Danger Room Dance [Erza]

[Wyvern]

Scarlet romped down the hall. She was dressed for the danger room, so she was dressed for combat. That meant tight black pants, slim shoes, a tight sleeveless shirt, and a combat vest and belt. All black, save for the belt.

It was time for a combat test, and she was in an edgy mood. Last night's dinner hadn't sat well and she ended up setting her bed on fire. The built in sprinklers in her room then soaked her and she spend the rest of the night in one of the spare bedrooms, and those rooms never smell right. Plus the beds weren't any good.

So now she was ready to burn something. As she marched down the hall she could smell the residual gas release from the special pores on her arms. Small wisps of flame flickered around her.

She stopped in front of the solid metal doors to the danger room and punched in the code. It was long and complicated. She got it wrong twice, further irritating her. The doors opened up and she walked inside. "Computer, prepare scenario B-12 for combat drills. Set danger level for 2."

"Orders received. Danger level set. Non-lethal parameters are active. Medical trackers active. Ready to begin." The computer's lights around the walls blinked as the holographic emitters woke up.

[Rapunzel]

Erza rushed down the hallway towards the Danger Room. She was late, and she knew that the teachers never allowed lateness. The red head was usually really good about timing. Never before had she been late to anything. Erza usually goes to places early if she thinks that she might get lost, which happens very frequently since she is navigationally challenged.

She wore black tights, a regular pair of tennis shoes and a black long sleeved shirt with bare shoulders, and it was a little too tight. Her long layered spiky red hair was up in a wild ponytail. Erza didn't really know what else to wear to the Danger Room. It was her first time there so she was extremely nervous. Finally she made it and entered the room.

She saw that Scarlet was there already. Although Erza blushed she couldn't help but smile. She really admired Scarlet not only as a powerful mutant and teacher but as a woman too. Sure, there were things she didn't like about her, but those were very few. She can be really scary.... which is why she was so nervous about arriving late.

"S-sorry I'm late!"

Oh, man... to be specially trained by Wyvern herself....! What an honor....!

[Shadow cats]

Wind whipped through Zachary’s hair as he jogged down a foreign, pale white hallway. Red color blurred around the corner as Erza’s red hair trailed behind her. Confusion turned some Zachary’s features as he wondered where he was going since he had gotten a last minute summons to a place called the Danger Room seconds after he had put up his duffle bag. Quickening his steps he continued down the hallway.

Wonder who this Wyvern teacher was and which subject she taught in the Danger room?

Not knowing what the danger room entailed, Zachary Had dressed in a skin tight black shirt. Wrapping over this was a strip of green leather. Thankfully he had subliminated his three foot tail into vapors and they were wrapped around his waist above his dark green cargo pants. His footsteps were almost soundless since he ran down the white hall bare foot. Turning a final corner, Zachary sees a door with a sign reading Danger room above it and a blur of red hair dashing through the door.

Good thing I followed Erza. Now… to meet this teacher Wyvern.

Turning into the room Zachary slows down and calmly walks through the door. Inside the room stood erza and another red haired female, who was probably the teacher Wyvern. Sticking his hand into his pockets he pulls out a small cellphone and pulls up the most recent text received from one of the staff. “I was told to come to the Danger Room and I apologize for being late.” As Zachary talks his eyes look over the pale walls as lights seem to be activating from random tiles. ”My names Zachary Kaine” Curiosity could be seen as Zachary looked back to the other Red head he had yet to formally meet.

[Wyvern]

Scarlet turned as her students walked in. They were late, which made her angry. Small flames were sprouting from her arms. "There you are! I said twenty minutes ago."

She looked at the two students. Erza and Zachary were new to the Danger room. This would be a valuable experience for them. "Nice to meet you too, Zach. I wanna see your power. Let's get this thing started. Computer, activate program."

The walls rearranged, panels shifting and pillars dropping into place. They had a variety of objects jutting out, mostly barrels. They were loaded with rubber bullets. They would hurt like hell, but wouldn't kill any of them. They oriented on the three of them. "Ten minutes. Countdown starting."

A large timer appeared on one of the walls: --:--:10:00:00. It began to count down.

"Right, you have ten minutes to beat. After that, the guns will fire and in all odds we will get the crap beaten out of us. Got it? Now get to work!"

