The original five members of the team received their powers after an invention exploded. Robert Edge is a brilliant scientist but he does have a bad tendency to mess with things he shouldn't. He's the type that might push a button before asking, "What does this button do?" Robert got his hands on some alien technology and incorporated it into a robot that he was building. He knew that this technology would tap into ambient energy sources even when those sources were scarce and that this would give his robot additional powers although he did not know exactly what those additional powers were. This technology proved unstable and blew up. Acrobat Adept was there when it blew up and helped to save Robert and four teenagers from the explosion.