Gen¹³

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Official Team Name

Gen¹³

Team Aliases

Unknown

Status

Active

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Good

Universe

Wildstorm Universe

Affiliations

Team Leader(s)

Caitlin Fairchild AKA Fairchild

Current Members

Bobby Lane AKA Burnout
Roxy Spaulding AKA Freefall
Eddie Chang AKA Grunge
Sarah Rainmaker AKA Rainmaker

Origin

Place of Formation

Tabula Rasa Amazon Command Center

Creators

Gail Simone, Talent Caldwell

First appearance

Gen 13 Vol 4 #1
(December, 2006)

History

Tabula Rasa created series of superhuman beings for military and entertainment purposes. Five of their creations were placed around the United States and provided with different lives. Caitlin Fairchild was placed in Portland, Oregon, where she was raised by her loving parents. Bobby Lane was placed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he bounced around the foster-care and juvenile hall systems, until he found peace through reggae music. Percy Chang was placed in Seattle, Washington, where he rebelled against the pleasant schoolboy image his parents tried to cultivate, going by Eddie and taking up skateboarding and karate. Roxy Spaulding was the angry, rebellious youth raised in San Antonio, Texas by her mother, Maxine. Sarah Rainmaker was raised by her parents on a Native American reservation in Peridot, Arizona.

Dr. Peter Cross activated the Gen¹³ project, during which time, he order the assassinations of the kids' parents. The Lane and Fairchild parents were killed, the Rainmaker parents committed suicide, the Chang parents fled, and Maxine Spaulding fought back.^[1] All the children were captured and brought to Tabula Rasa headquarters, where they banded together and escaped.^[2] Tabula Rasa sent Gen¹¹ to reclaim the escaped teenagers, but they only managed to reclaim Eddie.^{[3] [4]} Eddie's team mates returned to the compound, where they rescued him and witnessed Dr. Cross' destruction.^[5][6]

Due to their actions, the base had become extremely unstable, so the teens had to escape through a teleportation device. It took them to a kind of safari, where genetically engineered dinosaurs and monsters were the prey. Caitlin got separated from her team, and had to adapt to the extreme conditions to survive. She and the team were reunited, and they made their way toward freedom. ^[7]

The team headed toward Tranquility, Oregon, where metahumans are the norm. On their way, Roxy steals from a posh grocery store, bringing the police to them. They evade the police without much difficulty, but then they are tracked down by three members of the Authority. The Authority wanted to bring in Gen¹³ because their very existence threatened the Multiverse. The Authority clearly had the upper hand in the battle between Gen¹³ and their would-be captors, but Roxy managed to issue a plea that reached Midnighter. He left and took Apollo and Swift with him.^[8] The super-powered teens continued their journey, stopping to spend some time at a farm.

While they were at the farm, John Lynch found them and constantly surveyed them. When Maxine Spaulding appeared to save her daughter, Lynch shot her, thinking she posed a danger to the children. Caitlin attacked Lynch, and together, the team managed to pull the information from him they needed. He confirmed what the Authority said, that their being, including his own, disrupted reality. He gave the kids a Jeep with a glove box full of money, and he and Maxine urged the kids to make it to Tranquility while he and Maxine keep the ratkillers at bay.^[9]

While in Tranquility, the team runs into trouble with some local teens, the Liberty Snots.^[10] But their troubles with the Snots seemed trivial when the Authoriteens, a version of the Authority from a reality in which there are no adults or mentors, attacked. The Authoriteens, like their Earth-50 counterparts, wanted to remove the disruptive existence of Gen¹³.^[11] Eddie absorbs the matter decomposer, and strikes the Authoriteen's most powerful member, Kid Apollo, with it, disintegrating him.^[12]

Burdened with the knowledge that he had killed someone, Eddie sank into a deep depression. His teammates did all they could to lift it, to no avail. Even when Gen¹³ had to defend themselves from evil clones under Megan's control, Eddie refused to fight back, until Sarah got through to him, and he came to her defense. Roxy managed to convince the clones of the error of their ways, but Megan was unable to live with herself and what she had done, so she killed herself and the clones.^[13]

World's End

Main article: World's End

Moments before Armageddon, Gen¹³ briefly returned to New York after chasing a Ratcatcher inside a portal. Coincidentally, the teens were then trapped inside the teleporter just after the Reaper clone created from The High exploded. Causing a electromagnetic pulse, shutting Gen¹³ inside a pocket dimension for more than six months. After defeating an insane Ratcatcher who inadvertently released the group, Gen¹³ emerged to to discovered a devastated wasteland they had once known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

This article pertains to the Gen¹³ appearing in Gen¹³, Volume Four, for other uses of the team name, see Gen 13.

Trivia

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See Also

• 36 Appearances of Gen 13 (Wildstorm Universe)
• 23 Images that include Gen 13 (Wildstorm Universe)
• Team Gallery: Gen 13 (Wildstorm Universe)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Gen 13 (Wildstorm Universe)

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