Origin

Overloading

Led by Elixir, he gathered the group to search for her that night. They saw her buying drugs which they thought was causing the problems with her powers. Sofia blew them away but it turned out to be the other way around as without them her powers were out of control. With Laurie's pheromone emotion-manipulating powers, they subdued her and took her home.

Beast then designed special metallic gauntlets that could regulate and control her ability to absorb ambient electrical energy preventing further overloads.

New Mutants 2.0

Nori became a student of Xavier's School when the school adopted a squad system. She was assigned to Dani Moonstar's New Mutants squad with Elixir, Wallflower, Wind Dancer, Prodigy, and Icarus.

She reluctantly roomed with the Afgani mutant, Dust; the two young women disagreed and repeatedly clashed on the accepted role of women in society and the Muslim traditions Sooraya wanted to follow.

Soon, the romantic relationship between Josh and Wolfsbane was revealed by the jealous Wither and faced much ostracizing from his fellow classmates. Surge is one of the one's who accepted him or didn't care. Using his powers in a new light, Josh restored Rahne's mutant powers, Josh was mauled by the newly feral Wolfsbane. Surge put her ingenuity to test, using her electrokinetic discharges to shock Josh into healing himself without harming him.

Later, her teammate, David asked Emma Frost to remove a mental block on his mind that prevents him from accessing his full power. David gets corrupted from the knowledge and skills and power he absorbs and had married Noriko. One thing led to another, and Nori died and it was revealed that this was a complex illusion with a likely outcome orchestrated by Emma Frost and Dani Moonstar. Feeling guilty, David avoided Nori, who was very annoyed at that fact. She eventually cornered him and from there the two became an active couple.

After M-Day

Childhood's End

The events of House of M left 90% of the mutant population depowered and human, one of them being her boyfriend, David causing them to both rethink their relationship as only 27 students were left with their powers. Nori and a couple other students were introduced to David's creation, the Danger Cave, using borrowed knowledge, skills, and intelligence from Beast, Shadowcat, and Forge. Wither, who had thought that he had lost his powers, touched Laurie on the arm but he hadn't and he half-way withered her arm away. The New Mutant squad, depowered or powered, rushed to her side and Wither ran away. Quickly after that, Emma Frost fired Nori's squad leader, Mirage, and the staff fearing for their safety, sent the remaining now human students home on buses.

Luckily, Nori retained her powers. One bus of depowered students as it departed was blown up by anti-mutant zealot Reverend William Stryker. Though depowered, David and Sofia, weren't killed and though Sofia immediately left, David and Nori deepened their relationship as a response.

Most of the remaining students, except Nezhno, Laurie, Ernst, Martha who were excused and the Three-In-One who refused to take part in such savage behavior, were organized by Emma Frost into a large battle to see who would become a member of the trainee X-team. Nori had attacked Julian without mercy since he had bullied and teased David for a long time and it had only escalated since he had lost his powers. Since Julian didn't take down X-23, Emma, out of spite, made Nori the team leader much to her surprise as Mercury, Rockslide, Elixir, Dust, and Hellion were appointed on the team. Cyclops forcibly appointed X-23 on the team against Emma's will. Soon after, she was gifted with new and improved gauntlets, definitely lighter.

They were still at risk since Stryker's crusade against the 10% of mutants left in the world. After he ordered the assassinations of Wallflower and Quill and luring an oblivious and naive Icarus to his side and capturing Nimrod and disassembling it using its weaponry to directly attack the Institute itself. Nori led her fellow classmates and, now teammates, against him and Josh who was enraged at the deaths of Laurie and his depowered friends on the doomed bus uses his powers to kill Stryker but is left in a comatose state.

Nimrod

New X-Men

When Avengers, Ms. Marvel and Iron Man, visit the Xavier Institute, Emma, Cyclops, and the students learn that Jay was killed by Stryker but had left a message with his blood saying Nimr. Later, Forge sends a distress message through Nori's gauntlets that Nimrod is there having pieced himself together enough to go to Forge for repairs. The X-Men, going off to Storm and Black Panther's wedding, leave the students with the O*NE Sentinels and refuse to believe Nimrod is back. Seeing Nimrod as a huge threat, Nori steps up as leader to convince the team to sneak out and take down Nimrod and save Forge. David puts together a plan to sneak out of the school without the Sentinels guard finding out.

