Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Dec 16, 2007 12:43:01 GMT -5
Heather froze. Use it? How? Heather's anger began to take form. "How? I just don't know how?" Heather went against her leader's words and began analyzing how to use her powers. The bubbles, the cup, the bubbles surfacing....what else? Her anger increased each second. She just didn't understand.
She looked to the golums everywhere. She saw the water in the guns trying to cool down Aideen. She looked weak, however seemed to gain more power the longer she avoided the water. Heather looked back to Shadowkat, who even though wasn't saying it, Heather heard it. Use it....you know how....stop thinking and just let it happen...
The anger inside her was at its peak. She saw the water, laid out in front of her, ready to be taken into control. But there she was....unable to do it. She closed her eyes and clenched her fits, trying to calm her anger, but she couldn't. She thought about herself in the shower, the first time she ever saw her powers in effect. The first time she even knew she had powers. Then the second time in school, when she froze the ice in the bottle. What was she thinking when it happened each time? Nothing. But how was thinking about nothing going to activate her powers?
Heather's frustration grew; so much she was gritting her teeth without noticing. Her anger, still at it's peek began to eat away at her. She didn't know what to do. How to do it. She looked to her leader. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THIS!" With that, the water in one of the guns burst through the solid metal, causing the gun to fry. Her anger drained from her immediately as Heather looked to the guns to see what she had done. The shock made her unable to think or speak. As the golum emerged out of the wet sand, Heather's fear returned. She was scared and didn't want to be there anymore. At that moment she wanted to cry, but held back to not feel embarassed.
Now wasn't the time to cry. She had to face it. Everyone else was being a team, not worried about their powers. But Heather couldn't help it. Hear fear and frustration kept building up as the events unfolded in front of her.
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Post by Ember on Dec 16, 2007 12:56:35 GMT -5
Aideen let out a small breath of relief at the site of the water guns letting down. Though she was wet, her heat was coming back quicker thanks to the already hot air. Her skin and clothes were now either dry or just a bit damp. She almost groaned out loud at the sight of the sand creature in more solid muddy form.
Standing up on wobbly legs, Aideen looked at the creature coming toward her. Using fire would set off the guns again as would if she left the protection of the heavy glass. As the creature came towards her an idea formed in her head. Aideen waited until the creature was at the perfect distance close to her before Aideen jumped up from behind the sculpture to the back of the more solid creature. Her hands burst into flames and the high water pressure propelled after her, destroying the creature into little pieces. Unfortunately they knocked Aideen right into the air, making her head spin as she landed in a sand pit.
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Post by Emma Frost on Dec 16, 2007 13:04:06 GMT -5
'Well done Aqua~ relax as you manipulate the power you have~ weild the water~ bend it to your will'Aqua felt Ms. Frost's voice inside of her head- in her mind and then an image appeared of a being flowing up from water it's features became Heather's own.... ...and the water was flowing around as it commanded it to. It was a beautiful dream, and Aqua momentarily lost herself in it. 'Stay aware of your surroundings in there- go limp!' The White Queen spoke inside her mind again, as she felt Kitty crash into her hard and then the two of them phased into the ground from the tackle. From her vantage point in the control room she'd seen the young New Mutant in a daze from her own meddling and as the Golum swiped for her her Team leader did what she had to. Emma resigned herself to try and stay out of it for the remainder of the test. It would be hard, she didn't want anything to happen to any of her kids.
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Post by Emma Frost on Dec 16, 2007 13:13:55 GMT -5
In the control room Emma Frost looked to Hank McCoy and a sparkle lit her eye. "She's a clever one..." she said refering to Ember. "... is your system ready for this class Beast, because they are begining to look like they could give it a run for it's money."
A sense of something akin to hope sparked in her deepest darkest heart, dispelling the synical pessimism that she carried there. Emma had seen too many young people destroyed over the years, and remember how the Hellfire Club had nearly destroyed her. She thought momentarily for Haven and hoped, for Haven's own sake, that she was dead and not in their evil clutches.
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Post by BEAST on Dec 16, 2007 13:24:23 GMT -5
"Yes, Emma. I believe this newest software model is going to give the room a bit of intrinsic aptitude to build upon and learn as it goes, not sentience as such- but it will become as valued as any team member in the grand scheme of things." Beast said as he thumbed a nob, dialing it down a notch and a half.
"These children can barely control themselves though- is it not too early for this?" He voiced his concern "Certainly there is something to be said about throwing someone into the deep end to teach them to swim, but not if there are sharks."
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Post by Emma Frost on Dec 16, 2007 13:30:39 GMT -5
"What are you doing Hank! I didn't say to ease up on them...turn it back up. Make it point five percent more difficult in fact, they should know things never get easier as they go." The White Queen snapped at him.
"I'm expecting this to give them something to learn from, and we need to get readings on all of them as well. The scanners are operating properly it appears..."
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Dec 16, 2007 13:33:42 GMT -5
Heather woke up from the dream. She saw herself, surrounded in water, controlling it, feeling it in her mind and body. The two were working as one. She felt faint and felt a force push her to the ground. As she awoke from the dream, she saw Shadowkat holding her. She protected her from an attempted blow a sand golum was going to take. Heather breathed in quickly, trying to remember the beautiful image of herself that she saw. A voice was speaking to her but she couldn't remember who it was.
She looked to Shadowkat, "Thanks, I'm ok." She stood up quickly and looked at her surroundings. Aideen crashed the vast glass golum and flew back in the air. The other Paragons where still fighting, another sand golum was heading to Clutch. She froze and thought about what to do. C'mon Heather, she thought to herself. It's now or never. You can do it, just let it happen.
