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If you read the comics Shroud actually made the Astral Pulse specifically so that Mecha Man (dad) would let him officially join the Brave Brigade. Because for whatever reason Robbie kept blocking him from joining even though the entire team voted to let him in. Shroud gets pissed about it, challenges Mecha Man to a duel, Robbie sits there and instead of suiting up and humoring him, he just beats Shroud nearly to death and essentially tells him he's a bitch who doesn't deserve it. Chase has to come in and save Eli, says "what the fuck?" and they go in and talk about it, and then Shroud goes school shooter mode and shoots Robbie with his own gun he stole from the locker.

So Eli DID make the Astral Pulse, and Mecha Man Astral was just a dick like Robert implies he was.