Scully

Stan Morris (adoptive father)

> I don't underssstand, how are you not ssscared of me right now? Look at me!
>
> - Jane questioning her childhood friend Rick.

**Jane Morris** aka **Scully** is a character who appears in the HydroVerse series of comics, she was formerly a high school student until she turned 18 and began experiencing physical changes. It wasn't long until Jane realised that she was slowly becoming a reptilioid.

After her mother disappeared, Jane was adopted by a loving couple and taken in where she was given a life filled with affection. However, Jane cannot help but wonder what happened to her birth mother. After transforming into a reptilioid, Jane loosely adopted the name of "Scully" after being called such a name back in school due to her underweight appearance.

This character is a joint effort between DeviantArt users theryanjake11 and TimeWaster98.

## Appearance

As a human, Jane appears as a Caucasian female with bright blue eyes and brown hair, she has her hair done up in a ponytail. Jane possesses a healthy figure, and usually wears casual clothing such as a hoodie and jeans.

As a Reptilioid, Jane possesses fairly olive-ish skin with purple eyes, she generally has most of the characteristics found in a Reptilioid. Unlike other Reptilioids, Jane retains her clothing albeit ripped such as what's left of her jeans while also sporting a torn garbage bag as a makeshift top.

## History

### Early Life

Jane Morris' mother became pregnant with Jane around the time of Liza's invasion of Howlite City and her apartment complex was attacked by a group of reptilioids, Jane's father had sacrificed himself to save his wife and she managed to escape the complex.

Outside, Jane's mother was cornered and attacked by a blue reptilioid (with given abilities ala Liza) who then bit her on the wrist which gave her the curse and in turn giving Jane the curse too. After transforming into a lizard, Jane's mother gave birth at some point within an abandoned warehouse which later became their home.

After many sightings a Darkstar-manufactured clone of Psychomaster known as Jenner lead a group of agents down the alleyway and chased down Jane's mother. They eventually cornered the helpless reptilioid in the warehouse, throwing a flash grenade inside, disorienting her before gunning her down.

Jenner spotted and walked up to the infant Jane, telling her that he had plans for her in the future. The baby was later found by a group of bystanders and reported to the authorities. Jane was put in an orphanage, and she was picked out by loving husband and wife Carla and Stan Morris.

The couple took Jane to their home and raised her as if she was her own, giving her the name Jane Morris and a peaceful upbringing. Growing up in a peaceful cul-de-sac, Jane befriended a boy named Rick and the two became best friends over time.

### Coming of Age

Waking up to the sound of her parents singing happy birthday to her, Jane fussed her pet dog Toby and looked at the cake being presented to her. Jane then made her way outside where she greeted Rick as he is exiting his home, Rick then attempts to ask her out on a date but Jane turns him down as she had previously made plans to go out with her friends.

Jane waves goodbye to the partially disappointed Rick and meets up with her friends outside the mall where they all sit at a table and make conversation, Jane then notices a strange man in a suit watching her from afar. A sickly feeling then overcomes Jane, she runs from the table and into the restroom where she vomits into the toilet as her eye briefly turns reptilian and experiences a brief and mysterious flashback involving some masked men. Startled, Jane notices someone in the stall beside her in similar attire to the suited man she saw earlier.

After regrouping with her friends in the mall one of Jane's friends question why she ran away so quickly, Jane supposes that she panicked from such a crowded area. As they all decide to call it a day and return to their homes, Jane makes her way to her cul-de-sac where she gets a call from Rick who asks if she would like to hang out. Jane is forced to decline his offer once again, as she agreed to babysit Luke whilst his parents are going out for the night.

Feeling horrible for turning down her best friend's offer for a second time, Jane experiences a flash of anxiety as her eyes turn reptilian again and she crushes her phone with her bare hand. Noticing what she has done, Jane tosses her phone into a nearby van fall. Later on, Jane goes to Luke's house and is greeted by his parents before being let in to babysit, she sits with Luke in the living room to watch cartoons with him. As she glances outside the window, she notices a similar suited man standing outside the house.

Scared, Jane attempts to call Rick but then remembers that she trashed her phone earlier. She goes into Luke's kitchen and uses the house phone to call Rick, he comes over and sees nothing outside as the suited men have disappeared.

