Useful exercises (open)

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:54 pm

Fucking. Useless. What's. The fucking. Point, Alex thought with each punch to the holographic target. The sound of the impact was, at the very least, impressive, but he seemed to be more venting than training at the moment.

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by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:57 pm

"Hey" Christie said "Mind if I join in the hitting things?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:58 pm

Steel eyes glared over at her, then he turned back and punched the target again. "Yeah, why not," he grumbled in his metallic voice.

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:04 pm

"I figure that if I hit something hard enough, maybe I won't feel so useless."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:14 pm

"Oh please. At least you don't have to take 'I'm so useless they have to tell me how to be a mutant' class," Alex grunted, smashing the dummy in the head.

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:24 pm

"I took that class." Christie said "Its no big."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:45 pm

"Just fucking useless crap," he grunted as he gave another hit. "Smiling and nodding at me and pretending I'm not wasting their fucking time."

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:56 pm

"At least you were there when my brother was in trouble."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:01 pm

"Yeah, and fat lot of good I did." He gave the dummy a bone-crunching punch. "I'm good for one fucking thing: hitting stuff. And with Brigid there, I'm not even good for that."

by **Christine Bowen** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:14 pm

"Ger better." Christie grunted, punching a target

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:49 pm

"Oh fuck you," Alex growled. "How the fuck do you get better when you don't even get time to figure out what's going on. We don't even get to see things before Brigid knows exactly where to hit things and what to do because she's the magic mutant fucking dinosaur slayer."

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:09 am

"So fucking what?" Christie asked "My dad was a freaking superhero, and now he's the guy that everyone in the world talks to when they want to know how a mutation works. How freaking useful am I when he's around? Or when my brother is?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:12 am

"Beats me. You're the one that's too good to do anything with us," Alex grunted as he punched the target again.

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:21 am

"Where the hell did that come from?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:29 am

"Well, maybe if you weren't always being too good to spend any time with us you would've gotten grabbed with us." He scowled. "Shit, that sounded lame even for me." Frustrated, he punched the dummy hard enough that the head caved in. He scowled and went to move to the next dummy.

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:08 am

"None of you guys want to hang out with me."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:15 am

"Oh what the hell are you talking about!" Alex shot at her. "What, Kay doesn't want to get snuggly with you, so the hell with everyone else?"

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:17 am

And that was when she punched him.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:27 am

Thankfully, if anyone wouldn't be hurt by punching a steel statue, it was Christie. And if there was anyone who could take a punch from Christie, it was Alex. He shook his head as he looked up from the floor at her, then scowled as he lunged to his feet. "Truth hurts, doesn't it!" he snapped, throwing a punch in return.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:58 pm

Christie took the hit, and then followed up with a punch to his gut, putting all the power she could behind it.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:12 pm

Alex learned an interesting thing in that moment: things didn't hurt when he was made of metal, but he could tell that it'd hurt later. Shards of metal flew from his mouth in the place of blood, and his stomach deformed under her fist.

Alex lunged at her, trying to get a grip on her before she could hit him again.

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:24 pm

Christie tried to leg-sweep him in response.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:29 pm

Alex let her try, but even a super strong leg sweep wasn't very effective against something that had gravity on its side. He made a grab for her, wondering how his would change if he could lift her off the ground.

by **Christine Bowen** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:03 pm

Christie tried to dodge the grab, and if, she was lucky, get another punch in.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:50 pm

Alex actually walked into the punch in order to get close enough to grab her. this is going to suck when I go flesh again...

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:22 am

Christie tried to pull away but his grip was like, well, steel.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:03 am

Alex yanked her up, reaching down to wrestle her into the air over his head, for once thankful for the whole super-strength bit. Now why can't it be this useful in real goddamn life?

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:15 am

"Put me down!" she yelled, trying to kick him in the face

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:24 am

"Or what!" Alex shot back, not really caring to move his steel face away from her bare feet.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:32 am

Christie's only response was to yell "SON OF A BITCH!" kicking someone made of metal hurts when you have bare feet

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:35 am

Alex thought about throwing her, but the fact that he almost asked if that would hurt her sort of hit home that he was pretty much done fighting her. "You done?" he asked, looking up at her hesitantly.

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:30 pm

"Yeah, I'm done." Christie said, glaring at him.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:35 pm

Alex set her back down, then sank down to the floor, trying to focus on what to do about the big gaping dent in his chest that he was pretty sure wouldn't translate well into a fleshy form.

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:40 pm

"You gonna be ok?" Christie asked, looking at the dent.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:41 pm

"I... think so," he admitted. "Just... never dealt with this before."

"I... how about you?"

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:42 pm

"I'm ok." Christie said "My foot hurt like crap, but I was close enough to the ground that it isn't busted."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:47 pm

"Yeah, but I didn't think I was hurting you when I was hitting you," he said. He seemed to wince as he tried to control the flow of the metal in his body. "Computer, give me a two foot cube of steel. Real, not hard-light."

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:48 pm

"I felt it." Christie said, trying to sound encouraging.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:55 pm

Alex waved a hand before he reached for the cube that was delivered to him by the Danger Room. "Yeah, and I could've just held you up there and made you feel it more. I figured I'd hurt you enough though." He made another face as he drew the steel in. "Sorry," he grunted as his chest started to fill out back to its normal shape.

by **Christine Bowen** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:59 pm

"Its cool." Christie said "I had it coming."

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