Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
Wolverine didn't seem too concerned now, as they walked off. Sydney however was still wary and walked slowly, and carefully, tired a bit, from his exertion, as he kept stopping and looking back, and over his shoulder, knowing that those things were still out there, somewhere, and they were still coming. Still after him. Almost near the exit, Sydney hoped; the sun seemed to suddenly come out, as they walked off, towards the doors, as the warmth from the sun made misty fog quickly burn off. Syd was right, to still be cautious, because they were still out there, and they were still after them. As he paused again and looked back, he spotted an eerie red glow, coming from the dissipating foggy mist. Yes, one of them was indeed coming out of the dissipating fog, hover flying over. Sydney took off running, and pushed him out of the way. "Wolverine, look out," Sydney said and quickly pushed the burly man out of the way as he stared up at the gigantic robot as it loomed closer and came nearer to them. "Oh my God, what is that thing?! And why is it after me?!"
"Sentinel, get out of the way," warned Wolverine, dive pushing him down and out of the way. As the robot fired at him! Despite, he pushed him away, and landed on him, to try to protect him, it did no good in the end as the gigantic robot still caught them. One tentacle grasped Wolverine by the leg while the other grasped Sydney by his middle area, and both were hauled up, to face the huge gigantic oversized hulking robot in its hands! "Aaah unh, grrr, this is so not my day."
"Ahhahh, ohh, ow, unh, let me go! Unh, ohh, tell me about it." Struggling futilely in the metal octopus like tactical grip and now oversized hand Sydney was also pulled up to the robot's face!
"Destroy all mutants!"
"Hey! Here's your mutant, right here," Wolverine growled popping out his claws. Logan was in no way sure Sydney was a mutant. He had his suspicions he might be one, especially considering he had originally thought Sydney was a new recruit. However, right now, Logan had some serious doubts about that, especially since aside from the brief situation scan, the Professor had not yet said anything about him being one, nor scanned him and checked him out with Cerebro, as of yet. Perhaps Chuck had, until this happened, since Sydney was so open to mutants, planned on just simply having a little chat about it with him, to ask him that directly. Yes, he was sure he had planned to do either or, or do both, to find out, but after breakfast. Then if so if he was one, and depending on what Sydney's mutant powers are, see if he was willing to join up with the team, or not. Being able to mimic things, and do voice impersonations, well, anyone with enough time and talent on their hands could do that normally. Even if by any off chance, that was a mutant power of his, there was no way in hell, it was going to be of any use in here, right now, that's for darn sure!
"Destroy all mutants," the robot repeated and fired off a third tentacle arm grasper, from its chest, to halt Wolverine's menacing claws, which got quickly sliced off by Wolverine.
"Unh, hey, ever hear the saying, imitation, is the sincerest form of flattery?"
"This is not the time for sentiment, kid, I have to...unh, get you out of here, before that thing harms you, or worse." What happened next answered any suspicions he had about the kid.
Sounding exactly like Wolverine, "I'm real flatted you came to my rescue, but," the outline of his body was glowing slightly before taking Logan's exact form, only he doubled the size up by at least 4 times, bulking himself right up in the processes. Thus as Syd knew, it had caused the robot to lose the grasp grip it had on him. Sydney easily landed expertly to the ground, unharmed now possessing Wolverine's great agility, and endurance, despite the oversized form of the real Wolverine. Sydney pissed right off, then popped out a copy set of his own oversized 'Wolverine claws' and looked over at his friend and obvious teammate leader. "I get it, and I think I got it! So this is a mutant school huh, and this is a training room right?"
Logan nodded, stunned a bit at watching the naïve shape-shifter in action. For someone who had little experience, especially in a situation like this, he seemed to know exactly what to do. Sydney had jumped up using own 'Wolverine' claws, to scale up the robot chopping and clawing his way into that thing as he went, Then made the claws a bit larger and sliced the robot's head clean off! "That it is," and after being sliced out of the Sentinel's hand grip after Sydney was nearly finished up with the Sentinel, Wolverine flip righted himself as he landed on the ground. So, Wolverine observed, proudly, of his newest charge and friend, the kid like him, now had his agility, or rather was able to carbon copy any mutant's physical attributes, like agility and possibly, attitude.
