You knew that your greatest weapon would always be your telepathic powers. But you needed an edge, and you found that by possessing one of the Rangers, the city's preeminent heroes. The one you picked was Lady Argent, a silver-skinned fighter and one of the most dangerous women in Los Diablos.
You used Lady Argent's body and credentials to steal a sample of nanovores from the Rangers' HQ. The nanovores are flesh-eating self-replicating nanomachines whose rampage you stopped back in your hero days. Dr. Mortum managed to reprogram them to eat inorganic matter rather than flesh and housed them in a void-cage in your left hand.
While they are kept in stasis, they are safe, but when released, you need to control them telepathically. To help you with this, you repurposed the targeting device you stole from Psychopathor. The thing is, this device could do a lot more than he was aware of.
In fact, the targeting device is called the Rat King, a collection of five rat brains in a containment jar, linked up and boosted. They are telepathic sisters and immediately took a liking to you, a fellow telepath. They help you track targets and control the nanovores, and keep you company on dark nights when the nightmares become too much.
In addition to Dr. Mortum and the Rat King, you also hired a henchman with the help of Derana…