Marcquise “Keese” Eazel
General Facts
Age: 17
Grade: 12
Gender: M
School: Unnamed Los
Angeles High School
Occupation
High School Student
Former Battler
Former Part-time UNITY Agent
Appearances
Regular Titles: Books 1–17, 19–21, 24–30, 32–37, and 40
Super Battlers: All
Books Narrated
Regular Titles: Books 5, 12, 19, 27, and 35
Super Battlers: All (Alternated with the other Battlers)
Immediate Family
Maurice Eazel, Jr.
(father)
Terre Jones Eazel Kukawski (mother)
Paul “Ski” Kukawski (stepfather,
married to Terre)
Anita Baldwin
Eazel (stepmother, married to Maurice, Jr.)
Maurice
Eazel III (older brother)
Monique
“Mo” Eazel (younger sister)
Morgan Eazel (younger
half-brother by Maurice,
Jr.)
Madison Eazel (younger
half-sister by Maurice,
Jr.)
Precious Kukawski (younger half-sister by Terre)
Brandon Kukawski (younger half-brother by Terre)
Unborn Half-Brother or Half-Sister (by Terre, miscarried)
Maurice “Maury”
Eazel IV (nephew by Maurice
III)
Character Summary
Nicknamed “Keese,” Marcquise
Eazel isn’t a normal black
teenager. He was once the Orange Battler, the joker of the team. He and his
older brother, Maurice, were the only
two members who actually embraced becoming Battlers. Keese’s comical exterior
conceals a kind, gentle interior. He often ridiculed his friend, Aaron
Rountree, because of his weight. Keese is now living with his father, Maurice, Jr., in Los Angeles, California,
but Maurice still lives with their
mother, Terre, who recently divorced their white stepfather, Ski. Other family
members include their younger sister, Monique,
and their two younger half-siblings, Precious and Brandon.
Keese was next in command of the Battlers after J.J.
Rountree, the former White Battler. He finally got to act as leader in Book
5, when Deyon, Maurice, and J.J. were kidnapped by the Mutant Guerrillas while
trying to protect Matthew
Henson in the Arctic.
He led Aaron, Shauna,
and Diahandra to where they were being held after leading them through
encounters with polar bears and a mutant seal named Sealicon.
In Super Battlers 1, he and the other Battlers met his
soon-to-be-ultimate-enemy, Chief Manhunter, and the Killer Beaver tribe and
were locked up in their food storage hut by them. This happened on their
journey to find the Garrison
Crystal, a crystal powerful enough
to get them back to their time.
In Book 12, he accepted a challenge from Chief Manhunter to participate in a
manhunt in the Killer Beavers’ home realm, Beaveron. While there, he and the
other Battlers had to fight their way through terrible monsters native to the
realm. He was separated from the others when he was abducted by an eaglelike
creature, but he found them again and led them in their dramatic escape from
Beaveron. He found out in Super Battlers #2, after finding out that Chief
Manhunter was controlling every citizen in town, that the man-eating chief
still held a grudge against him for making him lose his first manhunt and that
he’d been made the chief’s prime target.
Keese, Maurice, J.J.,
and Aaron were kidnapped in Book 24
while planning Aaron’s surprise
birthday. The perpetrator was none other than Pestilence Vermin, who’d
approached as a friend but was an enemy all along. His goal was to exact
revenge on Deyon for killing Evilla, whom he’d trained in using dark magic for
months. Fortunately, they were all saved and Vermin was killed in battle by
Deyon.
In Book 25, Keese
became suspicious of Dan
Simmons, a homeless man Maurice
met. His suspicions were confirmed when he found out he was from a homeless
shelter that had been shut down long ago. His suspicions were further confirmed
after Dan kidnapped Maurice and his date, Vivian
DiCapa, after revealing he was a werewolf. Keese and the other Battlers
(except J.J. and Aaron, who were out of town) rescued him, but while trying to
save Vivian, Fenrir Lupus, the leader of the Clan of the Cave Wolves, caught
them and tried to eat them. But the boys battled him and almost beat him. Vivian saved the day by knocking him out — and she
revealed that she knew who Keese, Jon,
and Maurice were. Since then, she’s
been their ally.
In Book 26, he
helped J.J. fight Predator in what
seemed to be the final battle between Gatora and Crocoa. He was impaled by his
own spear while trying to attack Predator — his wife, Queen
Scala, stopped his attack and
pointed his spear at him.
In Book 27, while
celebrating Thanksgiving with his friends and family, Keese was kidnapped by
Predator, who’d returned to town with his baby son, Fangorus, to exact his
revenge on J.J. for killing Queen Scala.
