Reality Bites--part 4
Maria, Cara and Leilee were still in the kitchen. Oblivious to the scene outside, they were sitting around the table, making small talk.
"I love your hat," said Cara to Maria, "It's cool!"
"Thanks!" Maria smiled at the girl.
"Your new suit looks good on you!" Maria said to Leilee.
Leilee smiled at her light blue and cream colored suit, and said, "It's okay. But," she smiled wryly, "I still don't know who my trainer is. Xavy said that it would be a surprise!"
Just then, Sean Cassidy strode into the kitchen.
"Are ye ready, lass?" he said to Maria, smiling at the girl.
"Sure. See you later," she said to Cara and Leilee. She got up from the table, turned and followed Sean out of the kitchen.
Cara looked wryly at her own hot-pink suit.
/I don't really mind pink that much, there are some shades of it that I actually like. But HOT PINK?!!/ she thought to herself. /I wonder if Hank.../
Cara's thoughts were interrupted by a figure coming in to the kitchen. It was Hank.
"Good afternoon, ladies," Beast said, smiling at the two girls. "Cara, your new outfit is now ready. It's in your room..." He was interrupted by a sudden shout from Cara.
"YIPPEEEEEE!!!" shouted Cara.
She quickly jumped up from the table, grabbed Beast in a bear-hug, and tore down the hallway leaving a gaping Beast and a laughing Leilee behind.
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Cara rounded a corner, running at full speed, and almost crashed into Cyclops.
Cyclops jumped out of the way, just in time, and the still running Cara left a gaping Cyclops behind.
"Sorry! I can't stop now! I've got something to do!!!" she yelled over her shoulder.
She ran into the room that she and Leilee were sharing, almost tearing the door off its hinges as she entered.
She stopped abruptly, and looked at the packages on her bed. A wide grin spread itself on her face...then she lunged for the packages, grabbed them all up in her arms, ran into the bathroom and slammed the door closed with her foot.
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A few minutes later, Cara stepped out of the bathroom. She had her waist-length dark-brown hair in a braid, and she was dressed in her new outfit:
A light-pink suit with hot-pink trim;
A hot-pink belt around her waist with the traditional X symbol on the front;
Hot-pink knee-length boots;
And hot-pink half-gloves on her hands.
To top it all off, she also wore an ankle-length, gray suede trench coat.
"The gang are all probably going to have a laughing fit when they see my new outfit; but, I actually like it! So, I'll just let it go." she said.
She picked her bo staff off of her bed, collapsed it, and slipped it into one of the inside pockets of her trench coat. She smiled as she looked at another pocket...
"Okay, Gambit usually keeps a deck of cards in his pocket...but I don't want to do that, because it's his trademark. What should I keep in my pocket?" Cara wondered out loud.
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Cara's eyes brightened when she saw a poker chip on the floor. "Hmmm... poker chips. Small, lightweight, cheap, and if we're ever in Vegas, I can use it as money." She picked it up and put it in her pocket. "Maybe, I can get someone to drive me to the nearest mall."
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Amanda stared at her new uniform. "Wow." she muttered as she put it on. It was a dark blue with long black gloves and matching boots. On her belt was a definite 'X'.
She put on the uniform and it fitted perfectly due to the unstable molecules of the suit.
There was a knock on the door. "Come in, Jean." Amanda called out.
Jean entered the room and nodded, "You used your telepathy to know who I am, right?"
"Yeah. So, you're the one training me with the telepathy."
"Yes, how are your shields?"
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"Okay, Lass." Sean said as the two were in the Danger Room. It had been programmed for target practice. Sean gestured to a series of bottles. "Now, watch me. Here's how to do a focused scream without hurting anyone else's ears."
Sean took a deep breath and let out his famous sonic scream. All of the bottles in front of him shattered. Maria blinked in surprise. It didn't sound so loud to her.
"Now, ye try. Computer, reset target room."
Maria took a deep breath and screamed at the bottles, "AAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
The bottles shattered. "Not bad." Sean admired, "Now, how's yuir hand-to-hand combat skills."
"Ummm... I don't know how to fight."
"Okay, now it's time for hand-to-hand combat training."
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Cara's red eyes twinkled...She knew the perfect person... He didn't look like he was busy when she almost ran into him a few minutes ago.
Cara once again ran out of the room to go track him down.
