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bombshelled) wrote2014-09-10 08:47 pm
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Character Name: Lana Baumgartner, aka Bombshell
Series: Marvel 1610
Timeline: All-New Ultimates #06
Canon Resource Link: Marvel Wiki link.
Character History:
Back around 1997, Lori Baumgartner didn't have many options. She was in Ryker's Island prison after an attempted robbery went south, and some people from Roxxon Industries offered her an out. "Be a part of our new drug trial and you're free," they said. The drug? Their attempt at recreating the supersoldier formula that created Captain America. The result of the trials? Lori got explosive new superpowers and escaped. Oh yeah, and by the way? She was pregnant.
Fifteen years later, Lori and her daughter Lana are blasting their way into bank vaults as a masked duo named the Bombshells. Unfortunately for them, they're stopped on multiple attempts by New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, plus his friends the Human Torch and Spider-Woman. Lori is sent back to jail (to a high security SHIELD facility this time), but Lana, being a minor, is given the chance to reform herself. She goes to live with her grandmother and enrolls in Midtown High in Queens (which just so happens to be the same high school where one Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, goes). Peter recognizes Lana not by her face or anything, but by her foul mouth. She swears (hah) him to secrecy; she wants nothing to do with her old life and is genuinely trying to just be a normal girl.
A couple years go by, Peter Parker dies and his dual identity as Spider-Man is revealed to the world. A new Spider-Man arises, a boy named Miles Morales. Roxxon keeps trying to recreate the supersoldier formula, this time experimenting on two teens in comas. At some point, Lana (now living in state-funded housing) starts wearing a costume again, but not to commit crimes-- to stop them. The two (formerly) comatose teens, now calling themselves Cloak and Dagger, go after Lana, now calling herself Bombshell, because they think she's working with Roxxon. While fighting, they blow up the facade of the restaurant where Miles is eating with his dad. Lana escapes, for the moment.
The next day, Miles (as Spider-Man) and Spider-Woman find Lana and offer to help her, but the three of them are caught by a bounty hunter named Taskmaster. Spider-Man and -Woman give Lana the chance to escape, but instead she helps them overpower Taskmaster. The three of them, all having been screwed over by the evil Roxxon at some point in their lives, team up with Cloak and Dagger to take them down. Afterwards, Lana is elated, saying they should totally team up again.
Later, Lana is in trouble with her probation officer because her parole agreement states that she's not allowed to use her powers. She argues that she thinks she's meant to help people, to be a superhero, but it falls on deaf ears, so she tells him to fuck off and storms out. This is about the time that the whole world starts falling apart. A big (and I mean size of New Jersey big) purple guy named Galactus shows up and starts destroying the area in preparation to consume the planet. Lana, of course, just walks down the sidewalk with her headphones on, chewing bubblegum as people run right past her, screaming. It's not until she runs into Sid, her ex, and sees him get crushed by a falling car that she realizes what's going on. She's in shock and terrified, but she decides to put on her Bombshell getup and help. She can't do anything to stop Galactus, but she can help stop the looting and rioting going on.
In the aftermath of Galactus, Captain America is dead, SHIELD and the Ultimates (the Avengers of this universe) are disbanded, and gangs run rampant. The team that took on Roxxon, now calling themselves the New Ultimates, along with former X-Man Kitty Pryde, start to take down the fiercest of the gangs, the Serpent Skulls. The Skulls don't like that one bit, so they decide to go after the New Ultimates. In the middle of a very pleasant beach day with the NU girls, Lana gets a phone call from her boyfriend, Poey, saying he's about to kill himself. Lana hurries over, only to find Poey dead on the floor, thanks to the Skulls. They then give Lana a mind-control drug and use her to lure the New Ultimates together. When she finally breaks free from the mind-control, Lana goes crazy with revenge and ends up burning down the building where the Skulls and the Ultimates are fighting. Needless to say, she could use a break after all that.
Abilities/Special Powers: When Lana was young, she could only use her powers when in close proximity with her mother, but now she can use them on her own.
Lana can shoot projectile energy beams from her hands for explosive effects or shockwaves, both of which emit loud booming sounds. By directing her blast emissions she is capable of short-ranged flight.
Long story short, she has kablooie powers.
Third-Person Sample:
First Sid, now Poey. First Sid, now Poey. It's all Lana can think about. Why do the people she cares about have to die? Even Parker died, and they weren't all that close. She's consumed with anger and guilt, but she's paralyzed by whatever dust that was that Diamondback blew in her face. Her last words to Tandy echo in her mind. "And there you have it-- my love life in a nutshell."