[Rapunzel]

Erza hesitated for a moment. She stared at the barrels. What were they for? Would they have to jump over them? Attack them? Send them flying? Wyvern hadn't said yet what she wanted- just as she thought that, she asked the students to attack and beat her in ten minutes. If they didn't beat her in ten minutes, then the barrels would go off which were said to be filled with rubber bullets and they would be in a world filled with pain.

"You want us to attack you....? But why...?"

Erza was filled with disbelief. She didn't think she would actually have to attack her teacher. What was the reason? Why couldn't they attack robots instead? Or fake villains? Or anything else! Erza didn't want to attack her teacher. She not only respected her too much but she was also frightened of her. What if she burned her hair....?

[Shadow cats]

A slight scowl changed her visage as the teacher Wyvern displayed her anger. Zachary watches as flames sprouted along her arms. The flames sputtered and went out as Miss Wyvern looked towards Zachary, the anger having partly left her eyes. In a greeting to Zachary, Wyvern boldly asks for him to show his powers in concurrence with a parting command to the room. Barrels and columns twisted out from various panels in a whirl of mechanical movement and noise. As these various objects settle into place, Wyvern looks between him and Erza with a gauging look.

Oook… now that explains why they call it the danger room. But how does she want me to show my powers?

His mind and gaze travels down to the barely visible wisps of cloud that marked his tail to his eyes. A ringing beeping noise signals the appearance of a timer on various panels around the room, one of which was stationed between all three of them. In a loud voice that seems to catch Zachary’s and Erza’s attention, their teacher exclaims the drills objective of fighting against and beating her in a fight. Zachary looks down down at the timer as his apparent partner in this drill voice her concerns.

Oh. So she wants us to fight her so as to show her our powers… Fine then.

Zachary’s hair slowly starts moving as if by an unseen wind as the ends of his hair turns to smoke. With a blink of eyes Zachary’s tail condenses back into its visible three foot length. Looking towards his new teacher Zachary smirks a little as his tail swings behind him. “We don’t have much choice then do we, since there is a time limit.” His eyes go half lidded as he watches the teacher’s movements. His form slightly wavers as he looks on, his power building and unleashed. In a barely jarring experience the room shifts in Zachary’s view as he reforms a second later behind Wyvern in a rush of wind and smoke. Wasting no time he crouches and sends out his tail to try and wrap around her ankle before whipping his three foot tail back behind him in a blur. The room shifts again dizzily as he condenses himself perched on top of one of the barrels two and a half seconds later with smoke trailing behind him, his eyes on the other people in the room.

This will be interesting.

[Wyvern]

Scarlet smiled at Erza. She was so innocent and reminded Scarlet of herself. Plus they looked similar in features so that helped a bit. But she was very naive. "Not everyone looks upon mutants kindly. You need to know how to defend yourself, even against other mutants."

She looked at Zachary. He seemed more on board with the exercise. Typical male attitude. She had read over his file before this, but hadn't had the time to witness his power firsthand. And as if on cue, he demonstrated, vanishing into vapor.

Where was he? She listened to try and discern his location, all the while, keeping an eye on Erza. That ended, however, when she felt something quick wrap around her leg and yank her feet from under her. "Awe, shi-."

She spun, deftly grabbing a wire from her belt and throwing it high. Since there were few handholds in the room, she chose a magnetic head. It snapped to the wall and the motor on her belt suddenly pulled her towards the wall. She stopped herself and reoriented herself until she faced downward. "You're pretty quick."

She raised her hand and released a powerful jet of flame towards the boy. Her flames were plenty strong, though not enough to melt metal from this range. The boy would have a fun time dodging it. Even as vapor the currents given off by the heat would disrupt his path.

[Rapunzel]

Erza gasped as she watched Zachary fling into action. He was so fast! He turned into vapor. Seeing his powers in action was really amazing. He was really good and he had a lot of control over his powers. Unlike Erza. She could control it, but sometimes they just acted on their own. Kind of like when she sneezed and hair spikes went all over the place. It was really embarrassing!

But Miss Wyvern was right. They would have to face mutants that are not so nice to X-men. Like the brotherhood. She didn't know much about the brotherhood but she had heard plenty of stories. More specifically about their leaders. Erza gulped, readying herself to attack Miss Wyvern. Her hair came to life, moving around in separate sections like tentacle hair. Then, she concentrated and her hair launched about a dozen hair spikes at the teacher. The power her hair demonstrated was phenomenal. At first she had no idea she could pierce through concrete and steel. It was really amazing what her hair could be capable of, especially if she got more control over it.

"Here goes nothing...!"

