InsaneJournal

1. Jim Hollingsworth loses his wife Annie and daughter Sarah in a car accident. His friend, Leonard McKay refers him to grief counseling.
2. At the clinic, Jim runs into a disguised Lee Huntington, who's there to pull a job. He meets with Doctor Adams to discuss his grief. She sends him to Stash Labs to recieve experimental drug treatment.
3. At Stash, we see Holly Hawk and Diedre Kennedy the first time. They're chemists and co-workers of Leonard's. Jim is given a supply of the experimental anti-depressant Noemo.
4. The Noemo works to suppress Jim's grief and he's able to get on a more even keel. After a short period of time, though, the drug stops working and is pulled from the market. He's addicted to it, though, and begs Diedre to get him whatever is left of the stuff so that he can find out what made it work for him. She agrees and gets him the leftovers.
5. Tweaking the formula, Jim accidentally reverses it, intensifying his negative emotions and drowning out the positive. He's driven mad with grief and starts tearing up the family house in his madness. In the process, he comes across a small box of love letters from Leonard that Annie was keeping hidden. Also in the box is a paternity test which reveals that Sarah wasn't actually his daughter.
6. Angry and with vengeance on his mind, Jim returns to Stash Labs in the middle of the night, intent on killing Leonard for having had an affair with his wife. In Leonard's desperation to keep himself alive, he tells Jim that the car accident was rigged by the higher ups at Stash because her involvement with him had exposed her to carefully guarded company secrets. They couldn't kill Leonard because he was too valuable an asset, but they could get rid of the woman to punish him.
7. Furious, Jim throws Leonard into the nearest vat of caustic looking chemicals and storms off, intent on wrecking havoc on the men responsible. Unknown to him, however, is that Holly Hawk has witnessed these events. It takes several minutes, but she rescues Leonard from the vat and spirits him away to an abandoned warehouse where she can take care of him.
8. Jim, thinking a little more clearly, decides to create a masked persona in the vein of the Steel Sentinel so that he can avoid discovery. He adopts the name 'Hollow'--because his emotions are deadened now--and alters the formula of the emotion enhancer so that it will drive anyone who comes in contact with it insane. With this, he becomes Steel's first true, malicious villain.
9. We kick over to Diedre Kennedy's story. Holly is at home with Diedre's son, David, watching the news. The broadcast is about the appearance of the Hollow and the reappearance of Steel's golden age superhero, the Sentinel. Through the broadcast we learn that the Sentinel was assumed dead or retired after the golden age of supervillainy wound down, etc. etc. We also learn that the Hollow is targeting men who work for Stash Labs.
10. Diedre returns home from work, het little boy (about five or six) is thrilled to see her and runs to mommy. She remarks that Holly doesn't look well and Holly replies that she's been taking care of a sick...fish. Diedre doesn't buy it, but leaves it alone for the time being.
11. The next day, Diedre has a presentation to make to the board members of Stash Labs about her new universal solvent compound. She declares that the solvent will help with the planet's trash problem by dissolving garbage at a greatly accelerated rate. This way, acres of land that are currently used as landfills can be turned into viable commercial or residential property.
12. After the presentation, Violet Stash, the CEO of the company, approaches and Diedre is told to return to the labs later that night to speak with a group of higher ups who want to see the compound in action. She agrees, but when she returns to the lab, she is cornered, stuffed in a special airtight room and exposed to the toxin. Outside, we hear the real presentation going on. The business men are meeting with several representatives from different countries and offering the compound to the highest bidder as the most effective biological warfare ever created.
13. Cut to later. The room that Diedre was imprisoned in is covered in nasty, gooey, mossy stuff. This is actually Diedre, decomposed, several weeks after the 'test'. Through some miracle, the bits and pieces begin reforming and she is reborn in human form. She staggers to the door and escapes, but the first time she touches something organic and it melts, she understands that she's become the formula. She has become Decay, personified. The specially designed suit that she used when developing the compound is the only thing she can touch without destroying it, so it becomes her costume--like a wet suit, almost.
14. Confused and still very muddled, Diedre makes her way out of Stash, accidentally killing several people as she goes. Reports are made by Stash's security about a strange, monsterous woman melting people and the police get involved. This leads to a climactic confrontation in Steel Square where she realizes what she's done and allows the Sentinel to arrest her. However, as the handcuffs are snapped into place, through the crowd comes Holly, with David close at hand. Seeing mommy for the first time in forever, the boy breaks free and makes a run for his mother, grabbing her hand.
15. Reaction shot. Diedre has killed her little boy with her touch alone.
16. Wracked with grief, Diedre collapses and is taken into custody in an armored van.
17. After being booked and on her way to a special security facility for supervillains (which hasn't been in use since the 60's), the van she's in is hijacked. It's Holly. She takes Diedre to the warehouse where she's stashed Leonard and introductions are made. Leonard is wrapped in bandaging, still recovering from his dip in the chemicals and Holly explains that he's made of cancer now (ew) and remembers nothing of his former life. Blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc., Diedre vows vengeance on Stash Labs for what they did to her.
18. Enter the Hollow. Knowing that they have a common enemy and not realizing that the newly born 'Cancer Man' is actually Leonard, the group teams up to blow Stash Labs sky high. Holly adopts a costume for this purpose and they all skip off into the sunset to set things on fire.
19. Cut to a highscale museum benefit soiree where Lee Huntington is making her debut. She speaks with Albert Lumley, listens in as people talk about the recent resurrection of the villainous lifestyle and dances with Nigel Meriwether. She's there to steal something and so is he: a small, priceless mirror that someone on the black market is simply dying to get their hands on. However, as they make their move, they discover that the mirror has been moved to a different location.
20. Blah, blah, blah, Bloody Mary escapes the mirror and hops into Albert.

And...that's all I've got now. Brain go sleepy-bye.