Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

The lawyer explains that in the case of for-profit use it's because powers are so varied that it's impossible to pass legislation about each possible combination, so they create these categories in order to have broad things laws apply to. For instance: 'do not generate matter inside people's bodies without their informed consent' isn't something that needs to be regulated in powers that do not generate matter.

She's not setting out to kill anyone! Ugh. How much more of this is there?

There's another batch of documents to sign, and then she has to schedule a day for the first phase of power testing, which will happen in the first PRT lab that's available within a reasonable distance, where she has a say in which distances are reasonable.

ASAP, preferably east coast but she can fly; She'll go to Chicago if it's the first available.

Good! They will inform her when a lab is available.

Wait time, horray.

She retreats to her mountain and grows it a couple of kilometers over the first few days of waiting for a lab.

About a week later she's informed that a lab fairly close by will be available in twelve days.

She doesn't need money immediately. What she got from Japan is more than enough to pay her lawyers and the bank's credit, but it makes her nervous to not have a source of income.

She corresponds with more companies, telling them she's going through approval and making lists of contacts, buys a few pieces of hardware she can't just make and installs plumbing and a kitchen in her mountain (with plenty of help from the internet), and asks the internet how to find a good assistant.

Well, that depends on what the assistant will do, work conditions, wages, etc.

They will organize commercial power use for a new cape: Mountain. They will also find people to do any other things she wants done and try to keep her informed.

Wages: A lot. Work conditions don't need to be particularly strict. She'd like it if they would live on her mountain but she knows that it'd be pretty inconvenient for most people. They'll have a budget on top of the wages.

The "Wages: A lot" part attracts a few people. How would they get to and from the mountain?

Wages: A lot is not Wages: A ridiculous amount, mind you.

She typically flies back and forth. She could buy some kind of aircraft and make a helipad, she could fly them back and forth personally, she could buy a speedboat and make a dock. This is an 'eventually' type of thing, though. Definitely not immediately.

Well, if eventually she creates a job posting for that there might be people interested. Given that some actually go as far as becoming henchpeople of villains, that wouldn't be too surprising.

Back to practicing English-absorbing bits of this world's culture-steadily improving her mountain.

She reads up on electricity some, designs a crude version of a hydro plant that relies on the depletion of a large reservoir about halfway up her mountain that she plans to periodically refill. Then she contacts engineering firms until one agrees to evaluate if it would actually work and tune it up some and produce an estimate. For pay of course. She'll buy the generate-y bits and hire electricians but bulk construction will be all her. She might need to take the bank up on that large loan, but the PRT will approve her to sell stuff eventually.

Eventually, yes. But while she doesn't, there's no law preventing her from using her powers to build stuff for herself. Her lawyer informs her that she won't be able to hire anyone to work in a structure she's built until she's cleared, though.

These things take time. Her own personal hydro plant is probably six months to a year in the making at best even if she was already approved. She wants a steady source of electricity if the mountain is going to be a proper base and not a series of well-designed caves.

The day of the lab space arrives. She flies there in 'costume' (which means gemstone/rock armor).

There are people waiting for her with a few medium-sized concrete-and-steel structures. They ask her a few clarification questions and for her to confirm a few things she's said, then ask her to do a few preliminary demonstrations after she signs a bunch of other terms. Her lawyer is there with her to advise her.

She gets her lawyer to briefly summarize the things she's signing before signing.

Her powers' results are exactly what she described.

The people overseeing it all are glad that they are. They say that she will receive the results of the preliminary testing in a week, and then there will be more specialized forms to fill out before another round of more extensive testing.

Is there any way to speed this up? She wants to be making money with her powers sooner rather than later.

Unfortunately there is not, but after the second round of testing she will be pretty much done, so it's almost over!

She mutters something about understanding why villains are so common on her way out.

Her mountain gets bigger again. She tells the Protectorate she'll definitely stop before it outmatches Mt. Everest. She starts on a maze of rooms and tunnels within, not intending them for any specific purpose, just building to distract herself.

Well, heroes actually have to go through much less paperwork and bureaucracy in general, unless they are Tinkers or team leaders, so it's not that bad for everyone.

She soon gets the rest of the paperwork sent with a few forms and specific regulations about her particular power, in the form of a legally binding contract with some very severe consequences for being broken.

Nothing the contract forbids is something she was likely to do anyway.

She talks it over with her lawyer (who must be happy to have a client that calls on them so often) and signs it.