TK Grudge Match - First Round

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

WHO: temporaltossed and 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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[unhands.livejournal.com]

"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.

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

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.

[unhands.livejournal.com]

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.

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

"Hold."

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

"So, what went wrong?"

[unhands.livejournal.com]

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."

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

"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?"

[unhands.livejournal.com]

"To what? Zap the drone to pieces?"

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

[temporaltossed.livejournal.com]

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?"