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Though the snow hadn't completely, ceased the days were slowly getting warmer. Marc was happy for that fact. The cold got to him faster due to his powers, luckily Logan and Marc were in the danger room today for Marc's training.
"Wolverine these training sessions are taking a lot out of me; do you think, just for one day, I could take it off." Marc pleaded.
"Why, you hurt?" Logan asked.
"Well…no, except for all these bruises."
"I thought you were a fast healer."
"I don't heal as fast as you."
"Ya know what kid? I'm not gonna give you the day off, in fact I'll make it harder."
"You're a d-" Marc bit his tongue, he'd just make it worse if he said anything.
Logan walked up the reflective steps into the control room as Marc prepared to start. Xavier rolled into the control room through the alternate entrance.
He pulled up next to Logan. "How is the training going?"
Logan had a indecisive look on his face. "It's working out okay but…it's almost like he doesn't want to learn. I keep trying to motivate him, but it ain't working. The thing that ticks me off the most, is that he's got potential that he's not gonna reach because of his attitude."
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"Hey Amara, can I talked to ya for a sec?" Jubes asked, putting her gloves on in preparation for today's session.
Amara yawned. "Sure, what about?"
"I've been meaning to ask you, you remember a awhile ago when you said you liked Marc?" Jubes asked timidly.
"Oh…about that, I just said that to shut Tabby up." She replied grinning nervously, she wasn't a good liar.
But it was early so Jubes looked relieved. "Good. Cuz I'm friends with You and Marc and Kitty. And if you liked him that would make me really, really, nervous around you three."
"Yeah." She said softly, biting her lip.
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"Watch out for the lasers kid!" Logan said from the control center of the danger room.
He evaded them, and took out the turret that was firing on him. He was then caught in between two walls that began to clothes in on him, he rolled through away just before they crushed him. An electrical net rose from the floor so slid and crawled under it. Then another net launched at him from the sealing, he torched it with ease. All of a sudden a large mech arm swung at Marc, he had no time to react so he got set for impact. The arm jammed before it hit him, making a loud, shrill scrapping noise.
Logan winced. "Okay we're done for today kid." He looked down only to see him lying on the floor. "You okay?!"
Logan ran down the stairs to the danger rooms floor.
"What the hell?!" He said kneeling next to Marc who had his hands pressed tightly on his ears.
"MY EARS!" He cried.
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"He's waking up, Professor." Hank said as Marc opened his eyes.
"What happened?" Marc said Groggily.
The Professor wheeled over to Marc's bed in the infirmary. "We were hoping you could tell us that."
"Yeah when I found ya, you were covering your ears and yelling." Logan added.
"Well last I remember, there was loud noise and I felt pain and…that's about it."
Hank picked up a document and studied it. "Your advanced hearing must have been set off when you heard it."
Marc shook his head. "No it couldn't be I learned how to block it out."
Logan raised an eyebrow at this. "Block it out?"
"Yeah so I don't have to hear everything." Marc said sitting up.
Logan smirked. "Well there's your problem, you can't block it out you have to learn to focus it."
"Well now that this is settled, I have other business to attend to." The Professor said rolling out of the room.
"You should probably stay home from school, kid." Logan said with concern.
Hank and Marc looked at him suspiciously.
Hank cleared his throat then spoke in a sarcastic tone, "How…considerate of you Logan."
"What, can't a man be a little concerned?" He said beginning to exit the infirmary. "I'm trying to be a better role model in a way. We'll start working on your hearing in few days just rest for now, I'm gonna go get a beer." Logan said exiting.
"I agree with Logan, not the beer part the staying home from school part. You're going to have to miss school today, don't feel too sad." Hank said with a smile.
"Some how…I'll manage." He feigned dramatically.
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Hank sent Marc to his room with ear plugs. Marc was lying in his bed staring out the window to his right. The sun shined onto his face through the fluttering snowy leaves of the trees, warming him. School was only halfway into first period and he had the rest of the day to pretty much do whatever he wanted to. But he still couldn't shake Logan's words to the Professor, he had overheard them talking before his training. He knew Logan was right and that's what annoyed him. He knew he was better than what his effort suggested…"It's about time I prove it." He said jumping out of bed.
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"Logan!" Marc shout from behind Logan.
He turn around and spit. "Wha'd'ya want, and what're ya doing outta bed?"
"I'm here to.." He started and unplugged his ears, "I want to train, now."
Logan's eyes widened. "What didn't you hear Beast? You're not s'posed at be up at all."
"I don't give a damn!" Marc shouted in his face, Logan raised an eyebrow.
