Cole MacGrath, a conduit with lightning and electrical power flowing in him, was and is known as "The Demon Of Empire City." He has made bad choices in his last life. When he thought he was going to suffer in the afterlife for the choices he made, he made his last choice a good one, saving millions of lives, and sacrificing his own at the process. He was now given a chance to redeem himself in a new but also corrupted world like his last. He has choice of saving millions again from the corruption, or being the corrupted once more.