You know that list of terminated Supers?
Yeah, that one.
The list starts off with a bang, and with the complete erasure of the Phantasmics in one go. Well, mostly complete.
The order of deaths is as follow:
Nowhere on the visible listing of terminated Supers is there Plasmabolt. The other three are very much dead, but she is conspicuously absent. There is a distinct possibility Plasmabolt is still alive.
As for the particular order of the Phantasmics’ deaths, they all fought the same droid 1.0., Macroburst the one to destroy it. Nowhere does it specify that Syndrome only snagged Supers one by one. Depending on how young he was when he began his killing spree, he could have wanted to see how it tested against a group of Supers. Supers who were weaker and with less than ideal powers. Psycwave and Everseer have mental powers, useless against a machine. Their threat rating is 1.6 and 3.2 respectively. Macroburst is squeaking by on a 5.9. Still not super powerful but enough to be a threat. Plasmabolt’s threat rating is unknown as she does not appear to be in Kronos’ databank.
My take on how it went down is they got caught in an ambush where both Everseer and Psycwave were killed first, their mental powers/attacks doing nothing on a man-made machine.
There were four in the Phantasmics. As Plasmabolt’s powers were flight and plasma control, I would assume she’d be more of a threat to the droid. But Macroburst is the one to take it out, not her. So that could indicate she wasn’t even with them at the time. It wouldn’t be far fetched to assume she had other duties that separated her from their group. If that was the case, the only way she might have heard about her teammates’ deaths would have been from a traumatized Macroburst before he disappeared himself, leaving her the last surviving member of the Phantasmics.
As for Macroburst… Possibly suffering from survivor guilt and/or suicidal tendencies, he might have gone searching for the source of that droid/been lured back for revenge for his dead comrades and been drawn into last bout with a new droid—one that ended in the Super’s death.
An entire group of Supers, felled in one blow. All but one.
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