The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
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Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
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There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
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At long last, Juliette was not the newest X-Man. We, well, X-Hopeful, really. She hadn't actually been through the whole process yet, but Juliette was excited nonetheless. There would be someone else who was even newer than her.
Not only that, but Juliette had actually been asked to train with her for a session. It seemed that she wanted to get a little more experience under her belt, so some current Xes were being enlisted. She had been surprised, actually. She'd assumed that a more senior member of the team would be assigned to the task, or at least someone with a little more experience fighting.
At first, Juliette had been a little apprehensive about the whole idea. She had so many commitments in so many different places, and adding a training session with a new member didn't seem like the best idea. Especially since she wasn't even confident in her own fighting abilities yet. She had been just about to suggest that someone else attended the session, or that it was rescheduled until she saw the information on the woman.
Kendra Dillenger, aka Daydream. She was a redhead who could teleport while asleep, and she was from Georgia. Juliette hadn't met someone else from Georgia in forever. Sure, she wasn't technically from the US, but she still thought of Georgia as her home. Seeing someone from the peach state seemed like exactly the sort of afternoon that she needed. After finding out that information, it was a done deal. She'd set the time and told Kendra the details.
So, she was standing in the danger room, a simulation paused while she waited for her companion to arrive. She'd spent the earlier part of her day outside in the sun, so she'd have no shortage of power for their session. Plus, it wasn't as if there would be any shortage of light in the hard light simulation room.
The simulation was a large-scale one. The formerly empty room had been transformed into a jungle setting, much like one that she'd been in with Sam. She'd programmed a dangerous foe that was lurking nearby, but it wouldn't be clear exactly what it was for a little while. For the first little bit, they'd have some time to talk and practice. However, that she wasn't planning to tell Kendra that their chill session would ramp up at some unknown point.
"Hey, you ready to kick some ***?" Juliette asked in lieu of a greeting as she heard the doors to the danger room whoosh open.
Kendra was a war of emotions. She didn't honestly know what to feel or think. There was a growing flutter in her stomach. She was all nervous energy and excitement. On the one hand. She was going to get to train with one of the X-Men. She had been in the danger room with Becca a few days prior and that was a whirlwind of chaotic adventure. A secret part of her was excited to do it all again. A much larger part of her was terrified. She wasn't exactly graceful by any stretch of the word. She was a clumsy socially awkward southern bell with a pension for making mistakes.
Kendra moved down the hall towards the danger room. She had been given temporary access to get in and she bypassed the security doors with a swipe of her limited use card. Here goes girl. Just try'n keep ya head on a swivel and try not to make'yaself look like a clumsy roob! She thought as she swiped her card on the last door. The door opened up with a whoosh and a slight breeze. Stepping into the room she noticed that the simulation was on pause. She didn't know what lied ahead, but she was eager to greet it, sort of.
When the door opened she was immediately met by an enthusiastic woman. This must be Juliette, wow. Was this the X-Men or Charlie's Angels? Everyone on the team was gorgeous! Except for Ghost. She couldn't rightly tell you what Ghost looked like with any certainty. Moving into the room she quietly approached. All nervous energy and now social awkwardness. "Hi. You must'be Juliette, I'm Kendra. Nice ta meet'cha." She said sheepishly. The heavy drawl of her sweet southern voice dripped out of her pouty lips and flowed like a river of honey. The accent was unmistakable.
Kendra had showed up for training wearing a wool sweater and a pair of ripped jeans that sat loosely over her black boots. She was wearing a gun holster with a tranquilizer gun resting comfortably inside it just under her left arm. Hanging from her side was a collapsible police baton. She had brought what she had come to see as 'her weaponry.' Tools of her unique craft. She showed up fully awake so she was perfectly visible.
Kendra reached up and tucked some loose strands of crimson locks behind her slightly freckled ear. She was chewing on her lower lip nervously and her nose crinkled like a button. A little habit she had when she was anxious about something. She wasn't sure what this simulation was, of if she was even equipped for it, but she was in the presence of a gorgeous gal who she was sure was capable. She was an X after all.
Becca had really impressed her the last time she stepped into the danger room. She found herself wondering what this girl's abilities were. She wasn't rightly sure. She was just given the information of where and when to be and showed up ready to train her powers and test her skill. "We umm... Need'ta do some stretchin first?" She asked. Her big brown eyes searching the face of the beautiful stranger wondering just what she had in store for her.
