Okay, she'd admit it to anyone but him, but the moment Sam had mentioned a 'Danger room' where people ran training simulations, her curiosity had been hooked. She could recall him mentioning where it was, so it didn't take much scouting around before she found it. Getting in was a bit of a different issue, seeing as the door seemed to need a code, but it still didn't take long for someone who could talk through walls.

Honestly, she didn't know hat the big deal was. It looked like a giant empty gym to her. Where was the training? Should they have like... dummies or something? 

She wandered around for a bit, feeling pretty stupid for breaking into something that didn't look like anything more than a giant storage room. 

"Maybe they just use this place to let kids go wild with their powers?" 

Her voice echoed a little. 

Unfortunately for her, her power wasn't anything she could go ham with. It did one thing and one thing only, albeit very well. Her control over her mutation was pretty damn impressive if she wanted to brag a little, which she did a lot... to herself. 

She could see Xavier having a ball in a place like this if he had people or things to throw around. Maybe this was where students and potential future X's faced off against their peers? 

Meh. 

She wandered over to what looked like some sort of fancy computer on one wall, blinking at it stupidly for a moment before idly reaching out to poke a few buttons. 

Crap, that needed a code too. 

"Well, this was a waste of time."

Her head whipped around at hearing what sounded like someone pushing buttons from the outside. @#$%! Juniper hightailed it to one end of of the room and slipped into the wall, trying to hide as much of herself as possible. The walls were a weird texture, and not made of the same stuff she was used to. They were also insanely thick, so she needed to keep the white toe of one sneaker poking out, or else she'd get stuck. 

Hopefully whoever it was wouldn't notice, because she was pretty sure she'd be in deep trouble for slipping in, if people needed pass codes to access the place.

It was a great time of day to go training the danger room. None of the X-men had it booked, and after that last meeting with Sam she thought she had his timing worked out too. Thank god, she didn't want to run into him for a little while at the very least. He was challenging, to say the least.

She was in her normal work out clothes, which basically amounted to yoga pants and a tank top with her hair tied back into a neat pony tail. She was carrying a duffel bag with some blood canisters in it for the purpose of working out and getting in some power control. She made her way to the door and keyed her way in.

She yawned a little and dropped the gym bag on the floor, slowly doing some stretches and prep for a couple of minutes, limbering up in silence before she moved over to the control panel and frowned. Had someone been messing with it? No matter.

She began keying in a training routine and selected some music too. It helped to train with distraction, simulate the real world a bit more and all that. And she just liked music, metal was perfect for killing fake vampires!

Among the many questions running through her head, 'Is it safe to escape?' and 'Is that Metal?' were the two loudest.

After a moment she decided to hazard a peek out, and temporarily lost control of her power at what she saw. It didn't even register that she had melded with the wall while she spent probably way too long gawking at what the Gym had turned into.

What the @#$%?!

She realized she was stuck when she twitched, or at least a few small parts of her twitched, and the rest itched aggressively in response to not being able to move. She phased herself again with little difficulty, and brazenly stepped out from her hiding place so that she could comfortable gawk around at the environment.

Well... no wonder Xavier geeked out about this school so much.

"Woah!"

Temporarily forgetting that she was probably not supposed to be there, Juniper took a few hesitant steps away from where the wall had been, which, she now realized was no longer there. The $%#@!!

There was a blonde woman in the roo-...er, with her, wherever they were. Juniper had never seen her before, which wasn't surprising with how new she was. It was nice to see another hot blonde though!

"Oh... er... Hi."

Serena had finished her stretching, and was just getting started with setting up the danger room, building a scenario and just making sure everything was set up right, when she looked up and heard the surprise of another person Serena practically leapt out of her skin, stumbling a little before quickly recovering and snapping into a stance. There wasn't meant to be anyone else in here.

Her face and body language softened as soon as she located the intruder and heard the woman's voice. "Hi." The Brit greeted back, sizing her up and wondering where she'd came from. Serena definitely didn't see another blonde in here when she entered, and she also certainly hadn't seen anyone listed as active when she keyed herself into the room.

"Sorry, who are you?" She was probably a student. Serena hadn't met all of the X-men yet, but she figured they would have the decency to say something more substantial.

Her hands went up in a disarming manner when she spotted some sort of fighting stance. "I'm juniper!" There was an unspoken please don't try and kick my ass attached to the end of it, with a hesitant grin.

"I...um... Sam told me about this place so I thought i'd go check it out? I sorta forgot the code he gave me, so I just kinda let myself in. Sorry about that." Was she throwing the ice mutant under the bus? You bet she was!

"I was actually just about to leave because I thought he'd sent me to a glorified broom closet as a joke or something. I didn't expect some kinda... VR thing? Like... what even is this?"

