America Chavez

## Background

Full Name: America Chavez

Aliases: Miss America, Ms. America, America

## Powers & Abilities

* **Unique Heritage:** America has the innate ability to channel inter-dimensional energies through her body. Though the full extent of her powers have not been defined, she has demonstrated abilities including:
	+ **Self-Propelled Flight:** Ms. America has the ability of self-propelled flight at superhuman speeds.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Chavez can run and move at phenomenal speeds, Monica Rambeau was stunned at how fast she was moving even after transcending into light form where everything stands still.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Ms. America has demonstrated incredible strength. She appears to easily tear large metal doors of their hinges, and nearly bested the Asgardian god Loki in a fight. Loki has commented that she could "throw tanks to the moon", though this is likely an exaggeration.
		- **Power Stomp:** A technique Madrimar showed her. America can focus her internal power into her feet and legs in order to deliver an energized shockwave with a single step.
	+ **Invulnerability:** Ms. America is bullet-proof, flame retardant, has superhuman durability, and can survive even in the vacuum of space unaided. Loki has even referred to her as "a nearly indestructible superwoman (who can throw tanks to the moon)".
	+ **Star Portal Creation:** Ms. America has the rare ability to smash open star-shaped portals that enable her to traverse the Multiverse, she can use them offensively as a spatial slicer, as well as access the Starling Highway.
		- **Interdimensional Travel:** Ms. America can use her gateways to travel between realities at will.
		- **Time Travel:** While an unintended side-effect, America learned she can also move about time unabated but needs some kind of focusing stimulus to do so.
	+ **Energy Infusion:** Individuals of the Parallel that Chavez calls home are capable of harnessing their inherent power from within, using it to vastly augment their physical fighting ability by leaps and bounds.
	+ **Superhuman Longevity:** After she left and traveled to the prime universe Earth, her powers started to manifest. This also includes giving her longer lifespan, probably due to the energy and ambient magical presence. Unlike the others of her race who remain within the Parallel are not empowered and age at a normal rate.
	+ **Hyper-Cosmic Awareness:** Much like everyone else on the Ultimates team. America Chavez has metaphysical insight to the goings on of the multiverse at large, being among the first to answer the call when reality had been caged. Through this she also has an intuitive GPS of how to travel through time & space unimpeded while using her portals to get from place to place across the infinite dimensions.
* **In-Betweener Facsimile:** Ms. America was briefly imbued with the energy signature and aesthetic appearance of the In-Betweener to act as decoy and lure off Braak'nhüd while the In-Betweener, Ultimate Nullifier, Angel, and Bohusk explored the In-Betweener's mind and the threat to the Multiverse.
* **Bilingual:** America is capable of speaking both fluent English and Spanish.
* **Amateur Investigator:** Although not an experienced investigator, America was still able to track Catalina with clues available.
* **Trained Combatant:** Having relied on her powers and experience in street fighting, America developed skills in hand-to-hand combat fighting enemy persons and monsters, especially when coordinating on a team.

## Weaknesses

* **Edges Syndrome:** A genetic disease linked to the XX chromosomes which causes cellular degeneration. America's childhood cure of the disease was undone after approximately 13 years, which in turn made her powers weakened and time sensitive. With this disease, America's former incredible strength was reduced.
* **Straining:** Normally, the strain from Chavez's transportation power is negligible, but the more she transports and the further away the destination is, the bigger the strain. After taking the Ultimates' ship through deep space, the Superflow, and the Neutral Zone, Chavez began bleeding from her nose and she required rest. After a jump to the Outside, she began bleeding profusely, nearly passed out, and developed an arrhythmia.