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Post by James Adler on Jul 20, 2011 15:06:53 GMT -5
James had stumbled around the school for long enough now. To be honest, the basement had interested him from the start;it was clearly the heart of this institution's operations, and thus it held all of the institution's influence in its depths. James had heard the term 'xmen' uttered from student to student for some time now, apparently from what he could gather, this was the institution's fighting force, and it consisted of well trained and experienced mutants (why they chose the term Xmen was beyond James, he imagined if he looked that up in google it wouldn't bring the most pleasant of images, or associations for that matter). Anyway, getting into the basement was far easier then James would have suspected, finding one of the staff members he simply inquired about it mentioning that he would like to try some new theories regarding his powers (which was indeed true). After the staff member checked his I.D. (given to him upon his arrival) to make sure that he belonged here, and that he was an adult and not a student, he was given a temporary access card that would allow him to access the elevator to the basement, and access the Danger Room. He was given a stern warning, not to mess with anything he didn't understand, and he was made to sign a waiver vacating the Institute from any responsibility regarding his injury and/or death.
After that he was on his way, traveling the vaguely familiar route to the Danger Room. This sure was going to prove 'X'citing.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 21, 2011 3:43:09 GMT -5
Nix sat in the viewing room above the danger room and looked inside it, she had never been a overly technical person like some of the mutants who were at the school but she like the systems of working things like computers and simulations ,so the danger room had always interested her for more than one reason. She had just watched a class of younger students have a go at fighting some sort of robot and she had done her best not to help but she'd pulled a couple of the the way of the over grown tin cans claws a few times and then ducked so no one could have seen her.
The class has left about half an hour ago now and she was still considering going in, she knew the room choose programmes that would challenge the person inside but still give them a chance to win, but nix liked to know what she was fighting beiges she was put up against it. she rolled her bright eyes and then nodded to herself ,if she wanted out she would just need to drop to the floor for a few moments and the machine would shut off so she figured one little couldn't hurt her that much
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Post by James Adler on Jul 21, 2011 18:07:44 GMT -5
James stood before the large metal door and stared at it for a moment. The door was still as ominous and imposing as ever, but now he actually had a chance to go inside James thought as he flipped his access card around in his hand before swiping through the access panel next to the door. The large door slowly opened with a groan. It was an impressively thick door resembling a vault door more then anything.
Peering through the door James saw a singular spotlight pointing downward in the center of the pitch black room, it seemed to be pointing at the main control panel the staff had cautioned him about. Walking slowly inside James felt slightly unnerved as his footsteps echoed through the predominately metal room. When he got to the center he looked down at the control panel. It was a fairly complicated piece of technology, and it didn't look like whoever built it intended it to be particularly user friendly. James carefully examined the buttons and knobs and the variety of displays, careful not to push anything as the result may prove to be quite unpleasant for him.
Luckily taped next to the control panel was a laminated sheet of simple instructions on how to activate the rooms basic functions. Looking at the sheet James found the switch for the lights and flipped them on revealing a plain metal room surrounded by metal walls. Adjusting the knob below the switch, James turned up the lights to fairly bright levels to make sure he had enough to work with.
Then, after hesitating at the control panel for another few seconds, he stepped away from it instead focusing on the wall on the far backside of the room. This seemed like as good of place as any to test his theory.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 22, 2011 2:43:43 GMT -5
Nix looked away from the room and looked around the observation room for a moment, there was a long White couch that run down one side of the room and a small table with a pot plant of some sort beside it. There were a few plain Wooden chairs as well but those were there so people could move them and look out of the window and in to the room and watch their friends fight in the room but still sit at the same time. Nix gave a light and slight sigh and then walked over to one of the chairs and grabbed the top of it and then pulled it in her hand and turned round to look in to the room and dragged the chair up to the window and stood it up before sitting down on it and leaning against the glass. Her eyes widened as she took in the room for a second time, the single spotlight was now brighter along with the rooms other lights and there was a man standing beside the control panel, nix raised an eyebrow for a moment and then realised she should have leftthe room with the rest of the class and being found in there would not be a good thing for her
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Post by James Adler on Jul 22, 2011 13:31:16 GMT -5
James closed his eyes and focused, attempting to feel the pulse of the light around him. He needed to get back in sync with it. Moving and manipulating light was a hard process to explain; in a lot of ways light was like water and it ebbed and flowed back and forth, but instead of being one singular stream of water it was multiple. One different stream for every visible color, making illusions was just a matter of properly manipulating the streams.
Red, yellow, green, blue, purple,black, white they were all his to control, and up till now that was all he ever really needed.
