its lowest level, his target will suffer a severe headache, but will not burn up.
Havok constantly absorbs cosmic radiation. When his power-storage enclaves reach capacity, excess energy is thereafter emitted in negligible quantities. Upon the total expenditure of his available reserves, Havok's body requires about 16 1/2 hours to recharge to peak level. The act of concentration involved in releasing his energy in anything other than an omnidirectional wave is physically exhausting for Havok if continued for an extended period of time.
History: Alex Summers is the younger brother of Cyclops -- stalwart leader of the X-Men, an outlaw band of heroic mutant adventurers. Their father -- Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force -- was flying his family home from vacation aboard a vintage aircraft when a midair collision crippled the Summers' plane. Katherine Summers pushed her young sons to safety in the only available parachute. With Christopher and Katherine presumed dead, the boys were hospitalized for injuries they sustained during their landing, as their overburdened parachute had been unable to slow their decent sufficiently. Scott and Alex both suffered traumatic amnesia regarding the plane incident. Alex left the hospital after two weeks and was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska. Soon adopted, he had little or no contact with Scott until he lost track of his older entirely.
Alex was unaware of Scott's developing mutant power or his identity as Cyclops of the X-Men. It was at about the time that Magneto was busy with his plans to mutate the leaders of the world that Alex first becameaware of his own mutant abilities. He was unable to control the direction or the timing of his powers and wound up hurting innocent people by accident.
Incapable of controlling the shock waves his body emanated, Summers chose to remain in the Egyptian desert where he could do no damage. After months of practice and trial and error, he was able to control the directions of his blasts along his arms and begin to tell when his body was abosrbing to much energy and would need to release it. With this new found control, Alex began the search for his brother after catching rare little glimpses of the X-Men on the news and television, having sparked his interest as one of them looked really familar. His search led him to New York, the train station in Salem Center that Cyclops blew the roof off of with his optic blast, and finally to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. There the brothers were reunited for the first time in many years and Alex has remained there as part of the X-Men. |
