History

Avery was born to what he thought were two loving parents, Frank Rodriguez and Lucrezia Welsh. In school, he found himself the target of bullying from elementary school all the way up until high school. Despite his and his parents' numerous attempts to fix the problem, every time one bully was dealt with, two more were there in their place. Avery was miserable and resorted to cutting himself as his way of venting. This habit continued on for years until his parents approached him with a deal that could keep him from being bullied ever again. If he allowed himself to be experimented on by his parents' place of work, Future Tech, he could be turned into a superhero. However, after a tour of the facilities, Avery was horror-stricken to find the poor and, in most cases, deadly conditions the experiments lived in and he refused to take part. His father agreed to help get him out of it, but, after his mother initiated the final procedure to turn Avery into an experiment, his father was faced with a choice. He could allow Avery to be taken, or he could try and stop them and both he and Avery would be experimented on. Avery's father broke his promise and Avery was thrown into a Future Tech cell. A few days after he was taken in, Avery began talking with his cell-neighbor, Jonah Tarbor. The two formed a close friendship and, as life got worse and worse for the two of them, they were able to keep each other strong enough to get through it. One day, after a particularly brutal day of testing, Avery noticed that all of his cutting scars had vanished and, testing out his assumption by stabbing a knife through his palm, he learned that he had an almost instantaneous healing factor. A few weeks after learning about this, Avery was taken into an operation room. The woman experimenting on him, Soma, didn't knock him out beforehand and the last thing he remembered was a scalpel cutting into the cheek just below his eye before he passed out. After the surgery, as his face healed, Avery began to notice lapses in his memory. They became longer and more frequent until one day, he blacked out for a much longer amount of time than he ever had before.

Role in Power Pills

Avery, being controlled by a microchip implanted in his brain, was sent to attack a man who was rumored to have mind controlling powers. Avery was able to find the man, but in the end he was defeated. The man Avery had been sent to fight managed to free him from the control of the microchip and Avery woke up in a hospital bed where the man introduced himself as Caleb Budde. It was there that Avery learned that the scalpel cutting he remembered from a few weeks ago had left a ghastly scar circling the entire right side of his head. He had a breakdown in front of Caleb, who promised to help him in any way he could. But, Avery was still being tried by the state for his attacks from when he was under the influence of the microchip. He was found guilty, even with Caleb testifying for him, however, a mysterious pardon from the governor managed to free him. He moved in with Caleb's friend, Travis, while his new foster parents were being found and Avery settled into the group pretty quickly.

About a month later, after two more of his friends, Guy and Kate, ran into a second superhero, Wax Guise, Avery helped his friends attempt to figure out the identity of the hero, however, they didn't find much luck until the man who had given Caleb his powers appeared next to Avery and Caleb. The man gave the two Wax Guise's address and Caleb and Avery set off to find him. However, Wax Guise, or Dan, assumed Avery was still with Future Tech and as soon as he heard that Avery had appeared on his doorstep, he ran. Avery and Caleb chased Dan down and explained what was going on. Dan then gave the two of them a lift back to his apartment as an apology where they were introduced to Dan's friends.

Later that month, Avery finally moved in with his new foster parents, an older coupled named Julia and Reed Overmott. They seemed extremely nice and they accepted Avery as their new son in a heartbeat. It was also in this month that Avery, after an unfortunate accident with a villain and a metal pole through the chest, learned that his healing factor had officially returned after almost a full month of absence.

This is the story thus far...