2013-01-27 - Stranger Danger

For the moment, Alex is alone in the Danger Room. Over the past few weeks, it's been his saving grace. It's been the reason why he's been able to keep his temper so well lately, and why he hadn't gone completely insane when one of his precious students had been kidnapped. He currently sits on the floor, clad in a pair of loose fitting jogging pants and a black wifebeater. His legs are spread wide as he goes through some stretching exercises while deciding what program he was going to use today. He had programmed a couple of hard light constructs that he had been using repeatedly over the last couple weeks. One was of Deathstroke and the other was Egg Man himself. For a moment, he briefly toys with the idea of creating a Jake one for him to beat up on and possibly blow up. But he decides against it. He might not like the kid, but he was a good guy at heart. Alex couldn't really fault him for feeling the way he did about both him and the school. Oddly, enough, he respected Hank. But then again..who doesn't?

Jubilee had heard there been a lot of danger room actives of late. She walks into the room and looks around until she sees Alex, "hey Alex." She walks over, "care for some company today?"

Fantomex was completely neglected of course, Jubilee even walked right by him in the control room. Then again, he wanted her to. He has watched Alex practicing and exercise or perhaps rather relieve stress while in the Command Room a lot more than Alex has ever realized. Why Jean-Phillipe feels the need to watch over the young man, who knows. Though there is a smile beneath his mask when Jubilee apparently thought it was about time to approach Alex and give him the teenage shake. He spins in the Control Room chair, wondering what program Alex will pick next...he swears, if it's the usual one, he's totally overriding the commands to surprise Alex.

Alex's body tenses up slightly when he more or less feels someone else walk into the room. He turns to see Jubilee. Before he answers her, he inhales deeply and then releases the pent up breath slowly. He really wasn't in the mood for company, but he's always had a hard time telling Jubilee no. Especially when she got persistent, which she was want to do. He nods. "Why not. If you think you can keep up with me." He smirks faintly as he rises smoothly to his feet. He speaks to the air. "Run beach-bum 11. Level 5."

At Alex's command, the room is replaced by a martial arts dojo. The mat is red with a black fist in the center of it. He looks at Jubilee and raises a blonde brow slightly.

Jubilee smiles, "that's my line old man" she winks at Alex. She does some few stretchs and then looks around, "Nice place. Reminds me of of that place in the movie you know the one with the robots and stuff."

Robots? No way! Ninjas! Alright, Fantomex is totally going to get into trouble. Because as he works rapidly, the program starts to change right before Alex's eyes, though Jubes may not know better. Suddenly filing in are ninjas! There are different ninjas, one side of the wall having ones in white, and the other having them in black. They carry swords and throwing stars and who knows what else!

But the young ones all file in before the old leader one does. The old leader has a smooth shaved head, and wrinkled skin, and appears more monk-like than the others. He also uses a wooden walking stick to help keep him upright and balanced.

Alex Summers looks confused. He looks to the left and then to the right. And then towards the old man with the walking stick. He scratches the back of his head and frowns deeply. "Okay. This isn't right. There are supposed to be monks in this program, not ninjas. He glances back towards where the control is supposed to be, of course it's not visible while a program is running. He settles into a fighting stance, asiding to Jubilee. "Careful. I didn't program this. No telling what's in store for us.." He was going to kill Bobby Drake the next time he saw him. He swore it to himself.

Jubilee watchs the ninjas come in and she sighs, "really ninjas? What is this kill bill?" She then here what Alex said and sighs, "don't tell me this is broken again." She slips her sunglasses down, "Well as long as it's not set up to Logan levels we should be good."

Jean-Phillipe crackles silently to himself in the Control Room! He starts typing rapidly the script for the old man. It does not take long before the old man starts to speak after his dramatic posing: "Strangers from Strange Lands," his voice heavily influenced with a Japanese accent. "You have come to us to challenge us and prove your powers. But you are weak compared to the Mountain Ninja Clan." There is a dramatic pause. "You will face my students, for each one of you, you shall face one of them. You lose, you die. You win, you face the next set. Only if you have defeated all of my students, will you have a chance to try and escape alive through the ninja traps."

Or is it set to Logan levels?

Two ninjas move from the walls, one clad in black and one clad in white. One has nunchuks, and another wields a blade. Their dark eyes are narrowed and they start to move about Jubilee and Alex as if to take their measure.

Alex Summers snorts at Jubilee. "Do you take nothing seriously?" He begins to turn in a circle slowly, tracking the movements of both ninja. "I set it to level 5...I normally work out at level 7. Though I get the distinct impression that this is out of my hands. So, looks like we'll have to beat these guys. I'll take the black one, you take the white one." And with that, he moves quickly towards the black clad ninja and throws a couple snap punches at it. To test it's skill level.

Jubilee smiles, "of course I do but you know after hanging out with Logan you have to find the humor in everything." She nods and smiles at the white one, "okay so you are like mine." She raise her hands and fires out fireworks right at the students face. She plans to blind him quickly incase Alex needs help.

The nunchuks lash out at Alex, and just miss him, as Alex makes his short jabs. One gets the ninja in the neck and makes him gurgle before stumbling backwards and Alex follows up his attack with another to make sure to take the ninja down.

The white ninja goes to start charging at Jubilee with his sword, but is suddenly blasting in the face with fireworks! He makes a quiet cry of pain, reaching his free hand to cover his eyes. His sword tries to lash out protectively, but he cannot see what he attempts to attack which leaves him open.

Fantomex makes the last few finishing touches as he adds himself into the program and an outside area. He then moves toward the elevator to be taken down to the Danger Room. He smirks beneath his mask, the sliding doors hidden by a hard-light wall before he slips in and then slips into the dojo while the two X'ers fight...he then replaces a white ninja in the line that had disappeared his body language changing to match the others, his trench coat missing so he looks more like them though his sword is still strapped to his belt and he has the pouches along his belt.

Unlike most of her teammates, Alex knows full well that Jubiless is a decent fighter. So after he dispatches his, he simply waits and watches her instead of going to help or protect her. He smirks. "And you thought I had to worry about keeping up with you? You should have gone through this guy already, Jubes. Do you need me to come save you?" He's obviously teasing the girl from the smirk on his lips.

Jubilee smiles and charges forward staying away from the sword. she place her hands on him and sends out a full blast of fireworks into the guy. Sure normally she hold back but this ninja is not alive so she can not hurt or kill him for real. She smiles at Alex, "oh I think I can handle this boy in the PJs."

The ninja goes flying and when he smashes into the wall, the two ninjas start to fade away with both defeated into dust.

The old man ninja monk dude says, "Next!" He slams his wooden staff down mightily, sending sparks flying! The next two arrive, again one white and one black, but they switch opponents on you, the white one going to Alex and the black one to Jubes. This time they are more wary, and the one facing Jubes is ready to roll dodge her next blast. Alex Summers chuckles at Jubilee. "Ah, already relying on your mutant powers, huh? Where's the fun in that?" Without warning, he spins in place, striking out with his foot, attempting to connect with the white ninja in front of him. He follows up with a perfectly executed spinning heel kick.

Jubilee smiles, "if you got it like flaunt it." She looks at the black ninja and sighs, "we have to go through all of these losers?" She then smiles and mocks the ninja but doing a impresstion of a bad dub kufu movie, "You have dishonor you family now you die." She looks at Alex, "close your eyes." With that she raise her hands over her head and makes fireworks only bright not hot sending out a blinding light in the room.

The ninja this time leaps up over Alex's kick and raises an arm to block the strike with his foot. But spinning kick verse arm? Even braced, the ninja stumbles from the attack. But he is then moving forward to return a spinning kick at Alex.

The ninja dressed in black really narrows his eyes, and goes to slip toward Jubilee, coming in law. Though the fireworks that flash up brightly send even some of the bystander ninjas blind for a few seconds! She does through the ninja attacking her off, but she may feel an impact as he half stumbles against her in an attempt to tackle her.

The other ninja would have to finish his spinning kick, but who knows if Alex can dodge it and keep his eyes closed. Still, the other ninja has no protection while executing his kick to prevent blindness. Many of the other ninjas are not taking long before they pull out a black cloth to put over their eyes...up close, they can see through the cloth, but it would protect them from the worse of the blinding.

Alex Summers closes his eyes suddenly when Jubilee prompts him to. However this does put him at a disadvantage when the ninja's kick comes at him. He takes the strike on the shoulder and staggers sideways from the force of the blow. He rubs his bare shoulder with his hand and raises a brow. "Okay..the safeties are definitely off. So, no more kidding around then." He bends his knees slightly as a focused look comes across his face. A snap kick is thrown before a left jab, then spinning in place again, he suddenly drops to the ground and kicks his leg out, attempting to sweep the ninja off his feet. Then, spinning in the opposite direction, using his left leg, he aims a tornado kick downwards, so even if the ninja dodged his sweep, he's got a good chance of connecting. And he's not holding back any strength, either. Alex believes in being prepared. There had been times where his mutant powers were either suppressed, or he'd been without absorbing energy for too long. During those times, it was his physical prowress that he had to rely on. Which is why he had Logan train him in the first place.

Jubilee is a range fighter she thrives away from her targets sure she has some hand to hand combat but the not at the level as Alex. She nods when Alex said the safties are off, "Oh are they." She steps back and takes aim at the ceiling. She knows he ready for an direct attack she hopes she will not be expect her bring the ceiling down on him.

The ninja does go down hard, unable to dodge being half blinded because of Jubilee. However, the other ninjas have already compenstated, so the same trick will not work twice and it placed Alex in danger as well. What if that had been a sword and not a kick?

The ninja is out cold that Alex was fighting, but the black clad one that was fighting Jubilee is recovering and soon starts throwing sharp stars at her.

The old man's eyes narrow, seeming resistant to the blinding, a deep frown on his face. His wooden staff sparks once more as he taps it slightly and in a threatening manner. He is staring a Jubilee in disapproval. If she attacks his dojo building, it will likely not end prettily.

Alex Summers is beside Jubilee and attempts to grasp her wrist firmly in his hand before she's able to fire. "No, Jubliation. That's exactly the type of tactic that we should never use if we can help it. Even in training, we never go for the kill. We subdue and neutralize. If you bring the ceiling down, you place not only yourself, but your partner, who in this case is me, in danger." He smirks. "If you simply have to use a tactic like this, aim at the floor. Preferably his legs. If a man can't stand, he can't fight." He winks. Ever the teacher, this one.

Jubilee frowns not liking being grab or lectored about such things. She never wants to kill people it is one of her deepest fear, "fine I'll not hit the ceiling. Besides I have a better ideal. If he does not doge it." She pulls away from Alex and takes aim at the ninja and fires her firework bright at his crotch.

Yep....the ninja doesn't dodge that one as he was going in low, so it isn't like he...yep, he only stops a foot before Jubilee, a knife falling from his hands. He was aiming for a kill strike, while palming the knife. The two ninjas then disappear.

Two new ones appear, the white ninja going to Jubilee and the black clad one to Alex. The line is shorter, and Fantomex is next in line for the white clad ninjas. His blue eyes narrow slightly.

These ninjas are even more well trained than the last, and the black cloths over the eyes will prevent blinding, but still permit them to see. They are quicker on their feet, and the one fighting Jubilee is actually holding a staff for distance attacks as well as up close and personal. He moves carefully toward Jubilee, swinging his staff toward her to test her reflexes, before he starts into a full swing of attacks, and his body bending like the willow to respond to attacks toward him.

The black clad one goes toward Alex quickly, a heel striking toward Alex's inner step even as he moves to palm strike.

Jubilee steps back trying to stay out of the reach of the staff range. When he attacks she does a split leeting the staff to sail over her head. She then raise her hand and blast at the wrist of his right hand. She then sends a blast at the center of the ninja's body and then finally at the ground just behind the ninja.

Alex Summers rolls to the side to avoid the strikes from the black ninja. He goes into a series of back flips to gain some distance between him and his opponent. He could tell that this one was more skilled than the last. He leaps into the air and kicks, executing a flying straight kick. Once his feet touch the ground, he is already moving, executing a series of punches and kicks, aimed at soft spots of the body, his hands moving like a blur. He finally aims an open palm strike towards the chest of his opponent, and then directs a low powered plasma blast just after attempting to make contact.

The ninja clad in white twists his body, and spins the staff, dodging Jubilee's attack. The staff actually moves to crack Jubilee's wrist as she moves to blast the ground behind him. Though it ends up merely misdirecting the attack as he crashes into the floor and twists his ankle when the attack ends up just beneath his feet! He is considered 'defeated', his gaze unpleasent toward Jubilee. Though her wrist will sting, lucky not to be broken.

They are getting more difficult.

The ninja is moving in perfect sync, blocking Alex's attacks and dodging them, and even making some of his own. But it is the plasma blast that catches him by surprise...Alex has not used his powers yet! As he blocks the next attack, it does not block the plasma blast as he then goes flying across the floor!

The two then also disappear into dust and powder, floating away in the unseen and unfelt breeze.

Two more ninjas step forward with the click of the staff, the floor fixing itself so there is no longer a hole within it and a hateful gaze from ninja master to Jubilee. The white ninja moves toward Alex, the black clad ninja toward Jubilee this time, interchanging as has been the pattern.

The black clad ninja this time, takes a position, and then kicks at the air, sending a rush of harsh wind toward Jubilee that will knock her back hard if she is caught by it! Apparently, the difficulty has increased again to provide the ninjas superpowers that have been so openly used against them.

The white clad ninja does not pull the sword strapped to him, but instead moves with Wolverine swiftness toward Alex to feint and move to dodge around him to take a sweeping kick toward Alex's feet.

This time, the white clad ninja is different too...he has blue eyes instead of dark ones.

Alex Summers has a pretty good reaction time, but he never could hold a candle to Wolverine. If it were not for the simple fact that Alex spends every day pushing himself so that he can perform his duties both training Generation X and being one of the X-Men, he would completely be outclassed at this point. He falls backwards when his feet are kicked out from under him. But planting his hands on the floor above his head, he pops back up to his feet, having only spent perhaps a full second on his back. He doesn't hesitate this time, not with someone of this person's caliber.

Alex goes on the attack though. And it's easy to see by the layer of sweat on his body that he's giving it his all. He punches and kicks towards the white ninja, attempting to learn the tells that the normal human body gives to indicate where the next move may come from. After a moment of having his moves blocked and redirected, he takes a step back, actually taking deep breaths now. "This is insane. Nobody save maybe three people that I know of can move like this. Unreal."

Jubilee change tactics as well. She does not use her powers instead she relays on her gymnatics. She cartwheels out of the way and calls out, "Alex they are learn our tactics and Your for you and mine for me. Switch partners!" She does not waist time for Alex reply and sprint at the white ninja blasting him with some fireworks, "take black!"

It's difficult, because the white clad ninja is subduing his body language, which is not even something Scott can do on such a level. His training is intense, and he blocks Alex's attack, and is careful to keep alert for any potential power building or attacks. The white clad body twists and return attacks, forcing Alex on the defensive repeatedly until Alex manages to throw the white clad ninja back to the defensive. It is a work out, one meant to push Alex quickly while the white clad ninja appears controlled and patient.

The black ninja is stomps to send a wave of wind energy rushing up from the floor, before he twists his body to avoid incoming attacks.

The white ninja though, takes things with easy, and actually leaps into the air and twists to avoid the fireworks attack toward him before landing with only a light tap back to his white booted feet. The white ninja shakes his head, as it was not a bad idea for Jubes, but Jean-Phillipe knows he far exceeds Jubilee's level. He goes to move in, his body twisting as he almost seems to dance, to make his movements very difficult to predict for Jubilee to pre-emp attack him.

The black clad ninja is more than willing to take on Alex.

Alex Summers nods. "Good call, Jubilee." He rolls along the floor and comes up kicking towards the black ninja. He briefly shifts his gaze towards the white ninja. Why couldn't he read his movements? But that lapse cost him as a gust of wind impacts him in the chest and sends him skidding along the mat. Alex gets up to his hands and knees and berates himself. "Rookie mistake Summers. Never take your eyes off your opponent." Alex moves his neck from side to side and then runs towards the ninja. He kicks out at him with his left leg, and then leaps over to the wall, pushing off with his right leg and flipping over the ninja. He shoves his right fist underneath his left arm and fires a plasma blast towards the back of the black ninja before going on the move again, giving the ninja a moving target.

Jubilee frowns as the ninja avords her attack she hopes she is right about this or else this going hurt alot. She she blast fireworks from both hands and sends them past the ninja on both sides trying to pen in the man in white. she then cross the beams right where the ninja is.

The black clad ninja moves to protect himself, blocking the attacks, and as the plasma attack comes there is a clap of his hands and a wind shield protects him from the worse of it though he slides backwards and stumbles a bit on the wooden floor. The dark eyes of the ninja narrows as he goes to rush toward Alex, a snap of his fingers sending a sharp cutting wind that is narrow toward Alex like an invisible blade.

Course the white ninja is quick enough that his approving grin is likely missed by Jubilee. But he halts and then twists his body low as he rolls beneath the attacks, before he stops near Jubilee to make a gun motion at her with his white gloved fingers, "Bang mon ami," a very obvious French accent. "Always creative," his tone approving, before his other hand actually soon throws out a number of little balls that explode with smoke. "We depart, non?"

The old ninja monk guy is suddenly furious! He is screaming in Japanese. Duh, he's totally telling the ninjas to kill the two forgieners and the traitor! Alex Summers runs towards the black ninja and drops to his knees, sliding along the floor as the wind attack goes over his head. Lifting both hands, he rapid fires plasma blasts, alternating his arms like a machine gun, peppering the area where the ninja is. Then he hears the definite french accent and his eyes widen slightly. "That sonofa..." He doesn't have time to dwell on it, however. He was still in a fight!

Jubilee blinks at the finger gun and then the Fench accent, "Okay unless this more messup program then I thought or he not part of the program." She then blinks again at the smoke bombs and coughs, "hey no fair." She steps back out of the smoke, "smoke sucks now everyone going think I was smoking. Yuck." She blinks a few times, "okay this is getting old." She charge up her fireworks and fires them at the monk like man.

A shielding of sparks flare up in the smoke as the monk-like leader is protected from the attack. And all the remaining ninjas from the walls are starting to surge forward all at once! That is when Fantomex moves to grab Jubilee's arm and then grabs the back of Alex's shirt and starts to rush them out. "We run and fight, oui? I made them more difficult as they progress, so these are very hard. Let's use the killer traps against them, non?" Jean-Phillipe sounds like he is laughing maniacally beneath the talking, as if it is just beneath the surface. Oh no, killer traps?!

Alex Summers throws another punch at the ninja and then is dragged backwards by the frenchman. "Jean-Phillipe, I'm going to kill you for messing with my program. Now we're running from ninjas? Really?" He rights himself and begins to run under his own power. "You programmed them to get more difficult with each one we defeated. Now it makes sense why one of them became a mutant when mutant abilities were used against it. Wait...traps? You mean the traps the old man mentioned?"

Jubilee frowns as the attack did not work, "great I just made him mad." She goes to run and that's when you grab her. she eeps and squirms until she relizes it's not a program ninja, "damn it Jean your going to kill us! I like living and plan on doing for a long time so like stop doing this stuff!" She follows Alex's lead and rights her self, "yeah you didn't get that? I relized that when they all protected them selves from my blind attacks. They learn and become harder with each defeat."

"Oh yes, very fun, non? You will thank me later. You are too boring, the same programs, over and over! Get some excitement Alex! I was very happy to see Jubilee join in on the fun," his tone once again one of approval. He then teases Alex, "Is a girl showing you up mon ami?" He then says, "You will want to jump over this tree and not touch it," he advises with dark humor before he leaps over it, the ninjas rushing out of the dojo after them!

Alex Summers grumbles. "You still had no right to alter my program, Jean-Phillipe." He nods when he's told that there is a tree coming up that he needs to jump over. He launches himself into the air and summersaults over it, never breaking his stride. "The girl is not showing me up, frenchman." He comments while still running. Sparing a glance behind him, he comments. "Couldn't we just exit the program?"

Jubilee skillfully gets over the tree thanks to her gymnatics skills. She frowns, "hey this girl got a name." She keeps running and then smiles, "besides I was like so kicking your butt surfer boy."

"Too cute," Jean-Phillipe sounding mildly amused and mildly sarcastic at the two of you. Though when the ninjas, one of the jumps on the tree a trap is set off and there are squishing sounds that do not sound very pleasent. "Look for trip wires, any strangely placed branch, try to dodge rather than move things by force," he advises, and points to a street as he enters the edge of the water to run alongside it. "And if you wish Alex," though Fantomex sounds disappointed at the thought of exiting the program. "I suppose you can go back to punch you-know-whos in the face, over and over again." He then winks toward Jubilee, "Want to take the lead petit, see if you can avoid the wicked ninja traps?"

Alex Summers comments to Jubilee. "In your dreams, princess." He listens to Fantomex's explinations and then shrugs. "You know what? Just to prove a point..let's see this thing through." If he wasn't already focused on running and avoiding traps he'd reach out and smack Fantomex. "Punching...you-know-who in the face is therapy! Besides, that's my business.." He grumbles.

Jubilee rolls her eyes at the two and takes the lead, "yeah let me show the big strong men to safty." She keeps running and use her fireworks to blast any branch and limbs she sees. She makes sure she blast them way before she reachs them so any trap trigger and finish by the time she gets there, "Who you know who? I feel like I'm in a harry potter book."

"Who is Harry Potter?" Jubilee keeps running with Fantomex and Alex behind her, and as she blasts branches, suddenly the ground seems to give as the stream ends. However, Jean-Phillipe is suddenly there, reaching forward to yank Jubilee back by her yellow trench coat before she falls into a spike filled pit. "Let us make that trip wires /and/ death pits, non?" He grins beneath his mask. "And I thought you were taking us 'men' to saftey?" His tone is still teasing, though he then motions Jubilee forward once more before he looks at Alex.

The look in his blue eyes seems unusually pale right now. "Move on." The words are without humor, before Fantomex will move to follow Jubilee once more as long as the girl is still willing to lead.

Alex Summers answers Fantomex. "The Boy Who Lived...a wizard from a popular book and movie series. I'll show it to you sometime." When Fantomex saves Jubilee he smirks faintly, but doesn't really comment. Instead he points his hands towards the ground and fires off his plasma blast, catapulting himself over the pit. "Found out I could do that when we saved Kenzie. Might try to develop it into a means of transportation at some point, if I can figure it out." When the word to move on is given, he continues to run. "So..where are we running to?"

Jubilee gasp as the pit is in front of her. She looks back at the French man, "thanks that would been like really bad." She watchs Alex fly, "I see a few broken bones before he gets the landing down" She backs up and takes off running at the pit and jumps doing a flip and landing on the other side on her feet her hands up in the air as if she was competeing for the gold. She then looks back, "right ninjas." she starts running again, "How can you not know Herry Potter they had it in French."

Jean-Phillipe barely takes a running jump before he flips up into the air and over the pit. He lands and comes up running, keeping up with Jubilee. He lets her watch their heads more, and keeps a better eye on the ground. "Jump," he says, soon flipping over something barely noticable on the ground. "Easy. I am not particularly interest in 'pop culture'. I studied classics because I wished to. I only recently learned what Star Trek was and G.I. Joes. I googled Storm Shadow." He rolls his blue eyes. "Deadpool kept calling me that name." He then shrugs. "I did not have time for movies and television, growing up." He says nothing further on that subject.

"As for where we go?"

A bit of misdirection, and Jubilee and Alex will not even catch him whispering to the Danger Room to change the program as ninja's briefly pop up to distract them! But just as the ninjas are about to attack, everyone suddenly disppears! Well...except for the real people.

Everyone has to stop running, because suddenly there is a cliff with waterfall in front of them and a loooong way down, and behind them is a jungle, not woods. "You are not asking the right questions Alex. The real question is, what do you wish to run toward? I figured out what I wanted, and I will destory anything in my path to obtain it. Coming to Xavier's Institute has been an interesting detour for me, and as a result I have adapted and grown in my plans and goals. What of you Jubilee? Do you have something to run toward at full force?"

Jean-Phillipe was actually keeping this as a backup plan...he wanted to wake Alex up to what he was doing and he hoped Jubilee could assist...but the young man is being so...stubborn. The noise of the waterfall is loud, causing those there to have to pitch their voices to be heard over it. "Tell me!" He spreads his arms out wide. "What is out there worth running toward, and ripping away anything that would stop you from reaching it? Either of you?" Jean-Phillipe often comes off as very calculating, the passionate phrasing he uses very dramatic even for his Frenchman exterior.

Jubilee Stops just short of the cliff and turns to face the French man, "really a cliff and Jungle? At lease stay in the same area of the world." She then frowns at the question not sure she has anything like that. She lost everything once and she rebuilt her life here at the school this is her home and everyone here is her family. Is there something else to run to? Did she want to run to it? She licks her lips some and sighs, "I guess like I would want to be an X-men and stuff. Gen-X is alright but it's like the minor legues and stuff. Oh and a really nice dress and necklace that match my eyes. You know the kind that make guys run into poles when they are walks because they watch you and not where they are going." Yep that's jubilee for you she can be deep as an ocean or shallow as a puddle.

Alex Summers skids to a stop as the terrain changes. Blue eyes stare at Fantomex for a long moment, even though his entire speech. "You're asking me what I want, eh? Fine. Long term and short-term. I want a life where I'm not persecuted for being what I am. I want to earn my doctorate and teach at the collegate level. I want to marry and children. I want to be happy. I want my brother to be proud of me." He pauses a moment to catch his breath. "Everything that I do, is to work towards those goals. Sure, I've been derailed in the past, but that will never stop me from trying."

"So we have a heroine," Fantomex motions toward Jubilee, "And we have Mr. White Picket Fence with Big Brother issues." He rolls his eyes. "Sometimes, I just do not understand." Toward Jubilee he asks, "Who do you wish to protect Mme feux d'artifice," calling Jubilee, Ms. Fireworks, "Who do you wish to make pay?" Then toward Alex, "What do you wish to achieve with your teaching? Prestige? Acceptance? There is more than just a final goal an individual runs to," Jean-Phillipe states while pressing pointer finger to thumb in the shape of a circle with his right hand and waving it with purpose toward the two individuals. "All these little 'achievements' are toward a goal. Is it to be looked up to? To be seen as someone respectable? To have freedom, or to become someone important. To be rich, people often wish for it so they may never fear for money and cannot be told no. If one wishes to settle down, is it not so that they can have someone to love them and place them foremost in the world of many distractions and disappointments? For children, is it not to give something back to the world, a form of legacy that respects and loves you and so in a way you will never die? Perhaps these are what you run toward, perhaps not, but there is always something underlying. When something /threatens/ that underlying purpose, /threatens/ what you run toward, you can become lost, depressed, angry, even vengeful."

Jean-Phillipe does not demand an answer again of what each one is running toward, but he strives to give them food for thought. "What are you running toward? Think upon /that/! Not the achievement, not the goal, but the representation it means to you. If you do not protect that representation, then you can be unbalanced, compromised, and feeling as if you have failed." Fantomex is moving now, walking in a semi-circle about the two other X'ers, his blue eyes slightly narrowed. "All humans...mutants...they are driven by the very same thing, desires. But the flaw of so many, their weakness is many have difficulty recognizing these desires fully and being able to aptly protect them often because of their inability to identify them. Find your desires, and you will find your motivation, your passion, that thing that will have you never stop no matter what stands before your path, even if it appears overwhelming and dark. That desire is your purpose, it is what drives your every breath."

Jean-Phillipe has turned about to walk the semi-circle back where he began already. "I do not think of base desire such as lust or power hunger, but something that resounds inside you. Listen to your mind, watch how you react to certain situations and to certain people, monitor what pleases and displeases you not only in the short-term, but long-term as well. Free yourself from the cloud of emotions that so often clouds the mind, and get to the root of it all. There, you will find a simple answer. Protecting that answer may very well prove much more difficult, but the base facts do not change."

Jean-Phillipe is suddenly very still then, before he finally says, "Do you understand?" It is not easy for a nano-technology influenced and adapted brain(s) to explain how one examines abstractly the human nature and mind of oneself. But Jean-Phillipe attempts to, in his very Frenchman persona manner.

Jubilee frowns at all this. Most of it a little to deep for her to take all in at once like this and she frowns, "I want to stay with my family. Help them bring humans and mutants together. I been rich and poor and being rich is not about not hearing no it's a piece of mind. Never wondering when and how you get money for food." She folds her arms under her nicly size breast, "Okay Frenchman let me flip the question on you what are your goals, wants, and dreams? What do you strive for and why?"

Alex Summers gives Jean-Phillipe a dead pan expression. "You can call it whatever you want. My life is mine. I want what I want out of it and I really don't care if other people feel that I'm selling myself short or if they don't approve. Would I like to be rich? Yeah, who doesn't. Would I like to be looked up to and respected? Sure. If those things happen to me while I persue my goals, then that's awesome. You have my answer. If that's not good enough for you, then you can jump off this cliff." He points towards the waterfall. "I am the master of my own destiny. And I'm willing to do a lot of things to make sure that it comes to pass. But there are some things that I'm not willing to do, as you well know. I am sometimes riddled with emotion, yes. And at times it does cloud my judgement. But that is part of what it means to be human. To free myself of those emotions would make me nothing more than a machine and that is an existence not worth living in." He comments to Jubilee. "Don't waste your breath. He's not going to tell us. The man has to keep his secrets, afterall."

Jean-Phillipe is very still and silent as Jubilee and then Alex speaks their minds. "You are wrong Alex." He then slowly moves toward the edge of the cliff and looks down. "The money, the thievery, it is for fun." He sounds so deadly serious. "I want freedom; to not be someone's weapon, a tool of theirs to wield, to be alive to show compassion or take life as I choose by my own so-called moral standards. To fully obtain freedom, I must have revenge. To crumble every last bit of my past into ashes, till the blood soaks the ground and the cries have silenced." He then turns to look back at Alex and Jubilee.

"There are dark things in this world that hunt us. Peace between humans and mutants? Currently, it is an impossible dream, a mockery of an illusion, a ill-begotten hope that will lead no where and do nothing, but bring pain and suffering. Until you remove the tumors, you are merely treating symptoms, and that is what the X-Men do; they treat symptoms. Not without purpose of course, but it is not a full resolution. The Sentinels and Bastion, it was just the tip of the iceberg, a mere fragment of what goes to suffercate /my/ freedom, /your/ survivial. The Professor knows the storm is coming, but he knows not how. So where does that leave me?"

There is only a brief pause, "Preparing, preparing all of you for that storm. Be you at my side when the time comes or walking your own paths, my desires cannot be obtained alone. Alex taught me this, taught me the power and meaning of allies."

Jean-Phillipe looks directly at Alex. "You. You showed me, that freedom and survival did not mean I had to be alone." He steps back further to the cliff's edge, clumps of dirt and rock falling to the far decent. What...danger level setting is it at now? "If I jump, will it prove to you Alex, that no matter my secrets, I am here because of you?" His hands are held out far to his sides almost plendingly, but there seems to be no weakness toward him or grand suffering. "Will it prove, that I demand of you the most, because that is what you call from me? That you have driven me to not just go forward for my own desires, but now to wish to share them with others? That I want Jubilee to be here a decade from now, fighting for her own desires, fighting for her own dreams with passion! If you have asked me before I met you, her life or death would have meant nothing to me except for principle sake, but now...now I want her to grow and learn, I want her to burn brightly, because she means I am not alone." And then Jean-Phillipe moves to step back into nothingness as he looks dead-on at Alex.

Alex Summers begins to look worried. The closer Fantomex got to the cliff, the more worried he got. He begins to inch closer to him. "Jean-Phillipe, this is crazy. I was only kidding about jumping off the cliff. Come away from there!" He shakes his head. "Removing the problem is only one solution. We can show them there is a better way without going to war. Men can change..you're living proof of that. But this thing hasn't been one sided. For everything that I've given you, it has been returned in ways that you can't imagine." He reaches out his hand. "Please. Just come away from the edge." And then the stupid Frenchman allows himself to fall back over the cliff.

Alex doesn't even second guess himself. He simply holds his hands out to the side and leaps off the cliff after him. He tucks his arms in tight to increase his speed. Once he reaches the white-clad idiot, he grabs a hold of him and flips in the air so that Fantomex is at his back. With a scream, he fires a large sustained plasma blast towards the approaching water. Hopefully, it'll slow their decent so they don't impact the water as hard and break it's surface tension to lesson the impact. The safeties were off earlier. He only assumed that was still the case.

Jubilee frown, "that's it you want revenge after all that stupid shit you said and that what it boils down to you. Your a stupid man revange is not what you want that's what people who lost say. You want closer and nothing more. You want the same things as Alex and me but your to blind to see it." She frowns harder on as he gets closer to the cliff, "dude step back your not going to jump." Oh she was wrong and she screams as the french man leave her sight then Alex goes over and it's to much she drops to her knees and and cups her hands in her hand and weeps. two death and she could not save them how is she ever going explain this? How will she ever get over this lost.

The Frenchman was not kidding. And they are really falling...where are the safties?! Jean-Phillipe is caught by Alex, not a single expression of fear in his eyes, and seems to smile through his mask before Alex spins and releases the energy he holds within himself. As soon as Alex mentioned what he learned with Kenzie, as soon as Fantomex saw what Alex did, he knew.

The world rushes by, and Jubilee can see from above if she braves to look the flare of energy from Alex, the way the water bends and bows beneath it as it roars up past the embankments. And as the fall, they begin to slow, though certainly not close to flying. They still crash hard into the remaining water, and it is Jean-Phillipe this time that grabs onto Alex after the impact originally seperates them and heads for the surface without a pause even as the water from the embankments crash back down. He is not with E.V.A. right now, and has no sense of pain, but he does know that the impact did knock the air out of his lungs.

Alex Summers impacts the water and the world goes gray for him for a bit. He feels himself get grabbed and the next time he opens his eyes, he's looking up at the sky. He moves his head, looking for Fantomex. "Stupid...why did you jump?" He looks back up towards the cliff. He'd yell that they were still alive, but Jubes wouldn't be able to hear him from down here. He winces slightly. "Make me a promise. Let's never do that again."

Jubilee does not look she to far gone in her own issuses at the moment to notice a flash from the plasma and the yell they were okay does not reach her ears. She still is crying on the cliff for a long moment before she remembers she still in this world the one which taken them both. She cries out, "end program!" hoping the voice commands are still on.

There is no response to Jubilee's command, and Fantomex is dragging Alex toward the embankment, though the water is still rough from settling back down.

In the meantime, Jubilee can hear within her head softly, << It is alright Jubilee, they are alive. >> It is Professor Xavier's voice, and he sounds concerned, but confident that Alex is fine. << Alex's abilities and control over his power has increased, and they are both safe. We are trying to get the program shut down now. >>

Alex on the otherhand can hear inside his own head, << Tell Fantomex to shut the program down now. >> The commanding telepathic tone is there, and so is the displeasure from Professor X.

In the meantime, Scott is punching at the controls, his teeth gritted, and a rage boiling nastily just below the surface. A rage, that only Wolverine has truly managed to unlock before.

Fantomex swims hard, and soon Alex can feel the ground beneath his feet, and the two will be able to stumble out of the river.

Jubilee is not in the mood to be trap in this place anymore she needs to get out to get help to do something and she about to shut down the danger room for good when it did not shut down until she hears the voice in her head. She gasp at that and runs to the cliff edge and looks down seeing the two mean. She drops to her knees and weeps a little more this time with happyness. Oh she still mad but she also glad they are alive. <> she not really sure why she want out of the room so much other then she never wants to see this program again.

Alex Summers bends over to catch his breath once they stop. He looks over at Fantomex. "Okay dude. Professor X says to shut down the program now. I think you're in trouble." He chuckles a little at that, then stands up straight, tilting his head back to fill his lungs with air again. "Even telepathically, he does not sound like a happy man."

<< I know. You were frightened that you could not have helped them, you did not wish them harmed. This was not your fault Jubilee. >> The Professor's telepathic tone is assuring to Jubilee. << We all get frightened at times, especially with things out of our control. You are not alone in this, believe me. >>

Jean-Phillipe sighs dramatically at that, "I was hoping he would not notice, but I hacked the Danger Room so they could not override and shut down the program. He will not be pleased." Wait, Fantomex hacked the Danger Room?! He is dripping wet right now, but then says, "Danger Room, Mission Success. Shut down program 'Reveillez-vous Alex'."(Wake up Alex)

The program disappears, and Jubilee finds herself floor level and only a few yards from Alex and Fantomex who are now currently dry though their clothes a bit torn up.

Already, Scott is going to the elevator, and Professor Xavier barely is able to make him wait for him to roll into the elevator. The two head down to the Danger Room floor level.

"Jubilee," Jean-Phillipe says to the young lady. "Of /course/ I would jump, because I knew Alex had my back. I was under no real risk even with the max Danger Level." Basically, yes, it was all on the level of reality.

Alex Summers sinks down to sit with his back against the wall. He offers Jubilee a shaky smile. "Relax, Jubes. Though he went to the extreme to do it, I think Jean-Phillipe was trying to prove a point. Are you okay?" He glances over as Scott and the Professor come in. He looks up at Fantomex. "You did what? Dude..they could kick you out of the mansion for this stunt. And you act like you don't even care." He exhales again. "That was pretty crazy. I had no idea I was even capable of doing that. I..just reacted to the situation."

Jubilee is not going let Scott to be the first to rip into this French man. She stands wipeing tears from her eyes before he hands come up and blast him hard with her firework, "YOU EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN I'LL MAKE SURE IT'S YOUR LAST TIME!" She blast hime again and again with her firework, "I MAKE SURE YOU CAN NEED A CHAIR LIKE THE PROFESSOR!" tears stream from her face again, "YOU BASTERED!"

Jean-Phillipe shrugs at that, "I knew the potential as soon as I saw your stunt over the trap pit. And I know the risk."

Except, Jean-Phillipe is right beside Alex, so he doesn't risk moving, instead being knocked right over Alex, his booted feet perhaps impacting the young man as the chest of Fantomex's uniform burns away and there is a blackened and bloody mess left behind on his chest.

All of Scott's anger actually leaves him and he pales, "JUBILEE!" Her name is called out commanding and with horror, as he runs toward his brother first.

Fantomex doesn't move at first, actually blinking at the ceiling. That was unexpected. And he then moves to sit up slowly, taking practical inventory of the damage.

The Professor is also suddenly in Jubilee's mind, and saying a command, << SLEEP! >> Jubilee may or may not ever see Jean-Phillipe sit back up before she will be out cold. Well, she at least bought Jean-Phillipe a few hours if not a day or two before Scott starts demanding he gets kicked out of the school.

Alex Summers looks absolutely horrified when Jubilee raises her hands while yelling at Fantomex. Then, he dives off to the side, trying to make himself a low target. He briefly considers hitting her with a low powered plasma blast to knock her out, but the Prof beats him to it. Though he had already heard Fanty say that he had released EVA so he knew that he probably didn't even feel it. Though that doesn't mean he's not damaged. "Dude..are you okay?" He sees the man's chest and visibly blanches. "Oh god. Scotty! We gotta get him some medical attention!"

Jubilee eyes roll back in her head and she crumples in a sleep like state. Her power fades and she sleeps deepy. She was mad past mad that almost mimicing Logan rage. Maybe he had rubbed off her some.

Scott is first at Alex's side though, "Are you alright?!" He actually sounds half angry, half panicked...or...something...he is already running his hands over Alex quickly and efficently just to double check.

Professor Xavier looks uncomfortable himself with the situation, as he just had his students almost kill a teacher, and he is thankful that Fantomex has a healing factor. "Can you walk to medbay, Jean-Phillipe?" He has moved over to Jubilee, moving a hand to touch her forehead as she lays on the floor, as if to check on her once more though he was just in her mind.

Jean-Phillipe eyes his chest and then comes out with, "I can walk, but can I just have a tank of water and a breathing mask attached to oxygen? I will heal on my own." He then looks at Jubilee, "That was...unexpected."

Professor Xavier presses his mouth into a thin line. "It's called caring, but also the relief and emotional release turned to anger and Jubilee has an issue with releasing her emotions at...not the best targets at times."

"Now you tell me...," but Fantomex is interrupted by Scott.

The older Summers brother glares at Jean-Phillipe, teeth gritting after he had assured himself that Alex was fine. He seems about to say more, but then looks over at Xavier unhappily. He's actually shaking slightly. "He almost got my brother killed," each word grounded out. But he then looks away from Xavier and back to Alex, "Let's get you checked out by Hank to be sure," his words curt.

Yes, there will certainly be fall out over this.