When Anna was young she's born with lightning powers because her father is English and mother Trinidadian are mutants with powers and they are unknown . Anna had a brother named Casey and they lived and adopted in South Africa with Ororo Munroe and her friends. After growing up she's been taken to Charles Xavier's school of mutants along with her brother and she's kind of shy meeting new friends who are mutants and takes long of getting used to. When in the battle with the Sentinels she's scared because of fear and she's about to be dead but she used her lightning powers killing one of the Sentinels and being saved by Storm and the X-Men. She's being taught and learned how to control and use her powers. She sometimes leaves the X Men and joined a new group called "New Mutants".They joined and teamed up with the X-Men, New Mutants sometimes Generation X whenever they are needed and the Avengers team.
She's taking part in the "Junior" X-Men team along with Kitty Pryde, Jubilation Lee, Pixie, Hisako Ichiki and other young teammates.