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(Created page with "upright=1|thumb|There are so many things that I don't understand. '''X-51''' may have been born on an assembly line, but he was raised a human. The last in the X series line of experimental "living" robots, X-51 was taken in by the scientist Abel Stack to discover whether or not his development would be affected by staying in a loving family home. Taking on the name '''Aaron Stack''', he learned to be compassionate, have a stron...") |
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After the Binary Bug hit [[James Anderson]], a client of Delmar, Aaron reasoned that all of his thefts had centred around Delmar and, with a chat to the company's computerised records room, [[Compucord]], began to suspect the man who had previously filled his position, [[Joseph Rambo]]. More sleuthing led Machine Man to the airship fortress ''[[Xanadu]]'', where he caught Binary Bug threatening to take the ten million dollars' worth of valuables owned by reclusive businessman [[Khan]]. Machine Man pursued Binary Bug into the air, where the latter accidentally flew into live power lines. Aaron lamented the waste of human life. {{storylink|Byte of the Binary Bug!}}
[[File:Machine Man everywhere grow monuments.jpg|upright=0.8|thumb|left|There's a world within me that I cannot explain.]]
Aaron's disillusionment with humanity reached a boiling point one night in the Bowery. As Machine Man, he stopped a [[Unempathetic mugger|mugging]], but was called a monster by the [[Mugged old lady|lady he helped]]. He captured a [[Vehicular hitman|motorist guilty of a hit and run]], and was disgusted to learn that it was a deliberate hit on the [[Hit and run victim|victim]], who had stolen from the mob. It was the senseless shooting of [[Shot dad and son|a man]] simply for money that really made Aaron mad, violently attacking the [[gunman]] and raising into the sky for a electrical and melodramatic outburst.
The shot man's son implored Machine Man to help his dad, and Machine Man mused that if he failed to help, he would only be proving humanity right that he was a monster. Aaron used the magnetic current in his hand to remove the bullet. After the gunman came to, Aaron resumed his attack on him, but was stopped by [[Ethical|a group of evolved humans]] empowered by Machine Man's energy, who told him that violence wasn't the answer.
Over the course of their conversation, Machine Man discovered that the beings – who thought of themselves as his children – were immune to his powers, and that they could foresee a utopia in Earth's future... but were unsure if Aaron's behaviour would impede its progress. Aaron, at the height of his cynicism, refused to defend himself from his own death sentence, but he was saved by the boy, who argued that he couldn't be beyond salvation if he still did the right thing when pressed. Aaron realised he was seeing the worst in people, and learned that, for all his supposed superiorities, he was just as fallible as humanity. The glowing beings, satisfied by Aaron's change of heart, ascended to their destiny elsewhere in the universe. {{storylink|Where Walk the Gods!}}
==Notes==
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*Machine Man was one of the many robot and cyborg characters pictured as part of the ''[[Techno-X]]'' pitch.
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