Once I decided what I was going to make for people, Lady Bee was the first one that I started working on. A while back when I created a poll asking people what their superpower would be, Leah had answered 'Self Healing'. This brought to mind pure regeneraters like Wolverine of Claire from Heroes but I wanted something a little quirkier.

I drew inspiration from an old (7th Doctor) aventure called 'Delta and the Bannermen'. In it, a young human falls for a human-looking alien queen bee and ends up consuming a bunch of royal jelly to transform himself so he could be with her. Continuing with the Bee theme, this got me thinking of the recent Colony Collapse Disorder. Going with some classic Marvel tropes, I put together the idea of a scientist working on CCD through an enhanced Royal Jelly that ends up in her system. This gives her wings, extra strength and tougheness as well as regeneration. I want to avoid the control of bees thing beause that's a bit too cliched. Instead I wanted to touch on the Spiderman web shooters by giving her a set of invented bee stingers.. basically a dart gun that can deliver different types of toxins or even cures.

For the figure itself, I used astraight forward Wasp Heroclix as the base. It was pretty straight forward to give her a bee themed outfit rather than the red one she came with. The real fun in modifying the figure was popping off the wings so that I wouldn't get the yellow and black paint all over the wings.

Lady Bee - Power Level 10
Str 18 Dex 16 Con 26 Int 18 Wis 14 Cha 14
Skills: Concentration 6 (+8), Craft (chemical) 4 (+8), Investigate 4 (+8), Knowledge (life sciences) 4 (+8), Medicine 6 (+8), Search 4 (+8), Sense Motive 6 (+8), Survival 6 (+8)
Feats: Attack Focus (ranged) 2, Equipment 1, Improved Aim, Inventor, Precise Shot 2, Ranged Pin
Equipment: Costume [protection 4, +4 toughness; subtle (subtle)]
Powers:
- Super-Senses 3 (bee senses, direction sense, distance sense, ultravision)
- Protection 4 (+4 Toughness; Subtle (subtle))
- Device 5 (dart gun, hard to lose)
- Flight 3 (Speed: 50 mph, 440 ft./rnd)
- Regeneration 16 (recovery rate (bruised) 1 (recover 1 / round), recovery rate (disabled) 6 (recover 1 / round), recovery rate (injured) 4 (recover 1 / round), recovery rate (staggered) 4 (recover 1 / round), recovery rate (unconscious) 1 (recover 1 / round))
Dart Gun: Paralyze 8 (Alternate Save (Fortitude), Range (ranged)), Alternate Power: Drain 8 (drains: any trait; Range (ranged))
Combat: Attack +10 (melee), +12 (ranged), Grapple +14, Damage +8 (paralyze 8), +8 (drain 8), +4 (unarmed attack), Defense 18 (14 flat-footed), Knockback -6, Initiative +3
Saving Throws: Toughness +8/+12, Fortitude +8, Reflex +5, Will +5
Abilities 46 + Skills 10 (40 ranks) + Feats 8 + Powers 45 + Combat 36 + Saves 5 + Drawbacks 0 = 150

Deborah Lee was a lab scientist working on a cure for Colony Colapse Disorder in bees. As a result of mislabeled refrigerators she ended up drinking the modified royal jelly they'd been working on in her tea. That night she mutated, growing wings and gaining regenerative abilities.

She soon discovered that the label change was no mistake as a rival scientist had been trying to get her out of the way to get the research and use it for biological terrorism creating killer bees. In an effort to take advantage of her new abilities (and obvious transformation) she has adapted some dart guns from the zoology department into a weapon for delivering her own paralytic bee sting while fighting those who would use her studies for evil.