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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	16
Date of birth	1991
Place of birth	London
Home	London
Occupation	Schoolboy
Significant other	None
Parents	Patrick Simmonds, Felicity Simmonds (deceased)
Guardian	formerly Julie
Other relatives	Julie (aunt)
Assignment tracker	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.

Shattered Lives

Derek and the others arrive at the warehouse after Karl had created a tunnel to escape the train tunnel.

Later on that night, some escapees from the prison arrive at the warehouse and Karl buries underground and creates a bunker for all the escapees. Derek questions the escapees asking who sent them, he then accompanies them down to the bunker. When Karl has shown them around Derek makes his way to the surface with Irony, Karl, Tyler and Leckie when they reach the top Leckie is shot by an unknown assailant and Karl makes the ground move to make a wall keeping them safe.

The Wanderer Returns

When Leckie is shot and dying, Karl desperately yells for someone to do something. Irony instructs Derek to use his electrical abilities as a defibrillator, and jump start Leckie's heartbeat. Derek does as told, saving Leckie's life. Karl and Leckie leave for the hospital, while Derek and Irony go to find who shot Leckie. Gabriel Bishop returns to help them, but Derek watches in horror as Gabriel is shot and killed by Consuela Hammock, who also shoots Officer Bonkin. Derek and Irony rush over to Bonkin's body, knowing that it is too late for Gabriel, and that he's already dead.

Derek Simmonds, Part 1

Derek relives his past, and recalls that his mother had died during childbirth, which Derek blames on his electrical abilities. Derek was then sent by his father to live with his aunt Julie. He resented his father for not loving him, and at school, he was an outcast, often being bullied by jocks like Michael Ashworth. After his aunt gave him up to social services, he spent time discovering his special ability, and playing with electricity. He confided in his maths teacher, Mr. Clayton, but Mr. Clayton didn't believe him.

After a few months, Derek had become a Goth, and set out to take revenge on Michael Ashworth and Mr. Clayton. He succeeds in getting back at Michael, who is electrified badly and hospitalized. However, before he can find Mr. Clayton, a Company agent captures him.

Derek Simmonds, Part 2

Derek is taken by surprise by the agent behind him soon becomes frightened, John Doe walks to Derek and absorbs a tear from his face and the pair tell Derek what he is and correctly guessing his ability of electrical manipulation. Derek electrocutes the agents and escapes.

The next day, the pair show up at Derek's house and capture him with the use of rubber gloves.

Back at the Company, John lets Derek out of his cell, thinking that he had learned the error of his ways. Derek leaves, understanding John's huge sacrifice.

Derek Simmonds, Part 3

Derek manages to arrange to meet Claude at the Tower of London but despite John having let Derek escape, his partner, Lloyd, is intent on recapturing him.

Lloyd chases Derek around town, and as Derek sprints into an alley, John steps in front of him, blocking his way. Lloyd is glad to see John, but John is zapped from behind by Derek's father using a red blast of energy. Patrick tells Derek to run, he does so and soon realises he's late for his meeting with Claude, however he sees Mr. Clayton who is able to give him a lift to the Tower of London.

Room 410

After dumping Gabriel's body in a skip, Derek, Elizabeth, Kate, Tyler and Irony are confronted by a mysterious woman who tells them her ability and how they need both Leckie and Frederick to stop an incoming batch of drugs. After deciding to use Elizabeth's ability to transport Leckie out of the hospital, Derek and the gang find Gabriel's body is missing.

After Irony and Elizabeth return and restore an unconscious Leckie. Derek listens to Irony who tells the gang they must stop the incoming batch of drugs.

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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