++++++ I totally saw Deadpool tonight...OMG AMAZING! Utterly amazing!

Love, love, love, love, loved it! I have never laughed so much in my entire life.

You must go see it...Immediately.

Anyway...I hope this danger room sim is good enough.

Please enjoy.

I do not own ++++++

Eight

"So this is the danger room?" Gaia asked both Jean and Scott as she looked over the sleek metal room below her. "It's sleek metal cause it's easy to clean isn't it?"

Jean rolled her eyes. "The Danger Room is a training centre for the students in the school to hone their mutant abilities. It utilises holographic technology to combat the X-Men at varying degrees of difficulty. Simple. Lethal."

Gaia raised an eyebrow. "I assume you wrote the handbook?" she asked her. "So…someone tell me why I'm in my underwear?"

Behind her Logan chuckled. "I thought you were having breakfast, Gaia."

"I admit the danger room peaked my interest," she shrugged, "I can eat later. Just curious as to why I'm in my underwear not that I don't look fucking amazing."

"You're in your underwear so you can wear one of these," Scott answered, coming over to her with a training suit. "It's mandatory."

The doors opened letting in several other students including Gambit a few years on. "Is this a private party or is anyone invited?" he asked Jean. "Heard you had a newby-Eh bien , bien, bien , bonjour mon cher."

"Mange moi," Gaia replied.

"Peut-être plus tard, mon cher," he smirked.

Gaia raised an eyebrow. "Can I play danger room remix with this moron?" she asked, motioning to Gambit.

"Why don't you all go?" Logan suggested with a smirk on his face.

Jean rolled her eyes.

Gaia leant over the controls. "So I imagine ten in the highest?" she asked Scott. "Nothing lower than an eight."

"The professor said that-" Jean objected.

"Blah, blah, blah, boring," Gaia muttered. She went to change into the suit she was given and came back to see Gambit, the girl Rogue and two other's suited up ready to go.

"Since you're so cocky, mon cher," Gambit smirked, "level ten should do you justice, shouldn't it?" he asked her.

"You know how to get a girl hot," Gaia smirked. "Jouer vos cartes et vous pourriez avoir de la chance."

"Stop please you're making me sick," Rogue groaned.

Jean fiddled around with the controls with a frown on her face. "I've put it on level nine." She pushed a button and the doors opened. "We'll monitor your specs from here," Jean spoke. "

Gaia tied her hair back and walked into the room with Gambit behind her. "So is Gambit your real name?" she asked him.

"It's Remy," he smirked. "Remy LeBeau."

"So what now?" Gaia sighed.

"You'll see," Rogue laughed behind her. "You know-they talk about you around here in revered whispers…time to see if you're really as powerful as the professor says."

Gaia would have answered if not for the room starting to change appearance like it was melting away into something else. Suddenly it felt as though she was standing on actual ground and not metal. She could even smell the gunpowder and blood in the air. Gaia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm so freaking hot right now," she grinned. The air shimmered and four three story tall sleek metal robots were suddenly standing around the war zone.

"What the fuck are they?" Gaia asked.

"Sentinel's," Rogue answered. "Specially designed to capture and kill mutants."

"Well isn't that thrilling?" Gaia muttered.

"Don't worry, mon cher," Gabmit winked. "I will protect you."

"Eat me!" Gaia shouted before she practically launched herself as the closet sentinel. She pulled her hand back and sliced it straight through the sentinel's head, cutting it off.

"I think she is as good as she says," Gambit shrugged. He jumped into the fight as Gaia went for the second sentinel.

Gaia ran for cover as she was fired upon, taking it she found herself side-by-side with another guy with blonde hair. "Gun Dancer," she grinned, introducing himself.

"Iceman," he grinned. The two shook hands and Iceman took off.

Gaia closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she sent a wave of fire off. She turned and looked up just in time to see a sentinel standing above her. "Oh crap," Gaia muttered. The sentinel kicked her. It sent her flying through the air and straight into Gambit.

"If you wanted me all you need to is ask," he smirked.

Above them Jean shook her head. "She's too busy flirting and showing off."

"Such a waste of talent," Charles frowned.

Gaia was at a bit of a loss, the only powers that would work in here was fire and air, with no natural earth or water to use she was only at half her strength. She looked over to Gambit, somewhat fascinated by the playing cards he was using to fight with. She went to launch herself into the air only to be pulled back down and tossed around like a rag doll. The sentinel hit her into the ground and stood on her.

"GET OFF ME!" Gaia screamed as the sentinel's foot crushed her downwards into the holographic earth below her.

"Professor we have to stop!" Jean objected. "We could kill her!"

"Jean's right!" Scott agreed.

Gaia scream as her body burst into flames, the ground below her rumbled as cracks started to appear on the danger room walls…suddenly the entire room exploded inwards covering everyone in sight.

Once the smoke had settled a disturbing beast stood there amongst the ruins of the danger room. It looked like a lion but it wasn't a lion, it had a flaming mane and tail but it's body was made entirely out of what looked to be bark. The ginormous flaming beast raised its head and howled, the sound vibrated through the danger room making the glass shake.

"What the hell is that?" Logan gasped.

"The true form of mother nature," Charles answered. "I had a feeling that something like this would happen. Such a connection with the earth needs to manifest in a way to be able to defend it." The beast that was once Gaia started walking around in circles, in amongst the rubble on the ground beneath her was the four other X-Men who had been in the danger room with her.

"She's protecting them," Scott frowned.

"Or she's gonna eat them," Logan laughed.

"Imagine such a beast in the hands of someone who wants to destroy the world," the professor frowned. "Such a wild, primal creature with the power of the earth at its fingertips…this is what they want. Not Gaia…they want the beast."

"I do believe that this is enough." Standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips was Ororo Munroe. "Professor I have to object to this now or I'll call Shelby." Ororo had to be the only mutant that Shelby was still friends with after all this time.

"Jean, my dear," the professor frowned, "I may need some help putting Miss Blake to sleep."

Before anything could be done, the beast dropped and started to burn up. Eventually all that was left was a naked Gaia in a bed of violet flowers. There was such a peaceful look on her face that even amongst the destruction, she was smiling.

++++++ French translations

Eh bien , bien, bien , bonjour mon cher

Well, well, well, hello my dear

Mange moi

Eat me

Peut-être plus tard, mon cher

Maybe later, my dear

Jouer vos cartes et vous pourriez avoir de la chance

Play your cards right and you could get lucky ++++++