While helping with a propulsion system the university is developing, Burroughs is disintegrated by a blast of anti-matter energy and transformed into an anti-energy entity.

Calling himself ERG-1 (Energy Release Generator 1), Drake attempts to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, but is rejected because his abilities overlap with other members.

A year later, Drake has made his way to Earth and inhabited a new suit, after which he is admitted into the Legion and changes his code name to "Wildfire".

After Quislet's containment device is destroyed and he is forced to return to his dimension, Wildfire loses his physical form and possesses Sun Boy's corpse.

Atom'X (Randall Burroughs) and Blast-Off (Jahr-Drake Ningle), members of the Uncanny Amazers and Workforce respectively, are seemingly killed by Mordru.

[6][7] In Legion Lost, Wildfire, Dawnstar, Chameleon Girl, Tellus, Tyroc, Gates, and Timber Wolf are stranded in the 21st century while battling a time-travelling terrorist.

[8][9] After being disintegrated by an anti-matter wave, Wildfire was transformed into a being composed of it with the ability to manipulate energy, fly at high speeds, and alter his size.