Mr. Proudfoot smiled to himself. He had indeed answered her question just vaguely. Oh well, this would be an interesting set of strands for her. He watched several possible futures melt away into the grey void. He would have to notify the principal though. There had been an intruder, kind of. Proudfoot hated psychic ability users, not in a want to kill them way, but in a frustrating hard to tell who the projection belongs to way. It wasn't an object he could focus on, only a dim echo held in an object. Proudfoots ability to see time wasn't all encompassing, sure it was like watching 100 channels on tv at the same time, but there were hundreds of thousands of channels playing at the same time, and left over psychic energy disrupted his view on objects or people they had affected. He had an idea, but only one of a few dozen possibilities at the moment. Several notable entities might have sought out the girl, she had some of the worst possible short term futures of any of the students here.

Proudfoot made it to his room and sat at his desk. He wrote a quick memo and tagged it as important but not to be activated by ESSI until the Principal specifically asked about the locker room. 'Please speak to me before punishing the student involved in the locker incident, more happening than scanner will tell. -Proudfoot'

Misty was bored and went to find Melody. There was still somethings that bothered her about that girl. Fragments of echoes of memories. She stopped in mid flight seeing Melody. "Okay what the nut job doing now?"

"You hide behind a mask, at least I commit acts openly. So who is the scared one?" Melody relaxed a bit. No alarm was going off, so this Nightmare dude wasn't close enough to hurt her. "Stop mincing words. I was recruited to IFRIT and they will have me back once I am out of here. I will kill every last person that flies the pirate flag. Don't you dare use Samanthas image to play on me. You don't have to push me to murder and mayhem, you have to FREE me so that I can do so. Something isn't right about the bracelet. TCPD isn't afraid at all that I can find someone to break it. I am missing part of the puzzle. They know something about me I don't. So if you want my services you have to pony up some intel."

Melody would have no idea that Misty was listening in.

Nightmare brushed off her first comments having heard the spiel about hiding behind a suit enough times to recite each variation verbatim.

"Hmmm.. if they want you to remove the bracelets, then they want you to escape. You probably have a tracer implanted somewhere within you or worse they have someone specially trained to track you down. More than likely you're being used as an unknowing mole that will inform the TCPD all about IFRIT so that your 'allies' can be caught unawares. Of course, it's simply a theory.. "

He rubs his chin for a moment, contemplating something..

"You desire freedom? Very well. How patient can you be, Melody?"

Misty went over and kind of poked her finger into Melody's forehead. That was all that was needed to make a link. "Who you talking to? Your Imaginary fr..." And that was enough to notice Nightmare connection. "Oh Crap, who this guy? Some Doctor Doom Ripoff? Listen Melody if you want I can go get the big shots to run this guy off." A bit softly Samanthas...why does that sound familiar?"

The chunk of debris crashed into the holo-construct's back and sent it flying across the battlefield. At the same time, there was a ripple of motion behind Toni and another construct decloaked behind him. It slashed at his back with with a katana-like blade.

The sword-construct struggled against the hedge, but could not break free. It tried to work the blade around to where it could cut at the hedge, but smaller vines had immobilized its hand. With a chime from overhead, the construct vanished.

Before Féerique could even catch his breath, the brawler-construct came bounding over the hedge, its glowing foot extended in a flying kick aimed at Féerique's head!

"Okay look I'm not here to bother you. Well maybe a little, given I can't talk to you unless I'm kind of in your head. I'm so working on that by the way." She chose then she really would seek a way to be coperial. "I think I know someone that cares for you. Kind of strange really foggy memories and such. Anyway I wanted to help so here I am. Your past, secrets and what not I don't care really. After all I'm dead already so what if you go supernova and bla bla bla."

Since it was in mid-air, the brawler-construct had no way of dodging the branches as they reached up and yanked him out of the air. Once on the ground, it fought off the first few with raw strength and concussive energy punches, but there were simply too many. It couldn't fight fast enough and the branches began wrapping it up. In a last ditch, it brought it's hand together, all fingers except for the indexes interlaced and began what appeared to be some sort of meditation. It began to glow and a second later, an energy wave blasted outwards, destroying the hedge that was wrapping around it.

The construct moved away from the hedge and took up a fighting stance, but none of its appendages were glowing any longer. It had blown all of its energy on escaping the hedge. It seemed to study Féerique for a moment, then swiftly turned and ran off the battlefield. There was another chime and all of the holo-debris disappeared.

Janet's voice sounded over the loudspeaker. "Well done, Mr. Mercer. Your evaluation is finished. Who's next?"

Féerique returned the hug and whispered, "Good luck!"

