20 years ago
Ahmad Shinell had a rough life as a kid. He always got blamed for the weird happenings in town. He couldn’t understand why people avoided him or never wanted to talk to him. He was forced to live with his grandparents after an accident in his parents’ science lab that took their lives.
The whole incident occurred while they were working at Obsidian Energy Labs. Ahmad’s parents were trying to test an experiment that would switch two animal test subjects’ places using the power of black obsidian. Ahmad was with his parents since he was always getting into trouble as a kid and couldn’t be left alone.
As the project was getting fired up, Ahmad got close to see what was going on and his parents pulled him back to a safer spot. As the experiment progressed, his parents were needed elsewhere. His parents Dr Maria Shinell and Richard Shinell, spoke back saying they couldn’t leave and would be there later.
As they relayed the message, an explosion occurred on one of the facilities walls, leaving a gaping hole in the wall. Standing in the hole was the mad doctor Terrorbyte. Terrorbyte was a known villain who stole secret information via his technological powers. He stood in the smoldering wall with a laser cannon hanging from his hands. He retracted the cannon into a the size of a pen and put it on his utility belt. He scanned the room for his target. He eventually spotted what he was looking for. The project that Dr. Maria Shinell and Dr. Richard Shinell oversaw is running. He slowly walked to the controls as Maria and Richard grabbed Admad to pull him to safety.
They pulled him into a secret office they had in the back of the lab. “Listen Ahmad we need you to stay here while we deal with this situation.” Dr Maria to her son Ahmad. Ahmad’s father was on the phone with the phone at the same time asking for help. Both of Ahmad’s parent’s knew they couldn’t leave the obsidian lying around. Any kind of obsidian was very explosive.
Maria wanted to use a special prototype gun they had been working on. Both doctors had argued on the use of using the new weapon. They decided the best course of action was to distract Terrorbyte. They both grabbed whatever they could to fend off Terrorbyte, until help arrived. They had slowly crept from the office and started to fend off Terrorbyte in a surprise attack. Terrorbyte was caught off guard as he defended himself with ease. They shot him with guns and different types of ray guns. Nothing influenced Terrorbyte. He simply deflected everything they sent to him.
Terrorbyte might be evil, but for his standards he tried not to cause too much collateral. He had a low threat status. Along with a high target value. Terrorbyte wasn’t the norm of sadistic kind of villain who destroyed everything and everyone. He only took what he was looking for while trying to keep a minimal wanted status. Therefore. The resources spent on taking him down were not important.
Terrorbyte had managed to hack into the project both Dr Maria and Richard were working on. He began to extract the information from the experiment and its secrets. “This information would sell good on the black market don’t you both agree Maria and Richard.” Terrorbyte let out a sarcastic monologue. His humor quickly turned sour when another voice broke the silence.
“No one is stealing anything here. Not if I have something to say about it.” Said a deep domination voice. Terrorbyte looked over in distain to see his archnemesis. Vocano, The Erupting Fury. “Thanks for sending out the warning he was here.” Vocano nodded his head to both Dr Maria and Dr Richard.
Vocano then pulled out his volcanic hammer to stop Terrorbyte. The two of them began to clash as they fought in the lab smashing and breaking everything around them. Terrorbyte was worried Vocano would destroy the vital information for the project as the two were running around. So much for trying to keep a low wanted status now. Terrorbyte groaned in his head. He led Vocano away from the experiment.
Both Richard and Maria were about to join Admad in the secret office. While the two supers battled it out. Maria unfortunately, was concerned if they ended up smacking any obsidian they could wipe the facility off the map. The two supers were so busy fighting they didn’t notice both doctors were messing with the controls of the experiment. They knew they could always retrieve the backup info from the secret room. They both ran for the kill switch.
Terrorbyte ducked and rolled as he dodged a blow from Vocano. As he regained his footing he saw them trying to disable the experiment. Terrorbyte ran as he shouted, “NO!” He tried to intercept both Maria and Richard. He attempted to push them out of the way but had to dodge a blow from Vocano again. Terrorbyte managed to dodge the blow. Unfortunately in doing so, Vocano struck both Richard and Maria killing them instantly.
“Now look what you made me do.” Said Vocano who now was turning ember red. Vocano went completely berserk on Terrorbyte. The hero was now going full supersan on Terrorbyte as he started destroying the lab.
Admad heard things breaking and being smashed to peaces. He wondered what on Obsidian his parents could be doing. It took him a while to find the key to get out. A small chunk of rainbow-colored obsidian that was used shaped into a key for the secret office. He took the key with him as he left. He slowly locked the door as put the key back in his pocket.
Admad unfortunately turned his head around to see both of his parents get obliterated into ashes from Vocano. Who was now yelling at Terrorbyte saying it was all his fault. Vocano erupted into a volcanic light as he began swatting for Terrorbyte. Admad was first in shock seeing both his parents die. That shock soon turned to rage as lunged for Vocano.
