A New Age, A New Team

Chapter 17: Training Or Abuse

Sam sat up in her room pacing back and forth. "How dare her." She huffed as she picked up a pillow and threw it as hard as she could at her wall, but she missed and hit a picture frame. It wobbled back and forth before falling on the ground and the glass shattering. "Damnit!" She shouted as she stormed over to the picture and bent down.

She paused from picking it up for a moment when she looked at the picture. It was Sam and her two brothers, Adam and James. She was twelve years old, James was twenty-one, and Adam was twenty-seven. She slowly reached underneath the shards of glass, picked up the broken picture frame, and stared at how happy they all were. She sat down on her bed and closed her eyes as she remembered the joy of being with her brothers.

Sam could feel her anger boil inside of her as she remembered James' arms wrapped around Sam's small body as she tried desperately to reach out to Adam as the rival gang member held the gun to his head. His finger curled around the trigger of the gun and a tear streamed down Adam's face…

Knock Knock

Sam's body jumped as she looked at her door.

"Sam?" Noah asked through the door. "I was just coming to tell you that Hell's Angel, Satine, and Frostbite are waiting in the Danger Room for you to train. You scheduled them today."

The door to Sam's room flung open and Sam stood there, "Fine." She huffed as she slipped passed Noah and went down the hallway.

Noah watched Sam disappear down the hallway and then once she was out of sight he turned and looked into her room. He noticed the broken glass on the side of her bed and he looked down the hallway before going into her bedroom. He slowly bent down to the glass, picked up each piece, and placed it into her trashcan before picked up the frame. He set the frame down on her bed and noticed the picture that once lay inside of it.

Oh no. Noah thought. It's Sam and her brothers – poor Satine, Hell's Angel, and Frostbite. She is just going to beat them to a pulp. He sighed in frustration.

Sam walked into the danger room, which had no simulation on and Satine, Hell's Angel, and Frostbite were standing around inside of it waiting for Sam to arrive. "Today is going to be a hard day of training." Sam said coldly as she walked passed all of them and went straight up to the simulation room to pick a program to train them under.

"When isn't training hard with her?" Seth (Frostbite) joked to the two girls, but only Jazmine (Hell's Angel) laughed.

"She's hurting." Aurora (Satine) said absentmindedly in her thick Irish accent, as her green eyes stared up at Sam in the tower.

"What?" Seth asked in disbelief.

"Rora?" Jazmine asked as she stepped forward.

"How does she know that?" Seth asked softly to Jazmine, while looking at Aurora, who was staring up at Sam.

"Aurora is a telepath and an empath."

"Oh." Seth sighed. "So Aurora," he asked as he walked over to her, "what's Sam thinking about?"

Aurora's green eyes flickered over Sam and then she sighed, "I don't know. Her thoughts are very clouded."

"Then read her emotions." Jazmine stepped in.

"I have," Aurora pleaded as she looked away from Sam and at Seth and Jazmine. "All I sense is anger and pain."

"I could have told you the anger part." Seth smirked.

"But the anger is because she's in pain." Aurora sighed. "She's in a lot of it."

"That can't be good for us then." Seth said as he glanced up at Sam.

"No. It can't." Jazmine sighed.

Sam didn't pay any attention to what the trio was talking about below her as she typed a few things into the computer and then a warehouse simulation appeared around the three mutants below. "Here's how we're going to run this simulation. You won't know who you're opponent is, but there will be one so find it. You have to fight for your lives basically."

"Um, Sam?" Seth asked, "We've never run a simulation where our lives are at risk…" Seth glanced at Jazmine (Hell's Angel) and Aurora (Satine) before looking back up at the tower where Sam was posted.

"Your lives aren't truly at risk, Seth. It simulated to be that way though." Sam said roughly.

"We still have never run a simulation where are lives are simulated to be at risk." Seth pointed out.

"Well it's about time we id run that kind of simulation. You three haven't been here quite as long as the rest of us have been, but you've been here long enough for us to step up your training so you'll be able to make decisions on your own that will help the team without your leaders telling you what to do." Sam said harshly. "So get ready." Hell's Angel, Satine, and Frostbite got into position as they waited for Sam to begin the simulation. "Begin." Sam said over the intercom system, and the simulation started.

A large silver harpoon shot out of nowhere towards Satine, and Satine before Satine had any time to react to it, Frostbite tackled Satine to the ground. "Watch yourself darlin'." He smirked down at Satine, who blushed.

Hell's Angel stretched her large black wings out and in one powerful flap of them, she was up in the air. "I'll cover the aerial view point." She shouted down to Frostbite, who was helping Satine off the ground.

"Got it." Frostbite yelled back to her, and then turned to Satine. "You alright by yourself?"

"Yeah, I think so." She nodded softly. The ground shook below them and then Frostbite looked above them as a crate from the warehouse flew towards him and Satine.

A burst of flames shot out across the crate and it caught fire quickly. "What the hell?" Frostbite gasped before looking at Hell's Angel, who had smoke coming from her mouth. "Oh thanks." He nodded to Hell's Angel before looking at Satine. "Use your powers to find the power source of our "opponent", alright?" He said softly.

"You need to watch yourself better, and do less talking." Sam said over the intercom.

Frostbite turned around and froze a thing of bullets fired off at him and Satine. "Why don't you get down here and try this before you criticize us for "talking too much", huh?" He shouted out of breath as he continued to cover himself and Satine, while Hell's Angel did the aerial view. You're up there barking out orders to us to "do better" when you're the one doing nothing but riding our asses.

"Because I've done a lot harder simulations than any of you have." Sam said angrily over the intercom. "This is the easy shit to me, thank you very much. You wanna see what I do? Fine."

Sam put her fingers on the keyboard and was about to type in the code to run the simulations that her, Noah, Grace, and Sean have to run on a regular bases, but the doors to the danger room opened and Noah walked in. "Override system. End simulations Password Clutch." He shouted out and as soon as he finished speaking, the Danger Room returned to normal.

Seth was panting as he had one arm around Aurora's waist so that he could keep her close to his body so that he could protect her, while Hell's Angel softly flapped her black wings while she panted in the air. Slowly Hell's Angel lowered herself to the ground near Seth and Aurora, "You two alright?" She whispered softly as she panted.

They both nodded slowly as they looked over at the tower door as Sam stormed out of it. "What the hell is your problem Noah!" Sam shouted as she came out of the tower and started walking towards Noah.

Oh here we go. Noah thought, "Sam you were about to run the hardest simulation the danger room has for them."

"He was acting like it was easy."

"So? That doesn't mean you run something that could kill them!" He shouted. "You're pissed and you're taking it out of them… Stop it!"

"What I choose to do during my training sessions is my business. Not yours."

"When it involves something like this? It becomes my business." Noah shouted as he glanced at Aurora. Leave now while I'm distracting her. I'll take the blame, just go before she tries to get you guys to train some more. He thought to her.

Aurora received the telepathic message and looked at Jazmine and Seth, "Noah just told me that we should leave while we have the chance." She whispered to them.

"Right, no arguing here." Seth smirked.

They all quietly walked out of the Danger Room to leave Sam and Noah arguing with one another. Thank goodness. Noah thought.

"You are not in charge of my training sessions." Sam shouted.

Noah turned his attention back towards Sam. Great now I have to deal with her… "You keep acting like that and I will be."