Those two sections are from different parts of the actual "Step Two" description, but they're what I was focusing on.
Anyway, here's my own Step Two.
Gary Gray was a fairly normal first-year music major, insofar as 'normal' ever applies to a creative-arts major, with one little quirk - he'd always had a strange 'way' with electronics; anything from an iPod to a streetlight could turn off if he walked by. He'd never really given it much thought until the day a transformer exploded as he walked under it, badly burning him - and seemingly sparking a growth in the extent of this 'power', as well as urging it quickly out of control. It took a drunken man with a gun hijacking his bus to work one day to really show Gary the extent of his powers - if he'd known he could kill a dozen people with a single cry of pain, he would have reined in his powers much sooner. When he starts his unofficial 'training', however, a video winds up on YouTube - and while most of the commenters are awed by the 'amazing CG', the government is quick to realize the new weapon they possess. Given an ultimatum - a choice between killing and dying - Gary decides to make his own third option: remove himself from scrutiny, in any way possible.
Feel free to comment - there are definitely a lot of things I don't like about this, but I've always been awful at summarizing properly. I don't think this sounds like a bad length for 'back-cover copy', as he puts it, though, and it has the right amount of enticing information without giving away the ending too much. I think.
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