10: Home Truths - 2000AD prog 599

Schiehallion, Scotland: February 10, 1988: Zenith is disappointed that Peyne did not bring the girls with him this time. Peyne has come to tell Zenith about his parents: Cloud 9 had developed ‘The Plan’ - a similar scheme to Dr Peyne’s original idea for superhumans to become humanity’s successors, although Peter and Siadwel disagreed with the others, causing a split in the group. White Heat and Dr Beat went into hiding until Zenith was born. In 1968 they were psychically attacked by CIA agents ‘The Shadowmen’, who were also behind the near fatal illness that Peter, Ruby and Siadwel suffered from in 1969. He also tells Zenith that Shockwave and Blaze were cloned from Ruby and Zenith’s mother (he is sickened by this news!). His dad survived the attack, although body & brain were severely damaged. What’s left is now inside the robot known as Warhead.