Rick spends a bit of time with Jane at Luke's house but they soon leave to go to the park once Luke's parents return home, Jane then apologizes to Rick for "avoiding" him lately but Rick tells her not to worry about it. They both then begin talking about how they both met for the first time but as Rick places his hand over Jane's, she lets out a small yelp of pain.

Jane tells a concerned Rick that she just had a sudden burst of pain in her foot and that her shoe feels tighter than usual, Rick offers to give her a foot rub to ease the pain and Jane accepts but chooses to keep her sock on. As Rick begins rubbing her foot, Jane's eyes turn reptilian once again and she experiences another flashback of a blonde, masked man throwing a flash grenade into a dark doorway.

In her flashback Jane then sees gunshots and the same blonde man approaching a baby, the man then begins to talk to the baby before the flashback ends and Jane proceeds to throw up over the edge of the slide they're sitting on. Rick asks her if everything is fine, the disoriented Jane explains that she has not been well lately and might need to go home for the night.

### Embrace the Change

Jane returns home to a very unhappy Carla and Stan who berate her as she moves past them and heads upstairs to her room, she violently hisses at her barking dog Toby before finally entering her room and collapsing onto her bed. The next morning, Jane wakes up and goes into the bathroom to freshen up but a shooting pain occurs in her hand. Jane notices that her fingernails have mysteriously grown into sharp, black claws which horrifies her.

As she leaves her house, Jane hides her clawed hands and meets up with Rick so they can both make their daily commute to their college and turn up late. After sitting at their desks, Jane suddenly realises that her feet are ripping through her shoes in the middle of class. Desperate to hide it, Jane asks if she can head to the restroom and she does so but trips up, she then rushes to the restroom and vomits in one of the stalls. Jane listens as two girls (who previously bullied her) enter the restroom, they begin trash-talking Jane.

With every insult, Jane gets angrier and stands up whilst clenching her claws. Using her newfound strength, Jane delivers multiple strong kick to the stall door until it flies right off the hinges and almost hits the two girls on the other side. Jane walks out of the stall and sets her sights on a window, she then smashes through the window and lands on the ground. She notices that the glass didn't penetrate or injure her feet in anyway, she then runs round to the back of the college.

Jane suffers another panic attack but she is heard by Rick who shows concern for her, she then requests to be left alone for a few minutes and Rick allows her to be alone. Jane worries that she has upset him but dismisses it so she can go see a doctor about her strange condition. In an attempt to hide her feet, Jane wears a pair of small cardboard boxes and talks to the receptionist, masking her condition as a bad headache before going to the waiting room.

A small boy sitting in front of Jane then turns to ask her why she looks so sad, Jane kindly waves but accidently shows her clawed hand which raises another question from the young boy. The shocked Jane then realises her mistake, but then the boy notices her box shoes and then questions her about that too. The boy lastly compliments Jane on her "pretty lizard eyes", it takes Jane a second to realise what the boy said and tries to hide her face.

Jane is eventually called in to see the doctor, she takes out a glass shard from the window she jumped through and proves her super strength by crushing it with her bare hand which shocks the doctor. Jane also notifies the doctor about the changes happening around her body so the doctor decides to sedate Jane to run further tests but upon seeing the syringe, Jane grabs the doctor's arm and throws him across the room. The injured doctor writhes in pain on the ground as a horrified Jane makes her exit quickly.

Making her way into a nearby forest, Jane sits down on a log and notices that her hair has begun to fall out and her voice is more reptilian-sounding. She then decides she wants to go home, but instead enters an abandoned house in her cul-de-sac and continues to grow hungrier by the minute.

### Human No More

Pulling up on his bike, Luke stops as he notices odd sounds coming from the abandoned house nearby. Luke peers in and sees Jane standing in the darkness staring at him with her purple, reptilian eyes. She then tries to lure him inside but soon snaps out of her trance and yells for Luke to run.

After Luke flees the area to get Rick, Jane is suddenly overcome with immense pain as she undergoes the final stage of her transformation and becomes a reptilioid. Rick enters the building and finds the petrified Jane who urges him not to come any closer. Noticing that she is uncovered on her chest area, Rick uses torn garbage bags to create a bra-like top for Jane to wear. Rick then agrees to help Jane through whatever she is going through, the two then decide to hide out at Rick's house via Jane jumping across the cul-de-sac with Rick on her back.

