Lucas Garner (Earth-1)

"We're all freaks. Maybe it's on the inside, maybe it's on the outside. For me, it used to just be on the inside. But that one night changed everything. I was put in this god damn hollow shell of a body. I'll never be the same."

Childhood
When Lucas was really little, his mother walked out on him and his father, claiming that they were not good enough for her, and it wasn't what she wanted her life to turn out like. After she left, the relationship between Lucas and his father became strained. They hardly talked and when they did the conversation was boring. Neither of them ever tried very hard to patch things up, but both of them wished they would.

Power Development
When Lucas was sixteen, he was at his school gym, working out, wailing on a punching bag. Eventually, he hit it hard enough to knock it off and slam into the wall. He was astounded, so he tested his strength several more times, and came to the conclusion that he was a mutant. When he went home to tell his dad, he hoped it would make their relationship more interesting. But when he came home, he found his father passed out drunk, and when he tried to wake him up, he discovered his heartbeat was slowing. He began freaking out, and he tried to perform CPR, but it was hopeless. His father was gone.

The Accident
When Lucas took his father's body to the morgue, he was approached by some agents of the CIA. They offered him the chance to escape his day to day life, and he selfishly took the chance. They began tests on him in order to learn more about mutant DNA. However, one night, when some scientists were running a chemical test, Lucas wanted to see if he could withstand the chemicals. However, they soon discovered he could not and his skin was badly burned. so the scientists got to work right away and it wasn't long until they had turned him into an android.