X-men: New Beginnings-Chapter 2

Raptor Infestation
Training was on the agenda for the day and the team couldn't seem more excited to not have to worry about classes, even if it was for a short time. And to no one's real surprise the first one to be there was Garrett, who was changed into his suit and ready to go despite it being rather early morning where the others would have rather slept in but reluctantly were up. Though, they were dragging their feet as Violet and Lance were yawning as they came from the locker rooms, looking as if they had barely gotten out of bed at all. It took even Amethyst some extra time to just drag herself away from falling asleep at her own locker as she finally came out, ears and tail drooped in tiredness.

Unfortunately, one of the members was rather reluctant to even come out at all from the lockers, mostly because she hated violence and fighting. Carol had changed but she was refusing to leave the room in hopes Laurie would just continue on without her but when Laurie did arrive from setting up the course for them she took notice of the missing Carol, making her frown. "Where is she?"Laurie inquired as all four pointed to the girl's locker room. Sighing softly Laurie had expected this to happen and stepped around the corner, finding the young neyaphem female sitting on the bench, knowing she hated the thought of training.

"Carol,your going to have to join the team sometime. You just can't keep trying to hide like this." Laurie told her as she came to sit beside her. "But can't I just be support or something? I hate fighting and this is going against what I was hoping to avoid." Carol stated, obviously not liking the idea of ending up a fighter but Laurie gave her an understanding glance, knowing the feeling. "You know, I haven't been big on fighting either Carol especially not with using firearms. I dislike using them and learned to overcome that when I was with the Lights." Laurie explained to her, leaving out the part that she might have been somewhat influenced by Hope Summers but she never could say for sure. Nevertheless, Laurie knew the feeling but she hoped this might help Carol a little to try and give this session a chance. Still, it took her a few minutes to consider this before sighing, "Alright I'll give it a shot Ms.Tromette, but I still don't like it." She said as the two women stood but not before the base alarms started to go off, blaring loudly as a warning of several intruders was given out.

Coming from the locker room the other X-traordinary X-men trainees were looking a little uneasy and startled by the alert, this being the first time they had such a thing. "All of you stay here and stay together," Laurie informed them before she left, being gone in seconds with her transonic speed. This though did little to ease their worries as they all exchanged a glance, obviously wondering if someone was after them. "Maybe it's our "competition" coming to really set us straight," Garrett commented, his voice having a heavy Cajun accent to it. "I doubt it Garrett, this is suppose to be a non-lethal competition. Maybe some skirmishes but certainly they wouldn't go this far." Amethyst said, though couldn't put it past the one kid she met of attempting something.

"Why don't you try seeing if you can get a lock on a mind Carol? Might be our best chance to know." Lance suggested after they continue to debate other possibilities which all sounded plausible yet ridiculous at the same time. Nodding though Carol decided it was worth a shot.

Closing her eyes and resting her fingers to her temples Carol began expanding her psyche, searching every room she could within her range before briefly she caught their teacher's mind. What she found shocked her quite a bit but soon Laurie was just out of her range once more before Carol had to pull back. "You guys won't believe this, but we seem to be invaded by raptors, a whole group of them!" Carol said in shock and fascination since the Savage Land seemed the only place on Earth this could ever truly happen.