DC Revolt: The Red Tornado

S.M.I.T.H. The Synthetic, Manual, Intergrated, Technology, Harness was a breakthrough for Ferris Air. The harness was constructed to help pilots who needed to bail out not fear of landing in enemy territory. The suit had a stabilized Athenium power source. Athenium was a clean running fuel source that could recharge by solar, wind, or electrical charge. But as all implements of invention, they needed someone to test it on. Enter Ferris' number one pilot: Hal Jordan.

Hal donned the suit joking that he was going to be Ferris' first super hero. They renacted a situation where Hal had to bail out. The suit was working perfectly. The SMITH AI unit, John, was interracting with Jordan helping him to learn how to pilot the suit. Hal started to show off, which unfortunately took him into unfavorable air space. Soon he was staring down 3 Russian Migs.

After taking out two of the Migs, Hal was blown out of the sky. As they recovered Hal, something amazing had happened. The Athenium bonded the suit with Hal. He could take it off by having it fold onto itself in the null space pocket, down to the size of a wrist watch. When the suit did this it was only supposed to be able to respond to the engage command. Jordan could still interract with his SMITH unit and run diagnostics, targetting systems, the works.

In several follow up tries, the results were disasterous. The SMITH units wouldn't bond, and there were some fatalities. Jordan was the only success. The project was eventually shut down.

Jordan became the company spokesman until one day at a charity event, Intergang tried to capture Jordan. He fought them off and protected the people at the same time.....and Jordan liked being a hero. The company agreed. Jordan would do his hero thing and be a giant running billboard for Ferris. Jordan accepted and is now the Red Tornado.