Vocano was surprised to see a little boy running at him. He watched as the kid kicked and punched him with no effort. Terrorbyte paused for a moment as well in shock. The boy was his only way out this fight. He took Admad hostage. “What are you going to do now Vocano.” Taunted Terrorbyte. Vocano was unsure what to do now. Ahmad, however, wasn’t having any of it. He used his free hand poke Terrorbyte in the eyes. Terrorbyte fell stumbled in pain. “Why you little.” He said as he tried to grab Admad at the same time he was trying to blink the pain out of his eyes. Ahmad began kicking Terrorbyte who disoriented still from his eyes being poked. Terrorbyte lost his footing and felll over onto the experiment.
Vocano was standing on shock at the whole ordeal. When he saw Terrorbyte stumbling he knew it was his chance. Vocano swung his hammer as he brought it down to hit Terrorbyte. He missed as Terrorbyte fell backwards onto the experiment. Vocano’s hammer slammed full force into the experiment.
Admad watched in awe and horror as both villain and hero were screaming as the experiment began to shock them. One shock blew Vocano off his feet, causing him to collide with Admad. All three of them landed and were shocked by the experiment.
The black obsidian reacted with the rainbow key in Admad’s pocket. The experiment went critical as the entire room began to explode into light. Vocano and Terrorbyte were both absorbed into the experiment as Admad began to lose conscience from the overload of power flowing in his body…
COLDFUSION’S BACKSTORY 5 years ago
Sarah wanted to end the problem with global warming. Ever since that day the experiment at Obsidian Energy Labs went completely wrong. She would vow to get her way even if it meant breaking the law.
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At the time before turning evil, Sarah Bonnet and her lab partner Jarrett Westinghouse wanted to do good for the world by ending global warming. The series of events that started with a small-scale experiment that was charged using icy-blue obsidian which had properties to freeze things. The project in theory was going to create a mini freeze reaction at the poles of a small-scale Earth. Using a state-of-the-art mini laser pointer. It would represent a larger version of a laser cannon built onto a satellite that would hit the places on the polar caps to make the melting ice freeze.
The experiment was going as planned. Meanwhile, Sarah and Jarrett were discussing to their colleagues and supporters how the experiment would save the polar caps and keep ice from melting. They were making ideas for the future to restore the Ozone layer over Antarctica. A few hours had passed in the experiment. The polar ice caps were freezing on the small-scale experiment as planned. It seemed things were working in their favor, but halfway through the experiment.
Federal agents had arrived too Obsidian Energy Labs. They had been led there from a tip off. The tip off had given federal agents the whereabouts that the icy-blue obsidian had been stolen from a government research facility. The icy-blue obsidian was being used to test the power of freezing a nuclear reactor to stop a nuclear meltdown. Without the icy-blue obsidian in the experiment being run at the test plant. The mini reactor would explode causing a small meltdown, that would affect the area. They started to question people in the lab, but one agent noticed the icy-blue obsidian in the experiment. Without thinking he went over and opened the energy case it was housed in. Sarah and Jarrett both looked in horror. They immediately ran to intervene but were too late.
The agent began to start pulling the connections. As he did so a blast of icy particles began to freeze the entire room. Within seconds the icy-blue obsidian exploded with Sarah and Jarrett both holding cables desperately trying to put them back in place. The two were blown back along with the agent who was thrown into the experiment. The entire room exploded and turned into an iceberg. The blast sent Sarah and Jarrett tumbling so far and fast they were able to escape being frozen in the ice. Though they escaped unharmed they blacked out for a few minutes. As they regained consciousness, they woke up dizzy and feeling like they had just come out of the ice age. The looked at each other wondering what just happened. They looked at the building and saw it was frozen over like an ice cube.
More agents soon arrived to intervene. The agents quickly arrested Sarah and Jarrett. As they were being hand cuffed, they questioned why they were being arrested. The agents responded saying evidence at the scene where the icy-blue obsidian had been stolen was had traces of Sarah’s DNA at the government facility. Sarah questioned how her DNA was even there when she hadn’t. They agents said “thanks to Pyromelter we would have had a harder time tracking it down”. The agents may have never gotten in time to return the icy-blue obsidian back to the reactor, as of that point it had to be run by backup generators. As they questioned Sarah. Sarah stated her colleague Jarrett was the one to get the icy-blue obsidian in town for the experiment. She argued she couldn’t go into town since she was busy putting together the experiment. She told them Jarrett had bought it from an obsidian dealer in town the day before.
Unknown to Sarah, selling obsidians was illegal in public locations. It could only be sold commercially to governments or research facilities. As they began to take Sarah away, she began to holler and yell. As she did, her breath froze and the agents that took her away. Sarah was stunned what just had happened. The other agents were in shock. She grabbed the keys from the half-frozen agent and uncuffed herself. She yelled at Jarrett to come with her or she would freeze him. She was going to figure what he had done to her later.
