Biography - Page 7
After that, Moon Knight focused on recapturing John DeZoan. The killer had rebranded himself as Deadzone, using his new powers channeled through a modified version of Moon Knight's stolen truncheon as electrified razor line. Deadzone went on a killing spree to seek revenge on the mafia families that spurned him growing up. Deadzone's murders even claimed the life of Don G, one of Moon Knight's Shadow Cabinet. The chaos running through organized crime as a result of Deadzone's actions also stirred trouble on the streets, leading Moon Knight to organize with 
Cover Girl to position her gang the Silverados on top as peacemakers in Alphabet City. Spector was forced to make a deal with Tombstone, arranging an ambush for Deadzone at Don G's gravestone. Despite the death of his ally, though, Moon Knight refused to kill Deadzone or allow Tombstone to do it. He left DeZoan beaten but alive for Sheriff and the NYPD to collar. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #48-49]
Frenchie had gone missing while Marc was focused on finding Deadzone, and so Moon Knight put the Shadow Cabinet on the missing persons case. Moon Knight had dodged the Avengers for 
too long, though, and finally Captain America and Black Widow sent out Thor to call in Moon Knight to answer for his actions. A quorum was gathered for the Avengers to weigh Moon Knight's future with their organization, but Marc had little time for their formalities. When a lead came through on Frenchie's location, Moon Knight responded immediately. He vanished from within Avengers Mansion, remotely purging their servers of information relating to him and, for clarity's sake, he set his own ID card on fire and left it behind for Earth's Mightiest Heroes to discover.
Jean-Paul had been caught up in the rise of the Hellbent, a cousin race to humanity which had been sheltered by the Knights Templar for generations untold. The Knights saw themselves as the ultimate archivists, maintaining the true secret history of the world unblemished by the politics and biases of public historians. However, one of the Templar known as Seth the Immortal had turned against his brethren, secretly nurturing the Hellbent's resentment against their Templar keepers. Seth and the Hellbent struck, eliminating most of the Knights with the exception of Chloe Tran, Marc's former housekeeper and Jean-Paul's lover. Chloe had been placed near Jean-Paul because he was last of the Bloodline Agenda, a genetic lineage cultivated by the Knights with the potential to recall hereditary knowledge from all their ancestors, making them a personification of their bloodline and living back-ups to the Templar records. In particular, Seth sought the secret of accessing the Arcane Archives, greatest of the Templars' treasures, hidden away in the Bloodline knowledge.
Chloe activated Jean-Paul's Bloodline heritage, but his injuries caused it to manifest in an unexpected manner. Instead of full access to the knowledge of his ancestors, Jean-Paul found himself able to physically transform into different ancestors, one at a time. Moon Knight arrived in time to fight alongside "Bloodline," the French privateer Henri Remont and Frenchie's great-
grandfather. Jean-Paul chose to keep his Bloodline heritage secret from Marc for the time being, due to their deteriorating relationship ever since Randall crippled Frenchie. This would be more difficult than Jean-Paul imagined, however, for the immortal Seth Phalkon also had plans for Marc Spector and SpectorCorp. He even took advantage of Marc and Marlene's falling out to recruit her as PhalkonCorp's new director of acquisitions, covertly buying out SpectorCorp of various assets. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #50]
Unaware of PhalkonCorp's more insidious nature, Marc cavalierly assigned SpectorCorp's young researcher Raul Cruz to dig up what he could on their new competitor. Moon Knight ran into more Hellbent stalking in Central Park, but Jean-Paul kept the Shadow Cabinet's discoveries concealed from Marc until he could learn more about Bloodline and his own connection to the Hellbent. Instead, Moon Knight was joined by Werewolf by Night and Gambit of the X-Men in fighting off the Hellbent. Gambit was there to deliver word of a deeper darkness Psylocke had detected in Spector back during the Infinity War. Moon Knight dismissed it as the demon virus he had already expunged, but Gambit suggested Psylocke's scan had detected something even more innate. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #52-53]
SpectorCorp security chief Nicolai Cray convinced Raul Cruz to break into PhalkonCorp's offices to do some investigating, but Seth Phalkon caught them and used his Hellbent power to drain both men of their life-energy. Marc Spector was forced to identify the corpse of Cray and Raul's 
extremely aged and shellshocked body, unaware of what could have happened to his people. Moon Knight infiltrated PhalkonCorp, oblivious to Phalkon's connections to the Hellbent or Marlene. Likewise, Seth Phalkon confronted the costumed intruder Moon Knight without knowing the super-hero was his target Marc Spector. The truth came out when the two men came face-to-face and Moon Knight was startled to find Seth the Immortal was a virtual doppelganger for Marc Spector, his descendant many generations removed. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #55]
The fight between Moon Knight and Seth Phalkon proved inconclusive, as Seth's attempt to drain Marc's lifeforce produced bio-feedback due to their familial connection, throwing both combatants for a loop. Driven to disprove Seth's claims, Moon Knight accessed PhalkonCorp's computers to download all Seth's files, only to discover there was already an existing computer link back to the Shadowkeep's system. Marc reasoned one of his Shadow Cabinet was responsible, and called an emergency meeting of his associates to accuse them. A round robin of finger-pointing and 