[Shadow cats]

Zachary’s tail twitches behind him as he watches the others, the ends of his hair still trailing in mists. Surprise holds him still entirely as the teacher starts falling down from being tripped. The barrel he sat on was slightly cold but he didn’t seem to notice as the red haired chick who was his teacher threw and attached a wire to the ceiling. In a span of a few second she reach the ceiling and started twisting her orientation to the ground. Her eyes set themselves on him as he closed his mouth which had been hanging open in surprise. A grin breaks across his face as he looked up at the teacher.

That was Awesome! Simple but awesome.

With little warning other than the teachers movements, Zachary witnesses a column of fire rush towards him. The room starts to shift in a blur as Zachary shifts into his gaseous state instantaneously and start crossing the room in a blink of an eye. However he doesn’t go far as the temperal heat currents traveled faster and farther around the fire itself. As Zachary escapes the path of the fire he is hit by the hot currents of air and if knocked back into solidarity. With a small thud he hits and slides across the slick tiles on the floor of the Danger room as the barrel he was sitting on was engulfed in flames.

What the heck… we are supposed to beat her in ten minutes?

Quickly taking his eyes off the burning machinery, Zachary looks up as he see’s red hair snake across the floor shooting crimson needles at the teacher. With a mischievous grin Zachary stands up in a fluid motion and chuckled as he realized that this was probably Erza’s power. Looking up he watches to see what the teacher would do so he would know a little on how to react to the spikes. Zachary would especially want to avoid getting between their attacks as that would not be good at all for him, so he chose a more calibrated move. Zachary figures blurs considerably as his powers build exponentially. With the sound of the rushing intake of air, Zachary is surrounded by an explosive torrent of shadowy smoke that hid him from view. With this smoke, Zachary’s view shifted to encompass the whole room as he drifted through the cloud in his gaseous state watching for an opening.

[Wyvern]

That was better. Erza's first attack was a good choice given the situation. Her attacks were powerful, if possessing an obvious weakness. Even if it could break steel, it was just hair. Though burning it now would only result in flaming needles.

She palmed the release button on her belt. The motor released, letting her drop five feet instantly before catching her. The needles passed over her as Scarlet threw another wire. It latched to the opposite wall and pulled her in.

Wyvern was pulled from one wall to the other. She flipped over and faced downward, inhaling as much air as she could. The mutant released a massive wave of fire from her mouth. Since the mouth had a much more direct route to the lungs and the chemical sacs in her throat and stomach, she could release much more fuel than from other body parts. The result was a stream of fire far more powerful than the one before. She aimed straight down, not wanting to vaporize her students, and let the heat and residual flames wash out over the floor.

A few seconds later, she reached the other side of the room and retracted the first wire..

[Rapunzel]

The way things were happening, they would NEVER be able to beat her! Zackary kept doing his own thing and Erza had no CHOICE but to do her own thing because he was doing his own thing and it was just a circle of unplanned solo attacks. And clearly it wasn't even working. They couldn't beat her alone. She was a top notch X-men! And her powers were greater than either Zachary's or Erza's. Her fire could burn Erza's hair and Erza had seen that Zachary couldn't even remain in mist form when the circumstances were wrong such as when it was too hot with the currents of heat from the flame Miss Wyvern had done earlier. She had seen what had happened.

"Zack! We have to work together! Otherwise we'll never beat her!"

Suddenly, as Miss Wyvern switched sides with the wire from avoiding Erza's attack, she sent out an even more powerful jet of fire at the two. Erza ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction. There was no way she could defend against that!

[Shadow cats]

Few openings in the fight presented itself as the red projectile needles flew across the room at the teacher know as Wyvern. In a blur they propelled through the air with great precision. From within his enhance gaseous cloud Zachary observed the teacher reach for her belt instead of burning the red spikes in the air. With a profound click she drops down, avoiding the red spikes at the last second. With a continuous peel, the spikes embed themselves in the ceiling.

Definitely good to stay out of that encounter otherwise I might have had serious injury.

Even though he currently was without ears, Zachary can hear as Erza shouts a plea and assessment of the situation. This barely registers though as a wire shoots across the room near the ceiling effectively pulling Wyvern across before she surprisingly unleashes a powerful cone of flames towards the floor. Taking action Zachary travels across the room in a trailing form of clouds, appearing running next to Erza literally a second later. Whispered under his breath as they ran away from the fire, Zachary proposes his actions before he acts so as to allow them to coordinate their attacks as she had said. ” I will fly at her and attack from the side, and hopefully give you an opening.”

