Miss Amazing

Miscellaneous Notes:

Birth Order: Only child.
Land of Origin: United States.
Childhood Environment: Small town.
Social/Economic Background: Middle Class.
When Extraordinary Abilities First Manifested: Adult/ Recently.
Sponsoring Organization: Secret Organization.
Motive for the Procedure: Nefarious.
Nature of the Procedure: Chemical.
Nature of the Test Subject: Normal.
Current Status with the Sponsoring Organization: Rogue agent.
Likelihood of Successful Replication: A disappointing partial success.

Character Bio:

Katherine Davis is a false identity. Several years ago her real identity was listed as officially deceased when she despondently volunteered for superhuman augmentation. Everything she currently has was a gift from project head who helped cover-up her escape from the facility. She thinks his plan worked and the Organization behind the project believes she and all the key researchers involved in the project died in a tragic lab accident. She fears that the project lead was killed, though. After all, what other reason could there be for why he never contacted her like he promised?

Backstory as revealed to Garrick Faulkner:

Michelle Stevens-Woods was a career college student. Attending college she never really had any serious ambitions. She changed majors several times over the years she was there, ranging from science majors to arts majors but never finished one. Eventually, she managed to get enough credits to get a degree in something, and used that degree to become a teacher at that same school.

For some years she taught there. In that time, she met her ex-husband Michael Wood, a fellow professor. She had been with many men, but he was the first one she felt she could spend the rest of her life with. That marriage lasted about a year before he left her for another woman. After the divorce she realized that her life really wasn’t going anywhere. It was then she found out about an incredible opportunity.

People were being screened to participate in a testing program that advertised the ability to “change your life forever.” Michelle jumped at this and, passing the initial screenings, found herself part of a batch of 17 volunteers. After signing the appropriate legal forms they were all subjected to various chemical processes designed to enhance the human body, bringing out superhuman abilities.

The project was a dismal failure. Five of the volunteers died due to unforeseen drug complications and two other volunteers were reduced to a comatose state. Michelle was one of those left brain dead. The surviving volunteers, after a period of observation to ensure the drugs had no effect on them, were released back to their normal lives. Michelle and the other unconscious patient were listed among the dead. Their families were notified and the project was publicly shut down.

Behind the scenes now the project scientists began experimenting more on the two comatose patients. They had discovered through careful observation that the drugs which rendered them in this state were somehow rejuvenating their bodies. They were getting younger! The scientists continued observing them and within 4 months they were noticeably younger. Michelle looked to be in her early 20’s now and the other volunteer was somewhere in his early teens.

It was then the scientists became worried. What if they kept de-aging? Their bodies showed no signs of stopping. Thus they began experimenting again, this time though to counteract the effects of their earlier experimentation. They discovered that the bodies de-aging accelerated the younger they got. Through more chemical experimentation and delicate surgery they were able to halt Michelle’s body in her late teens. The other volunteer, unfortunately, died on the operating table as a child.

The scientists now had a comatose, teenage girl whose condition seemed stable finally. However, what had happened to her defied explanation. Try as they might over the next few months, the scientists just could not reproduce those effects. Their project was threatened with a funding withdrawal. Then, almost a year after Michelle had first fallen into her coma, she woke up.

Confused, the remaining scientific team members examined her and filled her in as best they could with what happened. Michelle was shocked, then became angry when she was told that legally, she was dead. Months ago her family held a funeral for her and moved on with their lives. Remembering what her old life had to offer her anyway, Michelle agreed to stay with the scientists to help them try and figure out why her body reacted the way it did.

She spent another year in a secret testing facility with these people. After a while she became good friends with them. Through testing, they helped her discover many of her surprising new abilities. When Michelle wasn’t being tested, she was training. The first part of the program was simply to create the superhuman. The second part was to utilize her. They started her off with basic espionage training, teaching her how to fight, avoid danger, and other things that were more useful than anything she learned in all those years at school.

One day, Michelle was called in to talk with the head of this project. He was in a very somber mood when she entered, and he proceeded to explain to her that the funding for their project was being taken away due to their inability still to duplicate the process. If they were lucky they would all be reassigned. If not, they might all be killed. He continued to talk and told her what would then happen to her.

She would be reassigned to a strict military facility, rumored to be called “The Nursery.” There she would undergo brainwashing and intensified training with the purpose of turning her into a loyal soldier. He then told her this would happen tomorrow. She sat there quietly wondering why he told her all this. Then he pulled up a briefcase from the floor by him, opened it up and pushed it towards her.

Inside was a manila envelope containing a birth certificate, drivers’ license, and other assorted identification papers for her to begin a new life with a new identity. There was also bank account documentation with a recent deposit slip, some cash, car keys, and some high-tech equipment.

The project head explained that those devices would be officially “destroyed” in the same lab accident she was scheduled to die in within the hour. He told her what she would need to do in order to slip out of the compound with all these things, find the vehicle those keys were for, and start a new life with her new name: Katherine Davis.

She had no time to ask questions, she needed to leave. He assured her that if they survived they would get in touch with her at a specific rendezvous point marked on the map in her car within a week. She made her way out, found the car, and waited a week. No-one came after her. Unsure what to do, she tried to maintain a low profile but couldn’t maintain it. She had these amazing abilities now, and she wanted to do something with this new chance at life.