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Training

"So, do you know anything you can really do?" Reptil asked, as they reached a square built room.

The room had a lower deck, and a higher one. The higher one was like a patio-sort of thing, yet it had all sorts of weird buttons and lights on it, plus signs that Solstice didn't even understand some of the words for! The upper-part stretched all the way around the room, ending near the door which they had just walked through. It had silver metallic-y railings along the side of it, and Solstice wondered why anyone would waste money on that. It's not like someone's gunna get hurt falling down there… But each to their own

The lower part of this room, had two parts to it, the half on which they were standing on had light blue tiles on it, yet they seemed to sparkle with a weird light, the other side, had wood flooring with many weight-machines on it. One treadmill and that thing that makes you feel like your skiing was also there. A bench press was there, right near the ending of the wood flooring onto the light blue tiles.

"This is… the training room?" Solstice asked disbelief plain in her voice.

"Yeah, it's quite something, now isn't it? All Stark productions, if you wanted to know"

"Mmmhhmmm" Solstice nodded.

"So, did you figure out anything that you can do?" Reptil asked again, waiting patiently.

"Ohhhh, uhhhh- err" Solstice stammered.

Reptil laughed, "Yea, I really doubted you did. It was only two days ago that you learned you could do anything! Well, with that, let's get started"

Solstice breathed a sigh of relieve. She was glad that it wasn't expected of her to actually know what she CAN do…

Reptil glanced about the room, and his eyes first spotted the weight portion of the room.

"Not to be mean, or anything, but I really doubt you could lift any of those weight…"

Solstice looked at where Reptil was looking, and agreed. "Yea, I seriously doubt it, too. I'm not exactly the strong type"

"Well then, umm, let's try the hologram thing" Reptil said

Solstice cocked her head at him, but didn't comment.

Reptil, standing there feeling a little nervous, jumped up onto the patio thing, and pressed a few buttons. Soon lots of those machines that had attacked Solstice- Doombots, was it? - vaporised, and were surrounding her everywhere.

Solstice jumped back, and squeaked in fear.

The nearest Doombot that was near Solstice, burst into flames, then into tiny particles.

"Whoa!" Reptil said, who had appeared beside her, "That was awesome! But, don't worry, they only move when I say the word st-"

"DON'T SAY IT!" Solstice yelled.

Reptil grinned, "Okay… Anyway, we are going to start it slow… Just leave them be for now, until we can figure out what you can actually do"

Solstice nodded, but still looked at the Holograms worriedly. "Yes, that sounds fine, but are you sure they won't… do anything?"

Reptil looked at her strangely, but then remembered exactly how they had found her…

"Oh! No, no! But we can change how they-"

"No, no" Solstice said, just concealing her fear, "It's fine"

"Alright, let's try and figure out what you can do!" Reptil said, and started listing off all the super-powers that he could figure out.

Super Strength? NO

Laser eyes? NO

Ninja- reflex and ect. Skills? NO

Shape-shifting? NO

"But you can do that cool Scream thing, like Screaming Mimi" Reptil said, checking off something in the clip-board he had gotten. "Sonic Sound, or whatever"

Solstice nodded, "I'm not going to do that here, though"

"Yeah," Reptil chuckled, "Wouldn't want Iron-Man freaking out on you now"

Reptil sighed, "Well, I can't seem to think of anything else at the moment, want to try using a shaft?"

"Shaft?" Solstice asked, cocking her head to the side.

"It's a wooden stick that you can whack people on the head with"

"Oh" Solstice said.

Reptil and Solstice spent, about half the day, with the shaft training. Reptil used the non-moving holograms to show her where to hit to paralyze, and many other things. With Reptil as a mentor, Solstice knew she was going to learn quickly, and she did.

"Wow! You sure are learning this fast!" Reptil commented hours after restless, and hard shaft-training, "I think it's time you promoted to moving holograms!"

Solstice smiled, "Really? You think so?"

Reptil nodded, and smiled down at her, which made that funny-feeling rear it's face again. Fluttering just inside her stomach, making her feel… funny… Strange.

Reptil smile widened, and he gave Solstice a glance, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am"

"Okay, well… Let's start!"

Suddenly, the Holograms that were dormant a second ago, jerked to attention. They moved about, glowing- but they didn't seem to glow with the weird glow that the real Doombots had… They had a different glow, more like to glow that everything Tony Stark had made seemed to have.

"Come on, Solstice! Let's fight!" Reptil exclaimed with joy, and Solstice felt like smiling along with him.

"Alright" Solstice said, knowing that she would have to get this over with, "If I can do it with them not moving, it shouldn't be all that hard with them moving- right?"

As Solstice progressed more in the fight, she found that fighting them wasn't all THAT hard, as she would have thought it to be. But it was probably because Reptil must have put it on Easy Mode, or something like that.

Reptil, noticing Solstice's actions, as well as fighting, stopped in his punch, and gave Solstice a thumb's up.

"Doing good!" He called out, just before another Hologram jumped him.

Solstice smiled at him, but noticed that a Doombot was sneaking up behind him.

"Look out Reptil!" Solstice exclaimed, as the Doombot lunged himself at Reptil.

Solstice, pointed at the Doombot, trying to show that Reptil was in trouble. A sonic boom sounded, and the Doombot broke into thousands of tiny particles, that scattered about the room.

"What happened!?!" Reptil said, completely stunned, "What did you do?!?"

Solstice stared down at her hand, "I-I- I don't know… All I wanted was you- err…" Solstice hesitated. I had wanted to keep you save, that's what I wanted- But wouldn't it be a little awkward to say that out loud? Yet, like the fractal understood me, it… It destroyed that Hologram. I could never have done that, even in a million years!

"Wanted to what?" Reptil asked, moving towards Solstice, cocking his head in a questioning way.

"Destroy the Doombot?" Solstice said, it sounding more like a question then a statement.

"Well, you sure did alright!" Reptil said, glancing at the place where the Hologram had been, "Boy, did you ever" He mumbled, giving Solstice a curious glance.

For some reason, Solstice blushed at the look Reptil was giving her. She turned her head away, to some impulse to do so, "I guess it's emotion-activated," Solstice said, some of her blush evident in her voice, "Maybe because it dug in my skin, and probably hit a nerve, or something that connects to the brain…"

"Yeah, probably," Reptil said, showing no interest to that direction of thought, "Oh man! We have to tell Iron-Man!"

Before Solstice could utter a word, Reptil had zoomed out of the room. Solstice stared at the door, which had shut with a bang when Reptil had run out of it.

Why do I feel so strange about Reptil? I certainly don't feel strange around Hulk!

Suddenly a thought popped into Solstice's head.

Could I LIKE Reptil? Well, he is quite handsome- All of them are, even if they some have different colour skin, and as such. Reptil is very nice, but yet as all the others, so how come it's just him? Is their something about him? Well, saving me from those bad-guys must have done something… But, yet what about Hulk? I seem to be with him, more then Reptil, yet I have nothing towards him besides sisterly feelings… Well love is a strange thing.

WAIT!!!! Did I just say love? No, no, no, I can't possibly be in LOVE with Reptil!

Or can I?

Well????? What do you think? Is she in love with him, or not? I personally think so, because her and Hulk would be great best buddies- not, err, lovers, I guess it would be… Well, what do you guys think? Hmmm??? And sorry for the shortness

- Calm-Waters