Lori Morning
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Biography
Home time
Lori Morning was born in the late 20th century in the USA, a typical child of her place and time... until her father fell in with Chronos.
Ronald Morning became an aide to the villain, and, after Chronos was granted inherent time-travel powers by Neron, Lori came to his attention, as his demon-spawned time-travel abilities had a drawback - to use them aged him severely - for which he devised a means of transferring to others. Preferring children, with their greater capacity for aging, he aged five children into their eighties while searching for a time machine, before, lacking other subjects, he took Lori - eager to be a grownup - with him.
In the timestream, the two encountered XS, lost there after Brainiac 5 had neglected to account for the impact of her speed force link on time travelling by other means. Taking her back to his laboratory in the late 20th century, he realised that she was from the late 30th century, and had used "technological means to enter the timestream" - and thus, he could find and steal it, although his inability to speak interlac.
At that moment, however, her father entered the room and, although she had been only slightly aged at that point, he recognised that she was older. Angry, he confronted Chronos, who sent Lori out of the room with XS, and the two discovered Chronos' previous subjects - whereupon XS ran to confront Chronos himself, finding him as he was aging Ronald Morning to death, after Lori's father had attacked him for aging her, which caused Lori to gasp in horror.
At this point, Chronos' timeline somehow split in two. In the 20th century, Chronos aged XS, but Lori managed to communicate to XS that she should destroy Chronos' glove. The act of crushing it caused chunks of the ceiling above Chronos to collapse, breaking Chronos' neck. However, the glove itself rapidly deteriorated, but XS managed to piece it together long enough to restore Chronos' earlier victims and herself before it finally disintegrated. Moments later, however, the other Chronos appeared, remarked disgustedly on "his" corpse, and spirited Lori away and himself to the Legion of Super-Heroes' time...
Ten to one thousand
There, aged by Chronos' power, she had the body of a twenty-year old, but similar events repeated themselves until Invisible Kid, prompted by Lori via Saturn Girl, destroyed the glove. There, the explosion was much larger, causing a large section of one wing of Legion Plaza to be aged until it collapsed with rust, burying the Legionnaires there and Lori and aging Chronos himself to dust.
Valor, hearing the explosion, flew down to find the mess, but neither Lori nor any Legionnaires had been killed or significantly injured by the explosion or falling debris.
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Later, they ran tests on her, and Rond discovered that she was only ten. However, while they were running the tests, Rond was warned the Science Police were coming to shut the Time Institute down. Seeing he was depressed, Lori tried to cheer him up, but then stormed off at being "treated like a kid." Saturn Girl checked with Rond, then attempted to follow her before being intrupted by the brainwashed Jan Arrah. Unchecked, Lori wandered through 30th century Metropolis before petting a dog-like alien in a shop, leading to her having the Science Police called for alien harassment.
After being arrested, she protested she was affiliated with the Legion, forcing Saturn Girl to go along and essentially shout down the dog, claiming that Lori was "unfamiliar with big cities". After she was released, she then gave Lori a dressing down, saying she was not to run off - however she looked, she was still a child.
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She became close to "Proty" afterward, putting on a demonstration for Invisible Kid and Chameleon - although the sight of Chameleon & Proty as Tanglewebs terrified her due to her fear of spiders.
Time off
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H-Dial
While in the museum, however, the Time Trapper had appeared - and given her the H-Dial. Hiding the Dial from the Legion, she embarked on a covert superheroic career under the team's noses.
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Workforce
With her dial held in Brainiac 5.1's laboratory, she begged him to give her it back even while he was recovering from severe burns, while he, lost in thought over his own troubles, appeared not to notice her. Soon after, she decided to take matters into her own hands, and sneaked into his laboratory to exchange it for a cosmetic replica she had made, Proty clinging onto her and alerting Saturn Girl with its psychic cries.
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Powers and abilities
Inherently, Lori had no metahuman abilities. However, through the use of her "H-Dial", she could transform into a random form, usually conveying some sort of power.
