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No Time for Tears; TAG: Jean, scott maybe.
Topic Started: Jun 7 2008, 08:30 AM (239 Views)
Kim Parker
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DATE: May 9th
TIME: 7:00pm


Kimberly had taken to Training in the danger room every other day. She mad sure she scheduled it, extra training rounds so she could press the way she wanted to fight into her training regimen what had been overwhelmed by the 'SX curriculum'. Her lyrics were getting a little darker, but she was using them to time her combat and abilities. She had to focus her self, pull as much H20 from the air as she could at a time, push herself harder and harder.

The Danger room was just a Mirrored floor, mirrored walls, and Mirrored ceiling. Kimmy had been using her choreography from music videos to fight up till now. But it wasn't like she was still doing videos, it wasn't a option anymore. She needed to branch out, so she decide to mix TaeBo into her fighting.

She was surrounded by Combat Droids, and beside her was a Fountain, she had programmed it into the simulation so she did not do any more damage to the piping in the school. She had virtual water to control, which was a little easier than the real stuff but not by much.


Originally Kimmy had tried going with those tacktastic uniforms, but they were so ugly and constricted her movement that she just had to alter them. so she felt confident when she fought. A skirt gave her the familiar sensation while she danced that she had grown to associate with dancing, she moved with more confidence and it was also one of the few times she was happy anymore. In the dangerroom smashing bots. She had not cleared the alterations with Scott or Jean and it was pressing down on her. Nightmares and guilt plagued her and the only way to rid herself of those feelings were the Danger Room, training to make ShadowX happy.

Love Sick Dreaming when we first met
You gave me the world with no regrets
I diddnt think Nothing could get in my way
But I was young, oh what did I know?


Kimmy did a spin and thrusted a fist out wards, shooting three geysers from the fountain as a ball of water from the air charged above her head. The geysers impacted with three droids then she did a spin and the ball separated into seven separate Geysers, these froze as they hit the droids, scattering robotic parts in their wake.

One Mis-step and I am on my own
You washed your hands clean of me
Right Or Wrong


She placed a foot back, did a fake slip which she used to move smoothly into a kick spin that sent a flood of water from under her feet towards the remaining droids. As the water spread it began to freeze, the droids couldn't stand up straight and began to slip and fall one after another.

Behind closed doors however
I was all broken Though
Trying to keep it out of the sight of the world


She melted down the ice and clapped her hands, it transformed into spikes and refroze, striking down the fallen droids before Kimmy fell on her butt from exhaustion. Tae-bo was meant to be a work out after all. IT pushed her a little harder.

She decided to finish singing the rest of the lyrics she had wrote for her sessions.

I couldnt say a million miles that I have gone
Signs that say to just give it up
just tear me down or lift me up

No Time for Tears.
No Time for Tears.


She had stopped her session and already the feelings of guilt were setting back in and she was actually crying. "I miss my mommy."

SONG: No Time for Tears, Ashlee simpson
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They were in Cerebro, their combined mind utilizing the device in ways that were more efficient, less wasteful that ever before. Jean's powers now filtered through Scott's highly organized mind. Rather than running on emotion or hunch, they worked together to make the search run as orderly as possible, one step logically leading to the second. It was not as it had been before when the searches took the shape of spiderwebs, branching in spirals and twisted connections. It was also less strain on them both, their mental powers and conjoined abilities beginning show on them, not aging them, but streaking white through Jean's hair, silvering Scott's temples. They looked.... tired, and disconnected, as if it was becoming harder and harder for them to focus on the external stimuli, their plans for the saving of the mutant race drawing inward, power based, mentally plotted.

But they had brought themselves from the seclusion of their room, to use this equipment to amplify their powers so that they could scour the minds of the population for information about those who had died in the Brimstone explosion. They had a plan to show their students, and show the world that they were not here for War, but to demonstrate Peace and Unity. Perhaps this gesture they were to make would make sense of what they were doing.

Because if it didn't... their patience was not infinite.

She tired soon, her strength considerable but not unending, and they turned to go back to their room, so that she could lay down, and he could put to work what information was now stored in their collective consciousness, when the wave emotion from the Danger Room alerted them. They didn't have to talk about it. One of their students was in distress and that was distressing to them.

