ORIGIN

Michael was born the second oldest of a five sibling family in Port Washington New York. His father, unbeknownst to the family besides their mother, was a CIAAD, or Central Intelligence Agency: Anomaly Department operative, who underwent a special operation to gain superpowers of five test subjects the department had taken in over the years. He was the only one in which the DNA took, the rest of the subjects died. Before the scientist, Walter Stein, could be tried for murder, he went into hiding. The scandal reached headlines, with Gordon Sawyer being anonymous, and the department was shut down. Years later, Gordon died of a heart attack (which may have been the result of an overload in his system of powers), having had five children. Michael was working on a device with his lab partner and sister Maggie, and they were showing it off at the National Youth Science Fair. His other siblings (George, June, and Chuck) were there when the machine exploded, and the five of them were secretly abducted by an aged Stein. They were tested for the same abilities as their father, but this time the powers varied among the children. Michael developed speed powers. The children, led by Michael, worked together to use their newfound abilites to fight crime, and were eventually drafted by a fake CIAAD, led by Stein. They figured this out over time and it was brought to the public. Stein was put into custody. This propelled the sibling team into the public eye, and soon a new CIAAD was formed. On one mission, June lost her eyesight to the siblings’ archenemy, Cryoclaw. The event split the family. George was mad at Michael for pushing them into crime-fighting, citing the incident as what could happen. Chuck, Maggie and June didn’t take sides. Maggie would come to head the new CIAAD, and Michael, believing it would be a good idea to have a super-powered team in the event of global or national threat, persuaded her to let him assemble one.