Perspective is Ki (Young Justice/DBZ, Male OC)

Chapter Eight

STAR. Labs, Philadelphia, 9:58 AM.
May 20th, 2010.

"Aiden, there you are," Emil Hamilton said briskly, "Come in and sit down."

"Nice to see you too, Emil," Aiden rolled his eyes, following the man's directions "Tracy not here yet?"

"She is downstairs, I've sent her off to buy coffee," Emil said distractedly as he clicked through screens on his computer. "A ruse, of course."

"How cunning," Aiden snorted, "You have something medical-related you want to discuss in private first then?"

"Obviously," Emil said simply, "You were right to be wary of the moonlight, I exposed a portion of the sample to a concentrated amount of it and almost immediately found out that it was a terrible idea."

"Did it explode or something?" Aiden laughed.

"It boiled almost immediately on exposure and evaporated," Emil said, annoyed. "I was, however, able to get several readings of the process, the refracted light puts the cells in an incredibly excited state, and the few mutated cells that were present in the sample were affected more potently."

"Evaporated?" Aiden frowned, "I'll admit I don't know much about this kind of thing, but that seems strange, given that when I'm exposed to it, I'm pretty sure that I won't evaporate."

"There is some element missing which stops the cells from undergoing any type of change. Instead, this is the reaction, but I have no idea what it could possibly be," Emil said, frowning. "I've run multiple tests with a multitude of different factors, and nothing has changed the results in the slightest."

"Probably because there's no Ki left in the sample," Aiden said thoughtfully.

Emil turned around in his chair to frown at him.

"What is Ki?" Emil said, intrigued. "Some form of chemical?"

"It's 'life energy' produced by living things," Aiden said smoothly, "Almost everyone I've come across has a tiny amount of it."

"How do you know this-" Emil started, "No, obviously you can detect it in some manner, it isn't the tail, nor is it the mutated cells, possibly through some use of the energy itself?"

Aiden raised an eyebrow at the man; he'd been underestimating how quick the man was.

"I'm using my own energy to sense the energy of others," Aiden confirmed, "You also have a small amount if you were curious."

"It must be a ludicrously small amount for nobody to have found it yet." Emil said, frowning, "I've never encountered such energy before."

Aiden lifted his hand up, so his palm was facing the roof, and focused a small portion of his Ki to collet above his hand, the Ki sparked to life in a tiny orb barely the size of a large marble.

"Remarkable." Emil said with great interest, "You can use it so freely? Is this also where your increased physicality comes from?"

"I think so, although whatever was done to me might contribute in some way." Aiden gestured down at the tail hidden in his pants. "This is another of those don't tell the league things."

"Obviously," Emil huffed, still staring at the orb. "I would like to collect a reading of this energy, and you said I myself have access to this?"

"I doubt you could even feel it given how little everybody but me seems to have," Aiden said honestly.

"Would my own amount be the average? Yes?" Emil accepted his nod as an answer, "If my own amount was a single unit of energy, how many times greater is your own?"