Abby Rubin was a former employee who worked at Scarmore Inc.. He had been working on the Mercury Project until he started to become crazy through the Mercurial Virus. After being cured, Rubin abandoned his job and began to live underground of San Francisco for the rest of his life. During his time living undeground, he was suddenlly attacked by a group of thugs that sought to rob him in an alley until he was saved by Venom