Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Cansbury Park and now!" cheered Sonya and she grabbed Racheal's hand. "Hurry up slow poke!" And she dragged Racheal behind her. "Come on Markus and Cathy. Oh, I wonder it Jaime would like to come along. JAIME!!!!!!!!!" A trail of fire was left behind her and the water sprinkles came on.

"Somebody definately has to teach her how to control that power," Penance said burping the baby as the water started to trickle from fire estinguishers. Before Jacen asked she pointed out the door, "I heard her down the hall... god that smells too."

"I'm sure Drake is somewhere making little hail niblets fly around," She picked up a towel and covered Ana's head so she didn't get too wet before the sprinklers went off again, "Our cleaning crew really needs an overtime rate."

She looked at the baby and talked to her while wiping some of the water drops off of the both of them, "So what's your power sweety? I haven't figured you out yet."

-------

"Okay, then," Logan changed the program and gave porter a sideways glance showing his displeasure in Porter being the reason some of the students were held up for his class, "Since we have some visitors now... Let's try something new. The goal of this program is to destroy the robots coming at us. This goes through rounds. As soon as we destroy a lot of ten, a new set appears. There are five rounds."

Porter didn't mind covering for Tetsuo. The kid had a hard enough night. He didn't need the wrath of Wolverine to add to it.

"We'll divide up and work," Logan ordered, "Tetsuo, work with Kai and Porter. Gen with me and Regina. Porter, I need your notes when we're done."

"No problem, boss," Porter nodded before the next simulation started. Porer looked at Kai, "I know what this kid can do, how about you?"

Cathy looked at Penny. "This is the second time she's done this to me....within the space of a week." She said wringing out her shirt then her hair. "Awwww....look at her face...." She said with a silly grin looking at Ana. "She thinks its funny...." Ana was smiling and pulling the towel off her head like it was a game.

Sonya quickly dried off and ran off to find Markus and Jaime. "Cathy, are you coming or not!" she yelled, still dragging Racheal with her.

Meanwhile, Ana was playing with the towel that Penny had put on her head. She giggled and clapped her hands. Drops of water were still falling down. Ana looked up and reached for them, but they just landed on her face. But then, the drops stopped in midair to everyone's surprise. Ana just giggled, still not letting go of Penny.

"........," Jacen said quietly as he watched baby Ana have fun messing around with Evelyn. The weird thing was, for whatever reason, it looked rather....natural for her to have a kid in her arms. "You know....," Jacen said to no one in particular, "If asbestos wasn't carcinogenic....I'd have them line up EVERYTHING with it."

He watched out of the corner of his eye as Ana was having what appeared to be a bit of fun with the falling water. All she did was look up and the droplets were suspended in air. "What...the....?"

"Well, the kid is a mutant, Jacen," Penance said while Ana kept swinging the towel at her face.

"....A baby....with mutant abilities....how old is she?," Jacen asked.

"Not more than a few days."

"Peculiar, to say the least," Jacen said as he sat down next to Penance. "Now...about this fight."

"What about it?," she asked as Ana looked like she was wanting Jacen to hold her. Begrudgingly, Jacen picked her up and sat her on his lap, then was hit in the face with the towel.

"Ow. Well....," Jacen said, "I know you want this fight. Probably more than anything. This isn't anything personal, I know that. This is for pride, leadership, and taking back what was once yours. I understand that completely."

"Going somewhere with this?," Cathy asked as it appeared she was eavesdropping.

"Possibly," he said while starting to bounce Ana on his knee. It wasn't that he didn't like kids. He actually enjoyed being around them. And it wasn't that he didn't want a child of his own, but considering the circumstances of his conception....he didn't know if he'd ever be a good enough person to be a father. About this time, he had grown oblivious to the suspended water droplets above his head, and continued talking.

"I just want you to know, Ev, that I won't be holding back," Jacen said as he looked Penance straight in the eye. "You challenged me. Straight up that means if I hold back...the fight would be worthless."

