Power Control - Hard Decisions

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:23 pm

Today's power control class wasn't in a field, it wasn't in a forest, it wasn't even in a blank Danger Room. Today's class seemed to be in an oversized version of the Blackbird, extended to give people some room to move around and to put some working surfaces at the seats. There was a slight, gentle motion that hinted at it being in flight.

Ryan was, as usual, going over his notes on his own screen, this time up in front of the cockpit door.

by **Haley Crusek** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:44 pm

Haley bounded into the "jet."

"Whoaaaa, this is awesome."

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:17 am

Ryan chuckled, waving vaguely at a seat. "Not everything can be a frolic in a meadow, right?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:11 am

"Is this what the X-Men fly around in?"

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:08 am

"Close to it. I played with the dimensions to make it more comfortable, since it's still... well, you know, a plane. Even if it's an awesome plane."

by **Miranda Weaver** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:33 am

Miranda wandered in, pausing briefly as she saw the setup. That seemed to stir some strange memories for her, but she pushed forward and took a seat, "Hi, Mr. Gabriel."

by **Kay Haddock** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:43 am

"Sweet! It's the jet!" Kay exclaims, following after Miranda and bouncing over to plop herself into one of the seats.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:40 am

"Whoa..." Graham said as he made his way in. "As if I didn't already want to be an X-Man, like, yesterday."

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:30 pm

"Hello, Miranda. Take a seat everyone. Today we work on practical power applications."

by **Paul Valmont** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:30 pm

Paul looked around as he walked in, then made a little face. I hate flying.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:32 pm

Alex was a little surprised when he walked in. "Oh, awesome," he said. No weight lifting today!

by **Haley Crusek** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:49 pm

"Badass!" she said then cringing and looking around for Steph.

by **Paul Valmont** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:10 pm

"What's badass?" Paul asked, looking for a seat. Why are we on a plane?

by **Elise Holdrust** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:33 pm

Elise was sitting in one of the seats looking a little less than colorful today. A bag in one hand and a bottle of water in the other, she groaned. Something about flying in actual planes made her motion sick. Flying with her wings? Perfectly fine. But a jet or any plane for that matter? No good.

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:41 pm

Ryan frowned, looking around for the telltale 'off' feeling he was getting. It didn't take him long to spot Elise and her predicament. Trying to look nonchalant, he accessed the room controls and turned off the flight motion for now.

by **Elise Holdrust** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:46 pm

Elise began to get a bit more color in her face, but she was not about to move. Strangely enough, Wiggles and Frankie weren't around. At least, not manifested.

Why are we doing this?
It's part of training.
Training sucks.
El...I don't feel good.
I know, I know...I'm sure it'll get better. It doesn't feel so bad anymore.

by **Haley Crusek** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:58 pm

"This whole thing is badass, Paul, because we're flying on basically the X-Men's jet, and we're gonna do practical power control stuff today instead of just boring exercises." she grinned.

by **Mizuki Hino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:03 pm

Looking out one of the windows with a big grin was Mizuki. She looked absolutely ecstatic. "This is so much better than the Danger Room."

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:54 pm

Mizuki would see, out the window, alarmingly, smoke rising from below them. They didn't have a good angle to see what the surface looked like, unfortunately, but signs pointed toward some sort of trouble down there.

by **Jennifer Newgate** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:56 pm

Jennifer looks like she's in a similar boat as Elise, if less pukey and more unsteady on her legs. She's holding on to a bulkhead until the flight motions subside.

by **Mizuki Hino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:57 pm

Mizuki tilts her head. "So uh...where exactly are we?" She asks Ryan curiously.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:57 pm

Brigid for her part is nonchalant. If she didn't travel on jets, she'd never get anywhere.

by **Elise Holdrust** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:59 pm

"Hell." Elise answers Mizuki.

