<div class="floatleft">(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTg2MjI0MzIyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTMxMDcyOQ@@._V1_.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/eve_mauro_in_cyborg_x-wide.jpg)</div><br/><br/><br/><br/><div align="center">Meredith Winter (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wA2TlNYhTq6s1ODiiKklLgD6rDsZgz6QrTaHrUUbMX4/edit)<br/>Alias: Formerly Comet Girl, Currently Midnight Angel</div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>The landscape of Missouri seemed an odd place to begin the story of a super hero.  Yet that is where Meredith Winter took her first breath and where she soared into the skies for the first time as a child.  None are quite certain where the gift of flight and strength came from but they were extraordinary by all accounts.  Life for her started normal or at least as normal as many in the poor truck stop town could relate.  The daughter to a waitress and a trucker that never stopped there again, she was raised in the back of a diner for the most part.  Most of her memories were of doing her homework next to a jukebox and hearing the stories of the men that came into the place.  Nobody ever thought much of the girl unless to say she was going to be a “looker” one day.  True to prediction she eventually did grow into her body and would have become the most stunning waitress at the truck stop if not for her other gifts.<br/><br/>Flight came to her at the age of twelve.  A simple desire to be somewhere else was granted to her as she was thrust into the sky one night after a nasty fight between her mom and her boyfriend.  Meredith was in the hospital for a short time after with a broken ankle.  Even she had limits to how far she could fall.  Her mother assumed she had been climbing on the roof despite the wild stories of flight.  Meredith had to show her and made a public display of flying through the skies.  Already a gifted athlete her strength and toughness came into their own as she grew older.  Stories of the flying girl of Missouri spread rapidly so that by the age of fourteen camera crews were fighting over rights.  Money exchanged hands and the reality show, “Comet Girl” was born.  Almost overnight she was a star and being pitted against villains both real and imagined.<br/><br/>As the girl grew into womanhood people took notice.  Fan fiction emerged of course with torrid details of her sexual exploits.  Romantic interest turned from innocent to violent.  Meredith never really took notice as the producers shielded her from the worst and laughed at the rest.  No guards were placed on her for fear people would question why a super heroine would need a team.  Moving into the third season of the show the producers, directors and production staff felt secure in the future of their money generating girl.  Seventeen rolled around for her and at the exact time of her birth on that day her entire life changed.  Set to take flight to celebrate her birthday, Comet Girl started her ascent only to be struck down by a private passenger plane moments afterward.  People watched in horror as a cloaked figure stepped before the camera to claim credit and lift the plane away from her.  At first this was thought to be the introduction of another villain, until everything truly became horrifying.<br/><br/>Maestro was the name the man gave the camera crew before killing them out of hand.  On camera he forced the communication line to continue as he made Americans watch the dismemberment and destruction of each crew member.  Yet he was not done and as Meredith emerged from the wreckage he showed his most cruel torture for the young woman.  A longtime fan he confessed, he had come to give Meredith a gift on her seventeenth birthday.  He and he alone would make her a woman in a way she would never forget.  That she would never forget him.  People watched in disgusted fascination at what he did next and what he did over the hours that came.  Meredith’s career came to an end that night along with the life of Comet Girl.<br/><br/>Crushed in body and mind, there were few that wanted to touch the girl while she lay in the hospital.  The Production company had just renewed her contract and so had financial obligations to meet, but were quick to squirm their way out.  Fortunately, the company was beholden to another group that was happy to step into the fray and claim the contract.  Dark Water Industries had a particular curiosity about the woman and the genetic properties of her body.  Also their advancement cybernetics division had new equipment to utilize.  Meredith already felt the cold hand of vengeance in her heart when she signed the consents for her surgeries.  To all public knowledge Comet Girl disappeared that morning when she was taken to surgery.  The legacy still remained as people downloaded the victimization, broadcast every scream and whimper and even altered the video so her cries became moans.  By the time she emerged there was an entire subgenre of the video turned into pornography.  Meredith Winter didn’t care anymore.  She was different now and less naïve.<br/><br/>Dark Water Industries had gifted her with their latest in technology.  Talented craftsmen and scientists placed their newest and untested materials into her to extend her life and make her a combat ready creature.  Combined with her already impressive array of powers, the team felt confident in her abilities.  The Cadre of Guardians seemed a good start for the woman.  Her enlistment was no surprise to anyone, though a few balked at what her reputation might bring to the team.  A demonstration of her abilities silenced most of the nay-sayers and a few greased palms silenced the others.  Meredith felt assured she would find her place here and find the man responsible for hurting her and humiliating her.  Little did she know that the very man that had cut her life from her and also been the one to set her on this course.  Maestro was the man that lead the development team for Dark Water Industries, the very man who had designed and implanted into her all the tools she now employed.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Playlist</div><div class="spoiler_body">Wish You Hell – Like a Storm<br/><br/>Never Surrender – Like a Storm<br/><br/>I Am Machine - Three Days Grace<br/><br/>Light Up the Sky - Thousand Foot Krutch<br/></div></div>