Her mother was a witch, her father an alien from the planet Alnilam, and her brother and sister a mixture of the two. It's unknown when, exactly, Lisa was born. Later on in life, however, she decided on the 30th of June. She inherited her father's two hearts, and his ability to become linked to anyone she'd felt a strong affection for, read minds and speak telepathically, speak to animals, shape shift, use telekinetics, travel in time, healing, and teleportation.

They lived on Alnilam for a long time. Her mother gave her a black-and-white cat named Fluffy, and her father set up a monetary system for her, allowing her to obtain money from anywhere whenever she needed it. It was a complicated system, and only he really knew how to properly work it. She eventually learned to withdraw and deposit and so on, like an Earth bank, but that was it. He also gave her a silver necklace and charm, an Egyptian cross called an ankh, which she vowed to never take off and has never done so to this day.

Her parents eventually moved her to planet Earth, where, at age 11, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her wand is oak, 11 and 1/2 inches with a unicorn hair core. It was here she met then-fellow student Benjamin Del Ponte for the first time. They became friends, then, when they were older, a couple while there. They were members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team; Lisa was a Beater and Ben was a Chaser.

Due to mishaps with spells and potions combining with her half-alien physiology, she gained enhanced vision (although, only with her glasses on, as they'd fallen into a cauldron and the resulting potion mixing with the prescription lenses resulted in this effect) and hearing. A badly-aimed spell to her back caused her to grow a pair of retractable wings that absorb and radiate warmth and change colors depending on her mood, and a bad experience with gillyweed caused gills to be permanently affixed to her body. These gills allow her to breathe underwater, in foreign atmospheres, and also allows her to breathe for those she's linked to. She gained invisibility when, while under an invisibility cloak, another spell hit her and the resulting combination caused things to go awry. She can control this power, though it's use is limited.

After completing her schooling at Hogwarts at age 17, Lisa took on a job caring for magical creatures and Ben got a job as an Auror. Her ability to speak to animals helped. Ben was called away soon after and they lost touch. Though hurt, Lisa moved on.

Later on, she moved to a city filled with not only humans, but anthropomorphic creatures, some of which had the ability to shape shift to a human form. It was here she acquired a doctorate and a job at the local hospital.

Once she left the hospital, she traveled to an unknown land where she met and fell in love with a Batavian named Vince. It was here that she and those she was with helped guide a girl known as Cristíona, to overthrow an evil being known as Donvan.

When Lisa was in her early twenties, she and her family had to return to Alnilam due to an invasion by creatures known only as the Warlords. It was during this war that Lisa gained immortality. While on the run with one of her unicorn friends, Golden Mun, they were both injured. Whilst trying to heal Goldy, his and Lisa's blood mixed together. This caused her to become immortal. Goldy later explained that he would have asked her to share this blood-bond in a ceremony later on in their life, however, the attack caused it to happen prematurely. He told her that, because of this, she wouldn't age anymore and her body would now heal twice as fast as it used to.

This war caused the death of Lisa's family. The Warlords used a weapon that resulted in an enormous explosion. Goldy and Lisa were separated, and Lisa thrown into the forest. She was only out for a few minutes, and when she awoke, she found two people hovering over her. They were introduced as the Doctor, a Time Lord, and his granddaughter, Susan. Not caring how they got there, Lisa's only thought was to destroy those who were destroying her planet. With the help of the Doctor and his time machine, the TARDIS, they materialized on board the Warlord ship and set the onboard bombs for self-destruct. Due to the problems that arose while they were doing this, Lisa was separated from the Doctor and Susan and was unable to find the TARDIS. She stole an escape pod, but, unfortunately, she couldn't clear the ship in time and that explosion caused her to crash-land on Alnilam, knocking her unconscious. When all was said and done, she was left with cuts, bruises, broken bones, and amnesia.

The Doctor and Susan returned to Alnilam to make sure she was all right and found her in the remains of the escape pod. As they pulled her out, a unicorn named Mystic, having seen the impact, came to investigate and told the Doctor to bring her to Miach, the Healer, and his apprentice, Medicus. They could heal her wounds, but only partially restore her memory. The unicorns could fill in the gaps of what happened while she was on Alnilam, however, they didn't know what she did off-planet, so those holes had to remain empty. Lisa is often heard describing the amnesia as a thick, impenetrable fog that was obscuring the memories behind it. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't access those memories, so, she eventually grew to accept it as a part of her and didn't think anything about it.

