They were ordinary employees at RX Tech working for Mark Willard in Antarctica who was trying to find the location of a mysterious meteorite that had been made into four strange artefacts called the Infada Stone, Ora Dagger, Element 115 and The Eye of Isis. These lesser mutants can be seen as the precursor to Willard's much more powerful and self-aware/intelligent form, for instance in the head of the torso mutants.