Beta Flight
Beta Flight
Following the overall success of the revived Alpha Flight program, Department H began looking for the next generation of super-humans. To this end, they reactivated the Beta Flight training program, with the eventual goal of working these cadets into Alpha Flight. Found from various walks of life, the Betas differ from the Alphans in that most of them have only come into their abilities recently and that they have just begun functioning as a group.
While the source of their abilities remains unknown to them, save that none of them are mutants, their abilities all do share a common source. For several years now, Department H has been altering the water supplies within various regions of Canada, hoping to trigger latent mutant genes in various individuals chemically, in order to give Canada a super-human population to rival America’s.
Anti-Body: Dr. Randy O’Brien (28) first manifested paranormal abilities when he encounterd David Landers when he wass wheeled into the hospital in incredible pain. Landers raged until two dark arms spring from O'Brien's torso that restrained him long enough for O'Brien to give Landers a tranquilizer that rendered him unconsciousness. After a fight with his boss, Dr. Eastman, a negative image of himself (or antibody as it came to be called) flew across the room and attempts to attack Eastman, only stopping when Randy screamed 'NO'.
Randy later made a strong connection with Landers, promising to do whatever he could to help him and eventually realizing that Department H was their possible option. His career already teetering near the toilet, he happily enlisted.
Powers: Randy O'Brien is able to create multiple negative-image versions of himself out of an unknown substance dubbed "psychoplasm." These duplicates can fly, become solid or immaterial at will, and are as strong as their human original. They are also immune to attacks that affect the mind or the central nervous system. Although they lack vocal apparatus, they can confer their experiences upon living beings by touching them and willing such an information-transfer.
Mammoth: Dave Landers (age 33) was raised a Lutheran, but lost his faith completely after the death of the rest of his family. His brother Mark committed suicide, his father died of cancer in, and his mother died of illness in 1985. It was suggested that his mother died in part because she waited too long to go to the hospital.
On September 20, 2009 Dave woke up after a night of drinking with co-workers from the factory where he was emploed, suffering from extreme localized muscle spasms. He was also extremely hungry. He called a female co-worker named Sue to help, but because he didn't want to be taken to a hospital, the help was limited to buying large amounts of groceries.
Over the next week, without any exercising and while experiencing extreme pain, David put on over two hundred pounds of muscle. He also lost most of the hair on the top of his head and grew a foot taller.
Dave eventually attempted suicide, by consuming two bottles of painkillers, but Sue found him unconscious and phone the hospital. He was taken to a near-by hospitle, where he was treated in the emergency room by Dr. Randy O'Brien.
Dave woke up while he was being treated and began throwing people around until Randy was able to sedate him. When he next awoke, Dave explained what happened to Randy, who promised to help him. The two found their help via Department H.
Powers: Davis possesses class 30 super-human strength and increased durability.
Blur: Jeffrey John Walters (24)’s father died when he was 7, and so he was raised by his mother Thelma. He also had a younger brother, Dennis, and sister, Michele. He graduated high school in 2002, and took a job at a Burger King. By 2010, he was a manager.
One day in late January, 2010, Jeff was working whe he suddenly began to feel jittery. He felt an irresistible urge to get moving, and left his restaurant to go for a run. The run lasted about an hour and exceeded 40 miles per hour (64 km/h). He began shaking more severely over the next few days. Doctors prescribed tranquilizers, but they didn't work very well, and he found running was the only thing that wore him out enough to sleep. Before his powers manifested, he was overweight, but the constant running and a heightened metabolism slimmed him down quickly.
Desperate to help him, his mother contacted Department H to see what they could do for her son.
Powers: Jeff possesses the ability to move at super-speeds in excess of several hundred miles per hour and possesses matching reflexes and reaction times. He has difficulty slowing down and usually appears blurry due to being constantly vibrating. He requires vast amounts of food after exerting great levels of speed.
Friction: Charlotte Yolanda Beck (19), or "Charley" as she is affectionately known, graduated high school and went to college part-time to study dance.
While she was a sophomore, Charlotte experienced an intense headache in her ballet class. Suddenly, everybody around Charley began slipping around as though the floor was covered in ice. Charley was the exception. She later found herself sticking to things, and other people continuing to slip around her, and so began to realize that she was somehow the cause of the strange events.
Acting on a report filed by her teacher, Department H began its own investigation and recruited Charley into the Beta Flight program.
Powers: Charlotte possess the mental ability to affect surface attraction between matter. She can make things as frictionless as Teflon or as sticky as tarpaper. She does not require physical contact to affect things.
