Powersurge: Compiled and Expanded

[Powersurge]

Powersurge

Real Name: Jason Fontaine
Other Aliases: Pulsator
Identity: Secret; known to certain officals of the Canadian government and the former United Nations "Project: Protectors"
Occupation: Currently serving 5 year probation as an agent of Department H; formerly field commander of the Protectors
Legal Status: Citizen of Canada with a criminal record
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Known Relatives: none
Base of Operations: (current) Departmeny H HQ in Ottawa, Ontario; (former) Alpha Base One off the coast of Athens, Greece, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
Group Affiliation: (current) Department H, (former) the Protectors, X-Men
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #171

Height: 6'
Weight: 175 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel

Strength Level:
Powersurge possesses the strength of a man his height, weight and build that engages in intensive regular exercise. When subliminating his energies he is capable of lifting/pressing up to 11 tons under optimal conditions and for short durations of time.

Powers:
Powersurge has the mutant ability to generate massive amounts of energy. He can surround himself in an aurua of this energy that is intense enough to instanteously slag reinforced concrete and solid steel. While this field is up he is also capable of flying at speeds of up to 225 mph.

Powersurge can also subliminate these energies, thereby increasing his strength to the above listed levels for short durations of time. During this time he cannot use any of his other energy generation powers without immedaitely dispelling the increased strength.

He can also fire focused bolts of energy quite capable of iinstanteously melting through osmium steel.

By far his most devastating attack is what has been dubbed the "pulse-blast". In this devastating expression of his powers, Powersurge is capable of releasing all the latent mutant energies in his body in one titanic explosion, en par with the largest of conventional explosives, and outdone only by tactical nuclear weapons. However, this places massive strain on his nervous system, consistently leaving him weakened and stunned, and even causing him to suffer form a massive heart attack on one occassion.

Paraphenalia: Powersurge wears a specially designed suit of protective armour that is virtually immune to the energies he generates and which is capable of deflecting small arms fire.

History:

Little is known about the mutant that would come to be known as Powersurge prior to the manifestation of his powers. Jason Fontaine is known to have been born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and, as far as can be told, he was your average Canadian teenager, noteworthy and distinguishable from his peers only in his religious interest in the heroes and deities of his NW European heritage.

The activation of his latent mutant powers came at the late age of 18, when returning home from a friend's late one night, he was jumped by a trio of thugs. As he attempted to defend himself, his stress level rose ever higher, and soon enough energy began to whisp and leak out of his body, until he was enveloped by a pulsating aura of it. The thugs fled at the sight, but the energy field continued to pulsate about Jason's body, growing more and more intense and smothering, before at last it erupted in one violent and far reaching explosion. When Jason regained his senses, he saw the surrounding park and a number of nearby office and residential buildings had been absolutely devasted, and scores of people undoubtedly killed. His parents amongst them.

Horrified at what he had done, Jason fled Winnipeg, seeking to put as much distance as he could between him and human life. He eventually came to rest in the Canadian northlands, where he was approached by Wolverine and offered both asylum and the oppurtunity to learn how to control his powers at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Upstate N.Y. After teaming up with the X-Man to fight off a sneak attack launched by Department H's Epsilon Troopers, Jason accepted the offer and accompanied Wolverine to the States.

After but a short time at the X-Mansion Jason proved himself to be an exceptional student, with strong mental discipline, a strong heroic ethic, and very strong leadership skills. Some even fancied him "another Cyclops". However, unlike Cyclops, Jason learned to control his powers with astounding speed and aptitude. Thus, it was not long before he was given his graduating costume and dubbed "Pulsator".

However, in spite of his quick rise to glory, Jason's stint as an X-Man did not last long. His only significant field mission with them took place when an interdimensional traveller calling himself Drathlor the Travelmaster hurled them into the Sentinel dominated future ... threatening to "align" this "time zone" with their own "time zone" if they failed to find a way back within a week. During the course of this mission, the X-Men contacted a mutant underground, led an ill-fated rebellion, and penetrated an installation rumoured to hold an experimental timetravel device. Reaching this device, they returned to their own time, where Drathlor forced them into battle by threatening to align the "time-zones" anyway. After a majour rumble however, Drathlor submitted and agreed to honour the terms of his game.

During the course of this mission, Jason and Rogue, whose relationship had always been something of a love-hate deal, ie. fear of hrting others with their powers, came to learn that their altnerate-future selves had not only married, but had also had a child; suggesting the possibility that they were able to touch each other without ill effects. Nevertheless, while an new level of intimacy began to evovle between them, their deeply ingrained fear of hurting others with their powers served as a great strain on both sides.

Thus, when mysteriously approached by an American representative of the United Nations soon after their return, and offered a place on a new superhero team called the Protectors, Jason was driven to accept.

(to be continued... )