"I never expected you to hold back in the slightest," Penance said as she scooted a bit closer to him.

"Good. That, and...well......no matter what happens," Jacen paused for a second as he stared into Penance's eyes. "Just, I hope my word on this is good enough, but this won't change a thing between you and...." Before he could finish his sentence, something happened, and the collective group assembled was doused with water. Cathy could only laugh heartily as Jacen just muttered, "...I..."

Tetsuo was very confused, not hearing much of what the others said. The robots frightened him, since he had never fought anything like them...only humans...He was also still in his human form, lacking any of his powers apart from the blades hidden in his robotic right arm.

For the first time in his life, he truely panicked...Backing away from the hulking form of one robot as it advanced towards him. He turned to run, only to find another waiting, fist pulled back. The robot let the fist fly with a powerful jab to his stomach, sending him flying past the first robot.

In mid air, he growled deeply...eyes going sharp gold...With a loud roar, black hair went yellow, skin fading to sky-blue...markings appearing soon after. His long, powerful tail made a hole in the back of his pants, helping to steady him as he landed...feet going from five toed human feet to three toed raptor feet, light gleaming off of his six-inch long sickle claws.

He roared again, leaping at the robot who punched him, thoes two long Predator-blades coming out of his right arm, gleaming wickedly. The two blades were then burried deep into the robot's face, sending it toppling over with Tetsuo along for the ride. But, before it landed, he lept off at the first robot, using one of his long toe-claws to sever the lines in its neck. He lept from the "dead" robot to join his team.

He stood gaurd near them, tail lashing about quickly. His long ears twiched slightly, listening to the noise that sounded like only a loud din to humans, but to him, the sound was detailed enough for him to pick out the sound of a specific gear in a specific robot and tell you if it was oiled or not...He growled, eyes sharp and cat like. He was in hunting mode...

aking the most of Porter's distraction, Kai rolled along the ground until it was safe to stand upright again. The robot she'd damaged was hunched over and akward-looking, but still advanced towards her, Porter seemed to be handling the metal menace with relative ease, guns drawn and weaving between strike with an experienced grace.

An unsteady claw swung towards Kai's neck, but as it struck, the claw snapped against the steel-like surface of her skin and twisted the robots shoulder-joint out of it's socket. But aside from having the robot chip away at her, there was very little she felt she could do at close range. Shoulder-charing it back a few meters gave her the incentive she needed to rely on someone else's strength.

Having not even considered the fact that her teammate was now a ferocious-looking raptor-thing, she ran near him and barked a simple order. "Swing me!" And then she straightened her back and became instantly solid. Maybe it was the primal instinct in Tetsuo, Kai couldn't tell, but without hesitation she was lifted from the ground by her feet and held back like a baseball bat before the swing. When one of the robots came within range of Tetsuo, Kai felt herself being rapily swung like an iron bar until her head and shoulder violently crashed into the chestplate of the robots, smashing clean through, devastating the robot as large pieces of it were strewn around the floor.

Finishing the swing, Kai unsolidified and dropped a little uncomfortably into the ground. "Ow." she said simply. Tetsuo's grip had left a little red mark on her ankles, she should have waited for him to just drop her. Facts to consider for next time, if there ever was such an event. Climbing to her feet, she saw Tetsuo had already started into the remaining few robots, and Porter was making short, efficient work of his current assailant. She didn't know exactly what more she could do, but she again leapt into the fray to offer her support.

Gen stared in wonder as Tetsuo went through yet another transformation into the form that she had first seen him as. It was amazing to her, but she needed to concentrate on the robots at hand. Regina yelled for her to focus as a simulation robot nearly trampled her.

Regina sighed and faded in and out of the shadows as the robots tried to attack her. She caused two to attack each other by mistake by simply appearing in front of one and then fading into it's shadow as another charged at where she had been. Very convenient, and very little effort on her part. For the time being at least.