6 Practice makes perfect pt1
"Ooocccccuuuhhhh" I am sore all over. My bruises have bruises. I think maybe my muscles went on strike an hour ago cause that would explain why I haven't been able to move for the pass hour 'n' half. You're probably wondering how in the world did I ended up like this huh? Well, I had the brilliant idea to test all my new found powers by going up against all the X-men royal rumble style. Yeah yeah laugh it up but it sounded good at the time and some people even placed bets on me to win.
Before I get into all that though I need to talk about something that I found out about that you and I missed in all those novels and manga's we read. You remember when the MC's would go through a cultivation level breakthrough or an intense training session before a big fight? Well what you probably didn't notice or pay attention to, because I know I didn't, where those one or two sentences about the pain they went through during those breakthroughs. Well, I can attest, with only my month and a half of train that unless you're blessed with godlike recovery ALL training montages, grinds, cultivation session, or whatever you want to call it, that sh*t unbelievably hurts!!! Take the worst pain you ever felt turn it up x30 and endure it for hours then come and talk to me, I'll bring the drinks. Sometimes I get the shakes just thinking about how I first started testing my healing powers. I can't even remember how many times I used to read about how some MC experienced some pain on the way to a powerup and just brushed it off because it wasn't happening to me so no big deal. No, my friends, I am here to tell you I learned firsthand about all the blood, sweat, pain and hard work that goes into serious training. The only good thing was that now I knew the many different levels of pain and exactly how much my body can actually take. It might be wussy of me to keep going on and on about this but for reals, it hurt so bad!!
Anyway, it would take forever and a day to explain all the stuff I was working on so I'll just give you this breakdown and then go into details on the important stuff.
Aerokinesis
Where I'm at
• Windblades, Windblasts,
• Windwalls, Small cyclones, Hover
Where I want to be
• F5 Tornados, Far hearing, Voice projecting, Noise cancelation, Flight
Hydrokinesis/Cryokinesis
Where I'm at
• Blades, Blasts, Waterwhip
• Spinning water shield, Ice shield, Wall, Shape malipalation
Where I want to be
• Blood bending, Ice and water surfing (like Iceman), Golems, Electrolysis,
Terakinesis
Where I'm at
• Spikes, Blasts, Sniper shot, Bullet, Shotgun blasts
• Earth skin (although it kinda sucks), Pitfalls, Walls, Small structures, Shape manipulation
Where I want to be
• Metal bending, Build my own base, Quicksand, Metal skin, Toph's ability to sense vibrations and see with all the elements, Golems
Pyrokinesis
Where I'm at
• Blades, Blasts, Firewhip, Sniper shot, Bullet, Shotgun blasts
• Spinning fire shield, Wall, Small cyclones, Hover (Ironman 1), Shape manipulation
Where I want to be
• Max level the skills I have so far, Golems
Electrokinesis/Technokinesis
Where I'm at
• Sparks, Small taser, Control light switches, Control simple tech (calculator, RC car,) Type using my mind, force fields, minimum gravity manipulation, hear radio waves
Where I want to be
• Control complex tech, Mimic cell phones, Produce a holographic interface, full gravity manipulation
Vitakinesis
Where I'm at
• Small wounds, Bruises, Bone mend, Minor blood control, Pain relief
Where I want to be
• Limb replacement, DNA manipulation, Healing factor (Wolverine level), Minor shapeshifting
Photokinesis
Where I'm at
• Light sphere (different colors), Weak laser,
Where I want to be
• Absorb and control all forms of illumination (invisibility), Hard light (lightsaber), Holograms, Ride light waves (speed of light), Holographic golems, Multi spectrum laser
Telekinesis
Where I'm at
• Blades, Blasts, Sniper shot, Bullet, Shotgun blasts, Object manipulation (force push/pull)
• Shape manipulation, Light Armor, Spinning shield, Wall
Where I want to be
• You ever see that movie Lucy???
