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P.E.

"And when I get out there I want to see you all stretching!" yelled Mr. Burne, the PE teacher from the locker room. Margret bent down, she could just touch her toes. Oh well. She continued stretching until Burne came out. She handed him the note from her father.

"Good," said Mr. Burne gruffly, "Now we get to see what you can do."

"Great." said Margret uneasily. She lined up with the other students, then she saw Nicole. Oh crap. I guess she only had a half day suspension.

"Ok," hollered Mr. Burne "if you didn't participate yesterday you could be one of the four going today. Now I'm going to randomly draw two names out of this box and, like yesterday you'll battle. But you don't just get to beat each other up. You have to wear the protective armor." Added Burne. Burne reached into the box. "First person, Mitchel, second Margret!" The class gasped. Wait! Mitchel is... Nicole's boyfriend. "Both of you step into the arena." Mitchel walked proudly up thinking about his soon to be easy victory. Margret took her place opposite him. "Armor on," Margret held still as she was measured and fitted with the special armor by mechanical arms. "Ready," hollered Burne,

"Yes," called Margret.

"Of course" called Mitchel.

"Begin!" Margret stood waiting for him to make the first move, and he did, he pulled a giant rock out of the ground and threw it at her. She quickly shot it with a bolt of energy. Piece flew everywhere. As the dust began to settle she saw Mitchel waving at the crowd.

"Fighting 101 never turn your back to your opponent." Margret thought as she threw a bolt of energy at Mitchel. She heard Nicole scream and Mitchel turned just in time to see the bolt, but not fast enough to avoid it. Score! She looked up at the "life bars" the bolt had done some damage! Good. Then the enraged Mitchel came hurtling towards her at full speed. She jumped aside. Then a pillar of rock shot up in front of her, she turned to see one shoot up behind her. Then suddenly she was tightly wrapped in rock. Mitchel walked over.

"Not so clever now are you," He sneered. She felt the rock tighten and she saw her life bar slowly begin to shrink. "Beg and I might let you out."

"Don't count on it." said Margret. Then she noticed Nicole, she was laughing hysterically. Oh he isn't going to beat me this easily. She felt her entire body fill with a sensation she could only compare to touching a weak electric fence she closed her eyes and then opened them release the new energy and, ssssssssssht the sound was like hundreds of papers being ripped at the same time. She looked around she was about ten yards ten yards from where she had been.

"Time out!" called Burne. "You didn't say the you can teleport!"

"I can teleport?"

"Well that's what you just did!"

"Oh, I..." just then her father burst in the door.

"Mr. Burne! One of the machines malfunctioned! Margret can-"

"Teleport," Margret finished his sentence.

"How... Oops, I'm really sorry."

"Oh, it's fine." Said Burne. Margret glanced over and nearly laughed out loud at the dumbstruck look on Mitchel's face and the enraged one on Nicole's. After Mr. McDoe left Margret and Mitchel took their places again.

"Ready?"

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Go!" They both waited, they both had about the same amount of damage, they both, didn't want to lose.

"Let's see if I can figure out this teleporting thing." Margret mumbled to herself focusing. Ssssssssssht! She appeared a few feet away. Now I got to figure out how to end up where I want to, ok, focus, now! Ssssssssssht! She was behind Mitchel, exactly where she had planned. Then Margret hit the confused Mitchel in the back, sending him flying. 2 points Margret, 1 point Mitchel. Suddenly a rock pillar shot up and Mitchel was standing on top. The pillar curved and moved like a snake, attempting to wrap her in its coils. She teleported out of the way. Nice try. She was about to fling a bolt of energy into the pillar when a buzzer sounded and Burne called,

"Times up!" The pillar of rock kept coming, Margret saw the angry determination on Mitchel's face. "Stop!" yelled Mr. Burne and it stopped, right on top of Margret. "Your disqualified!" hollered Burne.

"Why, because the headmistress's kid has to win?" sneered Mitchel.

"No because you continued after the buzzer."

"I didn't hear it."

"There is no way you couldn't have heard that!" yelled Burne. "Though it doesn't really matter, you lost anyway."

"What?!"

