Psykos wanted to defeat Crash Boy outright by controlling him from a distance with her Psychic Power, but that was easier said than done.
Tatsumaki had once beaten Crash Boy with a similar tactic when they first met. But Psykos's Psychic Power was not as strong as Tatsumaki's, and Crash Boy was far stronger than he had been back then.
At the time, Crash Boy had only just escaped Vought International's secret captivity, and his Psychic Powers had barely been developed. Now he was free to test his limits. His progress might not have been meteoric, but he was no longer the same person.
As Psykos bore down on Crash Boy with her Psychic Power, she sensed that his body was anything but ordinary. The air compressed around him with such density, backed by a terrifying twisting force, that an ordinary esper would likely have been crushed to death on the spot.
A closer look would have revealed faint golden ripples coursing over the Young Man's body. Golden light also shone in his eyes.
Something within Psykos's domain changed again.
Psykos suddenly felt her weight diminish. She began floating upward against her will. The heavy-gravity net she had cast over the domain, with a force more than ten times normal gravity, seemed to have lost its effect.
The Young Man had not merely altered the Magnetic Field around himself. He had extended the change across the entire domain.
Under the influence of that Magnetic Field, the domain abruptly became a zero-gravity space.
When it came to controlling physical forces, Crash Boy's Psychic Powers clearly took precedence over Psykos's.
Psykos changed gravity indirectly, by manipulating it with her Psychic Power.
Crash Boy, on the other hand, could change the surrounding Magnetic Field directly. His control over Magnetism came from his Psychic