So that's a pretty good overview of where I'm at now. Over this past month, I helped all the active X-men by giving them either a different way to look at their powers or a glimpse at how strong I knew they really could be in the future. But there were some of the X-men I've really gotten close to as we worked on our powers like Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Jean of course, Polaris, Nightcrawler, Storm, Kitty, Forge, and Jubilee because they have powers similar to mine. We had a give and take thing going where they would help me and I would help them.
Cyclops really is a natural born leader, and he helped me with my Danger room sessions. He ran me through team missions and programmed some seriously intense street-level missions like a hostage situation gone wrong, or a shoot out at a hospital. He said that since I was determined to go it alone as a hero, he wanted me to be able to handle everything from a gas station robbery to a super villain's master plan. He also helped me get a handle on all of my various blasts and in turn with the professor's help, we got him on the right path to really controlling his. He didn't know it at the time but he has always had a low-level psionic power but due to the trauma of the plane crash when he was younger, he never gained full control of it. It sucked that during the process I had to tell him and Alex about their dad still being alive, but that he thought that they were both dead which is why he didn't come back for them. I told them that in a few years, we would go and find him together. (I needed to grab some gems for my big phoenix plan to work anyway so I figured a stop through the Shi'ar Empire should be no problem. Yep, no flags here!!!) Predictably they were stunned and wanted to go right away but I had to remind them that a. we didn't know exactly where he was and b. we didn't have a ride. Now that I think of it that's probably also why he kept giving me all those training missions from hell.
Iceman loved all of my thoughts on what we could eventually be able to do. He was really interested in the golem idea. We really wanted to develop some AOE attacks and I wouldn't mind some DOTs while we were at it.
I'm trying really hard not to squee right now as I tell you guys about how Beast and me are total BFFs, we even became Medical Bros. He really helped me get a handle on how my healing powers worked and gave me some pointers on how to rewrite DNA. Just as soon as I get a little bit more power, we are going to work on increasing my brain usage percentile which is critical to boosting everything about me and my powers. I already had a good idea of how to do that but with Beast's help, I was able to fill in some blanks and make the process much safer. He is also helping me with the programming of my medical nanites and I gotta say the preliminary tests are looking good. When they're finally ready I think I will sell them to Stark since he has the infrastructure and resources to get them out to the public quickly, not to mention his ties to the military and SHEILD who should be the top buyers. I'm having trouble right now getting them to run on bioelectricity so Forge is going to work with me on that.
On another note, Beast is one of the few people that I actually told about his different selves out there in the multiverse. Mainly because he is one of only Marvel character to actually have multiple versions of himself running around at any given time and I wanted to save him some heartache. Even though this MCU's X-men seem like they are at the beginning of their careers I can't be completely sure so I'm going to do my best to change or wipe out all together the stupid storylines that happen over the years before they can happen here. So, with that in mind, I spent a few days explaining to Beast why "Self-experimentation is Bad M'kay" and also how using time travel to fix bad life choices was an even worst idea. He took it in stride mainly because we knew we could use my nanites to rewrite/stabilize his DNA and get rid of his blue fur and more beastly features. Something that bugged every version of him.
Who knew that Crawler, Kitty, and Jubes were total hardcore gamers and Otakus. Whenever we weren't training, we were gaming or bingeing the latest animes. Ah, the fights we would have over which favorite character could beat the other's, good times, good times I tell ya!!
Eventually, I wanted to be able to teleport like Kurt, so me and him worked on understanding exactly how his powers worked and what his limits are. I told him about the different dimension that he goes through when he ports and to never ever try and stay in that dimension. We also had long talks about family and what actually makes up a family. I didn't tell him about Rouge or any of his other siblings but I did get him to see the X-men as a substitute for the one he thought he was missing.
Kitty was a strange mix of her evolution and older comic book personality. Kind of like the coolest big sister you will ever meet. It will probably be a very long time before I'm anywhere near ready to try and duplicate her powers so basically, we just worked on her being able to phase different parts of her body at the same time and also with the reverse of that by making things denser. Hopefully, she would be able to make herself invulnerable. I also told her she might want to study quantum physics but that she definitely needed to work on her mind palace and mind eye. So much has happened in her life that has been retconned that I didn't even bother to try and guide her, I just let her know that I would always be there for my big sister.
