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Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie is hard at work. She has an X-Men suit... but it's hanging on a hanger just outside the Danger Room. Inside, she's husked into a body of solid steel. Shiny and convenient.

Surrounded by three large enemies, she seems to be in an interesting spot. She can't beat THEM, but int rying to beat HER, she takes hit after hit, getting in her own punches and kicks back, and just does more damage to them than they do to her.

Then she gets picked up and thrown across the room.
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix is there over in normal attire (by which we mean /fashionable/) while glancing over at those things as she would watch. "You're limiting your abilities by simply exchanging blows iwth them. You're just hammering away at them with about as much coherency as Logan would. There's no style to it or focus."
Tabitha Smith Often in her own world and following a path not even she might be able to follow. To the consternation of many. But the journey has brought her back to the Xaviefr institte and will at least a semblance of focus if not clarity of mind

Which is how the young twenty something that's never completed her own X-men training has ended up punching puttons to open up the Danger room and enter.

Dressed in New Mutants bumble bee colors to her full body X-Catsuit she finds herself distracted nough to not notice the simulation playing out before she hears women or at least Money Speaking and Paige Clanging.

"Is this a horde mode sim?" she asks while looking up at the three opponents wailing on the other blonde country girl.
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie pulls herself to her feet after clanging into the wall and falling. Biting her lip, stretching, she calls out. "It worked on the Brooklyn Bridge. Just running at them, brute forcing it. If it's harder for me to get hurt, than they can hurt me... that should work right?"

She then starts to run at one, just lowering her head to charge.

Which does work to knock one down with a really mean shot to the chest, but then she gets grabbed and sent flying again. "I need to convice Mr. Summers I'm ready," she groans after another indelicate landing.
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would go to watch over at Paige, "You can focus where you're hitting them. Go for joints. They're bulkier than you are so even wtih comparable strength in a shoving match they'll have a better chance of standing thier ground than you will. In a fight an enemy will not just wati for you to get up again."
Tabitha Smith Tabby knows how Paige might be feeling. She's been working on that for years. "Going straight to the top huh? You know Sam's happy to help. He's been awesome with me for that. That girl a his better know what she's got in a man!" she states and keeps an apprteciative recollection in her voice. Maybe one time but now Boomiie and Sam are just really good friend. Eying Monet, the older blonde nods her head. "No one's taught Paige super strength kungfu grip stuff? For shame Monet!" she says with mock disappointment before turning to watch the assailants. "So like how long can I wait before I say screw it and just get in there myself. This isn't an endurance thing right. None a that Hodor shit?"
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie sits there as the two remaining goons stare at her. "You're both right. I'm not proud. Come in and show me what I'm missing? I'd really appreciate that." She then throws her hands up, gestures to the goons. "What's the trick I'm missing?"
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nod, "Well, you'll want to hit vulnerable points in your oppoent. Vulnerable doesn't necessarily mean going to try and cripple them. But you want them off balance. Something like trying tot rhow them or grapple. Go to disable. All the strength is useless if you have no leverage."
Tabitha Smith The fact that the SimGoons are tanking Paige's own hits in her Colossus cosplay gets a frown from Tabitha as she points and waggles fingers like she's plotting trajectories and schematic diagrams and math. any psychic miight even see the weird and way incorrect equations floating in front of Boomie's eyes before she fovisess and grins/

With the invitation and Tabitha's loose hrip on reality bolstered by pretendy fun time shi'ar holo tech. The darker haired Monet gets anothe smile as she ofers actual useful advice. There may have been more but Tabby didn't hear that on account of not being in the room.
RSo that leaves tabby dashing in and using Paige being a target as a distraction to climb up and kneel slash straddle one goon's neck and shoulder witha hand on his mouth. There's a very disinct glow in his cheeks as she covers his lips. "Shhhh. No more hitting my second favorite Guthrie!" she states. Did she just drop bombs down his neck.

The glow at his throat says yes.

