Becky Andrews

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## Becky Andrews

### Occupation

New York City Fire Department Firefighter (formerly) Cleaner Lieutenant

### People

Joe Ferro
Vivian Conley
Robert Blithe

### Weapons Used

Heckler & Koch UMP-45 SMGIncendiary Grenades

**Becky Andrews** is a former firefighter, amateur chemist, and high-ranking lieutenant in the Cleaners. While young, she is incredibly smart and her skill in chemistry has proven invaluable in the Cleaner development of napalm and incendiary weapons.

She is remarkably intelligent, with an estimated IQ in the upper 280s. She has risen to become a trusted member of Robert Blithe's inner circle.

## Spark of Brilliance

Like many of the Cleaners, Becky Andrews grew up in Brooklyn. From a young age, she was interested in chemistry. She'd spend all day looking over her Playdough, trying to figure out how it came to form the way it had. Later in her teens, she would spend countless hours pouring over every textbook she could find on the subject. She was fascinated with the idea of creating new things from other, of how complex chemicals could be formulated with simple household items.

Becky didn't have many friends growing up. The smell of nitric acid on her skin didn't help, to be fair. This added to Becky's growing sense of isolation. Sure, it gave her more time to focus on her passions, but spending all day in her home lab could get lonely.

Her father Hank was a former chemist himself, and encouraged young Becky's interest in the subject. For her twelve birthday, Hank surprised Becky with her own, full fledged lab in their garage, filled with the best research equipment he could get his hands on. Becky would never forget this gift, and would forever hold her father in high esteem. To this day, she credits him with helping her become the person she is today.

## A New Passion

Becky would attempt to pursue a degree in Chemistry but after three applications to three different colleges, was rejected each time. Becky fit the criteria just fine; she was extremely intelligent, had good grades, and owing to a college fund, could easily pay for classes without the need for student loans.

But unfortunately for her, this was the age of Affirmative Action programs. While well-intentioned to help allow minorities into better colleges, this had the unintended side effect of hurting the chances of Asian-American students getting into college. And as a Third-Generation Chinese American, Becky ironically faced discrimination in a program meant to curb discrimination. Without a degree, it was unlikely she'd ever get a her dream job as a professional chemist.

Dejected, Becky searched for a new career. Her uncle suggested she apply to be a firefighter, but Becky was unsure. She'd never had any interest in becoming a firefighter, and doubted she'd enjoy the career. To her surprise however, she found it quite enjoyable. After attending FDNY Randall's Island Training Academy, Becky was assigned to the Brooklyn branch of the New York City Fire Department.

## Facing Death

Andrews never saw a lot of action for the first few years of her service. Rather than putting out fires, as most imagine firefighters spend all day doing, she either sat around the fire station waiting for something to happen, or helped respond to accidents or car crashes. Needless to say, not exactly what she pictured, and nothing that challenged or made use of her skillset.

That changed in winter of 2015, when Gordon Amherst released Dollar Flu. Within a week, law and order had all but collapsed as large-scale riots engulfed Manhattan and Brooklyn. Fires raged to an astronomical degree, and Becky's department soon found themselves unable to keep up with the infernos.

Things got even worse when the Cleaners, a fanatical group of former city service workers, began burning huge portions of the city in efforts to wipe out the virus by fire. As the roads got too dangerous when escaped prisoners from Rikers Island began terrorizing the populace, Andrews found her department absorbed into the Joint Task Force. Andrews, however, didn't join them. She'd quickly realized the situation was hopeless, and had no faith that law and order could be reestablished.

Around this same time, she received a visit from Joe Ferro, leader of the Cleaners. He'd been searching for qualified chemists to help develop the necessary napalm for his cause in a quick and efficient manner. While initially hesitant, Andrews grew to agree with Ferro's persuasive pitch for his vision of exterminating the virus, and the chance to finally put her chemistry skills to the test was too good to turn down.

## Cleaners

Andrews soon made herself invaluable to the Cleaners. Under her tutelage, the Cleaners, many of whom had no prior chemistry experience, learned to develop napalm on an industrial scale with little more than gasoline and styrofoam. Even when the Division took the Cleaner's HQ at an abandoned construction site, all Andrews needed to do was set up small field labs, allowing the Cleaners to constantly maintain their napalm supply.

When Joe Ferro was killed, Andrews still held on to the belief in the cause, as she became convinced the only way to bring about order to the city was to take drastic measures to exterminate the Green Poison. After Vivian Conley became the new leader of the Cleaners, Andrews helped to develop new and more powerful versions of their napalm. When gas supplies grew low, Andrews managed to make use of other accelerants like oil and jet fuel.

This vital skillset allowed her to become of Conley's most trusted lieutenants. And when Conley was killed, Andrews chose to follow Robert Blithe, rising to earn a position within his inner circle. Now, operating from their new HQ at an unknown location in Pathway Park, Andrews continues to develop new and dangerous chemicals to allow the Cleaners to cleanse the city of the last remnants of Green Poison.