Now that there was no other defensive force that has remained across the city, Cross and his army then returned to the evacuated areas, and according to a demented and deranged Cross, he was looking forward into massacring all the helpless, frightened, innocent civilians. Arriving on the now unsecured evacuation area, Cross strode out after the screaming crowd who tried to escape where he and his entire army surrounded the entire place, trapping all the people and demanding that they stay right where they were.

Final Stand
When Cross and his men were already prepared to massacre the entire place, a hooded man from the crowd suddenly stood up, revealing to be Hank Pym himself. Seeing that Hank, Cross slowly walks towards Hank and taunted him what kind heist of has been planning at the time. Smiling at Cross' specific question, Pym told him that the heist they were working on this time was for stopping whatever his scheme was once more, followed by Pym giving Cross a hard fist to the face for the very second time. Cross tried to grab his throat, but Pym suddenly shrinks down, revealing that he has finally returned into taking one of the mantles of the Ant-Man.

As result of his return, Cross shrank himself and the two finally engaged in a duel. While fighting Pym in a level, Cross then called and ordered his men to keep on surrounding the place to proceed into killing the civilians, only for their plan to be immediately foiled by another three men from the crowd, revealing themselves as the other Ant-Men: Scott Lang, Eric O'Grady, and Chris McCarthy. The three battled the rest of the Yellowjackets, resulting in their eventual victory, freeing all the evacuees inside the area into safety, before proceeding to help a weakened Pym against Cross, who was too close into getting killed by the villain.

Facing the Ant-Men
As the four Ant-Men engaged in a final duel against Cross outside the city, which was also currently a final battleground between the Movement Alliance and the Ultimates, they heroic four was near towards defeating the villain, right until Cross unexpectedly took the battle towards a higher level and activated all of his suit's full capabilities, releasing an unstable energy pulse continuously released by his suit's stingers, giving him the upper advantage against the Ant-Men.

Having no other choice but to go full subatomic, McCarthy unthinkably tried to shrink his suit, only to be stopped by Pym and Lang, explaining that he couldn't survive without the proper suit needed to enter the Quantum Realm. McCarthy, who was still hesitating whether he would truly go subatomic or not, was unluckily shot by Cross' stingers by the very second, hitting him straight into his heart, fatally injuring him. McCarthy's teammate, O'Grady, immediately out of sheer panic and concern for his dying friend. As McCarthy slowly dies in his arms, O'Grady greatly mourned for the death of his teammate and closest friend.

Unexpected Death
As Cross prepared to murder a weakened Lang, O'Grady, and and an unconscious Pym to torment his defeated foes and gain an accomplishing and rewarding victory in this Movement, the Iron Avenger himself, Iron Man suddenly flew out of nowhere in order to save the Ant-Men and shot Cross from the back of his titanium armor using his powered repulsor beam, extremely damaging the internal mainframe of the Yellowjacket Suit.

Realizing that the internal mainframe has been permanently damaged, Cross screamed in horrific pain and in doubt that he couldn't get out of his suit, one last time before the suit then collapsed into itself, smashing the glass in his helmet and crushing his limbs until Cross' body was completely destroyed, causing Cross to shrink fatally into the Quantum Realm, finally killing him.

Completely surprised and bewildered by what just Stark has unintentionally done to Cross, Stark asked the Pym and the Ant-Men what the hell just happened, confidently told him that he was a big fan of him. Realizing that he didn't get any information from what actually happened to Cross, Stark awkwardly accepted Lang's handshake before telling Pym that they should both discussed what happened to Cross, after the end of the conflict. Stark then flew off, still confused, continuing to help in ending the ongoing conflict across the city. Size Manipulation: With the Pym Particles, Darren can reduce his size down to less than one inch tall and possibly increase his size above normal, approximately sixty feet tall and above.
 * Powers =
 * Size Enhancement
 * Enhanced Durability
 * Size Reduction
 * Size Addition
 * Superhuman Strength
 * Mutated by Pym Particles


 * Abilities =
 * Genius Level Intellect
 * Master Scientist
 * Expert Businessman
 * Multilingual

Class 10+ (Variable) }}
 * Strength               =
 * Weaknesses               =
 * Mentally Unstable
 * Insanity
 * Equipment =
 * Yellowjacket Suit (formerly; destroyed)
 * Transportation =
 * Flight
 * Weapons =
 * Glock 17
 * Beretta 92FS Inox
 * The Stinger
 * Yellowjacket's Energy Pulse Stingers