Heatfront

Keith’s past is both simple and tragic. At the age of ten, he observed one of the many experiments of his uncle, the villain Hypothesis. He was profoundly affected by the energies being studied. This low-level cosmic radiation served to activate his omnigene, but the initial flare up of those abilities inadvertently killed his mother. Hypothesis placed him in a stasis pod from that point on, where he remained until early 2000. Hypothesis' robotic assistant, Andros, newly retrofitted with the alien Nu’rak omnigenetic regulator, took it upon itself to merge with the sixteen year-old boy. With that technology, Andros was able to restrain Keith’s heat powers within his own malleable form, thus giving both of them the chance at the ‘normal’ life that they craved. Since their combined escape from Hypothesis' laboratory in Staten Island, Heatfront has spent the majority of his time incarcerated in the United Alliance’s detention facility, but Keith's persistence resulted in his being named the sixth member of the Next Alliance.