ATTENTION! All material described here is fictional. Any resemblence to real life events is coincidental and is not intended to be offensive.
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SECTION TWO-ONE: A new shell
The Vortex's nihilium body is complete. It "officially" finishes the building process by firing a tachyon through it, seeing it ripple through the humanoid body as its very small shine reflects off of the mild waves. Nihilium is similar to vantablack and other extremely dark substances in that it's color is just R0, G0, B0, however it still has some shine to it, albeit only when strongly illuminated.
The Vortex enters the body shell and takes control of it. Using pop-out thrusters directly below the armpits, it lifts off the ground of Titan and soars through the dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere, shifting its arms similar to an airfoil; after getting used to the body, it sets the throttle to max and heads off into an escape trajectory from the moon.
SECTION TWO-TWO: The Jovian Javelin
Humanity and The Vortex aren't alone in the Solar System. An aggressive alien species resides in the deepest cracks of Europa; they've put a large asteroid, approximately 564 km in diameter, orbiting around the icy moon. It is equipped with thrusters carefully calculated to fire it straight regardless of the non-spherical nature and irregular center of mass of the asteroid - and it's targeted directly at Earth.
The Vortex, on its way to explore the inner and outer reaches of the system, constantly upgrades its things. First was the "Direct Transportation Shifter", which allowed it to instantly shift into any vehicle for faster travel. The first of these was a powerful spaceplane capable of high speeds and agility - what would later become the SV80 - "Stormfall."
SECTION TWO-THREE: Impending Doom Approaches
The aliens fire the asteroid after finishing final calculations. It's another step to their colonization of the local systems. But the Vortex started heading to Earth more than a week earlier, and was considerably lighter due to the nihilium.
Humanity spotted and calculated the asteroid and its impact point - but it was far too late. It could eeriely be seen as a bright white speck in the otherwise usually clear night skies. It outshone Sirius with a magnitude of about -2.82.
Humanity was doomed. No preperations could save it from the massive, spiky-like rock heading at it at lightning speeds.
SECTION TWO-FOUR: SIKE
It was the 17th of November, 2021. The asteroid's thrusters ran out of fuel, and it could easily be seen during even the daytime sky. Slowly approaching in a spinning motion, an impact was guranteed within the next 3 days. Panic was greater than all of previous history combined. Everyone was frightened, even the most fierce and brave out there.
The asteroid was around 500 km away from the Karman line when scientists noticed something: A strange, bright blue line coming directly from the zenith - none other than the aforementioned Black Vortex and its spacecraft. Using a powerful winch that was attached on the bottom, it quickly released the grappler, let the rope fly out, and snatched it onto the asteroid. Overdrive throttle was applied, a breathtaking blue glow and immensely loud roar from the engines appeared and sounded: It grabbed the asteroid and chucked it away like it weighed less than a gram. It was thrown into an elliptical orbit, making it the Earth's temporary second major satellite.
The bright blue line disappeared, and the entire planet was silent - then a huge celebration broke out. But the mysteries still remain...
SECTION TWO-FIVE: Maybe it was too late?
With their prized Earth Killer weapon destroyed, the enemy extraterrestrials were furious. They immediately got on a massive combat spacecraft, with an estimated length of 5 kilometers, and flew over to the blue marble. The Black Vortex saw this, and wasn't really surprised; it and its craft had far superior weapons of it's own: namely, the Hyperspeed light-thrusters, and a trusty, pointy nose and sharp airfoils to cut things up. This combination effectively allowed it to be used as an oversized shuriken - except instead of spinning to shred, it's going to be ramming - at very fast speeds. The alien craft soon appeared on human radar, and panic ensued. But not for long, because as the alien craft was about to enter the atmosphere, the Black Vortex's now iconic blue trail was seen approaching it perpendicularly - it sliced through the alien craft, right at middle. It then turned back and slashed it a few more times. A massive explosion ensued from the last hit, which was directly at the craft's main reactor. The large pieces then entered Earth's atmosphere and started to break up from the heat. Miraculously, only 2 sailors were casualties from being crushed by the spacecraft parts, as the wreckage was directly above the Pacific Ocean.