They keyed in the simulation override command, and the room faded around the girl on the floor. The door opened with a soft swish, and the pair entered the room, Jean first. She was the emotional quotient, the feeling part of the being they had become. She was the one more affected by the girl's tears. ::Mazu,:: they said, wrapping her in a telepathic embrace so that her emotions did not flood out and overwhelm them, ::Why are you crying? What's wrong?:: It was not a harsh question, despite the uniqueness of their new speaking style. They were many things, now, they were different, perhaps... but the safety and the happiness of the children was still their number one priority.
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Kim Parker
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"I...I guess I have been afraid of this moment." Kimberly straightened herself up. She wiped her eyes and gave her charming smile. She had not been able to spend much time with the old Jean when she was new to the school. But it was the first kind face she had seen since she walked on water. The first face she saw when she came to the school. She had for sure felt kindness that day. "The Harsh words I said when things first changed, then I modified my uniform, I continue to question what goes on in the school now, and like....The more I question. The more I try to retain myself. The more afraid I become. The harder I train."

Mazu stretched out her hand and not from the fountain but from thin air, a gallon of water pooled together in a ball. "I took the advice Scott gave me once. Focus on my biggest weakness, pulling water from the air. I have been working hard to just get strong enough to pull this ball."

"And Even now, with you here. All I want to do is get stronger. Because no matter how good I get, I cant shake the feelings that I am not worthy to wear my uniform the way I do, or even be the old Kimberly. Like...Mazu is more important than Kimmy."

"I am coming now, what is done is done"
"Crazy Cycles going on. Time to get up"
"No time for tears, No time for tears"


Kimmy sang the last few words to herself as encouragement. She was terrified of Jean right now, she had modified her uniform, admitted to having disloyal thoughts, and she had heard about what happened to students who acted the same way. But since April 12th, she had spent every night trying to remind herself: 'no time for tears'.
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They listened to her rambling speech, their powers continuing their soft caress of her mind. She was young, shallow and she didn't understand. She didn't understand what was happening here. The poor child. The poor pampered princess, who had never suffered, never had anyone tell her no. ::Mazu is Kimberly,:: they told her. ::There is no division, no difference. Humanity would tell you there was, tell you that you can't be Kimberly Parker if you can mold water into a ball and juggle it in your hand. That's what we're fighting, what we're trying to stop. You're a mutant, Mazu, Kim, Miss Parker, and as a mutant you are the enemy to them. Continue to train, continue to stand firm in the Dream, continue to become what your potential says you can be, and you'll understand that we're stronger together than we are separately.::

They lift their heads in identical motions, and with a flex of their shared telekinetic powers, a scarlet blast comes from Scott's eyes and the energy is molded instantly into a sphere ten times the size of her water ball.:: Together, united as one, we are stronger than any one of us solo.:: Another flex and the red light streaked out and shattered her water globe. "You don't have to lose your identity to become what you need to become. You simply have to realize where it is you fit in. This is not a Dream for us and us alone. It is a Dream for all our people, the children, all of them. You were a celebrity. Now, you have a chance to be a hero. We've begun clearing the deadwood so that you and all that come after have a clear path. Do you understand what we're saying?::

They looked at her modified uniform and they said, ::You've modified your uniform and that is against the rules, but you seem to have forgotten something. We're not ogres. We don't impose rules because we want you to be unhappy. We are trying to promote that same unity of spirit, that same strength as a team, as a people with the same dream of peace and security. You've been punished because you must understand that there is a need for discipline. Humanity thinks they are above us. There are mutants who think we are above humanity. We believe we are equals, and that means all of us must begin at the same place, and earn our privileges.::

Looking at the girl, they wore identical expressions of pity, ::We understand your need to be an individual, your need for creative expression, and as it is a core part of your being, we're not opposed to your modifying your uniform... as long as you get our permission. We're reasonable people. All you had to ever do was ask, to promise us that if we allow this small concession, that you would use this offer of faith we are showing in you to continue to grow, to continue to improve. For us, for your people, for yourself. Mazu... Kimberly... all you ever had to do was ask us.::
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::Mazu is Kimberly, There is no division, no difference. Humanity would tell you there was, tell you that you can't be Kimberly Parker if you can mold water into a ball and juggle it in your hand. That's what we're fighting, what we're trying to stop. You're a mutant, Mazu, Kim, Miss Parker, and as a mutant you are the enemy to them. Continue to train, continue to stand firm in the Dream, continue to become what your potential says you can be, and you'll understand that we're stronger together than we are separately.:: The sensations of being spoken to mentally, having her mind caressed, it placed a strange contrast against what was in her head and out around her in the danger room. She had never had any voices but her own in her head so she was finding it hard to find the line between her and Scott and Jean.

