At the beginning of Young X-Men, Eric Gitter is getting a tattoo on his hand in a tattoo parlor in La Jolla, California called Ink Inc. Two cops enter and proceed to try to arrest Gitter. When the cops try to apprehend him, Gitter shows that the tattoo in his hand is finished and it looks like a biohazard sign. He wants to test his tattoo and touches an officer with his hand. The officer drops to the floor and starts to throw up. The other officer then arrests Eric and he is taken to jail. Once in jail another cop bails him out, this cop is then revealed to be Scott Summers aka Cyclops.

Ink, with Blindfold, is part of the Blue Team that must confront Moonstar. After leaving Moonstar unconscious, he knocks his partner telling her that she should have seen that coming.

A conversation with Blindfold implies that he is not a mutant as he believes. When the team is given mutant tracking gear, only five mutants in the room are detected, despite there being six mutants in the team, and one mystery character watching over them(presumably Greymalkin).

In issue #3 Ink is paid by Donald Pierce for giving him (Pierce) Moonstar and Blindfold.

Powers

Every time Ink gets a new tattoo, he acquires the ability of that tattoo. For example: if he has a tattoo of two wings in his back, he can fly. So far Ink has gotten a tattoo of a bio-hazard sign, because of this he now has the power to make people sick.He also has some kind of an explosion tattooed on his right arm. He says he used it to punch through a brick wall.

In issue #2 we can see that Ink has a new tattoo. This tattoo consists in some lines that cover his whole left hand. This gives him super strength. At the last pages of issue #3 we see another guy that has tattooed the explosive on his hand and has the same powers as Ink.