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**five minutes later**
Cara finally found her "quarry" in the garage. He was searching for something in the glove compartment of his car.
"Hi Cyclops!" she said in her most sweet and innocent voice. She smiled sweetly and showed her dimples...
Now, anyone who knew Cara would tell you that she only had dimples when she wanted something...and she knew how to get her way; so, watch out Cyke!
Cyclops looked up from what he was doing, and stared in surprise at the pink and gray wonder before him...
/What in the world has she done to herself?/ he thought. Tactfully, he avoided asking her about the suit, and instead...
"Okay, Cara. What is it that you need?" he said. He smiled at her startled expression.
"How did you know I needed something?" Cara asked.
Cyclops grinned and replied, "You've forgotten that I've been living with Jubilee for the past few years."
"Drat! That means that you're immune to my "powers of persuasion!" the girl jokingly said.
She smiled a more genuine smile, and said, "Actually, there is something I need you to do; if you're willing..."
Cyclops raised an eyebrow. "And that would be..." He asked.
Cara grinned and asked, "Cyclops, could you drive me to the mall?"
"Did someone mention 'Mall'?" said Jubilee, sticking her head in through the garage door. She was grinning from ear to ear.
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"PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE?" Cara and Jubilee both asked Cyclops; and both had on their most innocent, sweet, and hopeful faces.
Cyclops groaned and put one hand over his sunglasses. /Oh, great! Now there's two of them. Double Trouble!/ he thought.
Cara and Jubilee looked at each other and grinned.
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Rainfall
Ryan lay on her "new " bed playing with her tongue piercing and pulling on her belly piercing. She always seemed to do that when she had something big on her mind. So big and ugly wanted her to go against the X-Men and their new friends.
"Welcome to the Twilight Zone", She thought as she alternated from pulling at her belly ring to her labret piercing. Ryan's now ex-boyfriend loved the X-men and Ryan now hated him so why shouldn't she. "Plus the fact that I am probably in some alcohol induced coma and this is all a bad dream."
Ryan didn't realize that she had said that last part out loud until someone answered her.
"I would almost agree with you on that one Frail considering you smell like a couple bottles of Vodka, but I know the truth of the matter. This is real."
"Didn't anyone ever teach you to knock Scooby?"
"Don't push it girl! The boss said I had to be nice to you now, but when this is over don't think I won't gut ya the first chance I get."
"What a gentleman! What are you doing here?"
"The boss wants me to train ya. Put this on and take that s--- out of your face. "
"Sorry buddy I take my piercings out for no man"
"Fine have it your way. I'll enjoy taking them out for ya." _________________________________________________
Le Fae
Maria moaned as she rubbed her aching arm with an ice bag. "Sorry if I was hard on ye." Sean said as he gave her a glass of soda.
"No problem." Maria muttered as she accepted the soft drink. The last hour had been filled with flips, punches, and kicks. She was a physically weak person so she didn't have Sean's strength. But she was fast and kept on going invisible.
"You will need some way to fight without your powers. These days a mutant or technology could wipe them out."
"I know." Maria said as she recalled a recent storyline about all of the mutants losing their powers. She pondered and she replied, "Well, I do like sharp objects... I got it! Maybe if I have a pair of gloves that have like really sharp claws on the nails, that would be real good."
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The two figures circled each other in a large metallic room. One growling and snarling like some wild animal and the other smiling and laughing like a lunatic.
"Sabertooth make sure you only push her enough to trigger her mutant powers and then see what she can do with them," Big and ugly said. He was standing beside a new figure, a woman with blue skin and red hair.
"Don't worry, I'll go easy on the little girl."
Suddenly Sabertooth lashed out at Ryan slicing at her stomach but just barely missing. Ryan was for once glad that her crazy Vietnam veteran father had taught her some combat moves. "Never thought they would ever come in handy," Ryan thought to herself as she jumped away from another slicing claw.
"You're going to have to do better then that Scooby!" Ryan shouted at Sabertooth laughing.
Just then something strange happened the big snarling man turned into a brown snarling dog with a blue collar and a tag that had the initials "SD" on it.
Ryan then fell to the floor in laughter.
Mystique whispered to Sinister "Well now we know what her powers are."
"I wonder if she can also change her own shape, I think I am going to need you to work with her on that Mystique."