I'll be honest with you all, I've always had a little crush on Jubilee and if Jean wasn't here, I would have really would have asked her out. Oh well, at least we are really good friends and I got her to see that her powers are not as weak as she thought it was. Something that always bugged me about her was how she thought she was so weak but was actually one of the heavy hitters of the team. Since she has a fear of accidentally killing someone holding her back, we focused heavily on control and manipulation. By the end of the month, she was able to match me skill for skill in Pyrokinesis and was able to actually control when and if her plasmoids exploded. Now she wanted to work on a flying skill and making her constructs fully solid.
It says something about a man when all your kids are cool with crazy. I thank Lee every day that this Polaris was the eccentric "you can't possibly understand my coolness" crazy instead of the "you need to sleep with one eye open" crazy she is sometimes depicted as. Once I got over her quirks of which there were many, we became good friends. She taught me a lot about how to control gravity and I taught her how to manipulate tech, something she didn't even think she could do. I gave Lorna the same family speech I gave Kurt and forced her to do a heavy focus meditation and mental fortitude.
What can I say about Ororo that hasn't already been said? Put Machelle Obama, and Oprah together, and through in the diva power of Beyoncé's and you'd only get somewhat close to what Storm is like in real life. Once you meet her understand why they called her a Goddess. We spent most of our time just talking in her garden about any and everything. I'm telling you what she's really like but I'm not doing it justice. For example, we would be talking about nothing important and then out of nowhere she would drop these knowledge bombs that made you look at the world in a completely different way. Next, she would tell a joke so funny it would have rolling on the floor, and she did all this effortlessly. She became the big sister I never knew I needed. Ro helped me a lot with my AK and I told her she should really try to learn about her mystical heritage. She made me promise to get together every other week for brunch after I leave.
Last but in no way least we come to Jean. If I wasn't already in awe of her I would be worshipping her right now. This girl is a genius, and her raw talent blows me away. She is able to match everything I can do. Hell, she actually beats me in some of the stuff I taught her. Jean's philosophy surprisingly, is the same as mine so she made sure I built a solid foundation in Psychic powers. We started out with deep meditation and from there went on to building my mind palace. So far it wasn't much just a single room. It had a big desk that held the latest Alienware gaming desktop hooked up to a 60in Samsung LED. One side of the walls was filled all my favorite anime, and another was filled with mangas. The desktop was interesting to me because it had all of my memories all already filed and sorted. I'm wondering if it was like that because I already had an eidetic memory or because my brain always worked like a computer. While working on my metal shields I decided to take an idea from a fanfic I read once. The trick that person used was to not have shields at all, what they did was to take an invisibility cloak and drape that around their mind palace. That way they would have nothing for the enemy to attack or for them to have to defend. It's still a work in progress for me, I can't keep the invisibility cloak stable for long periods on time. Jean though thought this was a brilliant idea and stole it from me and was well on her way having her subconscious run it for her all the time with no problem. Oh yeah, that was another thing we were working on, mind splitting. Right now, I can only do 2 things at once and it takes me a min to really get going. Also, whatever I'm doing subconsciously I'm not even aware of til after I'm done doing it. Eventually, I want to be able to split my mind 6 times but I'm thinking it will have to wait until I'm able to use a 100% of my brain. I don't know how all those cultivators did but it took me forever to learn how to develop my mind's eye. I'm glad I did though or else none of my later plans will work. I will say this, it made being a doctor a whole lot easier. I could now just look into a body and see exactly where to direct my VK. I was very popular after all the training sessions. I'm a gentleman so I'm not going to kiss and tell but I will say that me a Jean went on more than a few dates and leave it at that. Yes, it's going a little fast but you got to remember that every day for a couple of hours we are in each other's mind with little to no privacy so… We are really close. I might give you some details later but don't hold your breath.