Predator took Keese to his new ally, Chief Manhunter, so that he could become
the chief’s Thanksgiving dinner. Keese escaped them by using a clever ploy to
tempt Predator into eating him. When it worked, Keese ran from them until he
found the DiCapa mansion. After asking Vivian
for her help in escaping from them, she, too, ended up running from them when
Predator and Chief Manhunter found them and agreed on each having half of her
for Thanksgiving dinner.
Keese and Vivian escaped to their city’s zoo, but Chief
Manhunter and Predator found them and combined their magic to lift three pumas
out of their exhibit and send one after them. Keese fought the puma and, after
defeating it, sealed it in his weapon. Then, he and Vivian
escaped to a cabin in the mountains that Ski had bought for Terre on their last
anniversary. But the Deadly Duo (that’s what Predator and Chief Manhunter now
called themselves) found them and took them back to the New Killer Beaver Village,
where the chief and the other Killer Beavers now lived. When the other Battlers
arrived to rescue them, Chief Manhunter swallowed Keese. But it wasn’t until
more than a minute later that Keese burst out using his newly-sealed puma and
knocked him unconscious with a Rock Cannon. That took care of the chief. But
Predator was still bold. He grabbed Vivian
and tried to escape with her, but the Battlers stopped him, as well, and saved Vivian. And after all that was over, Keese and
Maurice found out that their mother was
pregnant for the sixth time ever!
The next day, Vivian came by to thank Keese, and before long, the
two of them ended up in a kiss, which Maurice
saw. He immediately broke off his relationship with Vivian
and he and Keese were suddenly on the outs.
In Book 28, Keese
became more and more desperate to set things right with Maurice,
but his brother refused to hear anything he had to say. He tried (off-page)
using his mother’s newly-discovered pregnancy to bond with Maurice, but it didn’t work. After trying to use a
heartfelt apology to Maurice also
failed, he confronted his brother and ordered him to stop being so stubborn. A
fight ensued between them, and when their mother tried to stop them, Maurice accidentally pushed her down the stairs,
which caused her to miscarry as soon as she was rushed to the hospital. Deyon
and Jon forced a
reconciliation between them when they locked the two brothers in a
bathroom stall together. The two of them made up, and Maurice
got back together with Vivian. And
they were kidnapped by Goril
Primus, DiCapa’s new killing machine, after that. But Aaron
saved them seconds before the elevator he trapped them in plummeted to the
ground (the cables holding it up were breaking).
In Book 29, Keese
and Maurice had a lot to deal with —
Ski wanted almost nothing to do with them because of their part in Terre’s
miscarriage. Things were made worse when they and the others were kidnapped by
Polar Tundros, also known as “the
Gamester,” and his penguin cohort, Funguin
Waddlesworth, after they filled Deyon’s house with sleeping gas. They were
taken to their Palace
of Fun and forced to play
deadly games in order to rescue Santa Claus and his toys. He lost in the fifth
game, Rolling Blunder, when Gamester cheated and turned his boxcars roll into a
snake-eyes roll. His loss came on the heels of Deyon, Maurice,
and J.J.’s losses, making him the fourth Battler to lose. Aaron
followed in the next game. All of them were turned into game pieces, but Jon rescued them when he defeated Gamester, with the
help of Funguin, who turned on his master.
In Book 30, which
took place during the boys’ adventure in Book 25, Keese popped up briefly via a
communication with Shauna. He told her
about Maurice’s Internet romance with Monique, talked about a few other things, and then
left.
In Super Battlers 3,
while celebrating New Year’s Eve with his friends, Keese, the other Battlers, Vivian, and Monique
were magically transported to Dare
Island to compete in a
tournament organized by the island’s ruler, Bin Dare, a powerful sorcerer.
After being with Shauna and Diahandra,
they found out that their opponents were their ultimate enemies. If they won
their fights, they got to live. But their ultimate enemies would achieve their
long-awaited goals of eating them — and they wouldn’t be able to escape because
their stomachs were magically shielded by Dare’s magic to foil any attempt to
get out before they were digested.
Keese was split up
from the other Battlers with Diahandra, and they faced off against her two ultimate
enemies, Ursa Infernus
and Teddy Volcanis. They were defeated easily. But
after they were defeated, they were forced to fight his
own ultimate enemy, Chief Manhunter. They were no match for his psychic
powers. Keese ended up losing his fight when he was thrown out of the arena
with a telekinetic attack. The hungry chief scarfed him down quickly, leaving
Diahandra alone to beat her, which she did. But Keese escaped (off-page) by
using his Villager Powers of elasticity to reach up the chief’s throat and
touch the sensitive part in the back of his mouth and thus get thrown up. He
saved the other Battlers from a deadly spell Dare was casting on them to kill
them and helped them take him down. As a result of their victory, they were all
sent back home again.
