Phantom

Benjamin was born in the United States in the big city of New York. He was raised for most of his early years in NYC. His father was an ex-military man and was part of the Marine Corps while his mom was your average businesswoman. His father had gotten a well-paying private protection security job for wealthy people in New York. This caused him to be gone from the house at all random times of the day and when he was not working he was resting. His mother was gone throughout most of the day and only around at night, but was usually too exhausted to even do anything. Benjamin was usually left to raise himself and teach himself what he had to know because he really had no other choice. The one thing that Benjamin can thank his dad for believing that his son should be able to defend himself, so he put him in various self-defense classes and MMA classes. Benjamin's early life was school, whatever fighting class he had next, and then whatever he wanted after that. Benjamin did excel pretty quickly in his fighting classes like it was in his genes to be good at it and school work was not all that difficult for the most part. When Benjamin was in eighth grade his parents were divorced due to his mother cheating on his father. Benjamin's dad gained custody and both moved to Los Angeles, California. His dad was able to have his job transferred to his new location, but he had more steady hours this time and was able to spend more time with Benjamin. His dad taught him a lot of military skills like how to shoot a gun and survive in different places. His dad and Benjamin became very close throughout Benjamin's high school career. When Benjamin had turned eighteen he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become a marine. He went to the Marine Academy back in New York.
Benjamin was able to get through the academy and even came out the top of his training class. It was a week before his deployment when he had received a letter to be a part of a special group of soldiers to partake in a project. Benjamin jumped at the opportunity and was sent to the base that was located on one of the isolated islands off the coast of Alaska. Benjamin was joined by four other operatives; Paul, Ash, Adrian, and Samantha. They were brought together to form the Phantom Operatives. First the training started off as much more intense combat training and soon the higher ups started performing tests on them. Questions were really not asked because when they were asked they were given the typical "it's classified" response. Eventually they were to be put through one more test. Scientists who were never named had put each of them into a separate pod and each would be put into a comatose state. Whatever these scientist did to them changed their lives forever. With being trained to be highly deadly warriors, each of them now had a superhuman power. Benjamin of course had the healing factor that led to his increased bone density and became the leader of the group. Paul was the tanks of the group given super strength and durability, Ash was a technopath, Adrian could phase through abiotic objects, and Samantha was able to turn invisible. Each member was given the same type of uniform that Benjamin currently uses as Phantom. The group would be sent on multiple missions around the world that were just too dangerous or impossible for regular soldiers.
One mission they were sent on would be their last. They were sent to go and destroy an enemy base and all personnel in it. They of course followed their orders and did so. It was an easy mission for the group. As they were in the communications room of the base after finishing off the last enemy soldier an image appeared up on the screens. It was a dark figure that could not be seen and had his voice disguised. It was obvious who it was after the explanation that was given. The man had said that this group was growing to be too powerful and they had to be terminated for the future protection of their country. A timer with just a minute left then appeared onto the screen. Ash thought he would be able to turn off the bomb, but they had planned for it and his powers were of little use to it. Each rushed out to get to try to get to a safe distance away from the base. They had just about ten seconds when they made it outside and then it blew up. The shock wave of the explosion was easily big enough to kill both Ash and Samantha. Adrian was lucky enough to phase through the explosion, Paul was saved by his durability, and Benjamin had grown to be durable at this point and had his healing factor to help.
The three were left in what seemed to be an endless desert. A couple of days of wandering throughout the desert they were able to make it to a small town that was somewhere in the Middle East. Eventually they were able to find a way to make their way into Europe working as mercenaries. By doing this they were able to scrounge up enough money to make a flight to Alaska so that they could find the base. Their luck ended in vain as the facility they had been brought to no longer existed. At that point each decided to part ways with each other to search separate parts of the world for the organization that did this to them even though they had very little to work with. Adrian would head back to Europe, Paul would go down to South America, and Benjamin would stay in the states. Each agreed to stay in contact in case they ever found the organization. That was about ten years ago now and still nothing. Benjamin moved back to LA, but stood away from family to not get them in danger. He continues to work as a gun for hire around the states mainly.