This would be difficult.

The fire stops as the teacher reached the far wall and started retracting the wire that was currently attached to the other wall. Zachary watched as the wire slowly arced down while retracting even though he kept his eyes on his teacher. Using all his control, Zachary crossed the entire distance between them and Miss Wyvern in the blink of an eye. Solidifying within the momentum of his travel Zachary appears in front of his teacher, parallel with her as he appeared with a swinging kick aimed at her upper arm. The power combined with the unstable balance would hopefully disorient her for a few seconds as he felt gravity weight beginning to work in. He would keep his eyes on his teacher as he dropped down towards the floor, wind snarling his hair slightly at increasing speeds.

Now.

He dizzily changes the view of the room from his perspective as subliminates and recondenses his form above one of the barrels. With a finicky glance Zachary sees that one and a half minutes had already past as he looks for an opening based on Erza’s actions.

[Wyvern]

Finally, they were starting to get with the program. Neither of them could match her in terms of firepower. Zachary was faster than any of them and was at least familiar with aerial combat. And Erza was capable of projectiles. Combined there was definitely potential enough to catch her off-guard.

Zachary suddenly appeared before her, swinging his leg hard towards her arm.

The only problem with his plan was that while he was familiar with aerial combat, Wyvern was a master. The spout on her shoulder fired a concentrated burst of flame, catching Zachary's leg and pushing Scarlet around. His leg missed her body as she spun. Her arm lashed out as she came around, only to find vapor.

"Damn." She dropped down to the ground and dashed to the nearest barrel, taking cover behind it. The two would be plotting their next move. It was her chance to think two moves ahead.

[Rapunzel]

His distraction had been just enough! Her hair was flying directly behind Zachary as he went for that kick! In tendrils, they aimed to stab at whatever opening Miss Wyvern would leave, however, she froze and hesitated. She couldn't hurt her teacher! This whole thing was just crazy! She knew that the point of the danger room was to think of it as if she were fighting an enemy but it was so difficult for Erza. She ran up to where Zachary was now standing on a barrel as her teacher went to hide behind another barrel.

"I-I'm sorry," she apologized, "I didn't take the opening! I was stupid... maybe we can try again. We need take that wire, I think. It's the way she maneuvers around. Without it, she'll be forced to stay in one place. You are faster than I am, if you can distract her... maybe I can use my hair to take it."

Erza began sneaking around the barrels as her teacher had done. She had observed that they were good for hiding and ducking behind. Would they go off if they were hit too hard? Maybe they wouldn't, it was really hard to say since she didn't know much about it. Erza waited to catch an opening. This time she wouldn't hesitate!

[Shadow cats]

Pain slowly presented itself as Zachary stood on the barrel and watched his teacher jump down to the ground. Glancing down he realized his leg was covered in a fine mist and that he was missing the end of his right pants leg. Lifting his leg slightly off the ground relieved some of the pain as he looked up and notice his teacher hide behind a barrel and column across the room. Zachary’s tails curled slowly behind as he watched, the pain stings his foot.

This is kind of a pain. Thankfully my disappearing act put out the fire on the pants.

Using his tail to keep balance he looks down as Erza runs over. Stopping below him she starts apologizing for missing the opportunity to attack their mutant teacher. As she continues he listens and glances at his foot near the end. “Probably better you didn’t attack, since your hair probably would have just caught on fire because of her maneuver. But good idea…” Turning his head he watches as she hurries off between and behind the barrels.

Yes. This definitely needs to work… though this situation was kinda messed up in that they were fighting their teacher.

Lowering his foot, he tested its usability. Other than irritation little happened as he put his full weight on it. Glancing down he saw that the smoke had disappeared entirely. A grin widens his features as he jumps down and walks over towards the barrel the teacher had originally run behind. Concentrating, Zachary starts to feel light as he stops his power halfway in transition. With a slight push he sails over the barrel and twists landing in a corner seven feet up the wall. With a lidded gaze he looks down for his teacher, pushing off from the corner after sliding down four feet. He turns as he jumps down and spots her behind one of the barrels down the line. Erza, however was a few barrels away but close. Wasting little time when he lands he jumps over and lands on the barrel behind the teacher. “Sup teach.”

Now to move before she uses her flames.

Sitting there he watches for a second or two before transitioning into his gaseous form and flying through the air to float behind her tauntingly though he was ready to move if necessary.