Connor Wynters

* Mercury
* Connor Wynters

> *"Being a hero isn't a curse to me, it's a gift. I can help as many people as I want within a second." - Connor Wynters*
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**Connor Wynters**, also known as **Mercury**, is one of the few people who've became conduits from the *Freak Incident* back at I.N.A.D. Labs. Mercury is known to be the youngest member in the The Union of Justice, yet alone being the youngest hero within the hero community as of now. Being chosen by the The Immense Field to become their avatar-- Connor was gifted superhuman abilities + speedster traits, such as Superhuman Speed, Accelerated Healing Factor, Superhuman Reflexes, Superhuman Stamina, Accelerated Perception, and much more. Briefly being known around certain parts of Millennium City for about a year now, Connor manages to balance his teenage life with his heroic duties as being **The Silver Streak**.

## Biography

### Early Stages

*Connor was born on April 8th, 1996, in Saint John's Hospital nearby 16th Park Avenue to John Wynters and Rose Wynters.*

*Around his adolescent years, Connor's parents had filed divorce papers amongst each other, which left Connor in a deep situation within his childhood. Around his time in middle-school, he was bullied often until Gabe had stood up for him, making the two ongoing best-friends. Connor was also deemed the top student to have good scores in his Biology class.*

### The Incident

*Attending a school field trip to I.N.A.D. Laboratories for their annual science fair, Connor's cousin, Nathan, was helping him finish up his science project last minute, while the current classes were moving to the maintenance hall within the building. Later on within the day, An argument between the executive team + C.E.O. and Kaine Dawson had broken outside of the office-room, resulting in Kaine throwing a short temper-tantrum. Releasing all of his anger and frustration out on the energy inhibitor, the machine began to malfunction, releasing an immense amount of dangerously unknown energy throughout the corridors, causing everyone to evacuate the premise. While everyone was being safely instructed out the building, Connor made sure that everyone left the building in safe matters.*

*While running throughout the corridor to find the nearest exit, Connor was aggressively caught in the wave of uncritical energy, flinging him up against the corridor wall, placing him unconscious.*

*After undergoing such a horrific accident, which almost cost his life, Connor nearly spent 3 months in the Hospital, trying to recover from his injuries. While in his brief comatose, Connor had caught a glimpse of a bright light, slowing approaching him. The anonymous silhouette sought Connor to be their avatar of hope, the spirit of speed. Offering Connor a quick recovery + a unique chance to help him for his immense heroism, He was quick to wake up from his deep sleep. While waking up, he suffered from minor heart troubles, temporal headaches, & disoriented vision. After suffering from those minor conditions, Nathan began to feel slightly different.*

*While fully recovered from the incident, Nathan had bare witness to his body feeling accelerated + vibrating and was able to move his body at a superhuman level of speed. At that current moment, Connor realized that he became a conduit. Once Connor traveled to I.N.A.D. Labs after his quick recovery, he asked his cousin and the research team, in need for help. After gathering up a lot of intel about the unknown source of energy within his body, they helped Connor gain control over his new-found abilities.*

### The Birth of the Silver Streak

*After months of training with the help of Nathan Wynters and his team-- Connor managed to use his abilities for good, being an amateur vigilante throughout the northern parts of Millennium City. Moving throughout the crowded streets of Millennium and undergoing daily patrols, Connor gained a special love from certain civilians around the sun-kissed metropolis, gaining the public name "The Silver Streak". Months later, he was provided a new suit, courtesy of I.N.A.D. Labs, which was crafted in Teflon-compressed polymer + threaded fabric built in his shoes to help prevent friction-buildups.*

### *The Recruitment*

*Recently entering his Junior year-- Connor struggles to balance his life, being a newly-fledged hero and a high-school student. After stopping a small bank robbery, he went back to his base of operations, only to see John Moore standing amongst him. Questioning who he is, John told him who he truly was, needing his help with an imminent threat approaching Earth. Having second thoughts-- Connor quickly answered **"YES"** to him, initiatively joining the Union of Justice.*

