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One night while on patrol, Damian and his partner, Jeff Hanley, responded to a silent alarm at a bio-genetics lab called Futura Reasearch Laboratories. It was there he stopped his twin brother, Joshua, and some of his criminal partners from stealing equipment for their boss. During the struggle, the two brothers are thrown into an odd chamber that bombards them with experimental rays that appear to kill Damian and gives his brother ghostly white hair. Damian's partner is killed and his brother and the criminals escape the scene. Unbeknownst to the criminals, Damian survived the fall and named his brother as the murderer. This caused the criminals Joshua was working with to turn on him. This fear in Joshua triggered a newly gifted ability that allowed him to find and enter his his brother in some sort of spiritual essence. This presence then led Damian to Joshua which allowed him to save his brother before he was killed. Damian—still preserving a sense of law over family ties—chose to send his brother to prison instead of allowing him his freedom.[1]

Some time later while within prison, Joshua was able to enter Damian's body again in spirit form, only this time he could control his brother entirely and was granted the strength of both men. He did this while working as a mercenary for A.I.M. in an attempt to steal the Super-Soldier Serum that had been rediscovered. The serum was in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D., guarded by Bobbi Morse and Ka-Zar. After stealing the serum "Damian" led Ka-Zar into the waiting arms of his brother Parnival Plunder and the monster Gog.[3]

Gemini, Gog, and Plunder fought Ka-Zar until Bobbi and Zabu arrived on a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport. Bobbi offered to buy Plunder out of the serum but he was more interested in a super army and so tasked Gog with transporting them to A.I.M.'s England base. Gog however began to disobey Plunder and transported the group to New York where Bobbi attempted to flee with the serum after Gog's rampage distracted Gemini and Plunder. Ka-Zar distracted Gemini and Plunder enough to allow Bobbi to escape but not enough to stop the pair from making an escape of their own.[2]

The next morning Josh using his brother's body made another appearance as Gemini working for Professor Conrad under the guise of Victorius after consuming A.I.M.'s supply of the super soldier serum to save himself from an explosion. Victorius and Gemini kidnapped Bobbi for her scientific expertise and took her to a New York based A.I.M. fortress.[4] Ka-Zar knocked out Josh and when he awoke he fled the scene back to New York City where he relinquished possession of his brother Damian who is growing increasingly worried about his blackouts and what they could mean for his job as a NYPD police officer.[5]

Some time after Sergeant Damien Link visited the Avengers at their mansion to inform them of Captain America's recent arrest on request of Commissioner Nathan Martin. While at the manor however Josh took possession of his body once more on the behest of the Zodiac Cartel and used Damian's headache due to possession as an excuse to walk around the mansion. Inside the mansion Josh spots some secret plans and begins to look through them but the Swordman confronts him and ends up slashing Damian's clothing revealing the costume of Gemini. Gemini fights the Avengers but is defeated, he is rescued by the rest of Zodiac and their plan is enacted while leaving the Avengers beaten but alive. Damian's brother had also been broken out of prison at this point in time and is able to control Damian as well as his own body at the same time. Atop of the World Trade Center Zodiac built a giant Star-Blazer that they would use to kill all those born under the Gemini in Manhattan and after the deed was done they would use that fear to get whatever they wanted.[6]

A portion of Zodiac attempted a rebellion against Taurus by seeking out their organization's financer Cornelius van Lunt. Unbeknownst to them Cornelius van Lunt was Taurus and he used this knowledge to set a trap for both the Avengers and the rebelling Zodiac members by luring the two groups to an abondoned warehouse in New Jersey that was in actuality a spacecraft that would banish them into space to die.[7] It was then Libra who snapped Damian out of his brother's control so that he could distract Taurus disguised as his brother Josh while Libra used the Zodiac's Star Craft to save the Avengers. Damian's impersonation was discovered by Taurus who quickly knocked him out before heading out to discover Libra's treachery which had him face off against the Avengers. His former teammates rather than go to jail sided with Taurus in the fight against the Avengers but all of Zodiac was defeated.[8]

Trivia

  • Each member of the Zodiac Cartel assumed the codename of the astrological sign they were born under. Josh confirms that he and his brother are Gemini in Avengers #120.

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