The two land on Rick's roof and climb in through his bedroom window, Jane begins experiencing hunger pains and a slow change in mindset as Rick's parents return home much to his dismay. Rick attempts to go downstairs to lure his parents away somehow but the door is then pushed shut by Jane who begins displaying amorous behaviour, she then shoves Rick onto his bed and starts to mount him.

Trying to fend her off, Rick notices that Jane is trying to bite him in the neck and smacks her across her snout, Rick's parents then enter his room to see their son underneath a reptilian creature. Mortified, Rick's mother runs off in a panic and calls the police as his father just stares in complete shock, Jane realises what she's doing and jumps out the window as Rick tries to stop her.

A police squadron shows up and holds Jane at gunpoint, the scared Jane then gets down on the ground as Rick runs out into the street to stop the police from harming his friend. Rick tries to reason with the officers, getting angry in the process and refusing their orders for him to stay back. This causes him to be tased and fall to the ground in front of a petrified Jane, the officers then attempt to hold Jane down and sedate her as her eyes begin glowing.

Jane angrily shoves the officers off of her, she grabs one officer by the scruff of his neck and uses her tail to smack the other away. Another officer fires his gun at Jane, but the bullet ricochets off her shoulder which catches her attention and makes her drop the officer she had in her grasp. As Jane approaches the helpless officer, Rick manages to regain consciousness and grab Jane in order to pull himself upwards. Rick grasps Jane's wrists and attempts to reason with her, the glow in her eyes then fades away as she snaps out of her rage-induced episode.

Mortified with what she has done, Jane retreats into the sewer system and sits in her lonesome. Much to her surprised, Rick had followed her and found her even when she told him not to. Jane and Rick have a conversation regarding Jane's current state, but Rick promises to stick by her side regardless of how she looks which makes Jane smile. Their talk is cut short as an electrical blast floors them almost instantly, Jenner reveals himself and is holding Luke hostage which angers Jane and she orders Jenner to let him go. Jenner does so and lets Luke run to the safety of Jane and Rick.

Jenner reveals that Jane's own mother was infected by a reptilioid whilst she was pregnant and the reptilian DNA had carried over into Jane which activated when she had turned 18. He then reveals that he was the one who killed her mother before asking her to join him so that she can become greater, Jane refuses. Jenner then declares that he wishes not to kill her like he killed her "fake" parents, this sudden revelation causes Jane to go into another frenzy as two of Jenner's goons ambush her and Rick.

Rick manages to subdue one goon whilst Jane quickly takes out the other, Jenner delivers another electrical blast but Jane rushes him and tackles him to the ground. Jenner shoves a knife into Jane's side before Rick uses his electrical weapon to blast off Jenner's left leg. Jenner then urges Jane to kill him as they will meet again in the future, the rage-induced Jane then instantly clamps her jaws down into his neck.

With the Darkstar clones dead, Jane slowly begins to snap out of her enraged state as she approaches the concerned Rick and Luke. Jane manages to pull the knife out of her side before announcing that she'll be leaving the cul-de-sac as she cannot see herself sticking around, Rick reassures her that he understands and they all say their goodbyes. Jane promises to return to visit, she then leaps out of the sewer and leaves the cul-de-sac after glancing back at Rick and Luke one last time as more police cruisers show up.

Sometime later at a metro station, a man is waiting impatiently for his train whilst reading a newspaper. He is then addressed from behind and turns around only to become shocked at the sight of Jane sitting on a bench. She politely asks him if she can read the newspaper, the speechless man hands her the paper and she begins reading. Jane then asks the man if he is alright after he continues staring.

### In Training

Jane eventually believed that she could do crazy stuff and not get in trouble, so she drank as much soda as possible and ended up having a sugar crash deep in the sewers. Her sleeping body was found by Kevin also known as Urban Lizard and somehow knew what kind of predicament she was in, Kevin then took her to the top of a building to speak to her.

Upon waking up and realising that she was naked and on top of a building, Jane was quite confused and then terrified upon seeing Kevin for the first time. Jane calmed down once she realised that he too was a reptilioid, Kevin proceeded to get Jane some new clothes and the two get into a conversation whilst looking out over Howlite City. The two talk about their lives, with Jane feeling sympathy for Kevin losing contact with this wife and son due to his current state.

