The scientist wore the armor as the superhuman operative S.H.O.C. alongside a man that would come
to be known as Crown,
but absconded with the armor after learning of HYDRA's true purpose, building a new life for himself as Empire State University professor "Dr. William Fields", getting married and fathering a son, Todd. However, Crown tracked down and killed Dr. Fields along
with many other Hydra agents and was planning to use the S.H.O.C.s
technology to conquer the world. Todd was a young boy when he witnessed
the death of his father, witch traumatized him greatly. His father
however left Todd with key components for Todd to track and use
another S.H.O.C. armor and bond with it. Todd then became S.H.O.C. and swore
revenge on Crown for murdering his father.
S.H.O.C. was bonded with a bio-mechanical armor charged by a mysterious
power source. By combining his father's research work with the S.H.O.C. armor, Todd physically bonded with the armor and could use it to channel Darkforce energy for various purposes. His arch-nemesis Crown was apparently
empowered by an earlier version of S.H.O.C.'s technology. He was covered by a
tangible black energy suit at all times, apparently could not revert to
human, and claimed to be dying as a result of the experiment. Whether
S.H.O.C. was also dying because of his powers, or if his father's notes
improved enough upon the earlier tech to preserve his life, is unknown.
As S.H.O.C., Todd could mentally generate black energy in order to summon
the armor at will, changing identities with a thought. Once the armor
was active and helping him channel Darkforce energy, S.H.O.C. possessed
superhuman strength, stamina, and resistance to physical injury, as well
as flight. The S.H.O.C. armor was mildly customizable -- it showcased heavy
armor plating on the outer surface during combat situations, but on the
rare occasions S.H.O.C. appeared in a relaxed setting, those armor plates
smoothed out to resemble a flat design pattern on the suit. S.H.O.C. could
produce Darkforce energy for transmogrifying blasts. The most basic form of
blast would deconstruct matter, causing concussive or disintegrating
effects where it struck. However, the black energy could also cause more
elaborate effects like reshaping the floor into defensive barrier or
charging Spider-Man's webbing with energy so that it could absorb
additional force as a web net. S.H.O.C. could also transmogrify himself
while inside the armor. He could increase his overall mass, growing to
at least twice his normal size. He could also stretch his arms or
fingers like Mister Fantastic, and expand his fists into massive
pile-drivers. He could shape and disconnect portions of his armored mass
from the whole, and remain in mental contact with these pieces even
after they separated from him. S.H.O.C. was sensitive to other sources of Darkforce energy in use in his vicinity, and could absorb and redirect those
energies when exposed to them. Whether he could sense and manipulate
other forms of energy is unknown.
