Natalie Cummings

The Following is a character from the Graphic Novel Jade Growing Up Again and is provided in detail. For a list of characters from the series click below.

Origin
Originally orphaned at a young age for reasons never explained to her, Punky (Then Penelope) was adopted into the Brewster family at the age of about eight and made her position known around the local school and neighborhoods as a tomboy and a troublemaker but none-the-less made it through school with decent grades and applied to join Starfleet Academy.

At starfleet she quickly started specializing in communications, both equipment and languages and eventually made her way up to technician 2nd class and a rank of Lieutenant. Specializing in negotiations and interspecies communication her ability at regular maths and sciences is below average but her skills still proved useful and with support from friends Paco and  Jade she managed to get herself on a special ops team as the team leader and placed in charge of her final mission.

Sentencing
On being given a mission to investigate a Colony Planet that the Confederation had lost contact with some hundred years ago, Punky, along with her partners Paco and Jade were assigned to investigate, land on and infiltrate the planet of Paradiso, supposedly to find out if anyone was still alive, how they had survived the plague that supposedly should have wiped them out, and what had happened to a number of Confederation space craft who had entered Paradiso space.

On arrival they found the planet active, highly populated and with technology far in advanced of their own. When they tried to break the quarintine line and land the trio were quickly overpowered, taken to a holding cell, sentenced and tried for the following crime.


 * Crime ; Trespass, Breaching Quarantine, Resisting Arrest.
 * Sentence ; Four to eight cycles of childhood, from the ages 6 to 12

Natalie Marie Cummings
Post rejuve Punky was placed with Spanko parents as is the custom with convicted criminals under the understanding that her assigned parents would help her to rehabilitate and punish her through excessive spankings. Nathalie settled into her new life almost immediately, trying to get her companions to 'play along' with their captors on the grounds that a rescue would be mounted when her team didn't report in. Unfortunately she was unaware that their mission was in fact intended as a scuicide run and were not expected to return.

As days turned in to months she has since settled down to her new role, starting school and excelling in art and lettering as well as computer engineering and operations. She has started developing a relationship with a boy known as Malcolm who shares similar interests and seams very protective of her new life.