I woke up with Raven sat on my bed prodding me in the shoulder and blowing her minty breath on my cheek.

Grudgingly I sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes

"Raven I love you and all but why are you in my room right now? Prodding my shoulder's really that great a pastime?"

Raven laughed at me, but stopped the prodding

"So I heard from Charles that he found you talking to Alex in the kitchen last night. Alone" she winked at me suggestively.

I hit my sister's arm halfheartedly

"We were just talking."

She giggle, getting off my bed and going to my closet

"Well whatever you want to call it, Charles sent me up here to get you ready for your training session, which just happens to be with Alex."

I flipped out of bed, quickly finding the floor with my face.

Great, because I really wanted to get up close and personal to a carpet.

"Well I see that got you up," Raven laughed, chucking a grey cropped sleeveless sweatshirt, sports bra and a pair of shorts.

I grabbed the clothing in my hands then looked at her in disbelief

"I didn't even know I had these? Why did you get these things out? This'll barely cover my chest let alone my torso!" I exclaimed, holding up the sweatshirt.

Raven ignored me and tossed a pair of Chuck Taylors

"Charles wants you to meet him and Alex down in the bunker in 10 minutes."

She then ditched my room and left me to change.

I quickly put on the cropped top, coming to just above my navel.

Thanks Raven.

Hurriedly I put on the shorts (that were nearly underwear) and shoes, before tying my hair up into two long pink braids and rushing down to the bunker.

Charles smiled when he saw me

"Ah Savina, there you are! Come on."

He pulled Alex, who was carrying a naked manikin, into the bunker

"My stepfather to the possibly of nuclear war quite seriously. That's why he had this bunker built down here. I thought we could use this as a practice range of sorts."

Alex looked around at the long enclosed space warily

"You don't think I'm going to blow through the walls?"

"Ah, he had this place built to withstand a nuclear bomb, I think it can handle you Alex" Charles laughed, taking the naked dummy from Alex and placing it at the end of the bunker.

"You know, when I do this bad things can happen" Alex told the pair of us as we walked back to end we entered through.

"Its because you can't control it," Charles pointed out,

"It controls you. That's why were here Alex, its why we're training. Now Savy I want you to stand beside Alex and observe for me."

"Observe?" I gave him an incredulous look.

"Moral support?"

Whatever...

Alex nodded to Charles

"If you're serious about me doing this you might want to get back."

"Alright," Charles stepped out of the doorframe,

"Shall I shut the door?"

Alex shrugged nodding as Charles closed the doors, sealing the bunker shut

"Yeah."

Hot blonde turned to me

"You should probably get back too."

"It'll go straight through me, I'm pretty sure that's why Charles chose me to do this and not Sean," I rolled my eyes at him.

"Whenever you're ready!" Charles called from the side of the door.

"Fine."

Suddenly he started swinging his hips and released three of the red laser bands threw themselves at the walls, setting the whole place into lines of fire.

Suddenly the alarm went of and Alex tugged me away from a nearby flame.

"Oh my god!" Charles exclaimed as he flung open the doors and grabbed a fire extinguisher,

"I will teach you to control this Alex!"

Alex looked around at the flaming walls, watching Charles run around with an extinguisher

"Eh..."


Half an hour later we'd quelled the flames and then Hank appeared with a seriously fugly black and metal chunky vesty thingy.

Hank and Charles had to wrestle it on him but finally Alex was wearing the thingy

Alex stared down at the thing with slight despair

"Sexy..."

I moved next to him and winked

"I'm totally digging it. Goes with your eyes."

Hank smiled sheepishly

"Well this is just the prototype. The real one will look considerably better. It'll be a whole suit. See these sensors measure your energy I'll put this panels focus in and the excess is absorbed."

Charles nodded then pointed at the new three dummies, especially at the center one that had a large X tapped from its shoulder blades to its hips.

"Alright try hitting the one in the middle, just the one in the middle mind. Good luck" Charles concluded, leading Hank out the room. Once again leaving me with Alex.

Grinning, I rested my elbow on his shoulder making him raise an eyebrow at me,

"I retract my first statement, now I know that the excess energy is absorbed it's totally easy on the eyes."

Alex rolled his eyes as I giggled, then destroyed every manikin, but the center one. Creating more flames for us to extinguish.

He's definitely special...


After another hour or so we finally got the flames to go down. Again. And Hank returned with a black vest with a large circular disc on the front. This time Alex just took it from him and put it on himself to avoid being manhandled.

Charles pulled me with him and Hank to the other end before whispering 'Just go with it' into my ear and standing me in the dummy's previous place.

Oh thanks Charles! Cuz I really want to be a human target!

"Wonderful work Hank, alright Alex it want you to hit Savy and try not to hit me, or Hank, there's a good chap."

Alex eyes widened as he realized what Charles meant

"You're serious?" I was less a question and more a constipated statement. I say constipated because his face made him look like he was trying to drop a huge dookie.

"I'm very serious, I have complete and utter faith in you."

Well from the way Hank shifted away from me (the target) with his own constipation face, i'd say that he wasn't so faithful.

Alex turned to me his face sending me silent questions.

"Ditto" I told him, in relation to Charles earlier statement.

Giving him another saucey wink, he clenched his fists and suddenly a burning heat was shot through me.

Charles and Hank quickly dived to the sides to avoid it.

That's when I felt a breeze on my chest.

That son of a bitch!

Alex was laughing loudly at my furious scowl and winked at me.

Hank chuckled nervously at my face

"Am I still a bozo?" he asked the chuckling blonde.

"Yes Hank you're still a bozo," he told him then looked back at me

"But nice job..."

Yea real nice job Hank. So nice that the laser beam thing didn't harm me at all but did burn a giant hole in my sweatshirt and sports bra.

Giving all three men an open sight at most of my breasts.

Yeah Hank...

NICE JOB YOU BOZO!