In: Secret Warriors
In: Secret Warriors
Lunella is a child prodigy from Manhattan, but her equally advanced curiosity drives her to investigate the origin of her highly developed cognitive abilities.
The truth, however, may come with heavy responsibilities, which position Lunella as one of Earth’s greatest defenses against a possible interplanetary war.
At the age of 8, Lunella became aware that there was something wrong with her, going through her first identity crisis. While the other students in her class struggled to reproduce the landscape on sheets of paper with crayons, she found herself sneaking through the institution's corridors in order to reach the electrical boxes, where she would destroy them and then rebuild them to completely understand how they worked, all without being seen.
But of course, high abilities always come with an equivalent punishment: high responsibilities, demands, and the constant escape from a terrible stagnation.
Because of this, Lunella always acted like everyone else, masking her nature and delaying her development, which was a drag, but a necessary means to an end.
She already understood that she was not like other people, but she needed proof of it, and testing such scientific theories required truly powerful equipment, something from beyond this world.
Her father, James Lafayette, worked as a legal advisor for Damage Control, the organization responsible for collecting extraterrestrial materials from the abandoned battlefields left behind by the planet's superheroes. His password to access the system became her entry point, allowing her to unlock the other security protocols that would grant her access to the confidential information storage of the world's governments. This was because Damage Control was apparently a subsidiary of S.W.O.R.D., an organization for which no official documentation exists, but which seems to have been created as a branch of the already well-known S.H.I.E.L.D.
To begin her plan, she adopted the pseudonym Moon Girl, a hacker focused on altering information to her advantage. In this simple way, she managed to reroute the transportation of the items that interested her to her own base of operations. This base was a warehouse that had been closed due to tax violations but had a new owner entered into the city's system. She also altered the protocols of an Oscorp research center so that they would test the results of the analyses she had developed.
The equipment she operated was seized after an operation by Major Marvel and consisted of a Kree time-jump portal, used aboard high-speed spacecraft. She also managed to obtain a series of objects contaminated by the "The Mist" event, in which a deep mist covered specific parts of the country, some people disappeared, and when they returned several days later, some possessed superpowers.
Lunella's thesis was that her physiology descended from something beyond humanity, possibly Kree, like so many other "emerged" individuals from the The Mist situation. Even though she, and many other potential NuHumans, had not been directly exposed to the mist, the chemical presence of the substance seemed to have affected the global atmosphere, even if only minimally, and perhaps these abilities were already manifesting among the general NuHuman population, albeit at a lower potency.
Upon returning home after her discovery, she was mildly surprised to find her parents sitting in the dining room alongside armed guards from the highest levels of government. With them was a suited man, Phil Coulson, who claimed that S.W.O.R.D. had tracked the hacker Moon Girl to that location. That was because they were interested in recruiting her for an ultra-secret program.
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Name: Lunella Lafayette
Aliases: Moon Girl
Affiliation: Secret Warriors
Pets: Devil Dinosaur
Relatives: Adria Lafayette (Mother) James Lafayette (Father)
Allies: Daisy Johnson, Kamala Khan
Origin: NuHuman
Living Status: Alive
Marital Status: Single
Identity: Public
Occupation: Scientist and Student
Base of Operations: Mobile
The Secret Warriors program was a field-agent operation run by S.W.O.R.D.. The group would be composed of NuHumans, the official terminology Lunella found on the forms, meaning humans who carry the genetic heritage of a recently discovered race that diverges from the Homo lineage: the Inhumans.
What they initially needed from Moon Girl was more complex. They had found a reptilian figure encased in amber, obviously dating back to the Cretaceous period, but there was something different about it compared to every other fossil ever discovered: it was alive and possessed a genetic trait resembling those found in NuHumans.
They needed Moon Girl to replicate her research, but this time on this unusual specimen, which she nicknamed Devil Dinosaur.