shard

Name: Shard

Current Affiliation: None

Previous Affiliations: X.S.E (Xavier's Security Enforcers), X.U.E (Xavier's Underground Enforcers), X-Factor

Aliases: None

Known Relatives: Bishop (brother)

Place of birth: A sentinel relocation camp in an undisclosed location on an alternate 21st Century Earth

Eyes: White, sometimes green

Hair: Blonde

Powers: Shard has the mutant power to transmute mass into light. Since her revival as a photon-based lifeform, Shard is capable of vanishing and appearing at will, as well as phasing through matter.

First Apperance: Uncanny X-Men #315

History: The youngest officer in the X.S.E., Shard was lured into a trap by Trevor Fitzroy, her criminal boyfriend. While supposedly on a raid of the terrorist Exhumes, Shard and her squad were ambushed by 'Emplates. Shard was transformed into an 'Emplate herself, which should have meant her death, but her brother Bishop risked everything and sold himself to Stark-Fujikawa for a year, in exchange for a procedure that would transfer Shard's mind into a holographic program. The operation was a success, but Shard's body perished.

The holo-program came with Bishop to the present day, and was seriously damaged in a battle with Mountjoy. However, Forge was able to repair the module, and after a battle with the Adversary, in which it appeared that she had been destroyed, she gained true sentience and life, and was no longer bound to a holo-projector, having become a photon-based lifeform.

Sometime before her death, Shard hooked up with the X.U.E., renegade X.S.E. members who were going to use Fitzroy's time travel ability to go back to their past (the present) and change it. While Shard quit the team and died before the mission could be accomplished, when Sabretooth attacked X-Factor during his escape, Shard somehow merged with Polaris. In the future, the X.U.E.'s telepath Fixx, who had once mind-linked with Shard, sensed that Shard was anchored in the past in human form. Using Shard as a tether, Fixx pulled the X.U.E. back in time to the present. While Shard quit X-Factor following her subsequent split from Polaris, she returned when Havok re-fromed the team independent of the government. However, Havok's "death" in Greystone's faulty timeship put those pans on hold, and Shard resumed her own life.

When she couldn't get in touch with Bishop (who was off-planet at the time) she decided to hunt down Trevor Fitzroy. Unfortunately, Fitzroy had grown too powerful and by the time Bishop found her, Shard was a broken mess who couldn't help he brother fight off Fiztroy's Chronotroopers. Bishop was taken to the future, and shortly thereafter, so was Shard. She is currently Fitzroy's prisoner, and he has complete control over her powers, so she can't do anything against him. align="left">