Not too great at the X-Men thing(open)

[Rory Archer]

"Crap, crap, crap!" yelled Rory as he ducked behind wall as gunshots rang out. He was dressed in a training uniform, which looked a little worse for ware. Since he had been introduced to the danger room, he had a resource in which to practice his powers without fear of collateral damage. However, the reality, or whatever it was the danger room did, was far less forgiving then he had initially thought. The simulations were meant to be like real fights and real conflict, but despite not being real, they did it a bit too well for Rory's taste. He hadn't realized that this would include trying to survive against someone with a gun. To be specific, an anti mutant guy with a gun. Making stardust turned out to be a lot harder when you were trying not to be shot.

"Come on, come on," he said to himself, as he tried to gather some stardust between his hands, but another gunshot broke his concentration as it felt like he had been hit with a paintball in the back of the head, and what little he had fell to the ground. Rory was many things, a mutant, a composer, conductor, but a seasoned warrior, not so much. 'Simulation Ended," came the voice of the computer, and the city faded away, leaving the empty room. So much for improvement, he had managed to get himself killed again, which seemed to be a recurring theme with his sessions.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Yaaay! Good job!" A voice cut in on the P/A, as if he hadn't just gotten shot in the back of the head.

[Rory Archer]

Hearing the voice, Eric looked up at the control room. Someone had been watching him. "Yeah, great job becoming a body count," he said, more to himself, "Who's up there? Wait, I'll be right up." he said, quickly picking himself up and heading to the exit and making his way to the control center.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Hello!" She greeted upon his arrival. Rory was looking at a slightly below average in height girl with violet eyes, wearing a matching top and bottom exercise clothes printed in little bats, mint green sneakers, and a scarf around her head that hid her hair. "I am Chisaki Watanabe. I am eighteen years old and a freshman.

Who are you?" She asked wearing that loopy, happy, empty expression of hers.

[Rory Archer]

Rory wasn't sure what to make of Chisaki, she looked more colorful then he was used to, with her greeting leaving confused, since it contained more information then he would expect from a first time greeting. "I'm Rory Archer." he said a bit slowly, wondering if she was expecting him to expound on that. Honestly she looked a bit scary, the simultaneous happy and empty expression making him uneasy, like a mask with who knows what underneath.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Are you on the teams?" She asked, getting right to the point.

[Rory Archer]

"No, just a student," he said, from what he understood, being on one of the teams meant putting himself in a situation like this where the bullets were real.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"You should consider it. It is a lot of fun." Chisaki moved to the console, looking over the recorded feed again.

"You should try again, you almost had it I think."

[Rory Archer]

"Right, because getting shot in the head is a barrel of laughs," said Rory sarcastically. He focused for a moment and just like that a handful of stardust swirled into existence. Why couldn't he do that when it mattered?

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"But if you got shot in the back of the head you would be dead and not on teams anymore...." She replied in a very slow, naive tone, clearly not picking up on the sarcasm.

Her deep thoughts were broken when Rory used his powers.

"OH pretty!"

[Rory Archer]

"You're not so great at creating incentive," said Rory in response to Chisaki's remark. He was beginning to see that she was a bit... out there, somewhat eccentric to say the least. He noticed she was staring intently at the ball of swirling stardust. "Yeah, I suppose," he said, being used to the novelty of making swirling galaxies, "Too bad I can't summon it up that easily when I'm being shot at." In essence he knew he should be able to, he had done it when he had first manifested his powers, though nothing near the level it was actually capable of.

Trying to consciously make it in a stressful situation though was a different kettle of fish. He had never intended to use it in that fashion, but had been informed of the trouble that usually followed anyone at the school, so learning self defense was all but mandatory. He believed that once he learned to control his emotions in a combat scenario, he would be able to do much better at controlling his powers. He scattered the dust above the control room and let if detonate, coming off as a series of firecracker-like burst of sparks.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki watched him for a moment and listened to what he said closely. Her eyes stayed on the summoning until, without warning, she let out a shrill wail not unlike a scream queen to see how he'd react.

[Rory Archer]

Rory visibly jumped at the sudden scream, and a burst of stardust manifested all about him before popping and sparking all about the control room. "What was that about?!" He said, thinking the girl crazy.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki didn't seem phased by Rory's response at all, though it was likely that was because one would expect another to be angry after a fright. She folded her left elbow into her right hand and leaned thoughtfully, tapping her chin with her left hand index finger.

"Hmmm... Well your problem is not your reflex response, you power reacted to the scare. Maybe it is that you are over-thinking it because you know it is coming?"

[Rory Archer]

"And you had to scare me half to death for that?" said Rory, "You could have just told me." It had occurred to him that he was overthinking it, but it was hard not to overthink when you were worried about being shot at. Chisaki seemed to be the act without thinking type. He had no problem with spontaneousness, though a little restrain on her part would have been nice.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Of course. You are not going to respond with your reflexes if you know it is coming, yes? We have learned this by the fact that when you know the bullet is coming, you fail, regardless of the fact you know this to be fake.

The only way to see if it a problem of reflexes then is to test them. Would you maybe have liked a punch instead? I thought a punch on a first meeting might be bad."