paranoia exposed the cracks in Moon Knight's network, leading him to unceremoniously dissolve the Cabinet on the spot when he couldn't prove who the traitor was. Only moments later, Marc learned that Marlene was associated with PhalkonCorp, and her continued link to SpectorCorp's databases was partly responsible for Seth's manipulations. Moon Knight arrived at Marlene's apartment to defend her from an attack by Seth, trying to clean up loose ends. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #56]
Marc and Marlene were reunited, but he was drawn away from his current troubles by the siren call of the Goddess. The "good" side of Adam Warlock's soul recruited followers based on their natural inclination towards faith and religion. Moon Knight tried to prove worthy of redemption at the Goddess's hands, but was held back by lingering doubt that he was actually descended from Hellbent Prime like Seth said, and therefore unworthy. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #57, Infinity Crusade #1-6]
Moon Knight returned from Paradise Omega to find Jean-Paul and Chloe in a race to get to the Arcane Archives underneath the Hellhole before Seth and his Hellbent Prime. Seth had been deftly manipulating Jean-Paul for his own agenda. First, he posed as Marc Spector to get Jean-Paul to transfer Marc's financial information to him (thus setting up the computer link to the Shadowkeep and helping engineer PhalkonCorp's takeover), and also provoked his Bloodline 
transformation so that Jean-Paul would lead him to the Arcane Archives while trying to secure them. The Hellbent never knew the Templar had hidden their archives within the Hellhole, the underground network of caverns occupied by the Hellbent until Seth and the Hellbent Prime began to lead them out. In fact, the Hellbent had been the unwitting guardians of the Arcane Archives all along. Moon Knight arrived and battled Jean-Paul's psychopathic incarnation as Pierre LaTrec, unaware that Bloodline and Frenchie were one and the same. The brutal combat triggered Marc's Hellbent heritage, causing him to drain away Bloodline's lifeforce just as Seth was wont to do. Moon Knight was horrified twice over when Bloodline collapsed and reverted to the dead form of his best friend. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #58]
A fighting mad Marc Spector took the battle straight to Seth in his grief, while Chloe Tran's Hellbent Prime allies the Cadre held off Seth's minions. Chloe manipulated secret nerve clusters to separate Jean-Paul DuChamp from his fallen incarnation, allowing him to survive LaTrec's death. Meanwhile, Seth was infuriated to learn the fabled Arcane Archives seemed to be nothing more than a mirror, a joke by the Templars. As Seth and Moon Knight fought, however, Jean-Paul crawled to the mirror and used it to fully unlock his Bloodline knowledge, a complete record of all the Knights Templars' records from before recorded history. Jean-Paul could now recall the origin of the Knights Templars' mission was a promise to the Egyptian God of Wisdom and Death called Thoth to protect the hybrid species known as the Hellbent, in exchange for the lost scrolls and secret knowledge of Thoth that began the archives. This Egyptian connection to the Hellbent suggested Marc Spector's ties to Khonshu and the Knights Templar were a deeper and richer tapestry than anyone had guessed.
The Knights Templar had used the Hellbent in the Hellhole as guardians of the Arcane Archives, but also placed the underground caverns next to a magma fault line so any excessive use of force would act like a natural booby-trap, caving in the entire area. The Bloodline confirmed Seth was 
truly immortal, but he could be contained, and so Marc trapped his ancestor in the Hellhole vault as it collapsed around them. Moon Knight, Jean-Paul, Chloe and their Cadre allies escaped through an emergency Hellgate teleportation portal, leaving the rest to perish. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #59]
Back at Shadowkeep, Moon Knight's head was still swimming from all he had learned when Marlene approached him about SpectorCorp. She had been unable to reverse the purchases she made on behalf of PhalkonCorp but, through insider trading as a Phalkon executive with the help 
Marc's people at SpectorCorp, she effectively arranged for both corporations to swallow each other, leaving behind a leaner SpectorCorp under her name and control. Marc had little concern about technically losing his company, so long as Marlene was back in his life. He and Jean-Paul finally compared notes, and came to question whether Khonshu really resurrected him years ago in the Sudan, or if that was a subconscious manifestation of his Hellbent heritage?
Before their introspection could go any deeper, however, the Shadowkeep triggered a zero hour computer virus. Thanks to his previous infiltration of the Shadowkeep's systems, Seth left the virus buried in the programming as a failsafe in case of his defeat. The virus manipulated emergency lockdown protocols to try to contain everyone in the building before initiating a self-
destruct sequence. Moon Knight fought to disable the computer in time, but that proved impossible. Instead, he sealed the door to Shadowkeep's computer core before Jean-Paul returned with aid, containing the blast in the area he occupied and away from his friends. Marc Spector was killed in the blast, saving the people who mattered most to him in the world. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #60]