After the dinner was eaten and many awkward stares were given to all three mutants, Melody found herself being whisked away into the Danger Room.
"Alvright Melody, you're going to be pitted against zhe people ve zhink are on par vith your abilities, are you vready?" Melody smiled and put her hand on her hip.
"Really? Have I ever been NOT ready for some fun?" Logan happened to be right behind her when she said that. He blushed and finished putting on his glove, getting ready to fight Melody. Logan, Kurt, Ororo, Scott, and Jean were the "privileged" students to fight this new girl. The Professor knew she was strong, so he picked the best of the best. Rogue was offered to do it, but she declined.
"Are ya kiddin'?" she had asked. "I ain't gonna go up against her! No way, she gives me the willies!" Melody shook the memory from her head and strapped on the suit. Since they didn't know her sizes, Melody had to make her own X-Men outfit. It was made of black leather, latex, and a muscle-shirt kind of fabric; looking like a mix between Kurt's, Black Cat's, Ororo's, and Emma Frost's suits: A.K.A. very sexy and appealing, but also very durable and easy to work with and in. She stepped out of the changing room, and everyone turned to look at their trainee. Kurt and Logan blushed as Bobby whistled from the observation deck, where most of the students gathered to watch. Bobby felt something nudge him and turned around.
"Watch it!" He yelled out to the student behind him, or, "students" I should say. One of the younger students could make multiple exact copies of himself, and he used it… often… the younger student smiled sheepishly and made himself into just one student again, giving everyone room to breathe. Melody chuckled and walked over to her two boys (A.K.A. Kurt and Logan). She put her hand on her hip and placed all her weight on one leg.
"So… what are we gonna be doing today?" she winked. "I hope nothing too strenuous… So be gentle… okay? It's my first time…" She winked and walked away, laughing her head off. Logan sighed and glanced over to Kurt.
"So kid… she's gonna have to pick one of us… who do you think it'll be..?" Kurt gave Logan a glare and said,
"Vell, I zhink zhat I have a very good chance of vinning her heart, but you are also a vorthy opponent, und I zhink zhat you also have a good chance of vinning her heart. But until zhen…" Kurt teleported over to Melody and whispered in her ear. Melody laughed and punched him in the arm. Logan grunted and blew a whistle hanging around his neck.
"Let's go guys! First, we will test Melody on her telepathic powers. I know she has some, so Jean, get over here." Jean pulled herself away from Scott and walked over to Melody. She smiled and winked.
"Just because we had fun a few hours ago doesn't mean I'm gonna go easy on you now." Melody laughed.
"I wasn't planning on letting you." The Danger Room was suddenly changed into a parking garage as Jean and Melody walked to opposite sides of the room. Logan stood in the center of the room and blew his whistle again.
"Alright, Jean will lift something telepathically, and you are to see if you can lift it Melody. Understand?" Melody smirked and nodded as Logan continued to give instructions. "Keep whatever you're holding as long as you can until you can no longer hold it. Alright, let's go!"
Jean nodded to start the timing, and struggled with all her might and she barely managed to lift an SUV in front of her. Jean was still practicing her powers, but he Professor thought she was doing well for being at the school for such a short amount of time. Jean grunted and sweated under the mental strain of the heavy car, as the students cheered for her.
"Go Jean go! Go Jean go!" they screamed and yelled her name, trying to have their favorite older student win over the new hot-shot student. The students were wary of this new girl; she seemed, powerful... Almost... TOO powerful.
Jean smiled wearily under the load and grunted once more. Logan watched anxiously as Melody watched the show in front of her. Iran groaned one more time and dropped the load with a loud "BOOM". All the students screamed in delight as Logan called out the time on his stop watch.
"Thirty-six seconds!" Jean smiled at herself; it was her best record yet. The Professor beamed down at her from the watch room as Scott handed her a towel. Melody clapped good-naturedly at the fellow redhead. Jean smiled on the outside, but on the inside, she thought,
"Take THAT bitch… I've been training for years to get that far." Melody smiled at the older student, fully knowing her thoughts and feelings. As soon as Scott and Jean were out of the way, Melody looked at Logan; who smiled and nodded at her, giving her a wink at the same time. Melody nodded back, and looked towards the now some-what-beaten-up-SUV in front of her. She smirked at the thing, and lifted it easily. Everyone else gasped slightly; within two seconds, the SUV was ten feet in the air, almost twice as high and three times as fast as it took Jean. Scott began to stammer slightly.
"So-so! Just because it's higher doesn't mean she can hold it up as long as you did!" Jean nodded and smiled.
"That's right! If anything, she just strained herself more than necessary!" Jean smirked as she watched the younger girl in front of her lift her hand higher. Melody looked around, and gave smug grin. Using her other hand, Melody lifted another large vehicle near-by just as high, and just as quickly. Jean's jaw dropped when she witnessed the feat. With a loud voice, Melody roared, and caused all of the cars in the Danger Room to lift. Jean then fainted and collapsed into Scott's arms. Melody laughed lightly and walked around the room, letting her arms fall to her side. She glanced up to the Professor and smiled. Waving her hand to him, the Professor smiled in extreme satisfaction.