Heather searched for the water held sand golum but realized that Aideen destroyed it. She could however, feel the water around her. That was the presence she felt earlier as she walked in. The guns that held water around the Danger Room. Heather smiled and closed her eyes. She felt the water in the ground where the muddy golum once stood. She slowly began to pull the water from the ground.
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Post by Shadowkat on Dec 16, 2007 13:50:50 GMT -5
"Great job Aqua! Clutch needs us!!!" Kitty hoped the girl had been able to hold out and dodge, she did look very frail though as tall as she was and so skinny. 'The heat must be killing her' Kitty thought.
"Can you spray this guy in front of us I'm going for Clutch- shoot for his base ...it's the weak point, the connection to the ground." Kitty phased and ran off to help Clutch as the nearest sand golum swung through her several times quickly when she passed by it.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
Posts: 731
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Post by Aqua on Dec 16, 2007 14:00:43 GMT -5
Heather concentrated, feeling weaker as she drained the water away from the ground beneath her.. She had to stop taking the water away and use it on the other golum as her leader instructed. Heather struggled as she circled the water and felt the water around her. She clenched her teeth together, hoping it would help her regain strength. It barely helped.
Heather looked toward the sand golum in front of her. She concentrated on the water around her more, and formed them into two balls. She had each one levitating in both hands. She rose her left and aimed it toward the foot of the monster. Her strength was drained nearly to its limit and she lost control of the water around her. She fell to the ground, panting, trying to keep herself up. She was too weak, she used her mind too much too quickly. Still on all fours, Heather felt her blood drain from her head and allowed blackness to overcome her.
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Clutch
New Mutants
Anastasia Equilnaiir
Manipulation, is not a command
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Post by Clutch on Dec 16, 2007 14:13:57 GMT -5
Clutch panicked, she wasnt ready, she couldnt do much with her powers, all she could do was pull things toward her, and only small ones. With great fear she watched as she giant sand gollum started moving for her. In panick she screamed and tried to move backward, but felt frozen to the spot. She put her hand out in front of her lightly and felt a small scream come from her mouth. She looked up quickly and felt the colour drain from her face as she pulled herself together and started running, anywhere. She decided away from everyone else was a better idea, less chance of them being taken with her if she was going to be attacked.
Watching helplessly as Aqua became drained, Clutch became slightly angry at herself for being so afraid. She tried her hardest to think of what she could do, when she had one of her most outrageous idea's yet. She put her hand out infront of her and tried to push the gollum from her, she knew it was a stupid idea, but was suprised to find that the point of the gollums leg where she had aimed began to move backward. As little as it did, Clutch tried feebly to move it backward.
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Post by Shadowkat on Dec 16, 2007 14:39:35 GMT -5
"Hang in there Clutch I'm coming!" Shadowkat called out to her and was amazed that the girl was able to pull herself together and try something new. "Yes! It's working keep it up!" She hollered over the whistle of the wind.
The heat was nearly unbearable and she worried for Clutch, that girl looked nearly skin and bones. She ran and tried to close the distance as fast as she could, but the sand suddenly felt more difficult to run on- more shifty, the room had increased in difficulty...she knew that feeling, knew it well.
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Clutch
New Mutants
Anastasia Equilnaiir
Manipulation, is not a command
Posts: 148
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Post by Clutch on Dec 16, 2007 14:46:26 GMT -5
Clutch looked around quickly, losing her concentration for a second before looking back and squealing slightly in shock before regaining her focus and trying to push the gollum back from her. She tried to change her stance as she felt sweat trickle down her pale face. Slowly she pushed one foot behind her, digging it into the sand and trying to keep herself steady. But it was hard.
She tried to close her mind to anything and focus on the one spot at the bottom of the gollums leg, making everyone else around it hazy as she used all the force within her to try and push it from her. Thankfully, it started sliding backward in almost in a moonwalk fashion. It didn't register with her and she started gritting her teeth, pushing harder with her mind, agrily growling into the air.
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Post by Nightcrawler on Dec 16, 2007 14:52:27 GMT -5
"Ripple, Jumper- goot" Nightcrawler was looking them both over quickly and they seemed unharmed. "I'll meet you both over at zhe next dune" he scanned the area closer to the pyramid with the switch on top of it "-Zhat von... over zhere" he pointed. "I'm going back for Ember."
~~ "BAMF" ~~
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
Posts: 233
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Post by Ripple on Dec 16, 2007 14:54:41 GMT -5
Lian had stopped feeling quite so panicky, but she still had no idea what was going on. She couldn't concentrate on anything that was going on around her, everything seemed blurry. She started to focus everything on using her powers, but they wouldn't come. If she had to rely on her limited knowledge of martial arts to survive in this place, then she would be no use to anyone. Her feet were sliding on the smooth sand as she tried to fend off the gollum. She span round in a circle as her mind seemed to go into overload; though why she couldn't cope she didn't know. As she span, she caught glimpses of the others, successfully keeping sand creatures at bay. She was useless to everyone, and she felt so much that she was letting everyone down. She took one last swipe at the gollum and ran over to the dune that had been pointed out to her.
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Post by Ember on Dec 16, 2007 14:58:34 GMT -5
Aideen was weak from the water blast and she sat in the pit full of cold water from previous blasts. If only she could store her body heat. Using her last big bit of strength she pulled herself up onto another level of the pit that was damp but not under water. She hoped her team was okay. She wondered if Jumper is almost to the switch or if anyone is almost there. She sat in the pit trying to catch a breath to regain her strength. Aideen closed her eyes and concentrated on taking the heat from the air into her body.
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