Purple text = Dialouge White text = Awake Light pink text = Dream walking *Chat Alias* Melody (Daydream)
Juliette took in the woman as she approached. She was very pretty, with long red hair and big brown eyes, and she had a fairly average build. There was nothing about her that suggested that she would be good in a fight right away, but luckily that was something that could be worked at. It was Juliette's belief that anyone could be a fighter if they worked hard enough at it.
"Nice to meet you too, Kendra," Juliette replied, grinning at the thick accent that sounded oh so much like her mother's had. She'd grown up with a bit of an accent, but she'd lost it over her years of living in various states around the country. That, mixed with the pestering of some cruel bullies had caused her accent to become a bit of a mix of everything. It was to the point where she had no accent at all. Though, she did figure that some hint of a southern drawl might creep back into her voice if she spent too long around Kendra.
"There's no mistaking that accent, huh? I hear you're from Georgia. I'm from there too, in a roundabout way," she kept up her grin. The comment was both to get the conversation going about one of her favourite places, and to break the ice with the woman. She seemed a little uncomfortable, which was fair considering her situation. Luckily, she was with a woman who was well practiced in the art of striking up a conversation with uncomfortable strangers.
The redhead looked just about ready to go, save for her outfit. She was dressed in jeans and a sweater, which drastically contrasted the brunette's workout ensemble. She put her hands on her hips and frowned ever so slightly as she looked her up and down. "Do you have anything more suited to a training session that you could wear? If you don't, you can always borrow something of mine. You'll just get a little uncomfortable in that."
She nodded at the comment about stretching. That was always a good first move. You could never be too careful when it came to pulled muscles. "Sure. We could always start with some yoga or something." She dropped into a lunge and raised her arms above her head in order to stretch. It had been a very good idea on Kendra's end. Stretching felt good.
"So, are you nervous? Excited? Indifferent?" Juliette queried, trying to figure out what she was working with. "I don't want to make things worse for you if it's the former, but how much training have you done? Are we starting from scratch?"
She really didn't mind if Daydream knew absolutely nothing, but it would make a difference in what she would program to happen in the session. Lots of experience? Cool, great time for ninjas. No experience? Also cool, but perhaps they would stick with some low-level goons.
Kendra's voice was a sweet reminder of Juliette's home. She hadn't honestly given a thought to her accent, until Juliette mentioned it. "It is the peach state." She said with a slight chuckle. She was from the south, but she didn't have the same fond memories of her time there unfortunately. Kendra left to get away from her father and wanted to put as much distance between them as possible. As it turned out, that meant New York. She had heard about the mansion and it's willingness to take in lost and troubled mutants. She came here by bus with a dream and some naïve hope that she could find a place to belong. As it turned out, her hope was justified because now she was training with one of the X-Men.
When the issue of attire came up Kendra looked down at her clothes. Her light billowy sweater dwarfed her wrists. The sleeves hung over her hands making her look a little like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia. She smiled in agreement and slipped off her shoulder holster. Pulling the sweater over her head she tossed it aside and slipped the holster back on. She was wearing a light pink tank top beneath. The pale of her fare skin now a stark contrast to the black wool fingerless gloves she was wearing. "This should be alright. More comfortable than it looks really." She said.
She wasn't so much nervous about meeting an X or even so much the thought of training in the danger room. She was mostly nervous because she didn't know what to expect. Juliette seemed perfectly pleasant and oddly enough a wave of comfort began to wash over her. She wasn't so shy and nervous around the bright and chipper Juliette.
Kendra lifted her leg behind her and caught it with her hand. Pulling back on the toe of her boot she started to stretch out her hamstrings as she watched Juliette start to limber up. The last danger room had combat. She was sure this scenario would as well. So she made sure to take all the time she needed to stretch properly. Leaning to one side she stretched and reached for the opposite toe feeling the pulling muscle stretch in the back of her calf. "You know I can't do noth'n fancy less'n Ima sleep right? Figured we could start wit the basics, I ain't much of a fighter I'm afraid. I gues you could say I'm more about stealth."
It wasn't a lie. She didn't really know how to fight. She was wild and sloppy with her fighting style. There was no mechanics to it, no refinement. She was like an uncaged animal chasing a meal. There were a few nights since she's been in the mansion that she snuck out in the night and tried to stop crime herself. It was reckless and dumb and she paid the price for it. Most nights were pretty dull, but one night she found a few guys trying to mug a woman in an alley. She was invisible, but it was still a challenge. She managed to take on three guys by herself. She did sustain some injuries however. She ended up with bruised ribs, a busted lip, a bruised jaw and strangulation marks on her neck. Which DocProf. took care of for her.