Keeping his eyes closed James began to cycle through the color spectrum changing all the light in the room to the correct corresponding color:red,yellow, green, blue,purple. He continued the cycle making it repeat faster and faster until they all seemed to blend back to white. It wasn't a impressive or complicated display, in fact if anyone (particularly with epilepsy, had seen it they would be bound to get a headache(thus why James kept his eyes closed, he preferred to only learn that lesson once), but it was a good warmup and it loosened him up for the things to come.
Up until now, illusions were all he needed in his life, when things got tough. Life in danger? run away. Can't do that? Make the opponent beat himself. That had been his philosophy, and there was little need for much more then that.
His recent experiences however, had taught him that illusions, no matter how convincing, could only take you so far, at some point he was going to have to rely on force.
Focusing harder now certain areas surrounding him seemed to get intensely bright, like a light bulb would just before it burnt itself out. He needed to focus all the energy into the smallest amount of space, this was why he was down here, even if his theory was right, this would definitely take some time.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 22, 2011 14:22:40 GMT -5
Nix watched the light boy below her and her face broke in to a huge grin, she stood up quickly and sent her chair flying back across the room and smashing in to the wall behind her and she laughed and then pressed her hands together and closing her eyes ,"shadows are just a bigger part of me, my shadows are just a bigger part of me, all shadows are just a bigger part of me" she said to herself and then felt her ears pop and she felt her stomach turn. She snapped her eyes open and felt her whole body tip back and she bumped in to the wall of the danger room and then lifted a hand slowly and weakly and waved to the other man in the room.
"please, try not to hurt me ,I'm a little frail and will be for a few more moments too" she said in a dry voice and then tried to stand up properly but her legs wobbled too far and she bumped back against the wall again but she could feel her fingertips buzzing which meant she was being re-fuelled which was always a good thing for her, otherwise she used her own energy which she knew could kill her if she used too much
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Post by James Adler on Jul 22, 2011 15:11:16 GMT -5
The brighter areas around James now started to form a somewhat spherical shape as they began to compress, slowly over a matter of seconds becoming smaller and smaller, the energy of the intense light was packed in tighter and tighter. The five or so spheres, though each uniquely different, were now about the size of Jame's palm. Up till now the process had been simple enough, It was after this that things could become a problem...
Luckily it was precisely at this moment that James heard a thump of something hitting against the wall. Opening his eyes he saw a girl in front of him who was struggling to keep her footing as her knees buckled beneath her.
""please, try not to hurt me ,I'm a little frail and will be for a few more moments too."
James stared blankly for a second as his mind began to reel back from its intense focus. Finally coming to grips with the situation James allowed the spheres to shimmer into nonexistence as he rushed forward to see the girl.
"You alright? It's kinda dangerous here ya know." He said with an carefree smile on his lips.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 23, 2011 3:10:10 GMT -5
Nix rolled her eyes and then tried to stand up again but his time her foot gave way and she fell backwards a lot harder than before and thumped against the wall and gave a grunt of pain ,"ok, I swear on my own energy of life, I will work more on teleporting before I try it again" she muttered to herself before looking to to the observation desk again and then rolling her eyes ,"all I did was effectively fall from there to here and I'm drained ,really? How is that fair?" she said and then turned her her head see the light boy comeing over towards her. "don't you go wording about me sparkles" she said with a small laugh ,"it seems I need a by more self training before i try doing something i thought I already could but hey" she said as she forced herself to stand up against the wall before nodding to where the lights had been a moment ago ,"can I ask what you do? Or is the rude? Or am I being too nosy?" she said with a smirk and a light laugh again before looking around the room for anmoment and then shaking her head and looking back at the boy
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Post by James Adler on Jul 23, 2011 21:18:15 GMT -5
Sparkles? really? sparkles?? of all the things to be called...well he supposed it was ultimately of no consequence, she was just a kid after all, probably somewhere around his brother's age.
James smiled warmly "Oh me?...if you were up there you probably already saw. I control light, pretty simple when you get down to it. What else is there to tell?I just came down here to see if I could weaponize it a little that's all. See what I am essentially trying to do is this..." James made a ball of light appear in his hand about the same size as the ones he made before. "See you take a ball of light like this and you shrink it down until it looks more like this" he said shrinking the ball of light until it fit comfortably between his thumb and forefinger.It's at about this size, that the energy should be too compressed...and as a result..." he explained as the ball of energy shot out of his hand and simultaneously hit the wall leaving behind a black dent on the previously pristine steel (or at least James assumed it was steel . "The thing is what I did right there was simply an illusion and nothing more. I have yet to accomplish it in reality, and then once I finally do it will still be a while before it will be of any real use to me." He smiled kindly at the girl. "Does that satisfy your curiosity?" he asked somewhat playfully.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 24, 2011 4:14:18 GMT -5
Nix tipped her head to one side and watched the man use his powers and then nodded her herself and smiled slightly and then flicked her our fingers a little and felt them buzz as she took in the energy from the students outside the room and then she pushed herself up on the wall and then she gave a weak laugh and then waved her hand and for a moment nothing happened and then a thin and pale line of dark purple shadows wrapped themselves around her fingers and then slid up her hand to her finger tips and then nix waved her hand.