All she can do is stand there and watch the church below where her friends are fighting for their lives. Just stand there helpless to save them as they command her to blow them away. Then Diamondback mentions Poey, and that's the last straw. Lana pushes back with all her strength and turns, aiming her blast at Diamondback and her lieutenant instead of Cloak. She falls from the balcony, landing in a heap of flaming wreckage, but when the smoke clears, she shouts, "...over... it's done... I don't care how many of you I catch but... you're all... DEAD!"
Then she lets go. She throws explosions at every damn Serpent Skull piece of shit she sees, not caring about collateral damage. First Sid, now Poey. They did this. They ruined her life. They're going to pay for what they've done. Poey may have been a drug dealer, but he was a good guy. He deserved better. He deserved to live. But now he's dead, and his body thrown unceremoniously in a dumpster. He deserved better. Lana can't do anything more for Poey than to try to kill as many Serpent Skulls as she can. And damn, does she try.
She barely registers through the tears and the sound of explosions when she's not in the church anymore. All she knows is, one second she was there, the next she wasn't. And instead of wooden beams and derelict pews on fire, it's trees and bushes burning all around her. She stops, unsure where she is or what the hell is going on. She's still crying, though. Maybe I'm hallucinating, she thinks. But no, she can hear the birds and smell the smoke. Feel the wind in her hair. The fire isn't big, it'll burn itself out before it spreads, she thinks. (She hopes.) She stumbles away from it, in search of some answers...
First Sid, now Poey, now... this?
First-Person Sample:
[The feed comes on to show a brown haired teenager with a purple domino mask and pink spandex suit under a white labcoat. She is (perhaps obviously) trying very hard to maintain her composure.]
Hey there, Wonderland. Bombshell here. Sorry about the mess earlier, got a bit carried away. You know how it goes. One second you're fighting a bunch of murdering assholes, the next you're blowing up a tree. Guess that's the way things work around here, huh?
Anyway, I just wanted to know, where does a girl go get some threads around here? I didn't see a mall on the brochure. And spandex is nice and all, but you can't wear it all the time, know what I mean?
Whatever. Bombshell out. Later, haters!
[As soon as she ends the feed, she takes a deep breath, pulls off the mask, and finds somewhere isolated where she can go cry about how fucked up the last twenty four hours have been.]
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Other Characters: Alex Lannon,
markedbyfateCharacter Name: Lana Baumgartner, aka Bombshell
Series: Marvel 1610
Timeline: All-New Ultimates #06
Canon Resource Link: Marvel Wiki link.
Character History:
Back around 1997, Lori Baumgartner didn't have many options. She was in Ryker's Island prison after an attempted robbery went south, and some people from Roxxon Industries offered her an out. "Be a part of our new drug trial and you're free," they said. The drug? Their attempt at recreating the supersoldier formula that created Captain America. The result of the trials? Lori got explosive new superpowers and escaped. Oh yeah, and by the way? She was pregnant.
Fifteen years later, Lori and her daughter Lana are blasting their way into bank vaults as a masked duo named the Bombshells. Unfortunately for them, they're stopped on multiple attempts by New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, plus his friends the Human Torch and Spider-Woman. Lori is sent back to jail (to a high security SHIELD facility this time), but Lana, being a minor, is given the chance to reform herself. She goes to live with her grandmother and enrolls in Midtown High in Queens (which just so happens to be the same high school where one Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, goes). Peter recognizes Lana not by her face or anything, but by her foul mouth. She swears (hah) him to secrecy; she wants nothing to do with her old life and is genuinely trying to just be a normal girl.
A couple years go by, Peter Parker dies and his dual identity as Spider-Man is revealed to the world. A new Spider-Man arises, a boy named Miles Morales. Roxxon keeps trying to recreate the supersoldier formula, this time experimenting on two teens in comas. At some point, Lana (now living in state-funded housing) starts wearing a costume again, but not to commit crimes-- to stop them. The two (formerly) comatose teens, now calling themselves Cloak and Dagger, go after Lana, now calling herself Bombshell, because they think she's working with Roxxon. While fighting, they blow up the facade of the restaurant where Miles is eating with his dad. Lana escapes, for the moment.
The next day, Miles (as Spider-Man) and Spider-Woman find Lana and offer to help her, but the three of them are caught by a bounty hunter named Taskmaster. Spider-Man and -Woman give Lana the chance to escape, but instead she helps them overpower Taskmaster. The three of them, all having been screwed over by the evil Roxxon at some point in their lives, team up with Cloak and Dagger to take them down. Afterwards, Lana is elated, saying they should totally team up again.
