but he has since appeared alive and unharmed. Outsiders While escaping from a hostile attacking force, Black Lightning, Metamorpho, and Owlman are forced to take refuge in Simon Stagg's secret base previously seen partially destroyed during the attack of the Black Lanterns. After an initial fight with Stagg's employee Freight Train, Metamorpho is later attacked by Stagg's manservant Java and merged with the chemical monstrosity Chemo. After Owlman and Freight Train defeat Chemo, they contact Stagg, who sends Ray, apparently still in the man's employment, to help separate Metamorpho from Chemo, though Ray confesses he has no idea how Stagg knew of Metamorpho's condition. Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Throughout all of this, Ray remained affiliated with Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters as they continued to fight for America against such threats as the Living America, a superhuman prison break and Jester and the Arcadians. Finally, the team was destroyed by the one foe they could not fight - government cutbacks. DC Rebirth Like the earlier version of the character, the DC Rebirth version of Ray Terrill was told that any exposure to direct sunlight will kill him. Running away from home as a teen, he soon discovered that exposure to light grants him light-based superpowers, including flight, light projection and invisibility. Ray eventually settles in Vanity, Portland (previously seen in Aztek) where he saves a childhood friend from a supervillain hate-group. This version of the Ray is openly gay. He is later recruited into Batman's new Justice League of America which includes Atom III, Vixen, Black Canary, Killer Frost III and Lobo. He also dates Xenos, the League engineer. Other versions New Super-Man features a character named Sunbeam (an analog of the Ray). In the comic book Countdown: Arena, Ray is revealed as an analogue of the Wildstorm Universe character Apollo, another light-based superhero. Powers and abilities Ray absorbs, stores and processes light; uses the energy to fly and create destructive bursts of radiation. His energy capacity is virtually limitless. He is capable of manipulating light to create illusions and even solid light constructs, as well as render himself and others invisible. He can convert his body completely into any wavelength of the EM Spectrum. No physical harm from impact can come to him in this form (as demonstrated when Lobo punched Ray through his skull). This process can also be used to "reset" damage that his