[Billionaire's Wayward Orphan-Child]

Jack Averette, a lost soul, was born to the immensely affluent business magnate and - and he's not afraid to say it - robber baron, Richard Averette. Possibly the richest man in the world, though not the type to be known as such, Dick was shot and mugged on his way out of a whorehouse in Berlin. His two-year-old son (whose mother was payed to forget the weekend she spent with Dick and the subsequent nine months after) was left in the care of his large house staff. He was a very boring child, really, until one day, at the age of ten, he wandered off down the road and spent a night downtown. From then on, he spent many every night in the city, and slept in Averette Manor by day. He bought himself cars and guns and spent twelve years honing his skills with firearms and automobiles of all kinds. By his twenty-second birthday, all his house staff had given up, disgusted, and quit.

He spent a year with the Carnighan Fatale Syndicate as a hitman and messenger.

He avoids drugs, though you'd think that with his hobbies they'd play a major role. One night, on the town, he'd heard of a wild process that would give him the ride of his life. Naturally, being the thrill seeker that he was, he looked into it further.
A doctor by the name of Keith Levenger had been experimenting with lightning and ecstasy-type drugs of his own design, with some interesting results. It seemed that those who underwent his process would, for the next six to eight hours, enjoy a strong optimistic feeling (often graduating to waves of physical pleasure and euphoria) and heightened senses of smell, hearing and touch. The usual relaxing of muscles associated with E is replaced by an electrically energetic feeling. Hoping for a long and wild party at his favorite club, Jack payed the enormous fee, and hooked himself up to the machine.

The machine was basically a spherical adapter which hung from wires in the middle of Dr. Levenger's laboratory. When lightning struck the rod atop the roof, the energies were channeled through the adapter into thin copper wires filled with the ecstasy synthesis. Molecules of the synthesis were stripped by the tremendous energy of the lightning and injected right into the nervous system through connector nodes stuck to the target person. After the preliminary seizures were over, the target was unstrapped from the laboratory chair, and allowed to go back to their car. Since there were no side effects of this process such as dizziness, nausea or impaired judgment, a person would drive no less safely than previously, perhaps a bit faster, with the music turned down.

It wasn't until a month after Jack had this procedure that long-term side effects were discovered: Gradual blindness, a bunch of schizophrenia-like disorders, and sterility were common, that is to say rampant, among those who had the treatment. Luckily for Jack, only sterility seems to have affected him... but then again, he's never gotten the schizophrenia one checked out...