Her hands dropped back down to her sides as she looked around again.

"This is pretty neat. Is it like... holograms? Or just really detailed projections?"

She sidled on over to something to reach out and poke it, snatching her hand back when it felt solid and her brain fizzled a little. What?

... WHAT!?

"...Hoooow the-?"

Serena's stance and body language further softened when she got a better look at the woman, and she started replying, naming herself. She didn't look like a kid, probably an adult. She knew that there were adult students at the mansion, heck until very recently her sister had been one of them. "Hello, Juniper. Sorry if I frightened you, I just wasn't expecting to see you there." Serena soothed.

Her eyes narrowed slowly. Sam. Again. "Sam told you? Gave you a code?" How was it that Sam, who had always been enough of a pain in her rear while he was older than her, was now more of an issue as a young adult. He was cocky, relentlessly flirtatious and could be downright rude. It bothered her.

"He... Should not have done that, or be doing that." She sighed and moved closer to Juniper.

"It's sort of hard to explain, but no, it's not a VR room in the sense that you might be thinking." She watched as Juniper marveled at the room and reached out to touch something, realising that it was in fact solid.

"I assume you've heard of the X-men, and them being based out of the mansion? This room is the danger room. It's kind of a training room, it can simulate just about anything you can think of and is used by the team to train, and to help young students cope with their powers." She smiled as Juniper was seemingly lost for words, she recalled the first time she'd seen the room in action, it really was cool.

Holding out her hand for the shaking now that the distance had been closed, Serena gave the startled woman a soft, genuine smile. "It's nice to meet you Juniper, I'm Serena."

She nodded her head innocently, rocking on the balls of her feet slightly as the woman talked. "Oh... I didn't know it was supposed to be like, a secret...? Sorry!" That was a lie. The codes and super secret technology kind of alluded to it being a secret, especially since no body had mentioned it to her other than Sam yet.

"I have." She chuckled. "A friend of mine is actually working toward becoming one of the X-men. He's actually the one who convinced me to give going to school here a try." The bastard.

She easily shook the offered hand, smiling pleasantly herself. "It's a pleasure to meet you too, Serena. It's not every day I get to run into someone are beautiful as you are."

She glanced around again, fully intending on staying unless Serena physically kicked her out. "I hope me being in here isn't breaking any rules or anything?" She paused, blinking at the blonde. "Oh! I'm probably intruding on your, uh, training, right?"

Was it technically breaking the rules if students used this room to work with their powers? She didn't think so.

"That's fine. It's okay. Sam needs adult supervision these days." She sighed, he kind of always had. To some degree, but at least he was responsible with the students. Young Sam was far more balanced, less broken in many ways, but he was also reckless and arrogant. She was actually deeply upset by all this de-aging business going around, Amelia had been bad enough. Hell, Evelyn had been bad enough.

Nodding Serena smiled warmly. "That's good! It's a good thing to aspire to be, and that sounds like a good friend too. How are you finding the school?" Serena personally had adored the whole school, she loved the grounds and the classes offered, and so many of the staff were absolutely wonderful too.

... What was with every cute girl Serena met, literally anywhere making her blush? It was so not okay. Well. Maybe. She liked being complimented, but she didn't like being embarrassed. "I-Urm." clearing her throat she forced out an actual reply. "That sounds like something you say to plenty of people, actually."

Serena shrugged. "Students can be in here with supervision, I suppose I'm technically qualified to supervise." She chuckled a little at the followup. "You are sort of, but I don't really mind. You're much nicer than other interruptions I've had recently." Better looking too.

He needed supervision, huh? She never would have guessed what with the secret bachelor pad and all. She kept her giggling on the inside though, still trying to play innocent for the most part.

"He's the best friend I've ever had." She said, and honestly meant it. It had taken some time to come to terms with the fact that she even considered him a friend, let alone enough of one that she had signed up for a commitment like going to school. "I know he'll make a really good, er... hero, or whatever, someday."

Oh... it seemed her compliment caught Serena off guard a bit. Was that a blush? How cute! "Oh, I say it a lot for sure, but only to people I think are genuinely attractive." She winked, unable to contain the smile that crept out with it.

She chuckled at being called nice, though... she supposed it was easier when someone pretty was around. Her damn near permanent RBF tended to melt away when a nice face happened by.

"Well... if you don't mind, then I suppose it's okay. If there any way I can help you with your training, or should I just um.. sit on that bench over there and watch?" Hell, watching her do whatever in a tank-top and yoga pants was enough of a treat on it's own.

"I don't have any experience with training or danger rooms, or whatever else it is you hero types get up to."

Well, not formal training. She hardly felt like saving an ice cream vendor from a mugging counted as any real experience.