It was a hard lesson to learn. She needed to know how to fight before she tried anything like that again. In the end though.... Success. She took down the three would be assailants and the woman got away unmolested. It felt good. It felt great actually. Until the next morning. She may have been an invisible astral projection but she could still be hurt. She didn't feel the pain as badly when astral projecting. It was like it was somehow.... Muted. When she woke up the morning after stopping the muggers it felt like she was hit by a truck. She had the bruises she gained in her dream, and the pain was amplified much louder after.
She was clumsy by nature. Born with two left feet, so she also needed to work on that. She needed to get better at stealth and fighting and that was her main focus of training. She wanted to be able to sneak around undetected taking out people like an invisible ninja! Something like that. "I'm pretty excited mostly! A little bit'o nerves I guess, but that's normal right? As far as the experience level? Put me down for'a big fat zero. When I'm teleportin....I glide! I'm as smooth as butter meltin' over a stack'a flapjacks. But the rest'o my game lacks pizzazz. " Kendra kicked her sweater as she spoke so it was pushed off to the side of the room against the wall.
She was just about done with he stretches. She had been doing them throughout the conversation and she was just about ready. Her body was alive with jumping nerves. Pins and needles exciting her muscles to be reactive and ready. Ready for anything this simulation might throw at her. Kendra finished the last of her stretches and looked over at Juliette. She promised herself she wouldn't ask right off but she couldn't help it. She was bursting with curiosity. "So.... What can you do? If'n ya don't mind me askin?"
The tank top was certainly an improvement over the sweater, but it still wasn't a great outfit to work out in. Jeans could be rather restricting in regards to movement, and Juliette didn't envy her situation. She far preferred leggings and a workout shirt. However, Kendra seemed to be comfortable enough to stretch her leg out behind her, so the brunette didn't press the subject any further.
Kendra claimed that stealth was her area of expertise. Juliette nodded and tried to think of how that might factor into the sequence she'd planned. It would probably actually work out in the woman's favour, she realized.
She'd read a little about the woman's powers, but not much. She knew that it had to do with teleporting and being invisible, but beyond that, she wasn't sure. She did know that if they were going to be stretching and sparring for a little while, invisibility wouldn't necessarily be very helpful. Plus, there was still the fact that she needed to be asleep. "Do you have methods for falling asleep?" She asked, shooting a glance at the holstered gun and baton that hung at her side.
"You can probably actually stay awake for a little bit. We're going to do a little bit of sparring first, and I don't really want to fight someone that's invisible." She winked and came up out of her lunge. From there, she stretched out her back and then her arms. For the most part, she was going through the sequence she did before she went running. "We'll start this way and add in mutations in a bit."
She checked her watch quickly and then glanced up at the paused program around them. If she started it then, they would still have a good chunk of time in order to pick up a good momentum. "Unpause program," she called toward the control room. She'd set it to voice control for ease of use while they were practicing.
The jungle around them suddenly became alive. The previously silent room was filled with the background noise of a rainforest, complete with quiet animal noises and the sound of a far off waterfall. It was really beautiful, really. It was almost a shame that they were about to interrupt it with the sound of fighting.
She smiled at Kendra's word choice. New Yorkers really didn't talk like that, so it was nice to hear from someone who still did. "Alright, well hopefully today will help you get a bit more under your belt," Juliette told her. "I have to tell you, I'm probably one of the least experienced members of the team, but hopefully I'll be able to help you out a little. If you keep going with this, you'll probably get a chance to work with Sam or Cafas, and then you'll really see what the X-Men can do."
They'd circled around to power talk. Juliette had been expecting that, in all honesty. It always came up sooner or later. "I'm a lightmancer; I absorb it-" she flicked her hand and absorbed a flower from the ground next to her "-and then I can use it to do other things." She shot a blast off at a tree nearby and watched as the simulation reacted to the use of force. A branch cracked and then fell to the ground just behind Kendra.
Posted by Daydream on Apr 10, 2017 21:10:44 GMT -6
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Kendra was shaking and getting loose. She didn't really know what the simulation entailed but she knew it was going to be a challenge. Loose limber muscles for the perilous fight ahead. Still, they were going to be sparing first so she could warm up as she went along. Kendra rolled her neck around as Juliette asked her if she could fall asleep on command. She couldn't, but she had recently acquired a tranquilizer gun. She had only used it once before. It wasn't ideal and until she could figure out something better it was all she had. Hypnosis maybe? Maybe a trigger word to put her out like a light? She tucked that thought in her pocket for later as an avenue to explore.
