Origin

Origin

Like many mutants Sally Blevins mutant powers manifested at a time of great stress. Her father had beaten her mother severely for letting Sally wear pearls & had turned his rage on Sally. It was at this time that her ability to form a force field around herself that protected her from her father & allowed her to scare him off. Unfortunately it also prevented her from saving her mother. Whenever Sally tried pick her up she just slipped from her arms, her mother died right in front of her. As a young runaway Sally ended up living in the sewers with the Morlocks & calling herself Skids. Her good looks caused her to be treated as an outcast by the other Morlocks. Masque tried repeatedly to change her face but her powers prevented Masque's powers from taking hold. Sally met Rusty Collins when he was in the middle of a fight between Freedom Force & X-Factor. The pair was attacked by angry bystanders & Skids used her powers to protect them, they also learned that Skids could not be hurt by Rusty's flames. Freedom Force followed them to the tunnels where Rusty Collins was severely injured by Blob. X-Factor saved the teens & began training them to better use their powers. Skids rescue from the tunnels could not have come at better time since the horrible event known as the Mutant Massacre occurred shortly after .

Morlocks

The surviving Morlocks came to live with X-Factor, Skids & Rusty spent a lot of time together & soon fell in love. When she refused to rejoin the Morlocks, Masque swore his revenge on the pretty young girl. During a training session with Rusty & Jean Grey, Skid's pearls were broken. Seeing this as a learning example Jean tried to get Sally to pick them up. After being repeatedly unsuccessful she grew frustrated & ran away to rejoin the Morlocks again. Rusty followed her & saved her from an attack by Masque, the two escaped once again after sharing their first kiss. When they returned to the X-Factor mansion Rusty Collins learned the fate of the first woman her kissed. The woman was horribly disfigured when his mutant power flared up. Rusty Collins was upset & thought that Masque would be able to help her, Masque's price was the disfigurement of Rusty's face. Arriving too late to stop Masque Skids grew so angry that she began to choke Masque, her powers turning off for the first time. He agreed to fix Rusty Collins so Skids let him go & was now able to control her force fields. The young couple continued their training & relationship. Skids control over her powers continued to grow & she used them to stop Infectia from harming Iceman. Shortly after this the teens (Skids, Rictor & Boom Boom) were sent to a boarding school, the younger children, Artie & Leech, were sent to a private school. Rusty returned to the navy even though he was sent to prison because he went back.

New Mutants

While at the school Skids received a message from Wiz Kid that Artie & Leech, along with other mutant children, had been kidnapped by demons. Unable to reach X-Factor the teens donned new costumes & named themselves the X-Terminators. On the way to rescue the kids they broke Rusty Collins out of prison. During the battle they met & aligned themselves with New Mutants & together they were able to defeat the demons & save the children. In the aftermath of Inferno the New Mutants came to stay on X-Factors ship & Skids, Rusty, Boom Boom & Rictor joined the group becoming the new New Mutants. The new group was not together long before they were separated. The group was sent to Asgard to help Danielle Moonstar while Skids stayed with Rusty to help him escape Freedom Force yet again. The couple was attacked on Liberty Island & Skids used her force field to protect them in the hope of lasting until morning when the tourists would arrive. In order to prevent their exposure Freedom Force removed the slab of concrete Skids & Rusty were on & took them to a federal prison. Charged with resisting arrest Skids was imprisoned to prevent her from talking about Freedom Force's plans. When the Vulture attempted to break out several weeks later Rusty tried to stop him when he realized the Vulture was intending to free Nitro. Skids learned a new way to use her powers when she used them to shield her fall so that she could protect Rusty from the guards bullets. The couple escaped from the prison in order to stop Nitro & tell the media about Freedom Force. They arrived to late to stop Vulture from freeing him but when Nitro was about to blow up the people around them Sally contained his blast in her shields. While this prevented the villain from reforming his body for some time, Skids passed out from her injuries & Rusty's plan to alert the media failed. Mystique informed the media that he & Skids had been trying to free Nitro & were lying about their innocence.                   

