fandomhigh | Basic Training, Tuesday

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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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.

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!~~

"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."

"Don't know much magic, me," Gambit admitted. "Was more interested if you knew. So: magic fire. Tres bon! That your main trick, or do you have others?"

So he could plan out how the classes would go, of course. (Plus, you know, he was curious!)

"I can do a lot of things with magic," Sairis admitted. Even if he'd been rather thoroughly outed as a necromancer at the picnic, he wasn't about to give all his secrets away.

Plus he had no idea what might be useful in this sort of situation.

“Can, oui, but what do you do with it?”

"Mostly make and sell charms and study," Sairis answered.

"Ah! Every team could use someone who makes things. Protection charms, I'm guessing?"

Maybe this kid could make communication charms. Something that could sub for a good telepath.

"Protection, fertility and infertility, love, health, finding." Sairis shrugged. He'd done a lot of things.

He'd never had reason to communicate with anyone outside of range of shouting. He probably could do it, if he had enough time.

"Protection and health can both be great in a battle situation. How about charms that function as weapons? That blast energy or maybe teleport?"

(Preferably a teleportation amulet that doesn't come with a dragon warning you that it will turn you into a cannibal if you use it too long. Not that this Remy had encountered anything like that yet.)

(What, Sairis would want to know, the fuck.)

He shook his head. "I could probably make something that would explode if you touched it, or if I triggered it from a distance, but nothing that would generate fire without hurting the person holding it. And teleportation...hm. If I could do it, it would require a lot more space and be stationary. Something more like a summoning circle."

Could you make a summoning circle to summon someone from another point on the same plane, instead of a different plane? That was an interesting idea.

(Earth-616 was a wild, wild place.)

Gambit nodded thoughtfully. "More of a sidelines prep sort of thing, than a 'provide armaments' thing then. Definitely still useful. Merci!"

"Yes," Sairis agreed.

He had no idea what "merci" meant. It didn't sound bad.

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