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Immense Field Connection / Speedster Physiology** - After being caught within the energy-wave and doused with chemicals, Connor gained a special connection to the The Immense Field, an extra-dimensional energy field, granting him many speed-based superhuman abilities. This altered and supercharged his DNA, cells, and neurotransmitters. It also augmented his bones, joints, tissue and entire physiology well-beyond peak human condition to easily handle the rigors of his powers. High-level friction, inertia, air pressure, reduced oxygen, vectors, and kinetic impact no longer affect him.
	+ **Superhuman Speed** - Mercury is capable of moving at tremendous hypersonic speeds, an ability so powerful that his movements are invisible to the naked eye. He can run across vertical structures and ceilings, over stretching seas, or effortlessly catch speeding projectiles.
	+ **Aerokinesis** - Connor can use his speed to generate air flows on various levels and for several effects. He can create vortexes to suffocate people or extinguish fires by forming it around them. He can create large and strong tornadoes, able to repel massive targets.
	+ **Superhuman Agility** - Connor has demonstrated enhanced coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. He can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance and instantly stop running on the spot. He can jump and run along falling debris and launch himself tremendous distances without build-up.
	+ **Superhuman Momentum** - Connor is able to generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. Even little exertions from this build-up can generate tremendous force, able to knock a person out. He can propel himself to jump tremendous heights and distances.
	+ **Momentum Negation** - Connor can come to a full stop, despite the extreme inertia of his movements, allowing him to further the illusion of having not moved at all if he moves at super-speed and returns to his previous location, before anyone can notice it.
	+ **Bodily Vibration** - Connor can vibrate his body for various effects. This can mask his form from being clearly perceived or distort his vocal cords to disguise his voice. His vibrations can forcibly expel any toxins in him. He can also generate enough heat to recover and stay thermally insulated from extreme cold.
	+ **Intangibility** - By vibrating his molecules at the frequency of air, Mercury can physically pass through solid matter, even highly complex matter like carbine while in a universe of a different vibrational nature.
* **Superhuman Thinking** - Connor's powers also makes his thought processing able to take in and retain information just as fast and efficiently. He can clearly think, react to events, and perform actions long before normal humans can perceive them.
* **Superhuman Reflexes** - Connor possesses reflexes far greater than those of a normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion. He can relax this ability to enable him to interact with and tolerate the real world. While in this state, Mercury is also able to outpace the speed of other forces like gravity, allowing him to move faster than an object can be affected by gravity and begin falling. His reflexes are faster than normal people can even perceive.

* **Regenerative Healing Factor** - The Immense Field granted Connor's physiology an accelerated rate of healing and regeneration. His molecules move at accelerated rates, mending damage far quicker and more efficiently than normal humans. Without treatment, most damage heals in under a day with no lingering signs. Even normally permanent damage, like paraplegia, is completely repaired in under a week.
	+ **Accelerated Metabolism**: Because of Connor's accelerated metabolism, he burns calories at an accelerated rate, keeping his body slim and fit, so this requires him to intake a high amount of calories to function normally.

* **Superhuman** **Stamina**: Connor's body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-inducing lactic acid in his muscles and his musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human, granting him exceptional endurance and lung capacity, greater than that of normal humans.

* **Superhuman Durability**: Connor possesses superhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. He can take attacks and exertion, even survive impacts that would easily kill normal humans. While not invulnerable nor immune to pain, he withstood powerful lightning bolts, concussive shock waves, sonic blasts and inhumanly strong strikes, only being momentarily stunned. He can also remain almost unharmed when falling from certain heights that would easily killed normal humans.

* **Electrogenesis / Electrokinesis**: Mercury is able to produce a blue energy identical to electricity, being the physical manifestation of Immense Field energy. This energy can be focused into his strikes, generating enough force in his strikes to greatly harm super durable foes without any harm to himself. Alternatively, its intensity can interfere with surrounding electronics and overwhelm electric-absorption. He can focus the energy into specific body parts to produce a strong static shock on contact with the target. In addition, he can harness it by directing it into his arms to repeatedly hurl lightning bolts to stun or repel enemies, and also electrify a surface. He can also absorb electricity from other sources, simultaneously giving him an extra boost when running or throwing lightning.
* **Time-Travel** - Connor can run fast enough to break through the fabric of the space-time continuum, enabling him to travel forward or back in time to monitor or alter past events.

### Abilities

* **Knowledgeable in Science**: Connor is a brilliant-expertise, when it comes to following subjects; such as Biology or Astrology. He is also one of the extremely few individuals with knowledge about the workings of The Immense Field.
* **Skilled Combatant** - Despite having no formal training in hand-to-hand combat, Connor grew to become a formidable fighter when facing most opponents due to his tremendous speed. His abilities allow him to execute attacks against opponents with superhuman amounts of force.