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Shard
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: X-Factor, Xavier's
Security Enforcers (X.S.E.), Xavier's Underground
Enforcers (X.U.E.)
Status: Uncertain
Relatives: Bishop (brother), Shard
(great-grandfather)
Alternate-X Versions: None
Codename Etymology: Pronounced shärd [From Old English sceard "cut"]; A piece of broken
glass, pottery, or metal.
Powers & History: A mutant with the power to transmute mass into
light, and 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 our time, 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. In this state, Shard is capable of vanishing and appearing at will, as well as phasing through matter. She has also retained her light-blasting abilities. 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 the past (our 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. forward 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 Fitzroy once and for all. 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 Chronobots. Bishop was taken to the future, and shortly thereafter, so was Shard. She became Fitzroy's prisoner, and he had complete control over her powers, so she couldn't do anything against him. Slowly Fitzroy managed to brainwash Shard into betraying her brother when he came looking for her. More importantly, Fitzroy somehow managed to turn Shard human again, without even her mutant powers. A side effect of this was that Shard was primarily under Fitzroy's control, so she betrayed her brother to him when he came looking for her. Soon after, as Bishop and Fitzroy fought, Shard overcame her brainwashing, but couldn't break her chains. Determined to help her brother, she took a piece of broken glass and cut her own arm off. She made it to the beaten Bishop's side just as Fitzroy was about to enter a portal and become Time itself. Shard then re-formatted herself back into energy and jumped into Bishop, who had no choice but to absorb and rechannel her back at their enemy. Unfortunately, Bishop missed, and his "Shard-blast" went into the portal. It is unlikely that Shard survived all these events, but her death has yet to be officially confirmed.
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