In Book 32, Keese
and the other Battlers met new friends Richard Montgomery
and James “Jay” Dixon, two agents visiting from UNITY’s West Coast Branch in Los Angeles. They were
assigned to rescue another agent named Miranda Hawkins, who was being held
prisoner by DiCapa. After an attempt to rescue her failed, Richard and Jay
ended up being kidnapped by Albert
Labinnac. This was because DiCapa
saw how well they fought against his henchmen. They used a sleepover being held
by DiCapa’s son, Phil, to infiltrate
the mansion and save their friends. But DiCapa, who’d been about to use a very
potent truth serum on Richard and Jay to drive the Battlers’ identities out of
them, Keese drank it instead, thinking it was a cool drink. Under the influence
of the fast-working truth serum, he spilled the identities of every Battler
except Deyon, and with that, the days of secrecy were officially over.
In Book 33, Keese
and the others dealt with Les
B. Ian,
who’d returned to town on DiCapa’s payroll. When he kidnapped Deyon, Maurice, and J.J.
and tried to kill them, Keese cleverly set him up for the Deadly Duo to eat
Les. Predator was the one to eat him, though. Either way, Les was dead, gone,
and never coming back. But he suffered a terrible tragedy when Maurice was put into a coma by DiCapa in reaction to
him getting Vivian pregnant the night
of the sleepover (in Book 32).
In Book 34, Predator
kidnapped Deyon, Keese, Aaron, and Jon when J.J.
refused to give him back Fangorus, whom he’d accidentally left with him the previous
day. The only ransom was bringing Fangorus back to Predator and turning himself
over to him. Aaron was turned against
J.J. when he showed up to rescue them at an old homeless shelter with Richard and Jay
to help him. Predator used his magic to make him and the other Battlers fight
him. They won and prepared J.J. to be
eaten by Predator. But Aaron broke
free of Predator’s trance when he saw him take bite after bite out of his
brother. After they were freed from the spell, Predator battled the five remaining
Battlers (Maurice was still in his
coma) and ate Keese, Jon, Aaron, and Deyon. But they were rescued because of a
Crocoan poison J.J. tricked Predator
into ingesting. They were coughed up and Predator was killed from ingesting the
poison.
In Book 35, Keese
and the other Battlers learned that J.J.
had been kidnapped by DiCapa and imprisoned in a secret location. Things got
worse when DiCapa sent Deyon an E-mail stating that Aaron
would be his next target. The next morning, the bad things kept on coming when
all of sudden, on the way to school, the driver of Keese and Deyon’s school bus
suddenly got sick and crashed the bus. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but it was
still very strange. It was even stranger when a sudden outbreak occurred at
their school when the majority of the faculty and staff suddenly fell ill — the
white majority. Keese and the other Battlers quickly deduced that it was
DiCapa who’d made it happen. He’d used a poison he’d stolen months before (in
Book 24) to poison anybody who was fifty- to one-hundred-percent white.
While helping get
victims to the hospital, Keese realized all too quickly that two of the victims
could include Precious and Brandon and
rushed home to see if they had in fact been infected. Unfortunately, they had, and
they were sent to the hospital, as well. Ski himself fell
victim to the poison during an argument with Terre over Maurice
and Keese and their part in her miscarriage.
Desperate to find a
solution to the problem and save his half-siblings’
lives, Keese and Jon went on a
reconnaissance mission to DiCapa’s home office, where they found notes
containing his plans to put some poison into a reservoir in Washington, D.C.,
the following night and decimate all Caucasians in the tri-country area. They
quickly left to alert the others and unwittingly missed the chance to rescue J.J., who was locked in DiCapa’s secret panic room
hidden in the office. Deyon decided that the Battlers would attack DiCapa and
stop him in his tracks, but he ordered Aaron
to stay out of it since he was DiCapa’s next victim.
Before meeting the
other Battlers up in Washington,
Keese had one thing to do beforehand — face Chief Manhunter in their final
challenge. He’d been challenged to one last fight the day before to a
winner-take-all battle. The winner would live and the loser would die. (In Keese’s
case, get eaten.) So he met the chief at a basketball court and faced him in
their final fight. Using his physical strength and his Battler Animals alone
didn’t prove to be enough and Keese was nearly defeated very easily. Just as
Chief Manhunter got the upper hand and almost devoured Keese, he broke free and
used a piece of advice given to him the previous night by Jay — that sometimes,
even the best fighters go into battle without thinking. So he didn’t think
about his next attacks so that Chief Manhunter’s psychic abilities would do
nothing to help himself. He finally gained the
advantage and defeated Chief Manhunter with a Landslide attack. But instead of
killing the evil Killer Beaver chief, Keese decided to let him live. Chief
Manhunter promised to leave Keese alone forever and he vanished.