Using the tranquilizer gun was sloppy. It took her a few minutes to go fully under and even after she was groggy in her dream. It was always better to fall asleep the natural way. Though getting knocked out cold had the same effect. She didn't want to travel that path, though she was sure that Juliette probably had a mean right hook. She seemed wiry and tough. "Tranq myself to sleep I suppose. Not'n less you know some lullaby's" She said with a little grin. She didn't need to be nervous with Juliette. She was easy to talk to.
When the simulation unpaused Kendra stopped in her tracks. Standing in the center of a jungle she simply marveled at the level of detail. Somewhere off in the distance she could hear a waterfall, and the droning of insects around her. The trees were heavy and thick; though a twinkling of light sprinkled through the heavy brush giving them enough light to see. Somewhere overhead a monkey howled as he happily bounded from branch to branch. The room felt warmer, more alive. The air was humid and sticky. It was like they were a couple of cinnamon buns baking in an oven. "Cheese and crackers..." She said in child like wonder.
Kendra had a habit of replacing swear words with the most ridiculous edits. Her vocabulary was southern in nature but she cursed like a 4 year old. Kendra barely noticed that Juliette was still talking about getting some experience under both their belts. She was so awestruck. The danger room is awesome! She thought with a stupid grin slowly forming on her pink pouty lips.
When Juliette said that she was a lightmancer Kendra looked at her. What's that? Before she could even begin to wonder she watched as Juliette shot a blast at the tree killing it's favorite branch. That poor non existent tree! Still that's pretty cool. Kendra could see how that could come in handy. She was the least experienced? The X-Men must be something you don't want to tussle with. She had to admit she didn't really know what the powers were of the X's she was basically living under a rock until recently she didn't even know the mansion existed. The perks of being a country bumpkin she supposed.
She was ready. She was really ready to start learning how to fight. It would go a long way into helping her possibly join the team. Since she's come to the mansion she had secretly wanted to be on the team. When Ghost was giving her the tour she even foolishly asked if there was an application she could fill out to join the X-Men. Even though, at the time she brought nothing to the table except her clumsy nature and a pocket full of good intentions. She still wasn't sure what she was bringing to the table, but someone seemed to think she was worth training so that was a start.
Kendra smiled at Juliette. She liked her powers. They were pretty interesting. She wondered quietly how they worked and what it would be like to do what Juliette could do. Kendra had her own little bag of tricks, but no good way to execute them. Yeah she could be invisible and an invisible girl with invisible weapons is hard to fight. It was considerably easier when your astral assailant was clumsy and announced her presence with wild flailing swings and no idea what she was doing. This training would be good for her. She had already gone out on her own in astral form trying to serve up a little vigilante justice. She got the job done but it wasn't pretty. It had left her with nearly broken ribs and strangulation marks around her neck.
She was here to fix that. To try and learn to use her abilities to make a difference. If that had to start in a jungle so be it. Though she found herself wondering what lied ahead for them. As pretty as the view was, she knew this wasn't going to be a walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination. Ok then.... Let's start. She thought as she smiled wickedly at Juliette. Without warning she came charging at the brown beauty. Reckless, wild and ready for a good fight.
Juliette's eyebrows raised as she glanced at the tranq gun. It didn't sound fun to be hit by a tranq gun, and she didn't exactly think it would be a great experience to have to shoot yourself each time you wanted to use your powers. Each power came with some sort of drawback, but that one sounded like it would get annoying very quickly.
She turned in a circle, stretching her arms out as she gave Kendra a minute to take in the view. It really was incredible what the room could do. She remembered her first experience vividly. It had seemed like something out of a science fiction movie. However, the more time you spent in there getting sweaty, the more it lost its charm. It was always nice to have someone serve as a reminder of the feeling she'd gotten when she'd first seen the room.
"It's pretty amazing, isn't it? It's all hard light projection," she explained, eyeing the trees that were projected around them. It still amazed her that something that wasn't real at all could seem so entirely real. It even felt real. If she wasn't able to absorb everything in the room around her, she wasn't even sure if she would be able to tell what was real and what was created by the program.
As she turned back around, her eyes widened. It seemed that they were going right into things. Instinctively, she ducked as Kendra charged at her and swept her leg out, trying to knock her off balance.