Lisa spent quite a while under observation, and the Doctor and Susan stayed with her. Once Miach and Medicus thought she was recovered enough to leave their shelter, Lisa, her new friends, and the unicorns began repairing the planet little by little. New vegetation was planted using seeds from whatever planets still lived, bodies given a proper burial, and Lisa's house rebuilt and restored.

When everything was done, Lisa decided that she couldn't stay there alone any longer. The Doctor offered the chance to see the universe, and she accepted. Lisa bid farewell to the unicorns, and left Alnilam in the TARDIS.

Lisa's time with the Doctor lasted through six incarnations of the Time Lord and many companions. During that, she fell in love with one of the Second Doctor's companions, a Highlander from Earth in the year 1745 named James Robert McCrimmon, or Jamie as he was more commonly known. They were separated when, after taking part in the War Games, the Time Lords took it upon themselves to put the Doctor on trial for interfering in the affairs of other planets. They sent Jamie and the Doctor's other companion, Zoë, back to their own times with erased memories. They tried to do this with Lisa, as well, however, their plan backfired and Lisa found him on Earth not long after. Lisa also fell in love with the Doctor's fifth incarnation, but nearly fell out of love with him when he regenerated to his sixth. Though she still cared for him, what they had had was now buried and the link weakened.

It was during a trip to Paris that she learned of the Opera Ghost, lurking beneath the Paris Opera House, and she talked the Doctor into letting her investigate alone. She did, indeed, meet Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, and befriended him, promising when she had to leave that they would meet again.

During an adventure on the planet Thoros-Beta, the Time Lords succeeded in separating Lisa and the Sixth Doctor when he was taken to be put on trial again. Try as she might, Lisa could not get herself reunited with him, so, heartbroken, she went home to Alnilam where she stayed long enough for her hearts to heal.

When she was unable to cope with being alone any longer, she time traveled, this time under her own power. She ended up back on Earth, in the year 1974, the city of Milwaukee. It was here she met Richard Cunningham and had a brief relationship with Arthur Fonzarelli, AKA Fonzie. She stayed until 1979, then moved on, ending up still on Earth, this time in the year 1975, in Benson Hurst, Brooklyn, New York, where she met and had another brief relationship with Arnold Horshack until 1978. One more time travel trip landed her on Earth, this time the year was 1978. She was still in New York, and, here, she met and had yet another brief relationship with Robert "Bobby" Wheeler, a cab driver/aspiring actor. These relationships were brief because she felt that, since the Doctor was still out there, somewhere, they could be reunited once more and they could continue where they left off. She later returned home to Alnilam to recover her frazzled emotions.

Once that time had passed, she time traveled again. Once again, she arrived on Earth. The year was 1983, very close to what would be her birthday, the place was Hill Valley, California. It was here that she met Dr. "Doc" Emmett Brown and forged a friendship with him and Martin "Marty" McFly. She assisted Doc with his inventions, and the link that formed between them was not romantic, as it was with those she fell in love with, but like the link she was told she'd had with her family, especially her father. Lisa helped Doc create and test his greatest invention: a time machine made out of a DeLorean car. It was during this test that she and Marty became trapped in 1955, meeting the Doc Brown of that time, and ended up traveling to alternate universes and even further back into the past to save Doc's life. The DeLorean ended up being destroyed by a train, and, while in 1885, Doc found and married a schoolteacher named Clara Clayton and had two sons: Jules and Verne. While hidden from the others, contemplating just leaving, she was suddenly abducted and taken out of time, to a station out in space where she was reunited with the Doctor, who was still in his sixth incarnation and still on trial. Together along with Sabalom Glitz, who ended up being trapped with the Doctor's arch rival the Master, and Melanie "Mel" Bush, they exposed the court for what it was and the Doctor was free to leave, taking Mel and Lisa with him.