Le Fae
"Um, Cycke. Don't ya think it would be a good idea if we took everyone to the mall?" Jubilee asked as they were starting to leave.
"Everyone?" He asked praying that she didn't mean the whole team of Genx and the new team.
"Well, just the new ones. Ya know they don't have any clothes except the ones they came in and their uniforms. I think they need to be at least asked, don't ya?"
"Alright, you guys go see if they want to." Scott said warily.
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Cara didn't know exactly where everyone was so she went to find Amanda. She could help her.
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Cara looked around hoping to find Amanda. "Amanda!" she yelled out.
"Cara?" Maria said as she became visible again. "What's wrong?"
"Maria, do you want to go to the mall?"
"The mall?" Maria repeated as she smiled.
"Yeah, get ourselves some clothes and some other things."
"Great! And the Professor would be covering the bill!" Maria yelled out as Cara held her head.
"So, you wanna come?"
"Sure. Besides, I want to see the comics of this world." Maria said as she held out her hands. "Oh, by the way, I got these new gloves for my uniform. Nice huh?"
Cara glanced down at her gloves to see them pointed and sharp. "Wow."
"I'll go and change."
"Okay, have everyone meet at the garage so Scott can take us there."
Maria dashed off to her room to change into her only civilian clothes.
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Cara ran outside, in the direction she had seen Sammi walk earlier.
/Where could she be?/ she wondered.
A couple of minutes later, she had her answer. There was Sammi, and she was sitting with Jonas next to a broken tree.
"Oops! Sorry! I hope I didn't interrupt anything!" she said, blushing.
Sammi and Jonas abruptly pulled apart, startled at the sudden appearance of Cara.
Then their eyes widened as they took IN her APPEARANCE...
"What happened to the Hot-P..." Jonas started to say, but he stopped himself, remembering what happened to Gambit.
"Well, I decided I needed a change. Besides," Cara replied, motioning to her trench coat, "I love Gambit's trench coat, and just HAD to have one." she finished, grinning.
"Now, back to the reason why I'm out here; Scott has graciously 'volunteered' to take us to the mall, so if you want to go, hurry and get changed and meet us in the garage!" she said.
She turned and ran back to the mansion, so she could get changed.
/If I go out like this, I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb,/ she thought. Then she remembered something.../I'm going to have to borrow a shirt from someone; my only shirt is stained with blood! Also, how do I get my hands on some sunglasses?/ she wondered, remembering her glowing red eyes.
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"We should probably get going, huh?" Sammi said as she started to get up.
"Yeah, we should." Jonas said getting up he took her hand in his and they walked back to the house.
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~In their room~
Jonas came out of the bathroom to see Sammi changed. She had on her jeans and her tank top. She was bending over her bed trying to find her other sneaker. She heard him come out and when he didn't saw anything she asked," What?"
"Nothing. I was just admiring the view. What are you looking for?" He asked starting to blush but he didn't care...he was on cloud nine.
"My sneaker. Help, I think my bed ate it." She said trying not to blush herself.
Jonas got down on the floor and looked, "Found it."
Sammi got up to fast and got a little dizzy and fell right into his arms.
He smiled. She smiled and said, " If we keep this up were going to have to walk around here naked. Come on, I want to shop and I'm starved. I need food!" She said as she got up.
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"I'm bored."
"How nice for you."
Ryan had for the last three hours been trying to mimic her face into the pictures that where placed before her. At first she was dong pretty good but now the faces were looking less and less like the pictures. Her ADD had kicked in and, well, she just couldn't concentrate anymore.
She had long given up on this whole thing being some sort of nightmare a long time ago. She would have woken up by now if it had. So she was stuck with her new "friends", and she had never met a more boring bunch of losers in her entire life.
"How about we try something new." Mystique suggested because she too was bored with this little game. "How about we go to the mall and have some fun?"
Ryan looked at Mystique with a huge smile. "Mall ! Shopping! Say no more I am so there."
"Good...because frankly my dear, your current attire smells horribly. This will also give you a good chance to try out your powers on live specimen."
Le Fae
Maria got out of her room wearing her T-shirt and blue shorts. "That feels a little better." Maria said to herself as she glanced around. "Now, where's the garage?"
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Cara looked around for anyone to borrow a shirt from. Ahead, she saw Amanda and Jean staring at each other. "Excuse me?" Cara asked as Jean and Amanda glanced at her. "I need to borrow a shirt. Mine is covered in blood and we're going to the mall."
