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Have a moral concience sucks some days Porter thought leaning against a fence while talking to their newly formed team. He knew he was at a disadvantage. He'd never use his powers in a sound mind unless provoked badly enough. Wanda and Pietro held his real concerns. Her hex powers were almost non countered by anybody save maybe Morgan if his sheilds really held him protected. If Pietro wasn't slowed down, he could really hurt somebody. Evelyn wasn't fast enough to stop him she could only see him coming in and out of a sprint.

They had strength, that was for sure. Between him, Jacen and Evelyn, they probably could drill the ball five feet down under the sand. Although, Jacen was a power house. He didn't particularly care to face him in any battle.

He didn't say anything and just listened to the rest of the team waiting to see who their first opponent was. He also wondered who was going to strategize. Their team may be plagued with the curse of having 3 alpha personalities on it. He doubted it, but it would be interesting. He tended to clash with Evelyn.


Goosebumps. Good ones, but still goosebumps. He always gave them to her. It was this electric thing that she wasn't used to.

"What about Wanda and Freya?" She watched the other players leaning back on him, "We haven't been thinking about them at all."

Jacen was annoyed at the lack of direction most everyone was taken. Penance did ask a very poigniant question though. "What about Wanda and Freya?"

"Wanda...she'll be a tough nut to face against....even with the nerfing of her powers....," Jacen said while everyone seemed to perk up at his words. "Oh? I have people's attention?" It seemed he was the only one formulating something of a plan, vocally.

"Alright.....well....," he said, still holding Penance, though now just a tiny bit tighter, "The big guy.....steel boy...I've not seen him before, but I'm sure he's just brute strength. Who wants to handle him?"

"I will," Penance said without missing a beat.

"Alright...that's one match-up. Now...."

"Don't worry bout them. I think we already have our potential threats lined up and ready to be faced," Porter said matter-of-factly.

"Great. Then...I'm assuming all that leaves Pietro....Wanda...and Freya....," Jacen lamented, thinking for a bit. "I know Pietro well......I've...fought, battled, sparred with him on more than one occasion.....but...Freya....."

Jacen sat there thinking for a bit....maybe someone else should handle Pietro and his unpredictability....though Jacen did notice one flaw years ago during one of their more....intense training sessions.

"Wish me luck guys, but I'm.....well...since I'm the outside element on your team.....," Jacen spoke, "I'll take on their outside element."

"You sure about that?," Penance asked.

"More than sure. Don't worry, just wish me luck......." Jacen looked around a bit at everyone and again whispered into Penance's ear.

"If you start to feel angry....sorrowful.....vengeful....lethargic....anxious.......I'm sorry...."

OOC: Sorry my bad oniongirl, my mind was a little fried when I wrote that >_<

IC: Pietro grinned so evilly he almost scared even himself. A girl with sound-based powers just elevated his own skill from dangerously annoying to just plain dangerous. He formed a plan in his head on how to use it though. For all of Pietro's recklessness, he wasn't about to start a full-fledged war by seriously injuring or even killing someone on the X-Men's side... but at the same time this idea was too good to waste.

He leaned over and whispered in Victoria's ear, low enough that no one save Wolverine would have been able to overhear it. "Hmm... you wouldn't by any chance be able to contain a sonic boom, would you?"

OOC: Hahaha. I can't come up with a single come back to that at the moment.

((It's Ok...all of us, including Pietro, are allowed to make mistakes...))

Pietro's reaction was priceless. Victoria giggled softly as Pietro stood in front of her, obviously flooding with maclicious excitment. It was kind of awkward...actually it was really awkwardd considering she had no clue what he was up to. Judgeing by his excitment, it was mostly likey to consist of extreme humility and pain on someone's part. All the more fun I guess.

Before she could ask what was going on, Pietro leaned so closer to her and whispered so faintly that she had to strain her ears just to hear. "Hmm... you wouldn't by any chance be able to contain a sonic boom, would you?" Victoria leaned away and looked at him curiously. "Yeah," she said raising her eyebrows increduliously, "I can do that." She smiled childishly again, still completely in the dark about what he had in mind, but excited all the same.

"Stopping sound? That....is going to help them?," Jacen asked Penance as he watched the other team somewhat intently. He was trying to size them all up, of course that was a rather moot point.

"Evie, I say we stay as prepared as we all are, but we keep up the pretense that we're not ready for them," Jacen said as he looked at the others. "Unpredictability....well, I know myself....and I work better with surprises. I know alot of you like to prepare for your battles and whatnot, but.....I like to stay on my toes. It keeps me sharp."

"So you're not even worried in the slightest bit about being matched up against Freya?," he heard someone ask.

"Nope." Jacen smiled rather big. "Besides, the kid does something to overtly pick on the injured man, that'll just give me liscence to cut loose."

"I wouldn't think that cutting loose in a volleyball game would be a very good idea," Porter said.

"And I say holding back during something like this when we're being granted full use of our powers is frivolous," Jacen said. He didn't know if he had a point at all, but he did fancy his own rationale. "Besides.....since the tampering, I've noticed a big change my own abilities. It'll be...interesting to push myself right now."

"Okay, I'm done with that now," Penny straightened her shoulders and cracked her neck stretching it.

As she was holding her foot behind her stretching it, Jacen asked, "Don't with what?"

"Being overly analytical. Back to having fun... because it's more fun..." She started to stretch her muscles and picked up a random volley ball and bounced it around knocking it towards some of her team, "Heads up."

"We always find a way to beat the odds," She said besides she already knew she was in for pain going against Colossus. She just had to make sure her own skills came through rather than defending against everybody elses.

"Come on Freya, the natives are restless," She pulled her hair up into a ponytail to get it out of her face and offered Jacen some of her water, "When we get back to the Institute, I'd love to see how we squared off against some of the tougher programs... the ones that make be break a sweat... of course, if you stick around for a bit..." She realized she got ahead of herself.

Porter realized after doing it that he was doing what they were planning on hiding from others for the time being. With his arm around her, it was a clearn sign that they were an item. It was okay, he thought, Regina is no longer a student and he is no longer in charge of her team. Besides, he didn't care. He really liked her.

When Evelyn and Jacen actually put an inch of space between themselves, Porter stood up and caught the ball that she spiked towards the rest of the team. He bounced it towards Teagan to get them moving. Putting his hand out to Regina, he helped her up.

Teagan looked up, catching the ball.
"I'll take that as a 'look a live'." She laughed, grabbing the ball and bumping it a few times before knocking it into the air and practicing a few sets. It had been a long time since she had played volleyball.

Probably not since I still lived in Dublin. She thought, catching the ball as it came back down into her hands.

"Alright, I'm so ready for this!" She laughed, anxiously awaiting the game to start.