Battle Angel
Takako “Taki” Yoshida, known by her superhero alias of Battle Angel, was a member of the British superhero team Section P in Reality Z-25 31-H. She was a friend of Kate Five's.
Description
Physical appearance
Taki was a relatively short, but highly muscular woman with Japanese feature. She kept her hair long, and had curiously green eyes. She had scars of unknown origin running down her right cheek and the right side of her chest. In battle, she wore elaborate battle armour that boosted her strength and resilience; when at rest, she favoured simple, practical clothing. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1)
Personality
Taki was tight-lipped about her troubled past, but willing to discuss it with those close to her if they asked. It had left her determined to never be anyone's slave ever again, a determination to which she applied her more generally extremely strong force of will. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1)
Powers & abilities
Battle Angel was a skilled physical fighter, able to use guns and swords as well as hold her own in bare-handed combat. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1)
Biography
Early life
Taki claimed to have “once been a slave”, and sworn never to be again thereafter.
She acted, for some time, as a superhero within Section P, the British Ministry of Defence's superhero outfit. She developed a friendship with her fellow Section P member Kate Five. Kate developed a crush on her, to which she never dared to give voice, but which Taki noticed. Despite this interest, Kate failed to ask Taki about her past, something Taki would later resent. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1) ,
Battling a possessed Kate
One evening, while patrolling the streets of Cardiff, Kate Five became possessed by an alien symbiote which amplified the darkness in her subconscious. Concealing her state, the possessed Kate returned to Section P's HQ, where she sized up her fellow team-members as potential host for further symbiotes. She honed in on Taki, whom she followed into the showers where she was heading after a workout. There, Kate revealed her monstrous hybrid form and attacker her friend. Although Taki was able to briefly injure her, Kate and the symbiote's powers combined allowed the possessed Kate to overpower Taki and assault her, planting the seed of a new alien within her. Growing within moments, the new, blue-coloured creature attempted to bond with Taki's body, but she managed to throw it off and it hid down the shower drain.
Nexus Girl then arrived on the scene, attempting to figure out what was happening between Kate and Taki, only to be taken by surprise by the new symbiote and bond with it. Kate and the black symbiote were unable to persuade the symbiotic hybrid of Nexus Girl and the blue alien to listen to them, however, with the bonded Nexi instead electing to protect Taki, whom they saw as their mother. Blasted into the next room, the symbiote-bonded Kate killed veteran Section P member Aqua Marine as she made her escape. After her disappearance, Nexus Girl and her new symbiote bond-partner pledged to remain loyal to Nexi's friends and to help them track down Kate Five and separate her from the villainous symbiote. (COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1)
When she all-too-briefly recovered her sanity thanks to Centennia, Kate worried about whether Taki would forgive her. (COMIC: Symbiote Surprise)
