John Byers
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- John Byers is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Along with Melvin Frohike and Richard Langly, John Byers is a member of The Lone Gunmen, a trio of conspiracy theorists that assists the FBI in solving unusual cases, sometimes even involving extra-terrestrial life-forms. He is most often better dressed than his compatriots.
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Hearts of Steel
Investigating an email that purported to be from the future warning of an imminent outbreak of a deadly virus, the Lone Gunmen found themselves on the trail of a company called Skylogic Systems. After researching the company on the internet Langly made contact with a source who claimed to have important information for them. While the Gunmen waited for their contacts to show up, Byers asked Frohike if he felt their latest adventures really should be included in their magazine... after all, mutated man-turtles, ghost hunters, and time-travelers seemed so far-fetched that he doubted even their friend Mulder would believe such things existed. But their contacts proved to be even more fantastic: the Autobots Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. Though the two groups got off on a rough start (Optimus believing the Gunmen were in cahoots with Skylogic) the matter was quickly cleared up and together they pooled their resources to identify their chief suspect at Skylogic Systems as David Simmons. After tracing Simmons to the "Sweet Lovin' Highway Motel", they interrogated him and discovered the location of Skylogic's lab.
The Lone Gunmen infiltrated the facility after Bumblebee scanned a military altmode and employed his holomatter technology to get them passed the gate. (Byers assured Frohike that his performance as a military tough-guy was Oscar-worthy as they made their way in.) They quickly discovered the Autobots' captive comrade Ratchet and sprung him from Skylogic's E.M.P. containment field but not without setting off an alarm that summoned squads of Skylogic security armed with advanced weaponry capable of incapacitating Bumblebee. While Byers uncovered the address of Skylogic's virus manufacturing facility, Langly rescued Bumblebee and the Autobots forced their way out of the building to rendezvous with Optimus Prime.
Afterwards the Lone Gunmen and their Transformer allies went their separate ways, though the Autobots left them with a sample of the virus to take to the C.D.C. in the hopes of developing a cure before heading north. The X-Files: Conspiracy
Notes
- Show Hayami dubbed over John Byers in the TV Asahi dub of X-Files.
External links
- The Lone Gunmen at Wikipedia
- John Byers at X-Files Wiki