The next morning I awoke to the sound of Kittys alarm clock blaring a song from a boy band I wasn't familiar with. I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked over to see Kittys eyes pop open. She scrambled out of bed and ran over to her dresser grabbing a pink towel and loofah. She ran to the bathroom door only to run straight into it as Rogue ran inside and shut the door.
I stifled a laugh and went over to help Kitty up. She had a bright red mark on her forehead. I offered my hand and she took it gladly.
"What was that all about?" I asked looking at her questioningly.
"Rogue says I take too long to shower so she wants to like teach me a lesson by getting in the shower first and making me almost miss breakfast and like barely have time to do my make up." She said with a huff.
"Oh." I said understandingly.
I jumped and turned invisible when there was a knock on the door, Kitty just smiled before shouting for the person to enter. I willed myself to become visible and looked at the door as it opened; Professor Xavier was in the hallway.
"I don't mean to disturb you girls but, Sheila your room is ready. I apologize for the inconvenience, Sheila. Gather your things and I will show you where it is." He said smiling.
"Okay, thank you Professor Xavier." I said grabbing my back pack and my suitcase.
"Please, just call me Professor X or just Professor if you wish." He said leading me down to my room. We didn't walk for until we reached the door leading to my room. "This is your room." He said opening the door and allowing me to go in.
The room had a sheet less twin bed, a dark brown wooden dresser, a black bookshelf, and a door leading to what I assumed was the bathroom. I set my bags on the bed and went over to the door pushing it open. Inside was a bathroom that was mostly white with some blue accents.
"Jean is right next door if you need anything. I'm afraid I must take my leave now to prepare for the day. Goodbye Sheila." He said closing the door.
I turned back to my new room and decided to make myself at home. I started with my clothes and put them in the dresser, luckily they all fit and I still had room for more clothes for later in the year. Next I put the books I brought with me on the bookshelf, which was still mostly empty. I went back to my bag and looked at the rest of the things I had; a small bag full of hair accessories, another small bag of personal hygiene essentials, a hairbrush, a pair of flip-flops, a pair of boots, a pair of sneakers, and a small framed picture of me and my parents.
I put both pairs of shoes next to the dresser, then went into the bathroom and put the small bags and hairbrush on the counter, then put the framed photo on the dresser. I admired my room then when I was content I got dressed in my usual light purple shirt with blue skinny jeans and my black sneakers.
After I got dressed I went into my bathroom and brushed my hair and my teeth. I came back into my room only to hear a knock on the door. I jumped slightly and opened the door a little, peeking out. Kitty stood outside smiling.
"Hey, are you like ready for breakfast? We gotta hurry or Kurt will, like eat all of the food!" she said impatiently.
I opened the door the rest of the way and exited. Kitty practically ran down the hall to get to the kitchen. I followed trying to keep up as best as I could. When we reached the kitchen Even, Rogue, Jean, Scott, and Wolverine were sitting at the table.
"Good morning." Kitty said walking over to where the food was laid out on the counters.
There were various greetings from everyone; it seemed that most of them were done with their food. Kitty sighed in relief and grabbed food out of fear the Kurt would bamf in and take it. I followed Kittys lead and grabbed some food, it appeared that it was mostly gone luckily I wasn't very hungry. I ate my food silently while everyone else talked and laughed.
All was fine until a loud bamf was heard and the smell of sulfur and rotten eggs wafted through the kitchen as the smoke cleared and Kurt stood there smiling.
"Good morning!" he said then quickly went over to the food, only to be disappointed. "vhat happened to all zhe food?" Kurt asked upset.
"Maybe you shouldn't wait till fifteen minutes before we start in the Danger Room to eat." Wolverine said annoyed.
"Besides, there's enough left for you to eat. It's not like you absolutely need to eat the amount you do every day." Scott added.
Kurt sighed and filled his plate. He walked over to the table and took the last remaining seat between Evan and Rogue. I ate the rest of my food then took my plate to the sink, washing it and my fork then setting them in the drying rack to dry. I returned to the table and sat down, now realizing that everyone seemed surprised by my actions.
"At least someone in this place knows what to do with their dirty dishes." Wolverine grumbled.
"What?" I asked blushing from the attention and I felt myself fade slightly.
"We usually leave the dishes as a chore for whoever does the worst in training." Evan explained.
"Oh." I said understanding "I'm sorry." I said putting my head down.
"It's okay Sheila. It's not really that important." Jean said reassuringly "It's just something we like to do as a sort of…" she trailed off.
"Joke. It also helps the person try to get better. It helps us stay motivated." Scott finished smiling.
"Who had to do the dishes last time?" I asked smiling.
Everyone was quiet for a moment before looking at Evan.
"Evan, because he almost impaled me." Rogue said in her southern drawl
"What?" he asked offended "It's not like I tried to hurt you!"
