User:Cockney Heroes/Characters/Derek Simmonds

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Derek Simmonds
First appearance	Hidden in the Darkness
In-story stats
Known ability	Electrical Manipulation
Formal name	Derek Simmonds
Aliases	Lighter, Special
Nickname	Lighter
Gender
Age	13
Date of birth	1995
Place of birth	London
Home	London
Occupation	School Boy
Significant other	None
Assignment tracker	[[User:Cockney Heroes/ATs/Derek Simmonds|CH07]]

Derek Simmonds is an evolved human with the ability of electric manipulation.

Character History

Volume One

For an episode-by-episode summary, see Derek Simmonds: Volume One history.

Derek meets up with Irony, Gabriel Bishop and Claude and asks them to help him control his powers. After a run-in with the Company, Irony and Gabriel get around to training Derek, but accidentally cause him to release electricity uncontrollably. Eventually, Irony knocks Derek out to keep him from doing more damage.

When the team's van explodes during their surveillance mission, Derek is saved by Abigail's force field, but is subsequently arrested. However, Irony knocks out an officer, and Gabriel teleports Derek and Irony out of the precinct. After a visit from Pinehearst, Derek questions Claude and Gabriel and demands them to explain their past.

After listening to Claude and Gabriel's stories, Derek is introduced to Dave, and Derek, Dave, and Irony head to break Abigail out of prison. However, during the breakout, they run into a troublesome evolved human who impedes their efforts. With Dave's help, they manage to subdue the enemy and rescue Abigail.

Later, along with the rest of the team, Derek meets Jenny, and Officer Bonkin inform them of a new threat, Jack the Ripper. At Whitechapel, Derek and the team battles Jack the Ripper. When Jack returns at St. Grays Hospital, Derek and the others finally defeat Jack. Three weeks later, while celebrating Jack's demise with the rest of the team, Derek, Irony, Gabriel, and Jenny were tasered and caught by Danko's team.

Veni Vidi Expugnavi

Derek awakes with Irony in a cell. Confused as to why they are there, they meet Eric Cowell, another evolved human, and discover that the prison in which they are is for "specials" only. The prison's boss, Consuela Hammock, gives a speech which explains the situation further. When they arrive back at the cell, Irony tells Derek that they are going to escape. Derek uses the passive side of his ability to short out the cell's electric door. They escape through corridors and discover that Officer Bonkin was the one who turned them in. They continue and find the Project DIBOAHA that Consuela had mentioned, who is actually a person, Obadiah. They untie him, but their presence is discovered and guards storm into the room. After a brief firefight, an explosion occurs.

Derek later wakes up drowsily, and is told by a new cellmate, Karl Hall, that he is now in solitary confinement.

Shark of the Streets

Before a flashback, Derek wakes up after the explosion where he meets Karl Hall, who explains where they are, and introduces Leckie, who is squatting against a wall.

Imprisoned

In solitary confinement, Derek is introduced by Irony to Karl and Leckie. As Karl tell their story of how they were captured and placed into solitary confinement, Derek listens. Then, Derek asks what to do next, to which Irony and Karl simultaneously reply that they are going to escape.

Déjà Vu

Derek learns from Karl that there are five additional prisoners in solitary confinement. After waiting a few days, they discover that the prison's stock of ability-negating drugs has run out, and their abilities have been restored. They release the five other prisoners, and together, try to escape. After their initial attempt is thwarted by Consuela Hammock, Karl saves them and, using a combination of the nine evolved humans' abilities (in which Derek blasts electricity at a door to weaken it), manage to subdue a guard as well as Consuela herself. One of the evolved humans, Stuart Harrison, is killed in the firefight, but the rest of them, including Derek, escape the prison safely.

Sliding Doors

After agreeing to meet Karl at the warehouse, Irony, Derek and Leckie took the tube. As the train suddenly stopped they find it is the result of a hooded evolved human who can release EMPs.

They chase him who avoids Derek's bolt before he is overwhelmed by Irony. Discovering they are both prison escapees and due to a tip off from REBEL, that there are agents waiting for them at the next stop. Tyler manages to reverse the EMP and the group is rescued by Karl who takes them to the sewer, below the warehouse, to the delight of the gang.

Evolved Human Abilities

Derek has electrical manipulation. He has very little control over his ability, he has been shown to lose complete control and generate large amounts of electricity (Nemesis). He has also shown he can use his ability with little effort by simply clicking his fingers (Hidden in the Darkness). With Irony's help, Derek has managed to control his powers better, and can use it to attack people (Ambush from an Outside Source). Derek has learned to access the passive side of his ability, as he managed to use the electricity stored within him to short out an electric cell door (Veni Vidi Expugnavi).

According to his assignment tracker file at primatechpaper.com, Derek's control index is 16%. His data analysis shows his biological level at 40, cerebral at 15, elemental at 80, and temporal/spatial at 30.

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