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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 1:45:02 GMT -5
Laurie too couldn't help finding this amusing, having seen many of her younger classmates try and do the same only to be telepathically found by the Professor or he already knew what they were up to. There was just no way of getting anything past the old man but it was nice to the fact he never truly seemed annoyed by it. But the blue skinned mutant had to admit she also admired the Professor for his knowledge and work on genetics, having read some of his theories before she was even a mutant herself. She would likely look more into it later.
For now she set that aside in her mind and followed after Lance, Sarah, and Suzanna, wondering what they would think when they realized the mansion had about four floors and an attic to boot. Not that anyone hardly went to the attic unless Storm was alright with it. It was after all her own room and where she felt more comfortable. "You know if you think this is big, wait till you see the library, it's one of the biggest parts of this mansion."She said to them, knowing that it was like walking into one of the public libraries.
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Post by Sarah on Jan 17, 2013 2:14:01 GMT -5
Sarah blinked when Lance told her of the Professor's powers. He could read thoughts? Now that was scary to think about, but seeing as he was a good guy she did not think he would read to deep into her mind without asking first. " A mind reader? Ok, not going to lie but that's kinda scary.." Sarah said as she followed Lance. pushing the uneasy thoughts that where now coming to mind Sarah just gave a weak smile and moved on. Sarah looked down the way Lance had talked about and nodded, ok it was very clear she was not going to be able to remember where everything was right away.. When Laurie spoke up about a library Sarah;s face lit up. "A library? Really? Wow can't wait to see that. I love books." Sarah said with a smile.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 2:40:49 GMT -5
"Like I said you have nothing to worry about, the Professor knows not to dwell deep into another's mind."Lance assured her, knowing it was a scary thought but he had never known the Professor to do such a thing except contact them when needed. Least only in extreme cases would that ever happen or when they would face an enemy who couldn't be stopped by normal means."Well then still plenty to see and like Laurie said wait till you see the library."
About an hour and half later Lance was finally leading them to the lobby again, knowing they now had covered the inside of the four floors of the mansion. Though of course they had lingered in the library since Sarah had said she loved books, so he was fine to stay for a bit longer before they continued. Though he knew they now had the outside to take care of the outside, but of course there was the fact of covering the sub-levels beneath the mansion.
"By the way Sarah and Suzanna before we continue I wanted to cover on something else before we go outside. You see we may have a training time outside but we also have one inside, only it's beneath this school since we also have a few sub floors where the X-men meet, some engineer labs, a medical center, and something we call the danger room."He explained to them, knowing this would really be the way to know if Suzanna would be comfortable Sarah being there. "The Danger Room is actually a lot bigger and sometimes were many of our older students and us X-men train, though we also have some combat training rooms along side it."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 2:50:57 GMT -5
"What Lance says is true Sarah, Xavier is nothing like that."Laurie said, hoping backing Lance up would reassure her but smiled when she heard Sarah loved books. "And that makes two of us."She said, glad to here someone else loved books since she too loved them, especially anything she found interesting. But it wasn't long before they were off to continue their tour to the remainder of the mansion.
Again after what seemed forever they were finally arriving back to the lobby and Laurie began to wonder if Sarah would really remember all this all at once. Possibly not right off the bat but the older mutant woman was certain that with time Sarah would come to know this place like the back of her hand and if not someone would help her. Even if there were a few arrogant or somewhat mean students here there were quite a few who were open to making new friends and helping someone new. Laurie could certainly name a few willing to do so that came right to her mind.
But when Lance suddenly brought attention to the lower levels of the mansion she really did have to watch in anticipation to what would happen next. This could very well change anyone's mind about what lied beneath the school and where some of the training took place, especially the Danger Room which was named that for a reason. Parents who did bring their children here willingly had seemed alright with it before but now the question was would Sarah's be alright with it?
