Pacific City Chronicles

Synergy
Real Name: Clea Brande (aka Helena Marx, aka Samantha Taylor)
Powers and Equipment: Synergy is a former Omega-class telepath and telekinetic. Due to her brain injury, she is currently classed as Alpha+ Class. She has a number of psionic talents, mainly telepathy and telekinesis. She can also project images or even false memories into another person's mind, making her a Grade Zeta security risk.
History: Clea Brande (aka Helena Marx, aka Samantha Taylor) was born and raised in the Pacific City area. She became a clinical psychiatrist after graduation from PCU; she originally worked at Bishop Hospital before moving to private practice in 1992. She performed several experiments on herself with various mixtures of psychotropic drugs in hopes of bringing out her latent psionic abilities. She succeeded but it is generally agreed that the process also distorted her thinking and perception.
She became a master supercriminal and battled the New Sentinels, Honor Guard, and Power Inc. from 1993 until 1997, when she was finally captured and remanded over to the Lockdown facility. She was kept in solitary confinement within a power-dampening cell. In 1999, Lockdown physician Paul Meyers diagnosed her with a rare form of brain tumor and gained permission of the board to operate. What no-one knew was that the doctor’s son had been killed by Synergy in 1995. The ‘tumor’ was fabricated to allow him access to her brain. Halfway through the procedure, one of the nurses noticed something odd and brought it to the attention of one of the other doctors. Seeing what Meyers was doing, the doctor tried to stop him. Meyers went berserk and cut the doctor’s throat with his scalpel, then tried to complete his lobotomy on Synergy. Meyers was overpowered by guards and taken away. He is currently serving life imprisonment with possible parole in 2008.
Synergy suffered severe damage to the parts of her brain that control her psionic abilities. She is still very powerful but not able to take on entire experienced superteams anymore.
While she was being transported to an ASTRO Labs test facility, her transport was attacked by Electrocutioner, who freed her. She joined forces with him briefly until she was re-captured by Westguard. She currently resides in the Lockdown.