But first, she had to master her body again. She was stronger, faster and tougher... So much in fact that she didn't fully control her actions. An attempt to do a flying kick had sent her into a wall of the danger room. She could run faster than a car but could not turn or decelerate quickly enough to avoid crashing into obstacles. Her huge strength was the biggest problem : She had to watch herself constantly or crush inadvertantly something or worse, someone...
The evening after Sunfire told her about her father and Akane, she had tried to drink herself into insensibility. Her hyper-metabolism wouldn't let her however. Alcohol was eliminated from her blood faster than she could drink. That left training the only activity who made her forget for a while. And eating... She was sure she ate more than Ranma to maintain her body's insane activity.
Ranma had seemingly taken the news better than her and Kasumi but he hurt all the same. While his martial arts capabilities were second to none (in her opinion), he had the same problem as everyone else in this school : He had trouble controlling his powers. All his time was spent on devising new stunts with them. That wasn't easy to him, meditative control techniques didn't come to him naturally, blame his father and Anything Goes for that.
Still, he was making progress. He was flying much better now with Sunfire and Kasumi's coaching. He could modulate his laser attacks' intensity and precision somewhat. His latest obsession was to duplicate Cyclops' optic blasts since he learned they were photonic in nature. As for the Darkforce, he could form a bodysuit-like cover to protect himself and making himself unrecognizable. Teamwork training made him learn to erect walls to protect his teammates from harm and blanket an area with shadows to cover a retreat.
The teamwork practices were grueling affairs where the team had to face the danger room's many traps and opponents. Sometimes it was a fight with a faculty member. Nabiki would never look at a piece of paper the same way again after a bout with Yomiko 'The Paper' Readman or think of Kasumi as a defenceless woman.
Ranma, Millia and Kenshin had trouble with the notion of teamwork at first. They had always fought alone before. Fuujin was part of a two-person team before and adapted quickly. Nabiki and Mutsumi, who had never been in fights that much, had no problem with it. Strength in numbers and all that...
Kenshin, Millia and Nabiki (to her chagrin) were the frontline fighters who rushed to go into melee combat with their opponents.
Fuujin and Ranma were artillery and support. They weren't pushovers in hand-to-hand either.
Mutsumi used her telepathy to maintain a mindlink between the members of the team, enhancing coordination and communication to incredible levels. She could also deal with some problems brute force couldn't resolve. She had started to learn aikido but he had to be protected on the field for the time being.
And even if they weren't on the field team, the other students participated in the effort in their own way. Lain and Miki were scouring through the computer networks for information on their enemies, for example.
They had gotten costumes too. White bodysuits with red trim and a silver X on the heart, made with the latest armor cloth and the ever-useful unstable molecules.
But now, the Ekusu-Hito had to face their first challenge...
See other episodes by Jamil Nate
(Posted Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:22)
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