Well, Neena had wanted a reaction, and that's what she got, and fast, too!

Laser fire exploded into being above and around her, forcing her to move. She sprang about among the branches, giving her agility and reflexes a major workout. She spared glances behind her when possible, usually when in the middle of a swing.

As she landed on one branch it bent with her weight, giving her a momentary, unimpeded line of sight. Sight that told her that she was about to become a rodeo bull, if she didn't move quickly.

Telekinesis meant very little hope of dodging the flying vine. So she did the opposite. As the branch readied to snap back, she pushed off, directly toward the lasso, arm extended above her head. She felt the tickle as it settled over her, and grabbed the length with one hand. She felt weight return as gravity attempted to reclaim her, and reached out with her free hand to her satchel. A short dagger flashed in her hand and at her side, cutting the loop.

She felt a sharp sting, and wondered if she'd gotten a little too close to her own skin with the blade.

Specter had Neena on the run now. The woman was aglie he'd give her that. She moved through the trees like a gymnist while he was being aided by his abilitys. Still once he had her in the coil of vine that wasn't going to matter. The Neena did something completly unexpected. Instead of running away from the trap she jumped right into the middle of it. It all happened so fast Specter had less than a blink of an eye to choose his next move. Ether he could tighten the coil now, or he could make a quick adjustment with his spheres and blast her. Seeing as hitting her with the laser was the objective of this exercise that's what he went with.

As he moved his aim Neena passed through the rope leaving her hands free to be able to cut the cord. However his shot was right on target. It would have taken a skill far beyond human to be able to dodge in time. Sure Specter still wasn't sure what Neena's mutation was, but from what he could tell he would guess that it wasn't super speed.

Specter Fired twice more each shot aimed at a diffrent part of her body. Even if by some mirical the first shot missed, or was blocked to be able to dodge all three was all but impossible.

She saw the shots coming out of the corner of her eye. But Marcus hadn't tightened his grip on the vine like she'd hoped, and without anything to throw her weight against, she couldn't defend very well. Neena took the first two shots square on.

By the third she was close enough to the trees again to catch hold and swing her weight again. The shot passed close, but missed. Barely. She let go, dropping to the ground in a roll.

Now that the fight was out in the open, she needed to switch tactics. The dagger slipped back into its place in her bag, to be replaced by the slingshot again. This time the pellets she choose glinted blue as she took aim at the ground. Two rapid-fire shots exploded into thick smoke, rising into the air around her and Marcus. The third shot, a red pellet, she aimed at the orb-trio. She hope that the explosive impact would knock one or more of the orbs loose from the others briefly, thus canceling out any more shots.

However, she didn't stick around to actually see if her shot made impact. Her ears would inform her just as quickly. For now, she needed to go on the defensive once more, and ducked into the underbrush, pulling the cut vine along with her.

Specter watched a moment as Neena fell. He had managed to good hits before she was able to pull herself out of her fall, and the third would have given her a nasty hair cut had it been anything but a beam of light. Specter metally grabbed his coat as he jumped after Neena putting it back on in midair like something out of an action movie. He had nearly forgotten that they where only in a training room, and didn't want to lose his favorite coat by leaving it behind.

Specter was almost right on top of Neena now. So when she fired the smoke pellets there was nothing he could do, but fall into the cloud of fog. Momentarialy disorianted he wasn't prepeared for the next attack. The red pellet recochied off one of his orbs flying into his face before expoloding. Specter had been taken so off gaurd by the attack that he lost his telekintic control over the orbs dropping them to the jungle ground, and out of sight.

The fight was over as the smoke cleared around Specter the danger room was morphing back to it's origanal form. With all that had happened in the last half second Specter was disorrinated. It took him a moment to remeber what was going on, or where he was. Then he saw Neena not five feet off to his right. "Well now I would have to say that was rather fun. Are there any other surprizes you would like to pull out on me teacher?" If Specter had had any doubts before he was now completly sure that Neena knew more about the X-men that what she told him. If he had to put money on it he would say she was one. Specter may not remeber his past, but he did know that it took alot of training to be able to be as good as he was. For Neena to be able to put him through his paces like that could only mean that she to had training. This place just seemed to get more intresting with every turn.

"Weapons lost. Exercise ended."

Neena blinked. Weapons lost?

She straighted as the hologram began fading. Waving away a bit of the residual smoke, she saw the Marcus had lost his grip on the orbs. To judge from his expression, she'd done a fair job not only of surprising him, but throwing him off balance.

"Well now I would have to say that was rather fun. Are there any other surprizes you would like to pull out on me teacher?"

A one-sided grin tugged at her mouth. "Indubitably. But if I told you, they wouldn't be surprises." She winked at him, then tilted her head thoughtfully. "Though I must admit, that wasn't quite what I intended to happen. Rather effective though."

She replaced the slingshot in her bag. "You okay? You want to take a break before starting the next round?"