[Rory Archer]

Rory was still not overly pleased, "I think it would have been nice to wait until we'd had more then half a conversation before 'volunteering' to help someone like that." He had only just met Chisaki, and really they had only exchanged a few words, so he had no real bonds of trust with her at the moment, so her actions didn't give him a good first impression of her.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki stared at him, and then just shrugged. "Sorry." She replied with the same naive expression as before.

Then she fell silent, playing with the console. If Rory were to check she was doing something else, not looking over his results.

"I will not be using the room proper if you want to use it to try again." She stated over her shoulder from her work.

[Rory Archer]

Rory gave a somewhat defeated sigh, "May as well," he said, knowing he still had a good while before his next class. And it would probably help let off a little steam after that scare. He still wasn't sure what to think of Chisaki just yet. He reset the scenario then headed back down to the floor. He considered the advise she had given him, and his own past failings. Perhaps he should just think of this as a performance. He did sort of have an audience, and he knew that he hadn't had trouble when had been focusing on conducting. So he focused on his baton, which swirled into existence from stardust as the scenery started changing again. He knew that the shooting would start soon, though not from where since the computer seemed to randomly spawn the opponent, likely to keep people from memorizing the program.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki's eyes would meander to what he was doing, but she wasn't keeping all her attention to it, nor did she seem to be tampering with the system.

[Rory Archer]

Rory took a breath, trying to relax, think of this as a performance. He tapped a beat with the baton, stardust swirling at the tip. He turned around, scanning for the gunman.

Suddenly he saw someone step out from around a corner, in the middle of raising a gun. Rory swung the baton up, the stardust flying in front of him.

BANG
BANG
BANG

Rory opened his eyes, to see a swirling galaxy in front of him like we a shield. He shifted it, and three bullets dropped out of the cloud of stardust. Had he just done that?

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki smiled softly from her spot at the console, but said nothing to him, going back to her project without further acknowledgement.

[Rory Archer]

Having the advantage was completely new to Rory, for a moment he was too stunned to move. Another three shots rang out, breaking through his composure/ he pulled the stardust to shield himself, and saw small flares in the galaxy when the bullets impacted. He flourished the baton, and the galaxy collapsed into a ball which he flung at the shooter, looking like a comet before bursting into an explosion and knocking the shooter off his feet.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki continued to work, but kept an eye on Rory just incase his successes made him too self-assured and he ended up getting him hurt.

[Rory Archer]

Rory was as surprised as anyone that that had actually worked. The gunman fizzled into nothingness. "Objective completed," came the voice of the computer. Rory was glad he had finally made some headway, this was the first time he had managed to take down the gunman. Before he could mentally celebrate, however, the computer continue, "Increasing difficulty."

"What!?," said Rory, before two more gunmen appeared.

BANG
BANG
BANG

Rory was hit several times and the simulation ended again.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

Chisaki covered her mouth to hide a giggle fit, then cleared her throat.

"Would you like for me to restart you or do you have it?"

[Rory Archer]

"No, I think I've had enough getting shot for one day." He said, nursing his wounded pride. He headed back up to the control room, his shots still stinging.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"There are probably ice packs in the medical kit on the wall." She offered, pointing to said kit without looking up. "There was at the Institute."

[Rory Archer]

"It's fine," said Rory, "Just a few bruises, mostly pride." He took a seat and leaned back, tired and sore, "Not very forgiving is it?" he said aloud, pretty sure Chisaki had been watching.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Not in training mode, no. You can alter the program to be easier, but if you are looking to get onto teams I would not advise that."

[Rory Archer]

"Not looking to join any teams, just looking not to get killed when it inevitably drags us into it." he said, more or less repeating what Haley had told him about students getting dragged into the thick of team troubles.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Perhaps I will look you up for my team then." She muses. "If it happens."

[Rory Archer]

Rory rolled his eyes a bit and gave up. Chisaki didn't seem to be listening, which he guessed by now was part of her nature. "You want to give it a go?" He offered, slightly curious about her powers and how she would handle herself in comparison.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Not really, no." She smirks. "Not all mutations work well with the Danger Room. If I have to train in there again I will, but I am not interested in getting turned into o-mochi."

[Rory Archer]

"What do you do?" he asked, if she was looking to form a team, but her powers weren't offensive, he wondered what she could do.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Terra-kinesis." She answered. " The room can be programmed to respond to me, but it does not feel the same. I do not think I could explain it to someone who summons instead of bending."

[Rory Archer]

Terra, latin for earth, so she could control earth. He could see where it was much more likely that she would be suited for a team, not much a person can do if the ground beneath their feet is attacking them. "Like an instrument that is out of tune?" Suggested Rory, familiar with having to conduct a room, if someone was off it didn't feel right. He imagined that was probably what is was like when trying to conduct an element that was not really your element.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Maybe, I do not know about music like that." She shrugged, English being her second language showing a bit. "I enjoy listening to it." She offered as a continuation.

[Rory Archer]

"Ok, um, like...." said Rory, trying to clarify, "your trying to guide something but it doesn't want to cooperate despite trying to?" he said, trying to break it down into terms she may understand. Of course he had no way of actually knowing if it were comparable or not, controlling an element may well be very different. He could produce and control his stardust, but he wasn't sure if that fell under the same type of classification, since he wasn't sure what his stardust was made of to begin with.

[Chisaki Watanabe]

"Mmmmnoooo.

It is more like it's too pliable. To willing to give, like a well oiled machine. Which it is.

Earth is not to forgiving."