She continued traveling with him, falling in love with his eighth incarnation. It was during this time that she was briefly reunited with Ben, and found out that their timelines were not synchronous with each other. Meaning, this was, as far as she knew due to the amnesia, Lisa's first meeting with him. However, it was Ben's second meeting with her, not counting the time they'd spent at Hogwarts. This was when he revealed to her that he had his own powers: that of the Jedi. Lisa and Ben went their separate ways not long after.

The Doctor and Lisa were once again separated shortly after his regeneration to his ninth incarnation, though this time only briefly. He'd gotten a signal in the middle of the night and, without waking Lisa, he left to rectify it. He eventually returned to Lisa on Alnilam with Rose Tyler, his new companion. After that, Lisa was with him until the day he died, and his death had a great impact on her. For, when the Doctor died -- asking her to "look after the universe for me . . . I've put a lot of work into it . . ." -- a piece of her died, as well, and she lost the ability to heal. His last requests were to bring the TARDIS somewhere safe and to go back to Cardiff and reunite with Captain Jack Harkness, insisting that he needed her. Though devastated, she did what he asked and brought the TARDIS to Alnilam, then returned to Cardiff. She reunited with Captain Jack in the early 21st century, leaving him when he was picked up in the TARDIS.

After being back on Alnilam for a while, Lisa spent three years on Earth, from 1990 to 1993, at a train station called Shining Time, and once again returned home where she met Harry Potter when he had to be rescued from Woodhorn. Afterward, she time traveled again, to Earth, 1992, where she rescued one Adam Newman, Tomorrow Person, from a shark attack. She and Adam fell in love, and she stayed with him until the day he died.

She returned to Alnilam to heal, then traveled again, for now she was unable to stay alone in one spot for long. She returned to Earth, Brooklyn, New York, in the year 1992 where she met the friendly spirit known as Ghostwriter.

She stayed until 1995, then did a short hop in time to 1992, to California, where she met and fell in love with Tommy Oliver, who became a Power Ranger a year into their relationship. After Tommy had been freed from Rita Repulsa's Evil Green Ranger spell, Lisa asked him to teach her how to do martial arts. He showed her the basics, and Lisa used that and her ability to shape shift to help Tommy and his fellow Rangers fight the forces of evil.

While on vacation in Malibu, Tommy was injured in a surfing accident and was taken to Community General Hospital, where she met Dr. Jack Stewart and Dr. Mark Sloan, along with Mark's son, Detective Steve Sloan. The friendship Lisa and Mark had allowed she and Tommy to return to Malibu on visits, and that's when she found out she was crossing her own timeline, because when Dr. Jesse Travis came onto the scene, she found herself already with him. Though she wanted to question her other self as to when she found the attractive young doctor, she didn't and let history run its course. She and Tommy were together until the day he died.

The return trip to Alnilam took longer, this time. When she eventually left, she remembered herself being with Jesse, so she went back, completing the circuit. Though hard to see Tommy again after losing him, she did her best to cope. Jesse taught her basic medical practices, unknowingly awakening some long-since-buried memories from her past time as a doctor, and she was with him until the day he died. Once again, she returned to Alnilam.

It was during this time at home that Lisa had begun having reoccurring dreams about Doc Brown. It turned out to be the unicorn Aislin's doing, as he was trying to reunite the two of them. He eventually succeeded, and Lisa returned to Hill Valley in August of 1993, where she did, indeed, reunite with Doc and stayed there, with him, until the day he died (which, thanks to his access to a working time machine and rejuvenations in the future, was a very long time), then returned home to Alnilam.

When Lisa traveled again, she arrived on Earth in the year 1994 in Crossworld City, California where she met and fell in love with Ryan Steele, who later became a VR Trooper along with his friends, Kaitlin Star and JB Reese. She, again, used her basic martial arts training and ability to shape shift to help Ryan and is friends fight more forces of evil. Once again, she stayed with him until the day he died, then returned to Alnilam.

Lisa's next time trip landed her, once again, on Earth, in the year 1994 in North Valley, California. It was here she met Amp Ere, a young man who turned out to be a fellow alien, hailing from the Crab Nebula. Amp, along with his friends Sam Collins, Sydney "Syd" Forrester, and Tanker became the cyberspace fighting force known as the Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad. She never did find out Tanker's real name.

