ALIAS: Synch
REAL NAME: Everett Thomas
NATIONALITY: U.S.A St.Louis, MO.
TEAM AFFILIATION: Generation X
AGE: 16
POWER: Synchronicity. The ability to synch his mutagenetic rainbow aura to the mutants near him, thus giving him the ability to use their powers for a limited time.
FIRST APPEARANCE: X-men #36

Sixteen Year old Everett Thomas, aka "Synch", was first introduced to Generation X in X-Men #36. (part 1 of the 4 part "Phalanx Covenant") Synch had accidently synched to Banshee who was in the area and had blown apart all the windows in his area with Banshee's "borrowed" scream. Upon himself and other teenagers being attacked by various phalanx, he teamed up with Banshee to destroy the phanlanx and rescue the young mutants who later formed Generation X. Synch decided to join the GenX team so he could learn to control his powers. His power is "synchroniclty" this enables him to alter his mutagenetic aura according to the mutants near him for a limited time. An example would be the ability to synch with Skin so he that he could be able to stretch his skin. Synch is at the acadamy to learn the proper use of his powers and to extend them, at the moment he can only posess someone's power for a small amount of time.

Synch's home in St. Louis, Mo. is a model family. He is the sole child with the exception that his parents are foster parents. With this caring family, Everett was well raised and is a calm person who is quite level headed. This has made him more of a background character in GenX than some of the more spontaneous, outrageous characters such as Jubilee or Skin. He may have been placed as a background character in the beginning, but as of the recent issues, Ev has been close to the center of attraction. (The triangle between the St. Croix twins, M and Jubilee is keeping him on his toes) Within the latest issues he has come to be the unlucky charm. Upon the explosion in issue #32, he believes that when he synched to Monet's powers, that he caused her to split into the twins. He confided in Jubilee, who he has a crush on, about his problems. He continually felt this burden until the latest issues revolving around "Monet". Synch had been captured by "Mplate", a combination of the Monet twins and their brother Emplate, in order for them to use his powers with Gaia the guardian at the "Universal Almagamator" citadel. (this is GenX #39 mind you) Since Gaia wouldn't cooperate with their scheme, they kidnapped Everett to synch to Gaia's powers so he will control the Amalgamator and use it so Mplate could meld the world into one consiousness.

Everett resisted as best he could but with his good nature, he couldn't bear to see his friends be harmed and had actually began to Synch to Gaia's power before GenX defeated Mplate. Upon Gaia's outraged reaction to him synching to her powers, he once again felt the burden of doing things the wrong way. (or so he thinks it's the wrong way) With Chamber's power accidentally causing the citadel to begin to self destruct, Synch being the nice guy that he is couldn't just run away leaving Gaia chained to the building. Going against Banshee's commands he wouldn't give up on Gaia's industructable chains. It got to the point that Banshee had to punch him out! Synch wasn't going to fail again, he recovered, synched to Banshee and took off back to the crumbling citadel. Penance followed quickly to help him cut the chains and they were free to escape through the warp chamber that led to the local diner. They crashed through into two local goons who really can't stand the GenXers. Gaia ran off with Penance giving chase in order to stop her..... this leaves Synch with the two goons. Synch once again becomes the unlucky charm as the goons realize that he's from the acadamy, they decide a sucker punch to the gut is in order. As said before, Synch came to GenX to improve his powers... these goons aren't mutants so there is nothing to synch to, and two against one with a sucker punch is not good odds. The goons pounded Synch and with him barely conscious they put him in the trunk of their car to dispose of him. That leaves us back to the GenXers who are driving in their jeep to rescue Penny and Ev......the problem is that they found him! They pull over to the side of the road when they see a body in the road. At the end of GenX #39, we see a splash page showing a bloody and bruised Synch lying in the road, struggling for help.

In Generation X he has always been the underused character and now that they are using him, they proceed to find new ways to make him more unsure of himself. Unlike the other characters he has had a normal life and now I think things are being created to balance that out! Synch has the potential to be a great character and the writers are hopefully beginning to realize this. They are putting him in more issue highlights such as the Amazing Spider-Man and also he has finally had an action figure created by Toyfare in 1998. Synch has quite a few more hurdles to cover, but with a bit of work, self confidence and training, he could easily become a very powerful mutant.