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== The Supercomputer Accident ==

During an attempted bank robbery in New Jersey, Mellon fled through a nearby research facility while escaping police pursuit. The building housed an experimental supercomputer system involved in advanced targeting and predictive analysis research.

In the chaos of the chase, Mellon crashed directly into sensitive equipment during an electrical overload event.

The resulting surge should have killed him.

Instead, something bizarre occurred.

The interaction between the experimental systems and the massive electrical discharge altered Mellon neurologically, enhancing portions of his perceptual and targeting functions to superhuman levels. Though scientists later struggled to explain the exact mechanism, Mellon emerged from the accident with an almost impossible instinct for angles, trajectories, timing, and ballistic prediction.

He could hit nearly anything.

Unfortunately, the accident also inflated his already unhealthy ego into full-blown delusions of criminal genius.