Roxanne tapped her chin for a second, then typed in a several commands, made a few choices on menus, and hit Execute.

A street corner materialized on the battlefield, complete with cars, lampposts, parking meters, and signs. Two figures appeared at one end of the intersection, while Rosella was at the other. One of the figures immediately took to the air while the other manifested a rock shell and dove INTO the street.

Nightmare sighed, his hopes that Mel wouldn't be the typical teen obviously in vain.

"Let me put it in simple terms. I will free you from your bonds and remove you from this makeshift prison in exchange for service. Any vendettas you wish to resolve, the Nightmare shall assist you with as long as you are loyal to it. Now, do you accept?"

He shrugged and adds nonchalantly, "Or you could report to your captors like a good girl and be rewarded with even harsher restrictions."

"The type of service is whats in question. My loyalty can be bought, but that doesn't always mean I do whats asked how its asked. I have my morals."

Melody jangled her wrist again and frowned. She figured this Nightmare... god calling himself "the" nightmare, barf. Figured he couldn't tell the ghost was also in the room, but he couldn't tell if the ghost could tell that Nightmare was in the room. A very odd game of brain Chicken or something.

She hoped the jangle would tell Misty that she couldn't show her real power so she hated the idea of the danger room, and to double up as a mildly annoying action to "the" Nightmare.

"Well that sucks, tech came farther then when I had a heartbeat. Anyway I'm going to go watch them fall off on their behinds." She then broke the connection to Melody and looked at the door hearing a voice.

Toni spoke up. "You're not doing it just to be doing it, Connor. You're doing it so that when you [i]are[/I] doing it to help someone, they get helped, and not just amused."

Melody sucked her teeth for a second. "I'd put removal of the band at about..... 200k, and removing my profile from TCPD as a fugitive at what five, six mil worth of operations? I can deal with that. Throw in another two mil in profit for you since you need to come out on top, so Eight and a quarter. Who said math was an awful subject?"

Oh she couldn't resist having got back into the Danger room. She had figured out how to get past the annoying ward seemed given she got in once it recognized her and let her in a second time. Well anyway on to being an annoying tramp. "Natalia and Connor sitting in a tree! K I S S I N G!"

"What you going to do about it? Tell the principal?" She looked at the control room "HEY PRINCIPAL! I'M A BAD GIRL I NEED DETENTION!" Laughing she smiled "See I Might as well be a fart. Oh wait people hear those too."

Toni whispered, "Nice job. One down, one to go."

The geomancer charged directly at Rosella. Her first spell impacted and just seemed to bounce off as small crystalline motes in the construct's rock skin reflected the energy.

However, the construct did grind to a halt with the deployment of the fog. It swept at the fog for a few seconds, then raised one mighty leg and slammed it into the concrete. A shockwave traveled outward, cracking the concrete and causing it to thrust upward. Two seconds after the stomp, the construct spread its huge arms wide, then slammed them together to create a powerful concussive shockwave that blasted into the fog bank.

"Who what? Sorry wasn't listening did you say something. Don't matter. So I was snooping around the new kid, you know the one. Someone was messing in her head some fellow in a Red and Blue body armor with a Crowned Helmet of all things. I don't think she would take the bait he was offering her."

"Well Duh why you think I'm telling you that. Not like the Faculty can see me... maybe some of the magic teachers." Misty thought for a moment "Might be best if we don't let Melody know I blabbed. With all the super powered folk here and all this high tech equipment we could think of a story that's possible. Someone detected a presence or something. I know Melody's type, I was one and look where it got me."

"Weeeee!" A flying figure states, heading for the front doorways of the school, as they land it can be seen that their a light skinned male with semi short unkempt dirty blonde hair, deep sea blue eyes with sparkles of icy white dotted within. He is wearing a blank white T-shirt and blue denim jeans along with black sneakers. His nose is a little big and his lips are somehow, naturally, cherry red. His backpack seem to be filled with very large books, you can tell because his backpack is a little too small for some of them, despite it being a bit large. He is about 5'6 in height and is only slightly overweight.

His name is Magnus Tyrial, and he cares not for what others say or think of him, even if he is far too childish at times.

The geomancer construct struggled to make headway through the fog bank, taking great swings at the spirits as they danced around it and sundered its rock armor. But it's ability to see and hear were compromised by Rosella's confusion spell, so it stumbled back and forth. It finally collapsed to one knee as the spirits tore though the armor and began cutting into its holographic flesh. Exhausted from swinging at the amorphous spirits, the geomancer fell backwards with a thunderous sound and lay still.

With a chime, the construct and battlefield vanished. Roxanne's pleasant English voice sounded over the intercom. "Excellent, Ms. Burdelon. Please take your seat."

