X-Factor

Name: Chelsea Dewalt

Superhero Persona: X-Factor

Aliases: N/A

Age: 16 (1st Arc); 17 ( 2nd and 3rd Arc)

Date of Birth: June 13

Powers: Self Duplication; Current Maximum 16

Known Relatives: Mitchell Dewalt (Father); Carol Bennet (Mother); Jacob “Jake” Dewalt (Paternal Uncle)

Appearance: Average height, with sandy blonde hair that falls just past the middle of the back, often worn in a ponytail or a bun.

Background
Chelsea Dewalt is the daughter of Mitchell and Carol (nee Bennet) Dewalt. Her earliest memories are of her parents fighting, often about Mitchell's job as a Union City police officer and her mother working late nights at the university's physics department. When she was three a terrible number of events rocked her family; her paternal grandparents committed suicide, leaving all their assets to their older son, Jacob.

A month after her grandparents died her parent were having yet another fight where her mother was angry that was her dad not getting any inheritance. She urged Mitchell to take Jake to court over his fair share, but he was content with the outcome. Mheanwhile Chelsea was outside playing fetch with her family's dog Bennie, and threw a ball and it went into the bushes. When it reach the bushes the dog stopped in his tracks and started growling but Chelsea, only being a three years old, ran to the bushes and stuck her hand in. The next thing she felt was a very painful sting on her hand. Chelsea screamed at the top of her lungs, yanking her hand back she curled up in a ball and started crying. Out from under the bush a snake slivered out, the dog grabbed the snake and shook it to death.Her parents heard her scream over their fighting came running out of the house. Her mom scooped her up and cradled her to try and calm her down. Chelsea remembered being loaded into the car, but the trip to the ER and after where fuzzy at best. The next clear memory she had was waking up the next morning with her arm in a cast.

A few months later, Carol announced that CERN hand offered her a job in another town and she had taken it with intentions on leaving the family. In the following divorce, Chelsea's father gained custody of their child and Carol left for her new life.

When she was ten her dad began his only meaningful relationship after he mom left, with a woman named Nora. Everything with her was going fine, and even Chelsea accepted her, developing a close relationship. Unfortunately, a dew years into their relationship Mitchell and Nora had a falling out that would be remembered as the May 29th incident where Nora stormed out and Mitchell spent two days in a drunken stupor until he had to go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.

The following summer for Chelsea's powers manifest, her father thought it would be a good idea for Chelsea to go to Girl Scout camp, hoping that would give her some positive female influence in her life.What he didn't know was that the camp was not the kind where pottery and friendship bracelets where made.The camp was run as a cross between "Fight Club" and Armageddon training. The girls were taught close combat in cage fighting and team work in bear hunting. It was here that she meet Melissa and Patty, who were her teammates. One of the final event of the camp the girls were taken into the woods and told to find their way back. An incident happened that happened with an altercation with another group resulted in Patty losing her eye. Even though it wasn't their fault Melissa and Chelsea were punished for the event and put in what the camp called "solitary" for the last two days until the return home. When she returned with scars, bruises, black eye and broken teeth, her father demanded to know what happened, but she stuck to the first rule of Girl Scouts: "We don't talk about Girl Scout camp". She was banned from returning and even making contact with anyone from camp.

At the age of twelve, Chelsea's powers began to manifest and she was terrified to find multiples of herself forming from thin air. She desperately tried to keep the duplicates a secret from her family and friends which was quickly becoming easier as her dad was becoming more lax in his parenting. In time his only rule was that she was home by dark, allowing her the freedom to learn and control her powers with no prying questions about where she's been. One day, though, her father confronted her about her behavior and Chelsea confessed to having strange powers. Angry at her, he demanded to know why she didn't come to him about her problems, causing a drastic turn in his attitude towards her and bringing about a much stricter upbringing. For several months he continually hounded her about where she was, and what she was up to until one day he disappeared. Police investigations could find no trace of him and could only conclude that he was abducted or discarded his identity for a new one (a highly unlikely probability especial to those close to him). With her mother completely abandoning her through a nasty call that revealed Mitchell had informed Carol of Chelsea's mutant powers, Chelsea was left in the care of her Uncle Jake with a stipend from her estranged mother who requested that Chelsea never try to contact her again. Chelsea never gave up hope that her father was still out there, possibly in need of a rescue. With that thought in mind, she began to train with a bo staff and learned how to use an array of gadgets to help her in case she found a lead to her father. At the start of the comic, it had been six months since her father's disappearance.

Alpha Class: Academy Arc
The comic opens with Chelsea and Zorya having an altercation in an electronic store where tempers quickly get the better of both and to each others’ surprise, their powers were revealed. The fight quickly brought the attention of many of the other soon-to-be members of Alpha Class and soon after, the police and ACADEMY. With the help of the other teens, Chelsea was able to escape the clutches of Epidemic and The Observer. At the party, Chelsea was attacked by Reflection who mimicked her and her duplication powers. Once escaping the attack at the party, the group of teenagers agreed that they needed to band together and formed Alpha Class with the intent on investigating ACADEMY and protecting Union City, and Chelsea assumed the superhero identity “X-Factor”. Upon investigating a warehouse, she helped to attack and restrain the ACADEMY agents who were picking up the kidnapped teenagers. With the help of Cobalt Spider, Alpha Class found the old church where The Beasts were keeping the abducted teens. Assisting Jack Flame and Runix, X-Factor attacked Cockatrice and helped rescue the teenagers. With the realization that horrible drugs were being administrator to the youths Alpha Class set out to the local chemical plant to find a lead on the drugs. After this having not been home for half a week, Chelsea slipped back into her room. Not even an hour had passed when Jake knocked on her door wanting to talk to her. During the confrontation Jake admitted that he had figured out that Chelsea was part of the vigilante group that had been all over the news,and that he supported that she and her friends were doing because he didn't support or believe anything that ACADEMY was saying.

Alpha Class: Wrath of the Gods Arc
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- Although Chelsea started the comic as a rival of Zorya Vercernyanya's, she has since become a close friend and even a worshiper of the Pagan goddess.
-Chelsea is unaware of the reason her father and nora split up is because Mitchell told Nora about Chelsea's powers