Jean nodded and smiled, walking up to the control room. She placed the program in and looked down to him. "...Be careful, Oni." She said as the surroundings loaded up. "Get ready... Training.. Has begun." She sat back, her eyes watching him closely. She knew he was getting better, but she didn't know if he could beat this yet. It took her about a month.. She smiled and took a breath, watching as the Sentinel loaded.
Three sentinels approached through the trees into the clearing where he stood. Oni leapt into the air, his telekinetic taking control, keeping him up. He got out three needles -- he had twenty, but he would start simple. He threw each of them towards the target as they rambled on about mutant confirmed. Then, he made seven hand signs. "Sherukan Kage bushin no jitsu." Now instead of one needle for each sentinel, there was ten for each.
Unfortunately, they pinged harmlessly off the armor and three shots of blaster fire headed his way. He dropped to the floor. "Alright.. Here's option number two!"
He made seven more hand signs and slapped his hands together to the floor. A large wall rose from the ground and protected him long enough. "Goodbye. KARYUUDAN!" Suddenly, to his left and right, two dragons that looked as if they were made of mud rose and began to fire hardened rock projectiles from their mouths.
Oni put his hand in a circle around his mouth, and a stream of fire emerged which engulfed the projectiles so they were now on fire. "DRAGON FIRE MISSILE!"
Jean sat back and watched.. He was getting, a lot.. better. She stood up, just to watch. She smiled; he would be in the X-men team in no time.. She turned and grabbed out the second part of the Sentinel Program, probably the toughest one of the whole thing.. She bit her lip and narrowed her eyes. "Flame-Throwin' Oni!" She called over the microphone. "..Nice job. Get ready for the next part.. You're doing great, the Professor will be pleased!" She laughed and looked down, placing the cd into the computer. "...Get ready!"
The program was just a bit harder, more Sentinels at one time.. Their armor was stronger, and they were a bit faster. Shields were up, so he would have to find a way to destroy the shields--which was probably the hardest of the whole thing. Four or five Sentinels would surround him, and he would have to find a way to destroy them, one by one as the others attack him as well.
This would be very interesting.. Even Jean couldn't do this until her second year here, and the Professor didn't want her to. But she wanted to.. She knew that Oni would be able to beat it.. He was learning quickly, faster than any other student she had seen in... well, forever. She put her lips to the microphone again. "If its too hard, just tell me.. And I will end it. Got that? I don't want you to over exert yourself, by any means necessary. This is hard-very hard." She paused. "But, I know you can do it."
He laughed as the sentinels were pelted by the missiles and finally fell t the ground in a group of broken parts. This time he would have to come up with a second technique. He flew out of the way of the blasts from the other sentinels and hid in the trees almost invisible. He needed to think. "Target lost -- switching to Infrared Search Mode 2." Oni cursed at his own stupidity and knew he had to do something fast.
He leaped from the tree, slapping explosive tags on the sentinels in the neck area, but as they fell, eight more can out. "Shit!" He yelled, dodging and weaving between the fire before stopping a good fifty yards out. He made one hand sign. "Kage bushin no jitsu," and five Oni's appeared.
"Set up a firing line with Karyuudan." All of them nodded and made the necessary signs. Oni watched as hails of fire missiles from twenty or so Dragon Heads hit the Sentinels but to no effect. These had shields and he was out of Chakra. This was a technique he had finally gotten to, only yesterday -- a S rank technique and he was using it too much. He would have to try the one thing he had left. He had to get passed those force fields, but how?
The firing line was keeping them distracted as he leapt into the middle of them and began to charge energy. He took off a headband and bit his thumb, running it down his forehead. "Stored energy, release!" He began forming his hand signs at an incredible amount of speed, and telekinetic energy built around him so much that the laser blasts didn't even effect him.
Oni extended his hands and light began to come from them. When it was done, he held two swords made out of pure light. Lightning surrounded them. "Lightning edge!" He moved one direction, and made a slash that when it hit, shook the whole school.. He began to move at a hyper fast speed so much that he disappeared. The sentinels started to explode, first the shields would breath, then they would start missing parts. He finally stood in mid air and began to spin the blades getting longer, until he slammed down on one of the sentinels chopping him in two.
This shook the building again and when he reached to the bottom, and explosion so huge, that it transferred to the other sentinels and blew them up as well, came from the blades. He stood in the middle of a crater. For as far as Jean could see, there were no sentinels. The replicas disappeared and the program ended. He stood there panting.. "Lightning edge.. Ultimate destruction."
Jean was very surprised.. She pulled the Program out and made her way down into the danger room.. She walked in with a smile on her face. "Wow, Oni.." She said, looking into his eyes. "...You've just beat the hardest program we have." She said, walking towards him. "...Are you alright?" She asked, watching him for a moment. "Screw the exam," she laughed. "You're coming with us on the next mission.. Mo-Most definitely."
Oni smiled. "Tired... Very ... tired... the ... lightning edge as well... as the Kyuddan... are S rank skills. I've been working on. The chakra release is considered a forbidden skill but it was the only way I could think to defeat their shields. I'm tired though but happy." With that he fell to the floor laughing.
She smiled and bent down over him, looking down into his eyes. "...Well, I'll tell you what," she said, grabbing his hand and pulling him up. "Get some rest, and then we'll celebrate. However you want!" She said, hugging him. "...I'm very proud of you, Oni." She said.
