History
A.I. Dog invited Eric Morn to be one of three beta testers in a new virtual reality experience.[1]
In real life, Rain began popping drugs and hallucinating. She eventually begin to see Dog talking to her and pulled him out of the TV into the real world. He warned her that the Axcend Beta has gone wrong and the real world was being infiltrated by Beta testers. They quickly tracked down Eric and forced him to transform. When they learned he wasn't Ruin, they asked him to team up with them as Ruin was potentially becoming mentally unstable.[2]