Lisa was only with this group -- fighting against evil mega-virus monsters imbedded within electronic equipment -- for about a year. Amp had to return home, and, in 1995, Lisa received a distress call from someone she'd met during her time with Tommy: Prince Dex of Edenoi, AKA the Masked Rider. She traveled to Leawood, California to meet up with him and aid in his own fight against evil.

Time passed and Lisa returned home once again. Her next time travel trip landed her on Earth in the future, where she met and formed a bond with an Andromedan Star Academy cadet named Radu. Whilst visiting his school, she, along with four other cadets and two teachers, became stranded 7 years from Earth on a ship known as the Christa.

When she finally returned home to Alnilam, she did not want to discuss what had occurred to allow her to get there. She traveled again afterward, and landed on Earth, Smallville, Kansas, in the year 1992. It was here she met and fell in love with one mild-mannered news reporter Clark Kent, who, in turn, became the hero known as Superman to the people of Metropolis in times of need. This relationship between Clark and Lisa was most likely the longest consecutive one Lisa had ever been in, and Clark's eventual death devastated her terribly.

After a few years back home on Alnilam, when she was finally able to travel again, Lisa returned to Earth and Brooklyn in the year 1997. Here, she was reunited with Ghostwriter and introduced to the new members of the team: Henry "Strick" Strickland, Camilla "Cam" Gorick and Emilie "Em" Robeson. She formed a bond with Strick, and stayed with the group for about a year.

A year later, in 1999, Lisa used her shape shifting powers to help a group of kids -- the Animorphs -- fight a parasitic alien race known as the Yeerks. She had started to form a relationship with the Andalite of the group, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil (or Ax, as he was more commonly known), when she was called home to help locate a lost member of the unicorn herd.

A failed attempt to return to the Animorphs landed her back on Earth, though in the wrong location. She was still in 1999, but in Los Angeles, California. Here, she met Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, a self-proclaimed Rogue Demon Hunter, fell in love, and joined him alongside a vampire with a soul, Angel, to help fight the forces of darkness plaguing the city. Here, she met Ben for her third and his fourth time. Ben also aided in the good fight for a time, revealing that he, too, was immortal. Lisa's relationship with Wesley, sadly, didn't last. Due to a lot of factors, Lisa left Wesley because, she said, she didn't know who he was anymore, he was not the man she fell in love with, and, if he were to ever return, to give her a call. She returned to Alnilam to heal her broken hearts.

Her next trip to Earth would be in the year 2000, to Chicago, Illinois, where she was captured by a German scientist that had been apparently stalking her since her time with the Doctor: Dr. Walter Von Braun. She was rescued by Gary Hobson, a man who gets tomorrow's newspaper a day early and uses it to try to save people. She ended up needing to rescue him, as a toxin specially designed for her was administered into his bloodstream, causing him to become very sick. Medicus eventually made an antidote and, with the help of Ben (her fourth meeting, his third), she took everything Von Braun had on her and made him promise to leave her alone by threatening to leave him suffer with the very same toxin in his system. She returned to Gary and three years and nine months into their relationship, they had to rescue the visiting FBI agents Sue Thomas and Lucy Dotson from a shooting at McGinty's. Lisa took the bullets meant for Sue, rendering her comatose. The shooter would try again, and it was up to Gary to pull himself together in time to prevent the deaf woman's death. Lisa eventually recovered and formed a rapport with the agents, landing herself some friends in high places. She stayed with Gary until the day he died.

After her trip home, Lisa took a hop to Europe in 2000, where she met and befriended Jonathan Creek, a magician's consultant, and Madeline Magellan, a mystery novelist. She stayed for a year or so, and when Maddy left, Lisa then met TV presenter Carla Boreggo.

Lisa was finally reunited with the Animorphs later on in the year. She continued to aid them in their fight against the Yeerk invasion, though that victory was empty, as they lost Ax in the process and raised even more unanswered questions. Lisa left the fray before she got any confirmation that Ax was alive or dead and returned home, devastated.

Needing to be cheered up, and her time travel powers cooperating for once, she traveled back to Shining Time Station, this time in the year 2000, where she spent some time visiting with her old friends.