"The mall?" Amanda asked excited.
"Yeah, can you get Leilee to the garage? Scott 'volunteered' to take us there."
"Sure!" Amanda said excited as she ran to her room to get changed.
Jean looked down at Cara and said, "I think I have a some old shirts that might fit you or I can get Jubilee or Paige to get you something."
"Thanks. Ummm... I also need a pair of sunglasses for my eyes."
"You can ask Jubilee. She has a pair."
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Jonas stood next to Sammi as she was looking at some clothes... he had already picked out some clothes including a new brown leather jacket.
He could not be happier, or rather this was the happiest day of his life.
But not far away evil was plotting some interesting plans.
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"Well... see any thing you like?" Mystique asked her young friend.
"You keeping count so far?" Ryan asked.
"Yes, not too hard; two dogs, a cat." Mystique answered smiling.
"And a turtle." Ryan smiled and pointed to the stool at a table a bit away.
Ryan suddenly noticed Jonas and Sammi who were smiling and talking. She suddenly remembered her last boyfriend...
"I'm not happy, why should they be, or rather why should he be." Ryan said planing to turn the young man in to a small ugly bird, but something didn't work right.
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Jonas, clenched down his teeth...something was wrong...his stomach hurt like crazy, no, his whole body hurt...
He looked down at his hands and saw them slowly turning a shade of Green and gray...
Sammi looked at him scared. "Jonas what is happening?" she yelled and grabbed his shoulder.
"No..." he yelled out in a terrified voice, which sounded deeper then before.
He started to run for the exit, as people around him started to scream...
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Mystique looked puzzled at Ryan. "What did you do to him?"
"I don't know. I think I only triggered some change that was already there."
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Everyone started to run outside... they gasped.
Outside stood a big green/gray Dragon, that looked rather confused.
Amanda gasped. "It's Jonas..."
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Admiral
Maria was having a fun time at the mall. She had bought a couple new pairs of blue jeans, three T-shirts, and a couple of hats. Suddenly, everyone around her started screaming and a cold feeling of fear clenched at her heart. Did anyone suspect her of being a mutant?
On instinct, she turned invisible and ran toward the exit. Outside, stood a giant dragon with green/blue skin.
She ran unseen toward Amanda who said, "It's Jonas."
"WHAT?!" Maria yelled out in shock as she turned visible.
The dragon grimaced as everyone else held their ears.
Scott looked around to see that everyone else is still here. "Okay," he said as he went toward the dragon. "Jonas, this is Scott. Remember?"
The dragon nodded.
"Good. Just try to remain calm and stay still."
"You guys?" Jubilee asked, "In case you might not notice but the police and maybe the Avengers will be coming by. We gotta hide him!"
"How?!" Sammi exclaimed as she went toward Jonas. "He can't turn invisible like Maria."
"Maybe, he can." Scott said as he looked around for Maria. "Maria, go to Jonas and try to turn him invisible like yourself. If you can turn your clothes invisible, maybe you can turn other objects invisible too."
"Okay. Like the Invisible Woman, cool." Maria said as she turned visible again.
Amanda gasped as she said, "Hurry! The police and the military's coming!"
Maria swallowed as she put her hand on Jonas's leg and focused. She had read the Fantastic Four for a long time and knew Susan Richards' powers well. The dragon vanished before everyone's eyes. "Okay, I think I did it."
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Ryan smiled at her handiwork. It didn't turn out the way she wanted it to but the outcome was the same. The happy little couple was no longer happy.
Mystique on the other had was not smiling.
"You're supposed to change them into week helpless little things...not gigantic monsters!"
"Hey! I went for a bird, he on the other hand had different plans."
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"Now what are we suppose to do, Scott?" Sammi asked looking where Jonas and Maria were standing.
"I don't know. Jonas and Maria stay out of the way and hidden. I'm going to call for help. The rest of you try to act normal inside. I don't want to draw any attention to the rest of you." Scott said slipping into leader mode.
"I don't want to leave him." Sammi said trying not to cry.
"It's O.K. They'll be fine. Come on. You still need to get clothes and We're not helping standing out here." Jubilee said as she put an arm around Sammi.
Sammi looked back at where she last saw them and mouthed something she never thought she would say at a time like this, but she thought that it would help, maybe. She mouthed, "I love you." Then Jubilee was leading her back inside.
