Sierra

Life on the run

Sierra grew up everywhere. Her mother, Kendra Woods, never said much about her past or explained why they were always on the move, but she taught Sierra how to spot trouble. As she bounced from school to school, Sierra consistently placed at the top of her class, but her preternatural skill and itinerant lifestyle put her at odds with her peers. Through it all, Sierra’s mother encouraged Sierra to take pride in her exceptional talent and celebrate every win, instilling in her a sense of self-confidence that she would carry with her into adulthood. Just before her thirteenth Birthday, Sierra’s mother mysteriously disappeared. Alone for the first time, Sierra followed her mother’s emergency protocol and used the bus ticket left in her mother’s things. The trail led her to the father she’d never met: James Turner, a park ranger in Virginia. As they grew closer, James explained how he met Kendra when she was living off the grid; how they settled down and started a family together, thinking they were safe in the seclusion of the Appalachian mountains; and how only a year later, Sierra’s mother fled in the night, taking their daughter with her. The only clue he had to Kendra’s past was that after she disappeared with Sierra, the US Government raided the house they'd built together, asking questions about “Project Naughton.”

Project naughton

As the Head of Security at Grand Mesa, the youngest in Helix’s history, Sierra finally had access to classified documents. She learned that her mother, whose real name was Kendra Banks, had another moniker: Soldier: 00. As the first candidate of the Soldier Enhancement program, Sierra’s mother had been subject to a series of experiments that had altered her body and given her uncanny abilities. Kendra’s service after that point was poorly documented or redacted, suggesting that she’d defected from the program shortly after her procedure and been in hiding ever since. Finally, Sierra’s own miraculous strength and skill made sense... but her mother’s whereabouts remained a mystery.