A/N: This chapter is dedicated to Cloudy-TheNightMareQueen, my first reviewer. Because of her you all get a chapter early. So be thankful.
He led me back inside and into a dark room with a huge tv on one wall. He picked up the remote and turned the tv off. The half-dozen people in the room looked up in irritation. "Everyone, this is Matthew. Matthew this is Kitty, Rogue, Scott, Jean, Tabitha, Jamie, and Laura." They all nodded and greeted me except Laura. She just watched me. "There are others running around the mansion, but we don't need to introduce you to all of them yet."
Jean was watching the assassin curiously. He didn't appear to remember anything yet. "Kurt, did he do anything suspicious? When I teleported next to him," Kurt replied mentally, "he nearly put me on the ground in two seconds flat. He didn't appear to know what he was doing though because afterwards he looked pretty confused." Not really surprising. There is no way to suppress instincts. And he appears to be largely guided by them. "You ok, Jean?" I looked up and realized Bobby was looking at me. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Just haven't been getting enough sleep lately." He looked at me for a second and then appeared to accept the lie.
She just lied to Bobby. I didn't know how I knew, I just knew with absolute certainty that she had just told Bobby a lie. I turned my attention back to the room in time to see the hairy, angry man who was about six inches shorter than me walk in. "Okay kids, break time's over. Danger Room session in fifteen minutes." They all groaned. "We gotta see what the new kid can do." He left. "Bad luck, Matt." Bobby groaned. "First day and a DR session already? What's a DR session?" I asked. "A trip straight to hell." Tabitha promptly replied. I started laughing and then stopped when I noticed they all looked serious. "It's really that bad? When Logan is the teacher, yes," Bobby groaned. "Well come I gotta show you where everything is." He added.
Fifteen minutes later I was suited up in this horrible black and yellow suit and standing with the others in the middle of an empty room, below and observation room. "Ok, we're gonna go easy because of the new meat here." Logan growled. "All you guys gotta do is run the course without getting hit. Fail and you gotta do it again." As I was about to ask "What course?" the room changed into a forest. The course was a marked trail along the side of a creek bed leading to a flag. As we all began running towards the flag gun turrets came out of nowhere and began shooting bullets, lasers, and buzz saws at us. I saw one hit Tabitha and it went straight through her and a buzzer sounded. She groaned and went back to the start. We were all hit at least once except Laura. She ran straight through everything without being touched. The second time I ran the course something curious happened. I could see the projectiles but I could almost feel the way to run where I wouldn't be hit by any of them. I managed to make it on my second try, putting me in second place. We waited for the others to finish the course. Scott and Bobby made it next. They were each hit twice.
"How the hell did you do that?" Bobby demanded. "Do what?" I asked, honestly not sure what he meant. "The first time you ran it, you looked like the rest of us. Trying to dodge everything and not having much luck. The second time though... you looked like Laura. You dodged everything out there as if you'd been doing it all your life. I have no clue what you mean." Scott looked at me suspiciously and I thought about Bobby's question. How did I do that? Must have been my reflexes from living on the streets. When humans with bats come after you, you have to be good at running and dodging to survive. That answer seemed acceptable, but at the same time didn't really seem to fit. "Just got lucky I suppose." I looked up and noticed that Jamie was the only one still on the course. He was having no luck and getting hit almost immediately. Then, all of a sudden he seemed to split and there were six Jamie's running the course. The other five ran around the one in the center so he couldn't be hit. He got to the finish line laughing and Bobby said, "That's Jamie's power. Kid, what the hell are you doing?" Logan roared. Jamie stopped laughing and looked up at the observation bay fearfully. "I'm gonna let that go this time because I don't want you holding everybody else up, but you and me are gonna be working on this course every day for the next week." Jamie groaned and Logan began the final part of the session. "Last part, you guys are gonna be doing some one on one sparring. No powers, and no serious damage. Stripes and Slim, Half-pint and Jamie, Psycho and Bobby. Laura give em tips." Psycho? What the hell? Bobby was cracking up. "Psycho?" he said between laughs. "You won't be laughing when I'm through with you." I growled playfully. "Get over here and lets start."
I stopped laughing after a minute and moved to stand opposite him. Let's see how good he is. "Well, let's go Psycho." I said with a grin. He just stood there looking confused as I started circling him. Deciding I wouldn't go too hard on him I moved forward and threw a punch at his chest. He jumped to the left, grabbed my outstretched arm and threw me a good five feet. "What the hell?" I heard him say quietly. He was looking at his hands. If he can do that no way am I going easy on him. I moved to take advantage of his distraction and threw a punch at the back of his head. "SHIT," I yelled when my hand made contact. He went down hard but it felt like I had punched a steel wall. "Psycho, Bobby, what the hell are you two doing?" Logan barked. "There's no way I can fight him Logan. His head feels like it's made of metal. Laura, switch with Bobby. Bobby get up here. I'm gonna have Hank take a look at your hand.
Did he just say Laura? Sure I got in a lucky hit against Bobby, but there's no way in hell I can fight a trained assassin. Laura stood opposite to me and looking at her face I had the odd feeling that I was about to be repaid for my teasing.
Moar A/N: CLIFFHANGER DUN DUN DUN But seriously. Review.