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:11 pm

"Excelent question!" Ryan said. "And the answer is, it's nowhere. Or rather, it's not a real city. I try not to blow up real cities for classes." He pressed a few keys on his pad, and a holodisplay appeared, showing a part of the city, notably the harbor. It was, to say the least, a mess. There were fires in various places, rubble strewn about... something had exploded, and from the blast pattern, it had been a building they were over.

"Today's class is a practical exercise in power use and judgement. Disaster management is something X-Men have to deal with a lot, more often than fighting super-jerks if you'd believe it. So we're going to see how well you can do here. We're hovering over an evacuated city where a gas explosion has devastated the area. Rescue work has already been done, we're not going to worry about that right now. But we are going to worry about two things."

"First, area safety. You're going to make sure there's nothing left feeding the fires. There's a live gas line in there somewhere, you need to find it and identify it so that it can be shut off and the fires can be put out."

"Second, collateral damage. You're going to find any additional problems that might have been caused by this that need to be contained. The first one to say 'all the buildings are wrecked' or something wise-ass like that gets a detention."

"This isn't time sensitive, there's nothing that you have to rush to figure out. The situation isn't going to really get any worse down there unless you do something to make it worse. So you have the time to just relax and think."

"Questions?"

by **Vertie Easley** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:21 pm

"Identify, like identify the gas itself or simply where it's source is at?" Vertie asked with her hand raised.

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:24 pm

"It's just normal natural gas, like you'd have in any gas line in any city. It's the active line you need to identify," Ryan clarified.

by **Mizuki Hino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:27 pm

"Well that shouldn't be too hard. Natural gas has a nasty poop smell. Does anyone here have a really good sense of smell? Could make it easier to pinpoint."

by **Blaine Slinger** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:32 pm

Blaine sat in the back, quietly. Barbara was not there.

by **Vertie Easley** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:35 pm

"True natural gas has no smell. Did the city produce it's own gas or was it piped in? If the city has it's own source it'll be tricky, if it was piped in, the added "scent" would have been added at the main plant and will make it easier to find."

by **Mizuki Hino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:39 pm

"Well I mean he did say it was a busted line, so wouldn't that mean it was piped in?"

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:40 pm

"It's natural gas that was being used by the buildings there. So yes, she's right, it has the same smell you normally associate with natural gas."

by **Vertie Easley** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:45 pm

"Well...if it was pumped in then the, yes, it would smell, but if this city had it's own plant then the actually area could be leaking, not just the known pipes. You know, the explosion messing up the ground and opening pockets of untapped gas."

by **Mizuki Hino** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:48 pm

"Oh man that would suck!"

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:53 pm

"It's just lines that you have to worry about. No gas plants. Any other questions?"

by **Blaine Slinger** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:20 pm

"What happens if we fail?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:17 pm

"We won't! We can do this, guys!" Haley said cheerfully. Her recent win for the capture the flag seems to have given her an appetite for superhero work. "We've got like. A ton of stuff to work with. You're like. A genius or something right Blaine? You can help us like prop up buildings that might fall. And...maybe Jennifer and me can find people with our telepathy...and uh Vertie....you could like have animals help us find things we need....and i can make force fields and stuff too..."

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:54 pm

"And I can sniff out the gas, I guess. My nose isn't as good as most predator shifters but it's well above standard."

by **Miranda Weaver** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:57 pm

"I think... I'm on the wrong mission," Miranda said quietly, "but I'll do what I can."

by **Haley Crusek** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:05 pm

"No way, Miranda, you'll be perfect! You can help with telepathy stuff and like...I bet you could probably tell us if we're doing the right things to succeed and stuff."

She nodded excitedly at Graham. "We'll totes need your good senses. And El, you can fly! We could fly together and look over everything. And....and Paul you can open portals to get to hard to reach places and ....oooh Alex, a strong metal guy. You can lift stuff and ant you like suck up metal to get it out of the way?"

Perfect! Oh man, this is going to be amazing!"

by **Kay Haddock** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:13 pm

While Haley is rattling off awesome stuff for everyone to do Kay sits in the corner, moping.

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