In an attempt to make him not feel completely alone, Jane offers to join Kevin in fighting crime across Howlite City but Kevin is unsure at first. In the morning Kevin takes Jane to a little store in Howlite City, where he expects a mugging to happen. The two look through the window and realise that the store clerk is being assaulted by two thugs and Kevin expresses his curiosity in what makes Jane transform, the sight of the mugging angers Jane and triggers her transformation.

Marching into the store, Jane grasps the first mugger by the wrist and berates him before swiftly throwing him over the counter and into a wall which knocks him out. The second mugger then holds Jane at gunpoint, with the reptilian girl doubting the mugger's intentions. The masked man then attempts to fire, but Jane closes her hand over the gun's tip as it fires. Noticing her hand is unscathed, Jane delivers a strong kick which sends the mugger crashing into a nearby shelf. The store clerk and Kevin congratulate Jane on her takedown, but as the clerk throws Kevin a free soda he also attempts to throw on at Jane but she fails to catch it and is hit in the nose.

For their next trip, Kevin and Jane get food at a fast-food restaurant and eat it at the back of the building. For a brief moment, Jane expresses her sorrow for Kevin's lack of genitalia but he awkwardly answers that they are in fact retractable. Steering the conversation, Jane asks Kevin how he became a lizard to which Kevin recounts how he was jumped by two reptilian females in Howlite City one night. Jane is visibly distressed by the story, but their meal is cut short when the mutated Beverly Axton arrives and begins attacking people in the parking lot.

Both Jane and Kevin rush to the front of the restaurant to confront the trouble, the mutated Beverly then utters a few words of plead which distracts Jane long enough for the mutant to quickly punch Jane which sends her crashing through one of the restaurant's windows. Jane lands on a table where a father and son are having dinner, to which Jane asks the young boy if he's enjoying the food.

Kevin, who realises that the mutant can fire beams, urges Jane to protect the people inside the restaurant so she goes into the back and grabs a stove to use as a shield. As Beverly prepares her beam and aims at the restaurant, Jane holds up the stove and the beam is reflected off of it. Thinking she saved everyone, Jane turns around to see a charred corpse on the ground which causes her to breath uncontrollably as her eyes begin glowing.

Jane rushes out of the restaurant towards Beverly, slashing her upside the face and falling to the ground with her as a shocked Kevin looks on, Jane then attempts to resume her attack but Beverly uses one of her back protrusions to spear Jane in the shoulder. Kevin manages to tail-whip Beverly into a car but she manages to retreat.

Kevin checks on the injured Jane as it begins to rain, the two crawl into the sewers where Kevin notices that Jane has gone really quiet since the brief scuffle above. Jane expresses her horror to what she saw, but Kevin tries to reassure her that not everyone can be saved. Jane becomes extremely emotional, explaining how she never asked to become a lizard in the first place as Kevin tries to calm her down.

Becoming irrational, Jane's eyes begin glowing again and this time she lunges at Kevin who tries his best to get through to her. Jane then leaps at Kevin, who ducks and attempts to restrain her from behind. Jane eventually snaps out of her berserk state and realises what she tried to do, causing her to run away believing that she is not ready for this life.

Later on, Jane watches as Kevin returns to his neighbourhood of Krastav and attempts to talk to his wife again whilst holding a rose. His wife, refusing to open the door, tells Kevin to go away or else she will call the authorities. Deeply upset, Kevin walks away from the house as his son looks on from the window. A saddened Jane looks on.

On a nearby rooftop, Kevin sits alone looking over his neighbourhood until he is greeted by Jane. After seeing what had happened, Jane explains that she really doesn't want Kevin to be alone and how she should at least make the most of what she has become. The two hug each other before hearing sirens in the background, the two then go off to help.

Within Howlite City, the mutated Beverly has begun an assault in the streets and a SWAT team is struggling to take her down. Jane then lands in front of them and urges them to leave, Beverly manages to utter Jane's name which shocks her and makes her recognize her old friend's voice. The disturbed Jane then gives a signal, Kevin appears from a nearby manhole and pulls Beverly down into the sewers. As Jane jumps down into the sewers, Beverly fires her laser which sends both lizards flying into the ground.

Jane tries to reason with Beverly, who's mind has been completely overridden by the alien species that mutated her. Beverly then stomps on Jane's stomach but Kevin runs to her aid while urging her to aim her berserk mode. Kevin tail-whips Beverly and attempts to help the reluctant Jane up, he is then backhanded by Beverly. Jane then jumps on the mutant's back, trying to get through to her but Beverly manages to elongate her protrusions to impale and pin Jane to the wall through the shoulder.

