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Quote1 I hear it all... a city dying in slow-motion right behind me... all of time itself being torn asunder... and it's catching up to me fast. I know I was your last hope to save the future, Darrion... but I failed, too. And now, everything we ever knew or loved... is history! Quote2
Timeslip[src]

History

Rina Patel was a college student when she discovered her "time-travelling" ability. One day, after seeing a news report on television about the New Warriors, she accidentally sent herself forward in time (although she had been aiming backwards) to a point where she was a member of the team. Soon after, she would have more visions, showing her the death of the New Warrior Speedball. This led her to seek out the team and warn them of his impending doom.[2]

As it turned out, the "Speedball" she had seen die was actually a time-traveller named Darrion Grobe who had replaced the real Speedball (Robbie Baldwin). Upon his death, which was an unavoidable factor in the timeline, he directed his subconscious into Rina's mind, and she learned all his memories about what had happened. He had gone back in Speedball's body to prevent his time-travelling father Advent from destroying time, and with the aid or Rina and her teammates, wound up succeeding. This then returned the "real" Speedball (Robbie) to the team, where he had a brief "relationship" with Rina.[3]

By this point, Rina had become an active member of the team, but her heroic career was cut short. When Volx, the Dire Wraith Queen tried to detonate a bomb which would take all heroes and villains superpowers away, Rina used her time manipulating powers to slow down time and reduce the harmful effect of the bomb. Nonetheless, by being so close to the bomb as it went off, she lost her powers.[4]

Rina Patel was one of the former Warriors whose secret identities and home addresses were "outed" on a New Warriors hate site, a backlash from the latest incarnation of the Warriors' involvement in a catastrophe that was the catalyst of the first superhuman Civil War. After being "outed", Rina was shown on the run from an angry mob, part of a growing anti-New Warrior (and anti-superhero in general) movement in the United States in reaction to the catastrophe.[5]

Attributes

Power Grid[8]
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Powers

  • Chronoskimming: She can sent her mind into the past or future versions of herself.[6]
  • Time Acceleration: She can alter time flow, accelerating herself compared to others, which she uses to out-maneuver her enemies.[6]

Trivia

  • Hindsight was the first person to believe Rina's "future-visions," and he took it upon himself (with the aid of the Avengers' money) to create a superheroing costume for her, dubbing her Timeslip.

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