"She's strong…" said a voice. The Professor smiled and said back,
"Yes… but just HOW strong Storm..?" The Ethiopian smiled and continued to watch.
Time passed and Melody was getting bored of keeping the cars in the air. She sighed and started to play with them in the air, acting like they were simply toys on a carpet mat. Logan looked down at his stop watched and almost choked on air.
"FOR-FOR-FORTY MINUTES?" Everyone yelled in surprise and looked at their watches/phones. Sure enough, it had been forty minutes of Melody holding thirty cars ten feet above ground.
"Ug... it's only been that long?" Melody called out. She was laying on the floor with her arms and legs stretched out. She sighed loudly and sat up. "Can I put these things down now? I wanna go play some poker with Gambit…" She looked very bored with this whole thing and looked towards Kurt. Logan cleared his throat and looked towards the Professor. He nodded and Logan gave the go ahead. Melody sighed in relief and gently put the cars down. She stood up and yawned.
"Um… Well then… next, the acrobatics with Kurt."
"Oh we've already done LOTS of acrobatics, haven't we Kurt..?" she winked in his direction, referring to their escapades in the German forests. Logan blushed and told the Danger Room to change its settings. It did as it was told and created a circus-like setting. Kurt smiled and basked in the light. Teleporting to the center of the room, he held his arms out and breathed in deeply. Melody walked over to him and whispered in his ear,
"You miss this, don't you?"
"Ja… Vait, how did you know zhat I vas in zhe circus?" Kurt whispered back.
"Hm… let's just say I have my sources." She walked over to one side of the ring and waited for Kurt to start. The blue German smiled devilishly and teleported to his side of the room.
"You will start from your side and try to go through as many obstacles as possible without using any of your powers. You WILL be timed; the time is one minute. You must get from where you stand to where your opponent stands in that time. Understood?" The teens looked at each other, and smirked. The nodded in unison and Logan dropped his hand, signaling the start of this competition. Melody glanced to Kurt, and offered for him to go first. He accepted, and leapt into the air, signaling Logan to start the timer, and the contest.
Kurt jumped into the air and grabbed an acrobatic ring, swinging through the center he gathered speed and threw himself off into another obstacle. Touching and going through as many things as possible, Kurt created many "oohs" and "ahhs" from the watching audience. The blue teen smiled at himself.
"Ach… Mein Gott! I've missed zhis so much!" he flipped and twirled like a ballerina in mid-air. Landing safely back on solid ground next to Melody, he grinned and winked at younger girl. Melody smiled and winked back. Kurt walked away, feeling that something wasn't right. When he was with Scott and Jean, he glanced back at Melody and noticed she was rather nervous. Kurt glanced to Logan, who had noticed the same thing. Being animalistic, they could smell these things quicker due to a chance of scent. Logan nodded at Kurt and walked over to Melody.
"Hey, you alright?" He put his hand on her shoulder and whispered in her ear.
"Yeah... I'm fine!" Logan wasn't impressed with her lying abilities, but he let it by this time, thinking it wasn't that big of a deal. He squeezed her arm slightly and walked away; he went to his standing spot and waited for the okay from Melody. Melody could feel her stomach getting queasy.
"Get it TOGETHER girl!" she told herself, "you've done a lot worse than this in your time..." she slapped her face lightly and glared at the rings hanging in the air. She took a big breath, and turned to Logan. Nodding, Logan yelled,
"GO!" Melody had gained a few fans during her last feat, so she heard her name being called out loudly by a chorus of children's voices. Jumping into the air, Melody barely managed to get a hold of her bar.
"Damnit..." she thought to herself as she repositioned her grip. "Why are my palms so sweaty?" she ignored the moistness of her hands and the butterflies having a fiesta in her stomach. She ignored everything, Jean's rude thought, Rogue's being rude as well, even Logan's flirting (which she had grown to kinda enjoy, even though Kurt's shy, goofy flirting was still kinda cute). She felt her body begin to swing into a rhythm of grab, swing, release, grab, swing, release. Opening her eyes, she saw everyone cheering for her; all except Logan, Kurt, the Professor, and Ororo. They all had nervous looks on their faces... SOMETHING wasn't right...
Melody ignored this and continued swinging. She looked ahead and saw something she hadn't noticed before... A tight-rope... She gulped as her palms got sweatier. Calculating how long it had been and how many obstacles she faced, she realized the only way she could beat Kurt is to go through the tight-rope...
"So?" she thought. "I don't need to win EVERYTHING... right..?" her hunger for success eventually won, causing herself to fly towards the rope with weak knees and butterflies still dancing like a bunch of ravers at a dub-step party. Landing on the rope, she opened her eyes once more. Her heart stopped as she looked down to Kurt and Logan.
"Oh God no…" Her vision blurred and the ground below her disappeared.