Plastico

PERSONAL HISTORY

When still a young boy Barry Barton was playing with friends by rope climbing up the side of a railway bridge when, just before he reached the top, the rope he was climbing on snapped and he fell onto the tracks below and was hit by a passing train.

Horrified, Barry's friends did what they could for his broken body, and tried to keep him alive while they got help.

Critically injured, he was soon rushed by an ambulance to...? Barry has no recollection of what happened to him after that. All he remembers is climbing up the rope then waking up at home several months later.

He has vague images of someone or something mumbling or talking in an unknown language over him, of being held or tied down on a bed or table, of an examination or was it a postmortem, of being taken from a hospital, or was it a barracks into a laboratory, or was it a gymnasium? There was a machine, or was it a man in a mask? And there was pain, it was hot and cold all over his broken body, and there were needles, or were they tendrils, or tentacles? There was what sounded like a strange prayer of hymn, or was it the hum of electronics?

Then, one day after feeling especially confused and woozy he was back home with his folks, he had been brought home by taxi but they had no idea from where. Barry felt fine, he felt more than fine, and slowly over the passing months he began to notice he could change the shape of his body in miraculous ways. He could even disguise himself to look like one of his friends.

Soon after, the war started and some military looking people came to the farm to take Barry away to help America win the war. Apparently neither he nor his folks had any say in this, and how did the military know about his power? He was to be one of a team of super powered individuals brought together to fight the Nazis and the Japanese empire.

The team was called the Society of Heroes and Barry was given the code-name of Plastico, he became a World War 2 legend along with the other heroes.