STATISTICS
Fighting GD 10
Agility GD 10
Strength TY 6
Endurance 20 20
Reason PR 4
Intuition TY 6
Psyche TY 4 (see Known Powers)
Health: 46
Karma: 14
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Tabitha Smith
AKA: Time Bomb, Boomer, and Meltdown
Occupation:
None. Petty Thief
Legal
Status: Juvenile record (sealed).
Banned from numerous malls and retail outlets for shoplifting.
Identity:
Unknown to the public at large
Place of
Birth: Roanoke, Virginia
Marital
Status: Single
Known Relatives:
Lou, Father (deceased).
Base of
Operations: the Shockwave Rider, whatever
the NNNN X-Force is based out of
nowadays.
Past Group
Affiliations: Fallen Angles, New Mutants, X-Factor, X-terminators, X-Force,
H.A.T.E.
Present
Group Affiliations: Nextwave, X-Force.
KNOWN
POWERS
Energy Bombs:
Boom Boom is a mutant who can create glowing spheres of plasma energy up to 2’
in diameter (or roughly the size of a beach ball) from her hands and throw,
shoot or plant them up to 3 spaces away. She can ‘time’ these bombs to go off
anywhere from 1-10 rounds after she has created them, or she can mentally
trigger them to explode anytime within ten rounds. Any bombs not detonated
after 10 rounds will explode on their own. She can adjust the bombs to do any
Damage up to Amazing without effort, and might be able to create larger ones
with sufficient time, concentration and Red Bull.
She can only create one bomb per round.
She has also demonstrated the ability to channel a
bomb through another item in order to reach areas that she cannot physically
see or reach.
Psychic-Resistance:
Boom Boom has Excellent resistance to mental attacks or spells that causing
hallucinations, fantasies, nightmares and disorientation. Some speculate this
may have something to do with her contact with the Beyonder, or it could be
that she’s simply not smart enough for her brain to process these kinds of
effects.
Talent: Boom Boom has the Throwing Weapon talent. She has also
received in-depth combat, hacking and espionage skills from Cable, though it’s
unclear how much of it she has actually retained.
Resources:
Boom Boom As a member of H.A.T.E., she has access to a flying harness that
allows her to move at Good speed.
BACKGROUND
Tabitha Smith was born in a trailer park in
Roanoke Virginia to inattentive parents who separated when she was still a
child. Education was never a priority for Tabitha and she
grew into a rebellious teen. When her powers first manifested during puberty
she used them for small pranks and petty thievery until one morning when she
detonated a bowl of her father’s Lucky Smacks. He attacked her and drover her
out of the double-wide once and for all.
Having heard of a school for mutants somewhere in
New England, she headed north only to encounter the being known as the Beyonder.
The alien being transported her the rest of the way, but the Beyonder’s sudden
appearance provoked an attack by the X-Men and Tabitha was mostly ignored.
After a series of adventures that would become known as the Secret Wars II, she
left the Beyonder and ended up living on the streets.
Befriending a young girl named Gina, the two soon
caught the eye of a pimp named ‘Tiger’ who made several attempts to recruit the
two young girls. One night Tiger beat Gina to death, only to be killed by
Tabitha in return. On the run, Tabitha met the mutant known as the Vanisher who
recruited her into his team of thieves known as the Fallen Angles. One of the
Angles known as Ariel, turned out to be an alien looking to collect mutants for
study back on her homeworld known only as ‘Coconut Grove.” Fortunately, Ariel
had a change of heart and returned the surviving Angles to earth where they
went their separate ways.
Having met several X-Men and New Mutants, Tabitha
was now able to join the School for Gifted Youngsters and the New Mutants. When
the school was closed she, along with several other mutants, were sent to the
Phillips Academy in New Hampshire. Not fitting in well with the other students,
she was expelled and rejoined the New Mutants, where she developed her feeling
for her fellow mutant, Cannonball.
Both Cannonball and Tabitha both joined Cable’s
new X-Force. Under Cable’s mentorship, she developed her powers, and in a fit
of nineties X-tremism, cut off her hair, added a lot of pouches to her costume
and insisted that she be called Meltdown. Her relationship with Cannonball
suffered a number of ups and downs during this time, including an affair with
fellow teammate Sunspot. The current state of their relationship remains a mystery.
After several years with X-Factor, she took a
break from the team. She spent some time fooling around the west coast, hitting
the clubs and growing out her hair, until she was approached by Monica Rambeau
and Dick Anger, director of H.A.T.E. who recruited her into the team known as
Nextwave.
Still a petty thief at heart, it is her sticky
fingers that found the marketing plan of the Beyond Corporation, H.A.T.E.'s
financial backers. It turned out that Beyond Corp evolved out of the former
terrorist cell known as S.I.L.E.N.T., and was planning to use H.A.T.E. and
Nextwave to further its own sinister agendas. Taking this information to
Monica, the group rebelled, only to be pursued by Dick Anger and all the
resources of H.A.T.E
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Boom
Boom was created by
Jim
Shooter and Al Milgrom.
Artwork
by Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Dave McCaig with Paul Mounts
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