Lisa's next time trip would take her farther, to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It was here she met Ben once more for the fourth time (his first, causing him mass confusion) and he introduced her to someone who'd make her hearts heal almost instantly: Luke Skywalker. Lisa and this young farm boy fell in love almost at first sight, and she stood beside him while he fought the evil Galactic Empire, aided him in the times after the war by helping him find recruits for his Jedi Academy and helping them with lightsaber training, and she was with him until the day he died. That day was a hard one for her, and, once his affairs had been settled, she went back to Alnilam. She'd made him promise that he'd try to contact her, like Obi-Wan Kenobi had done after his death.

Wanting a pet -- moreover, one that no one else had -- Lisa took a brief trip to Earth in the 21st century to get one: a male Empath Kinsellan flit called Rising Fog, but to Lisa was known as Jamie, who would become her constant companion. She returned to Alnilam, and during that was reunited with Golden Mun, the unicorn who had shared a special bond with her and had made her immortal.

Her next time trip would be to 23rd century Earth, where she and Ben crossed paths once again (both meeting for the fifth time, and finally synching up their timelines). Lisa met and befriended Captain James T. Kirk, Dr. Leonard McCoy and Mr. Spock, landing her a spot on the Enterprise (along with Ben, much to her chagrin), and, thus, got herself invited years later to help celebrate the maiden voyage of the Enterprise-B and, later, to join the new crew on the Enterprise-D, where she befriended the crew and formed a special relationship with the resident android, Lieutenant Commander Data. It wasn't until he received an emotion chip that allowed him to return the love she'd felt for him all that time.

In the year 2375, in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) was making the decision of which of two fatally wounded patients he was to save. He ended up choosing Ensign Harry Kim, whom he was closer to, thereby letting Ensign Ahni Jetal die. His program couldn't handle it and he was having a difficult time coming to terms with the decision, threatening to destabilize his systems. The EMH decided to see if Voyager's computer could create someone who had experience with dealing with the emotional troubles of artificial life forms. The computer created a hologram of Lisa, who helped him sort out his emotions and became a friend, in a way, and they met in person at a homecoming party in 2378, after Voyager's triumphant return to the Alpha Quadrant, and forged a close friendship.

Voyager continued it's space exploration after returning, and Lisa (with and without Data) would frequently visit the ship, establishing herself as a friend to the whole crew, and her friendship with the EMH grew stronger. She still helped him with emotional difficulties, and he would be there for her when tragedy struck.

When Data's power cells were finally growing weak with age, he had a special, last request for Lisa. He'd built a ship, dubbed the Victory, and had asked Ben to captain it, and he wanted her to be the science officer. Spending even more time with Ben wasn't Lisa's idea of a good time, but she wanted Data to pass on in peace, so she -- very reluctantly -- agreed, and he died in her arms.

The deep sadness she felt accompanying the loss of Data was overpowering, however, and she retreated to Alnilam with Jamie in tow, hiding from anyone and everyone. It took a combination of Jamie, Goldy, and a visiting Ben, along with Voyager's EMH, bearing an isolinear chip with a message from Data, repeating the request for her to become the Victory's science officer to get her to break free from her mental coma. She didn't forget that she'd agreed to do this, and so she and Jamie joined the ranks of the sleek, new ship along with a Jedicorn Ben and the EMH had helped earlier on by the name of Akili. It was then revealed to her that Voyager's EMH would become the Victory's EMH, to Lisa's delight, and she thought that, maybe, with him on board, it wouldn't be so bad.

During a stopover to Earth, Lisa and Ben took a trip to Europe. While both of them had forgotten everything about the Wizard world, the Wizard world had not forgotten them, as their professions back then -- and their positions on the school Quidditch team -- had made them very well-known. Overjoyed that they were still alive, the resident wizards and witches living in the area eventually led them back to Hogwarts. Previously buried memories were awakened for both of them, and they regained their magical powers.

Shortly thereafter, Lisa was reunited with a Time Lady she'd meet during her travels with the Doctor: the sixth incarnation of Stellastrendenlunjendorf, or "Stella 6" or just "6" for short, and she became a member of the Victory's crew.