Not like holograms are actually alive right!
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie nods to Monet's suggestions, listening, thinking about it. She gathers herslef, readies another charge. Then Tabby does her thing. And so, she starts clapping. "That was very nice."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would sigh, "Think of things physically. You want to hit them where they are not strong. Getting into a brawl with something as stron gas you are will be decided not by strength, but by skill. And will take a long time."
Tabitha Smith How many bombs and how large or condensed they might be is left to the whims of Tabitha as she pulls her feet up onto those big strong shoulders. "I've been thrown around by stronger. Sometimes I even enjoyed it!" she states and jumps over to the other goon.

This time she grabs his head and coveres his ears and hangs off it before dropping down. More glowing is visible in this ones ears as she backs up a meter of so from the pair and gestures a friendly dismssal sweep of fingers pointing down that Paige might want to step back herself. "Monet in all her perfection is actually right. Fight smarter not harder. We're tiny blonde girls. These are big ugly assholes and guys like this in real life won't fight fair. So you don't either." Theres a fizzle sound and then it comes in rapid fire.

A lot of booms all at high power and mostly inside heads." "I'f you can yank a join and dislocate it. Go for it. Break a limb, Better. Stomp nuts, start there and enjoy a loittle sadism Paige Rage!" she offers with some experience as a hobo chick.

Those goons are having a really bad time right now.
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie lets Tabitha finish her thing, then calls upon the simulation to reset. Three fresh goons appear. She steadies, herself, then takes another run.

But this time she goes a bit low, for the knee, and that works, taking one right down, and making it harder for her to be grabbed.

Thus, she's able to back up and prepare for the same thing again. "How's that?"
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nod at Paige, "Good." She would offer. "see what hse's doing?" She would point at Tabitha. "Hitting them where they cannot fully resist. Do not attack your enemy at their center of mass or gravity. Look at styles like judo. Do not fight an enemy on their own terms. Do not fight in a shoving match. Throw them, trip them up, grapple them.. Deny them their positioning." She would nod as Paige woudl go through the routine again.
Tabitha Smith "That's it!." Tabby encourages and watches the sim rteset. "You're often going to be faster as well. Use that to get the positions you need. Like Bruce Lee. Be like water. " she adds and nods her ghead with a big grin on her lips.

"Your surrondings will help you as well!" she chimes in.
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie takes a moment to bask in the praise from the others, and takes another run at one of the goons. This time she goes for the wrists that grabs at her, simply using her momentum to crash into it. Which has to hurt.

That gives her a chance to jump like Mario with the Metal Cap and do a throat punch, and then she's done.

"Have to really think. That's tough in the moment."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nd at Paige, "It's about leverage. In a fight between equals, you will stalemate. The one that is luckier will win the fight. At best either will win narrowly. Do not fight an opponent one qual grounds."
Tabitha Smith Tabitha can only commiserate. "Only think in training and planning and stuff. Do this enough and that pretty head can just roll and lay waste on autopilot. Like muscle memory and shit!" comes the blonde in the black and yellow.

She does throw another bomb at the downed opponent. It's pretty weaksauce but for a normal human it'd make a useful flashbang. But this is just Tabby taunting the fallen.
James Proudstar James Proudstar comes down from the control room between runs. He is dressed in the usual garb but not to work out. He nods, toward Monet, "She's not wrong, though I would recommend against grappling. Your power set is more geared for distance attacks, you wand to escape and evade. Judo, jujitsu, some of the apache and ninjitsu releases in your advanced self defense classes.
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie is done, and flops out on her back after the throat punch. "Evasion? How do you figure?" she says, sitting up and waving to the arriving James. "Also hi. But, I wonder."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would give a nod at James "Never fight your enemy on their own ground and strength. Also do not limit yourself /merely/ to exchanging full force blows. I am.. Only passingly familiar with your files, but you shoudl be more versatile."
Tabitha Smith "Be like water! If you can do actual water yeah. But like stick and move. Mohhamed Ali type stuff" Tabby states and puts up a bixing guard, It's actually not sloppy! Some of Jimmy's tutelage is actually kicking into her own muscle memory as she bounces side to side and ducks and weaves and shadow boxes witb little mini booms after each punch. "Gotta learn to use more and more of your powers potential too. Why be metal. I mean yes you rock the Piotr cosplay which puts you tied for best Rasputin looking person over Piotr but you can totally use your power to make things harder for them to grab. You could learn a form that holds like a current or something get your Noriko on and zap folkks. Amara. be molten rock! Hawt!" she encourages. The older blonde seeming like she's way smarter than past impression might have implied.
James Proudstar James Proudstar smiles easily, and half bows, "May I?" He nods and then speaks, "Danger, scale to 150% and reset. Setting 5, class 50, bullet proof.

