It drove him crazy as he flew, and he knew it was nuts. Here he was, a being of solar energy and he still felt like the collar of his new uniform was itching his neck. He grumbled under his breath as he arrowed at high speed out of the atmosphere and into the darkness of space. He grinned as he passed the Moon and the Starcore Station.

He counted down as his wrist computer counted with him and then a beam, shot out of nowhere and enveloped the Star Gate hovering there beyond the Moon. he shot into it, praying this worked and he came out with a shudder and looked around. He looked won at his wrist monitor and breathed a sigh of relief as it went green. he had arrived in the target universe as planned by the Monitor. He squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head, hovering for a minute as he thought about all the craziness of the last six months, heck, the last year!

e had been recruited by the Monitor just after his disastrous run with the Forgotten Heroes and it had taken him awhile to figure out exactly what was going on. He had participated in the Crisis when it had happened but as with most of the others he remembered little from that event. Until, that is he stepped onto the Orbiter. Then he remembered everything. He remembered how he had been split off of his other self and sent into a universe where things were similar but not quite. He had been sent to a universe where Magic was more powerful than Superhuman ability and thus it was at the root of a lot of otherwise explained things. Most things had still been the same but it had taken awhile to realize the rules in the new universe.

He remembered all that had happened and the memories that had slowly left him of his former life. And he went to work for the Monitor, seemingly reborn of his ship and for a new Crisis, just as Multiverse threatening as the last one.

So here he was now, in yet another universe, waiting to set off, magnify, then divert a Solar Flare of huge intensity. In fact... he glanced down at his wrist and then shot off towards the sun at near light speed. It was showtime. As he arrowed in he saw the flare begin and immediately shot to a halt. he concentrated, letting his form diffuse as he sent his thoughts into the solar energy and strained to control it and direct it, feeding it more energy and making it bigger.

He felt his mind and body start to stretch and break apart and his power reaching it's limit and knew it was time. He spun and channeled the entire power of the flare into the Star Gate, screaming as the power rose and rose inside him. He felt his mind flickering out and he screamed one last time as he...

...woke up on a nice bed. he blinked.

"Well, that was special."

He sighed and got up, going to the door. Might as well figure out what was next...