<strong>Tomas 'Surge' Rodriguez  (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343665.msg16235416#msg16235416)</strong><br/><strong>Locale</strong>: Inside one of Sun Labs' laboratories<br/><strong>Outfit</strong>: Black tracksuit  (https://cdna.lystit.com/1040/1300/n/photos/farfetch/38ccd863/just-don-Black-Lightning-Bolt-Track-Trousers.jpeg) with white lightning bolts (https://www.babyshop.com/images/637822/card_large.jpg)<br/><hr/><br/>As the overwhelming pain of uncontrolled voltage began to fade, Surge regained the use of his senses only to hear the ominous tones of the meltdown alarm blaring. His heart skipped a beat again, wracked with momentary indecision. The smart thing to do would be to flee with Skye and the case, hoping the two villains would focus on survival over giving chase. And all it would cost was the laboratory complex with all the computers and research stored within. Just stuff. Tools to be used. Used like his mother used the residents of her stolen island, without any regard for them or the people who cared about them. Those computers held some peoples' life's work, even ignoring the millions of dollars it would cost to replace the hardware itself. He wouldn't be like his mother...but if he was going to fix this, he'd have to let a part of himself he hated out.<br/><br/>Killer Sting received only a brief glance upward. "If you stick around much longer, Valerie, you might find out. Better buzz off and try harder next time."<br/><br/>Closing his eyes again, he reached out with his technopathic senses, searching for the mechanisms controlling the reactor's fuel flow. Electrical overload had fried the circuits that operated the valves, but the valves remained functional - if he could convince them to listen to him, and do the job they were built for...