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Lightspeed
Real
Name: Julie Power Occupation: Student (elementary school) Identity: Secret Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no
criminal record, still a minor Other Aliases: Molecula: Mistress of Density, Starstreak Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: James (father), Margaret (mother),
Alex, Jack (brothers), Katie (sister), Roy Craig (grandfather)
Group Affiliation: Power Pack Base of Operations: New York City First Appearance: POWER PACK #1
History: Julia Power is the
daughter of Dr. James Power,
a physicist who was working for the United States government
on a means of producing large quantities of energy cheaply
through combining matter and antimatter. (The subatomic
particles composing antimatter have opposite charges to
those of the equivalent particles of matter itself. When
matter contacts antimatter, both are converted entirely
into vast quantities of energy.)
An
alien Kymellian named Aelfyre Whitemane (nicknamed "Whitey")
learned of Power's discovery and intended to stop it from
being used. Whitemane knew that a device such as Power's,
although Power and his co-workers did not realize it, would
trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the Earth. Moreover,
he knew that Power's device was sought by the alien Z'nrx,
nicknamed "Sharks,"
who intended to use it to conquer inhworlds.
Snarks
captured Dr. Power and his wife Margaret,
intending to force him to reveal the secret of how his device
worked. Whitemane saved the Powers' children, Alex, Julie,
Jack, and Katie, from being
captured, but he himself was fatally wounded in the process.
Dying, Whitemane transferred a different one of his superhuman
powers into each of the four Power children and asked them
to use their new abilities to sav world.
Julia
received the power to fly at great speed while leaving a
trail of colored light behind her, and therefore called
herself Lightspeed. The four children called themselves
the Power Pack.
Power Pack thwarted the Snarks, rescued their parents, and
destroyed Dr. Power's dangerous matter/antimatter converter,
thereby saving the Earth from destruction. The four children
have since continued to have adventures a Pack.
During
the infamous Snark Wars, Queen Mother Maraud forced a Kymellian
transfer from the Power Pack to her son High Snark Prince
Jakal. But, though the energies did return to the Pack,
Julie ended up with her brother, Jack's "Mass Master"
powers; thus becoming Molecula: Mistress of Density. During
the Power Pack's second encounter against Maraud, the team
transferred the powers willingly to her in order to save
Kymellia. But, just as before, the energies returned once
more to the Pack, with only Julie regaining her original
again.
During
her brother Alex's time with the New Warriors, he "borrowed"
all his siblings' powers against their wishes. During a
New Warriors' mission, where the Smartship
Friday was nearly sacrificed in order to stop the Dire
Wraith Queen Volx and the Neo-Neutralizer almost cancelled
all the Warriors' powers, Alex inadvertently returned the
powers back to the Pack, and Julie became Lightspeed again.
The
Power Family have just recently moved to Bainbridge Island,
approximately ten miles away from the city of Seattlington.
Height:
4 ft. 8 in. Weight: 76 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Str blonde
Strength Level: Lightspeed has the normal
human strength of a girl of her age, height, and build, who
engages in a normal amount of exercise for her age (mostly
through playing). When using her flying power, Lightspeed
creates great forward thrust that enables her to carry at
least 50 pounds aloft for an extended period without slowing
her speed. (Hence, Lightspeed often carries her younger sister
Katie, who weighs 41 pounds.)
Known
Superhuman Powers: Lightspeed has the ability to fly
at great speed while leaving a rainbow-like trail of light
behind her. The upper limit of Lightspeed's speed has yet
to be determined, but she has proved able to surpass the
speed of sound (770 miles per hour). It is not known whether
she can come close to the s light.
It is not known exactly how Lightspeed's flying
ability works. It is apparently not through the manipulation
of gravitons (the subatomic particles carrying the force
of gravity) or anti-gravitons (particles with opposite charges
than gravitons') since she cannot simply hover aloft. Apparently
she somehow generates energy that gives her great forward
thrust enabling her to rise from the ground and move through
the air at rapid speed. At high speeds she projects an aura
of unknown energy about herself that protects herself and
anyone she carries from the adverse effects of air friction.
The energy that Lightspeed releases while
flying is visible behind her for about no more than a minute
as a trail of rainbow like light.
Paraphernalia: Lightspeed wears a special
costume made of unstable molecules by the Kymellian smartship
Friday. The costume can be intangible and invisible, but
will materialize on her and be visible when she wills it
to do so. The normal clothing she is wearing in turn becomes
invisible and intangible when the costume materializes,
on her.