It wasn't unlike most nights for AJ Cooper. Just another routine midnight outing at his lab, trying to perfect the secrets of power transmission. Ever since Edison and Tesla had advanced the science of electricity, man has dreamed of a way to broadcast power thru the air, so that we can finally rid ourselves of wires once and for all.
AJ Cooper was a dedicated scientist in the field of electricity, and was closer than ever to completing the first major advancement in the way we use electricity since the early 1900s. It was to be called Transmittable Current, or, TC. Both unfortunately, and fortunately for the world, AJ Cooper would never realize his dream.
With a loud smash, the burglar alarm went off on the lower floors of his office. His test phase had already begun and to shut it down while his coil grew in power would cause an incredible instability, and he was forced to continue despite the intrusion in the floors below. He secured the lab as best as he could, but the puny steel doors were simply no match for the visitors he had that night...the Freakshow.
Since the beginning of their cybernetic implants changed them from a simply street gang to supervillan group, the Freakshows leader Drek has wanted to garner more and more power to fuel his cybernetic army of miscreants. Dr. Coopers new invention would give him a leg up that would have taken the Freakshow to incredible new levels of power...the likes of which the heroes of Paragon City simply had no idea they would need to face.
A simple burglary alarm was easy to miss in Paragon. Labs, government buildings, and hideouts were typically the grounds for battle for many heroes and villans. The police had all but stopped responding to these things. However, a lone hero Omegastar had a hunch that this could be something bigger and he moved in to investigate.
As he arrived, he was shocked to not see the typical 5-10 freakshow that would be assigned to something so small time like this. There entering the building behind over 100 freaks was Drek himself...the leader of the Freakshow.
Omega knew he had no time, and it was imperative he gets any hostages out before this thing got really ugly. He moved through the building quickly with his cloaking device until he reached the upstairs labs. By passing the security matrix, he entered the lab to find Dr. Cooper working alone, with a large sphere of electricity growing in mass in the center of the room.
"We have got to get you out of here!" Omega told the Doctor.
Dr. Cooper explained his experiment in brief detail and told Omega that the experiment needed to run its course or the results could be catastrophic. Omega told him that there is simply no time and they had to leave.
At that very moment, the steel security door was smashed in by a freakshow tank. Without hesitation, Omega reached to his belt and pulled a small rod out. With the click of a button it fanned into a frisbee shaped trip mine that he hurled toward the door with a deadly precision. The explosion rocked the tank sending him back into the arms of his many troops. Bolt after bolt of energy was fired into the doorway attempting to stop the freaks from entering the lab. However, he was one hero..and they were dozens...something had to give.
"I know a back way out" AJ told Omega. Thru a small ventilation shaft the two shimmied down tight corridors. Their hair began to stand up from all the electricity his project was accumulating. They reached the ground floor and dashed toward the exit to discover....a bomb...a big bomb.
A quick check of the timer revealed the terrible news of less than 4 seconds until detonation. One of the freaks must have set the charge incorrectly.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" cried Omega throwing the doctor to the ground and blasting at the bomb in desperation.
KABOOOOOOM
The 5 story building came crashing down on Omegastar. Drek and his minions were shaken, but not harmed by the blast due to the metal alloys they reinforced their armor with. A Freakshow Lt. told Drek that he got the doctors notes before the blast and they began to walk away from the wreckage. Drek looked back at Omegastar realizing he just killed a very prominent hero in Paragon.
KABOOOOOOOOOM
An explosion even louder than the last rocked Paragon City. The building that had collapsed was consumed by a destructive attack that had been mastered by Omegastar...simply known as Nova. Now angered at the death of his hostage, Omegastars attacks were precise and deadly. Dispatching freak after freak, working his way toward Drek, Omegastar would not be deined justice. Fueled by rage and adrenaline, Omegastar could not feel the fatigue creeping thru his body. As he finished off the last of the tanks, and stood face to face with Drek, he was visibly panting.
Drek laughed thinking he had Omegastar right where he wanted him. With a swipe of the giant blade, Omega was sent reeling across the street, slamming into a parked car.
"You should have quit while you were ahead little man..." Drek scowled.
SLAM
The thunderous boom of the giant mallet attached to his other hand crushed into Omegastar, causing him to crash into a small crater in the pavement.
Omegastar opened his eyes to see a glint of light gleam off the sharpened blade of Dreks sickle as it was coming down to finish him off. If it weren't for seeing it himself, he never would have believed what happened next.
KERRZAPPPPPPP
A HUGE lighting bolt slapped Drek across the body slamming him into a building and rendering him unconscious just before the blade impacted Omegastar. He peered from the crater expecting to see a hero..instead...it was the hand of a very bloody and battered Dr. Cooper...smoking from the sudden discharge of all that electricity.
With the final act of nobility, Dr. Cooper collapsed. Omegastar picked him up..and took him to the medical bay inside the secret headquarters of the Midnight Protectorate.
"Doc...I got one for ya" was the simply communcae sent from Omega to the venerable Dr. Midnight..who rushed home to assist his long time friend.
Dr. Midnight could sense something in this man...not death or the end...but a roar of thunder coming from his soul...
Small bands of electricity arced across his body as he laid there on the table.
Omegastar looked at Midnight and asked "Is this it for him? Is he a gonner?"
Dr. Midnight simply replied..."No my friend...this is only his beginning"
Thunderflux...was born.
(Note: Omegastar is a energy/devices blaster in our supergroup. Dr. Midnight is the leader and plays a sort of magical based character intune with things arcane.)