She stood up afterwards and stepped away from the woman, shaking her head and grinning. She was certainly eager, that was for sure. ”I guess we’re getting right into things, huh?” she asked, getting into a position with better footing to support a fight of some kind.
Again, she waited for Kendra to make the first move. She wanted to see what her form was like before deciding where to start, after all, and her charging hadn’t given all that much away about it, and she wasn’t entirely sure what she was working with yet.
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Kendra's attack was off balanced and sloppy. It was an uncoordinated mess of over anxious nerves and with the slightest hint of sucker punch. Still, it missed entirely. Her attack was easily dodged and Kendra stumped into a nearby tree. She caught herself by throwing out her hands and she just barely managed not to run into it face first. ”I guess we’re getting right into things, huh?” Juliette asked. Kendra's hands were against the rough bark of the tree. She clinched her fingers a moment amazed by how real the bark felt beneath her subtle touch. Turning around she faced Juliette once more.
"Guess'n we are." She said with a small half apologetic smirk. She gave her a look that said this is going to be fun. And it was. There was no real danger her for the moment. The danger room right now was just the sparing room. She wanted to watch how Juliette fought so she could mimic it a bit. Though her fighting style while awake was very different than how she fought while astral projecting. She couldn't teleport while she was awake and teleporting played a big role in how she kept opponents off balance.
Moving closer to Juliette she took up a loose fighting stance. Really she just bent her knees a little and put up her fists, but that was enough. Kendra smiled at Juliette wandering when she was going to ramp it up and really attack her. She was the more experienced of the two. She was bound to have one or more tricks up her sleeve. Kendra didn't know if there was some gret secret to fighting. She didn't seemed to be born with the innate gift to 'kick ass.'
She wasn't any better at defense, but at least she would get an idea of what Juliette was working with as far as fighting ability goes. The smile faded from her face as she charged again. This time she swung with the opposite fist hoping to catch her off guard. Maybe land a lucky blow. Ice packs were surely going to be in order after today, maybe over a cold beer. There were no hard feelings, at least on Kendra's end. It was just training.
Somewhere off in the wild jungle she heard a loud roar. What the hell was that? She wondered. Well the simulation is unpaused. Just because they were standing in the clearing taking their time to practice; didn't mean that things weren't in the jungle moving towards them. Hunting them. The sudden roar in the jungle distracted her enough for her punched to get dodged again, though she immediately followed it up with an unsuspecting knee that fly towards Juliette's stomach.
She’d been expecting that next punch. It given out by Kendra’s opposite hand, which was a bit of a surprise, but nothing she couldn’t handle. As she ducked, squatting low and placing her hands on her knees for support, she remembered the things that she’d learned in her self-defense class.
If Kendra had been a great deal larger than her, then she would have tried to use her weight and strength against her. However, that wasn’t the case. Kendra was only one or two inches taller than her, and she wasn’t packing a lot of muscle. All in all, it was a pretty even fight in terms of size.
Juliette had been about to try and hit Daydream back when there was a noise from somewhere off in the jungle. If there was one word that could describe the Danger Room, it was realistic. Even the noises could have made Juliette’s blood curdle if she wasn’t able to constantly remind herself that none of it was real.
Despite the fact that it wasn’t real, though, anything in the room could hurt them. She looked around for any lurking danger, but didn’t spot anything. If she had remembered it right, they still had a few minutes. However, her memory wasn’t always perfect…
She was brought back to reality by a knee to the stomach. The woman doubled over and tried to catch the breath that had been forced out of her lungs by the sudden force. ”Good shot,” she commended through a cough.
She made herself stand up and shake it off. She was in a fight, after all, and she had to stay present. It was still a little bit strange to her to be the person fighting and not the person waiting on the other end with sutures.
That time around, Juliette moved offensively. She aimed an uppercut to Kendra’s jaw followed by a kick in quick succession. She had no idea if either of them would land, but if they did, they both had a lot of force behind them. She figured that by that point, it was common knowledge that what happened in the Danger Room, stayed in the Danger Room. She would never purposely hit a teammate outside of that room. Most likely. Well, that hard, anyway.
Posted by Daydream on Apr 17, 2017 21:40:34 GMT -6
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Kendra had landed a knee. That had surprised even her. She didn't expect to land any hits in this fight. After all. She had like no training whatsoever and she was up against one of the X-Men. She had to have been distracted by the sound of the roar. Kendra thought. Still, she couldn't help but let the hint of a smile pull the corner of her mouth up in a wicked smirk. That sent her confidence skyward bound.
