May 1: Danger Danger Danger Danger Room

[Altamira Vazquez]

"I think I will!"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Okay... try it now.."

Bobby finished up his ministrations, looking down to the danger room floor.

[Altamira Vazquez]

"You fixed it?!"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Well, I rebooted it.. I hope.."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"Oh. Then won't it just do the same thing again?"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Well, try to tone it down, just a little?"

[Altamira Vazquez]

"It's very, very hard to do."

[Bobby Bowen]

"Then, we probably need to find something else for you to practice with.."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"Such as?"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Asteroids? Did I mention asteroids?"

[Altamira Vazquez]

"It's not very useful if I have to be in outer space to do it."

[Bobby Bowen]

"So.. interesting problem, then. You need to practice to get more powerful, but you are too powerful to practice."

Bobby, unsure what else to do, rifled around some hardcopies of the danger room user manual.

[Altamira Vazquez]

"It kinda sucks, yeah."

[Bobby Bowen]

"I mean, I don't want to presume too much.. I'm already way, way in the deep end.. but don't you have any, well, contemporaries to spar with? Other gods?"

[Altamira Vazquez]

"Not that I know of, sadly. Nothing like this."

[Stan Bowen]

"Shoot, for all the rep Galactus has, you'd think he might spread his facebook page around more, or whatever he does.."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"Oh, I wouldn't want to fight Galactus."

[Bobby Bowen]

"Why not?" he asked, curious.

[Altamira Vazquez]

"He's really big!"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Yeah, but you are really powerful! I may not know much about the Phoenix, but I know that."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"But...he's REALLY big."

[Bobby Bowen]

"It's all relative, if you listen to my pop."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"Your soda tells you how to fight people?"

[Calvin Strong]

"All right, who broke the freaking Danger Room?" Cal grumbled as he came down the hall.

[Altamira Vazquez]

"I'm sorry, Cal."

[Calvin Strong]

"You did?" Cal said, a little surprised. "Not..." he looked at Bobby. "Well shit. How'd you do it?" he said, plugging into the controls and force-starting them to get a damage report.

[Altamira Vazquez]

"It is...possible, I should say...that I might have...maybe...used a little too much force"

[Calvin Strong]

"Oh. That all? That should make this a little easier... yeah, there it is. Blew the fuses out. And... wow, you blew 'em out good." He unplugged. "Half hour, if you want to use it again. I'll get working."

[Altamira Vazquez]

"I'm so sorry! Can I help somehow?"

[Calvin Strong]

He smirked at her as he walked over to the closet. "Don't blow the new ones out once I get them put in?"

[Altamira Vazquez]

"I'll TRY..."

[Calvin Strong]

Cal smirked. "That'll have to be good enough, I guess."

[Bobby Bowen]

"Fuses.. wow. that was it?"

Bobby smirked, tossing the manuals on the console desk.

[Calvin Strong]

"Well, they're really big fuses," Cal said, smirking. "You think they want to have something real to break just because someone goes nova in there?"

[Bobby Bowen]

"Man, Miss Minerva is so far beyond nova, it scares me right now."