The New X-Men including Prodigy reach Dallas and proceed to save Forge but Nimrod transfers himself into a new body and is about to kill them all but they form a plan and in the end after X-23 cuts Nimrod's new body open and Mercury uses her shape-shifting to keep it open, Surge removes her gauntlets and pours all her power into Nimrod damaging him once more and jaunting him into the past.

Surge and Prodigy are summoned to Cyclops' office. They think they are in trouble for disobeying direct orders but Cyclops commends them for their good work in defeating Nimrod and saving Forge and recognize them as true members of the X-Men.

Mercury Falling

Nori and David are completely unaware of most the events that have transpired in this arc and are trying to recruit Bling to their team after being told by Cyclops that she had done extremely well with the Adjectiveless X-team in the Blood of Apocalypse arc. She refuses saying that being an X-Men means being put on the lines for a firing squad. Onyxx who is with her blurts out that he saw Laura come back all bloody without Cessily from the Grindstone Cafe. Nori and David panic and rush off and ask Sooraya about it. Nori then is about to leave the school taking Dust and Rockslide with her to search for Hellion, X-23, and Mercury are ready to take down the O*NE Megaton Sentinel along the way. They're stopped by Shadowcat who takes them inside to strategize.

Surge, Cyclops, Rockslide, Dust, Elixir, Emma Frost, Shadowcat, and Colossus arrive in the nick of time to save the trio.

Quest For Magik, WWH:X-Men and Children of the X-Men

Along with Hellion, Surge was the only other student from the Xavier Institute that wasn't pulled into Limbo. After forcing Amanda Sefton out of a coma, she forced Sefton to take her and Hellion to Limbo, with the added guest of a piloted Sentinel. Hellion flew her and himself to Belasco's castle, and they both took part in the finale.

Surge battled the Hulk with the rest of the New X-Men in World War Hulk: X-Men.

During the arc, the Children of the X-Men (New X-Men #42-42), Surge makes constant attempts to get David to leave the school, so that he will be safe even kissing Hellion to make David jealous, and even going as far as attacking him. David dumps her after this.

Messiah Complex

When Surge heard about the attack in Alaska, and that the Purifiers were involved, Surge launches an unauthorized attack against a Purifier Church, consisting of the New X-Men team (minus David, Dust and Elixir) plus Armor. When they are picked up by Iceman (after Pixie scatters them between Weschester and Washington with a teleportation spell gone wrong) and they return to the school,

Emma Frost tells Nori that the reason she chose her as team leader was because she "knew she would take care of them, including from" her.

Surge took part in the final battle on Muir Island.

Divided We Stand

Surge appears in 'Divided We Stand: Book Two' alongside her former New Mutants mentor Dani Moonstar. Seeking shelter with the older woman after the X-Men disband, Nori literally runs all the way to Dani's cabin without stopping (from where is not made clear, but it is assumed that she began at the ruins of the mansion). Tearfully breaking down over her various mistakes, she renounces her worth both as an X-Man and as team leader, and is generally inconsolable. While Dani tries to convince her that the trials she faced haveonly made her stronger, Nori remains unconvinced and unsure of where to go from here.

Surge is featured on Greg Land's cover of Uncanny X-Men #500, suggesting that she will make a return to the group. However, given the often-misleading nature of covers, this should be taken with a grain of salt until her presence is directly confirmed.

Powers

Surge

Lightning Blasts: can discharge the energy amassed by absorbtion through lightning blasts from her hands or other parts of her body

Superhuman Speed: can channel the energy creating bursts of super-speed

Bilingual - Native Japanese speaker who speaks English fluently, with little trace of an accent.

Combatant - Has some experience in unarmed combat taught by Wolverine

Leadership - Surge is also a talented leader

Status