Jackson was born 20 days prematurely just 2 days before the Zapp Labs Accident. His parents were in the united states visiting from Canada when he was born. On the night of the Zapp Labs Accident, his family was flying home. at 7:18 PM the plane suddenly and quickly diverted course and a moment later a bolt of lightning hit the fuselage then another and Jackson was gone. He had warped onto solid ground on Whidbey Island Washington state. He was found on a street corner and brought to the police who gave him to a religious mission in Seattle named Seattle's Union Gospel Mission.
His mid youth was fairly normal as his powers did not manifest for a while after the first trigger but he always had an affinity for storms, he could feel them coming and he could sense when they would end. He wasn't adopted as he was very small and light for his age as a result of him being so premature. So he lived most of his youth in the foster and orphanage system. He looked to the military as a way out of this life he had, so the day he turned 17 He enlisted. However, he wouldn't have passed their initial physical exam except for the portion testing for latent active powers where they found he had active X-Matter in his system.
Within 2 days they were testing Jackson for any source of power and asking about strange experiences. Soon they isolated it to weather-related due to his connection to rain so the next storm that hit they sent him out with experts on mutant powers and they helped him find some of his powers. seeing the potential that he held they put him into the air force where he learned to fly. He served for 8 years before leaving and going around America with the Air Forces blessing as a sort of Rainmaker during droughts and bad seasons. To aid in this they provided him a plane which he had outfitted with weapons in case the need for them arose.
With his experience in the military behind him, Lightning Bug Looked for future endeavors and decided to go into crime-fighting. Recently He had begun looking for a group to help take on larger threats to freedom around the world.
