Fan Casting The Guardian in Earth-27 fancast (rewrite)

A former military soldier was part of a rescue force in the Battle of Mogadishu and at the conflict's end, learned that his brother was among the few U.S. casualties. Due to John's special forces background, he was hand-picked to oversee security for a very important, very private client: Cadmus Labs. On John's first day at Cadmus Labs, he was given a shot which he was told was a simple flu shot. In truth, it was an enzyme that heightened John's mental processes, particularly with his ability to process his sensory information and his response time to such stimuli; John was the ideal security specialist. By the time Oliver freed John, the lab was torched, most of the workers had been killed or escaped, and John had been subjected to some memory erasing treatments but was alive. Oliver took John back to Star City and fixed him up. Shortly after John's recovery, he found out that Oliver had been making plans to become a superhero in the style of Gotham's Batman. John offered to help. At first, John played support and let Ollie have all the fun. As time went on, John's skills became more needed in the field, watching Ollie’s back. Now, John sports his own costume and calls himself "The Guardian".