Scuzz: Dennis Cuzinski (16)’s father was an alcoholic and his mother died when he was 12. Because of the lack of strong parental guidance, Dennis (or "Scuzz" as he became nicknamed, due to a play on his name), became something of a juvenile delinquent.
He was 15 when his powers first manifested. The bed he was lying on began smouldering beneath him. His father thought Scuzz'd been smoking in bed and administered corporal punishment, only to find own his hand burning. Following this, Dennis became a runaway, and was eventually picked up by Department H, investigating a series of unexplained paranormal fires. He was given the choice of service in Beta Flight or Juvenile Detention. He chose Beta Flight.
Powers: Scuzz's body produces an unknown corrosive chemical on an almost constant basis. It is present in all of his bodily fluids, and a brief touch with his skin usually contains enough to cause pain to another person. Direct contact with his bodily fluids can cause severe burn damage. He is able to consciously increase the amount of corrosiveness at will. He's shown an ability to corrode a variety of substances, up to and including tempered steel. He cannot consciously retard his body's production of this chemical below a certain point.
Because of the constant nature of his ability, Scuzz wears through clothes extremely quickly. Within two days of normal wear, any normal clothing will be destroyed past the point of usability. Anything he handles for a long period of time will be similarly damaged. So far, only the unstable molecules of his Beta Flight uniform remain immune to his touch.
By spitting into his palm and rolling it, Scuzz is able to create what he calls "Scuzz-Balls". These globules can be thrown at short ranges with explosive potential.
Glitter: Stephanie Harrington (33) was born Stephanie Lindquist. She was raised in an Episcopalian family.
During her high school years, Stephanie was a cheerleader, but she never went on to higher education after graduating high school. At some point, she met her husband, Chuck Harrington, and they married. She stayed at home as a housewife and he worked in a meat packing plant. She gave birth to her first child, Benjamin shortly after. Two more children followed, Emily, and Jill. They had what was reportedly a fairly happy family.
Stephanie first manifested paranormal abilities. She felt a wave of dizziness while watching over one of her daughters. Jill tried to comfort her, but became charged with energy and began running through the house. She later healed a minor bump the child suffered as a result.
Although at first Stephanie put the sparks she saw off to being dizzy, her other children and became hyperactive around her as well, and soon her husband noticed, and contacted Department H, believing they could cure her. Stephanie’s husband has forbidden her from seeing her children until she is normal, placing her under great stress.
Powers: Stephanie Harrington's body produces an unidentified energy, which greatly increases her strength, endurance agility, and reflexes.
Because of this energy, Stephanie can engage in physical activity for long periods of time without tiring, lift approximately one ton, run approximately 40 miles (64 km) an hour, and has a reaction time about twice as fast as the average human.
The energy also greatly accelerates her own healing process and those of others. It can heal small cuts almost instantly. It can't, however, cure anything the body itself can't cure, as it's merely an acceleration of the natural process. With some diseases, her ability might in fact speed up the progression as the disease could be affected by the same energy.
Her body produces this energy in the form of sparkles that she continuously emits, although the sparkling intensifies when she's actively using her abilities
Twilight: Little is known about the first 65 years of Lenore Fenzl's (66) life. She never married, or even had a serious relationship, referring to herself as an 'old maid'. She graduated college and went on to receive a masters in Latin. She later became a high school Latin teacher, but eventually retired.
One day, Lenore noticed a strange silvery spot on her skin. She showed it first to a friend, and then to a nurse, and both of them fainted. She feared the spot was cancer, especially as it began spreading, and she began covering herself up.
At one point, when the condition had spread over to her whole body, Lenore went to see another doctor, and the doctor also fainted. Lenore phoned a crisis intervention hotline and they told her about Department H. They agreed to help her learn to control her abilities, along with (falsely) promising to help remove them entirely, if she would aid them while she possessed them still.
Powers: All of Lenore's exposed epidermis produces a bright, white light through a form of bioluminescence, that somehow generates the production of fatigue poisons in the body and sleep chemicals in the brain. Most living beings exposed to this light find themselves extremely tired and lose consciousness. A man of average weight would be rendered unconscious by ten seconds of exposure. The longer a person is exposed to this light, the worse the effect is. In addition, Lenore possesses the strength and vitality of a person about twenty-five years younger than her actual age.
Lenore cannot cease the use of her powers, and so she must cover her body completely in order to interact with people.
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