     Jim smiles and moves easily in to the training field, the attackers now towering over him. Jim has generally been a blunt instrument, relying on strength. But he moves easily, displaying the flow of water, Tabitha decries and the striking where the enemy is week. He moves between the giants, using them against each other. His smaller relative size making throws easier. A gun comes out and is arm barred away as Jim switches to foot work, kicking one and then flips the gunman into the last one. He smiles, and nods, "This does play to my stengths."
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie Gets up and backs off when things reset. She takes the stuff in. "Be like water? Well, if I become like water, I'm water... but then getting back ist he hard part." She laughs. "Then I kind of have to wait it out."

"I wonder. I'm not sure how to handle this. If I stay metal, I'm not the fastest or most flexible, but I'm hard to hurt. IF I change into something else... it completely changes."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nod at Paige, "Understandable. What about metals wtih separate densities? How exotic can you make your alloys? Titanium? Steel? Iron? Different metals will have different levels of tenstile strength."
Tabitha Smith There's more nodding as Tabby puts down her dukes and her explodey punches. "It's really hard tracking on how powers like ours work Paige sweetie. I can't even really fathom the math involved in making plasma. But you got like lots of options if you can get stuff down pat!"

James gets a hip bump and a nod. "Like fighting styles can me trained to match the form too. I had to learn to adapt my powers into a fight. I don't have superstrength and stuff and a big enough bomb is gonna blast be back as hard as it does my opponent. Luckily I'm finding tbheplasma iitself isn't the problem. It's the force. But practice and time and trying to focus on study. Like go for the coolest stuff and go from there. Easy will come in record time! " she encourages the younger Guthrie.
James Proudstar James Proudstar nods, "Great idea, can you do teflon? Maybe kevlar? I wouldn't try liquid until we're in a more controlled environment, preferably with Jean or the Professor, Hank maybe Rogue. Computer, reset to default and hold. Sample materials: teflon, kevlar, gold, titanium, Lead and Iron."    
     James glances at Tabitha askew and nods, "Yes, you will probably need a fighting form for at least your primary shapes. Think Avatar, the last Airbender
James Proudstar "Rock, water, air, fire. You may also want to consider animal forms, Like a wolf or bear? Maybe wings?"

    Samples of the materials appear near the training area.
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie blins. "Teflon. Kevlar." She stops, resting her forehead in her hand. "I'm not sure. I took basic chemistry in high school and could do steel. But... those are complicated aren't they?"

She walks up to the suggested material samples, and pokes at them. "Daaaaang. You guys are gonna make me take science in college aren't you?"
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would go to add, "Also don't forget ceramic. Stone. Certain composites may also be effective. Diamond.. Solid things will likely be better. At least they'll have a more familiar sensation to them for her."
Tabitha Smith "Plasma is a thing too. LIke fourth state! All Ions and Electrons!" At least that no one needs to simulate with a source on tap. Tabby looks at her hands and concentrates and maybe there's a faint flicker of a spark of ionisatio if not any bombs.

"Raige honey. You're like legal and all grown up. You don't have to take a science class if you don't wanna but the big brains willl help. I have trouble leartning too so I gotta work hard to find the right stuff presente dthe right way to get it at the front of my brain. You can totally nail this stuff. Patience Willow, Courage Willow!"
James Proudstar James Proudstar raises his eyebrows, "Well, Scott will have you drilling on material science and probably biology... do you breathe in you metal form
Paige Guthrie Paige Guthrie blinks. "I could... I could do plasma. We covered that in Dr. McCoy's class along with steel and crystals and stuff. I'd float around. I wouldn't be able to hit anything. But it'd be really hard to hit me. Also yeah I Don't breathe in the ... weirder forms."

She folds her metallic arms. "I kind of do need to take a science class. Science classes let me understand what I'm changing into. I can't.. I have to visualize what I'm doing, understand it, to make it work right. I have a lot to think about. I need to... I need to pick schools and start doing apps. Maybe that's what I need to convince Mr. Summers I'm ready. Thank you all for the help!"

She then stretches, and starts to walk out. "Lot to learn. Sam will be happy."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nod at Paige, "Take your time and think on it. Choose what you feel would be simplest and learn. Instruct yourself and evaluate what you can do that will best fit you." She would nod over at James' comments.
Tabitha Smith "Sam's way of putting it or at least as I recall him putting it was more about just being able to step up as you need. That however you wanna rock as an X-man you can handle the pressure. More school isn't always the way. I ain't doing extra classes that aren't just training stuff here. But pushing your powers, building your skill sets. Like don't even have to do everything butr never stop. So when you do step off the Blackbird, you know you got that shit. And Cyke or whoever is field leading will know just looking at ya! Jim and Monet are right. Butr remember there's more paths to greatness that what you might see!" Tabby states,

Damn something might be wrong with the woman. Emotional Maturity in Tabitha?
James Proudstar James Proudstar shrugs, "Everyone learns differently, find what works for you, Hayseed. I've got applications for Columbia and Empire State but honestly... " Laughs and shakes his head as the door closes.
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would watch as Paige would leave, "She has potential. I believe she has to discover how she most effectively learns. Which is what classes are for, and studies. She has the focus so she will do well as she calculates how to best apply to herself." she would glance at Tabitha warily.

"And from your file you appear to have different behavioral patterns than on record."
Tabitha Smith Tabby smiles up and up at Jim cheerfully. "Least she's trying. How long it too you to get that stuff through with me at that age! I get a bad vibe and I'm running off to Genosha or wherever. And damn if that diidn't go south," To put it mildly as she smiles weakkly at Monet.

"Paige is the kind of girl I wished I was at her age. My file is probably ninety percent me being chewed out." she says in a mix of admission and outright guessing. she never looked herself up on the X-Puters.
James Proudstar James Proudstar nods, "We all had our Moments, except Kitty. I mean no powers are easy. Everyone remembers the Lydia situation?" He sighs, and shakes his head. "But we learn, and improve and not all models work for all kids. Scott was scarred by my brother's death possibly more than even me. She is pretty put together but so was Sam, the man was non-Stop, we goofed off but found our way."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would glance at James and sigh in a not-quite patronizing way over things. "Yes, yes. We all have our foibles and our dramas. They do of course get better." Her very much putting up her air as 'as if'.

"So what has you so worried over her then?"
Tabitha Smith "Well at least Paige is in the right place and hopefully she never sees as much of the crap wee all did. Maybe one day we can get a bunch a mutant kinds to not be traumatized." Tabitha explains with a more goofy disarming smile to try and not sound pessimistic in the standard mutant kid upbringing.

"Imma guess Jim, it's a hoping she can learn from our fuckups and not make her own. At least you and Sam got practice at being big bro mutants if she needs you!"
James Proudstar James Proudstar deadpans, "Thanks for your understanding. I'm not worried per se. I mean each class should get better. Learn from mistakes, establish a better path."
Monet St. Croix Monet St. Croix would nod at Tabitha, "Yes. Learn from mistakes, find your own ways to repeat them, and then find new ways to make more mistakes." She would quip. That's mostly a joke in general, not /at/ Tabitha. Isn't being in school about finding all those ways to fail you never imaginoed?
Tabitha Smith The blonde chuckles and eyerolls those blue irises up under her eyelids as she chuckles. "Story a my life. Though maybe I can set a new record between fuck ups. How long it been sincfe the last one Jimmy?" Tabitha asks and starts counting fingers with other fingers. "The jury is out on a few things though!" she admits.
James Proudstar James Proudstar raises his eyebrows, but shrugs nocommitally, "It's been awhile, you're improving."