Powersurge: Compiled and Expanded

[Powersurge]

History (continued... )

The United Nations Project: Protectors was originally devised in order to ease super-powered responses to international threats and in answer to a growing awareness amongst certain segments of Earth's governments of the existence of extraterrestials.

Based on a small island off the coast of Athens, Greece, dubbed Alpha Base One, the Protectors were serviced by a staff of top-notch nutritionists, physical trainers, combat specialists, psychologists and various technical support staff. Perhaps the greatest feature of the AB1 however, was it's super-computer, Byte, which had a highly advanced form of Artifical Intelligence capable of incredible powers of deductive reasoing and logic, and patched into the memory banks of participant multi-national states from across the globe (to various degrees).

After a time of set-up, preparation and intensive study and training of the superhumans involved, the Protectors were offically unveiled to the world, with Pulsator renamend "Powersurge" and presented as the teams field commander. He was joined by the beautiful Russian light manipulator called Starlight, a surly German with absolutely massive energy absorption powers named Energon, a stunning British telepath named Psiona, a hotheaded Scotman capable of generating forcefields and kinetic bolts named Force, a technological genius and practioner of bushido named Examiner, and a Swede that claimed to be the kinsman, and in every way the equal of Thor who called himself Thak of Asgard.

As the leader of the Protectors, Powersurge fought such well known threats as the Kree and Ronan the Accuser, Terrax the Tamer and Dr. Doom, Gladiator and the Imperial Guard, the Super-Skrull, Galactus(!!!), such less known threats (ie. homebrew) as the Shadowlord, Dominion and the Geoforce, and Drathlor, and on the odd occassion even such hero-groups as the Avengers, the West Coast Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and Alpha Flight.

Their battle with the Kree and Ronan revolved around a plot by the Supreme Intelligence to reignite the gene-pool of the Kree by using the genetic material of Earth's greatest heroes. This brought the enw team into direct conflict with a variety of Earth's hero teams, but thanks to various telepaths involved, the Protectors were ultimately able to free their peers and send both Ronan and the Kree packing.

Their battle with Galactus began when a starving Galactus again threatened to consume Earth; building his world-devouring machinery on Mount Olympus. Much of their success in this battle was based on Psiona's ability to link all minds to the Examiner, who could thus easily share his knowledge of Galactus' weak spots with the rest of his teammates. The finishing blow however was landed when all energy manipulators pumped everything they had into Energon, who redirected it all into Galactus' face.

However, the Examiner quickly noted an entropic field expanding from Galactus and gaining in intensity in direct correlation to the cosmic entity's dwindling life. Thus, using certain ideas picked up from an analysis of Galactus' "world devouring machinery", the Examiner headed the construction of a device that was able to syphon off the energies contained in both Powersurge and a fully charged Energon and then convert them into a form that restored Galactus to a relative state of health.

With power enough to find an alternative planet to feed his hunger, Galactus thence chose to uphold his oath and leave the Earth in peace.

As with a similar scenario that played itself out with the Fantastic Four, this invited a dire response from the Shi'ar Empire, who sent not only Gladiator, but also a number of members of the Imperial Guard to Earth in order to bring the Protectors to account for saving Galactus' life.

While ultimately successful in driving off the Shi'ar force, it was during this battle that Powersurge suffered a massive heart attack, when he fired off a focused "pulse-blast" at Gladiator in order to aid in his defeat without risking the lives of his teammates of damaging the surrounding city.

In the Shadowlord arc, the Protectors were sent in to the investigate a massive dome of darkness that had engulfed Moscow and which was slowly growing. All troops sent in to investigate had failed to return or report back.

After fighting their way past numerous "shadow demons", the Protectors at last confronted by a being calling itself the Shadowlord. He boasted that he was unleashing the stuff of the Darkforce Dimension into our world in hopes of transforming it to his liking and taking it for himself. In the end, the battle came down to Starlight and the Shadowlord, and it was she who sacrificed her life to hurl the Shadowlord back into his own dimension and bansih the stuff of his "shadow realm".

While other missions would follow, and rosters change, this mission was particualrly hard on Powersurge due to the romance that had begun to grow between him and Starlight.

Unfortunately, conflict with such participant nations as the USA and Russia, not to mention Canada-- which suspected that Powersurge was the same superbeing responsible for the "Winnipeg Incident" -- along with other completely unintelligable political nonsense ultimately led to the collapse of the program and the disbandment of the team.

As Rogue and the X-Men had since been reported dead in an incident that occurred in Dallas, Texas, Powersurge returned home to his native Canada after the dissolution of the Protectors, where he currently lives under a professionally crafted assumed identity.

(to be continued... )