About

Up until the age of 9, Marcel Maitland lived an average peasant boy's life; planting crops, cleaning and caring for livestock.
He lived with his family on a farm on the outskirts of the town know as Barton.

Everything stayed average, until one day all the bovine in the field, suddenly vanished without a trace.

Marcel, being a curious young lad, decided that he would keep an eye on the field that night, after the odd occurrence.
After much looking onward over the out-stretching fields, to his amazement he noticed a bright green glowing light that shot down from the stars.
He quickly ran to his parent’s room and woke them. Both grabbing their nightgowns and slippers, they followed Marcel out into the yard. His father, Marlon Maitland grabbed his rifle and followed his son through the field. Gazing up, bottom jaw wide open, alarmed to find an alien mother ship hovering over the grazing sheep.

Being only nine years old, and having the attention span of a small rodent, Marcel was fascinated with this strange new experience, oblivious to it's dangers, he ran towards a sheep that had began to levitate, and before they knew it, he too had begun to rise upwards.

Both his parents screamed in terror as they tried to pull him down but there was no use. His dad readied the gun and began firing at the aircraft. Little did he know that the sound of the rifle firing alerted the ship to their presence. The alien craft then made a quick getaway as they presumed they were in danger. Their son was now gone...

Marcel had been taken to a planet many light years away from Gaia.
After being knocked unconscious several times on the journey there. Marcel had become concussed, confused and vulnerable. After routine tests had been carried out upon his body the aliens allowed him to depart from their ship and join their civilisation, as one of them, a Zurg child!

"They took me to a strange looking planet, a planet named Zurg, which is where I grew up and spent my childhood.
After being the guinea pig to many human testing experiments, I began to believe I was a Zurg child, naive to the fact that I looked and spoke completely different from them. 6 years past, I learnt so much from their way of life and I hope that one day, I will be able to help Gaia like the Zurg colony help eachother."

Marcel had joined a Zurg Hive training group. Using high tech weaponry and combat skills, they were on their way to fight a war on the planet Xark, a neighbouring planet in their galaxy. They found themselves being blasted through the outer reaches of space by a cataclysmic dark matter eruption caused by the Xarkathons as a defense trap, when entering their space system. In a turn of events, as a result of the blast radius, Marcel ended up back on his real home planet, Gaia…

The Zurg ship hauled through Gaia's atmosphere and crash-landed in a field full of sheep and cows. The Zurg and the human crawled out from the crater that the UFO had created.
Marcel saw two humans staring at him from the back door of their house, their faces so familiar, it was coming back to him! The tests, his true home! It was all clear now.

"Mum?! Dad!?" He shouted as he ran towards them. Giving them a huge hug.

A Zurg wearing a crown staggered out of the wreckage being helped by two other of the crew. The royal Zurg handed Marcel a gold metallic sash.
The alien spoke in a dialect unknown to our ears but it said "This is who you are Marcel, but don't forget what you have learnt, you can teach these Gaians so much. Fairwell my boy." The Zurg put it's hand on his shoulder then releasing its grip, turned towards the ship. Marcel and his family held each other closely as the alien ship started to shudder and remove itself from the giant hole in the Earth.

Marcel has learnt the secret of the sash and that it gives him powers unlike any normal human being. Including flight, increased strength and speed.

Realising that agriculture was no place for him, he packed his bags and left for big city, meeting Gaiaman and the other heroes at the Go Gaia Heroes League.
Gaiaman and the other respected heroes saw potential in the boy;

"You remind me of a young me!" Gaiaman said with a caring tone.
"You have the confidence, skill and will-power to go a long way Marcel."

Barton Lad is now a superhero in training, under the guidance of Gaiaman.
And would you believe he is now next inline, to inherit the superhero responsibilities when Gaiaman retires.