MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

What happens when one of G.U.A.R.D.’s PORTALGUARD engineers decides that teleportation should not remain locked away inside massive fixed-site systems? In Aaron Sanders’ case, it led to one of the most dangerous breakthroughs of his life — and the birth of a new Aeroguardian known as Expeditor.

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Aaron Sanders was once considered one of the most promising minds in applied portal sciences. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a doctorate in interdimensional engineering and spatial physics, Sanders helped design several of the large-scale portal systems later adopted by G.U.A.R.D. for controlled teleportation between secured locations around the world. Those systems were monumental achievements, but Aaron wanted more. He wanted mobility. He wanted immediacy. He wanted a portal system that could be carried into disaster zones, battlefield extractions, and impossible rescue operations.

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That obsession led him to create a portable portal generator unlike anything G.U.A.R.D. had ever fielded. Mounted within a highly intricate backpack rig, the device can project a circular portal up to twenty feet in diameter, usually opening either five feet in front of him or five feet behind him. In theory, it allows rapid transport of personnel, civilians, or equipment to a designated GPS-derived location anywhere on Earth.

In practice, the system is wildly unstable. Even at its best, the pack is only partially understood by the man who built it.

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That is Aaron Sanders’ deepest secret.

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Though he presents himself as the device’s master and public face, Sanders understands only a fraction of the pack’s true operating principles. Hidden beneath layers of engineering jargon and experimental hardware is an ugly truth: the device works through a fusion of advanced science and forces bordering on technomagic. Aaron can calibrate it, maintain it, and push it into operation — but he does not truly comprehend why it works as often as it does. He estimates his own understanding at barely twenty percent, and he has no intention of admitting that to G.U.A.R.D., his teammates, or anyone else.

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For years, Aaron’s career was marked by failed prototypes, damaged credibility, and poor personal decisions that bled into his private life. His marriage collapsed under the pressure of obsession, professional instability, and emotional distance. His ex-wife, Tina Bowen Sanders, was awarded custody of their son, Jack. Since then, Aaron has been haunted by one driving need: to become the kind of man his son can admire and the kind of father a court might trust again.

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That need, more than fame or science, is what pushed him over the line.

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Using one of the Aeroguardians’ Search and Rescue suits as a base, Sanders secretly modified the armor, redesigned its power architecture, and integrated his portable portal pack into the frame. The result was a suit built for high-risk insertion, emergency extraction, and impossible saves. It was reckless. It was unauthorized. It was exactly the kind of thing that should have gotten him removed from the program entirely.

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Instead, it saved lives.

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Aeroguardian initially viewed Sanders as a liability — brilliant, unstable, and far too eager to gamble with forces he clearly did not respect enough. But on three separate missions, Aaron threw himself into lethal danger to save teammates and civilians, nearly dying each time. Those actions changed the conversation. Whatever his flaws, whatever secrets he kept, Aaron Sanders had proven one thing beyond question: when lives are on the line, he runs toward the disaster.

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Now operating as Expeditor, Aaron has become one of the Aeroguardians’ most unconventional field assets. He is not their strongest member, nor their most disciplined, nor their most reliable in a technical sense. But when a team needs a path through fire, flood, collapse, or chaos, Expeditor creates one — even if it nearly kills him in the process.

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He has already saved more than fifty lives with the portal pack.

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He also knows, deep down, that it is only a matter of time before the machine takes him somewhere he cannot come back from.

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