Scene 3: (In the Danger Room) :
"Beast, stop the sequence," Cyclops said, his voice showing how annoyed he was at the way things were going.
"Wolverine, Gambit, up here now," he shouted over the intercom inside the danger room. They both looked up at him through the window and reluctantly walked up to the control room. "What are you two doing?" he asked, glaring at both of them, "You would think you were fighting each other out there."
"It's all his fault," Gambit said, his eyes glowing a bright red, "He keep gettin in my way."
"My fault. You better zip that tongue of yours cajun, if you want it much longer," Wolverine said slipping out his claws.
"Any time mon amie," Gambit said lighting up one of his cards.
"Gambit, Wolverine, stop this now. We are a team and if you can't get over whatever problems you have then I'm afraid for the saftey of everyone you're going to have to be put on restriction," Cyclops said looking at both of them, "Especially with the tight security around Traveller that is needed, I can't have you two worried about killing each other while trying to protect her from the real danger. If you two don't work this out now then I'm going to put Beast and Storm in charge of watching Traveller."
"No need to do that bub. Just tell gumbo to stay out of my way and things will be fine and dandy," Wolverine said walking out the door and making his way back down to the danger room.
"Humph. Stay out of his way. I t'ink maybe he need to learn to stay out o' my way," Gambit said following Wolverine out the door.
"Gambit, I'm serious about this. If you two can't get over whatever rivalry you two have, then I'm going to have to pull you both," Cyclops said grabbing his arm.
"Don' worry boss man, when it come to protectin' da lil' lady, me and Wolvie both get down to buisness," Gambit said, walking down the stairs and into the danger room.
"We'll see how true that is in a moment," Cyclops said, deciding it was time to test them both.
"Beast, put up the Traveller sequence we made earlier this morning," Cyclops said looking in the danger room, "I want to see how well they do protecting her as a hologram, before I allow her to enter the danger room with them."
"Are you sure they are up to it? That sequence was set at the strength we believed Vertigo to be which is at the highest level. They have only been warming up on a level 2 and 3. Taking them to this level may indanger there lives," Beast warned, looking at Cyclops intently.
"It's all holograms correct?" Cyclops asked, making sure there was nothing that could cause serious harm to either of the X-men in the danger room.
"Yes, but the strain it will put on their powers and emotions if they fail. The sequence is made to be as life like as possible and if they do not "save the girl" so to say, it will be a very real ending they view," Beast said, again trying to talk Cyclops out of doing this.
"Just run the sequence Beast," Cyclops said, crossing his arms and walking over to the window to watch.
"As you wish," Beast said, slowly typing in the code for the Traveller sequence. Cyclops looked down below as the sequence started. At first it seemed as though Gambit's words had been true. They worked together to try to save the hologram image of Traveller, but then things went down hill.
"Get out of my way gumbo," Wolverine yelled as he jumped over Gambit's head, slashing the head off of one of the robots that were now attacking them with brute force.
"Why don you get out o' my way," Gambit said, ducking as one of the robots shot a laser, missing him by a hair.
"30 seconds left," an automated voice said over the loud system, telling them how much time they had left to save Traveller.
"I t'ink it's time to get dis ova and don with," Gambit said, flipping over the line of robots and flinging out some charged cards. He ran over to where Traveller was held captive in a tube prison.
"First we charge da card," Gambit said lifting a card, "Den we break da glass." He threw the card at the base of the chamber but it didn't even budge in the blast.
"Let me show ya how its done by a professional," Wolverine said running up in front of Gambit. Just as his claws where about to pierce the tube the electronic voice came back over the intercome.
"Time's up. Failure to save captive." Gambit and Wolverine turned to look at Traveller as she reached out to them from inside the tube and slowly died.
"No!" Wolverine yelled slashing for the tube, but as he thrust forward the hologram disappeared. As Wolverine stood up and brushed himself off he turned to see Gambit laughing.
"Walk much?" Gambit asked smiling.
"Watch it cajun," Wolverine said sneering at him.
"It's ok, mon amie," Gambit said putting an arm around Wolverine, "It was Gambit's failure too." With that they both started to exit the danger room.
In the hallway they were greated by the real Traveller.
"Where you going?" Wolverine asked, already knowing the answer.
"Cyclops wants to see how well I perform in the danger room," she said smiling.
"I don't think your up to it. I'm gonna tell Cyclops," Wolverine started, but Traveller put a hand on his arm.
"It's ok Wolverine, it's just a hologram," she said looking him straight in the eyes.
"Yeah, a hologram wit' a kick," Gambit said, lighting up a cigarette.
"I'll be fine," she said and walked into the danger room. The doors closed loudly behind her.
"You want to go up and watch? I t'ink I like to see what our girl can do," Gambit said making his way up towards the control room. Wolverine was close behind.
Meanwhile, Beast had set up the sequence he and Cyclops had decided on for Traveller.