"You had the most damage before the buzzer and only that counts." Shelby rushed over to help Margret up.

"You were amazing!" she exclaimed "I would have never been able to take on Mitchel or beat him!"

"Thanks" said Margret, "But if I hadn't been wearing this protective armor that pillar could have killed me, how did I win?"

"That damage was caused after the buzzer, therefor it doesn't count." answered Shelby as they left the arena.

"Cool." Margret looked over to see Mr. Burne seated at a small control booth and then she saw that the battle field looked as if it had never been battled on before. "Whoa, what is Mr. Burne doing?"

"The battle field corresponds with a mutant's power, creating a perfect illusion, and then the armor calculates the approximate damage done by the attack."

"So none of that was actually real?"

"Well it was but the battle field cancels out your power and then replicates it along with the help of the armor to create a very realistic effect." said Shelby

"That's incredible."

"Oh look the next match is starting!" They walked over and saw that Nicole and Katrina were in the arena.

"Ooh," gasped Shelby, "This is going to be a tough match."

"Whys that?" asked Margret.

"Well as you know Nicole controls fire, but Katrina is, well, just watch."

"Oh." said Margret, the battle had begun, Nicole was smiling at her opponent.

"Ready to lose?" But Katrina just smiled back dumbly. "Whatever Dumbo." said Nicole as her hair and hands suddenly burst into flames. Katrina just waved at her. Now Margret could see slight frustration building on Nicole. "You know what happens to stupid mimes when you toss them in the fire?" Katrina shrugged like an ignorant child. "This!" shouted Nicole as she blasted Katrina with a huge wall of flames. "Hahahaha-" Nicole's hideous laugh was cut short. Standing, without a single bit of damage was Katrina. "WHAT?!"cried Nicole indignantly. "I swear I hit her!"

"Whoa, what happened?" asked Margret.

"You know when Katrina was "waving." at Nicole,"

"Yeah,"

"Well she wasn't actually waving, she was making a barrier."

"Wow." They turned to see Katrina doing flips and cartwheels as Nicole, now enraged, shot blindly at her. Then Katrina stopped and began climbing up and imaginary ladder. The onlookers and Nicole stared dumbly, but then, Nicole laughed and began firing bolts a fire at the "trapped" mime.

"There's no way out now." cackled Nicole. But then Katrina jumped off of her "ladder" and some of the onlookers screamed. Katrina did not fall, she appeared to be holding something that was slowing her decent. Nicole was fuming, her every attempt to destroy this stupid mime was foiled and she was made a fool of!

No one makes a fool of Nicole! No one! Now it was time to win! Thought Nicole as she began to spin while releasing fire, soon a whirlwind of fire engulfed the entire arena and nothing could be seen. Suddenly there was sound that was like a spluttering flame suddenly snuffed out. The arena was suddenly empty, except for the two girls who were now both on opposite sides of the arena, everyone gasped to see that both of their life bars were empty. Mr. Burne opened the field door and Nicole's mob ran in to help her, Katrina nearly fell over but Margret teleported and caught her. Katrina looked at her questioningly and then smiled weakly. Shelby ran up and then reached out and touched Katrina's forehead. Katrina shivered and stood up strait she looked as if she was focusing hard, trying to read something in Shelby's face but Shelby quickly said,

"No, don't do that! You'll hurt yourself!"

"What do you mean?" asked Margret.

"My powers include healing of myself and others and if anyone uses their mind to touch or contact me they get seriously hurt and I felt Katrina reaching out to me with her mined."

"Oh," said Margret, "What was Katrina doing?"

"Trying to talk to her."

"Oh... Whoa! Did you just say something?"

"Yes." Katrina's lips did not move but Margret heard voice that reminded her of a happy trickle of a small river bubbling down a riverbed, but she didn't hear the voice in her ears the voice seemed to be only in her mind.

"Wow," said Margret.

"What?" asked Shelby, who was looking slightly confused.

"I think that Katrina can't speak and part of her power is to communicate telepathically."

"Yes."

"Oh, that makes sense," said Shelby, but then said unhappily, "How am I supposed to talk to her then?"

"I don't know." said Margret as they exited the arena, "but I'm sure we'll figure out something."