Peter-Paul had graduated to a new level of training and education. Peter-Paul was thirteen years old today, and professor thought he could maybe make an attempt to use mini-Cerebra. The professor figured getting the child used to brain accelerators at an early age would be prudent. He rated Peter-Paul as potentially one of the best telepaths around. Nowhere near as strong as the professor or Jean, but he seemed to have a more refined and finer tuned ability.
Cerebra had changed over the years. Originally kept super-secret by the professor, Cerebra had lost some of it's secrecy as national organizations learned how to replicate devices similar to Cerebro in function if not form. There was no point in keeping super-secret what others could easily replicate. There were dozens of Cerebro similar devices on the planet at this point in time. The tool of telepathy had been made available to a handful of non-telepaths in government organizations. Back at the school there were now a set of five locked "classrooms" in the glass box (the new part of the school) each one about a seven foot spherical room with a Cerebra helmet in it. Dubbed mini-Cerebra it gave telepathic people the chance to gain experience with Cerebra in a safe manner. It worked like Cerebra except at lower power levels and it was easier to control. Given a couple of more decades, the telephone would be completely obsolete as portable telepathy devices arose. There were five rooms to allow up to five telepaths to work in tandem. This allowed group telepathy. Cerebra was still by far the best most powerful device on the planet.
Hank looked at the smoking control board: "ProfessorX thought it might be a good idea to introduce Peter-Paul to mini-Cerebra. He said he should have the potential to make good use of Cerebra one day. The mini-Cerebra / Cerebra is a solitary machine she was never meant to be used by two people at the same time. And now it's a wreck. It just wasn't meant to handle two telepathic vectors at once."
Jean snickered : "I told the professor Peter's not telepathic, but the professor doesn't agree with me.".
The professor was careful about who was exposed to Cerebra. There were only a handful of telepaths who had the mind necessary to pilot Cerebra. To most other individuals with some telepathic abilities Cerebra was useless.
"It looks like Cerebra is due for another upgrade" professor commented.