Kendra allowed her mind to wander a bit. The girl known as daydream had a tendency to allow her mind to well.... Daydream. She had already been through a simulation once before in the danger room. She had followed Rebecca into the danger room by accident. Being to nosey for her own good. She had been asleep and astral projecting when she followed her. She wondered if she had what it took to complete the danger room awake. Without her teleport. Could she complete the simulation with just her wits and her reflexes?
Kendra was snapped out of her daydream when a uppercut connected with her chin. It rocked her head head to the side. Her long red hair flowing violently around her shoulder as the fist connected causing her head to snap to the side. Kendra looked back with eyes wide. Never daydream during a fight stupid! She scolded herself. Juliette followed it up with kick that came in just as hard. Kendra managed to dodge it and smack her leg away "Sorry."
She was in the middle of a fight and she was saying sorry. It seemed a little silly, but they weren't really enemies, though the punches weren't being pulled at all. Kendra really kneed Juliette hard in the stomach. And there was already a slight bruise forming against the thin line of her jaw. A delicate purple against her porcelain complexion.
Kendra once again took up a fighting stance once. Each of them had landed a strike on the other. One knee to the gut and one nasty uppercut. Kendra had bits of dirt and twigs clinging to her messed up hair.. Kendra still had her police baton hanging from her belt, but she didn't need it. She felt pretty evenly matched with Juliette. Kendra's cheeks still blushed with a rosy tint. Even the slightest bit of embarrassment was evident on her pale face.
Above them they had gathered an audience. Three little lemur monkeys sat on several branches and watched the two women go at it. Kendra wouldn't have even noticed if it weren't for one of them howling in excitement over the take down. He was still cheering when she took her stance again. Kendra's eyes darted over to it for a moment and then back to Juliette. Well, not even an X-Man yet and I already got fans. She mused. The cocky attitude was growing her head a bit, but she had to admit..... This was pretty cool. She was going toe to toe with one of the X-Men and it seemed pretty evenly matched so far.
Her punch had landed, but not her kick. She wasn’t all that bothered by that fact, though. She was actually pretty proud of the punch that she’d thrown. Though, the fact that she was proud of herself for one measly punch reminded her that she really didn’t train as often as she should have. She silently vowed to spend more time in the Danger Room from then on out.
Juliette watched as Kendra’s eyes darted up toward a group of lemurs that lurked in the trees nearby. Whoever had programmed that simulation had been damn good. She hadn’t really spent much time analysing the patterns of jungle creatures, but from the late night documentary that she’d watched once upon a time, she knew that that was exactly how the fuzzy things would act.
The woman stepped forward suddenly, intending to catch Kendra by surprise with another punch, but stopped just short of hitting anything. There was a noise close by. Just a little ways off from them. A yell of some kind, from a wounded animal. From what she could judge, they had just a few minutes before the danger was in their midst.
Juliette took a step backwards and rolled her shoulders. ”You’re going to want to knock yourself out, or whatever you were planning on doing to activate your mutation. This is going to be the fun part,” she grinned. Sure, sparring was a good way to work out any pent up aggression, but running through a jungle and getting to use your mutation in a safe space was what the Danger Room was really for.
She stretched in her spot as she allowed Kendra a few moments to get settled. She already had enough energy to last a good while, and there was certainly no shortage in a room full of light constructs, so she wasn’t all that worried.
There was no obvious sound coming from whatever looming danger was hidden just beyond the trees, but Juliette knew that it was there. Masked by rows of trees, there was a tiger. A tiger followed by a group of men that had been programmed to shoot at any movement on sight.
”Ready for things to ramp up?” Juliette asked with a grin as she heard a low, rumbling growl coming from the trees.
Posted by Daydream on Apr 25, 2017 21:49:54 GMT -6
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Kendra didn't have time to dodge the punch. It would have connected if not for the noise that caught their attention. Kendra looked up. Her brown eyes searched the canopy for some terrible sight. She didn't see one. All she saw was the monkeys in the trees dash off. Scared by some unseen thing tht lurked somewhere within the danger room. Kendra remembered how much trouble the last danger room session was. She had seen the things that could happen in here. Her eyes snapped to some rustling shrubs as Juliette asked her to knock herself out. Kendra looked at whatever creature had cut through the shrubs and escaped a moment longer before nodding. This is going to be tough. She thought as she grabbed the gun from her holster.
