After the mission, Chrys threw himself into his training. He slowly fell away from the others as he worked on making himself strong enough to do his job. Paradigm Shift died that day on the plane. Chrys took up his father's Alias "Journeyman" and reached out to his Dad's friends. Most were proud of him, encouraging him to stay at the school as it was a good place for him to learn his abilities. He grewmore sure of himself and of his duties as an X-Man

His newfound powers soured, the Danger Room was no longer effective for training him so he often went on missions with minor X-Men, usually as damage control with his ability to put people and objects in stasis fields. In one such event, he proved himself by shifting an exploding bomb into his subspace. He was sick for a full week from the backlash of moving too much energy at once.

By now, six months had passed and Chrys was sitting on top of the mansion roof, working on his studies in astrophysics. He believed that the more he understood about the world, the stronger he'd become. It had already proven itself after he shifted the bomb, when he read up on the laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy. He realized that in his subspace, time is completely nonexistent, which is why, his own time is so dramatically slow. As such, he put too much too fast into this space, and tried to contain it, slowly burning him out. Through trial and error, he managed to find his threshold and was such, was working on pushing that limit. He found that any type of explosion could be shifted, but had to be released fairly quickly, so he focused on area shifts, pulling out the core of the explosion and placing it high into the air.