get out of here with that charmander bullshit. heck yeah! she started as a painfully saccharine and cutesy child hero that her parents trotted out for that sweet, sweet endorsement money. from there she wound up on a magical girl type teen squad. when the exploitative nature of it finally penetrated she bailed to become a vigilante and work with supers across the moral alignment chart when she felt their goals and motivations aligned with hers. she saw a lot of shit and how it was handled both internally and in the media, and was like, oh some of this is really fucked up and toxic and no one's talking about it.
so there's lots of opportunity for her to have jumped in to back the syndicate in the field if they needed it or just random run-ins, OR she's got a minor hydromancy element going on as well with iceman being able to use water as a molecular conduit. she uses it sparingly, but there's the possibility she was traveling down the hudson and accidentally smacked into him, his boat, etc. nothing like having a rando manifest in the middle of your swamp and start complaining about you disrupting the molecular traffic flow