They both immediately ran for cover as agents yelled for them to stop as they attempted to flee. The agents began to shoot at them as they ran. Sarah flinched as a bullet screamed right for her. She covered her eyes and points her hand out thinking she would die from being shot. At that moment a with her hand pointed out. A bolt of ice flashed out from her hand. It froze the bullet in midair. Shocked of what she had done, Sarah gave it another go. Another bolt of ice shot out and froze the nearest agent running for them. Jarrett figured he could do the same thing. They somehow realized the icy-blue obsidian had given them powers. Their only hope of escape was freezing their way out.
Ten minutes ended up passing as they froze half of the research facility, They froze any and everything in their path to make their escape. Jarrett noticed a government helicopter sitting in the parking lot. Jarrett told Sarah there most likely way of getting free was to take the helicopter. Sarah was livid with Jarrett. “Why did you set me up.” She yelled at him. By this point everyone and everything had been frozen in the area.
Knowing they were safe for now until a hero showed up Sarah wanted to interrogate Jarrett. Jarrett sighed. “I didn’t want to use this.” He muttered to himself. He ignored Sarah as she walked over to him with her eyes full of hate. He waited until the last moment to lock the bracelet around her arm. Suddenly, Sarah’s expression went neutral. “Now you will do my bidding and help me when I say. You will forget it stole the icy-blue obsidian” Jarrett barked. Sarah nodded in agreement. He took the bracelet off and her expression turned from neutral to frowning. She was trying to remember what she was fighting over, but couldn’t remember. Jarrett quickly made up a cover story. She just nodded in agreement as she couldn’t remember. With the dispute over they made their way to the helicopter. Unfortunately, they had wasted too much time as new a problem arose. Pyromelter had shown up.
They advanced towards the government helicopter. A burning red colored motorcycle appeared. Riding on the bike was Pyromelter. He got off his bike and began looking at the chaos. Pyromelter began his way to fight Sarah and Jarrett. He began to unfreeze what they had frozen. As he continued, Sarah and Jarrett got nervous. It made them speed up the process. As they got close to the helicopter Pyromelter pulled out what looked like a grenade. He pulled the pin and threw it in the center of all the frozen mess. It exploded, creating a shockwave of hot air.
The blast unfroze everything. Everything looked normal except for some damaged buildings and the huge chunk of icy-blue obsidian. The huge chunk of icy-blue obsidian had consumed most of the building the explement was going on. There were many people in the icy-blue obsidian from where the blast had occurred. Some of the agents along with all the other lab techs, and other vital people were frozen in place in the hard rock.
Sarah and Jarrett were unfazed by the heat blast. They got in the helicopter as agents dashed after them yelling and began shooting with no effect. Jarrett blasted all the attacks away as Sarah flew the helicopter. They both flew away never to return to their normal lives.
PYROMELTER 5 YEARS AGO
Pyromelter was Vocano’s sidekick in fighting crime. Since the accident at Obsidian Energy Labs and his unexplained disappearance fifteen years ago. Pyromelter had to work on his own with no master all he had was the outdated technology and the old base that was Vocano’s crime fighting lair the Magma Core.
As the years went on, Pyromelter was able to lock up plenty of crooks and villains. The two people he could never seem to get were Coldfusion and his main henchman Freezerburn. His feud with the duo began where it all started at the Obsidian Energy Labs. Pyromelter was working on his Magma Jet, when he got the call from the government. Agents were being frozen by some unknown source. He quickly jumped onto his Lave Runner and headed straight for Energy Obsidian Labs. The same place where his master went missing.
When he arrived at the test facility the place was being frozen by two people that had icy looking skin, shooting ice bolts and freezing anything it touched. Some agents were half frozen yelling for help as others were frozen like popsicles. Half the facility was frozen over that looked like a winter wonder land in the middle of summer. He needed to act fast.
Pyromelter pulled out his heat thawing ray to unfreeze the area. Unfortunately, Sarah and Jarrett were freezing things faster than he could unmelt. So Pyromelter went to plan B, he pulled out a thermomelter he had been working on. He hoped the device would work as it would and melt all the ice in the area. He pulled the pin and throw it in the center of the icy formation. Three seconds passed and nothing. “Great, another useless device”, Pyrmelter thought. Without warning the device exploded, sending a shockwave of intense heat. Within seconds the winter horror turned into a summer heatwave. Everything turned back to normal except the only place that wasn’t unfrozen was around where the small-scale freezing experiment was. The ice by that time had turned into a giant piece of icy-blue obsidian.
As everything began to unfreeze, Pyromelter saw the two people just beginning to take off in a government helicopter. The two escaped away into the unknown. Later he was questioned by the government agents of the Super Villain Conflict Agency division. He was thanked for the tip off but a little criticized for not arresting Sarah and/or Jarrett. Pyromelter was confused about what they meant, he never knew anything about what was going on until the alarm was sent for him.