Kata Kingsley

KATA KINGSLEY

Real Name: Kata Kingsley

Class: Human temporal anomaly

Occupation: Orphan, time anomaly

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Ana Kingsley (mother, deceased), Martin Kingsley (father, deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: San Sierra Orphanage, Ventura County, California, Earth-50

First Appearance: Mr. Majestic #2 (October, 1999)

Powers: Kata was a human time anomaly, and she sent out chronal waves that caused disruptions in the timestream. Disruptions sent people and places from the past into the present and made the timestream unstable.

History: (Mr. Majestic #2) - Kata was born to Ana and Martin Kingsley. Martin was a famous physicist,a nd discovered that Kata was a human time anomaly, and he pivoted his career to studying the timestream. Ana died of cancer and Martin’s research concluded that Kata would start sending out chronal waves as she got older that would threaten the entire timestream. He couldn’t face reality anymore and committed suicide, with young Kata being sent to the San Sierra Orphanage. Kata’s powers eventually turned on, creating time anomalies. Mr. Majestic and Desmond discovered disruptions in the timestream, and Mr. Majestic responded to a raid perpetrated by 8th Century Vikings on a British waterfront. Majestic brought them to a local jail, but when a police officer asked what he was supposed to do with them Majestic admitted he didn’t know. More anomalies cropped up, with the bubonic plague spreading through France, Mongol hordes attacking China and the Enola Gay appearing over Japan. Majestic prevented Hiroshima from being bombed a second time, having lived through it the first time and hoping no tragedy like that would ever happen again. The Red Sea parted and Majestic was surprised, believeing the events of the Bible to be myth. He asked Desmond about it, but he had more pressing things on his mind than theology. Desmond constructed a hypercube to map the time distortions, hoping to find a pattern. He realized the disruptions would reach critical mass at which point the entire timestream would unravel. He tried to contact Dr. Martin Kingsley, and learned of his suicide. He did find his notes and learned of Kata’s existence. Desmond met with MIT, Caltech and a displaced Albert Einstein, and they used Kingsley’s notes to build a stasis generator that could take someone out of time. Majestic visited Kata at the San Sierra Orphanage and used the generator to put himself and Kata outside the timestream. She said she never wanted to hurt anyone and Majestic said that nothing that happened was her fault. He told her to remember the happiest day in her life before using the generator again, removing her from the timestream completely. Majestic told Desmond he was extremely uncomfortable with how they’d resolved the situation, but Desmond said they had no choice. Majestic hoped Kata was somewhere happy, and she was, in a temporal loop of a day she spent with her father playing on a swing and talking.

Comments: Created by Joe Casey, Brian Holguin & Ed McGuinness.