Logan stepped up to Marc and revealed his blades. "Do you know how many people who've yelled in my face still have their lips?"
Marc gulped. "No sir, I'm not aware."
They stood there glaring at each other, each with a bit of rage in their minds.
"Go get your uniform and go to the danger room." Logan said reluctantly.
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"Hey Jubes, do you know where Marc is?" Bobby ask as Jubes was walking by.
"Nope," She said as she passed and Bobby began following her, "Do you have the notes for English?"
Bobby gestured 'one-minute' and began digging through his backpack. Inside was a mess, there was no folders, dividers, or sanity for that matter. "Bobby do you really need all this…stuff?" Jubes asked disgusted.
"Wow Jubes, since when did you become such a neat freak?" Bobby snapped jokingly as he pulled out an old sandwich, which he tossed over his shoulder.
"I'm not a neat freak!" She said stomping, "It's just kinda gross in there." She said peaking into the bag.
Bobby's head shot up. "Gross?!"
"Well yeah, do you really need all that crap, ya freakin' pack rat?"
Bobby took offence. "I need all this stuff, it is instrumental part of my day."
"Instrumental…big word?"
"Yeah, it is. I got that from my word of the day calendar that's in there…somewhere. Everything in here is important."
"Yeah Bobby, you never know when your going to need this." Jubes mocked as she pulled out a rubber steak chew toy.
"Um...just in case Rahne…" Bobby sighed. "Okay, Jubes, you win."
"Don't I always?" Jubes laughed, put her are around Bobby and began to walk. "Stick with me kid and you'll go far." She said smiling. Bobby barely opened his mouth to comment before she cut him off, "No, Bobby, not that far." Bobby put his head down, Jubes, smiled, tilted his head up and kissed his cheek. They shared a laugh.
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Marc entered the Danger Room, which looked different than usual. There were a few speakers and several weird looking razors wheels, but they didn't look like weapons. They looked more like props.
"Mr. Logan, what's all this?" Marc asked observing the area.
Logan Walked over to him. "It's just some materials you're gonna need, now put this on."
"A blindfold?" Marc said staring at the clothe.
"Yeah, now put it on." Logan growled, and Marc quickly covered his eyes. After Logan made certain he couldn't see, he explained the idea. "In this room there are four boxes that make a light vibrating sound, find 'em and destroy 'em."
"That's all?"
Logan smirked, Marc of course couldn't see. "That's all."
Logan made his way to the control room. "Ready…go!"
Marc heard two of them, and slowly walked to over to it and burnt them to crisps. Marc smirked, this was easy…almost too easy. "Up it!" Marc yelled.
All of the before mentioned saws activated, Marc jumped and covered his ears. The sound was almost deafening, Marc fell to a knee. "You can do this!" He repeated in his head. "You can do this."
Marc wobbled to his feet and let out an enraged cry, he had to focus his hearing on the vibrating sound. He could barley think strait and hear his thoughts let alone hear a little vibration. He calmed himself and tried to focus but it hurt so much. To take some of the pain away, he even tried to dig his nails into his palms. He heard a infinitesimal reverberation and blindly blasted it.
"Good job…only one more!" Logan yelled from the balcony of the control room.
Marc started to move when from the speakers came a incomprehensibly high pitched screech. Marc fell on his back at that, covering his ears and rolling around. Logan quickly turned them off, "Damn…you okay!"
"Turn..them..back…on!" Marc demanded harshly, Logan looked at him disapprovingly but did it.
The sound blared once more. It's resonance reverberated off all things in the Danger Room, then made it's way into Marc's eardrum pounding away at his sound receptors. Marc tried to focus, to no avail however. "Ahhhhhh!"
Marc, grinding his teeth together, stood as he suppressed the pain as much as he could. He increased the intensity of his hearing causing the sound to echo in is brain. He fell once more but quickly rose. He tried to focus again…this time it worked, but the noise of it all was so overbearing he fell to his knees. His ears picked up on the pulsation and he crawled over and pushed through the pain and smashed the box with a swift downward fist. The noise silenced. He fell face first onto the cold steel floor.
"Ya did it, you stupid kid." Logan said picking Marc up and helping him stand.
Marc wobbled a little as he took his blindfold off. "Is that a complement…?"
Logan grunt and lightheartedly push him causing Marc to fall. "Training continues tomorrow, five-thirty…don't be late."
"I'll take that as, 'Marc you are my best student ever', then." Marc said shaking his head. Logan gave him a hardhearted look turned and walked away, chuckling quietly to himself.
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