T2M Americas accidentally put Alex in a coma when they destroyed the arcade the boy was in during the take down of a renegade nova. As a show of good faith (and to prevent lawsuit), Team Tomorrow took the boy to a special Triton facility. Alex's body was hooked up to an advanced mainframe, using the latest technology to keep his mind and boy stimulated. This unprecedented level of input caused him to erupt. Unconsciously, Alex's mind drifted into the mainframe and eventually into the OpNet, where he learned that was on it. It was a couple of years before Alex "discovered" his body and what had really happened to him. Seething with anger - toward his frail body, T2M and Project Utopia - he engineered his escape in 2005. Using his newly discovered powers, he arranged to have his body and the