This sounds very interesting. I'd love to see what happens to this idea, if you'll have me.

It's quite an order to make up a "useless power for combat" while also being able to "work with fights to prevent one-sided beat downs from S.A.U.'s," but where's the fun if there's no challenge eh?

If I may ask, how would the modern mutant combat work? I'm imagining that it would be something akin to what modern combat is today albeit with a few "mutations" in combat tactics (there's nothing quite like a soldier with their trusty M16 and bulletproof mutant flesh shrugging off enemy fire as they leisurely close the distance with the enemy), but I don't want to assume anything.