A/N ph33r my swift update ding ness. Note to all readers. I'm afraid we cannot accept any more people unless noted otherwise
"So if I change this to a rose I can hurt people with the thorns?" M.A. asked Logan who nodded.
"The whole point of Danger Room sessions is so you can learn to adapt and change to whatever your situation using whatever powers you have."
"Ah, ok," M.A. agreed.
"Just get to it, kid," said Logan, pointing at the open door.
M.A. walked through, fingering her new rose before snapping at the tightly-fitting standard X-suit.
Rosie (who was watching in the observation booth) sighed.
"Why so glum?" Warren asked from his position in the doorway. He had just finished in the DR and his suit was slightly sweaty and one wayward lock of blond stuck to his forehead where it had come loose from the strange constricting suit he wore.
"Let me take a guess…hmm My best friend here's a mutant. You're a mutant. The whole God darned institute's a mutant and I'm basically useless and ignored. Isn't that fun?"
"I pay attention to you," Warren pointed out, fixing his hair.
"Is that supposed to cheer me up?" Rosie snapped, frowning at him.
Warren shrugged, decided that it was useless to try and talk to her in this state, and walked off.
Rosie sighed again and looked back down on M.A. kicking total ass in the sim.
She had somehow managed to change the rose into a hybrid of a rose and a Venus Fly Trap. It had sprouted foot long thorns that had wrapped around the droids and crushed them whilst the lasers had been eaten by the giant crunching plant mouth.
Whilst this had happened, M.A. was standing in the centre on a giant sprout of the original rose and controlling it all with her eyes glowing a mossy green.
Rosie pressed a microphone button that connected to the headset that M.A. wore and said "I'll meet ya later. I'm going for a walk" and disappeared.
M.A. flipped her off as a robotic voice announced "Simulation complete." She broke into a little victory dance until Logan cleared his throat. "Want somethin', oh great Canadian midget?"
Logan grunted. "Not bad, kid."
"Why, thank you, oh midget guru," M.A. chirped. "I didn't know you cared. Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna go annoy my best friend until she gets out of her funk. Toodles!" And with that, she skipped off.
Logan blinked
Rosie was kicking the leaves through the woods as she sought a refuge from the mutant activity. Unfortunately it had to be the day that the new recruits decided to play mutant tag.
So, as an escape mechanism Rosie climbed the nearest tree and looked around as the recruits moved from her area.
"Oh Rooooosie," M.A. catcalled, walking out onto the front lawn. "D'you know where she is?" she asked of the grass, which rustled. "No? Ugh, then I'll have to find her myself."
Rosie sighed and shifted position in the tree, watching the various teens show off. She muttered something under her breath and shifted her attention to the front lawn
"So…not here then" M.A. muttered and wandered off in the directions of the green house, near but not close to where Rosie was.
However, as Rosie climbed down from the tree and looked behind her she didn't spot Rahne in wolf form and the two collided together in a flash as a dusky grey wolf with grey and blue eyes sat on its haunches as opposed to the now human Rahne.
"Wot th-?" Rahne asked, blinking.
"That's a very good question," M.A. commented, having seen the whole thing.
The grey wolf whined, turning in circles and seeming to inspect itself.
"...I can't change," Rahne whimpered. "It's like there's a block in my head. I can't shift!"
Then M.A. blinked, remembering the incident in the garden.
"Erm…PROFESSOR DUDE!" M.A. shouted for lack of a better solution to their present predicament.
Of course being his almighty royal telepath ness he heard her and replied in timely fashion.
"I do believe we have a mimic on our hands" He told them all in his telepathy way and from that and the shouting the grey wolf- now revealed as Rosie whined and lay down- her paws over her ears.
"So that's… Rosie?" M.A. asked in a tentative voice, not sure if even speaking to the sky was normal here.
"Yes... and yes, talking to the sky is normal," "said" the professor, amused.
"Good, 'cause if I'm crazy that's... bad?" She went over to Rosie. "Kay, pally, what the frick did you do?"
Rosie whined again.
"I'll take that as a 'dunno, chief'," said M.A., frowning. She turned to Rahne. "Can you, like, explain it to her or somethin'?"
"Shifting…erm…well it's tricky" Rahne said and M.A. face palmed.
"Well basically visualise yourself in human form and visualise you sort of slipping into human form" Rahne said slowly and the wolf nodded.
There was a pause before there was Rosie and no wolf.
"That was forkin' scary"
"Exactly," M.A. agreed. "So... you've got powers now. So no more pissed-off-loner-ness?"
"Pissed-off-loner-ness is what I do," Rosie responded, straightening up.
"...that was WEIRD!" said Rahne.
"Sorry token Scottish person" Rosie said and patted the slightly younger girl on the shoulder. "If I had any clue to what had happened I would inform you but…"
"You don't" M.A. said cheekily and Rosie thwapped her on the nose
"But…why cant she turn back into her wolf form and I can?"
"I think she only borrowed your powers," M.A. commented, sounding smart for once.
"The little Sky-y learned to use her brain, did she?" Alie asked.
"So says Wolf Girl," M.A. retorted, sticking out her tongue.
"Fine then" Rosie said and in a blink sat Rosie-wolf who growled and bared her teeth at Sky, an impressive feet.
"Okay puppy…" Sky said and backed away as they saw the Prof and Beast walking to them.
"So it seems we have a mimic on our hands"