Radiopath/Paragon

When Fen arrived in Paragon city, he was expecting... everything but Paragon city. The amount of metas present was incredible, almost as incredibly as the amount of crime. He found himself being put to work entering buildings and clearing out holed up gang members and sometimes he'd clear a den of thieves... much to the dismay of the city's officials. Fen's cannons were unwieldy, they had no control settings, so each blast fired at maximum strength. A nervous tick could send his fingertips blazing with energy. He was a hazard, and with so much power condensed within his reactor and fingers, Fen became a pacifist.

During his time in Paragon, Fen was led to Pocket D, an interdimensional nightclub where heroes... and villains... mingled on neutral ground. It was there he met Clara Su'cour, a demon hunter. Fen quickly grew to like her, calling her his first friend in Paragon city. At the time, she was investigating her brother, and Meteor Howl sympathized, knowing what it was like to lose track of a sibling.

He'd continue to work for the city as a registered hero, and was eventually assigned to the 'Battle Ready Organization Fighting Injustice of the Superpowered Type', also known as B.R.O.F.I.S.T. This group was NOT your Freedom Phalanx, the members of the Organization were dysfunctional at best- their leader, The American PeaceKeeper, having learned how to fight by watching old episodes of Star Trek. In the group, Fen was the 'new guy', and this stigma would stick for a long time, being as how the group was almost exclusive and hidden in the back of Paragon's record books. Despite the random prankings, the crude behavior, and almost elementary attitudes, B.R.O.F.I.S.T became Fen's new home, because they accepted the broken and unfinished cyborg as one of their own. They were his new family.

It was short lived, because during Fen's time as a street-hero, he developed a rivalry with a villain known as Dronebay. To Fen, he was a murderer, a pillager, and someone who used technology to extort and injure the helpless. To Beller, Fen was a marvel of modern technology who was still too human to be of any use. The two had an almost instant hatred for eachother, and several battles would play out between them, costing Paragon City. In addition to his high-energy scuffles with Dronebay, Fen had destroyed nearly five banks, and countless other smaller buildings in his pursuit of justice. There wasn't any malice behind it, Fen just simply couldn't control his weaponry.

The final battle between the two took a heavy toll. Dronebay had managed to take several scientists hostage and were trying to bargain their lives for military tech. PPD sent out a call, and while they didn't like it, Meteor Howl was the closest hero in range. High powered energy beams, pulse rifle rounds, and the mechanical wailing of robotic minions filled the building as the two battled for nearly half an hour. Eventually it came down to just the two, and in what seemed to be an extraordinary stroke of luck, Fen landed a hit on Beller that removed his right arm and leg. The hostages were unharmed, PPD secured Dronebay and had him emergency beaconed to the nearest hospital to be cared for before being sent to the Zig.

Fen, however, was dying.

Ontop of considerable pulse-round burns and bruises, Fen's heart was failing. The reactor installed by the scientists at CERES was faulty and unfinished, and when the cyborg exerted himself to such an extent, it caused irreversible damage to the organ's tissues.

The cyborg clutched his chest and slid down the wall to the floor, irregular heartbeat pounding in his ears. When the PPD officers noticed the downed hero, they scrambled to get him back on his feet. More medical personal were called to the scene, and the last thing the cyborg remembers is the flashing red and blue of an ambulance as his vision dimmed.

Fen woke up three weeks later in the hospital. His reactor had been powered down and his cybernetics were offline. He felt borderline useless. Doctors were still wary of his heart, however, and Fenwick was ordered (in his words 'condemned') to remain off of cape duty. He spent almost a year in the B.R.O.F.I.S.T base as dispatch and communications.