Shadow Battalion's Reina Finney: The Detonator.

THE SHADOW BATTLION'S DEMOLITION'S EXPERT WHO LITERALLY HAS THE POWER OF EXPLOSIONS.

REINA'S POWERS REVOLVE AROUND RELEASING EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS OF EXPLOSIVE FORCE. THIS PROCESS IS FUELED BY CHEMICAL ENERGY FROM THE BODY AND THE EXPLOSION IS FUELED BY EQUAL PARTS THE EXOTHERMIC REACTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF POTENTIAL ENERGY INTO KINETIC ENERGY.

ALL OBJECTS HAVE ENERGY IN THEM AT ANY GIVEN TIME. POTENTIAL ENERGY, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS STORED ENERGY, IS FOUND USING THE EQUATION U=mgh (m=mass, g=acceleration due to gravity, h=height).

ALL OBJECTS HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERNAL OR STORED ENERGY.

THE OTHER TYPE OF ENERGY IS KINETIC. THIS IS ENERGY DUE TO MOTION. 

IT CAN BE FOUND USING KE=(1/2)mv^2 (m=mass, v=velocity)

OBJECTS DO NOT HAVE KINETIC ENERGY IF THEY ARE NOT MOVING FORWARD...GRANTED, SINCE THE EARTH IS CONSTANTLY ROTATING, EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS MOVING BUT THAT IS A DISCUSSION FOR ANOTHER TIME!)

SO, SHE TAKES THIS STORED ENERGY AND TURNS IT INTO VELOCITY WHILE FUELING AN EXPLOSION INSIDE OF THE THING SHE'S TOUCHING AND CONTAINING IT THROUGH STRENGTH OF WILL.

THE INITIAL POTENTIAL OF THE OBJECT EQUALS THE FINAL KINETIC. TO FIND THIS VELOCITY, WE USE THE EQUATION OF:

 V=(2gh)^(1/2)(once derived).

WHICH CAN BE MULTIPLED BY THE FORCE OF THE CONTAINED EXPLOSION SHE'S PLACING INSIDE OF IT. 

REINA ALSO POSSESSES A LIMITED FORM OF AEROKINESIS AS SHE IS ABLE TO UTILIZE HER POWER TO COMPRESS THE AIR INTO EXPLOSIVES AND SHAPE THEM INTO FORMS SUCH AS SPHERES AND CUBES, ALLOWING THEM TO BE PROJECTED OR THROWN.

WHEN THE BOMB COMES INTO CONTACT WITH A TARGET,  IT CONTORTS THE AREA IT EFFECTS BEFORE THE AIR IS RELEASED WITH FORCE, VIOLENTLY RIPPING INTO THE TARGET WHILE BLOWING THEM AWAY. REINA TAKES THIS CONCEPT FURTHER WITH HER ENERGY AND EXPLOSION POWERS, TURNING THE ALREADY DEADLY COMPRESSED AIR BOMBS INTO EXTREMELY POWERFUL GRENADES.

REINA IS ABLE TO CREATE THESE AT WILL THANKS TO HER TRAINING.

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SKILLS AND TALENTS

CQC MMA TRAINING.

MILITARY TRAINING.

SPY/INFILTRATION TRAINING.

NINJA/ASSASSINATION TRAINING.

SURVIVAL TRAINING.

FIRST AID TRAINING.

TECH TRAINING.

POWERS TRAINING.

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ALONGSIDE THE MAJORITY OF THE BATTALION, REINA WAS TRAINED AT THE ACADEMY BUT SHE ENTERED AT A LATER DATE THAN THE OTHERS.

REINA LIVED A PEACEFUL LIFE IN SARIMLI, JATHUIVANIA BUT SHE LOST HER FAMILY IN A BLOODY REVOLUTION INSTIGATED BY THE HIVE OF ARISTROCRATIC CONQUERORS' ARMY OF EVIL WHO SOUGHT TO PLACE HAASHIM CALAMITY IN CHARGE OF THEIR COUNTRY. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FAMILY, SHE WAS LEFT ALONE, MISERABLE AND ABANDONED.

EVEN WORSE, SHE WAS AMONG THOSE GRABBED BY HAASHIM'S MEN AND SHIPPED OFF TO THE ISLAND OF SATHIN FOR TORTURE AND EXPERIMENTION.

FORTUNATELY FOR HER, SHE AWOKE HER POWERS AT AN EARLY AGE AND WAS ABLE TO BREAK HER RESTRAINTS, FREE A COUPLE OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THEN GO ON THE RUN.

THEY GOT A LUCKY SHOT IN AND MANAGED TO TAKE OUT A GUARD, GRABBED HIS GUN AND RAN LIKE HELL.

THEY MANAGED TO STAY IN HIDING FOR A LITTLE BIT BUT THEY WERE SOON TRACKED DOWN AND BACKED INTO A CORNER. THE ADULTS TRIED TO FEND THEM OFF WHILE TELLING THE REST TO RUN WITH REINA.

IT WAS ALMOST ALL FOR NAUGHT HOWEVER.

