Because someone was bitching that M'gann needed a girlfriend at the Xavier school...
Player Name:Bounce
Character:Katherine Margaret "Katie" Power (Energizer)
Power and Abilities:Katie is a human empowered by the Kymellian sorcerer
Aelfrye Whitemane with one-quarter of his own power. Specifically, Katie represents the physical principle of
energy. Through physical contact, Katie functions by breaking down the molecular bonds of a solid, liquid, or gas and transferring the electrons. She can then expel the pent up energy through solid, concussive projections which typically first take shape as
power balls on her chest or hands, from out of which the energy projection is then fired. Katie is also capable of absorbing directed energy attacks. It should be noted that solid and semi-solid objects provide her significantly more 'fuel' than if she tries to disintegrate and absorb energy from a gas. As a secondary effect of possessing the Kymellian energy power, Katie also has a minor healing factor which must be consciously activated and requires the ability to focus and concentrate in order for her to use that ability. Katie's absorption potential is finite and she experiences physical pain as she begins to reach her maximum tolerance, at which her body will reflexively expel the stored energy violently.
While in possession of Kymellian sorcery, even to the marginal degree to which she currently possesses it, Katie has access to another dimensional plane known as
Elsewhere. A suit of unstable molecules appropriately emblazoned with the symbol for energy (yellow starburst) is maintained for her by the native beings of Elsewhere. By using the command 'costume on,' Katie can summon the suit on demand. If she is wearing any clothes at the time, those garments will be replaced with the suit instantaneously. The command 'costume off' reverses the transformation. The pockets of the suit are dimensional gateways to Elsewhere, allowing her to store an indeterminate amount of volume in her pockets, provided she can put the object in her pocket without tearing the suit. A tear could result in opening a rift through which one could fall into Elsewhere.
Affiliation:Power Pack, The Xavier School
Alignment:Hero (Neutral Good)
Character Notes:This interpretation of the character blends the canon (Marvel 616) character of Katie Power with the Marvel Adventures version of the same, taking the origin story of the original and omitting the part of the canon Power Pack series in which the character possessed the velocity power (Lightspeed) and the gravity power (Counterweight). In terms of relative age and personality, she's the same as her Marvel Adventures counterpart (as opposed to her younger 616 self).
NPCs of note: Friday (
alien AI), Carter Ghazikhanian, Annie Ghazikhanian
Background and Story So Far:Katherine, always referred to as Katie, is the fourth child of James and Margaret Power, the second of two girls, the younger sister of Alexander, Julia, and Jack Power; with whom she formed the four person superhero team known as
Power Pack. Her father was a physicist working under a U.S. government contract to develop a means of producing an alternative energy source, primarily through the use of anti-matter particles. Unknown to Dr. Power, two different alien species were observing him on Earth and concerned with his discovery. The power hungry Maraud of the Z'nrx wanted an anti-matter weapon for use against all the other races of the universe, while the Kymellian sorcerer Aelfrye Whitename intended to stop Dr. Power from completing his research as the Kymellians had seen device such as the one Dr. Power was designing cause great damage, despite all good intentions. Whitemane knew that Dr. Power's invention could trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the planet Earth.
Whitemane revealed himself one evening when the Z'nrx (Snarks) came to capture Powers. Though the Snarks did manage to abduct James and his wife Margaret, Whitemane had managed to save the four children from being captured. Sadly, during the fighting with the Snarks Aelfrye was mortally wounded. Dying, Whitemane transferred a portion of his alien powers into each of the four and tasked them with rescuing their parents, preventing the Snarks from obtaining their father's research, and preventing their father's work from destroying their world. No small order, given that Alex was 14, Julie was 12, Jack was 8, and Katie was 5 at the time.
With the aid of Whitemane's smartship, known as
Friday, the children were able to pursue the Snarks and learned to use the powers that the Kymellian sorcerer had given them in what amounted to superhero on-the-job training. Of the four aspects (gravity, velocity, density, and energy) Katie received the energy power and took the name Energizer. Despite her small stature, limited physical strength, and the fact that she didn't have much control over her power; Katie proved herself to be the group's most powerful member. The four siblings did accomplish everything Whitemane had tasked them with and returned to their home in New York without their parents knowing that they were now super-powered. Taking the name Power Pack, the four ventured out to use their powers for the good of those around them.
Aelfrye's cousin,
Kofi Whitemane, traveled to Earth in search of Power Pack in order to warn them of a new threat in the Snark upstart, Maraud's son Jakal. Kofi's ship was shot down, but he appeared in a dream to
Carter Ghazikhanian; who had been seeing visions of the Power Pack. Guided by this developing dream sight, Carter met the Power Pack in Central Park and was able to lead them to the injured Kofi. The group was ambushed by Jakal's soldiers, but with Kofi and Carter at their side was able to fend off their attackers. After this, Carter joined the team as its fifth member (and the only one not a blood relative), taking the hero name Tattletale at Katie's suggestion.
When one of Alex's classmates died of a drug overdose, the Power Pack took on a more mundane enemy; the Garbage Man and his Trash gang. The Pack traveled to Elsewhere after Katie fell into the extra-dimensional pocket on her costume and ended up in the realm where their costumes were cleaned and transported. While in this dimension, the children visited the artificial Kymellian homeworld and learned that Kofi's father Yrik Whitemane had brainwashed their parents to ensure the children's abilities could remain secret. Angered by the unwanted intervention into their parents lives, Power Pack left Kymellia just before Maraud attacked it. Power Pack encountered Numinus, the cosmic embodiment of the wonders of the universe, and learned they were intended to save the Kymellians from extinction. Returning to Kymellia, they ran into Maraud who held Kymellia ransom in exchange for the powers of Aelfrye Whitemane. The children voluntarily transferred their powers to Maraud, but fought to reclaim them when the Snark warrior betrayed them and attacked Kymellia anyway.
