Swipe

=__Meghan Flanagan / “Swipe”__=



__**History **__

Meghan grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts in a middle class family. Her father worked in insurance and her mother was an elementary school teacher. She had a much older sister, Bridget, who graduated college and moved away just as Meghan entered middle school. Megan enjoyed being the “baby” of the family and was spoiled by her parents.

Meghan’s happy life came to an end in her 8th grade year. Her mother, Elizabeth, had a hysterectomy due to fibroid issues. During the procedure something went wrong and Elizabeth died. Meghan was crushed. Instead of growing closer to her father in the aftermath, they grew apart. Thomas was busy with the lawsuit, his job, and wasn’t up to being a single parent (at least in Meghan’s opinion). The two lived together, but she avoided her father.

In her ninth grade year Meghan spent more time at her friends’ houses than at home. She had always been a pretty girl and she attracted the attention of the senior boys. She and her friend Valerie were invited to a party one weekend in Boston and they decided to sneak away and attend. It was a pretty wild party – there were college students, drinking, drugs, and more. Meghan even met a mutant – another high school student of Irish ancestry – named Kieran. Kieran had been planning to attend Emma Frost’s Massachusetts Academy, but he was denied entrance. He claimed it was due to his mutant ability. Kieran revealed that he had the ability to emotionally affect others to make them depressed. He showed off his ability by affecting an entire room at the party, making them weepy and sad drunks. Meghan was amazed.

Kieran took Meghan to a private room where they began making out. Kieran pressed for it to go father, but Meghan said no. Kieran wouldn’t stop. He ripped off her clothes and attempted to rape her. In her panic, Meghan tried to fight him off – and suddenly, while grabbing him, she realized she had his powers. She instinctively triggered the ability and made Kieran stop. He went from aggressive and amorous to horrified and depressed. Meghan grabbed the remains of her clothing, found Valerie, and left.

A month later Professor X and Jean Grey arrived at the Flanagan household to recruit Meghan. Thomas, learning about his daughter’s mutant status for the first time, was in shock. He left the decision to attend Xavier’s school up to his daughter. Unhappy at home, Meghan agreed. She joined Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters mid-way through her freshman year.

Meghan was a bit reserved at first at Xavier’s school. She was surprised by some of her classmates’ physical mutations. Once she became more comfortable, she began making friends and settling in at the school. One of the girls in the grade above her, Ember (a pyrokinetic), became her best friend. She also caught the eye of Michael (“Discord”), a prefect. She eventually began dating Michael and was happy for a while. During this time she hid the nature of her mutant ability as she was still dealing with the rape attempt that triggered them.

In her sophomore year, Michael began to change. Instead of being promoted to head boy as a senior, he was still a prefect. He was angry and resentful. After being treated poorly for several weeks, Meghan finally broke up with him.

Meghan gained more control over her abilities as a junior. While her abilities were still a secret from her peers, she practiced them with her teachers. At first she was only able to “borrow” another mutant’s abilities by giving the side effect of sexual pleasure (perhaps due to how her power manifested?), but she began suppressing this side effect. Then, towards the end of her junior year, the X-Men left for an off-world mission.


 * School’s Out / High School Never Ends **

Shortly after the X-Men left, the remaining teachers (Angel and Nightcrawler) were put into a temporal coma by a mysterious group called the Travelers. The remaining seniors took charge of the school. Meghan, due to her outgoing nature, was made a prefect. Her best friend, Ember, was one of the students put into a temporal coma. Meghan borrowed her flame abilities and everyone began to believe she was a pyrokinetic.

During this time two seniors began fighting for her affection: Dane, a prefect that had been promoted to head boy and David, Cyclops’ protégé and combat leader of the seniors. Meghan was torn. Dane was the attractive jock that had been her “type,” but David was attentive and had been sweet to her. This love triangle caused conflict between Dane and David.

In the middle of the chaos at the school, Meghan’s ex-boyfriend, Michael, returned. He helped the seniors defeat a Brood attack and said he’d help run the school. After settling in, Michael invited Meghan out for a night on the town with a few other students. Meghan couldn’t deny the attraction she had to her first love, and she agreed. To be safe she “borrowed” teleportation from an unconscious Nightcrawler before leaving.