"We'll start it at a level 4 and work our way up as we see fit," Cyclops said as Gambit and Wolverine entered the room.
"Nice job," Cyclops said to both of them as they sat down.
"Yeah, well, if I had one more second," Wolverine said thrusting out his claws.
"Well, you may not have that one second in a real battle," Cyclops said looking down at Wolverine.
"Let's stop this now. The sequence is about to begin," Beast said standing up to get a good view of the danger room. As the sequence began a band of sentinals came out in the danger room.
"This all you got for me Beast? A bunch of tin cans?" Traveller said as she easily took out the first two that attacked her.
"Just warming you up," Beast said over the intercom. The four x-men in the control room watched as Traveller easily took out villian after villian that they threw at her.
"She is incredible!" Beast exclaimed looking at the readings he was taking from her. "Look at this, she uses almost ever part of her brain. She is definately a greater psycic then Jean and I would almost go to say, almost as powerful as the professor." The other three looked back down in the room as Traveller fought a group of assasins.
"What level is she on Beast?" Wolverine asked watching her take down each of the assasins.
"She is already at level 7," Beast said, a sound of wonder in his voice, "Look at her adaptability to different terrains and the way she uses her mutant ability to travel on the timestream. It's incredible!" They watched as she disappeared from a would be attacker and reappeared behind them wielding some form of weapon they had never encountered before.
"If you t'ink about it, she could be gone for months in some other time, resting, then pop right back up here and it'd seem like only a second to us," Gambit said, his voice showing the respect that they all had gained for this young girl.
"That's right Gambit. She could fight like this for days and never stop. Cyclops, if you don't mind. I'd like to take her all the way up to level 10 and see how she does against the Vertigo sequence," Beast said, excitement in his voice.
"Go ahead," Cyclops said, motioning with his hand that it was alright. They all watched as the room cleared.
"Watcha got next for me?" Traveller asked looking around the danger room. Up to now all of her oppenents had been easily defeated.
"Hello Traveller," she heard a familar voice say in the shadow.
"Darkmoon," Traveller said, crouching down to prepare for battle. A hologram of Darkmoon and Scorpio slowly walked out of the shadow.
"Ok, let's do this," she said, glaring at her two enemies.
"We're not here to fight. Only to watch," Darkmoon said smiling.
"What?" Traveller asked standing up. Behind the two men she could see a stirring in the shadows.
"Nadia, today is the day you join your parents," Vertigo said stepping out of the shadows. Cyclops and Beast had recreated a hologram of him using the information that Traveller had given them. Maybe they did too good a job.
"No!" Traveller screamed and ran to the corner of the danger room. A huge blast sounded as she surrounded herself by a ball of psycic energy. "No, no no no no. Stop it! Stop it!" she screamed.
Up in the control room Wolverine was ready to kill Cyclops.
"Stop the sequence!" he shouted putting his claws underneath Cyclops chin.
"Beast, why isn't it stopping?" Cyclops asked pushing Wolverine away.
"I don't know. I'm trying to stop it, but there seems to be some form of a virus in the program," Beast said, his furry fingers flying over the control panel.
"Well, I know how to stop it," Wolverine said pulling his fist back.
"No," Cyclops said stopping him, "If you destroy the control panel there will be no way we can restore it and no way that Beast can stop the program."
"Then I'm going in after her," Wolverine said running down the stairs.
"Wait up, Gambit come too," Gambit said running after him.
The door blew off it's hinges as Gambit sent a charged card at it.
"Good job cajun," Wolverine said running towards where Traveller was hunched in a corner. He was stopped by the holograms of Darkmoon and Scorpio.
"Gambit, get Nadia," Wolverine yelled, "I'll take care of these two." As Wolverine kept Darkmoon and Scorpio at bay, Gambit ran over to where Traveller was.
"Hey chere, it be ok. Gambit is here," he said walking towards her. As he reached the psychic field he was flown back, raming into the far wall.
"Wolverine, she got some sort of force field up. I can't get through it," Gambit said, standing up and rubbing his neck.
"Beast, stop these stupid holograms," Wolverine yelled through clenched teeth.
"I almost have it," Beast said typing away on the panel, "There! That should do it."
Down in the danger room the holograms disappeared. Wolverine and Gambit walked over to where Traveller was still crouched in her psycic ball of energy.
"Nadia, it's me. It's Logan," Wolverine said crawling up towards the ball.
"Be careful mon amie. Dat ball packs a punch," Gambit said leaning against the wall.
"Nadia, it's over. He's gone," Wolverine said softly. Traveller turned and looked at him.
"Logan," she said softly and then passed out on the floor. The ball of energy fell and Wolverine picked her up quickly.
"I'm taking her to sick bay," Wolverine said walking quickly out of the danger room. Gambit was close behind him and Cyclops and Beast where already making there way down from the control room.