Other Information:
Rikki Shaefer was born a mutant with the ability to bounce like a rubber ball.
Her parents were disturbed that their daughter was a mutant and tried to stop
her from using her powers. Rikki loved to use them, however, and this caused
friction in her family. When it came to an ultimatum from her father, Rikki
ran away from home.
Falling on hard times, Rikki became a petty thief. She met Barney Runningbear
and they became friends. They were both arrested and eventually relocated to
Arizona to the Mutate Manpower Management Service, a super-villain detainment
and rehabilitation unit that was, in fact, a freak work camp headed up by Dr.
Verlag. It was there that Rikki was codenamed Ricochet and Barney Runningbear
was codenamed Barbaric. When The MMMS started to develop mind control devices
to keep prisoners in line that wouldn't do their bidding, Ricochet, Barbaric
and Jerry (Inhabiter) Steele made a break for it. When it appeared that Jerry
had been shot dead, Ricochet and Barbaric escaped on their own, deserting Jerry.
The two found their way to Chicago where they hid out in the Chicago underground,
living with other homeless freaks. It was there they met Officer Dragon who
befriended them and eventually persuaded Barbaric to the Chicageo Police
Department and what they unofficially called, their "Freak Force" program, where
he met Dart, Rapture, and Horridus. Ricochet was, at the time, too young to join
the police department.
Later still, all members of the team, except Dragon, left the CPD because of the
various restrictions and formed the group of super-powered bounty hunters called
Freak Force.
See Jim's Unofficial Savage Dragon Page for more!
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