Specter stretched his arms while cranking his neck. It felt good to have A.C. again. Now that things where back to normal he realized just how much of an effect the humidity had had on him. His forehead was drenched in sweat, and if it wasn't for his powers causing his hair to float around he was sure it would be matted to his face.

"I will admit you caught me off gaurd. The ball bounced off my sphere before exploding in my face. However if I remeber right I did get you with two hits. Not a bad attempt for my first time. Did you happen to bring any water jugs? After that jungle heat I could use some cooling off."

Specter wondered how she was planning to test his ecto blast. She couldn't really put herself up as a target. After all the blast where like touching death itself. Sure Specter could dial down the power so they wouldn't be leathal, but that didn't mean that it still wasn't a dangerous power. Not to mention that in the heat of battle he couldn't be 100% sure that he would be able to keep his control.

"I will admit you caught me off gaurd."

Neena smiled. "That's m'job."

"The ball bounced off my sphere before exploding in my face. However if I remeber right I did get you with two hits. Not a bad attempt for my first time."

She nodded in agreement.

"Did you happen to bring any water jugs? After that jungle heat I could use some cooling off."

He did look overheated. In answer she motioned back to the console once more. Yet another hidden door popped open, revealing bottles of water and dried food. "This is where the disaster supplies are kept," she explained.

While he cooled off, she debated which exercise to try next. If he was going to help her with some of the classes, he needed to be familiar with the various exercises, such as the obstacle course they'd just worked through. But which one? She flipped through all of the possibilities, a thoughtful frown on her face.

Finally, she decided she may as well show him the gambit. She passed one, paused, then went back. The Minotaur's Maze. She'd gone through that one with Silver Streak during his Xman training, a trust building exercise. Basic, yet very revealing.

She settled on that one, adding a few different obstacles than the ones she'd used with Steel. She already knew the maze inside and out, so the switch-up was mainly for her own benefit. She got bored easily, after all.

"Okay, since I surprised you at that last bit, let's take a bit of a break for now. We'll put the ecto-blast on hold for a moment. In the meantime, let me show you some of the other things I go over with the classes."

As she spoke and typed, the maze began to form behind them. Sleek silver walls rose from the floor, forming the walls of the maze.

"I use this scenario quite a bit in the Basic Training classes. Have you ever heard of the Minotaur's Maze?"

(OCC: the labiranth built by Datalis to house the monstous offspring of the kings wife with a white steer. Datalis and his son Icrus where then also imprisoned in the mazive maze duel to Datalis helping the queen in the suduction of the Steer causing 2 of the most famous stories in all of greek mythology.)

Specter grab the water bottle and alittle of the dried food as he waited for Neena to choose his next task. As the walls begain to move he again had to push himself off part of the outer structure as it begain to reform into a gigantic maze. The Neena asked him if he had ever heard of the Minutor's maze. Putting down his snack Specter thought for a moment, but came up blank.

"I may have in my past, but you know all to well about that. Is the maze soupse to be famous or something?" Specter looked around trying to figure out just what Neena had instore for this exercise. However all he could see was the giant walls of the maze. There was no way to tell what was going on inside the structure untill they actually entered into it.

Well if Neena used this senerio alot atlest she knew what she was doing, and besides Specter was going to have to get use to these exercises if he was to become her assistant.

"I may have in my past, but you know all to well about that."

Neena nodded acceptance of that point.

"Is the maze soupse to be famous or something?"

"Or something," she chuckled. "Short version? The Minotaur was a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull, imprisoned by King Minos in the catacombs of Crete, and given youths from conquered nations to hunt and kill. Nasty thing, really. If you have a chance to read up on it, do so. Greek and Roman mythology will keep you busy for hours on end. Anyway, a fairly famous strategy game was based on the legend, called the Minotaur's Maze. That's what this is based on."

The maze finished its construction behind them. She moved to a spot outside of the maze, waving for him to follow her. The area began to rise, forming a platform that overlooked the maze from above. In the very center of the maze stood the stone statue of the mythical beast.

"I use this course to help teach the students how to trust one another. One student stays up here, and attempts to directs a second, blindfolded down there, through the maze unharmed. Naturally the obstacles depend on difficulty, and range anywhere from just the Minotaur himself, to the timed fire pits, to the cyclops, and the Hydra. Plus a few other little surprises."

She paused for a moment, then asked, "What d'ya think?"

Specter nodded as Neena explained about the Minotar's Maze. A half bull half man, normal Specter would think that was an insane idea, but with the things he'd seen lately he wouldn't be at all surpized if one ending out walking around a corner at any given moment. As they where lifted up over the maze Specter half listened to Neena as she explained the exercise. He was busy trying to commet the maze to memory. However the thing was just to large with twist and turns that went off in every direction. He tried to spot some of the traps Neena had mentioned, but ended up failing at this also. They probably didn't activate until somebody actually entered into the maze. The blindfold would deffently complicate things. If the parties involed in the exercise wheren't able to work together the maze seemed potentualy fatel.