When Carter's mother, Nurse
Annie Ghazikhanian, took a job at the Xavier School she also had her son enrolled after discovering it was a school for mutants. While not exposing Katie's secret to her parents, Annie was successful in convincing the Powers to enroll Katie at the Xavier School, where she could learn to live with her powers in the open and refine her control so not to live in fear of hurting others through their accidental discharge.
Sample Post:The young girl swayed back and forth as she danced in a solitary celebration of her own little world; shut out from the world by the ear bud headphones that connected her to the iPod in her strap pocket of the lime green courier bag she toted diagonally across her body in place of a purse. She didn't really do purses yet. They were too small to carry all her stuff and too easy to set down and forget about. Humming to herself, blond pigtails swung freely about her shoulders as the child bobbed her head in time to the beat of Joan Osborne asking the question of what if God was one of us? The fingers of a small hand tapping against the metal railing she held to as she rode the train into New York.
Her mother had been a little freaked out at the notion of her baby riding the train by herself, but Katie had been adamant. After all, she wasn't little anymore. What her mother didn't know was that Katie had traveled the galaxy and even across dimensions by herself. It made sense, to her, at least, that if
Energizer could manage to go from Earth to Kymellia okay... the trip to New York City shouldn't be hard at all.
Still, Katie would have to admit that she was a little scared. She'd faced the Snarks, the demon Boogeyman, and even drug gangs... and it was still a little intimidating to be eight years old and riding the train on her own. It was odd not to have Alex and Julie around, though Katie welcomed the opportunity to put some distance between herself and Jack. She hoped that Carter was happy about her coming to his school, because Katie couldn't have been happier with the idea of doing more than hiding her power and trying to practice in secret. To learn
control, real control, and to live openly as both Katie and Energizer... It was a dream.
Shuffling about, the girl raised her sky blue eyes at last to look around the interior of the car she was in; realizing only now how empty the train was. A fact which only compounded the loneliness she felt at walking out on her own, even if just temporarily. Maybe... maybe she didn't need to be in such a hurry to be like her big sister Julie after all, the child thought to herself. Her brooding interrupted as she caught a glimpse of her reflection in the glass windows of the train car. Standing there in pink corduroy pants with a white hoodie that had pink trim and a image of Minnie Mouse embroidered on the chest. The sight brought a carefree smile to her face. She thought she looked cute.
As the train lumbered its way to a shuddering halt beside the platform underneath New York City, Katie let go of the metal rail and made her way to the doors. As they popped open, she peeked her head out to glance back along the tracks. Adjusting the way her bag hung on her body, the young heroine clung tightly to her sweatshirt as she stepped out onto the platform proper, her eyes scanning upward among the crowd for any sign of the Ghazikhanians. As she walked, Katie's hand dipped into her pants pocket for a piece of gum. Unwrapping the watermelon-flavored candy, the girl popped the chewy confectionary into her mouth. Returning her hand to her pocket, the youth went through the motions of tucking her trash away there; though a faint hue of golden light reflected the candy wrappers demise, disintegrated at the fingertips of the child as she absorbed the energy from its broken atomic bonds. Cracking a bubble, Katie kept her eyes forward as she strode into New York City. Just an eight year old girl alone.
An eight year old who'd saved the Earth. A few times. Not that she was keeping count. They didn't award ponies for saving the planet after all.
It'd be nice if they did though, the small girl throught to herself with a private little smile as she skipped across the platform and started up the steps to the station proper, her eyes still looking for any sign of her brother when she caught sight of an elderly woman gingerly creeping up to the steps. The matriachial, grandmotherly figure was obviously impaired by some form of arthritis in her stalted, fragile gait. Pigtails bouncing, Katie hoped back down the steps to drop beside the stranger. "Do you need some help, ma'am?" the child asked sweetly.
The wisened, gray-haired woman seemed startled; as much by the gesture as being addressed so politely by a stranger in New York. "Aren't you a dear. Would it be a bother?" the matronly figure begged in reply, extending an arm even as the old woman leaned against the wall of the stairwell to help balance herself as she began ascending the steps.
"No, ma'am," Katie answered simply, gingerly taking the woman's arm and helping guide her along the steps to the top of the terminal platform, where she finally let go as the woman seemed to get her bearings. "'Kay?"
"I'm fine, child. Your parents raised you right. And I thank you," the stranger stated with a wearied smile, as the woman glanced up as though expecting to see someone there waiting for the girl. "Are you by yourself, dear?"
"I'm meetin' my friend here, ma'am," Katie offering, skipping a step back as she gave a large wave farewell to the woman. "Bye!" the child stated cheerfully, dashing off across the terminal. As she did, Katie swung the courier tote around to pull out the small, frog-shaped cellphone she carried. It didn't have all the functionality of a regular cellphone. Hers only allowed her to contact numbers pre-programmed into the phone, such as that of her Carter or his mom. Tapping away with her thumb, the girl dialed out a quick text asking him where he was.
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