Bouviers Steele dedicated his life to finding an energy source that would always replenish itself so no one would ever have to do without power. As a child his parents were in a terrible accident and as they were both on the operating table the power was lost due to a car wreck caused by a battle with yet another group trying to take over the city. The backup generators failed and his parents both lost their life as the physicians stood by helpless.
Married to his work Bouviers always cut dangerous corners in his pursuit for the ultimate power source. More than once did he escape injury and death by the skin of his teeth.
On Halloween night the city was in chaos with creatures roaming the streets. Bouviers was hard at work on a new idea which merged cold fusion principles with explosive radioactive elements recently discovered. By introducing these elements into a cold fusion reaction, Bouviers was able to increase the power output 1000 fold.
He was nearing a breakthrough when the lab began to tremble and shake. Outside the heroes were fighting a huge creature with a pumpkin for a head. Unknown to Bouviers the shaking had fractured the containment seal causing the radiation to leak into the air. The safety protocol activated sealing off the lab trapping Bouviers inside.
Another jolt from the battle caused Bouviers to fall into the control panel inadvertently activating the cold fusion reactor. Without the radioactive isotopes to contain the reaction it went quickly into a critical overload.
Radiation bombarded Bouviers as another jolt from outside broke lose a conduit containing liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen covered the lab quickly freezing everything it touched. Bouviers was unable to escape the spray and was quickly rooted to the spot with the radioactive isotopes trapped close to him in the ice prison.
Bouviers was miraculously still alive and conscious as the reactor went critical and blew. He watched as a wall of energy enveloped him and his ice cocoon. Slamming into the wall at the other end of the lab he hit the floor stunned but alive. The last of the ice melted away leaving Bouviers sitting in shocked silence.
The lab was devastated with nothing left undamaged. Standing up Bouviers noticed his skin had turned dark red but did not feel like a burn. Fire was coming from one hand while the other was ice covered. By concentrating he is able to switch the fire and ice back and forth between his hands.
Bouviers pondered this for a little while. He concluded that the liquid nitrogen saved him by trapping the radiation close to his body when the blast came and that the radiation kept him alive after the deep freeze. When the blast enveloped him as the ice melted it allowed more and more energy to seep in to his body and mix with the radiation.
With more experimenting he found he could completely control the ice and fire just by focusing his mind. All his work and files were destroyed in the blast but that does not matter anymore. Now he has the power to extract revenge on the criminal element whom caused the initial blackout that killed his parents.
Bouviers Steele dedicated his life to finding an energy source that would always replenish itself so no one would ever have to do without power. As a child his parents were in a terrible accident and as they were both on the operating table the power was lost due to a car wreck caused by a battle with yet another group trying to take over the city. The backup generators failed and his parents both lost their life as the physicians stood by helpless.
Married to his work Bouviers always cut dangerous corners in his pursuit for the ultimate power source. More than once did he escape injury and death by the skin of his teeth.
On Halloween night the city was in chaos with creatures roaming the streets. Bouviers was hard at work on a new idea which merged cold fusion principles with explosive radioactive elements recently discovered. By introducing these elements into a cold fusion reaction, Bouviers was able to increase the power output 1000 fold.
He was nearing a breakthrough when the lab began to tremble and shake. Outside the heroes were fighting a huge creature with a pumpkin for a head. Unknown to Bouviers the shaking had fractured the containment seal causing the radiation to leak into the air. The safety protocol activated sealing off the lab trapping Bouviers inside.
Another jolt from the battle caused Bouviers to fall into the control panel inadvertently activating the cold fusion reactor. Without the radioactive isotopes to contain the reaction it went quickly into a critical overload.
Radiation bombarded Bouviers as another jolt from outside broke lose a conduit containing liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen covered the lab quickly freezing everything it touched. Bouviers was unable to escape the spray and was quickly rooted to the spot with the radioactive isotopes trapped close to him in the ice prison.
Bouviers was miraculously still alive and conscious as the reactor went critical and blew. He watched as a wall of energy enveloped him and his ice cocoon. Slamming into the wall at the other end of the lab he hit the floor stunned but alive. The last of the ice melted away leaving Bouviers sitting in shocked silence.
The lab was devastated with nothing left undamaged. Standing up Bouviers noticed his skin had turned dark red but did not feel like a burn. Fire was coming from one hand while the other was ice covered. By concentrating he is able to switch the fire and ice back and forth between his hands.
Bouviers pondered this for a little while. He concluded that the liquid nitrogen saved him by trapping the radiation close to his body when the blast came and that the radiation kept him alive after the deep freeze. When the blast enveloped him as the ice melted it allowed more and more energy to seep in to his body and mix with the radiation.
With more experimenting he found he could completely control the ice and fire just by focusing his mind. All his work and files were destroyed in the blast but that does not matter anymore. Now he has the power to extract revenge on the criminal element whom caused the initial blackout that killed his parents.
And so is born ColdInferno.