the resident bully of the orphanage. Soon afterwards, Mother May I saw Carin's potential for cybernetic enhancement and she was given or sold to Cyberdata. Velocity seems to spend a fair amount of time being captured by Cyberdata and subsequently rescued, although in such shenanigans more bits of her history and possible futures are revealed (in issue #11, a virtual-reality simulation shows what Velocity might have become had her conversion to a SHOC been completed). She was SHOC-trained and implanted with a Brain Box, a Cyberdata invention that overcame the difficulties in adjusting to cybernetic implants. Primarily, in Carin's case, the Brain Box allowed her to run faster without overloading her brain or body with the chemicals naturally produced by the body with any muscle movement. It also allowed her to make directional adjustments to avoid obstacles when travelling at high speeds. Velocity had her own limited series in 1995; she is assisted in part by Savage Dragon. Shattered Image Around this time Velocity is one of the few superheroes actively aware that reality was breaking down into six different sub-Earths. She works with the few others aware of this, such as Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Ripclaw, Spawn, Barbaric, Savant and Zealot. Velocity and her teammate represent one of the six realities, and ultimately Ripclaw convinces her to follow Heatwave's recommendation and let their earth go off on its own. Despite this, their world reforms with the other 'continuities' soon after. Cyberforce In the first series of Cyberforce, in issue #30, Carin hints in her journal of an attraction to Heatwave (a.k.a. Dylan Cruise), although this was construed as a mere crush as Carin was underage at the time. Later in the series, affections begin to manifest between Ripclaw (a.k.a. Robert Bearclaw/Berresford) and Carin, although this was never realised because the comic's first series ended shortly after. The second volume closed with Ripclaw and Velocity heading towards Antarctica in search of the alien technology usurped by Cyberdata which eventually led to the development of Cyberforce and the other SHOCs. Cyberforce Volume 3: Rising From the Ashes In the third volume of Cyberforce, released in June, 2006, Cyberdata is finally destroyed. However, the company releases a failsafe virus meant to kill all those on the planet infected with the alien technology. In this Marc Silvestri re-introduction of Cyberforce, Ripclaw and Velocity are betrayed by the captain of the vessel that helped them