About the time the car had honked at the android, the tour had stalled in the sciences area. For nearly twenty minutes, Lexi's moms had been oohing and ahhing over the equipment, comparing it with what they'd had available down in Savannah. Then Marianne had gotten an odd look on her face, and asked, "Front hall! Lexi, could you tell ESSI what's in the number three package, and ask her to let us teleport it to the front hall?" She was already moving, and Millie and Lexi were right behind her. Lexi sent the inventory - an armored lab coat, multiview protective goggles, a belt with various multipurpose gadgets, and a first aid kit - to ESSI. The only thing she thought it likely that ESSI would object to was the sidearm, which had settings from an electrolaser that could deliver a jolt like a taser's at ranges of up to fifty meters without wires, up to a full-up particle cannon delivering about 5 megajoules per shot... "Leave the belt in the box when you open it, just give me the first aid kit and put on the coat and goggles." Marianne continued the briefing on the way.

They came into the front hall as the android's fists lit up, and Transport Box Number Three materialized behind Alicia. Millie followed Marianne's advice, and Marianne started checking the injured student. Lexi stepped up next to Alicia, her force field up at maximum density, and cut loose with a directed EMP blast. She didn't expect it to work, but if the maker of this android hadn't been paranoid enough, he might have skimped on the milspec RF shielding...

Marianne wasn't sure how good ESSI's sensors were, so she called out, "ESSI, this student has a concussion, maybe a fracture. I can't do much for him."

Meanwhile, Millie, having donned the labcoat and goggles, noticed the force field around the android. "Oh, a copycat! Two can play that game!" Her accent was drifting south. She removed a sensor pack from the belt, being careful not to let anything else show above the top of the box it was in. Then she closed the box and began scanning the android.

Lexi's force field flared, and the energy heated up the shoulder where the beam struck. Most of the heat flowed into her coolant reservoir, where the temperature rose slightly. Her hand shot out, trying to grab the android's wrist as it tried to punch Alicia. "Why do you attack? Is your soul chained?"

A third machine arrived, in truth he was just driving past but ALX-32 stopped the store van and stepped out. Technically he was standard issue, though he did made a few modifications to himself. There was no desire, will, or even mild interest in joining the battle he just watched.
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Pain! Fear! For a moment Misty world spun reflections of memories of being abused, then she shoved them down. The pain came from somewhere else not from her past. "Someone's hurt at the front hall. BAD!" She rose up and flew zipping past people and walls and often through them. Coming to the front she saw the fight between machines. "Machines have no souls" Well clearly that was the bad one.

It was right really she didn't think she could affect it by trying to possess a machine. Would that be possible? Oh well she could affect things around her so she focused and a chunk of stone lifted into the air and flew at the android. To anyone without spirit sight the rock just lifted up and flew of it's own accord.

Confused with the lack of humanity, he decided to go inside and find out where everybody was, he had already guessed they were in their classes. As he pushed the door open, he could finally see some people in the front hall with him. "Hey people, am I late?" He said with a large grin.

Hearing the noise, Magnus turned around, he looked at the car and it... fell straight down, crashing into the ground. "Oh I love my Gravitic control powers." He states as he flies out the door to see what caused the car to fly.

After about 3 minutes of doing nothing Magnus's grin turned into a scowl. "Isn't anybody going to finish this thing off?!?!" He kept waiting for the cat to punch the creature to death.

The chunk of stone Misty threw bounced off of the android's new force field, as it then turned it's torso to face CyberKat. His arm produced an energy shield as well and it used it to block her attack. It's feet apparently were sinking into the ground like quicksand, though it was soon thrown out by Alicia's sonic boom, but stopped midair due to Lexi holding it's wrist and it crashed into the ground without flying too much of a distance. It's arm dispersed into a cloud of nano-machines so Lexi would lose hold of it's wrist, as it then reformed after it got up.

The android apparently could see all around it due to being made out of nano-machines, as it had copied Alicia's sonic boom. The android formed a second pair of arms, though making it shorter as a result. It ran towards Alicia as one arm unleashed a sonic boom at her, two of it's other arms shot EMP blasts at Lexi, while the last arm shot out, much like Lexi's arm erlier, towards CyberKat to punch her in the abdomen, the energy shield around it's arm still up. "It is a fact. Machines have no souls. Only living things can posses them." It said while fighting. The android seemed to be good at multi-tasking.

Sick of waiting, Magnus began to apply greater force to the creature, which was now knee deep in the earth. It began to crack all over its body as gravity was tearing it apart. "If you want anything done around here, apparently you do it yourself."