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ground drop the field, okay?"
    "Got it."
    I began ramping up the field again.  It felt to me like I was mentally rotating the volume dial on a stereo.
    Nick stood his ground for a few seconds, but I saw his facial expression change and he began to grit his teeth and put serious effort into remaining upright.  Five more seconds and he looked about ready to fall, and then he did.  I immediately dropped the field.
    He coughed a few times and said, "Wow.  It gets harder to breath, and it's like someone was adding weights onto my shirt every second.  You were taking it slow?"
    I nodded.  Man, I can’t wait to use this on someone I don’t like.
    "I think I'll skip a test where you shoot it up fast, then."
    "One more test of that, I want to see how fast I can massively increase the gravity."
    I walked to another fresh area of plants and cranked up the field as fast as I could.  Everything drooped immediately.  Nick threw a few rocks at the field and they fell directly to the ground almost instantly upon crossing the border.  A squirrel fell out of a nearby tree - I laughed as it squirmed under the far greater weight.
    I went back to throwing rocks that had gravity decreased on them, playing with the fields, and testing lowering the gravity just on Nick and I for the next few hours with similar results.  I could tell that having powers was going to be a lot of fun.
    Nick asked, “So do you plan to become a superhero?”
    “Nah, I’m not big on following the rules that would require.”
    “So what’s your plan with it then?”
    “Hmm, I need to figure out some way to make a lot of money with it.  Do you suppose that N.A.S.A. would be willing to pay to have me get stuff into orbit?”
    “If you can keep something light it wouldn’t take fuel, that alone would save millions of dollars.  At least for the portion of the trip to get up there.”
    “I don’t think they would do it on blind faith, though.  I need to find a way to test making something weightless and see how high I can get it.  Hobby rockets have altimeters you can buy for them, that would probably work.”
    I felt wore down by mid-day.  I suspected that the more I used my powers, the more fatigued I became.  We drove back to my place and I let Nick know that I’d give him a call tomorrow to continue our tests.  Then I ate and took a long nap in the afternoon.
     

 
     
    Chapter 4 - Action!
    Diva's Viewpoint
     
     
    I drove around for an hour.  Two events came up on the phone, but both were about six miles away in the city, and showed that someone else took them before I drove even remotely close.
    Being a super hero was beginning to bore me.  Finally I spotted some stores that looked trendy and stopped to do some shopping for a while.
    I was looking through the mini-skirts when another crime call came in.  I almost skipped looking at it, but glanced at the phone for the heck of it.  It was only two miles away!
    I threw the skirt on the rack and ran out the door screaming, "Yeaaahhhhh!!!!!"  I pushed the accept button as I rushed to my car.
    I drove like a maniac on the way, fortunately it wasn't a downtown area or the traffic would have been a nightmare.  Within a few minutes I reached the building - it was a house, not unlike my own, although it was a smaller, quaint neighborhood.
    A big hole was in one wall, with parts and stuff all over the ground outside.  Oh!  A fight must be going on inside!
    In moments I stopped the car and ran up to the house.  The heels made running slightly slower, although I weighed so little that I could run on my toes and it didn't bother me at all.
    I went to knock on the front door, but my first knock broke the door's handle assembly and it flew open and smashed against the inside wall.  I shrugged and ran in.
    A thumping noise from the left of me made me take the nearest hallway, and I saw a metal robot walk out of a doorway.  It stopped and looked at me for a moment.
    It had strange eyes for a