"No problem, then, if you don't mind, I'm gonna stop running from these things now. It's time to pass this crazy test." That Black Panther form did him no good to fight them, just to keep himself covered, and out of sight, and far ahead of the robots, when they came chasing after him, firing laser beams at him. Sydney had no choice but to run and use his powers and keep on running until they had found him inside here. But now with his new friend inside here helping him, he found his confidence. It was time to dich the defense and go with the full out attack. Sounding more like an announcer, in Wolverine's same voice, "It slices, it dices, it juliennes, and it will cut up onions, without making you cry!" As Syd was saying it, he climbed up the robot and took slices into and off of the robot, starting with slicing and slashing into its upper legs and on into chest area before slicing off the major limbs starting with the head then onto the hand that held Wolverine, and chopped off the other arm. When Wolverine was safely on the ground, and Sydney had scratch clawed the Sentinel's back and leg all the way down to the ground, it was time for the final attack on it. Sydney scaled up and went for robot's legs and cut them in half! "Just don't get on Wolverine's bad side! Or he will cut you to pieces," Syd said jumping down off the falling robot and revering, "hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee! Is that all you got you stupid robot!"
"Cerebro, Danger Room, new mutant, analyze," Wolverine ordered! Though it was pretty damn obvious, what his powers were, shape-shifter, but Cerebro could tell if he had a secondary power. It could also determine, exactly, what type of shape-shifter Sydney was. As the scan was in progress the Danger Room was still active, and Wolverine was wondering why. Kitty hadn't shut it off, why? Then all of a sudden, he realized why. No one was hurt, and the sim wasn't over, yet. Scott also probably had it locked it up, somehow, to prevent it from being shut off, early, until the program was fully over. Or because of his order, it remained on, rather than deactivating. But the Sentinel was destroyed now, and Cerebro did not need to keep running the Danger Room to do the analyzing of Sydney's powers, it would just alert the Professor, and also the cameras would feed directly that recorded information. So why was this sim still on? Wait, didn't Sydney say, 'robots' not 'robot', as in… "Oh no, we're not done in here yet, kid, the Danger Room is still running. Get ready." There was another huge earth shaking thud, and then Wolverine and then Sydney saw it, that same eerie red glow Sydney had seen earlier coming out of the distant mist. Seconds later the shape of the second Sentinel, appeared. Beside him was Sydney. Wolverine was about to place his body in front of the kid, and take on the full brunt force of the attack. But there was no need. Suddenly Sydney's body was glowing all around him, in a rippling aura glow effect, something, that he had never ever seen Mystique do before. Why? Maybe, he thought, the kid just got his powers, and was still getting used to them, and he didn't have a very good handle on using them as of yet. Wolverine however got his big answers as to why though, when Sydney was shape-shifting and was surprised, really surprised, at what form he took. He went greyish in tint then grey in color as his body became more animalistic in appearance as his body grew and he bulked up and quickly doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in size, and out emerged the huge oversized form. It was a huge oversized rhinoceros! Like the robot had thumped, so did Sydney but more so, as his front hooves had hit the ground under the weight of the new form! So, that was why, Syd had put on that ripping glowing like lightshow, Wolverine realized, so, unlike Mystique, apparently he could notably not only alter his physical appearance but also weight at will. But he still had to be Sydney.
Imitating the fanfare, charge, "Da, da, da, da, da, da, CHARGE‼!" Running and ramming the robot, it took air a few good feet before it thudded to the ground, with an earthshaking thud, and a huge hole in the Sentinel's 'groin' where the horn struck‼ When the Sentinel landed, its heavy metal body caused the robot's major appendages to break and shatter off! "Alright, Wolverine, do your thing," he said as he reverted to his true form, hands on his knees panting, exhausted. Wow, what a workout, this is great, he thought. I'm so exhausted, I can hardly stand, that last form took it right out of me. That was so much fun, I had no idea that I could do that with my powers.
"With pleasure," and popped out his claws and charged right over and started disemboweling the robot, and as soon as it was 'deactivated' the simulation finally ended.
"Danger Room session, over," it the Danger Room's computerized voice announced!