Voluntary experiments

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:40 pm

He'd put it off for a while, but Daniel finally headed down to the labs. Might as well admit it when I've screwed up, he thought as he knocked.

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:42 pm

The door opened, and a third year lab assistant with mousey hair and thick glasses looked out.

"Yes?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:46 pm

Well huh. "Hi. Is Dr. Bowen in?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:51 pm

She adjusted her glasses.

"Oh sure.. C'mon in, and don't touch anything."

Daniel was brought through and led to Stan's desk. Stan looked up, and bade him to sit in the provided chair.

"Hello, mr. Uriel. It's been a while."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:57 pm

"Yeah, well, you know, a guy's got to keep busy," he said. He sat down in the chair. "So... I need help, Doc."

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:00 pm

"Abilities related?" He asked, leaning forward.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:02 pm

"Yeah, I guess you could say that," Daniel admitted. "I thought it was just a bad month at first. Now I'm pretty sure something's wrong."

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:07 pm

"Tell me about it."

Stan pulled out a scratchpad and a pen, and got ready to make notes.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 8:31 pm

"It started off with just some fluctuations in level," he said. "Figured I just wasn't used to the powers I picked up. It happens sometimes. Except I dropped those powers. That's when stuff started getting weird."

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:46 pm

"What do you mean by weird?" Stan asked, writing down his thoughts.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:49 pm

"Unreliable, for one thing. The constants are always the same... I can fly, I can generate a little flame no matter what. But there are crazy speed bursts sometimes. Other times, it's hard to keep airborn. And whatever powers I take, sometimes other stuff pops up. Nothing I've come into contact with, not in a while, at least."

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:01 pm

Stan nodded.

"Have you had any incidents that have happened recently? Any new stresses in your life? Are you sleeping well, eating a good diet, etcetera?" He asked, drawing a matrix to track his line of questioning.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:12 pm

"Yeah. Last week. I was guarding a convoy sneaking into Canada and I just mad a Sentinel... I dunno, implode?" He shrugged. "Kyra swears I must have just grabbed her power without knowing it, but it doesn't work like that. I mean, it isn't a little easy-to-miss thing when I sync with someone. I didn't have any power set that should let me do that, but I did it anyway."

"And I've been taking care of myself as well as I ever have. This was never a problem until I was up in space. I figure I must have gotten bit by a Shi'ar flea or something."

by **Stan Bowen** » Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:50 pm

Stan nodded, adding a note of 'zero g, et, Xeno?' On his sheet.

"Well, it's a remote possibility, but things like that have happened before.."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:52 am

"Well, you're the expert. Kind of why I came back here."

by **Stan Bowen** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:46 pm

"There are a few things we can try.. But it could just be an undiscovered aspect of you powers. It could take time to determine the cause, just to warn you."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:17 pm

"Well, I was born to be a lab rat. Guess this works, right?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:33 pm

"Ok, if you have an hour to spare, we can get started."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:35 pm

"I'm... pretty much free whenever. Haven't exactly signed up for any classes or anything."

by **Stan Bowen** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:40 pm

"Ah, one of those kind of students. No problem."

He smirked, leading Daniel over to an analysis machine familiar to many other students.

"Ok, lie down. We are going to map your x-gene completely, so I can get a good base to work with. I have a couple of other mutant profiles we can compare it to."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:44 pm

"Y'know, people say that a lot... what does 'mapping an X-Gene' mean, anyway?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:50 pm

"It means that I am going to run a microsensor beam over you, detecting both your own unique sequence on the x-gene, as well as the resultant physical and neural modifications that are a result of it. It's basically me taking an extended physical of your mutant capabilities."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:53 pm

"Sounds interesting, at the very least," Daniel shrugged. And, of course, he got on the table.

by **Stan Bowen** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:09 pm

Stan turned on the system, and a robotic arm powered up, methodically running a yellow beam over Daniel's prone form.

As it proceeded, a 3D model of Daniel's body and x-gene began generating on a holographic display overhead, and a scrolling data feed displayed the scan results.

"Ok, just sit still. This will are a while, but if you have any concerns, we can discuss them as the routine proceeds."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:07 pm

"There's no knives and electric shocks yet, so I'm good," Daniel said.

According to Stan's scan, Daniel's X-Gene was tied to his personal bio-energy field. There were, of course, other changes that could happen to his body, but his X-Gene's function was to activate his bio-energy field so that it could make these changes possible.

There were some similarities in Daniel's power to just about every fire mutant Stan had on file. Not surprisingly, there was also a strong corellation between Daniel's powers and Rogue's, though there were marked differences as well.

Daniel's own scans would be on file from when he was locked up the last year. Compared to that baseline, there were drastic differences in his bio-energy now.

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:48 pm

"Interesting.. Your initial guess seems to have more merit, mr. Uriel."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:54 pm

"What, the Shi'ar flea? And no dirty jokes, I didn't do that with any aliens..."

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:00 pm

"Well, there are marked differences to your bio-field, that have occurred since you spent some time in the detention facility last year. I've seen this sort of change before, but usually it involves a strain of the legacy virus.. And the pathogen detectors would have picked up on that immediately."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:10 pm

"Yeah, don't tell me it's that again," Daniel shuddered. "That... really sucked."

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:14 pm

Stan nodded, frowning.

"Right now, the trip to space seems a good place to start focusing."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:24 pm

"Yeah, that sucked too. So... would you have picked up space flu or something if I had it?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:27 pm

"That depends on how exotic the space flu was.. But I can run a more thorough scan for microorganisms now."

Stan did so, as a soft red light sweeped over Daniel's body.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:36 pm

The scan would come up negative, no matter how minute the search. Moreover, Daniel seemed to be in remarkably better health than someone who'd been roughing it for months should be.

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:38 pm

"Nothing there, you are remarkably heathy.. Hmm.. Anything else you might have experienced or been exposed to while you were off planet? Anything at all?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:46 pm

"Um... Let's see. Drifting in space for a week... Then there was the Nova Corps, then we were living in a big severed Celestial head for a while... Then the Shi'ar homeworld... Then the big cathedral ships to kick the Space Pope in the ass... What exactly are you looking for, Doc?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:55 pm

"Everything, or nothing... Whatever could affect a mutant's abilities."

He looked back at the previous readings, curious.

"Let's go back a moment, have you been exercising intensely recently?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:08 pm

"I've been keeping escape routes out of the US clear of Sentinels. You tell me."

by **Stan Bowen** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:14 pm

Stan nodded, stroking his chin and making notes.

"What powers did you burn in while in space?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:08 pm

"I... ah..." He frowned, thinking about it a minute. "There was that purple guy in the fight before we left," he said, ticking off numbers. "Tried to see what Nova force was all about, that wasn't all that enlightening. Then there was a Power Skrull... then those weird magic priests or whatever they were... it was a busy time, ok?"

by **Stan Bowen** » Wed Jun 11, 2014 8:00 pm

Stan nodded, taking notes.

"That's a lot of unique, non-mutant powers.. Did any feel more off than usual?"

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