Later it was revealed that Michael had joined Mystique’s Brotherhood of Mutants (along with the Blob, Avalanche, Toad, Sabretooth, Burner, and Probe) and he’d lured Billy (a senior) out to be kidnapped! Mystique’s plan was foiled when the Travelers appeared and put the Brotherhood into temporal comas. Back at the school, Mystique asked her secret ally, prefect Tiberius, to cause a distraction. Tiberius released the backup copy of Danger (the sentient version of the Danger Room). Meghan teleported back and helped defeat Danger. This revealed her true mutant ability to her peers: the ability to borrow mutant powers. Due to helping in the fight, Meghan was allowed to choose a codename. She picked “Swipe.”


 * Welcome to Paradise / Hotel California **

At the end of her junior year, the seniors that took over Xavier’s school were offered the chance to run a new west coast mutant school, Academy X. The seniors said she could be head girl if she transferred to Academy X. Since her best friend Ember had graduated and she’d become close to the seniors, Meghan agreed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A shock was in store for Meghan shortly after her senior year began. On the first day of school, a blonde girl appeared out of nowhere. Moments later Doombots appeared and attacked! Following the defeat of the Doombots, the girl identified herself as Dagan – the daughter of Dane and Meghan from the future! On top of that, Dagan says she was raised by Bastienne and Jessica after her father left to avenge the murder of her mother!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later Samantha and Dane perform a genetic test and learn that Dagan is actually David’s daughter! Soon the news spreads through the school. Meghan becomes the topic of gossip by her teachers and peers. Unable to take the strain, Meghan chooses to transfer back to the east coast school.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few weeks later, David travels back east to visit Meghan. They spend a nice evening in a park near the school until Dr. Doom arrives! Meghan is injected with nanites and knocked out. She was left with no memory of the event, but she recovers the memory later. She also learns that David had made a deal with Dr. Doom to trade the Doombots from the future for the use of his time platform to send Dagan back to her time. Doom injected Meghan with nanites that would destroy her internal organs if activated as insurance that David would keep his end of the bargain.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After that encounter, Dane sent an e-mail to Meghan confessing his feelings and revealing that David was the one who murders her in the future! He wants to visit her, but Meghan is overwhelmed. She says she doesn’t want to see him. On top of that, the teachers at Xavier’s school are treating her oddly. She borrows a telepath’s abilities to read Cyclops’ mind to find out what’s really going on. She learns about the nanites in her system. During combat training with Wolverine, she borrows Wolverine’s healing factor and asks Beast to get rid of the nanites. He performs surgery and does so.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At Halloween, Meghan visits the west coast school with the X-Man Hisako. Meghan is still upset with David and acts distant to him. She sees Dane dancing with Adhra. When they get time alone together, Meghan expresses interest with him – but only if he won’t run when things get difficult. Dane had been considering leaving Academy X to join the X-Men. She makes him promise to remain at Academy X for the remainder of the school year.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then, back at the Halloween party, one of the students goes berserk. Cameron, a former Weapon X agent, has his brainwashing activated by Cassandra Nova. He starts attacking other mutants and attempting to kill them. Meghan borrows the healing ability from an unconscious student (Oldeani) and heals the injured.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My Generation / Children’s Crusade **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meghan chooses to return to Academy X for the spring semester of her senior year. She is no longer a prefect or head girl, but just a student. Dane greets her with flowers. She breaks the ice with David and tells him that she’s interested in being a teacher after she graduates.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At a mutant pride parade sponsored by Academy M, Meghan borrows Cameron’s powers after he’s badly hurt and helps defend her fellow students. She doesn’t return his powers until after she’s sure he won’t be violent.