Tabitha Smith

## Background

### 1988 - 2003: Tabitha Smith

Tabitha Smith was born & raised in Roanoke, Virginia. Her parents divorced while she was six then her father remarried to Wanda Jo. However, his second marriage wasn't that much better as Tabitha noted that whenever they weren't screaming at her, they were screaming at each other. At best, her relationship with her parents was tumultuous & further declined after her mutant powers manifested.

When her mutant power developed, she discovered she could create balls of explosive combustive energy. During a time of high social anxiety, distrust & fear over mutants, her parents were not pleased that their daughter would randomly destroy things with her time-bombs. Her father wasn't a well-educated man & tried to beat the mutant power out of her. In response, she placed a small explosive on his dinner plate. The resultant explosion enraged her father, who beat her so severely that she decided to run away from home.

### 2003 - 2004: Time Bomb

Tabitha used her power to detonate telephone booths & vending machines to collect small change. She used the money to buy a train ticket to New York. She joined a small gang of thieves& learned how to steal before becoming a trainee for X-Factor under the mentorship of Angel. She quickly became friends with the other trainees Sally Blevins (Skids), Julio Esteban Richter (Rictor) & Rusty Collins (Fistfire).

After a particular mission with X-Factor, the teens were treated like celebrities by civilians. However, the government was not to keen on having teens represent them & ordered them to register. Rusty declined & turned himself into the Portsmouth Naval Prison for an accidental injury he caused to a woman. The rest of them were enrolled at the Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. After a cold reception from the other students, they learned that that some of their former teammates had been kidnapped by demons. The group broke Rusty out of his prison then began their search. Battling the hordes of demons, the group eventually met up with the New Mutants.

Due to their actions, the group were expelled from Phillips Academy. Due to his part in stopping the demonic invasion, Rusty was released into X-Men's custody until his trial. With nowhere else to go, the group enrolled at the Xavier Institute though Tabitha did need some convincing. The X-Factor merged with them to become part of the New Mutants. When time for her to pick a codename, she chose Boom Boom as her friends had given her the nickname due to her highly explosive personality.

### 2004 - 2010: Boom Boom

As a member of the New Mutants, Tabitha followed the group under the leadership of Cannonball & Mirage. During this time, she became smitten with Cannonball & the two developed a romantic relationship. Tabitha remained with the New Mutants & Sam until she graduated from the Institute. Tabitha reluctantly left to explore the world & joined X-Force, knowing this would end her relationship with Cannonball. With them, Tabitha underwent a series of progressive changes in attitude, growing more serious in her role as a crimefighter. She also went through many codenames as well. She first went by Boomer than Meltdown to better match her more drastic changes in looks & attitude before resettling on Boom Boom. Her time with X-Force also forced her to confront her past & deal with the broken relationships of her family.

X-Force was later put under the leadership of British ex-government agent Pete Wisdom, who turned the team into an underground paramilitary force. He even went as far to faking their deaths in order to operate more clandestinely. The team decided to let the world believe them dead & to use this status to secretly infiltrate & destroy anti-mutant organizations around the world. After months of this hit-and-run strategy, the team returned to the land of the living then disbanded.

Shortly afterwards, Tabitha grew her hair long & rejoined the New Mutants. She has not only remained with the team ever since but also renewed a relationship with Cannonball that is quite tumultuous.

## Romantic Relationships

* Julio Esteban Richter: Dated (2003)
* Samuel Guthrie: On & Off (2004 - 2006), (2007 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology**
	+ ***Time Bombs***: Tabitha can create balls of plasma, which she calls her "time bombs." She can change the size of the bombs for different impacts. The amount of concussive impact depends on the size of the bomb she creates. She can also can control the amount of time until it detonates to some extent.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** Unknown
* **Might:** Unknown
* **Quickness:** Unknown
* **Mysticism:** Unknown
* **Gadgets:** Unknown
* **Projection:** Unknown
* **Tactics:** Unknown
* **Battle:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* She's a kleptomaniac.
* Tabitha's habit for changing codenames has led to various mocking comments. She's been told that she changes her codenames like others did their underwear.

## Notes

* The original character of Boom Boom belongs to the Marvel Universe.