capeandcowllogs | TK Grudge Match

WHO:

unhands
WHERE: The Danger Room
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan 26th (BACKDATED)
WARNINGS: Julian is his own warning?
SUMMARY: Powers training. Rachel v Julian
FORMAT: Parateke to begin with, whatever to follow.

Rachel knew Julian, from the school before she'd left for space and briefly again here. She couldn't say he was her favorite person, but she agreed with most everyone else - he had potential. And a heck of a lot of power he couldn't always control. Which was why they were in the Danger Room today. She hadn't seen him fight recently and she wanted to put him through his paces to see where they needed to focus in class. She wasn't looking to take him out, just... give him a run for his money.

Checking her settings one last time, she clicked on the intercom, "Okay, Julian, we're just going to go through some exercises. Each time you take out a drone, the next one will be harder and so on. we'll be testing both large and small-scale control, so don't think it's just a smash and grab, okay?"

...She waited patiently for the sarcasm to begin.

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It wasn't long before the sarcasm did begin.

"Just going to take out all the fun in everything, aren't you?"

It was more of a dry remark than anything else as he stood there in the base room of the Danger Room, looking particularly disgruntled. If only because Marvel Girl (fuck, her of all people) was watching up in the control room, and here he was, standing awkwardly and trying to ignore the fact that he'd be demonstrating his telekinesis without his hands. When he always channeled it through them.

And he didn't even do control. He did smash.

However, one the first drone appeared, he instinctively raised an arm and smashed the drone with a mighty crash into the ground, parts flying everywhere, before realizing that was exactly what he wasn't supposed to do.

"Oops."

Well, it wasn't like that was a big surprise, and Rachel managed to sigh before turning on the microphone again.

"Okay, now that we've established a baseline for what not to do, let's try this again."

She punched in the commands for a new drone. "Oh, and did I mention that you'll be using your teke to repair every drone you just... blast apart. I probably should have mentioned that."

And if that little nudge ticked him off so much the better. He needed to work on his temper, too.

"What!?"

That last comment made the glow of his telekinesis flare as he jerked back to glare up at her. That smug bitch, thinking she could just boss him around like this --

He gritted his teeth for a moment, letting his eyes glow mightily before turning his glower at the new drone. "Fine."

Julian pointed an arm at the robot before its head was yanked off with a loud shriek of electricity, the chest punched in, and then the legs ripped out from underneath it with not-so-surprising brutality before it was left a smoking, jerking mess on the floor.

"Better?"

"Yes, actually. Now try this next one..." She punched up the next drone. "Try this one without using any of your previous attacks."

The drone came out of the wall with a roar, and this time, it managed to get a few shots off as it approached.

Julian stumbled back , bringing his arms before him as the telekinetic shield came into play, the shots bouncing off of the energy harmlessly. He rolled a shoulder before the shield pressed forward, slamming the drone into the wall.

Not use a previous attack, huh?

Another arm was pointed and there was a surge of green energy, like a gunshot that blasted out, creating a smoldering hole in the stomach of the drone.

The hole wasn't quite enough to stop the drone, although it did slow the thing down a little as it continued it's approach.

He scowled and stepped back, moving his arms together like he was clapping and the telekinesis mimicking this, crushing the drone's head between two forces from each side.

Smiling, Rachel hit the mic so he could hear her golf clap. She was glad he couldn't see her smile, though, as she pressed the next button. The drone he'd just stopped and the one previous glowed slightly as the external cavities fell apart, opening to reveal thousands of smaller drones, each hovering and gathering together to make a hive of buzzing mechanical beasts, each just a little bigger than a quarter.

"How's your fine control these days, Julian?"

The sight of the tiny drones made his eyes widen and the words escaped his lips before he could catch himself.

"Are you fucking kidding me!?"

His fine control sucked. It would always suck. He was still having trouble lifting a paperclip, let alone taking apart a hive of miniature robots. Without even thinking he was bringing his arms forward, sending out a wave of telekinesis that exploded a good hundred of the drones.

"That's the point of these sessions, Julian, to work at what you're not good at."

Rachel leaned forward, curious to how he'd react as the mini-drones he didn't blast swirled around him in two waves, tiny bolt of energy zapping out at him like bad static shocks.

"Who says I'm not good at it?"

Despite the fact that he was obviously not good at finer control. At all. He was cringing at the zapping, jerking away and sending another burst of energy out. What the hell was he supposed to do? Take them apart one by one?

Alright, alright, think. He was stumbling back again, trying to get his footing before his eyes blazed with energy and a large glow washed over all the drones, holding them in place.

Now he could think.

Rachel smiled, it was hard to hold that many small objects in place, especially when they were trying to move. But, as numerous sessions with Logan had taught her, good was rarely good enough.

With the flick of a button, another large drone entered the field and Rachel herself rose, tucking a remote control in her pocket, intending to head down to the room herself.

He was obviously struggling, the way his brows furrowed and his teeth grit. It took too much concentration to keep them all still and he stepped back, trying to keep from just exploding all of the drones at once. However, his gaze moved to the larger one that entered the room and that attempt to keep the mini-robots from exploding? Completely failed.

All the ones in his wave of telekinesis burst into tiny explosions of mechanical bits while he was moving back from the larger one that kept advancing.

"Hold."

Rachel entered the room and surveyed the damage, putting the drones on hold so she could join him.

"So, what went wrong?"

About time.

He straightened up, narrowing those glowing green eyes at her, not letting his telekinesis die down yet. There was a scowl at her question and the first thing out of his mouth, of course, was not a straight answer.

"I don't know. You tell me."

"You panicked, for one. Well, not panic, exactly, but you blocked yourself."

She nudged one of the busted mini-drones with a foot.

"Why didn't you use these?"

"To what? Zap the drone to pieces?"

He just rolled his eyes at her, crossing his arms.

Rachel's eyes flashed and she triggered a new wave of mini-drones. Splitting the swarm into two, she held one group like Julian had, the mini-drones fighting against her control until she turned and with a twist of power, she sent them into the larger drone. When the small projectiles impacted with their small explosions, they damaged the larger drone, giving her time to disable it by twisting it's head off.

"Many little things make the big thing go down - if you keep focus long enough to use them. You wanna try - there's another swarm there?"

TK Grudge Match - First Round

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