Kendra pressed the gun flat against her thigh and pulled the trigger. The dart didn't take but a few seconds to kick in. She felt her vision swimming and the world begin to cartwheel in on itself. She stumbled and leaned against a tree and slumped down it on her back. Kendra's red hair leaving a messy trail of gorgeous fire running up the bark of the tree. She was getting drozy now as her eyes lazily rolled over to another roar. Somewhere fictionistic men hunted a fictionistic tiger. Kendra slowly slipped the tranquilizer gun back in the holster under her arm. Looking back at Juliette she offered her a weak smile. "Now.... I'm gone look dead for real, just don't freak out. I'm only napp'n." Kendra's eyes fell closed, to heavy to hold up anymore and she began to dream......
Standing outside of her body she could still feel the warmth of the room. It was hot. It very much felt like a sticky humid jungle. She looked down over her body. Her neck was craned in an uncomfortable angle against the tree. Her hands sat awkwardly in her lap, limp rags. Her hair was a beautiful expolosion of chaos. She looked like a car wreck victim that was expelled from the windshield at a tree. Her mouth hung awkwardly open as her chest gave a slight rise and fall to indicate she was in fact not dead. It always weirded her out to see how she looked standing outside her body. It gave her the creeps.
Daydream could feel the drugs of the tranquilizer dart coursing through her. It was making her have a slight head ache, but she didn't feel to groggy. Things were always duller in her astral form. She didn't feel as much pain or sensation she felt just enough to know there was some. Dream looked over at Juliette. "I'm here. Let's do this. can you sense light?" Daydream asked leaning over to grab her bag. She pulled a flashlight out and clicked it on; sliding it down into the loop of her pants. She didn't know if she could sense where she was at by sensing the amount of light in the room, but that would be dam cool if she could!
Daydream reached down pulling out her police baton and flicked her wrist. The soft metallic snick cut through the silence. Daydream looked up to meet Juliette's gaze. She knew how dangerous the danger room was. Her little trip through a metal maze had taught her that in her last danger room sesson. She had survived it though. And she could survive this. She was more worried about being a liability to a partner who could not see her. Someone who might need them to not get hurt in the danger room. It was going to be tricky. Daydream took a few soft steps up beside Juliette waiting for her to answer. She hoped light sensing fell within the range of Juliette's talents.
If there was one thing that Juliette was good at, it was not freaking out in medical situations. She began to fix her hair as she watched Daydream ready her gun, separated a bobby pin as Daydream shot herself, and pinned a loose piece of curl back as Daydream collapsed. Sure, there were lots of health concerns associated with repeated use of tranquillizers, but she didn't mention that in that moment. She wasn't a nurse in that moment. She was an X-Man in a dangerous situation, waiting for a potential trainee to activate her powers.
”I can’t sense light, no,” she answered without looking. That would be a cool aspect of her power, but no, it was not one that she actually had. Still, it wasn’t like she usually had much trouble finding it. Especially in a place like that.
Soon enough, she turned around and saw exactly why she was asking her that. Kendra, the sleepwalking invisible woman was holding a flashlight. ”Oh, no. I can just see it like anyone else. That should help me to see you anyway, though,” she pointed out. Her carrying something made her easier to spot.
Although, perhaps that wasn’t a good thing.
Juliette heard the snap of a branch not too far off in the distance, and crouched in response. ”Put that away,” she instructed, hiding behind a taller bush. ”There’s someone coming, and we want to be able to retain as much of the element of surprise as possible.”
An invisible woman was a heck of a lot less useful if people could tell that she was there. It pretty much counteracted any usefulness that her power might have previously held.
The woman stayed still, watching carefully as four men ran carefully into the area that they had just been standing in. They were dressed in tactical gear and moved like they had training. They didn’t seem to notice them right away, but given all their (programmed) experience, Juliette figured that it wouldn’t be too long before they did.
As much as she knew that it was all a simulation, it was still a little terrifying. She just hoped that Kendra would work with her and not jump the gun.
She turned to the last place that she had seen the redhead and moved her fingers around, trying to indicate to her that she meant for Kendra to go to the other side of the men. That way, they would be able to take them from both sides.
Luckily for them, the program was made specifically so that they would only have to deal with one major danger at a time. The tiger wouldn’t attack them with all the noise there unless directly aggravated.
Posted by Daydream on May 13, 2017 21:37:44 GMT -6
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Daydream stepped up beside Juliette and watched her face carefully. Her own face became unintentionally disappointed when she realized her flashlight was all but useless. Juliette informed her that she could not in fact sense light. Oh well. She thought As she walked back over to her body. Juliette continued; telling her that she didn't see light any differently then a normal person would. As she explained, Daydream grabbed her sleeping body by the arms and began to drag it into the tall grass. It was reckless to leave herself out in the open like that.
