Adventure: Total Conversion 
Stephen Wolcott gains himself a lucrative assignment where he does the computer modeling for an advanced research project.  The project involves total conversion between energy and matter under biological control.  The project is run by three professors: one biology (James Caldwell); one physics <Niles Josephson)J and one computer engineering (Bob Maddocks).  The project takes all of Stephen's spare time, but why the hell not, as Bob Brannigan would have said.  It's educational, and it's money too.  
Mike Roberts knows of the project· in fact, it is the talk of the physics department.  Vaguely, he wishes he had Stephen's ability to get himself onto the project, and wonders if - as an undergrad - Stephen knows enough to be helpful.
Stephen does indeed contribute to the project with his advanced computer science training.  Though he is an undergraduate, he has indeed taken many graduate courses - and learned thereby.  The knowledge gained was significant.  And he has recently loosened some of his tight control upon his powerful mind.  His creativity has therefore gone to new heights.
After a whIle he notices the dedication of the researchers to the project, and indeed joins them.  
Mentally he hypes the inspiration of the researchers until it reaches fever pitch - and beyond.  They carry their experiments well into the nights, and he joins them.  
Late one night, finally the computer simulations show that the only obstacle to the project goal is in the biological and mental capacity for control.  Together, the researchers declare that this obstacle cannot stop them.  It is the last thing that Stephen remembers.  
The next morning Stephen wakes up with a monumental headache.  As he condemns the headache to damnation, electricity rises from his fist.  
Oh, shit.
Slowly he recalls the previous events.  As the researchers declared their determination to surmount the obstacle of mental control, Stephen stated the obstacle could be surmounted immediately, and volunteered to be the control mechanism.  (Mental control was no object to him!) His epidermis was then imbued with a catalyst enabling a field which could turn matter to energy, and vise versa.  The catalyst was activated with an energy treatment.  His mind was then programmed to control the field.  
Two others then volunteered and were equipped with the same field.  And he can't remember who they were.  
Stephen looks in the mirror.  His skin is now a different color: gleaming white.  He reacts in revulsion; his skin sparkles, then returns to normal color.  He tries the power again: it's not there~ Was it a11 a dream? 
No! He knows the logical principles behind the power - and this manifestation conforms to them! Stephen walks over- to his desk lamp, turns it on, and removes the bulb.  He then sticks his finger in the socket.  The power returns.
He wonders: why did he volunteer for the power? Then he says to himself: it's what he wanted in the 
first place! 
Gathering himself, Stephen dons a new mask and costume and goes to a secluded clearing in a wooded area to test his new field.  The powers, mask and costume go together.  
Two days later, as students walk to class as normal, a figure crackling with energy flies through the air and randomly alms energy bolts at the terrain.  Tom Juergens (FOAD) and Laura Greene (Morningstar) separately get to cover and change into costume to confront the menace.  Even together, however, they are unable to defeat the man.  Then another figure flies up and shoots energy bolts at him.  The two engage in energetic battle.  
As the Mighty Tim arrives, Morningstar asks him to teleport the combatants to a more secluded area.  Tim refuses: you can't tell what happens when you mix teleportation and energy bolts.  As the three ponder what to do next, yet another man flies up.
The third flier turns out to be Ellipsis, with new and fantastic powers.  Silencing all inquiry for the moment he lands and turns his mental powers against the combatants.  He discovers something: the two men are the others who received the energy treatment~ And they are two of the professors: Niles Josephson, and Bob Maddocks! 
Apparently Maddocks decided to test out the power, to see just how many pounds per square inch of pressure he could generate - by blasting down concrete walls.  Niles Josephson rose to stop him, but they're too even1y matched for each other for- any decision to be reached.  And now Dr.  Josephson is coming unhinged.• 
Both doctors resist mental control, and counter with energy bolts.  The Balance scatters.  Ellipsis takes a bolt, and his teammates are amazed when it does no damage.  
As a team, the Balance attacks.  Morningstar surrounds Josephson with a force field, which Mighty Tim fills with fire to asphyxiate the man.  He panics, though,,and breaks through the field.  FOAD gets Ellipsis to carry him up to Maddocks, but quickly finds that flight as the passenger of Ellipsis is like"hanging below a rocket exhaust.  FOAD's intended attack against Haddocks misses.  
Morningstar and Mighty Tim are strafed_with force bolts.  Foot by foot Morningstar advances behind her force field, finally reaching their opponent and gaining his sole attention.  Mighty Tim then teleports up and strikes with his quarterstaff.  Where it hits it self-disintegrates.  The two heroes fall back on the defensive.  
Ellipsis attacks Haddocks himself.  He and his opponent are evenly matched, but Ellipsis drags him down to the ground.  Ellipsis then rolls back with a punch, enabling FOAD to jump out of hiding and deck the man.  He ends-up 5 feet deep into the ground.  
Together the Balance defeat-their remaining opponent: Morningstar immobilizes him physically, Ellipsis combats him mentally and the Mighty Tim teleports FOAD up to knock him out.  Ellipsis then mentally examines his opponents, and then tells his teammates how his new powers and those of their opponents came about.  They rush the two men to the hospital.  
Both men seem to have been adversely affected by the properties of the total conversion field.  The power seems to bring mental instability.  Dr. Josephson has mild brain damage and may eventually recover to his former self.  Dr. Maddocks will probably never recover.  
Stephen Wolcott, after visiting both patients, resolves that normal human minds can never control this new power.  He alone as a mutant, perhaps the only one with mental control, can benefit from this power.  The world will simply have to do without.