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meghan notices the tension between David and Dane is still high due to her presence at the school. For Valentine’s Day, she borrows the powers belonging to Thomas, a prefect who could split himself in two. She then goes on a Valentine’s date with both Dane and David. She tells them she can’t choose until after the school year is over in hopes of defusing the tension between them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later, when the Purifiers trigger an illness in those who used tainted Mutant Growth Hormone, Meghan is one of those sick due to being infected by borrowing Thomas’ powers. She is saved by Amanda’s healing. When Amanda becomes exhausted after healing most of the students, Meghan borrows her powers to use the Wand of Watoomb and heal others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As graduation approaches, Meghan notices that the tension between Dane and David hasn’t improved. The two were spying on each other and the conflict nearly caused Academy X to collapse. Meghan makes the decision to leave the school. Before going, she spends the night before graduation with David and is intimate with him. The next night, following graduation, she spends the night with Dane. Then she leaves for parts unknown.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Valley of Lost Souls / Empire of the Damned **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meghan returns to Academy X at the end of the new fall semester after students leave. The staff is shocked to see her – especially because she’s six months pregnant! Without revealing where she’s been or what she’s been up to, she asks to stay at the school. The staff agrees. Meghan doesn’t reveal – or doesn’t know – who the father of her unborn baby is. She hasn’t even learned the gender.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bloodines **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dane spends a lot of time with Meghan. He takes her to medical appointments and helps her shop for maternity clothes. David is busy with Cordelia, his sort-of girlfriend, who is recovering from the trauma of having her students killed by Purifiers and then being brainwashed by Hellfire Club: Tokyo. Meghan eventually chooses to learn the gender of her baby: it’s a boy! She’s surprised because she thought she’d be giving birth to Dagan. She learns that she has the ability to borrow a mutant ability while choosing not to suppress it when she admits she’s been keeping David’s light powers in hopes that her unborn child might have them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While out shopping for maternity clothes with Jubilee, Meghan is attacked by vampires! She somehow uses David’s light powers to create sunlight and dust several of the vampires. Other vampires escape with Jubilee, however. Meghan goes into labor due to the stress of the event. She’s brought to the Morlock tunnels by Samantha, but it’s false labor and she returns home to Academy X.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After Dane and David are released from S.H.I.E.L.D. custody following their arrest for stealing precious metals, Meghan greets them. She learns that they were framed by The Guardians, a new west coast superhero team. David tells Meghan that he’s happy with Cordelia. Meghan can’t understand how David would like Cordelia – a former foe!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meghan has grown closer to Dane. This is reinforced when she learns that David killed an unconscious Guardian during a recent battle. She does commiserate with David, saying she knows that it never gets easier when killing (alluding to her time away after graduation?). She spends the night with Dane for the first time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few weeks later Meghan goes into labor. While in labor she asks Dane to be there. She reveals she had genetic testing done: her son’s fathers are both David and Dane! She gives birth to a healthy baby boy named Davan (Dav from David and an from Dane). Her happiness is short-lived: the next day Doctor Doom arrives and steals her son! When the eXalts mount a rescue effort, Meghan borrows powers belonging to Gunther (a boy with a spirit form who can become invisible) and sneaks along. The team goes into an alternate dimension where Doom was rapidly aging Davan. Meghan manages to save Davan, but Medic realizes that the portal is reacting to Meghan and Davan. If either of them go through the portal, it will close and never reopen! Meghan hands her son to Dagan to take through and makes her promise to protect her brother. She asks Medic to tell Dane and David to tell Davan about her. They agree and leave before the dimension's guards catch them. Meghan is left behind, trapped in the dimension.


 * Exiled**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is the year 2020 and Meghan has been rescued from the hell dimension by Billy and his use of time control. She is married to Dane and is active on his Red Team of eXalts.


 * Tinderbox**

After the memorial ceremony for Matt and Rafe, Meghan approaches Dane and asks if maybe they should reconsider their decision to not have children.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Powers and Abilities **__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Power Absorption//: Meghan has the ability to “borrow” the mutant ability of any mutant she touches. At first this caused the side effect of sexual pleasure, but Meghan has learned to suppress that side effect. Meghan also has the ability to borrow the power without suppressing it (or she can nullify the ability from the mutant she borrows the power from). She can keep the power for a seemingly unlimited amount of time.