Garrison and Reed -- Teamwork
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xp_logs A danger room session gets Reed all twisted. Literally.
officially met the older man, he certainly knew of him....
Ugh. The wait was killing him.
"So Reed. Reed Richards. RR. Can I call you RR? Check that. Sounds like I'm trying to purr." Kane said, walking in and tapping on a tablet. "You been through the safety tutorial?"
It was always distracting to Reed when people spoke quickly. He had a secret envy for those who could formulate their thoughts quickly and in a witty fashion. He was certainly not one of them. "I have."
"Good. Because now I get to do my level best to kill you with this room. Any questions?"
"Yes." Reed stood up. "Has anyone died in the danger room before?"
"Hundreds. We remove their livers and sink them to the bottom of the lake. We have a lot of livers." Kane pulled up a holographic display and began typing.
Reed was deathly curious about the program of the Danger Room and how it actually worked, but it didn't appear Kane was going to explain what he was doing. "The lake is devoid of any algae that would be attracted to a rotting body part." He stretched his arms above his head, slightly elongating them. "Not to mention the inevitable diseases one would get. "
"Yeah, we should probably stop letting the kids swim over top of them." Kane hit a last couple of buttons and the display whisked away. "So, we're going to start pretty simply. We want to get a handle on your control of your malleability, reflexes and possibly extent of it. A series of light gates is going to come at you at increasing speeds. All of the gates will be shaped differently. It is your goal to get through them without breaking any of the light bars. Simple enough?"
The calculations were endless and seemed to be designed exactly for that purpose. Reed had to admit, he was impressed with that Kane had the perfect training set up for him. "Great, when do we start?"
"Just did." Kane folded his arms and leaned back against the wall as the first gate came at Reed, faster than he was anticipating.
The first gate knocked Reed on the head, causing the scientist to curse out loudly. The smirk on Kane's face triggered an anger Reed didn't know he had. Standing up, he barely managed to dodge the next one before he actually did what he was supposed to -- contort in order to escape the light bar. After a few successful times, he had to admit it was actually fun. He'd never been really challenged in this way before.
"Now you're getting it." Garrison nodded, just as the DR brought difficulty up. Now it wasn't possible to dodge aside the gates. He needed to contort himself through the increasingly complex inner lines.
Frowning deeply, Reed stretched his neck up, using the extra length to provide him with a few more seconds of time. It was needed initially as the gates went faster and faster, but he found soon that it was like he just knew how to bend. Twisting his body into impossible shapes, he stretched, pulled, moved like liquid, with the occasional 'OW' when a gate moved a little too close.
"How are you doing, Richards? There's one last increase coming. You up for it?"
Reed nodded, deciding that speaking would take up precious oxygen. He'd thought that Julian had been whipping him into shape but he was wrong. This was more challenging than he thought it would be.
The final frame came in rotating, complex and moving fast enough to make him sweat.
And sweat he did, as he bent himself into a shape that he didn't even know was possible. Barely squeezing through, he threw himself on the ground afterwards, still stuck in the intricate pretzel shape. It took several minutes before he could finally speak. "I think I'm stuck like this..."
"Seriously." He did look like a badly knotted shoelace. "OK, well, I-" He shut off the DR and started to walk around him, considering him the same way he did his headphone wires after pulling them out of his pocket. "-geez."
"This is embarrassing." And Reed had been pantsed in front of his entire peer group in high school. He lifted a leg and tried to pull it through. "I am very tired right now, and it is hard to mentally control my body. I think I might need to sit here for a moment." A pause. "You can leave if you'd like. I don't mind."
"Let's get you untangled, kid. Besides, for once, you can benefit from my knot helping."
"And this stays here?"
"We can talk about that. Over beers. That you're paying for."
officially met the older man, he certainly knew of him....
Ugh. The wait was killing him.
"So Reed. Reed Richards. RR. Can I call you RR? Check that. Sounds like I'm trying to purr." Kane said, walking in and tapping on a tablet. "You been through the safety tutorial?"
It was always distracting to Reed when people spoke quickly. He had a secret envy for those who could formulate their thoughts quickly and in a witty fashion. He was certainly not one of them. "I have."
"Good. Because now I get to do my level best to kill you with this room. Any questions?"
"Yes." Reed stood up. "Has anyone died in the danger room before?"
"Hundreds. We remove their livers and sink them to the bottom of the lake. We have a lot of livers." Kane pulled up a holographic display and began typing.
Reed was deathly curious about the program of the Danger Room and how it actually worked, but it didn't appear Kane was going to explain what he was doing. "The lake is devoid of any algae that would be attracted to a rotting body part." He stretched his arms above his head, slightly elongating them. "Not to mention the inevitable diseases one would get. "
"Yeah, we should probably stop letting the kids swim over top of them." Kane hit a last couple of buttons and the display whisked away. "So, we're going to start pretty simply. We want to get a handle on your control of your malleability, reflexes and possibly extent of it. A series of light gates is going to come at you at increasing speeds. All of the gates will be shaped differently. It is your goal to get through them without breaking any of the light bars. Simple enough?"
The calculations were endless and seemed to be designed exactly for that purpose. Reed had to admit, he was impressed with that Kane had the perfect training set up for him. "Great, when do we start?"
"Just did." Kane folded his arms and leaned back against the wall as the first gate came at Reed, faster than he was anticipating.
The first gate knocked Reed on the head, causing the scientist to curse out loudly. The smirk on Kane's face triggered an anger Reed didn't know he had. Standing up, he barely managed to dodge the next one before he actually did what he was supposed to -- contort in order to escape the light bar. After a few successful times, he had to admit it was actually fun. He'd never been really challenged in this way before.
"Now you're getting it." Garrison nodded, just as the DR brought difficulty up. Now it wasn't possible to dodge aside the gates. He needed to contort himself through the increasingly complex inner lines.
Frowning deeply, Reed stretched his neck up, using the extra length to provide him with a few more seconds of time. It was needed initially as the gates went faster and faster, but he found soon that it was like he just knew how to bend. Twisting his body into impossible shapes, he stretched, pulled, moved like liquid, with the occasional 'OW' when a gate moved a little too close.
"How are you doing, Richards? There's one last increase coming. You up for it?"
Reed nodded, deciding that speaking would take up precious oxygen. He'd thought that Julian had been whipping him into shape but he was wrong. This was more challenging than he thought it would be.
The final frame came in rotating, complex and moving fast enough to make him sweat.
And sweat he did, as he bent himself into a shape that he didn't even know was possible. Barely squeezing through, he threw himself on the ground afterwards, still stuck in the intricate pretzel shape. It took several minutes before he could finally speak. "I think I'm stuck like this..."
"Seriously." He did look like a badly knotted shoelace. "OK, well, I-" He shut off the DR and started to walk around him, considering him the same way he did his headphone wires after pulling them out of his pocket. "-geez."
"This is embarrassing." And Reed had been pantsed in front of his entire peer group in high school. He lifted a leg and tried to pull it through. "I am very tired right now, and it is hard to mentally control my body. I think I might need to sit here for a moment." A pause. "You can leave if you'd like. I don't mind."
"Let's get you untangled, kid. Besides, for once, you can benefit from my knot helping."
"And this stays here?"
"We can talk about that. Over beers. That you're paying for."