Kevin attempts to help a second time but Beverly catches him by the throat and begins choking him. Jane realises Kevin's struggle to breath which causes her eyes to glow purple, she then pulls the protrusion out of her shoulder and delivers two vicious slashes to Beverly's torso. She attempts a third but her wrist is caught by Jane, Kevin then elbows Beverly in the face before she can attack Jane.

Jane then notices a nearby pile of led pipes, she grabs one and shoves it into the side of Beverly's temple which kills the mutant instantly. Kevin congratulates Jane but also asks if the mutant was a friend of hers, to which Jane explains that she couldn't get through to her in time. Jane announces to Kevin that there is somewhere she needs to be, and Kevin offers to get her some new clothes.

As a human Jane knocks on the door to her aunt Pauline and is reunited with her dog Toby, a smiling Kevin looks on.

### Joining the Heroes

Shortly after Motesius is inadvertently freed by Hydro-Girl in the ruins of Downpour City, Jane and Kevin are first seen eating fast food behind their favourite restaurant. Jane recounts how she's been seeing purple flashes of light and Kevin shares similar experiences, they both blame it on the lack of sleep their heroic duties cost them.

Jane and Kevin then notice hideous creatures crawling over the roof of the restaurant and begin surrounding the two lizards, who begin fighting them off. Jane complains about their smell as she kicks them away.

## Personality

Jane is a very chirpy and fun-loving girl who looks out for those she deeply cares about, and is also shown to be quite jokey even in the most threatening situations. She demonstrates these traits even after transforming into a Reptilioid, as she managed to retain her humanity through the transformation.

Jane has been shown to suffer from anxiety when she turned down Rick's invitation to hang out, leading her to delude herself into thinking that she hurt his feelings and thought of herself as a very bad friend. This had mixed in with her progressing strength, causing her to crush her phone and then throw it at a nearby van in anger.

When in berserk mode, Jane becomes incredibly animalistic and loses every bit of her humanity in the process.

## Powers & Abilities

### Enhanced Strength

As her body began to transform gradually over time in *Scully #2*, one of the first abilities Jane acquired was her enhanced strength. Jane realised this when she was able to crush a shard of glass in the palm of her hand. Her strength is demonstrated again in *Urban Lizard 2*, where she lifts an entire stove to use as a shield against Beverly Axton's energy beam.

### Enhanced Agility

Jane demonstrates great agility much like other Reptilioids, as she managed to instantly lunge at Jenner and floor him within seconds after going berserk.

### Enhanced Durability

Jane's scales possess immense durability, as she was able to land on pile of glass shards after jumping out of a window with her feet unscathed in *Scully #2*. This was Jane's first clue that her skin was toughening. Jane's scales appear to be immune to regular bullets, in *Urban Lizard 2* when Jane foiled an attempted mugging inside of a store she placed her hand over the tip of the mugger's gun and he fired his weapon, leaving no visible dent whatsoever.

### Enhanced Healing

As with other Reptilioids, Jane's body is able to heal itself over time after sustaining damage. After having her shoulder pierced by Beverly Axton twice in *Urban Lizard 2*, both attacks left noticeable fractures on Jane's body and they soon healed over time.

### Berserk Mode

When Jane becomes hurt, scared, or angry she will enter a state of pure rage and attack everything and everyone around her. She has no control over this ability, and can only be calmed down by either Rick or Urban Lizard. When Jane goes berserk mode, her eyes will glow bright purple.

During this berserk mode, Jane's scales become harder than usual and bullets ricochet off of her.

### Claws

Even as a Reptilioid, Jane doesn't use her razor sharp claws often due to her sensitive personality but does use them primarily whenever she goes into her berserk mode. She is shown to be quite vicious while using them too as seen in *Urban Lizard 2*, where she delivers many violent slashes to Beverly Axton which easily draw blood.

### Teeth

Much like her claws, Jane shies away from using her teeth due to her sensitive side and only uses them when she goes berserk. In *Scully #3*, Jane bites into the neck of one of the Darkstar clones and kills him instantly.

## Trivia

* Originally, Scully/Jane Collins was presented by TimeWaster98 to theryanjake11 to implement into the HydroVerse which lead to a reworking of the "human" side of the character, changing the last name from Collins to Morris.