A “Celestial Body”

Over the months since the New Champions have been working together more frequently, Jamie made arrangements for me to take a long-term sabbatical from work. In the public reporting, I would be more “focused on the charitable foundation and other causes which are dear to me and my family.” But only Jamie knew that I’d be “volunteering” at Homestead and in my workshop at the Sharpe Mansion.
 
For at least the first week of my sabbatical, I spent every waking hour trying to develop a way to measure the strength and variety of my powers. My first attempts were fruitless. With Jamie’s help, I repurposed an MRI machine in an attempt to determine if my internal organs were somehow changing — or if I’d gained any new organs.
 
The adjustments I made should’ve worked, but we didn’t fully account for the celestial material embedded inside my body. After a few seconds of scanning my transformed body, the machine began to tremble. Instincts kicked in and I thought earnestly of Jamie and her safety. In that moment, swirling wisps of blue energy encircled her.
 
And the machine continued to tremble incessantly... within moments it exploded. However, the safety features of my workshop prevented a much larger catastrophe. And, protected by her own force field and reinforced by the energy field I had placed around her, Jamie was unharmed.
 
Because of the explosion, we weren’t able to take any readings from the computer connected to the MRI machine. But we still had some learnings:
 
First, I can “protect” others with my own cosmic energy...we tried this several times over, and as long as she was nearby, I could blanket her with a second-skin of radiating energy.
 
And second, I’ve gone a long time without sleep before...I’m an entrepreneur. And I’ve missed a couple of meals because I’m too engrossed in my work. But its been a full week and I haven’t been hungry yet or been tired. Now that I write this, I have an appetite and I’m getting tired, but this is definitely something new. Just imagine how much work I can accomplish now...