Danger Room

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This takes place right before the current story arc of Astonishing X-Men. Prof. X is on the island of Geonosha, Jean Grey is dead again, and Colossus is alive.

This is told mainly from the point of view of the Danger Room (training room of the X-Men, armed with alien Hard Light holograms, but with safeguards to keep it from killing any one). Some of it is told from the point of view of some of the X-Men (the writing in italics)

Beast dodged the blast of fire within .389 seconds of him being aware of it. Wolverine ran at 23.4763 mph slashed a solid light hologram with 87.5648 psi. Colossus would grab Wolverine and throw him at the End Program button in 4.00076 seconds. I dropped the floor from under them 4.00075 seconds later. As they fell Kitty Pryde rushed to see if they were ok. She phased through the barrage of adimantium spikes, but in the .983687305 seconds she was intangible I let out a barrage of high pitched sound and she dropped, solid again. The safeguards prevented me from killing her, so I had to settle with making a cage of electricity around her. She would not be able to phase through that with out great pain. Cyclops fired an optic blast for 2.957 seconds at the End Program button. I responded by launching out a many sided crystal that absorbed the blast and shot it out in many directions. No fatal hits but everyone in there were grazed by the diluted blasts. Emma Frost was in her diamond form, coming at a holo of a sentinel. She used diamond fists to punch hand and foot holds in the metal and climbed to its mainframe. I shot out a spinning diamond tipped drill at were she would be in .74836 seconds. .0047 seconds before it hit her and shattered her diamond form around the room. "Emma Frost was killed", my speakers announced and Emma left the Danger Room. As if in real life, I sent many little crystal shards flying through the simulated battleground. That move would have killed Cyclops and hurt Beast. It would have killed Kitty, but at that moment she was trying to phase through the ground and tunnel under the cage I had made for her. Of course I knew she would try that trick (it worked for her last time, but I learned) so 1.37636472 inches under the solid light "ground" I had a deadly Electrical current. I couldn't kill her but the speakers blared "Kitty Pryde a.k.a. Sprite a.k.a. Shadowcat is dead". That left only a heavily wounded Beast, Wolverine, and Sprite's pet alien/dragon Lockheed alive. I induced a zero-g environment around the purple flying thing. And after it aimlessly struggled and flapped for 6.784758 seconds in switched to reverse gravity, reversed with 14.4832 extra g's. Had this been real the dragon would be a purple smear in a 31.83738 foot deep crater. He left the room. Four down two to go. Beast tried to throw a Fastball Special (an X-Men move involving one strong X-Man throwing another, most often Wolverine getting thrown), but like Colossus's attempt it failed. 56.957529 of the way to the End Program button, Wolverine would have impacted into a sheet of adimantium at a force of 678.4832685 psi. I would have shattered his unbreakable skeleton. Beast was the only survivor. Trailing hard light blood he ran to the End Program button. Jump, duck, crawl, run, and dodge. I was impressed with his skills, but in.0003658 seconds I had a plan that had an 89.573748 chance of succeeding. I suddenly made the ground as close to frictionless as possible. He had no choice but to extract his claws and crawl foreword inch by inch. (Beast has retractable claws like a big cat.) I then sent a high voltage beam through the ground launched him off all fours and into the air. By the time he came down there were soft light holos of long adimantium spikes on the ground. He would have died.

"Hey, Fearless Leader," Wolverine said, "Either we got stupider, or that thing got smarter. Because the last time it killed use all was, hell, it was before old Ruskie died" as he gestured towards Colossus. "That was only the second time I died in there" Beast added. Cyclops shook his head "I know. And I'm worried."

Worried about what, he didn't say. Was he worried that his team was failing. That he was failing as a leader. That the Danger Room was messing up. No it couldn't break down it was designed not to. Besides he had never heard of Shi'Ar tech ever failing. No, he would just train his team harder; it wasn't that the Danger Room had got smarter. It was just a fancy computer, and computers only did what they were programmed to do.