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Post by Sarah on Jan 17, 2013 11:28:45 GMT -5
Sarah nodded when Lance and Laurie said the Professor would never read into her mind. Well that was good but still she did not like the idea of someone having that kind of power.. So she guessed she was glad someone like him who would never abuse it had that gift. Sarah and Suzanna, followed Lance and Laurie to the other places he wanted to show. When they came to the library. She was amazed at how huge it was, when it came time to leave Sarah almost did not want to go. But she had to see the rest of this place. When the tour came to end Sarah was so excided she could not wait to come here. But then Lance started to talk about the training places. And the one called the danger room sounded scary. Suzanna did not know ifshe liked the sound of that, she then looked at Sarah and she looked back at her mother. As if the two where speaking to each other useing their minds for what seemed like a few minutes. Suzanna then looked at Lance, " Would it be possbile to see the Danger room? I would like to know what my daughter is getting into." Suzanna asked. Not that she was scared she knew there would be danger's to be a hero so the training had to hard. In fact she wished her husbend would have had something like this. But he was a solo hero and did most of his training by himself. Here Sarah would have people to help her so she was not as worried as most people would have been.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 19:01:12 GMT -5
Lance at first hesitated with allowing them going to the Danger Room, knowing that could end being a very big risk on their part. But what harm could it do? After a moment of thinking the psionic controlling mutant finally nodded, "You may and a demonstration might help to show you that we do take care for our students and staff's safety as our top priority."He assured them as he led them towards the elevator he had indicated earlier in the tour, pressing the button to go down before stepping inside along with Laurie.
When Sarah and her mother had joined them he pressed the button to go down to the lower floors, looking at Laurie as they went down and they seemed to have a silent exchange of who would do the demonstration. A few minutes later after they had gone down to the basement Laurie reluctantly nodded that she would give them a showing of the Danger room and what it was capable of,"Well hope you guys enjoy the show."Laurie said with a meek smile as Lance led them down the hall before Laurie veered off towards the girl locker rooms.
"Here right this way,"Lance said as he came to the observation room door, which was much smaller then the sliding doors to the actual danger room. After coming in the older mutant came to a panel just below a thick observation glass, which showed into a large cylindrical room with several panels that made up the wall and was about tall as three stories of the mansion.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 19:52:46 GMT -5
Like she had thought Laurie could see Suzanna and Sarah looking a little scared at the thought of the Danger Room and the only thing she could do was wait along with Lance. And after a few minutes they both seemed to want to see the training room many of them used, though mostly older students like her and the X-men used it. Still the young woman had to wonder if this would deter Sarah's initial excitement in wanting to stay there knowing now just how far they went to help with powers. Hopefully it wouldn't frighten her too much.
Following Lance onto the elevator they both waited until Suzanna and Sarah were on the elevator until Lance pressed the button to head down to the sub-levels. But silently they exchanged a glance, deciding who would be the one to demonstrate how the Danger Room worked until they finally reached the bottom, Laurie nodding that she would be the one. Even if she was more then reluctant to get into the Danger Room since she wasn't that big on training. But it was the only way to convince the two girls that everything was fine, especially for students and another chance Laurie could practice with her own abilities.
After Laurie gave them a meek smile and telling them she hoped they would enjoy the show she left their side to go to the locker room. There she changed out of her clothes to reveal more of the exoskeleton that covered her entire body which someone would have wondered if she was nude when in reality she wasn't. It was just a habit to wear clothes all the time since she had done so all her life so when leaving the locker room she headed to the large sliding doors of the Danger Room, stepping inside and looking towards the observation room, seeing them inside while they could see her. It seemed several more markings were visible on Laurie's blue 'costume' and looking determined to do a good job."Alright Lance let's do this!"She called before he nodded and pressed a few buttons before several large claw handed tendrils came from a few panels.
Immediately Laurie took action, flying up at mach 3 speeds, her form taking an almost rocket like shape to help with resistance, easily dodging around the large claws. But as she came to a hover in the air her form once more seemed to take on a further transformation into an aline-like mermaid, her body growing in height. Her arm protrusions extended at a sharp angle into what looked like spikes in three different lengths and her arm protrusions extended out as well while large fin-like wings formed on her back. Her legs seemed to come together to form a mermaid tail, with fins along her the sides of her legs and forming from her feet. Her hair grew out to reach down to her now long body, being about 12 feet tall, the bone protrusions of her head extending slightly like her hair and some along her neck, and her face seemed to no long have a visible mouth or nose except a more angular one with silver-white eyes and her pointed ears.