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He Wanted to run after her, scream out to her... but he had to stay here not to move... hi didn't understand any thing.
Maria was surprised that it was not hard to keep them both invisible.
Rogue arrived quick... and grabbed Scott. "Is he ok?" afraid that Jonas might have been hurt.
"Eh, well I think he is ok... more or less... he has somehow turned in to a... well, a Dragon, we have to get him back to the mansion."
"Quickly." Sammi was quick to add.
Rogue blinked and looked at Sammi, then at Scott. "A Dragon?"
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Jonas instinctively started to flap his big wings as Rogue, now also invisible, lifted him off the ground and started to carefully fly to the mansion, she had to be careful he could probably not fly if she dropped him.
People started to look around as the invisible Dragon let out a deep roaring yell and his kicking in the air flipped over a car.
"Stay still will ya." Rogue said and tried to hold onto him, this was going to be a long flight.
A little later there was a knock on the door at the mansion... Wolverine opened and found himself face to face with a gigantic Dragon.
He blinked... "Dragon? nah." he closed the door again. "Dragon?"
"DRA... GON?!?" Jonas surprised every one as he roared out the word almost like a Lion.
"Holy... you can talk?" Cara asked looking up in to his eye.
"I... THINK... SO." He tried carefully, didn't really work as when he talked as a human.
Sammi almost fainted. "Man that's one bad breath." she teased him glad that he was at least unhurt, Jonas smiled a big Dragon smile and picked Sammi up in a big hand. "BE... NICE."
"Did a dragon drop in on us too?" Storm said puzzled.
"No it's Jonas... he change in to a dragon at the mall, strange?" Scott said rubbing his head.
"He won't be easy to hide..." Logan said an ran his hand through his hair.
"Do you think you can change back?" Jean asked as Jonas sat Sammi down on the ground.
"Don't know how I ended up this way in the first place." Jonas said his voice more steady... but still sounded like a Lion.
"Try to focus on how you looked before." Jean said marveling at the incredible Dragon.
"I will try." he concentrated and suddenly he started to slowly change in to a human form, but suddenly he went back into the dragon form.
"It's hard but I think can do it... but I need to rest." he said breathing in a long heavy breath.
"It's probably too soon after the last change." Jean said.
"Guess you can't come inside... it's a little to small." Logan laughed but stopped as he saw the face on the rather big Dragon.
"Look like it's under the stars tonight for you." Amanda said grinning from ear to ear.
"You should take the time to test what you can do... you never know...a dragon might be useful sometimes."
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Jonas lay on the grass... looking up at the sky, it was a rather interesting sensation... he could smell things he never could before... hear people talking in the house.
He could see excellent in the dark... and he could even fly a little now, ok only hover some meters off the ground...
"Having fun?" Sammi asked and rested herself on one of his large legs, looking into one of his eyes.
"Thinking." he said in a voice low, a low rumbling sound followed the words.
"I think I can change in to a human, but I kinda would like to stay like this for tonight... it's interesting, is that ok." he asked carefully.
Sammi shrugged. "Why ask, as long as you think can change back, it's your choice." Sammi sat down beside him. "Mind if I stay?"
"Was afraid to ask, but I would really Love it if you stayed." he took a deep breath.
"Do you think you can breathe fire?" Sammi teased him.
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Admiral
"We cannot afford for you to make any more mistakes like that again!!"
Ryan had been listening to Sinister and Mystique yell at her for about an hour now. She was getting very tired of it. Scooby over there laughing at her wasn't helping things either.
"I knew you should have just let me gut the girl after that trick she pulled in training today."
"Gesh-ka-ma-doodle! What is with you and wanting to gut me fur ball! I think you got some morbid S&M fantasy going on here."
"What did you just say?" Mystique asked with a surprised expression on her face.
"Fur ball has a weird S&M fixation. Don't you think?"
"No not that the first part. Do you know how strange it is to hear a person who has dreadlocks, a tattoo and more piercings then I care to know about say "Gesh-ka-ma-doodle"? You really are crazy aren't you?"
"I don't like to swear."
Le Fae
He sighed happy, as he could hear the now sleeping Sammi breathe slowly beside him, under an open sky, even if he was right now an over 40-foot long dragon.