"I am sure you have done this a hundred time Neena, but I do have to wonder what keeps people from being seriously injured? The way you speak if the blindfoled person is not careful it would be all to easy for them to end up dead. Even if the person giving them directions is capable. I do not wish to sound as though I am afriad of the challange. However if I am alowed to help teach your classes I believe I need to know as much as I can about them."

"I am sure you have done this a hundred time Neena, but I do have to wonder what keeps people from being seriously injured? The way you speak if the blindfoled person is not careful it would be all to easy for them to end up dead. Even if the person giving them directions is capable. I do not wish to sound as though I am afriad of the challange. However if I am alowed to help teach your classes I believe I need to know as much as I can about them."

She nodded. "Agreed. As for the danger factor, that increases with difficultly. Lower level obviously have very little danger factor. The Minotaur starts off as a hologram, as do the various obstacles, and the maze monitors hits and scores. Basically a glorified interactive video game. The more difficult the level, the higher the danger factor."

She sat on the edge of the platform. "One of the reasons we insist on kids under sixteen not come in here alone. For some reason a lot of teenagers have this mentality where they think they're able to handle more than they really can. The higher danger levels are coded so that you need permission to use them."

She looked at him with a resigned smile. "But then again, a technomancer can quite easily get around that little detail. Thus the reason anyone caught in here when they shouldn't be is in serious trouble."

It might have been hard to picture Neena upset. But it was fear she couldn't feel, not anger. Anger still had its place.

"Agreed, pushing your limits is one thing jumping into a rock quarry to see what will happen is another." Specter might have been the type of person who was willing to push his limits to the edge. However even he understood when he was out matched. Limits where there for a reason. Push yourself to hard and you might damage something that there's no coming back from.

"Very well I believe I understand what this exercise is about. Who do you wish to go into the maze, and who do you wish to direct?" Specter was game ether way. Though if he was going to run the maze he would have preffer to do it on his own where the traps coud actually do damage. He was going to have to remeber this program for his solo training. It seemed to be a good test of skill, and if the maze could be changed each time a good way to keep his training fresh.

(OOC: Sorry it's short. Wasn't sure what to say. lol)

"Very well I believe I understand what this exercise is about. Who do you wish to go into the maze, and who do you wish to direct?"

Neena blinked at him. So he wanted to try it out, eh? All right then.

"Well, it doesn't matter to me. The maze changes every time you use it, so it's always new to me. But I guess it depends on how trusting you are."

How trusting was Specter? Coming from Neena that was almost laughable. The truth was Specter didn't trust anyone, not even himself. With his memory gone there was no way of knowing who he use to be, and it was difficult to come up with a whole new self out of nowhere. Still he knew Neena was a teacher. She might push her students to make them do better, but she would never choose to put her students into a situation they couldn't handle.

"To be honest I would rather run the maze by my self to test the obsticals. However that is not what this test is about. Well I should probably learn how to lead people through this thing. It does seem like a very useful exercise. Also you have more experiance running courses like this so the blindfold wont be as much of a hinderance if I happen to mess up."

Yes that seemed like the best plan. Not only could Specter get some training on how this opperation worked. He could also watch the maze and see how the traps where activated. Not to mention this would give him a better idea of Neena's own skills.

"To be honest I would rather run the maze by my self to test the obsticals. However that is not what this test is about. Well I should probably learn how to lead people through this thing. It does seem like a very useful exercise. Also you have more experiance running courses like this so the blindfold wont be as much of a hinderance if I happen to mess up."

Neena nodded and smiled. "That's true." She realized he still didn't know anything about her mutation. She probably should tell him at some point, though she found it slightly amusing that he hadn't asked yet.

"All right then, I'll play the blind rat this go around. Just a sec." She rummaged in her pouch for her staff, and opened it up. "Set difficulty level three."

"Difficulty level three, accepted." The holographs shimmered a bit as new dangers and obstacles were added, including the timed fire pits, and the wandering cyclops.

Neena dropped her bag on the platform floor, and dropped several feet to the main floor. She returned yet again to the console off to the side, and retrieved a set of earbud radios and a blindfold. She tossed one in his general direction, not overly worried about her aim because of his abilities.

"That way you won't have to yell at me," she explained, fixing the little device in place. "All right, this is slightly higher than basic training, so the Minotaur will be harder to defeat. A hit to the back or head will stun him for ten seconds, and after each hit he becomes angrier and more persistent. Eventually he may start smashing through walls. The cyclops is dumber and weaker, but faster, and he can see through the walls to find me, so he will be difficult to avoid. A hit to the back or head will destroy him instead of stunning, but once he's gone, after ten seconds another will appear elsewhere in the maze. The fire pits are timed, but if I get hit, I automatically lose one life. I've only got three to spare, so use them wisely."

She grinned up at him, obviously enjoying the chance to use the exercise again. "I'll do whatever you tell me, but keep in mind I'm not very good at combat. Agility is my specialty. Any questions?"