Charles Little SkyPortal

The mutant Portal travels to and from other dimensions, and joins the Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response (A.R.M.O.R.) as its director, where he defends his home reality from interdimensional threats.

Mutant First, Armor Second

In his late teenage years, Charles Little Sky discovers he is a mutant who can open portals to other dimensions. Fleeing his reservation home, Charles becomes a construction worker at Ellis Island, New York. The tribe’s mystical champion Thomas Fireheart, AKA Puma, comes to retrieve Charles so they could teach him how to use his powers, but Charles panics and opens a portal to the Crossroads dimension, returning the formerly exiled U-Foes villains to Earth. The U-Foes try to kill Charles to keep from being sent back, but Puma and the Avengers defend him; Charles ultimately steps through another portal to escape Puma. Spending months wandering through dimensions, unable to discern the pathway back to Earth, Charles starts collecting weapons to defend himself against locals.

While in the Asta dimension, Charles was attacked by Kistur, part of a gang of criminal Mahari who wanted Charles’ powers for their plots. Kistur had somehow obtained the armor of The Fraternity of Raptors, who could replace their mortal bodies with an armored android form using a crystal embedded in the armor’s chest. Charles fought back against Kistur and shot the crystal out of his armor, killing the android body. Charles took the armor’s remains and dubbed himself “Portal.” 

Name of the Game

The mutant Portal can open interdimensional warps to other dimensions, alternate realities, or other locations in his own universe. 

Portal is a skilled motorcyclist and combatant with an affinity for extraterrestrial weaponry. 

Portal wears protective armor with life support systems capable of survival in a vacuum and has a telepathic bond to Christopher “Chris” Powell, AKA Darkhawk (and possibly other Raptors). His personal armaments have included: an energy harpoon gun that can unleash concussive force blasts able to level an office building; a smaller hand blaster with stun and lethal settings; a gun that fires a fast-hardening adhesive; the Wheel explosive throwing disc that can separate into independent components; a so-called “powerjack” (a blackjack surrounded by an energy field) in his left gauntlet; a vibra-pod that encases targets inside a force field; a degravpod that generates anti-gravity beams; an energy-based Veluvian lariat; knockout gas grenades; and several lines of Berldundian wire for tying opponents. He also possesses a directional mechanism that orients his travels between dimensions.

Adversaries

Charles’s ability to open portals to other planes of existence leads him to his earliest antagonists, such as the U-Foes and Kitsur. Charles fights Kistur, and in the process, destroys his foe and takes his armor for himself.

Allies in Armor

With a telepathic connection to Darkhawk, the pair first find themselves going up against each other, but ultimately team-up against their mutual enemies, such as the U-Foes and the Mahari from the Asta dimension. 

Joining the interdimensional defense agency A.R.M.O.R. as its director, Charles offers his portal power as transportation to and from his home reality, Earth-616. He sometimes joins A.R.M.O.R. agents on missions, and other times, leaves them to conduct missions on their own. For example, he takes Jocasta and Machine Man to Reality-2149 where zombies reign supreme, so that they can secure an item to save their world from an undead infestation.

Interdimensional Traveler’s Log

Over time, Portal amassed weapons from dimensions including Berld, Klengar, R’ndll and Veluvia. Finally, in the S’zell dimension he obtained a directional mechanism that allowed him to orient his travels. Opening an aperture to Earth, Portal was startled to be met by Chris Powell, a teenager who had recently obtained a Raptor’s armor and dubbed Darkhawk. Mistaking him for another Mahari, Portal attacked Darkhawk but was defeated and arrested by federal officers. The U-Foes heard of Charles’ return and tried to capture him, but Darkhawk saved him; Charles escaped custody through another portal, leaving his armor behind.

Charles soon returned for his armor, but the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants had Karl Lykos, AKA Sauron, briefly place Portal under their hypnotic control, until Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, Darkhawk and Sleepwalker restored him to normal. 

Returning to interdimensional travel, Portal found the Mahari wanted him dead. Turning to Darkhawk for help, Darkhawk agreed to handle the Mahari if Portal would defend Manhattan while he was gone. Portal complied, but the Mahari ultimately revived Kistur’s remains by fashioning their own Raptor armor called Overhawk. Overhawk attempted to eradicate the Earth in retaliation for Portal’s actions, but Portal and Darkhawk destroyed him. 

Years later, Charles became director of A.R.M.O.R., an intelligence agency whose jurisdiction is interdimensional threats. During his time as director, Charles has clashed with Reality-2149’s zombies and recruited Reality-8009’s Lyra, AKA She-Hulk, as one of his agents. He occasionally donned his Portal armor in the field.