Nightquake

Nightquake (real name Ashley Barrett) is the 13th member of the S-men.

## Biography

Ashley was born to a banker and his wife in Washington. Her powers came as little surprise to the couple, as Ashley’s mother, formerly Ashley Wagner, was the younger sister of Hubert Wagner, the man who would become the famed war hero Armageddon in WWII, and who possessed explosive powers of combustion and super strength. Ashley with Bob grew up the only children to their proud parents and her uncle visited frequently. Ashley’s earliest memories of training with her powers were with Hubert, who encouraged her to take pride in her abilities, despite the words and reactions of a society who widely feared Supers. Ashley adored her uncle and looked up to him, and it was a great blow to her family when Hubert Wagner was killed on D-Day, sacrificing himself to save his legion. Ashley, then 11, mourned her uncle and remembered him with pride. Soon enough the NSA rose up and the veteran supers of the war were coming back as celebrated heroes, many of them going on to act as America’s first ever superheroes. Ashley knew instantly that this was what she was meant to be; if her uncle Hubert didn’t get to live to be a superhero, then Ashley would do so for him, and she vowed to be the very best superhero ever. However, her parents insisted that Ashley go through college before she pursued this. While in collage, Ashley developed confusing feelings for her friend Lexi that went beyond friendship, and she might have eventually acted on them if she hadn’t met Phoenix. Alex Park was the guy of Ashley’s dreams, no one else had ever had her so quickly infatuated. She found herself showing off in his presence, hoping to impress him. However, her moves to do so wound up stealing limelight that should have belonged to Phoenix, and he reacted with hostility. Eventually Ashley confessed to Alex that she only wanted him to notice her, not to take public attention from him, and he softened to her. The two became friends, and soon after, began dating. Ashley fell deeply in love with him and moved into his apartment. Only months later, he proposed to her, and a year later, the two were married. Ashley was at that time the most popular super in the country, America’s golden girl, and she was happier than she’d ever been. But it wasn’t to last; lawsuits began to pile on the NSA, the brunt of which were complaints against Nightquake. The humiliating damage complaints ruined her golden girl reputation, and not long after the ban came into place, outlawing superheroes all together. When the ban came into place, Ashley and Alex wanted to stay young so both of them built cyrogenic pods so they can stay young and they set their pods to release them when the ban was lifted. 15 years later Ashley was released from her pod, but Alex wasn't, because his pod malfunctioned and killed him. When Mr. Incredible told what Syndrome did to the retired Supers and told Gazerbeam's story at a funeral service for him and the rest of the supers killed by Syndrome, she was devastated. She joined the S-men sometime after the funeral service.

## Personality

Has a obsession with maintaining her hair due to the constant wind disruption when traveling using earth. She is also a sufferer of claustrophobia.

## Powers

Her powers are geokinesis and agrokinesis**.**

## Weaknesses

Her weaknesses are that she has stay in contact with earth, attacks from fire manipulation and ice manipulation can pose an issue and is susceptible to lightning strikes.