Basic Training, Tuesday

[knightinshinarmor]

Class met -- as it would every week, most likely -- in the Danger Shop. (Gambit was basically guaranteed to call it the wrong thing every time he talked about it; why was it a "shop" here and not a "room"?) Today it was left neutral when the students arrived, the walls bare and a plain landlord-beige. Just a big empty space ready to be filled with possibility!

Or at least robot drones.

Gambit, suited up in his full working uniform, complete with ridiculous "X" branded accessories, stood leaning against his bo staff, and gave the students a cheeky wave as they entered, counting them up and looking for anyone who might be missing. "Bonjour," he greeted when it seemed everyone who was coming had arrived. "Some of you I know. Some I don't. I'm Gambit. King of Thieves and more-than-occasional professional superhero. I'm here to introduce you to some of the basic training drills I and my fellow X-Men do on a regular basis to keep ourselves in full fighting shape. To do it right, though, I gotta know what each of you can do. So that's what we're doing today."

He pushed himself upright from his lean, gave his staff a spin, then hit the button that caused it to collapse into something pocket-sized and tucked it away, replacing it with a deck of cards that he idly shuffled while he spoke.

"Your job today is to show off. Let us all see what you can do. Maybe you have special powers, like me. Maybe you don't, but you've got skills: great aim, say, or acrobatics. Maybe you just got a lot of cash to spend on goodies and want to use them to save the world. Superheroing, she takes all types."

He flicked the top card of his deck up between his index and middle fingers and charged it, causing it to glow a fabulous fuchsia that matched the breastplate of his armor. "Me, I make things go 'boom'." He flicked the card away. Sure it enough, it burst in a bright flash against the wall, leaving a scorch mark that would vanish once everyone's attention was elsewhere, thanks to the Danger Shop's safeties. He flicked another card up between his fingers and pointed it at one of the students. "How 'bout you?"

[open class is open!]

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[knightinshinarmor]

With your "superhero" name!

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[sairis]

Sairis.

Just Sairis.

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

Magik

Illyana Rasputin

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[singlenakedwhat]

Henry

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[knightinshinarmor]

He's not about to call anything he says a "lecture", okay?

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[sairis]

Sairis had just been in this place last class. It hadn't looked like this. He couldn't feel any illusion magic, though, so he was very confused.

Show off!

[knightinshinarmor]

"For those who ain't had a class in here yet, this room can make whatever you please as a 'hard light' hologram. You can beat 'em, blow 'em up, swing on 'em, whatever you like." Gambit clapped his hands and looked up at the space. "Some flying targets, si vous plait!"

A couple disk shaped robots emerged from the walls as though by magic and started zipping through the air. Just in case you needed inspiration.

"Now, show us what you've got!"

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[sairis]

What was a hologram? How was light hard?

There wasn't exactly anything here Sairis could raise, even if he wanted to. And he had no idea what those weird disks were or what he was expected to do.

Taking his cue from the instructor, he called up a ball of green mage fire and tossed it at one of the disks. If it hit, it should explode.

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[knightinshinarmor]

It would, and it did. Gambit had set the room to a pretty easy program. The drones weren't super fast.

"Interesting," he said with a nod. "Do you know what the green glow is made of?"

What? Not everyone had worked out something like "I charge non-living matter with kinetic energy." And some of these people might be from worlds where physics actually worked!

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[sairis]

"It's mage fire," Sairis answered. "It's made of magic." Beyond that, it got a bit technical. "Do you want to know more? It would take a while."

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

Did Illyana roll-up to the first day of class with the remainders of a black eye, and maybe not moving as fluidly as normally? Yes. Because she was rather sure if she didn't go to class, Midnight was going to turn on all the lights in her room every time she tried to nap.

At least she looked like she was in the last stages of recovery out from whatever had happened, thanks to the glories of carefully applied healing magics over the last few days!

Since it was only a few drones, she could luckily take it easy. Dozens of portals instantly opened around the room, and Illyana gestured, fire curling around her fingers before shooting straight through the disk nearest her, shooting out of all the other ones to scorch the drones.

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[knightinshinarmor]

Gambit was unsurprised. The Magik from his world would have been pretty well as . . . thorough . . . as this one was.

He nodded. "Love me a creative portal." Even as he stayed nice and far away from them. "Think we might be able to crank the difficulty level up a bit for you."

He noted the bruises without comment. If she needed help with anything . . . well, maybe she'd start screaming in Midnight again. She was, he reflected, probably unlikely to actually ask for it.

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

Hey! She'd asked Marc to help her fix up her ribs! ...mostly because she knew he wouldn't make a Thing out of it.

"Appreciated," Illyana replied. "Though I'm willing to take a handicap if it's needed."

Which was Yana for 'Just let me hit something and I'll be happy.'

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[sairis]

Sairis could always appreciate a good mage fire! Not to mention a good grasp of geometry. His smile to her was small but heartfelt.

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

Illyana noticed, and gave him a once-over. "Welcome to Team Magic, where we make physics cry," she said, dryly, though not in a mean way. "--New? Or just someone I've successfully avoided over the last semester?"

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[singlenakedwhat]

"What if you don't have shit?" Henry asked, careful to stay off to the side.

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[knightinshinarmor]

“Ah! Then you’re in luck, petite. You get to find your shit. You been in fights before?”

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[singlenakedwhat]

"I got a teacher suspended once," Henry offered.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Okay. Okay okay okay. She could do this. She could. Even if it made her stomach twist like she was about to throw up, she could do it.

When Remy loosed the disks, Arden concentrated, tugging a chord of air to create a wall of solid air in their paths. Hopefully their own momentum would do the rest.

Hard light meet hard air.

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[knightinshinarmor]

The disks smashed satisfyingly against her air wall and fell to the floor.

“Tres bon!” Gambit said, giving her a wink. “Want to tell the class what you did to cause that?”

He was pretty sure he knew, but wasn’t going to shout it out. What was he, an awkward exposition character in a comic book?

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

No. No she absolutely did not. But this was very much the point of the class, so Arden steeled herself a bit and said, "I, uh. Made blocks of air, like, harder? Kinda like a shield or a wall or something. So when the disks hit them, they broke because they were weaker then the wall."

She was more telling her feet this rather than the class at large, but hey! Progress!

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[even_bigger_teeth]

Luma nodded a little, feeling very proud of herself for knowing she would probably need the spare change of clothes she brought with her in a small bag today. She went to place it somewhere discrete for when she changed back and then returned, having also taken off anything she wouldn't want ripped.

"I'm Luma, by the way," she offered, since she knew she wouldn't be doing much speaking once she transformed, "and I'm a werewolf."

And so then she turned, her body pulling and stretching and hunching over as she went from a pretty blonde 20-something to a rather massive grey wolf eith gold-dusted fur. She shook her coat out a little and gave another big stretch before her eyes locked in on one of the discs and she lept for it, looking probably more like a dog with a Frisbee than the wold taking down birds like she was used to back home.

She certainly liked the birds better. Tearing apart robots weren't nearly as fun or tasty.

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[knightinshinarmor]

“Marvelous!” Gambit said, not even blinking at the transformation. “Great control! You’ve practiced, non?”

Talk to the teacher

[knightinshinarmor]

He is here to be talked with!

For now. He wasn't not going to wander off at some point in the semester and force the moose to find a sub, let's be real.

At least this time they weren't making him teach Sex Ed to a bunch of superpowered adolescents.

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[knightinshinarmor]

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Boooooooo wop!