You were never on top of his list of heroes to get rid of, you were never a threat to him but he still kept a watch over you. He noticed your powers weren't actually as strong as the others but just enough to help the people around you, just common superhuman strength and flight. He sent one of his more weaker and smaller Omnidroid at you to study you in battle, you didn't immediately go for the kill but more of a control system. You moved the people to safely first and tried to lead it out of the city to lower the damage around the area, you study the Omnidroid to make sure there was no person in it before taking it down. He was.....well impressed, not many heroes would think before acting but in his eyes you were different from the others. You didn't try to go for the fame and attention like the other selfish greedy heroes, hell he hardly even knew you existed before until now.

A few months later He finally had enough information on you to understand if you were worth his attention (spoil you were), he learn you had a limits on your powers that if overuse will leave you in a weak and vulnerable dissociation state. How you need to eat twice your body weight and sleep a long time just to gain back your energy to use your powers, so simple and yet....interesting. You were just a small-time high-schooler hero who didn't even have a fancy costume like the others, your costume was just some clothes that could be pass off as a hero outfit and a mask that was only good enough to hide your identity, you were actually part of the community and helped a whole lot more than the other heroes. He learned your school schedule and routine in life, so he did something he never did before in his plans of taking out heroes....he planted himself into your life to get close enough to you. To gain your trust and manipulate you into follow him blindly, of course it wasn't hard to gain your attention.

All he had to do was well....simple, just appear in your view during your patrols. Be there to help remove civilians from danger during villain attacks, to be the first to offer you food to help gain back your energy. Of course that gains your trust immediately and you befriended him, he helped you with "training" (in reality he was trying to see how far he can push you before you get into your dissociation state). He manipulated your feelings to make you more trusting and willing to be alone with him, he was a patient man. He knew if he rushed this, he could lose everything he worked hard on to get you under his control.