While visiting Alnilam so Akili could visit his mother, Ben was attacked and poisoned by Janis Thorn, bringing him very near death. Lisa, desperate not to lose him, expressed her love for him and he started to recover. She denied her feelings at first, but Ben kissed her, linking them to prove her feelings were genuine; unfortunately, he is so in tune with the Force -- far more than Luke ever had been -- that the power flowing through the link nearly overwhelmed her. Confused and frightened, Lisa fled, for she hadn't been linked to a Jedi since Luke, and the experience brought back a lot of memories of him. She'd always had certain feelings for Ben -- mostly angry and annoyed -- and she didn't want to admit that she loved him. She ignored everything and everyone until the spirit of Luke Skywalker himself visited her. He listened as she poured her hearts out to him, and convinced her to follow her hearts. As she'd always taken his advice, she agreed, and she and Ben started a relationship that would span several decades.

When the Victory had to finally be decommissioned, the EMH transferred to Starfleet Medical (Lisa insisted that everything be done to keep his program from degrading, so she'd never have to say goodbye to him, and it was done), Ben and Lisa moved to Earth where he built a Jedi Counsel to train potential Jedis and she took on a job at Starfleet Academy teaching many different classes on many different things, but, mostly, a class on understanding animal languages -- she called it "Doctor Doolittle 101".

A few years after returning to Earth, they were visited by a unicorn from another dimension named Alida, who was the daughter of Golden Mun and Lisa's unicorn form. Alida was stranded for a time, and when she was returned, Ben confronted Lisa about having children. It was another year or so before she contested to having a family, and, so, Kaitlin Del Ponte was born. She inherited many of her mother's abilities, and her father's ability to use the Force. She started Jedi training at a young age.

Things with Ben, however, were not working out the way Lisa thought they would. Shortly after Kaitlin turned seven years old, Lisa explained to her that, while she still loved her very much, she had to leave. This didn't mean they'd never see each other again, for she explained that if Kaitlin ever needed to see her mother after she was gone, simply leave a message at the house on Alnilam and she'll come straight away. She first went to Starfleet Medical to speak with the EMH, who, by now, was head of the departments. She told him of the problems she was having and of her decision to leave. Though saddened, the EMH told her that she had to do what she had to do, but made her promise to not stay out of touch. Lisa told him the same thing she'd told Kaitlin -- leave a message on Alnilam and she'll come back as fast as her powers would let her. After an emotional goodbye, Lisa returned home. Sometime here, she opened Alnilam up to take in creatures from other realms.

While there, Lisa rescued a mysterious white owl from Janis Thorn's poison, revealing it to be none other than Jareth, Lord of the Labyrinth and King of the Goblins. Jareth's wounds were more serious than they'd thought, however, he was saved with Lisa and Medicus' help. He took an almost immediate liking to Lisa, and lets her visit the castle in the center of the Labyrinth whenever she likes. He also has the tendency to drop in on her from time to time.

Also, it was during this time that Lisa was reunited with Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, when he stumbled through a Time Gate, sending him several centuries into the future. He was upset and distraught over the loss of Christine Daaé, as well as very sick due to being trapped in a storm and a weakened immune system, and Lisa told him he could stay with her as long as he liked. He learned that Christine had lived a happy life with Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, and had died a loving wife and mother. He wanted to return to this time, to pay his last respects, and Lisa obliged, taking him to the cemetery where she was buried, and he left a single rose on the grave. Satisfied, he and Lisa returned to Alnilam, where he lived out the rest of his days with her, though somewhat happier, as the inhabitants of the planet did not care about his physical appearance.

Lisa eventually moved back to Earth, to the year 2003, where she took on a job working at a riding stable and bought her own horse. A year later, in August, she met Edward Moulton and they began a relationship three months later. He decided to join the United States Marine Corps less than a year into their relationship, and Lisa is still waiting for him to return home. She sent him a Fairycorn named Kadin to protect him while she's not there to do so, while her sister, Rin, stayed with Lisa to relay any information she might receive.

On November 13th of 2005, while Ed was on his 10-day leave after boot camp, he proposed to her on the very dance floor they first met on, and they were married on March 14th of 2006. On May 15th, 2006 she left the stables and made the journey to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and the neighboring city of Jacksonville where she and Ed are now living in an off-base apartment. She is anxiously awaiting the day his contract expires.

This is where she is today.

 

 

 

 

 

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