With his ultimate
enemy finally defeated, Keese joined the other Battlers up in Washington and
prepared to stop DiCapa from killing the Caucasians. They were nearly eaten by
Labinnac, who’d been sicced on them because they all sneezed when pepper was
thrown on them, but they were saved by Aaron,
who made a surprise appearance against orders. Then, they went up to the top of
the reservoir and stopped DiCapa’s plan instantly by first burning up the
potion with a fire spell from Jon and then blowing the resulting gas away with
a wind spell from Aaron.
DiCapa refused to go
down easily, though. He quickly took out a gun and shot Keese up until he had
no choice but to leave his Battler form. As soon as he did, DiCapa hit him with
a dart that contained a powerful, paralysis-inducing drug. So Keese was quickly
paralyzed and put out of action indefinitely. But the other Battlers quickly
set off to find the antidote in DiCapa’s office building when they found out it
was there.
Insult was added to
injury in Book 36 when Keese found out that his mother was getting a divorce
from Ski because he refused to stop treating Keese, Maurice, and Monique
unfairly for her miscarriage — especially since Monique didn’t even do
anything. But his spirits were picked when he found out that Shauna and Diahandra had returned to town. Things got
even better when the others managed to get the antidote to his paralysis and
start distributing it to him.
Keese was fully
cured of his paralysis in Book 37. He got to witness the returns of Maurice and J.J.,
thanks to Jon winning two of
Gamester’s deadly games on his own. He was released from UNITY’s custody and
was able to go home again. It was after all eight Battlers had reunited that
they learned what their next challenge would be — stopping DiCapa from
going after the President of the United States.
In Book 40, Keese
and the other Battlers put a risky scheme in motion when they snuck into the
White House to protect the President. The mission was successful as the
Battlers nipped DiCapa’s attack in the bud by finding out that he’d planned to
have himself smuggled into the President’s Oval Office in a box addressed to
him. Unfortunately, although the Battlers’ plan to stop DiCapa succeeded, an
unfortunate thing happened — using a very clever ploy, DiCapa managed to unmask
Shauna and Diahandra, finally learning
their secret identities. He had Albert
Labinnac, his right-hand man, take a picture of each of them before they escaped.
From there, it was
utter chaos for the Battlers. Keese and Maurice were attacked in their home by
DiCapa Enterprises guards sent to kidnap the Battlers in order for DiCapa to
unmask them to the public, as he’d promised to do in a statement to the press.
While Keese managed to keep himself from getting kidnapped, he couldn’t save
his brother from suffering the same fate. Ski was also a casualty of the attack
as he was badly beaten by the guards. He later found out that he, Deyon, and J.J. were the only Battlers who weren’t taken.
Just as they were
getting ready to give up, Keese, Deyon, and J.J.
came up with an “eye for an eye” plan — DiCapa planned to expose the Battlers,
so it was time to expose him right back. They went to Chief
Marshall Anderson, the Chief of
UNITY, to get his help in exposing DiCapa by getting all UNITY agents
infiltrating the press.
The three Battlers
headed to the DiCapa
Enterprises Office
Building and made their way
toward the roof to face DiCapa and save their friends, but while waiting for an
elevator to take them there, J.J., who
had a cold, sneezed. Unfortunately, the elevator door had opened up at that
time, revealing that Labinnac was on it. J.J.’s sneeze had triggered his
psychotic cannibal mode. He attacked J.J.
and tried to eat him, but after a bout of violent sneezing, J.J. unintentionally revealed a surprising secret
about Labinnac. There was a chip in his head that controlled his cannibalistic
impulses, and J.J.’s sneezing had
short-circuited and destroyed it. Thankful to be freed from the chip’s control,
Labinnac decided to sever all ties with DiCapa and got the three Battlers to
the roof without anymore interruption. However, as soon as the Battlers got to
the roof, Keese and J.J. were captured
by some of DiCapa’s guards and were forced to join their already-kidnapped
friends. Then, they learned that DiCapa had already been waiting for them there
and was waiting out the last thirty minutes before the press arrived so that he
could reveal the Battlers’ identities on live TV.
