If you wish to know about the MALAKAS Project, go to Timothy Soro's entry here for more info about the project.

Note: This is one in the line of Christmas gifts in 2021, enjoy

Description:
Dane, occasionally nicknamed Fushigidane, hailed from a Japanese family of reptiles residing in a rural town in Thailand. He was pretty much a young yet adequately competent athlete in few certain sports, especially in swimming, nothing else interesting or serious to say. However, all that would change when he accidentally stumbled into a box of bodybuilding magazines. In 2012, he moved out into Bangkok to live with his two friends named Tao and Slate, in order to pursue his new goal: to become a bodybuilder. Tao and Slate also had the same goal, but it was developed much earlier because they just received a box of bodybuilding magazines from a former local bodybuilding champion. However, the trio also had another persuit, and that was in college, even if they couldn't become bodybuilders on a short run.

Over four years, the trio worked out quite enough to become ripped with muscles, with only Tao being a more noticeable and bigger bodybuilder, and they had also finished college with flying colors in athletic fields. Around the same year, and that was 2016, the trio was shopping around a local mall in search for the new exercise equipment, when they had an encounter with the group of American bodybuilder-like tourists. They had a first impression of those tourists as nothing more than their big but arrogant counterparts who enjoyed showing off their muscles, taunting anyone, and even making inappropriate acts towards anyone they wanted. Apparently, the tourists noticed the trio and did their usual thing like taunting the latter, but they grew tired of that and instead complimented the muscles the trio went through building, much to the trio's surprise. The leader of the group, named Clark Santa Domingo the Komodo dragon, brought the trio into the hotel room to simply explain how Clark and his groupmates became big. He revealed almost detail about the MALAKAS Project, such as requirements to join, rules, conditions, goals, benefits, ranks, instructors, higher-ups, etc. However, Dane and Slate yawned out of boredom and Tao fell asleep, which annoyed the tourist group, but Clark understandingly assumed that the trio took a lot of effort to become muscular and so Clark had to cut it down to a shorter explanation, which was enough to entice the trio. Dane agreed to have himself and his friends signed up for the MALAKAS Project, and was given a week to prepare for their departure.

Dane and his two friends would then fly to San Francisco in the US and head straight into its nearby city of Santo Tomas, where they would spend another week in a motel, with money provided by Clark back in Bangkok. Afterwards, the trio hitched a ride on a bus into the mountain base in a mile away from Santo Tomas. They had arrived at the mountain base two hours after the Filipino bird and the Singaporean cat entered the perimeter, they were then greeted by Timothy Soro (the current instructor until late December 2020). Dane was the only one of the trio, who was familiar with the big brown fox, given the history that the latter paid Dane for very few commissions quite recently. While the trio was acceptable entries for the MALAKAS Project, Timothy Soro noted how muscular the former three looked and required them to undertake a physical exam, so as to see whether they carried genes from a Todeswurm earworm venom or not, and they passed the physical exam as they lacked the said genes.

Timothy Soro couldn't be able to put himself in charge of the trio, as he had other recruits including the forementioned Singaporean cat, so he instead had his dingo friend Diego look after the trio. However, Tao would have to take less training due to being bigger and more muscular than Dane and Slate, but he was allowed to assist them whenever he wanted. In span of few months until their end as Super Soldiers with their temporary Juggernaut rank, Dane and Slate began to learn weapons and skills akin to those of a ninja, but wierdly enough, Dane took an interest in wielding one or two Buster swords and Slate felt more familiar with Fūma Shuriken or giant throwing stars. Tao on the other hand remained the same, skill and hobby wise, besides being a Super Soldier measuring 10ft tall. However, Dane and Slate's new developments and ranks as Super Soldiers were put into the test when they encountered a patrol group of five hostile Brisa Creek beavers, whose weapons consisted of steel beams and boulders, and whose bodies were equivalent to that of a Super Soldier, just at the training grounds. Those beavers were very agile in dodging projectiles and punches, so Dane and Slate resorted to stealth tactics to force the former to drop their guard down and to allow Tao to strike them down. Most of the beaver patrol was down and one still active beaver turned to his phone to request backup, but immediately witnessed more Soldiers and Super Soldiers backing up the reptile trio, forcing the beavers to retreat down the mountain. Unbeknownst to everyone involved, the higher-ups were watching from the helipad hanging onto the taller mountain, unsurprised they highlighted how closer Brisa Creek was encroaching the mountain base and decided to inform the mayor about that incident.

Despite such incidents, the trio moved on until December 25th, where everyone around the mountain base were celebrating Christmas Eve. Timothy Soro gathered up his friends in a fastfood restaurant, including Diego Dagdag, EJ Spenser, Wilbur Wallaby, Christopher North, Patih Jantung, Jay Heartwing, Hector "Sonic" Vidal, the reptile trio, Peri Longfox, Krister Gudilibat, and EJ Husky. The Christmas party consisted of many enjoyable games, film showings, buffet tables of various foods and drinks, etc. Overall, it lasted two hours until midnight, and then there would be another two hours of more activities past midnight, but some opted to retire and sleep.

A week later, Dane, Tao and Slate were honorably discharged from the mountain base, but before their departure, Dane held a private meeting with Timothy and Diego regarding a potential expansion of the MALAKAS Project into Southeast Asia. Timothy recalled about the said project almost completing its Mexican branch and then planning for more branches in few US states, Southwestern Canada and Northern Germany. So Diego simplified Timothy's explanation by replying 'Not yet, maybe there will be around the corner next year or two,' but also suggested forming a gym as an unofficial outpost for the MALAKAS Project, which could allow bodybuilder-like tourists to recruit potential people much quicker. And so the trio did, by buying enough exercise equipment, they had founded their new gym back in their rural town, opening up another destination for American tourists.

Dane owned by  Fushigidane

MALAKAS Project 2021:
Diego Dagdag (Alt) || Vani Miller (Alt) || Jack Switcher (Alt) || Eddison Wulven (Alt) || Shadow ??? and Sam Drogon (Alt) || Danzig and Dax Tesla (Alt) || Olivia Preuß (Alt) || Ella and Sophia Clementine (Alt) || Ryan McNeil (Alt) || Cal V. Ferguson (Alt) || Gotham Parish (Alt) || Lucas Y.T. Fox and Shinx Quell (Alt) || Jack and Jeff Joltson (Alt) || Arthur Husk (Alt) || Barlbatzz Dragoroyale and Fang Slade (Alt) || Shane Redneck (Alt) || Rex Kaipara-Drogon (Alt) || Timothy Soro's Classmates [Athletes (U/N)] || Manuel Fuchs (Alt) || Blaze Rodriguez (Alt) || Michelle Krysler (Alt) || Blasmo Crux (Alt) || Ned and Val Katzenminze (Alt) || Errol James Spenser (Alt) || Robin Erwington Hood III (Alt) || Samuel Husky || Christopher North (Alt) || Patih Jantung (Alt) || Jay Heartwing (Alt) || Dane Wungweiyn Fushigi (Alt) || Hector "Sonic" Vidal (Alt) || Peri Longfox (Alt SFW) || Krister Gudilibat (Alt SFW) || Elijah "EJ" Husky (Alt SFW)

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