History: (Fraction #1, 2) - Trent made friends with fellow bad seeds Mike, Pete and Ford at Liberty High and the friends got their kicks skirting around the law. As adults the friends graduated into robbery and other crimes, but their fun ended when Ford was caught by the police and sent to jail. Life went downhill for Trent after his wife Janey left him and took their son Elvis with her. When Ford was released from prison, Trent, Mike and Pete threw him a welcome back party at a dance club. After a few drinks the friends decided to relive past glories and break into a storage locker. They discovered an experimental M80 battle suit. Each man took a piece of the armor for his own, Trent ended up with the suit's boots. Trent was behind on child support payments, and his friends all had their own money issues, so they used their new toys to return to a life of crime, robbing the Kwik-Cash check cashing store. They were caught in the act by the proprietor, and Mike almost used his M80 gauntlets to kill the man before Trent pushed him out of the way. The friends took the money and ran. On his own Trent had an enjoyable flight around Philly before he accidentally knocked a car and it's driver into the river. Trent thought fast and saved the driver from drowning.

(Fraction #3, 4) - The exploits of Trent and his friends using the pieces of the M80 armor were beginning to be made public, and the corporation that made the suit equipped an assassin named Burke with a full M80 suit and sent him to recover the stolen armor. Burke caught Trent flying around the city and engaged him. Trent took a severe beating, but managed to escape. Realizing what Burke wanted and that he as keeping tabs on Trent and his friends, Trent feared for the safety of Janey and Elvis. After a long argument he convinced Janey to stay at her mother's house until everything blew over.

(Fraction #5) - Trent called his friends together at Pete's home to discuss the situation with Burke when Burke burst in on them and attacked. The fight was going against Trent and his friends, but when the police arrived to investigate the ruckus the creators of the M80 wanted create deniability, so they activated a self-destruct option in Burke's suit, killing him. Trent and his pals hid their M80 parts, and told the police they were simply partying, but the police still busted them for disturbing the peace. Everyone was eventually released, except for Ford, whom the police suspected of killing Bob McVee, Mike's step-father. In truth Mike was the murderer.

(Fraction #6) - Trent intended to put on the full M80 suit and make a spectacle, drawing attention away from his friends from both the police and the M80's creator. When he had the suit assembled, Pete knocked him out, and was the one to throw everyone off his friends trail. Ford was found innocent of murder and released from police custody, but Mike was killed by the friends of Tony D, whom he had viciously attacked. The remaining friends buried the pieces of the M80, realizing possessing the suit would just tempt them to keep committing crimes, and the suit was later discovered and taken away by M80's creators. Trent told Janey about his adventures, and they decided to try rekindling their relationship.

Comments: Created by David Tischman & Timothy Green II

Fraction was part of DC's short-lived Focus line. Although nothing in Fraction couldn't fit into the mainstream DCU, it's questionable whether or not the series is in-continuity.

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