Tess Withers

**Tess Alice Withers** is **Skyvolt** , one of the worlds most powerful heroes. She was a social outcast who was thrust into the life of a superhero when a lightning bolt struck her while she was at a football game.

## History

### Origins

Tess Alice Withers was born to an average family and she lived in a quiet town of farmers in Fairview, Missouri. She was an only child and had a quiet personality which didn't attract many friends in school, that is until she met her best friend Sheila Greene. They became close friends in middleschool and stuck with each other ever since, Tess kept her from getting into trouble by being the voice of reason while Sheila pushed Tess to open up and express herself. While in highschool they met Maxwell Chimes a jock with a heart of gold, he protected Tess and Sheila from guys at a party and became their friend and self proclaimed bodyguard. The three of them stayed close all the way through highschool and into college.

#### Getting Her Powers

While at a homecoming game for her school Tess and her professor Dr. Gray was struck by a mysterious lightning bolt which left her with the power to summon and control electricity and electromagnetic waves. She discovered her powers during a robbery at a gas station. Feeling the rush of taking down a robber Tess ran to tell her friends about her powers. Together they decided to use her powers to get back at her rival Nevaeh Jones but when she stummbled upon Dr. Gray attempting to sexually assault Nevaeh she used her powers to knock him out and save her rival. Realising what she could do, she decided to become a vigilante and protect the people of Fairview from potential attacks.

### Getting a Hideout

Now that she decided to be a hero, Tess needed somewhere to actively patrol the town, Sheila suggested the abandoned Jameson Clocktower that was on the edge of town.

#### Her First Crime-Alert and Name Origin

Since she stopped the robber in the gas station the public know her as a "mysterious vigilante" but all that changed when she helped the cops catch the same robber and one of the cops asked who she was. One of the cops suggested Storm but was quickly shot down, Tess them told them her name was Skyvolt. Later that week the cities news paper "Fairview Quarterly" announced her to the world was Skyvolt.

### Meeting Garrison

Tess meets a guy named Garrison Avery while at a party and they quickly hit it off. They began to get closer to one another until Tess notices he looked familiar to a guy in an newspaper dated back to 1996. She confronted him about it and he revealed that a mysterious lightning storm transported him into the future and with no family and no way home he was stuck. He also told her how he felt towards her which led to Tess telling him that she was Skyvolt. She promised that they would find a way to get him back home but in the meantime they began dating.

### Encountering and Defeating Zaydock

Dr. Gray was slowly dying from the lightning strike and was in desperate need of Skyvolts powers to keep him alive. He created a persona named Zaydock and went after Tess. A huge battle ensues between the two almost leading to Tess' demise, luckily Garrison was able to distract Zaydock to let her escape. Meeting back at the clock tower they regroup and form a plan of attack on their former professor. With the help of Sheila and Max they lure Zaydock to the outskirts of the town where He and Tess began to fight. Tess was losing but with the help of Sheila, Garrison, and to a lesser extent Max she overcomes Zaydock and taps into her full power and vaporized him.

### Meeting the Other Heroes

During an alien invasion Tess teams up with members of The Invincibles and New Legion to stop the alien Rectrek from taking Tess and using her as a battery to power his planet killing machine. After his defeat she accepts an invitation to join the heroes on a new team called The Supreme Alliance.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Electrokinesis**: Skyvolt has the ability to absorb, generate and project volumes of electrical energy of an extremely high voltage. She also has the ability to transform into living electrical energy. In that form she can transmit herself through power lines and metal objects.

* **Energy Absorption/Projection**
* **Flight**
* **Beginner Level Fighting Skill**: Skyvolt began taking combat classes instructed by Chase Davenport