The wind was blowing up, it was not too cold but he extended one of his new wings to act as a windshield around Sammi.
/I will do any thing I can to protect you, from whatever may bring you harm./ he thought.
Looking over to her he lowered his big head close and whispered softly even if she seemed to be asleep, he could not wait to say the words until she woke up.
"I love you too." He would like nothing but to kiss her... but then again, he *WAS* a Dragon. Not the best kisser in the world, and considering he would most likely end up naked if he manage to change back to a human, that was not really a good idea at the moment either.
He rested his head down and closed his eyes.
Sammi smiled, she had heard him...
Admiral
Cara could not sleep...
She looked over at the sleeping Leilee, and decided that waking her up just to talk would be a bad idea (considering her powers and all...what if she was a grouchy riser?).
She got up as quietly as she could, and went into the bathroom to change into her uniform.
She emerged a few minutes later, and silently slipped out the door of their room...walking in the direction of the Danger Room.
/Gambit can't train me right now, and even if he could, he probably wouldn't. Not after what I did to him. I still need to train, though...even if it's on my own.../ she grimly thought.
She arrived at the Control Room, and looked down at the controls. They didn't look that hard to figure out...if she set the controls on the lowest setting, maybe she could actually get through this "session" alive...
She started fiddling with the controls...
"Let's see...what holographic training program should I use? They sure use weird file names here. I wonder what 'SNTNLGRVGMBT1' stands for? Well, only one way to find out!" she said, as she selected the file.
She flipped a few more switches, and the Danger Room was all set. She went out of the control room to the entrance of the Danger Room. The door slid open, and Cara stepped inside.
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She gasped as she entered the room...only, it wasn't a room anymore. She was now standing in the middle of a grove of trees.
"The comic writers weren't kidding about the Shi'ar technology," she said to herself, "This place definitely looks real...it's absolutely beautiful!"
She turned herself all the way around, enjoying the breathtaking scenery...completely lost in the moment. The setting sun glowed in the tree-tops...just then, Cara noticed something else that was glowing, just behind the tree-tops. Two VERY BIG, VERY RED EYES...
"HALT, MUTANT..." said a very deep, loud, mechanical voice, "YOU WILL BE..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" shrieked Cara, drowning out the rest of the Sentinal's statement.
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Maria tossed and turned as she tried to force herself to sleep. It was hard to sleep in a strange room let alone a strange universe. "Oh my ---, I'm a mutant." Maria muttered as she turned invisible and crept out of the room with her uniform.
A handy asset of invisibility is the fact that she can change without anyone seeing anything. She slipped on her long gloves and turned visible again.
Thoughts plagued her mind as usual when things grew too quiet. Will she ever come back home? Does her family know where she is? Tears came to her eyes as she bent her head down. In a way, she felt like Havok does in the comics. A part of her begged to tell Cyclops about Havok's true fate. After all, wouldn't her sister want to know where she really is?
She wandered to the kitchen where she looked in the refrigerator. On the lower half, there were several cases of beer, tofu and an assortment of other items. She looked up in the freezer where there were several boxes of ice cream. "Yes!" Maria said as she took out a box of Rocky Road and a bowl with a spoon.
"Hey, petite. You don't wanna get fat in spandex." a voice said smoothly.
Maria turned invisible and looked at a certain man with red eyes. "Oh, hi Gambit. What are you doing up?"
"I'm just getting a snack before I go out to de Danger Room. Get some energy out."
"Oh." Maria said as she took the ice cream scoop and started scooping the ice cream in the bowl.
"What's a matter?" Gambit asked as he watched the ice cream vanish in mid air.
"I'm homesick." Maria admitted, "And... I want to do something but I can't. I mean, well... I know some things that may or may not be true and well... I ah... what would you do if you know something that might benefit one world but devastate another?"
"Que? You know something about de X-Men that we don't know about?"
"It's not about the X-Men. It's about one of it's members. Not you. And another person close to the X-Men. Nothing evil or anything like that. I want to tell but it might be wrong."
"Maybe, I'm not de best person to ask. What about Cable? He knows things dat he didn't want anyone else would know. He's coming by tomorrow to help out with de dimensional thing."
"Cable?!" Maria said excited, "Cool!"
"You like him?"
"I think he's kinda cute."
"Cute?"
"Yeah."
"Cute?!"
"I think he is."
"CUTE?!"
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