Later, Lana is in trouble with her probation officer because her parole agreement states that she's not allowed to use her powers. She argues that she thinks she's meant to help people, to be a superhero, but it falls on deaf ears, so she tells him to fuck off and storms out. This is about the time that the whole world starts falling apart. A big (and I mean size of New Jersey big) purple guy named Galactus shows up and starts destroying the area in preparation to consume the planet. Lana, of course, just walks down the sidewalk with her headphones on, chewing bubblegum as people run right past her, screaming. It's not until she runs into Sid, her ex, and sees him get crushed by a falling car that she realizes what's going on. She's in shock and terrified, but she decides to put on her Bombshell getup and help. She can't do anything to stop Galactus, but she can help stop the looting and rioting going on.
In the aftermath of Galactus, Captain America is dead, SHIELD and the Ultimates (the Avengers of this universe) are disbanded, and gangs run rampant. The team that took on Roxxon, now calling themselves the New Ultimates, along with former X-Man Kitty Pryde, start to take down the fiercest of the gangs, the Serpent Skulls. The Skulls don't like that one bit, so they decide to go after the New Ultimates. In the middle of a very pleasant beach day with the NU girls, Lana gets a phone call from her boyfriend, Poey, saying he's about to kill himself. Lana hurries over, only to find Poey dead on the floor, thanks to the Skulls. They then give Lana a mind-control drug and use her to lure the New Ultimates together. When she finally breaks free from the mind-control, Lana goes crazy with revenge and ends up burning down the building where the Skulls and the Ultimates are fighting. Needless to say, she could use a break after all that.
Abilities/Special Powers: When Lana was young, she could only use her powers when in close proximity with her mother, but now she can use them on her own.
Lana can shoot projectile energy beams from her hands for explosive effects or shockwaves, both of which emit loud booming sounds. By directing her blast emissions she is capable of short-ranged flight.
Long story short, she has kablooie powers.
Third-Person Sample:
First Sid, now Poey. First Sid, now Poey. It's all Lana can think about. Why do the people she cares about have to die? Even Parker died, and they weren't all that close. She's consumed with anger and guilt, but she's paralyzed by whatever dust that was that Diamondback blew in her face. Her last words to Tandy echo in her mind. "And there you have it-- my love life in a nutshell."
All she can do is stand there and watch the church below where her friends are fighting for their lives. Just stand there helpless to save them as they command her to blow them away. Then Diamondback mentions Poey, and that's the last straw. Lana pushes back with all her strength and turns, aiming her blast at Diamondback and her lieutenant instead of Cloak. She falls from the balcony, landing in a heap of flaming wreckage, but when the smoke clears, she shouts, "...over... it's done... I don't care how many of you I catch but... you're all... DEAD!"
Then she lets go. She throws explosions at every damn Serpent Skull piece of shit she sees, not caring about collateral damage. First Sid, now Poey. They did this. They ruined her life. They're going to pay for what they've done. Poey may have been a drug dealer, but he was a good guy. He deserved better. He deserved to live. But now he's dead, and his body thrown unceremoniously in a dumpster. He deserved better. Lana can't do anything more for Poey than to try to kill as many Serpent Skulls as she can. And damn, does she try.
She barely registers through the tears and the sound of explosions when she's not in the church anymore. All she knows is, one second she was there, the next she wasn't. And instead of wooden beams and derelict pews on fire, it's trees and bushes burning all around her. She stops, unsure where she is or what the hell is going on. She's still crying, though. Maybe I'm hallucinating, she thinks. But no, she can hear the birds and smell the smoke. Feel the wind in her hair. The fire isn't big, it'll burn itself out before it spreads, she thinks. (She hopes.) She stumbles away from it, in search of some answers...
First Sid, now Poey, now... this?
First-Person Sample:
[The feed comes on to show a brown haired teenager with a purple domino mask and pink spandex suit under a white labcoat. She is (perhaps obviously) trying very hard to maintain her composure.]
Hey there, Wonderland. Bombshell here. Sorry about the mess earlier, got a bit carried away. You know how it goes. One second you're fighting a bunch of murdering assholes, the next you're blowing up a tree. Guess that's the way things work around here, huh?
Anyway, I just wanted to know, where does a girl go get some threads around here? I didn't see a mall on the brochure. And spandex is nice and all, but you can't wear it all the time, know what I mean?
Whatever. Bombshell out. Later, haters!
[As soon as she ends the feed, she takes a deep breath, pulls off the mask, and finds somewhere isolated where she can go cry about how fucked up the last twenty four hours have been.]