Years ago, Storm was shot with a Neutralizer, a weapon invented by the techno-genius known as Forge that erased her mutant ability. In truth, the powers were still there, but Ororo couldn't access them. In times of intense stress, however, the weather would respond to her emotions, although she never realized it. Storm regained her powers when the Adversary sent her and Forge to an alternate dimension, so they wouldn't interfere with his plan to destroy the world. In the seclusion of an empty world, Forge was able to build an anti-Neutralizer. Storm and Forge were lovers almost from the moment they met, despite his invention of the Neutralizer, and Forge eventually proposed to Ororo. However, he retracted his offer when he realized that Ororo could never be a complete person outside of the X-Men, at least not at that point in time. Storm has undergone two major physiological changes: first, she was abducted by Nanny II and regressed to childhood, with little control over her powers. Later, when she and some of the New Mutants were captured by the Genoshans, Storm was turned into a mutant slave designated #20. However, the Genegineer who transformed her programmed a failsafe that restored her mind and regrew her to adulthood when she touched Cyclops. She was also able to restore all the other X-Men's powers, which had been nullified by Wipeout. That ability was a one-shot deal; she does not possess it any more.
