25 Danger Room

Author Note: Can somebody for the love of god tell me where to find a beta ? Are they unicorns ?

Where can I find one ? 60% of my time is spent editing, rewording and restructuring what I write. Is it normal that I am starting to regret not taking my writing classes seriously back when I was in college. Is this my punishment for playing hooky ?

Question ?

Is my writing improving at all or are all my sad pathetic attempts at improving ending in failure?

Please, Enjoy

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As it turns out logan was avoiding me out of guilt. He explained it to me after class and said that it's been a long time ever since he lost control like that. I told him it was alright and that part of the blame falls on me for using telepathy in the first place, but luckily he doesn't remember much of the fight, well except for him losing control that is.

I guessed that's as good as news as any, and told him he can make it up to me over a few beers sometime, he agreed but warned me not to tell anyone since he's technically a teacher.

I still find it ironic that he's a history teacher, although he lived through a lot of it. I am not sure how much of it he still remembers after all the experiments done on him.

He also doesn't remember the whole stinger thing, which is good, since I can't keep explaining away random powers popping out of my ass. I mean I can give a bullshit explanation about my enhanced durability, strength, and speed and say it's due to my telekinesis.

I can just say, that I can envelope myself in psychic energy and enhance myself, but stingers? That's a bit harder to explain.

The next day, when I woke up I had Sophie hack into the X-mansion's system. I hadn't been idle for the short time I had been here in the mansion. It took a while since I didn't want to alert anyone to my presence inside their system.

Unsurprisingly the mansion had an underground hidden base. I suspect that's where the good stuff is being kept.

I also managed to get the plans of their secret underground base, and strangely I was starting to feel a strange mixture of excitement and satisfaction, over my newfound kleptomaniac tendencies.

I mean who could resist all the goodies that people just leave lying around. The main difference I found between the Dc universe and the Marvel universe is that if you're willing to work hard enough for it (aka steal or be a super genius). Even a relatively normal person has the capacity to grow in power and rival literal gods.

Granted most of the good stuff is under heavy security or top-secret, but nothing a liberal application of hacking and using the mirror dimension, won't solve.

I wonder, why the Ancient One decided to depend on the Dark dimension to stay immortal. I can be immortal by tomorrow if I wanted, granted it would come with some flaws and won't be true immortality as I can still be killed, but If we are talking about stopping the aging process, it's not that hard actually, there are plenty of serums and artifacts she could use.

I suspect she isn't aware of how much science has progressed in recent years. Which gives me an idea.

I have been thinking about how I should approach the subject of her giving me access, to the Time stone and even some of the more forbidden rituals and magics. Maybe an offer of immortality instead of relying on the dark dimension is enough to persuade her.

I mean I already have some of Logan's blood and tissue samples. I am sure I can come up with something, not to mention my plans regarding the Extremis virus, now that I think about it I should probably accelerate those.

The good news is I think I found the location of the Danger Room. It's located in the sub-basement of the mansion's west wing. It was high on my priority list next to gaining access to Cerbero and the medical labs, where I suspect they already have genetic samples of the students.

Having superpowers is cool and all, but knowing how to apply your power during battle and actual fighting is a different story. Unfortunately, I couldn't use my powers while training with Shang-Chi, because at the end of the day he was still human.

This issue became even more apparent after my fight with logan. If I ever face an opponent who is physically superior to me or even one with a crazy healing factor like Logan, hand to hand combat becomes less effective. So, I need to learn how to fight more effectively especially in mid to long-range combat.

The answer to all my troubles is hard-light holographic technology. Using advanced technology, the Danger Room could give the illusion of being many times bigger than it actually is. Anything from gravity, heat, humidity, or texture can be manipulated from the control booth.

The Danger Room was programmed with a prime directive to train the X-Men without ever killing. Which I plan to change when I build my own. I get to train my Spidey-sense and experience more realistic situations. Plus it's called a Danger room. I mean what's the point of having one if there isn't any actual danger.

I sneak to the west wing of the mansion after leaving an illusion of myself sleeping in bed. I also made sure to set up a few alarm spells to alert me if someone tries to enter my room.

Luckily I don't have a roommate yet, but he's due to arrive tomorrow. Which gives me only tonight to sneak in without drawing attention to myself. I can always come back to the underground base using a portal, but I need to at least go there once, hence the sneaking in.

I quickly arrive at my destination and pull out the schematics Sophie obtained. I find a hidden entrance that seems to lead downstairs. It asks me for a password and an eye scan to enter.

Doug:" Sophie how much will it take you to get through this door" I ask.

Sophie:" Approximately, 15 minutes " she answers.

Doug: " What? why is it so long? " I ask surprised.

Sophie:" The security system was more advanced than predicted, some of the coding used is almost on par with mine." She says.

' Well, that's troubling ' I think to myself.

Doug: " Don't bother I have an easier solution" I say confidently.

Sophie: " I've run hundreds of simulations, and found this to be the fastest and most discreet solution" she says in a confused tone.

I then discretely enter the mirror dimension and proceed to curb stomp the door using my enhanced strength. The door surprisingly takes a few hits without breaking, so in response, I turn on my [Lightning Chi mode] and kick the door down in one hit.

Sophie *Silence*

Doug " What? Did my brilliance shock you into silence" I ask jokingly.

I am met once again with silence and after a few minutes, I was surprised to find that Sophie had actually shutdown and was rebooting.

' She's probably just speechless and can't compute my superior display of intellect and decided to reboot ' I think to myself as I am walking down some stairs that lead to the Danger Room.

I finally arrived at an overhanging control booth, which was used to manage the room's mechanisms and to also oversee the exercise, while ensuring the subject's safety while training.

I then connect my watch to the Danger room's mainframe and wait for Sophie to download the room's schematics and scenarios used in training. I was also surprised to find archives containing videos of various training sessions and personnel files detailing information in regards to combat ability, threat level, and even a psychological analysis of all the participants that may have used the room at one point or another.

'That's some dangerous information, especially in the wrong hands. Why the hell would they keep something like this on archive. They almost seem like threat level assessments' I wonder to myself.

As I am finishing up and hiding any tracks I left in the system, I suddenly hear

" Who are you ?"

I turn around surprised thinking I have been had, and find nothing behind me. I examine the room thoroughly and even cast a few detection spells.

I find nothing around me and start to wonder if I am hallucinating or something. I then hear

"Are you going to ignore me too, like he did ?"

This time I am certain that the voice is real.

" Where are you I can't see you " I yell out.

" I am right here " I hear.

" I still can't see you. Can you tell me who you are at least " I ask, while still trying to find the voice's source.

" Doug, my scans detected that the voice is coming from the room itself" Sophie warns me quickly.

I then, hear the voice again as it says

" I am Danger "

(Chapter End)

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