Gen 13 is a team of teenage super-heroes in the Wildstorm Universe. They are the 13th generation of Gen-Active experiments created by the Genesis project. Their original membership included Burnout, Fairchild, Freefall, Grunge, and Rainmaker. These are the children of their predecessors in Gen 12, also known as the military unit Team 7. John Lynch is their mentor, helping them escape from the government. Gen 13 was created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi, first appearing in Deathmate Black. (1993)