Mutant Liberation Fron

When Skids awoke in the hospital & saw the news reports about them she began to believe that she & Rusty Collins were evil. The reports also spoke of the Mutant Liberation Front & the couples connection with them. When the Mutant Liberation Front broke into the hospital to interrogate them the police guarding the couple fired at them. Protected by her powers Skids was safe but Rusty was hit & badly injured. In order to avoid returning to prison & sure death Sally decided that she & Rusty would join the Mutant Liberation Front despite the damage it did to their already tarnished reputations. After questioning Stryfe's motives he had them brainwashed & the couple became ruthless terrorists like the rest of the group. After Professor X's assassination, the Mutant Liberation Front fought the X-Men & Skids ran into her former friends Cannonball & Boom Boom. Still under Stryfe's control she fought with Boom Boom, now called Boomer, even breaking her jaw. In the end Sally & Rusty were captured & sent to the Xavier Institute in the hopes of reversing their brainwashing. While en route they were attacked by the Friends of Humanity who intended on making examples of Skids & Rusty. X-Force saved the couple, who insulted them entire time since they were still under Stryfe's brain control. They were brought to X-Force's hideout & put into suspended animation since the group had no way of returning them to normal. Later that day Exodus offered the group salvation aboard Magneto's space station Avalon. Rusty & Skids were taken to the station along with Cannonball who went in order to spy on Magneto. Using his powers Magneto was able to reverse Skids & Rustys brainwashing & they decided to stay there. They joined the Acolytes although they rarely took part in any missions. After Magneto's battle with Professor X Exodus took over in his name. Under Exodus's reign Sally & Rusty began to regret their decision & started looking for a way off the station. Unfortunately during that time Holocaust was found floating in space & brought aboard the ship. Holocaust killed most of the Acolytes including Rusty Collins, during the battle between Exodus & Holocaust the station was severely damaged. Cyclops & Jean Grey were teleported aboard by a surviving acolyte to save the rest of the group. Sally was unable to get to an escape pod so Jean Grey went to save her, using their powers the two women safely returned to Earth. After she recuperated from her injuries Sally left to figure out her life & mourn her lost love.

Seeking a normal life Skids attended college in Colorado & took no part in mutant issues. She did remain in contact with her former teammates & allowed them to stay at her home only to be pulled back into the life she wanted to avoid. An attack on X-Force by Reignfire & Locus forced Sally to reveal her mutant abilities to her fellow college students. When her force field & Locus's teleportation ability interacted it caused both women to be sent to Latveria. They awoke on a mountain powerless with Locus still wanting to attack Skids. Pandemonia put both women to sleep & magically forced them to do her bidding. They attacked X-Force but were defeated when Danielle Moonstar & Jennifer Kale broke her spell & sent her to another dimension. Skids dropped out of sight for some time after this only to reappear as a member of Sunspot's X-Corporation.

Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The results of M-Day left Skids one of the few mutants to retain their powers. She stayed at the camp & shared a tent with Magma & Outlaw. When Apocalypse came to the camp & offered salvation for those who would drink his blood Sally gladly accepted. She was stopped by Karma & yet still sided with Apocalypse when he was attacked by the X-Men. Recently, Skids was seen to have rejoined the Morlocks & is living in the sewers again. She also become a terrorist again for reasons thus far unknown. She doesn't seem entirely happy with Masque's leadership. Sally disagreed with Masque's attack on a group of humans and he felt that he was bending the prophets words to fit his vision. Warpath, Storm, Hepzibah and Caliban entered the sewers in search of the Morlocks after seeing Masque's message. Caliban found Sally, who had been left under a pile of rubble. As the group prepared to leave they were confronted by a Sentinel who thought that they had mutilated the humans. The attack was stopped when Sally revealed that she is an agent of SHIELD.

Powers

Skids possesses the mutant superhuman ability to create a force field around herself and others, totaling an area of approximately 30 cubic feet, with her being in the center. At first, she could only cover herself with the field, so it is assumed that with more training, she could expand her field of influence to a much greater area. The field itself protects Skids from harm by covering her with a completely frictionless surface. The field covers all of her body, so she never has any actual physical contact with anything touching any part of her body, as long as it is activated. When using her power, nobody can touch or hold her, bullets and other projectiles will not harm her, and she apparently glides over any surface she travels over, since she is not truly touching it.

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