This however allowed her to move with a few strong flaps of her wings and swish of her tail, partly hitting away a few tendrils and striking down another her her large hands, showing how much her form seemed to help her gain some upper hand to hold them off or her maneuverability came into play to be able to coil and wind around them when they tried to wrap around her.
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Post by Sarah on Jan 18, 2013 12:51:47 GMT -5
Sarah and her mother followed Lance and Laurie down to the danger room. When they got there it seemed Laurie was going to go in and how what the room was like. Sarah was wanting to protest but the older girl already went inside saying to enjoy the show. Sarah felt a little bad for making Laurie have to do this but she guessed she needed to know what she was getting herself into. When they entered the observation room, Sarah walked right on in and over to a window. She was going to watch everything she did not want to miss a thing. When Laurie walked in Sarah smiled weakly and waved. But then the older girl did something that shocked her, Laurie transformed into a nonhuman form that looked alien. Sarah's eyes grew wide as she gasped. "Holy!! What the heck!! She just what!??" Sarah said in utter shock. She was not scared or anything just caught of guard. Though due to her shock the room suddenly got very cold and ice started to form. Seeing thing Sarah frowned and tried to calm down. Though the room got warmer the ice did not melt. Sarah blushed out of embarrassment and want back to watching Laurie. When the exercise started Sarah kept her eyes Laurie never taking her eyes off. Wow that looked really hard and scary. Sarah hoped Laurie would be ok, she would hate herself if Laurie got hurt.. But she had to remember Laurie has been doing this for while and Lance said the safety of the students was the main thing. But still she felt uneasy watching Laurie fighting those large claw handed tendrils. Suzanna said and did nothing as she watched, she knew Laurie would be fine. Though as she watched Laurie, Suzanna was also watching Sarah. So far all she could tell her daughter was shocked and looked a little uneasy. But she knew when her daughter put her mind to something she would follow through no matter the danger.. Just like her late husband.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2013 13:20:12 GMT -5
As three of the claws once more came towards Laurie she quickly wove around them before moving swiftly downward, returning to normal in the lower air pressures of the danger room and now looking like a blue blur. Though the speeds she went at would have likely damaged someone on a normal circumstance. But her body just seemed to change in a way that when she did slow down enough they could see a visible change of a more rocket-dynamic form that didn't even slow her down.
The tendrils meanwhile seemed to slow to really catch the blue skinned mutant, and were striking in different directions where she had once been. But in a matter of minutes the tendrils were soon entangled in one another to the point they could only twitch and wiggle around without being of any threat now. Coming to a stop and watching as the large tendrils were retracted she looked back towards the observation room,"Lance I think you made that too easy!"She called while hovering in place and back to normal now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2013 14:09:23 GMT -5
Lance chuckled a bit when seeing their shocked faces, knowing it was quite surprising to see the first time. Laurie herself had been surprised the first time and so had many of the others but now it had become common to see there at the mansion so he let them watch still while waiting to see if Laurie could get past this one. But was surprised him was that Sarah's shock triggered her powers again just like at the mall which made him guess she did need quite a bit of practice yet with them.
Though she seemed embarrassed Lance merely smiled, activating his own psionic powers and using his fire to melt away the ice in no time, willing the fire to almost be like that of true fire despite it being pure psionic energy. But when the melting was done he turned his attention to Laurie saying that this challenge had been way to easy which made him shake his head,"Too easy Laurie? I can make more if you want!"He replied back through a speaker and began typing something to make the tendrils retract before thinking of what would be more of a challenge for Laurie later but for now could see the uneasiness from Sarah.
"Sarah it's really quite alright, like I said we don't want to put students in a level they cannot handle. When it comes to some others if they are sure they are ready then we'll test them and if it's too much we stop the training."Lance explained as Laurie was leaving back to the sliding doors and out of sight. "It's my job as one of the instructors working with the student's power to make sure they are safe and don't strain themselves. The last thing we want is someone to be seriously hurt."