THE GUARDS BROUGHT OUT A MINI-MECHA PURELY TO CRUSH THEIR SPIRITS BEFORE THEY WERE OBLITERATED AS AN EXAMPLE TO EVERYONE ELSE.

BEFORE IT COULD WIPE THEM OUT WITH ITS ARMORY OF GUNS AND MISSILES AND BOMBS HOWEVER, A TALL BLUR SPED IN FRONT OF THEM AND SHIELDED THEM FROM ALL OF IT BEFORE OBLITERATING THE MECHA WITH A SINGLE BLOW.

THE SMOKE CLEARED AND REINA SAW HER SAVIOR STANDING PROUDLY IN FRONT OF THEM WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE.

AFTER SEEING TO THEIR SAFETY, SHE HID THEM ON A SHIP THAT WAS ON THE SHORE OF THE ISLAND AND THEN SHE RETURNED TO THE BASE AND STORMED IT. 

SHE TOOK THE DIRECT ROUTE. RIGHT TO THEIR FRONT DOOR. 

BECAUSE SERENITY WANTED THEM TO KNOW SHE WAS COMING.

NOTHING STOPPED HER. NOT HELICOPTER GUNS, NOT ROCKETS, NOT MISSILES, NOT LANDMINES, NOT TANKS, NOT BULLETS OF ANY SORT, NOT FLAMES, NOTHING. 

SERENITY SPARED THEIR LIVES SURE BUT THE FIGHT WAS SO COMPLETELY ONE SIDED THAT EVEN SETTING ASIDE THEIR BROKEN BONES, IT COMPLETELY BROKE THEIR SPIRITS. SHE STORMED THROUGH THEIR BASE, FREED THE PRISONERS AND FOUND THOSE WHO WERE BEING EXPERIMENTED ON. SERENITY SAVED EVERYONE SHE COULD.

HER 'BACKUP' ARRIVED SOON AFTER AND HELPED ROUND UP EVERYONE AND ASSISTED WITH THE CLEANUP.

AFTERWORD THEY DISCOVERED EVERYTHING IN THEIR FILES AND SERENITY AND HER TEAM SET OUT TO STOP THEM AS WELL.

THIS EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE SECOND BATTLE OF SARIMLI, WITH THE LION SOLDIERS TEAMING UP WITH THE REISTANCE, LEADING TO THE ARMY BEING DEFEATED AND CAPTURED ALONG WITH HAASHIM.

MEANWHILE, REINA SPENT TIME AT HQ BEING TREATED FOR EVERYTHING SHE'D BEEN THROUGH.  

IN BETWEEN HER THERAPY SESSIONS, SHE WAS ALSO TUTORED IN CONTROLLING HER POWERS 

DURING HER TIME THERE, THEY MADE THE OFFER TO JOIN A TEAM THEY WERE PUTTING TOGETHER BUT IT WAS MADE CLEAR IT HAD TO BE HER WISH TO JOIN THEM. 

THEY COULD NOT MAKE THE DECISION FOR HER. 

THE TEAM'S INFORMATION WAS SUMMARIZED FOR HER AND WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED OF HER. 

EVENTUALLY, REINA AGREED AND LATER JOINED THE ACADEMY TO MEET THE OTHERS WHO WOULD LATER GO ON TO BECOME HER SURROGATE FAMILY.

REINA EXCELLED IN HER TRAINING AND WAS EVENTUALLY GIVEN THE TITLE DETONATOR.

YEARS LATER, HAASHIM CALAMITY WOULD ESCAPE PRISON ALONGSIDE SEVERAL OTHER DANGEROUS VILLAINS AND TRACKING THEM DOWN AND ELIMINATING THEM BECAME ONE OF THE TEAM'S FIRST OFFICIAL MISSIONS.

REINA IN PARTICULAR TOOK GREAT PLEASURE IN FINALLY GETTING HER REVENGE. AFTER THE TEAM FOUGHT THROUGH THE VILLAINS, THEIR MINIONS, THEIR ROBOTS, THEIR VEHICLES AND THEIR TRAPS, SHE FINALLY CORNERED HIM, GRABBED HIM AND DETONATED HIM.

NO MONOLGOUE. NO RANTING. NO GRAND SPEECH OR GRANDSTANDING.

 GRAB.

 CLICK. 

BOOM. 

TARGET ELIMINATED.

TIME PASSED AND THE TEAM CONTINUED GROWING, DEVELOPING AND KICKING ASS AND TAKING NAMES AND REINA GREW INTO HER OWN, SEEING THE TEAM AS HER FAMILY.

WHEN SERENITY PERISHED AFTER THE NIGHTMARISH BATTLE WITH EQUILIBRIUM, THE TEAM WAS LEFT PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED. 

THANKS TO PSIONIC GROUP THERAPY SESSIONS  IN BETWEEN THEIR TREATMENTS BACK TO PHYSICAL HEALTH, THE TEAM WAS ABLE TO MOSTLY RECOVER THOUGH IT WOULD STILL TAKE TIME TO RECOVER FROM SUCH A LOSS.

THE TEAM WAS AMONG THE MANY, MANY, MANY PEOPLE ATTENDING HER FUNERAL.

IN CURRENT TIMES, THEY ARE BACK TO DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST.