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The members of the team include siblings Alex Power (who was, at the start of the series, 12 years old), Julie Power (10), Jack Power (8) and Katie Power (5). They are the children of scientist Dr. James power and his wife, Margaret. Dr. Power had discovered a process to generate energy from anti-matter, and built a prototype generator. Unknown to him, there was an error in his formula, and the generator would have caused an explosion that could destroy Earth. This was discovered by Aelfyre Whitemane, aka as "Whitey", a member of the alien race known as the Kymellians, who resemble humanoid horses. Knowing about the danger of the experiment (a similar one had destroyed his home planet) Whitey tried to stop it, but was mortally wounded by his enemies, the reptilian Snarks. The Snarks also kidnapped Dr. Power, hoping to obtain the secret of anti-matter. Dying, Whitey rescued the Power children and informed them about what was happening. He then passed on four of his super powers to the children, hoping they could complete the mission for him. Alex received the power to control gravity; Julie, the ability to fly (leaving a rainbow-like trail behind); Jack, the ability to control his molecular density (allowing him to turn into a cloud, or shrink down) and Katie received the power to disintegrate matter, absorb energy and fire it as energy balls. Whitey then died.
The children, with the help of Whitey's "smartship" (a sentient starship ) called Friday, managed both to stop the generator test and to rescue their parents (without their parents knowing it was they who rescued them.) They then decided to secretly continue being super heroes; Alex took the codename "Gee", Julie became "Lightspeed", Jack, "Mass Master" and Katie, "Energizer." They wore costumes made for them by Friday (actually Kymellian spacesuits.) Amazingly enough, the Pack were sucessful as heroes, and at keeping their secret, for quite a while, despite their encountering many other heroes and villains in their adventures (and wearing no masks.) These adventures included more battles with the Snarks, travels to the new homeworld of the Kymellians, and having their powers switched around a few times. Eventually, their parents found out what they were doing (during Alex's time with the New Warriors), and at first they were opposed to it, but eventually came to accept their children's need to use their powers responsibly.
Three "reserve" members also became part of Power Pack. The fifth member of the Pack was Franklin Richards, (son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four) whose psionic powers had been greatly reduced, under the name "Tattletale". The sixth was a Kymellian youth (about Alex's age respectively) named Kofi Whitemane (nephew of Whitey), with the power of teleportation (and later developing other Kymellian powers) and finally, an Elan child who was nicknamed "Marty".
In later years, the children discovered that they could switch the powers among them at will. Using his sibling's powers, Alex joined the superhero group New Warriors under the name "Powerhouse" for a while, although this caused some friction with his brother and sisters.
The Pack is currently still active as superheroes, thought most of them are now in high school and junior high. They have also started wearing masks while going out in adventures. Their most recent adventure involved the Snarks again, as both Maraud & her son Jakal attempted an coup to ruled Snarkworld (again).
External Link: Marvel Directory (Power Pack)
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