The shadows shot forwards in small dark balls about the size that the light balls the man had been making and they shot across the room and blasted in to the wall above and around the already blackened dent in the wall. Small impacts appeared where they had hit and the shadows disappeared like smoke as nix slashed her arm though the air and a long line her shadows shot across the room and cut into the wall leaving a slice in the steel but nix was already sliding back down the wall. "please remind me not to show off when I'm so weak" she said in a voice barely louder than a whisper
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Post by James Adler on Jul 25, 2011 15:03:44 GMT -5
"Hmm...so I take it your another shadow user huh?" James said as he moved to help the girl back up. "I seem to be running into a lot of those lately...I wonder if there is a correlation?" he said thoughtfully, more to himself then to her. "Then would it bother you if I asked you a few more questions? Like for example, do you have any inherent weaknesses to light? " he said generally interested in what her response may be.
For now, at least while she was around, training was probably out of the question. Even if she was fine around light, James was genuinely unsure of his new theory, and his ability to control it. Compressing such a large amount of energy into such a small state was a dangerous endeavor to say the least...under normal circumstances he would have never considered putting something so obviously foolish into practice, but he didn't live under normal circumstances anymore, he lived under the 'x-men'.
James smiled, he may never get use to that name 'x-men', still sounded like a strip club to him, not a force to reckoned with.
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Post by nixnight on Jul 26, 2011 2:38:42 GMT -5
Nix laughed and then rolled her eyes ,"not in the slightest ,nothing can break in to or though my shadows unless I lose focus on them, and besides, I don't manipulate shadows" she said and then she closed her eyes and cleared her mind. It took only a moment before she could feel the power in her head and then she snapped her eyes open, she knew they would be the same dark purple now and her skin would have gone darker too ,"something about be draws in negative feelings and coverts them in to shadows inside me" she said in a very low voice before she shook her head and the feeling of power was gone and she stumbled back again
" I know people who can make them and people who can control them but I don't know anyone who drains simply by being alive and then converts them just like breathing and then they are stored inside me until I call for them, or until the balance it out in side me and then my body will randomly eject them which is really rather nasty, so I need to make sure to use them every few days" she said and then nodded to the boy again ,"what about you? You think your light can defeat my dark?" she asked with a grin
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Post by James Adler on Jul 28, 2011 15:34:15 GMT -5
James smirked, this girl, at the very least, was the curious type. It was unfortunate that she didn't have any strong connections to the shadow plain. Instead her powers seemed more based on emotion then anything else, which while interesting in its own right, wasn't really what it looking
And as for fighting her well...
"You do know my powers are really dangerous don't you? Do you know how easily I could blind you without even intending to? You're just a student still and my destructive abilities are still just theories. This seems like a disaster just waiting to happen." James paused for a second intrigued by something. "I must admit though...this room as me curious...being called the 'Danger Room' and all..."
James thought on it a second longer...He had been interested in this room from the very beginning, and he often thought back to the first day he saw their big steel doors. What would have happened if he had went inside back then? Could he have handled it? Could he handle it now? it was something that bothered him. Honestly though he'd be a lot better off if he took things one step at a time, instead of rushing into anything.
(sorry about the late post I swear I've written this post three times and somehow I keep losing it right before I post it)
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Post by nixnight on Jul 29, 2011 5:27:03 GMT -5
Nix tilted her head to one side and then smiled ,"you dont think a student being in here alone is odd at all?" she asked off hand and then she smiled and took a step forward, closer to the boy. "i had a little moment a year or so again, a girl had been annoying me and i lost my temper, but me losing my temper is a bad thing. The girl soon found out as her arm dropped on to the floor and she fainted from blood lose, the school doctor had her healed quickly but i was labled faster" she said and then lifted a hand and ran it through her messy red hair again
"im not defenseless, or weak" she said simply and then she rested her hands on her hips, "im feared by a few people in here and hated by the one who had to re-grow her arm, so dont think ill be an easy kid to beat. Because im always alone i have all the time in the world to work on my powers and get the more powerful and useful" she said and then she tapped one hand to the side of her head ,"so dont think you'd win easy" she said with a chuckle
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