Author's note: OMG! How long has it been since I updated? I think a month and four days. I suck at updating. Well I do have an ass load of finals so that doesn't help. Anywho, sorry about keeping you guys waiting.
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Fritz heard Kitty hadn't come home until this morning. "What the hell des Lance have that can hold her attention for over eight hours!?" Fritz wondered.
Right now he stood at the top of a large platform in the corner of the Danger Room. He looked down upon all of the other X-Men. In this simulation, they had to last as long as possible without being shot by one of Beast's creations; a spherical machine that shot yellow paint balls from the many holes around its surface.
This "hunter" was about half the size of a full-grown man. It floated about ten feet in the air and was fast as hell. It was on the opposite side of the room now. So Fritz had sometime to spare.
Everyone knew that this simulation was another one of Logan's second in command tests. Logan hadn't prohibited the new recruits from attempting any of his tests because he knew they weren't good enough to pass them. He just didn't want to deny them the right to try. However, all of the new recruits stopped trying after they miserably failed the first three tests except two of them, Bobby, who was now called Iceman, and Ray, who was Berserker. These two put up a good fight for the first four and a half minutes, but now they were waiting outside of the danger room after being bombarded by the "hunter".
Evan was also out of the simulation already. He mad the mistake of wearing his skateboard helmet which obstructed his view and was shot from the side.
All the others were doing pretty good. It was now about seventeen minutes into the simulation and all of the reaming X-Men were holding their own against the "hunter".
Fritz was surprised he had survived this long. He thought he would have been shot earlier on; but Fritz had managed to evade the "hunter" every time. Each time the "hunter" found him; someone would be seen running behind it. Since the machine had better sight for motion, it would chase the moving X-Man rather than the motionless Fritz. That's how Fritz ended up on top of the platform. He was about to get shot when Evan ran by and got shot in the side instead. Fritz took that opportunity to flee to safer grounds.
So what if he wasn't down with the others, this was a test to see how long you could last; and last time Fritz checked, hiding was the best possible way to win.
So there he stood in his mutated form in relative safety while all of his teammates scrambled, jumped and ran for cover; Fritz planned on staying up there until the "hunter" found him.
"Damn," he cursed himself when he lost sight of the robot; his thoughts of Kitty distracted him.
Fritz scanned the room for the floating 'bot but couldn't find it anywhere. He didn't like this. He was probably the most vulnerable, way up here unprotected. If he didn't know where the "hunter" was, he didn't stand a very good chance. But, lucky for him, the robot made a humming noise, and Fritz could hear it underneath him.
He slowly looked over the edge and saw the robot hovering above Shadowcat about to shoot. Before Fritz new what he was doing, he was in the air falling towards the machine. He landed on top of it forcing the robot to the ground. Fritz dug his talons into the metal and pulled in both directions. The "hunter" frazzled and sizzled before it made a loud screeching noise. Fritz got off slowly, satisfied when it didn't move.
"Come on Fritz! The simulation was to avoid the robot as long as you can, not destroy it." Scott said angrily.
The simulation shut down and the metallic doors opened. Beasts walked into the room and inspected his creation.
"Sorry Beast." Fritz said.
"Not a problem. When you work at this school, you expect things like this to happen." Beast shrugged it off.
"Good job bub," Logan said from behind Fritz.
"…thanks?" Fritz was confused. He thought Logan was going to talk to him about fallowing Danger Room rules.
"Does that mean you don't know why I'm congratulating you?" Logan asked.
"Yeah, pretty much," Fritz responded.
"You saw that one of your teammates was in trouble and you broke the rules to save them. Your team is number one Fritz. You do whatever it takes to keep them safe. Even if it means going against your commands." Logan explained. "Now, who wants to help me clean up the Danger Room?"
Scott looked at Kurt who looked back. They winked at each other and both pushed Fritz forward out of the group. "Hey, what the-" Fritz was cut off by Logan.
"Thanks for volunteering Fritz." Logan clapped Fritz on the back. "The rest of you can go."
"I think it's time for a break from training." The professor sat behind his desk in his study with all the students cluttered around the floor and on the couch fighting for more room. "That's why I've decided to take you all skiing.
"Yeah!" Evan called out.
"Wahoo!" Kurt and Scott high fived each other.
The room exploded with talk of snow and catching big air. Some boasted about snow boarding skills they knew they didn't have while others talked about shopping at the stretch malls.
"Okay okay, quit down," Xavier said calmly; he too was excited about the trip. "We'll leave tomorrow, so be sure you pack enough for a few days stay. I've already contacted your parents so you don't have to worry."
The new recruits got up and left the room faster than anyone would have thought possible. The seven X-Men went there own ways. Some headed to their rooms, others to the kitchen for lunch.
Fritz sat at his computer vividly watching the screen when Scott knocked on the door and walked in.
"Hey, let's go for a Danger Room sim." Scott must have been board if he was asking someone to join him in the Danger Room.
"No thank you, I've got to pack for the trip," Fritz lied. He hadn't even thought about packing yet.
"But you're just playing on the computer," Scott said.
"I'm doing homework." Fritz was actually playing command and conquer and he knew Scott knew that.
"Fritz, it's Christmas break, you don't have homework," Scott said.
"Prove it," Fritz shot back.
Scott knew he wasn't going to win; so, he left Fritz's room and went to find someone else who was crazy enough to run a sim. with him.
Fritz had felt bad about making Scott run a Danger Room session by himself; now he wasn't to sure. He was pinned behind a rock while red concussive beams flashed over his head. The beams hit the rock he was leaning against jarring his whole body. Scott must have been having fun or else he would have stopped firing.
Fritz noticed a break in Scott's attack and took this moment to jump into the air and spread his wings; he circled around to face Scott. The older mutant fired a blast at the air born Fritz who easily dodged it.
Fritz dived down towards Scott dodging every eye blast fired at him. Fritz tackled Scott to the ground holding tightly onto Scott's shoulders. Scott's head hit the ground hard knocking his visor off.
"Oh no…" Fritz said before Scott opened his eyes.
The winged mutant let out a yelp as the red wave engulfed him and threw him into the opposite wall; he dropped to the ground, motionless.
"…up man," Fritz heard from somewhere far off. "Wake up Fritz." Fritz slowly opened his eyes and saw Scott kneeling next to him.
Fritz sat up and rubbed his head. "Ow…" He said as he felt a rather large bump.
"Sorry about that." Scott said. "Can't help it."
"Yeah, it's fine." Fritz said.
"Lets call it a night." Scott said as he helped Fritz stand.
"Sounds good." Fritz seemed distracted. He cloaked his wings and horridly walked out of the Danger Room muttering something.
"What the hell!?" Fritz though as he looked at his taloned hands; he couldn't mutate back. That's why he left the Danger Room in such a hurry.
Fritz didn't know what he was doing wrong. He was doing exactly what he always did. Just as he got to his door though he felt his hands stretch and change. "Finally." He though. The pain from mutating was almost a relief. He was fully normal again. Fritz felt the back of his head for the bump he got in the Danger Room; it wasn't there.
"Sweet," he said allowed. Fritz shut his bedroom door and fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.