Desert Storm

**Name**: Desert Storm

**Species**: Aq'ar

**Homeworld**: Nixunides

**Appearance**: Desert Storm is a medium size blob of sand. The Omnitrix is inside of his head.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Sand Body**: Desert Storm's body is an amorphous blob of animated sand. He originally possessed the ability to mold the sand into a shape that appeared to be completely humanoid, and from that form convert his body (or parts of it) back into sand at will. How much control does he have over this form and how similar does it function to his previous state is not yet known. Desert Storm has the ability to convert himself into a destructive sand blast by simultaneously transforming the substance of his body into loose silicon particles and creating an explosive release at his center, expelling his sandy mass at high velocity in all directions, then cause his particles to reassemble themselves back into his human form. With apparent telepathic control, he can then move at high velocity resembling a sand storm. The sand storm effect is strong enough to destroy steel and rip the flesh from one's bones; this is helped by the microscopic edges of the sand particles acting as tiny blades. He can also enter peoples lungs and scour them from the inside. He has mastered his ability to the point of perfection and can turn into sand reflexively if attacked; this became especially obvious after Neji cut his head off while he was distracted. While in a desert area, his powers make him nearly invincible. He has the ability to create huge sandstorms, make multiple bladed weapons out of sand, and create quicksand (given the presence of a nearby underground waterway). He can also absorb all the moisture out of any object, living or non-living, by touching it with his right hand. This ability allows him to utterly destroy his surroundings, killing and macerating any biological substances via dehydration. This application doesn’t work on metallic substances though.

**Sand Control Transferral**: Since Alex original body is dead in his form, he is capable of giving control of his sand form to another body of sand.

**Immortality**: Desert Storm is immortal in the sense that he no longer ages.

**Self-Sustenance**: Desert Storm also no longer require the need for food, air, or rest.

**Body Conversion-Sand**: Desert Storm possesses the superhuman ability to convert his body into sand by mental command. The sand functioned identically to, and appeared to be, normal flesh. However, he could convert all or parts of his body into animated sand at will. His brain had attained subliminal awareness of all granulated particles of his body. Through conscious effort, he could affect the degree of molecular cohesion between the numerous adjoining surfaces of his particles and thus cause locomotion of discrete volumes, down to the individual grains. There appears to be no limit to how long Desert Storm could remain in his sand-state. If he had been to be rendered unconscious while in his sand-state, he would remain in that state, although the relaxing of his control over his particles would cause him to become an amorphous pile of sand. Desert Storm's mind continued to function in astral form even when he had turned his head into sand and even when the particles of sand that composed his brain were widely scattered. The limit to how far the particles of his brain can be dispersed before he was unable to reassemble is not yet known.

**Superhuman Strength**: As a consequence of having a body composed of animated sand, Desert Storm possesses phenomenal superhuman strength, able to lift up to 85 tons under optimal conditions.

**Enhanced Durability**: Desert Storm's skin, bone, and muscle are augmented to make it stronger and harder than human; impervious to injury to a certain extent.

**Telepathic Resistance**: Desert Storm is very hard to telepathically detect or influence while in his sand-like form, even for more powerful telepaths.

**Magical Resistance**: Desert Storm is very hard to magically detect or influence while in sand-like form.

**Density Control**: His radically mutagenically altered body composition and increased density enabled him to compact or loosen the particles of sand that make up his form. Consequently, Desert Storm can become as hard as sandstone, or disperse his body so that he becomes invulnerable to physical attacks. A favorite tactic of Desert Storm is making himself slightly dispersed when an opponent punches him, and then making himself rock-solid again, entrapping his opponent's appendage.

**Shape-Shifting**: He could shape his sand-state body into any continuous shape he can imagine, including his forearms into weapons like hammers, spiked maces, and large fists, forming ram horns on his head, stretching, elongating, deforming, expanding, flattening, or compressing all or portions of his body at will, phase through small openings, etc.

**Sand Blasts**: He could project his sand particles outward at high speeds and, when in the shape of a bulky object, with the impact of a large sandbag.

**Glass Generation**: Desert Storm learned some new tricks after training, including altering the formation of his sand particles and reshaping them into glass. This granted him the ability to reflect light and energy off of him.

**Reformation**: Desert Storm maintained mental control of the particles of which his body is composed so that he could reform his scattered grains unless a substantial portion of his body mass has been isolated.

**Sand Conversion**: He could also convert common grains of sand around him into constituents of his body to replenish portions he might lose track of during battle. In this manner, he could increase his overall size and volume (to some as yet unknown limit), or that of his limbs.

**Sand Clones**: Thanks to having such good mental control over his own molecules, he was able to create duplicates of himself, each one capable of acting on its own.

**Giant Form**: The clones, should they be in agreement, were all able to fuse together into a giant Sahara Desert, about the size of an eight story building.

**Wall-Crawling**: He was somehow capable of using his sand to allow him to walk up walls.

**Weakness**:

**Water**: Desert Storm's weakness that makes him most vulnerable is water. Water can soften his sand granules therefore, Desert Storm cannot control them and has to wait for them to dry.

**Vibrations**: Desert Storm also can't reform back to his original form if he gets interrupted by vibrations.

**Heat**: Temperatures of 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit can cause his highly impure silicate composition to fuse into amorphous silicate (glass).

**Soul Molecule**: His consciousness is located in only one grain of sand, which has Desert Storm's brain pattern and is responsible for commanding the other grains of sand what form to take. With the proper instruments, it can be induced to it different ideas which makes Desert Storm change his form against his will. If that grain is separated from the another and isolated, Desert Storm can't recover his mass.