Ghost in the Machine

Maxwell Madison, Sr. "reanimated" as a Biot, goes to Grand Central Station to discover the shocking truth about his own death.

On the eve of the opening of CyberVille, Rebecca Madison is engaged in her longtime pursuit- creating a Biot driven by the brain of her beloved dead husband, Maxwell, Sr. The Phantom knows that Rebecca is experimenting with sophisticated medical technology, and wants to find out why. Sparks volunteers to break into Maximum headquarters. After a hair-raising expedition when he is nearly exterminated by security Biots, Sparks succeeds in entering Rebecca Madison's private office. There he discovers the Biot made from her husband's brain- the MaxBiot.

The MaxBiot takes Sparks to the CyberVille opening ceremonies. There, the MaxBiot becomes so enraged when he can't recall years of his life, and feels he missed out on his son's childhood, that he takes Max hostage- much to the astonishment of Rebecca. The MaxBiot then goes to Grand Central Station- the site of his death- where he relives the memory of the night he perished in a train wreck. Through the MaxBiot's distorted memories, we discover that the previous Phantom might have been responsible for the crash. The MaxBiot also realizes that he is not a human, and throws himself into the toxic waters, dying a second time, forever.

Sparks, Pavlova, Dr. Jak, Professor Jack Archer, Kit Walker, Jr./24th Phantom