After a
career of studying neo-humans, humans who had unlocked their dormant
potential for superpowers, Doc spent a decade trying to create
synthetic super-humans. When the Super Corp Project offered him an
avenue for this pursuit, he left Redmond Enterprises and took the
position of the Super Corp's head scientist.
Zack Powers was the prototype of the
Synthetics. His super-powers did not originate from his dormant,
natural ability, but from procedures that warped his subatomic
structure. Zack's core power was the ability to shift his subatomic
structure. This could manifest in a number of different super powers,
but currently only manifested in flight, projection of force fields
and energy blasts, and super vision.
Zack was joined by Janet and Dexter,
two other subatomic anomalies, as they undertook covertassignments from
the United States military. Janet's powers, at this juncture, were
identical to Zack's, although she would later develop unique powers.
Dexter could heal himself, and also transform into any energy on the
electro-magnetic spectrum.
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Heavily armed
looters ran through the African village (small city). The insurgents
sprayed bullets freely, taking casualties. They gathered together a
group of hostages, into a circle in the middle of the road. They
would not let the hostages go until the demands were met.
A unit of SEALS had begun to move in,
positioning themselves to move into the village, but the President
decided to use this opportunity to test the Super Corp first.
Zack projected a force field around the
hostages, and he landed gracefully on the ground. The surprised
gunmen opened fire, but the bullets bounced off the force field and hit some
of the gunmen instead. The remaining gunmen changed their aim to the young
man in a black jump suit, who eyes were hidden by dark black shades.
At that moment, Janet entered and projected a force field in front
of herself and Zack. The bullets bounced off of this one too.
A bolt of lightning came streaking
through the village, hit one gunman, and bounced from that one to the
next. The looters, in confusion, began to run. As the lightning bolt
came out of victim number 2, it began to retake it's human form of
Dexter. The Super Corp immediately split up. Janet went to the
hostages, projected a orb-like force field around all of them, and
flew with them to safety.
Zack projected a skin-tight force field
around himself for protection against bullets. Zack and Dexter chased
after the remaining four insurgents. They ran through the empty
streets, trying to find a place to hide, or hostages to aid their
escape. Zack decided it was time to use his super vision, which was
also called "quantum vision". Quantum vision allowed him to
see down to the subatomic level, to observe events happening in other
locations, and to visually dissect macroscopic objects. Zack was even
still testing the limits of this ability.
He used the quantum vision to follow
two of the gunmen, far out ahead of him. They ducked into a shop and
hid inside the building. Zack's quantum vision traveled through
walls to follow them, as they traveled all the way to the back door
exit, where Zack was waiting for them. They ran the other way,
but Zack overtook them. He grabbed the one that had unfortunately
fell behind in a sleeper hold. The other one turned around in
amazement. Zack pulled out a small tranquilizer gun and fired a
sleeping dart at him. Finally the one in the sleeper hold passed out,
and Zack let him down easy.
On the other side of the town, Dexter
chased two other gunmen, a little more closely. Desperate they
grabbed a civilian and held him real close, gun to the temple. They
yelled out in their native tongue at Dexter. Probably threatening him
not to come any closer. In the blink of an eye, Dexter had unzipped
every one of his atoms into a stream of electrons. Quicker than the
speed of thought, the lightning bolt leaped at the two gunment. It went
through the first one, with only enough juice to stun him, and then
leaped to the second one who was holding the hostage. Same result. The
gunmen dropped to the floor, civilian unharmed. At this juncture, the
military had begun to move in. Zack landed next to Dexter, picked him
up, and they flew away.
