Blue Wasp

"Another challenge for the Blue Wasp, his aide Lee, and their rolling arsenal, the Dark Allure. On police records, a wanted criminal, the Blue Wasp is really Burt Reade, journalist of The Daily Guardian. His dual identity is known only to his brother, and to the District Attorney. And now to protect the rights and lives of decent citizens rides the Blue Wasp."

Appearance
He wears a blue trench coat and a light blue scarf around his neck. Burt wears a black dress pants and a white dress shirt layered with a blue vest. He has a blue fedora with a black outline around the crown and a blue mask that covers with face except for his eyes with a symbol of a wasp printed in the middle. The mask is also a gas filter as well.

Personality
He is a vigilante that fights organized crime in Atlas. He does it by pretending to be crime boss, infiltrating the organization and take them down from the inside either through beating them up, getting the police, or use his news media to reveal them. His operations are more of a sting. Burt does not believe in killing people, man or Faunus but he is not afraid to beat them to a pulp. As he does not kill man or Faunus, he's willing to take on the Grimm without hesitation. He has a desire to protect law and order from the mob and at times, he's willing to travel outside of Atlas if it relates to his mission.

Backstory
Burt Reade is the great  grandson of Donnell Reade, who was known as the Lone Rider. He and his brother, Lionel, are the children of a news media mogul father who runs the Daily Guardian in Atlas. They were able to live a comfortable life. Their mother was killed by a random mugging when Burt was at a young age. That tragedy lead the father to have the boys to be privately tutored in combat training. When they graduated from the Military Academy and after serving for 3 years, they joined the business with their father. Unfortunately, their father died of a stroke, which many people led to expect Burt to take over, but Burt has no interest in running the business, he is more interested in on the field journalism, wanting to be on spot investigating and uncovering stories, exposing the truth to the public. He let the management business to his younger brother, but own some stocks to keep up the income. As an investigative journalist, he was partnered with Lee, a photographer, an engineer mechanic, and a master martial artist as well. He runs his own respected news blog, for when he can't get his story to be publish through the Daily Guardian. For 2 years, they worked together in giving stories to the public, they ranged from exposing a homeowner fraud, police's corruption, and the takedown of a mob kingpin. His work put his life in risk, and there were attempts on his life but he was able to fight them off alongside with Lee.

When he learned that another mob boss took the place, and crime went on as usual, Burt concluded that he needed to do more, than just sneaking around, he want to get in and take them down from within. He didn't want to fight outright, like most vigilantes, he would pretend to be a criminal boss, and leave incriminating evidence to the police or even publish the activities on the news for the public to chew them up. Lee decided to join this fight as well, believing he can be Burt's conscience to prevent him from going in too deep. Burt decided to named himself the Blue Wasp, but Lee doesn't need a name, he's just going to be the silent driver/bodyguard that'll do the Blue Wasp bidding. Lee decides to build an advance car, named the Dark Allure.

For the first couple of years, he staged some criminal activities or take credit for other crimes with help of Lee to make The Wasp to look like he's part of the criminal underworld. Lee disguised himself as various people that the Blue Wasp "murdered" to build his reputation. Burt ran some stories as well to build him up, and had Lee to shoot him to have the public believe that the Blue Wasp is a threat. He would get his men to send him coded messages through the classifies on the newspaper. When his father died through natural causes, he used his inheritance to build a lair in the penthouse building he owned. Now the Blue Wasp and Lee roams the night, fighting criminals and bringing down crime bosses from the inside.

Weapons and Abilities
He uses a gas/electric hybrid gun. It can shoot out streams of knockout gas or an electric voltage. There is a switch that can fire out small amounts of gas or bolts like a pistol for longer distance. It has circular barrel with gas canister attach underneath it. The handle is where Burt can load up his electric battery for the shocks. It is named the Van Stinger.

He uses a retractable baton for close combat.

While he is not that good of a fighter compare to Lee's martial arts prowess, he can hold on his own in fights, as he is more of a brawler/slugger kind. He's well verse in stick combat, evident his use of his baton. His main abilities comes from his ability to maintain his cover when dealing with criminals. He is able to negotiate with bosses and able to fool many people that he and Lee are criminals.

Trivia

 * He is basically the Green Hornet, I don't care how obivious it is.
 * It is not my drawing! Here's the source
 * The name of the weapon is named after Van Williams who played the 1960s Green Hornet TV show (Do not mention the crappy Seth Rogen film!)
 * Lee is named after the actor, Bruce Lee who played Kato from the TV show as well.
 * The Lone Rider is The Lone Ranger, who was actually the Great-Uncle of the Green Hornet.