Oh, Ultra Boy. Does this come with a flight ring?
Are you sure? Check out this page and scroll about half way down to see the panel with Storm fighting a Sentinel in space.
Don’t know if the site allows hotlinking, but here’s the panel: https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ux99_storm.jpg
Slightly off-topic, but did you decide on these two characters because they share the same basic weakness (paralyzing, all-consuming claustrophobia) or was that a complete coincidence?
(Storm was buried alive during an air-raid as a little girl. Her parents were killed and she barely managed to dig herself out; hence she freaks out badly whenever she’s in an enclosed space Meanwhile, Jo “Ultra Boy” Nah was swallowed by a giant space dragon. It gave him superpowers but left him with a similar complex that came into play several times.)
At any rate, I’d go for Storm. After the crummy winter we had here in the northeast, controlling the weather sounds like a gift from the gods - which in this case it would be. (But why Athena would grant a person the powers of a mutant superhero who apparently worshiped African tribal dietes I dunno. “Lords of the Earth & Air!”)
Whew! You win, definitely. I’d have to class this in with Marvel’s other really dumb mistakes (like Hercules towing Manhattan Island.) In some of the continuity, Storm is helpless in space! But you definitely win a No-Prize here for a darn fine cite!
(Gotta love Marvel! Remember Franken-Castle, when The Punisher was revived as a Frankensteinian monster…with a big V8 engine block sticking out of his back?)
That’s one of the benefits of working with weather: it rarely hits you on the back of the head. Storm would be safe from hailstones…by controlling hail clouds.
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Think less about what you’re working with and more about how life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. You’re walking down the street, and – a car jumps the curb? A fleeing pickpocket accidentally plows into you from behind? A sneaky mugger hits you upside the head on purpose? A bullet meant for someone else whizzes through the air? Man, I don’t even have an opinion. I do know that, when you’re not doing anything else with Storm’s powers, you’re squishy; and when you’re not doing anything else with Ultra Boy’s powers, you can stay armored.
Storm.
You could make good money, making rain, or stopping it.
My first no prize! You know, I did write Marvel for a couple when I was a kid. Still waiting.
What’s the matter, iskish, scared you might taste something? I should introduce you to Panak; you’d make a fine bungle. 
Syncretism - same god, different name / aspect.
Ultra Boy, no contest. Hell, I’d just fly over to where ISIS is, turn on my invulnerability, and drop on them from very high up. Make it big, ugly and public. Because while weather powers are great, at some point someone’s gonna try and shoot you. If I knew I could stop someone from doing that, I might pick Storm’s gifts, even though I don’t think I’m smart enough to use them effectively.
First things first: the “NBA tournament”?
Secondly, I’d probably go with the Ultra set. Hell, I wouldn’t even need all of the powers, I could get a lot of mileage out of just the invulnerability.
I’d take Ultra Boy’s powers, and right wrongs around the world. I’d concentrate on one problem at a time – I’d probably start with child sex trafficking, and work my way up. A secret identity would be very important, because at some point I’d be going up against really organized bad dudes who’d have no compunctions about going after those close to me.
Storm. I’d make a deal with NASA and travel around terraforming planets and making them habitable for colonization.
I don’t think Storm can travel at interplanetary speeds and I doubt she can handle the radiation for long.
I’m still with Storm for her power to do good.
True. They’d have a lot less to lose than I would. And of course I’d make it clear Ultra Boy is not working for America or wherever I was born.
As Ultra Boy, I’d get me some spiffy rainbow tights and be the multi-national defender of gay rights everywhere. Fear me.
There are a number of reasons why Mercury, Venus and Mars are inimical to human life and I don’t think the climate is a significant factor in any case, even if Storm could effect permanent changes. As for extra-solar planets, NASA can’t get her there, still less any colonists.
Question: Does Pallas punish me if I become a supervillain or a heavy-emphasis-on-the-“anti”-hero?
I mean, I gotta me honest, there is a not insignificant part of me that’d “just like to watch the world burn.”
Ultra Boy because I want a strong back and joints again. I think having Storm’s powers without the years of mental discipline could wreck havoc every time I dreamed.