Serena chuckled in response to that, it was always nice to hear people that weren't ashamed or nervous about admitting to having a super close friend. She'd certainly never been shy about admitting when she was close to people, but she knew that she was far more relationship and feeling centric than most people tended to be. "I'm glad to hear it, if he has the will and the right attitude, there are plenty of people willing to help." Which included her.

Dear god, she thought Cait was an anomaly. Had Juniper also come from the alternate universe to transform Serena into a walking blush? Although she doubted the way things had turned out with Cait was how things here would work. Surely not. She tried to clear her throat before replying, the blush had noticeably deepened. "Well thank you."

Serena tilted her head in amusement. "What were you thinking of doing in here, my usual training is pretty intensive.I don't think that'd be appropriate." She pondered. "I don't mind you watching some of it, but I also don't mind finding an activity to show you what the room can do. Now that you're here, it's not a big deal." Besides, she'd called Serena beautiful. She was biased.

Nothing could ever quite match the swell of pride that came along with making a pretty girl blush. Seriously, it was the best.

She shrugged slightly at the concern, a grin still fixed in place on her face. "I'm not terribly worried about danger. I'm kind of invulnerable most of the time, so not much really get a chance to hurt me. If you wanna change the program that's fine too though, i'm not gonna try and tell someone more experienced than me what to do. I'm sure you've got a better grasp on things than me."

She glanced around again, walking a few steps away. "I wonder if Xavier knows about this place already... He's that friend I mentioned. I'm sure he'd lose his marbles in here with how cool it is." She could already see the big doof in her head. Probably taking selfies and bouncing around like an idiot.

Serena was glad that the teasing had let up a little, she'd had more than enough of that from Cait thank you, she didn't need it from other gorgeous women. Quirking an eyebrow at Juniper, Serena wondered what she meant by that. "How do you mean, invulnerable?" Surely it was something mutation related, she didn't think she'd ever met anyone invulnerable before. Resistant to damage, sure.

"And do you take any issues with gross mutations?" She always felt the need to check if people got faint around blood, her power was not pretty in the classical sense. She'd learned to kind of love it herself, but she was a weird writer.

The geeking out comments made her smile, thinking of her sister's reaction, and of James' reaction so long ago. "If he's been talking to the X-men, or a lot of the students around here I'm sure he does know about it. It's not exactly a secret, it's just not open to the public, so to speak."

She rocked a bit on her heels. "I'm intangible most of the time. Nothing can physically harm me, unless I let it. For real, throw a punch at me and your arm will pass right through."

It was a simplified explanation at best, but it would do. "I can hold it for quite a bit, too." The teen smiled and shrugged, hoping she had answered the question well enough. Besides, what kind of real danger would a school throw at their own students? Probably not anything very threatening.

"It's hard to get grossed out by anything these days, especially when it comes to mutations. Throw your worst at me and i'll me fine." Like, seriously. There were people running around out there with booger powers and giant slime bodies. It was hard to react to much these days.

"Ah, I see. I'll keep my lips sealed while out and about them. Don't need me blabbing to anyone I suppose."

Juniper could become intangible? Now that was interesting. Serena had heard of powers like that before, but she couldn't recall ever seeing one in action. "That's actually very interesting, that would make you very difficult to harm indeed." Not that Serena wanted anyone to actually get hurt in the danger room, she'd experienced that, and she'd also caused it more than one, she wasn't eager to repeat.

"You certainly have a refreshing attitude, Juniper." She complimented, moving back over to fiddle with the settings. "So the room generates not just objects, but sort of... constructs, it can create creatures or people for practice. As well as obstacle courses, and pretty much anything you can think of." She admitted.

Serena reached over to her duffel bag and opened one of the chilled canisters of blood. "It's up to you if you want to try and partake in an program with me, or just watch. If you want to watch first and try something in a bit, that's up to you also." she started fiddling with settings again, setting up a pretty basic training program with killer robots.

"Thanks. I've been told I can be refreshing in more ways than one."

Wait, was she staff? She probably didn't wanna push it when came to hitting on teachers. Sam had been risky enough at the time.

She focused on the other things Serena had said, instead. The room, program, whatever, could create basically anything.

... Anything?

Well, her mind had ended up in the gutter relatively quick.

She kept her thoughts to herself and hummed innocently at Serena's advice, totally not checking her out while her back was turned. Nope, not at all.

"I'll probably hang back and watch first. See what you've imported in." It was probably the wisest course of action, since she had no clue how something like this worked. Was it like, ninja's or more real life baddies? What was in that canister?

So many questions!

"Maybe i'll hop in once I've figured out if I can actually be of any help or not."

... Were those... robots?

Oh my, maybe this wasn't going to be the cakewalk she thought it was at first.