XS
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Biography
Empowerment
Despite being the granddaughter of Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash, and the daughter of one of the Tornado Twins, Jenni Ognats did not at first display any signs of super-speed. However, the Dominators, knowing her family heritage, captured her, and the sight of seeing her father tortured activated her latent super-speed, and she managed to escape with her father before stray fire from the Dominators caused their base to explode.
Legion
After this, she checked herself into a laboratory to help her learn to co-ordinate herself at super-speed. Once she had learned control, however, she was drafted into the Legion of Super-Heroes. Initially scared and nervous, she almost ran away during her first battle, that against Tangleweb. Although she convinced herself to return, her running hadn't gone unnoticed by Cosmic Boy. In shame, Jenni thought about leaving the Legion due to her cowardice and so as not to leave her father alone in case she was killed, but Cosmic Boy confronted her, encouraging her to stay and prove herself. Later, at Kid Quantum's funeral, saboteurs planted a bomb and activated the deceased Legionnaire's stasis belt, freezing everyone and slowing XS down. Jenni managed to save everyone with much effort, and was in turn saved by Cosmic Boy from falling debris. This event strengthened her resolve to remain with the time. XS would play a key role in the Legion, distracting the Composite Man by running away with Chameleon while the others worked on a way to stop him; single-handedly saving hundreds of civilians from a tidal wave created by one of the rogue Daxamites and helping save Dirk Morgna from Doctor Regulus. She also developed a crush on Cosmic Boy around this time.
Lost
XS was one of the Legionnaires who traveled to the 20th century to find a way to save Valor from the stasis zone, but her superspeed caused her to get lost in the timestream. She was found by the 20th century villain Chronos and his "assistant" Lori Morning. Chronos found out that she was from the 30th century, and plotted to steal the time machine she had used to enter the timestream. His current method of time travel caused him to age every time he used it, forcing him to transfer the excess "chronal energy", which was causing him to age, to others like Lori Morning. With Lori's help, XS defeated Chronos in the present and freed his captives, but another Chronos reappeared, took Lori and went to the 30th century where he was defated by the Legionnaires there.
XS would then go on to find her cousin Bart Allen, who had been brought to the 20th century to save him from those who wanted to use his powers for their own ends and to save him from the rapid aging his powers caused. With Bart's and Wally West's (the current Flash) help, XS was able to reenter the timestream. She was shunted to a future time by accident, where she helped some heroes rebel against a tyrant, inspiring them to form their own Legion. She also encountered her grandfather, Barry Allen (the second Flash), and met the Time Trapper briefly. The Trapper admitted that he/she had been responmsible for XS' journey through time and that her ultimate role had yet to be unveiled; he then erased Jenni's memory of their meeting and returned her to the 30th century.
Xanthu
When she was one of the Legionnaires left behind after many of her teammates were lost, causing the team to be forcefully disbanded, she went to Xanthu with her teammate Star Boy, where she found herself caught in a war between Xanthu and Robotica. While the two Legionnaires managed to save millions of lives by distracting Robotica long enough for the surviving Xanthuians to escape off-planet, they remained trapped there for months thereafter, until rescued by their returned teammates.
Powers and abilities
XS possesses super-speed, able to move at large fractions of the speed of light.
