Scamper

Name: N/A (Yet to be revealed)

Superhero Persona: Scamper

Aliases: Volpe, The Bear

Age: 13

Date of Birth: August 8 (Estimated)

Power s  : Transformation into animals; Limited to known physiology

Known Relatives: None

Appearance: Scrawny and below average in stature. Clothes almost always dirty. Only distinguishing feature is her Heterochromia eyes, but otherwise very inconspicuous.

Background
Scamper was found on the doorstep of St. Gemma's Orphanage in Union City, where she was taken in and raised. She found a parental substitution in Sister Valentine, a kind and quiet nun who tended to spoil the young girl. One day, while petting a cat, Scamper transformed; in her panic, she ran to Sister Valentine who reviled herself to have healing powers, with the ability to return Scamp to her natural form. With the nun's help Scamper quickly learned how to control her abilities, but the Sister constantly warned the young girl to be discrete about her powers and told of the dangers of others knowing about them. One day Sister Valentine vanished without a trace, and the other nuns refused to speak of her. Heart broken, Scamper ran away from the orphanage and used her powers to track down Valentine. In the end, all trails and leads where exhausted and with the little information she could piece together, Valentine was kidnapped by a government agency and has never been seen since.

At nine years old, Scamper was living on the streets, hiding from humans and living in the sewers as a rat. She was found by a man named Fredo Castiglione who noticed her potential and ability to seemingly disappear. He persuaded her to work for him as a courier to run packages back and forth his stores, hiding the truth from her that she would actually be running drugs for the local Mafia. At the end of her ropes, Scamper accepted the job and became a key figure in helping her "Uncle" Fredo rise to his high position. Although it was initially a pure businesses deal, Fredo came to regard Scamp as his own daughter and even suggest that she live with his family. Scamper, still scared of letting others too close for fear of getting hurt or endangering others, refused to be adopted, but admitted that he was the closest father she ever had. She continued to live in the sewers and run parcels for years until the start of the comic.

Alpha Class: Academy Arc
Scamper First met her future teammates while passing an electronic store where the fight between Chelsea and Zorya broke out. Her curiosity caused her to become involved, but she eventually fled along with the others from the police and ACADEMY's involvement. She refrained from giving any information about herself, insisting that she was just an innocent bystander, and left hoping never to see the super powered teens again. Not long after, she was was cornered by Chelsea (later revealed to be the shape-shifting robot, Reflection) who scared her into transforming to escape. She later found the others teens and followed them to find a chance to warn them of Chelsea's aggression. When she saw the group being attacked by Epidemic and Reflection at the party, she realized the person she met was not the actual Chelsea, and helped in the fray. After the encounter she reluctantly joined Alpha Class, and their fight against ACADEMY. At the battle of the old church, she investigated the interior and helped Zorya fight and capture Harpy. Helping Jack Flames interrogate Harpy they learned that the teenagers where being used in experiments and where being given volatile drugs, Alpha Class set off to the chemical plant where they were able to maintain a list of chemicals shipped to Academy. Scamper contacted her “Uncle” Fredo and gave him a list, begging his help to stop this new debilitating drug that was being forced into kidnapped teens. Completely unaware of the irony of the situation, she left with his promise to help in any way he could as well as her next delivery package. While running the package to the “dry cleaners”, Scamper was distracted and had the parcel stolen from her by two inebriated youths who proceeded to consume the "detergent". She recovered the parcel and with the help of her teammates made an acceptable excuse for the damage done (all attempts at making Scamper see the truth of her “courier” job where lost to her staunch loyalty to Fredo). When confronted about the package, Scamper broke down and told the truth that she was careless and lost the shipment. Fredo forgave her and decided it was time for Scamper to stop working for him and instead should enter school and live a more average life. As the search continued, Fredo called back with news of a shipment of necessary chemicals he was trying to obtain was being attacked. Upon reaching the docks, Scamper was horrified to find out that the many of the men fighting in the shootout where Fredo's associates such as Tony, a close friend of Scamper's, who was shot and in drastic need of assistance. As the rest of Alpha Class took down the attacking sailors, Scamper got the Mafia out of danger and to the paramedics. When the ship was sunk, Scamper helped sail everyone to shore as a whale. In the bank robbery led by Dank Nugs, only she and Jack where able to withstand his hallucinogenic smoke and captured him to be taken into custody, while the rest of the unfortunate cast where arrested for their disorderly behavior. Once Evening Star, Runix, and X-Factor where eventually collected by ACADEMY, Scamper, explored the interior of the ACADEMY headquarters and with Impact and Jack Flames' help, Alpha Class escaped and destroyed ACADEMY's labs. On Thanksgiving day, Scamper received a private message stating that the anonymous sender had kidnapped a recovering Tony from the hospital and suggested that Scamper discreetly meet them in the Union City Zoo alone. Once there, Scamper found an unconscious Tony in a lion cage where the starving cats tried to attack him. Scamper calmed the animals and escaped getting Tony back in medical care just in time to receive the message that the HQ was under attack. Arriving there, Scamper had to fight a Reflection of her fellow team mates, but eventually defeated them. She helped defeat The Beholder before he could destroy Ib and Earth itself.

Alpha Class : Wrath of the Gods Arc
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Trivia:
-Scamper has an aversion to fighting animals. This does not extent to mechanical animals or other shape-shifters.

-Scamper still has a very childlike grab-and-go mentality and often steals very shiny things or very valuable items, although it's unclear whether she understands the value of many of the items she has. It is unknown where she hides her loot, although many guess she has secret stashes in the sewer. It has been estimated that her wealth has succeeded Zorya's.

-Scamper's bear form is a wanted criminal in Union City. To date it has stolen from a bank, driven recklessly, terrorized civilians, and vandalized city property.

-After her deadly encounters with supernatural beings, Scamper has now come to fear ghosts.