History
Rusty was an orphan whom Cyclops met while visiting his old orphanage in Nebraska. Rusty was finding it hard to control his pyrokinetic powers. A man known as Kilgrave, offered to help and adopted Rusty seemingly out of charity. In reality, Kilgrave, a mutant himself with telepathic abilities, wanted to use the powers of Rusty, Skids, Boom Boom, Rictor, and Wiz Kid to take over as governor. Cyclops was able to snap Rusty and the others out of Kilgrave's hypnotic brainwashing in the end.[1]