Everything that Kendra had on her when she fell asleep was invisible, like herself. Her baton was invisible as was her clothes, her gun and the phone resting in her pocket. The flashlight resting in her belt loop was very much noticeable. It seemed to float around ghostly and with a mind of it's own. At the very least if Juliette couldn't sense light, she could see that. That was something at least. "I'll be careful I..." Her voice trailed off after Juliette told her to put the light away. Daydream reached down and clicked off the flashlight.
Before she could finish her thought several men came bounding their way. Daydream instinctively ducked. Her heart was already pounding. And so it begins.... She thought with a small smirk. It was a little nerve racking. It was also exciting. She remembered her last trek through the danger room. She had to stay focused. This wasn't a game. This was serious and either one of them could get hurt here. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Juliette trying to get her attention.
What? She thought dumbly for a second before she realized she was instructing her to make her way around. She could the voices more clearly now as the men seemed to be searching through the tall grass. Were they programmed to search for us? Hm.. She thought making her way around a large tree. She saw the men's gear. Automatic rifles and tactical body armor. They weren't kidding around here. Daydream pressed her back up against the tree. Her baton was still clutched firmly in her hand. She wasn't in charge of this little op. She didn't want to make the first move.
She couldn't quiet make out what Juliette was doing from her vantage point. Two of the men moved her way. They were searching in a formation it seemed, fanning out and slowly widening their perimeter. Kendra could teleport behind them and try and take them out quiet, but the guns made her more cautious. Instead she opted to just watch and see what they did.
The sounds of the jungle all around her she could hear them talking, but still couldn't fully make out what they were saying to each other. Heck, she didn't even know if they were speaking English at this point. Her eye caught the monkeys from before happily bounding from branch to branch. It brought a smile to her face briefly before she settled back into focus. Well, not sure what the play is here. She thought quietly. Then she moved around the tree a little more. She was invisible so she could risk exposing herself. She finally spotted Juliette. Two men heading in her direction as well.
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Kendra clearly hadn’t understood what her hand signals meant. That was fine - she really hadn’t been expecting much from the movement, but she figured that it was worth a shot. There were few people that likely would have understood what she meant, and they all had tactical training. As if it was clear enough before, Kendra was untrained.
The men that they were facing, however, were not. She knew that didn’t have long in her hiding spot before something went wrong, so she needed to use her time well. Already, the men were beginning to sense something, and she couldn’t exactly stay invisible like Kendra could.
Two men branched off from the group and approached the area where she was hidden. One of them held a device in the air and was obviously trying to read its measurements. She wasn’t sure if it would tell them exactly where she was, but no matter what, her path was clear. She couldn’t hide any longer.
From her vantage point, she couldn’t make out what Kendra was doing. She couldn’t control the girl’s actions, but she hoped that she would be helpful rather than a hindrance.
Rather than waiting any longer, Juliette stood up suddenly and switched forms. Suddenly, she was a bright light rather than flesh and blood; impervious to the bullets that were being fired freely in her direction. It was difficult to miss the bright light that had just popped out of nowhere.
The six men moved around her, continuing to fire off bullets that did nothing to help their cause. They went straight through her pure light form, lodging themselves in the trees behind her. She stole a few of them out of the air for added energy to keep her going as well. That was the great thing about the danger room; nothing could really hurt her if she was paying attention. Of course, she tried not to take too much advantage of that fact, since it made the danger room all but useless to her if she did.
There were two men that were closest to her. The rest hung back slightly, keeping their eyes peeled for the second target. She had programmed them to expect two targets rather than just one. There was no point in using a simulation that wouldn’t pose any sort of challenge to them, after all.
She raised her hands and fired off a blast toward the two closest men. One dodge at the last second, but the other was too slow. The blast hit him square between the eyes, rendering him down for the count. Had he been a real person, she would have felt terrible about doing that. While the blasts didn’t hit for a long enough time to burn skin, it wasn’t a pleasant experience. At the least, the man would have suffered a concussion. She didn’t want to consider what the worst case scenario was.
Thankfully, it was just a simulation, with simulated people, so she didn’t let it weigh her down too much, no matter how real the people looked.
She was still surrounded by the other men. Juliette glanced around as she moved forward into another offensive stance, keeping her eyes out for anything that looked like an invisible woman making waves.