Disclaimer: I own Kyle and Jacob Trevais. Anyone who says I own anything other than that, and some other things/concepts/idea/people from later, will be locked in a room with Jugernaught when he has a hangover
Chapter 4
The Need for Fighting Without Powers.
The entire room was shocked. Even Kyle had had no clue that this was going to happen.
"Sensei," Kyle said tentatively, "may I enquire just when this turn of events was planned?"
The rest of the students looked at him, and the look on his face made it plain that it was as much a shock to him as to them.
Mr. Trevais smiled, "This was actually Professor Xavier's
idea. He thought that his students
needed to learn how to fight without using their powers."
This brought a cry of outrage from the rest of the students, which could be summed up to one word… "WHY?"
The Professor waited until the noise died down, and then spoke up. "I have a reason for this. Scott, what would happen if someone were to take your visor in a fight? How would you defend yourself without causing the other's serious injury? Bobby, if you were to fight an opponent who can melt your ice faster than you make it, what then? Roberto, what happens when you don't have any sunlight to draw on? Kitty, Kurt, your powers have proven themselves useful in certain situations, but, if you know how to defend yourselves, then you will be much more effective in the field. Mr. Trevais will be teaching you not only how to defend yourselves, but the other values that martial arts can instill." The tone of the last sentence was one that brooked no arguments, and with that, he turned around and rolled out of the room.
Before he turned to leave, Mr. Trevais looked at Kyle, "Kyle,"
"Yes Sensei?"
"Have fun tonight, we're going to have our work cut out for
us with this bunch."
Kyle's face took on an expression of shock for a moment, then steeled, as his father left the room. Jean, who's senses were lightly attuned to him at the time, trying to find out if he knew about this, felt a mental wall the likes of which she had never felt come into place. It didn't have the quality of a strong telepath like the Professor's, which she had always compared to a wall of rather thick concrete. Rather, his was passive, yet effective, almost like a mountain range. When she talked to the Professor about it later, she would find that it was a wall made of pure will power.
Kyle shook the shock off quickly, "Well guys and gals, unless the Professor's mutation has suddenly become an instant death to any party, I suggest that we get this party back underway." Again, Kyle's joke broke the tension, and the party continued with gusto.
However, in the back of his mind, Kyle wondered at the fact that his father was going to be teaching the other's self defense. This ought to be good.
*Planning Room, Sunday afternoon*
All of the X-men and the New Mutants were gathered in the planning room, wondering why the Professor had called them here, instead of the Danger Room.
As the hushed chatter reached a crescendo, Professor Xavier walked through the door, Mr. Trevais on his right, Kyle, in his X-men uniform, on his right.
Kyle's uniform was still an oddity among the students, even though they had seen it while he was perfecting the control of his powers. Like the other X-Men guy's, it was dark blue for the most part, but that was where similarities ended. For one thing, it lacked shoulder pads, and a pair of fingerless gloves covered his hands. The belt at his waist was black, with the usual X in the middle of the belt. However, the biggest distinction was the cloth that was tied around his eyes, which bore an X at either end of. On his right breast was another X, and a larger one was on his back.
The Professor cleared his throat, and began to speak. "I'm sure you're wondering why we came here first. Today we will be performing a different kind of exercise. This exercise is called 'Shadow Stalker,' and you will see why it's called that when we get into the Danger Room. You're Objective in this scenario is to defeat all of your opponents. To make the scenario both more difficult, and less dangerous to the participants, you may not use your powers to attack. Scott, you, Amara, Roberto, Jean, Ray, Bobby, Tabitha (AN: Remember, in 'Day of Reckoning' she ditched the Brotherhood. If you watch in 'Stuff of Hero's', at the end, she can be seen standing next to Bobby, in uniform, when you're watching Xavier in the Mansion.) and Evan, may not use you're mutations during the simulation. Instead, you will use these," and the Professor pointed to many pairs of gloves on one of the tables, "when you hit an opponent with them, they will be marked with the same kind of paint that the drones use. The teams will be as follows, Kyle and Jacob Trevais, Vs. All the rest of you."
The cries of outrage that followed this pronouncement were so loud that they only stopped when Wolverine, tired of listening to it, stuck his two sense in. "LOOK!!!! These two combined are probably better than all of you put together. Live with it!"
The volume behind the statement, combined with the words, was enough to shut up everyone. The Professor took advantage of this to tell them to proceed to the Danger Room.
Upon arrival, the entire team found themselves in a dark-forested terrain. "Kyle and Jacob will have a three minute head start, starting now." At that pronouncement, Kyle and Mr. Trevais were off, heading in opposite directions.
When the time limit was up, the remaining Students were determined to prove Wolverine wrong. "Spread out!" State Cyclops, as the team did just that.
(These will be in order of when they get taken out of the simulation)
Cyclops headed in the direction that he had seen Kyle run, confident that he could take the kid out. After all, Scott was older, smarter, and stronger, plus the kid was BLIND. However, his overconfidence cost him, and when he stopped under a tree to look for Kyle's tracks, the first time he realized his mistake was when a fist caught him in the small of the back, and a voice said, "You're out."
Jean headed after Mr. Trevais, fairly sure she could get the large man before he could get her. However, she was proven wrong very quickly. For when she found him, her first indicator he was there was the orange paint on her leg.
After that, it became a game of cat-and-mouse, and the students were the mice. Kurt, while porting around, came out of a port right behind Kyle, whose senses of hearing and smell alerted him to Kurt's presence just in time for him to duck underneath the swipe. Kurt, however wasn't so lucky. When Kyle came out of his crouch, he did so in an uppercut that caught Kurt in the stomach.