Keese and the other
Battlers then watched as Deyon, who needed time to distract DiCapa so that the
UNITY agents posing as the press could get there, engaged in the final battle
against DiCapa that resulted in Deyon getting shot eight times after his
Battler Crystal powered down on him, returning him to his normal form. But he
and the others also watched as Deyon made a miraculous recovery when he used a
Crystal Advance, a phenomenon only possible when a Battler Crystal has obtained
and used so much power in previous battles that it is ready to advance to the
next level — the Battler Emerald. So after Deyon’s crystal shifted its shape
into that of an emerald, Keese and the others watched as he used his new
Battler Emerald to assume his new Battler form.
It was all downhill
from there. Deyon defeated DiCapa with his brand-new physical abilities and
powerful new spells to defeat DiCapa. But just as Deyon was about to slice
DiCapa open after all the hell he’d put the Battlers through, Susan jumped in the way and Deyon ended up slicing her, instead. The attack was fatal and Susan died almost instantly. DiCapa became so
enraged, he went off on Deyon, shouting out every crime he’d committed and how
much he wished he’d done them to him and the other Battlers. Unfortunately, the
UNITY agents masquerading as the press showed up, captured his confession on
camera, and broadcast it live to every single television in the country.
DiCapa, knowing he’d
be going down, anyway, decided to try and make light of the situation by
revealing the Battlers’ identities as planned. He tried to tear Deyon’s helmet
(which was part of his new Battler costume) off his head, but Deyon tore
himself away. Unfortunately, he pulled away a bit too hard because DiCapa’s
momentum sent him barreling over the edge of his thirty-story building and
plummeting to his death. With DiCapa now dead, the war against him and the
Battlers was now over, and Keese and the other Battlers were released from
working with UNITY. With their work finally done (at least for now), Keese and
the others headed for home, ready to go on with their lives.
In Super Battlers 4,
Deyon led Keese and the other Battlers on a journey to a new world — the realm
of Magicia. The mission was to locate the Exchanger — mace with the power to
exchange the magic powers of two different individuals or simply transfer the
power of one mage to one with no magic. They would then use the mace to
transfer J.J.’s powers to anyone he chose. And after a long journey that
included being captured by Killer Beavers, a reunion with the Mutant
Guerrillas, who’d been in hiding in Magicia to get stronger, an encounter with
some Magician rams known as Ramblings, and a harrowing battle with a
fire-breathing dragon, Keese and the other Battlers found the Exchanger on top
of a mountain known as Mount Cagim and brought it back to Earth with them.
However, Keese was
harboring a devastating secret. One that he thought would really hurt the other
Battlers. It was all thanks to advice from Chief Manhunter and Maurice that Keese found the courage to tell the
others his secret, which he did the next day.
The next day, after
J.J. revealed his chosen replacement — Richard — Keese then revealed his secret
to all — like J.J., he, too, was leaving town because after scoring high in an
intelligence test, he was not only recommended to jump right from his sophomore
year to his senior year, but also to transfer to a high school in Los Angeles
with an accelerated learning program. The Battlers, who weren’t as hurt as
Keese had feared they would be, then used the
Exchanger to transfer J.J.’s powers to Richard
and Keese’s to his chosen replacement
— Jay. After that was done, graduation
followed a few days later, followed by J.J.
and Keese’s departure from town the very next morning after an emotional
goodbye from the other Battlers.
During his time as a
Battler, Keese’s archenemy was Bully Frog, Evilla’s mutant bullfrog, whose
lethal weapon is his tongue. He’s used it to devour Keese on several separate
occasions. In Book 19, he switched bodies with him, as did the other
Battlers with their own archenemies, thanks to a spell cast by Felix Reciproco.
Keese’s ultimate enemy was formerly revealed to be Chief Manhunter,
who’d made it his goal to devour him and the other Battlers. Their rivalry
finally ended in Book 35, but Chief Manhunter still has his sights set on
devouring the other Battlers — along with everyone and everything else on
Earth!
Keese was the Mountain Battler and wielded the Battler Mountain Spear. It’s
used to inflict powerful mountain-type damage on foes. His Battler Animals,
which are now under Jay’s control,
were Headstrong, a magical ram living in his spear, and Wildcat, his
recently-captured puma, which he sealed in Book 27. He drove the Mountain
Fighter over mountains and mountainous terrain.
Keese was last seen
on the plane to Los Angeles, talking to J.J.
about what they’d be missing the most after they left Alexandria. The very last moment he was seen
was when, after deciding not to tell J.J.
about that his old archenemy, Manchomper, had snuck aboard the plane to follow
him to L.A. (J.J. found out himself
later), he headed off to use the lavatories before takeoff. When takeoff
finally came, he left Alexandria
to get himself one step closer to graduation.
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