Wolverine stood from the table, "Alright, everyone go suit up. Training begins in five minutes." He said exiting. Everyone groaned and stood up each leaving with Kitty, Kurt, and I being the last ones in the room.
"What exactly is the 'Danger Room'?" I asked confused.
"Oh, it's like where we practice using our abilities." Kitty explained with a smile.
"Vha, it iz also zhe only place I am better zhan Kätzchen." Kurt said taking his plate to the sink.
Kitty glared at him and I giggled. I knew Kitty would get him back later for that remark, but she turned to me calmly.
"Come on, we need to like go and get you a suit." She said grabbing my wrist and leading me out of the kitchen. I turned and waved to Kurt before we were out the door. She let my wrist go and I fell into step beside her. "I am so totally getting back at him for that." She said narrowing her eyes as she led me down the hall. We soon reached a set of double doors.
Kitty knocked on the doors and waited for a moment. "Come in." A voice called form inside. Kitty pushed one of the doors open and walked inside. "Hello Kitty, Sheila. What do you need?" Professor Xavier said moving away from the window he had been looking out of.
"Sorry to bother you Professor but, Sheila like needs a suit for the Danger Room." Kitty said gesturing towards me.
"Oh, yes." He said nodding. "Your suit should be in your room. I had Storm take it up there only a moment ago."
I nodded, "Thank you Professor." Kitty and I walked out and headed to my room.
(A/N Because I already have a design for her suit I changed the color of Kittys. Kittys suit is going to be light pink instead of purple, sorry.)
I opened the door and looked around, and sure enough on my bed sat a dark blue and light purple suit with yellow gloves and light purple boots.
Kitty squealed joyfully "Hurry up and put it on, I'll go change into mine." She said leaving the room quickly.
I closed the door after her and looked at the garment. I sighed and changed into it. The suit was long-sleeved and was purple from my left thigh up to my right arm in a diagonal. The suit was a little big but all in all it fit fine. I slipped on the gloves and the boots then exited my room and heard a squeal. I jumped and turned completely invisible. I looked at Kitty who was smiling.
"Like come one Sheila, I want to see the suit on you!" Kitty said laughing.
I looked down and realized the suit disappeared with me. None of my other clothes did that that means the suit was specially made. I became visible again and she looked me over and nodded with approval.
"It looks nice on you." She said.
"Uh, Kitty, don't we have to go to the Danger Room?" I asked.
Kittys face went pale and she grabbed my wrist taking off in a sprint. I struggled to keep up for a moment but soon caught up as she led me to the Danger Room. After what seemed like ten minutes of running we reached a corridor that was made completely of metal and such. Kitty slowed down slightly.
"I hope were not too late, or Logan will kill us." She said exasperated.
We approached the end of the corridor where a metallic door stood open.
"Go invisible and I'll phase through the wall." She whispered.
I made myself invisible and walked through the door quietly. Logan was talking to them about teamwork and how they needed to work on being a team rather than individuals. When he turned around to look out of the observation glass I stood next to Kurt and became visible again.
Kurt looked like he was starting to doze off while still in a standing position. I nudged Kurt and he immediately became alert. He looked at me and was startled.
"Sheila? Vhen did you get here?" He whispered.
"Just now." I responded and noticed Kitty standing next to Rogue. I smiled at her and she waved back.
"How did you not ghet notized by Volverine?" he asked in wonder.
I made my body invisible for a moment then became opaque again. He smiled at me and turned back to Logan who was now explaining the exercise for the day.
"You will work as a team to take down the robot the Professor designed. I expect you to be able to do it in under an hour and a half, and even that is pushing the limit I should give you time wise. Everyone get down there and get ready. Scott and Jean I want you to devise a plan and apply it, you're the leaders this time." Logan said pressing a button on a control panel and a panel in the wall opened.
The panel, which turned out to be a door was metallic as well and everyone filed through and entered the mechanized room. Everyone got into a circle and waited for instruction.
Scott was the first to speak up. "Okay, so first things first when were in combat, weather it in the Danger Room or a mission we use our codenames, okay? I'm Cyclops, Jean is just Jean, Evan is Spike, Rogue is Rogue, since she won't tell us her real name we call her by her codename all the time, Kitty is Shadowcat, Kurt is Nightcrawler, and that leaves you. We will give you a code name after the session so we can assess your capabilities, okay? So for now you're just Sheila." I nodded and made sure to remember everyone's codenames.
"Now onto the plan." Jean said taking charge. "Since we haven't faced this before we will need to plan and revise throughout the session." Jean said turning to Scott.
"I think we should first wait and see how it attacks and who it attacks first. From there we will adjust the plan so we can defeat it. If I know the Professor he probably made it so that if it is damaged it will automatically repair itself, so if we need to we can go full out." Scott said looking up at the observation area.