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Post by Sarah on Jan 18, 2013 15:15:30 GMT -5
Sarah felt relieved that the training show was over. She was impressed by Laurie's skills and hoped one day she could use her powers that good someday. When Lance spoke to her Sarah turned to look at him. Well ether she was easy to read like a open book or Lance was just really good at reading people. Sarah nodded and smiled weakly, well she was glad to hear that but even though they would never put her in a training that was to hard Sarah still could not help but feel uneasy and nervous. But she knew she had to over come all that if she wanted to be a hero someday. Sarah nodded, "I- I know.. This is just all so new is all." Sarah said. Suzanna looked at Sarah, " Well dear, I see no reason not to let you come here, Though in the end its not my choice its yours. So you want to start coming here Sarah?" Suzanna asked. Sarah was a little shocked her mother had asked that. Sarah looked at her mother as her mind raced. She then sooned made up her mind, Sarah then looked at Lance with a look of determination." I want to start coming to this school. If I don't learn how to control my powers I will be a danger to those around me... And its also something I know my Dad would have wanted, even though he is no longer here I want to do somnething that would have made him proud." Sarah said then waited for Lance's answer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2013 16:17:58 GMT -5
Lance nodded in understanding, guessing this would take a while to sink in all at once and get use to. When you went from knowing one world to suddenly going into a new one full of obstacles you weren't use to it was only natural to feel scared and uncertain. Far as Lance knew several students had come to this place scared and confused to what they were, or not knowing what to expect from the mansion that was suppose to help with their powers. And so far it had a good track record of helping every student that came and went through these halls to this day.
But suddenly the psionic controlling mutant jumped slightly, hearing the control panel communicator go off from the locker room,"Go ahead Laurie."He said while their was a brief pause, pressing the button to give the younger X-man a chance to speak. "Lance I hate to have to leave in the middle of all this but I got a few more classes I got to get to and I'm about late for one, I'll catch up with the rest of you later."Laurie's voice came through the speaker."Alright Laurie good luck."Lance said before the connection was cut and he turned back to Suzanna and Sarah.
For a moment he was silent as Sarah made her decision and to much of his relief she was still determined to make this work no matter what. It was even more heart warming to know she was doing this to make her family proud which made Lance a little saddened inside, even though it didn't show outwardly. Unlike some he was one of those mutants who had no parents to make proud, no family he could say he would be proud to call them that. No he had lost that family, some of which he had killed by the stress of years ago during one of their underground attacks towards a rival criminal organization which had been a wanna-be group of gangsters. "I'm glad to hear your determined Sarah which is something I was hoping to hear."He said to her with a smile,"Think we outta get you ready and settled in then."
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Post by Sarah on Jan 18, 2013 20:16:47 GMT -5
Sarah smiled, this was it. her life was changing and for the better. She knew she would no longer have to fear hurting people. She would become strong and use her powers to help others, she would make her Mother proud and her Father if he was still here. When Lance said it was time to start getting her ready and settled in she nodded, "I can't wait sir." Sarah said with a smile and looked at her mother. Suzanna smiled it had been two years since she had seen her daughter so happy. After her Father died it seemed something in her died as well. Though Suzanna also knew that feeling, she had lost her life mate.. it still hurt but she had to stay strong. Are there any paper work I must fill out?"Suzanna asked.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 17:55:56 GMT -5
Lance smiled and was glad to see she was excited to get started before he looked back to Suzanna with a nod,"Yes there is just a little bit of paper work, nothing extensive."He assured her as he motioned for them to follow him back down the hall and heading towards the elevator again so they could head back up. "You know though I think you'll do just fine here Sarah, and who knows you may be an X-man yourself too."He said with a smile, knowing many students there looked forward to it otherwise they left on their own or to pursue other goals.
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Post by Sarah on Jan 20, 2013 22:13:01 GMT -5
Suzanna merly smiled and nodded, as she followed Lance along with Sarah. Sarah smiled when Lance said he thought she would do well and if she wanted even become a X-men someday. Now that was something to look forward to. She would make sure to work hard to get to that goal. She was normaly a hard worker but she would work even harder now. SHe would make her Mother proud and follow in her Father's path. " I will work hard Mr. Lance. I will work harder then I have ever worked before." Sarah said with a nod.
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