Editing Aka Roughtrade (section)

=Origin Notes=

Kelly was born on the wrong side of the tracks. Oldest child in a family of five, she shares a father with only one of her brothers. Mom rarely paid attention to anything other than drinking and finding the next baby-daddy to help with rent. Kelly grew up tough and with an aversion the thought of being dependent on her looks and a man to get by. She started out with petty theft and other semi-violent crimes as a teen and moved on to stealing cars and serious B&E burglary. Running with a gang meant being someone's piece of tail, so she mostly worked alone.

She was recruited by Advanced Ideas Mechanics after her first arrest as an adult. Their lawyers got her off on a technicality, she went to work as a bodyguard and infiltrator type. Kelly took advantage of the opportunity to become trained at higher tech breaking and entering than she ever would have had the chance otherwise. She also got detailed first hand experience at how "Heroes" almost always won.

Kelly was being used as "eye-candy" as much as a body guard, even she had to admit that to herself. Nothing wrong with taking advantage of things so long as she wasn't dependent on her looks for all her self worth. Kelly's "attributes" got her a comfy position baby-sitting a science lab on nano-bot engineering super-soldier experiments. Sleeping with the top man got her information on how he was planning to betray AIM and sell his completed process on the black market. An inopportune heart attack in bed left Kelly as the only person who knew where the completed serum was hidden. An "anonymous" phone call got the lab raided by SHIELD {Or the Avengers or whoever you wanna use} and after two years (reduced to six months for first adult violation with five years parole) in jail, Kelly was embarked on a new career. Hero.

If Iron Man can get paid big bucks by Stark, and the Avengers get a monthly paycheck, there's gotta be someone else out there who needs a hero. Right?

One las B&E job. Kelly broke into the remains of the Base (still sealed and undisturbed pending completion of court cases) and with the only vial of the perfected serum in hand she activated the process. She gained the powers of strength, speed, agility, regeneration; a supersoldier.  To further round out her capabilities, Kelly swiped a pair of standard issue plasma guns and a few useful toys.

Now, so long as she can keep her parole officer off her back, old friends from convincing her to come back to work for them and get someone to notice her "hero" identity, she can make some money. And hopefully no one at AIM or SHIELD ever figures out who she is and how she did it. [/spoiler] 

[spoiler=Still mostly a copy, but with more editing to refine power descriptors] The process granted her the physique of a perfect human; the peak of human capabilities in physical attributes.  Kelly is capable of matching Olympian athletes in running, jumping, acrobatics, weight lifting and so on. Her eyesight, hearing and other senses are also highly developed and her night vision is nearly perfect.  All these are physical changes to her body and once done cannot be undone any more than someone could strip an Olympian swimmer of his strength or a gymnast of her agility.  

The real key to the process was the perfection of the nanite bio-bots.  A requirement to sculpt the initial changes, they remain and replicate in her system.  They allow her short periods of time to exceed normal human limits, bolstering her human muscles and super-fueling her body's needs. They process poisons and toxins and neutralize them to the point where she is nearly immune to anything but the most massive overdose. Nanites also repair her body almost as fast as she is wounded. She still feels the pain of a gunshot or stabbing or burning, but within minutes she is recovered.

To power the nanites, Kelly eats a lot. Other physical changes show as a greyish tint to her blood, the iris of her eyes have turned to silver and when she pushes herself Kelly begins to sweat in silver as dying nanites are processed out of her system and she is ravenously hungry after any extended use. Hungry nanites also process most sugars and alcohol at a speedy rate, making it incredibly difficult for Kelly to get drunk and making candy one of her favorite foods.

Her equipment is fairly light.  Counting on speed and maneuverability in combat over standing up to direct hits, Kelly wears no armor.  Her costume is pretty much black leather pants, moto-cross boots (also black) Black batters gloves (reinforced some) and a black leather vest, tightly pulled but the cross stitching clearly displays her cleavage.  Hey.  If it distracts someone so she can get a shot in, it's worth it.  Her mask covers her forehead and the sides of her cheeks, as well as the bridge of her nose.  

The stolen pistols are slightly modified, Kelly tinkered with the output crystal alignment so the color shift is different and more in the blue spectrum from standard issue.  She also added a ruggedized housing to both protect them from damage in falls and slugfests, and also altering the outline so they are not such a familiar design.  A weapons expert who managed to take one apart would see through the changes fairly quickly.  

Cable Launcher : a rod device that shoots a line for traveling by swinging.  The end has a molecular bonding agent that is activated by electrical stimulation. A wire running along the cable transmits the electrical pulse from the batteries by the push of a button on the handle. High powered electrical fields make the bonding agent unstable so she rarely uses it during thunderstorms or around power generators.  Roughly the size of a tonfa, she can also use it to bop people.