There was the sound of an intercom being turned, "Scott is right. If you need to you can go 'full out'. It is a self repairing unit so do as you wish." The Professor said through the intercom and then there was a click signaling it was off.
"So what's the plan?" Evan-Spike asked.
"Logan said to try and work together so I want everyone to try to find its weak point. Jean, Rogue and I will attack from the front while Shadowcat, Spike, and Nightcrawler attack from the rear. Now that we have a way of getting close without being seen, Sheila, I want you to try to get as close as possible, without getting injured by the robot or in the crossfire, and try to find its weak point from there. " Cyclops said looking at my expectantly. I gulped and nodded.
"Okay, everyone understand the plan?" Jean asked looking over everyone. Nobody said anything so she looked towards the observation area and gave a thumbs up.
"You four go over there, where the monster will be released from; we can't let it see you before we find a vantage point." Cyclops said pointing to a metallic panel, similar to the one in the observation room but bigger. Everyone ran over to the area and stood along the wall waiting. I followed their lead and waited.
There was a few moments of silence before there was a loud beep and the door slid open. A huge robot walked out, it appeared to have little to no human properties except for a pair of legs and an almost spherical head. The robot was a metallic grey color with what appeared to be laser guns for hands. It was very similar to a robot you would see on television except it was about ten feet tall and intimidating.
The machine walked out at a quick pace and turned its head, searching the room. Jean, Cyclops, and Rogue all ran in front of it, catching its attention. They started to attack it and soon everyone was which left me standing there, dazed.
"Sheila hurry and help us find the vantage point!" Evan said snapping me out of my dazed state.
I quickly turned invisible and ran over to the machine searching for a way to get inside it, to deactivate it-anything! I looked for a few moments before I heard a strange and loud whirring sound that seemed to come from within the machine itself. I touched the machine again and found it was extremely hot and quickly pulled away.
"Sheila don't freak out, I know you can hear my voice, have you found anything yet?" Jeans voice said from within my mind.
I was confused for a moment then responded, "I'm not sure really. The robot is getting extremely hot and I don't know why or how it will attack when it builds enough heat."
"Heat…." She repeated and I looked over at her and I could tell she was thinking.
Suddenly the heat intensified and it felt like there was fire all around me. She turned to Scott and said something to him. They talked while they attacked the robot and after a few minutes she turned back to the enemy a scared look in her eyes.
"Scott apparently told the Professor to 'heat things up in the Danger Room' and I think his intentions were for the robot to-oh no. Sheila get out of the-" Jean was cut off by the robot sending out an electromagnetic field of energy and the energy rebounded off the metallic walls in the room and back towards the machine where the pulsations came back through it legs hitting me.
The force of the pulsations growing into one threw me to the ground. I shielded my face with my arms and my body felt like it was on fire. I let out a bloodcurdling scream as the waves of energy rolled over me. It felt like I was being boiled alive. I kept screaming and could no longer focus on staying invisible.
As soon as the last pulsation disappeared my body relaxed slightly and the robot went back into the room where it came from. I curled into a ball and could feel my whole body shaking from the pain. I was in pure agony and couldn't will myself to move.
I could hear several sets of footsteps run over to me and there was frantic shouting. I didn't move at all for what seemed like hours and the pain was gone enough so that I could open my eyes and remove myself from the fetal position. The shouting quieted down and I looked around, everyone was looking at me.
Evan and Nightcrawler helped me up and I felt like I immediately felt like I was going to be sick. I could barely stand so they were practically carrying me.
"Sheila, are you okay?" Jean asked looking me over.
The only response I could muster was a small groan. Professor Xavier and Logan both came out of the observation room.
"What happened?" the Professor asked looking at me sadly.
"Well," Scott said looking at Jean, then me, then the Professor. "We're not exactly sure."
"Sheila are you alright?" the Professor asked looking at me sympathetically.
This time I managed to bring some words out, "I-I think so."
"Do you know what happened?"
"When the robot attacked I was under it, so when the thing came back it hit me- all of it did."
"And that's it?" The Professor asked raising an eyebrow.
I nodded and everyone stared at me.
"Sheila, when you screamed….there was fire everywhere…or at least that's how it looked…there wasn't any heat but it looked like fire." Scott said confused.
"I-I don't remember any fire- well when they hit me it felt like I was on fire- liking I was being boiled alive." I said shivering.
"Strange." The Professor said "Sheila can you try to imagine that feeling? Try to imagine how it felt and project it outwards."
I did as he said and closed my eyes imagining the feeling I had when the attack hit me. I felt my body begin to shake again and felt like I had almost no energy.
"Odd, but not that surprising." The Professor said and I opened my eyes and I almost collapsed but Evan and Kurt mad sure I was still standing.
"Sheila, you have more than one power." The Professor said smiling. "You can cast illusions."