Ray, who was actually being cautious for once, saw Mr. Trevais only a split second before his large fist caught him in the sternum, spraying his chest with paint.
Roberto met a similar fate at the hands of the burly martial arts master, as his fist caught him in the back, removing him from the match.
Jubilee was the first to actually give either of them a challenge. When Kyle found her, he came at her from the right, hoping for an easy paint. However, as he drew near, he stepped on a twig, which gave him away. Jubilee, in an instinctive reaction to being snuck up on in the Danger Room, let loose with her fireworks; which had no effect on the blind mutant who was quickly coming at her. Once she realized that it was Kyle who was rushing her, she jumped up, and ran to the side, avoiding his charge. Hoping to catch him by surprise, she quickly lunged at him. In a calculated dodge, he moved to the side at just the right moment for him to catch Jubilee in the side. In a quiet voice, he said, "Good job, 'Lee, you're the first challenge I've had yet."
The next mutant to go down was considerably easier. Jamie, while a sweet kid, had no clue as to what he was doing. Thus, he was easy for Kyle to take down. After Kyle caught him, he whispered to Jamie, "Chin up. Now you can go and tease the rest of them about how you outlasted them."
Shadowcat proved to be a fairly simply target, once Mr. Trevais caught her. Of course, when she phased through a tree, only to find herself looking him dead in the eyes, she knew it was over. The paint on her shoulder quickly proved her right.
Bobby was next to go down, but as he would boast about at great length later (Until Rogue started to take the gloves off, that is) he made Kyle work to get him. In actuality, it was he who spotted Kyle. In fact, Kyle's only warning to his presence was the small snicker just before Bobby lunged. Kyle immediately spun to the side, trying to punch Bobby in mid turn. However, Bobby, in a feat of aerial agility that was probably more dumb luck than anything else, got out of the way of the fist. He quickly stood up again, facing towards Kyle. However, he made a fatal mistake by lunging once again. As he lunged at Kyle, Kyle came in from underneath his flailing arms, punching him in the solar plexus, thus decorating Bobby's torso with orange paint.
Boom-Boom went next, but only after a five-minute game of hide-and-go-seek, during which Kyle caught three more students. Finally, she was caught by surprise when Mr. Trevais, taking a page from Logan's book, struck from behind some bushes.
While Boom-Boom and his 'sensei' played cat-and-mouse, Kyle came across a tactical meeting between Cannonball, Magma, and Rogue. He smirked as he heard their voices, and decided that divide and conquer would be the best strategy. Reaching down, he picked up a small stone, and then, climbing a tree, threw it at the three of them, aiming for where he approximated Cannonball's shoulder to be. Then he quickly scrambled into the branches of another nearby tree.
Kyle's approximation was correct, for Cannonball was caught dead in the shoulder. He quickly turned to face the tree, and the three of them went to investigate. When Kyle heard their voices at the base of the other tree, he smiled, and then fell to the ground. However, Rogue, who had absorbed Wolverine enough to recognize a trap, turned around just as he fell. Her fist whistled through the air, and hit… a tree. This was all she had time to realize before she was caught in the chest by a fist. Magma and Cannonball, however, had been alerted to his presence by the Rogue, and that made things much more difficult. Luckily, Cannonball made life easier by using his mutation. Kyle dodged it easily, and caught Cannonball in the side with his fist on his way past. Magma, however, surprised Kyle, who barely dodged her unexpectedly fast punch. After two minutes of dodging her punches, Kyle tired of the game, and ended it by grabbing her wrist, then landing a punch in her stomach, saying to her, "Nice job Amara, best fight I've had all day. Now go rub that in Bobby's face."
Rahne was the last to go, her enhanced senses making her a difficult target. After spending almost eight minutes tracking her, Kyle finally found her. Or more like, she found him, as she jumped at him from in a tree. However, she soon found out two facts about the newly christened Sage. One, his nose could detect the individual scents of people at close distances (AN: About six feet) and two, any object passing through the air, makes a rushing sound, which he could easily hear. These facts were both emphasized by the orange paint that decorated her chest.
At this point, the hologram in the Danger Room was cut off, revealing it's normal steel walls. "I would like to see all of you with the exceptions of Boom-Boom, Iceman, Wolfsbane, Magma, Cannonball, Rogue, and Sage in the Planning Room."
As the rest of the mutants left, the stated seven mutants headed towards the changing rooms. They weren't opposed, however, to finding out how Kyle and his dad could beat all of them.
"Because," Kyle responded, "I've been training in this kind of thing since I was five, most of you all have little to no combat training. I've been training in sneaking around like that since I was eight, while most of you only have the experience from parents or the teachers here. This kind of thing was actually, kind of easy. However, consider yourselves lucky. Everyone else is getting extra Danger Room sessions with Wolverine, one for every person who got taken out after them." This made those with him wince, since that meant that some of their teammates would have upwards of ten sessions. "This exercise was to prove a point, anyways," Kyle continued "it showed that you all need a lot of work in fighting without your mutations."
Post Chap. AN: Alright people I need to know something
I was thinking about making this fic a Lancitty and a Kuranda (Lance/Kitty and Kurt/Amanda) I would like to know if there is going to be a total uproar from the reviewers if I do. (Note to all Romy fans: You have good taste, and that's in the works. Plus, I've worked out a way for Rogue to control her powers!!! Ahhhhhh… the fun that will be had. No worries, though, she'll still be the lovable goth we all know and love. Just as violent too.)