Then her display of her training, the gallon sized ball of water was burst by a optical blast from Cyke and jean. To say it kinda scared Kimberly was a understatement. She was almost convinced the burst was meant for her before it shattered the ball of water. "You don't have to lose your identity to become what you need to become. You simply have to realize where it is you fit in. This is not a Dream for us and us alone. It is a Dream for all our people, the children, all of them. You were a celebrity." Scott acknowledging her fame before she came to the school was very nice, it made Kimmy smile for a moment before Scott continued. Now, you have a chance to be a hero. We've begun clearing the deadwood so that you and all that come after have a clear path. Do you understand what we're saying?::


"Thats just the thing. I don't." She turned her back to Scott and Jean, and the fountain began to bubble and flow outwards, freezing into the shape of a Castle made of ice. "I don't know what to make of this new world. I sing, thats all I ever wanted to do. I find out I can walk on water, that I can dire geysers and swim faster than most, what am I supposed to do with the abilities when I can hardly bring myself to fight my teammates in our danger room sessions?"

Kimberly got to the part of the conversation she was dreading the most. Discussion about her rule breaking. Things like, rules are in place for a reason, you could have just asked, we do these things for a reason...blah. Scott and Jean sort of sounded like parents who were about to discipline a mis-behaving teenager. It made Kimmy miss her parents even more than ever.

Then They said things she haddnt expected. Things like understanding why she felt she had to be original, be creative. The repeated themselves about Kimmy just needing to ask permission and promising she would continue to do her best to improve herself. She turned right around and stared at Scott and Jean "Seriously? Thats all it would have taken?" Things like 'well then why have uniforms at all if its that easy to get permission?' went through her mind for a moment, but she quickly shook the comments off and nodded her head and stared at the ground, feeling bad about not asking first.

"Yessir. Yessmam"
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"Thats just the thing. I don't." She turned her back to Scott and Jean, and the fountain began to bubble and flow outwards, freezing into the shape of a Castle made of ice. "I don't know what to make of this new world. I sing, thats all I ever wanted to do. I find out I can walk on water, that I can dire geysers and swim faster than most, what am I supposed to do with the abilities when I can hardly bring myself to fight my teammates in our danger room sessions?"


ShadowX looked at the castle without really seeing it. It was pretty perhaps, but like Glass had learned, there were more productive things to be done with such abilities. Humanity would use every weapon in their arsenal to strike down Mutantkind, to hurt them, enslave them, kill them. How many mutants had had their powers manipulated, how many had had their lives changed... oh, the ice sculptures were pretty, but this was not a wedding or a banquet hall. They were wholly unnecessary.

::You misjudge yourself, Mazu,:: came their softly coaxing voice in her mind, caressing her with feelings of accomplishment, of pride. ::You acted when the Sentinels appeared to attack the children. Your powers would have saved many lives, and how proud we were to see that. You have it in you to be a hero, not just to those who hear your music, but to those who need you to live. When you were called upon to be more than a pop princess with a mind for pink prettiness and bubblegum sensibilities, you rose to the occasion and became a goddess of the elements. You are a mutant, Girl, and we are superior by evolutionary design. We shouldn't fear that, we shouldn't be made to fear. We should use that superiority to do what is necessary to bring peace to this world. We have the ability to shape the world as we see fit, where all mutants and humans alike live in harmony, prospering beneath the perfect control of fear and will. This is the Dream we fight for, not one of oppression and hatred, but one of the liberation of our kind.::

She turned her thoughts to her uniform once again, expressing incredulity that it was as simple as asking permission, and they nodded as if she was a slow child, a loved one, but one who was taking a little too long to understand, ::We've no desire to make you unhappy. It hurts us that so many of you don't understand that times are tough for now, but not forever. We realize things are changing, but when they go back to normal, they will be... a utopia. You can stand tall beside us in the new world, Kimberly. If only you bend knee just a little now.::
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All of what was being said, Every bit of the psychic persuasion, all of it was overwhelming Kimberly's since of what was right and wrong. She found it hard to worry about all the human fans she had still that might actually die in this plan of ShadowX's and was even bordering on going with it all.

There were two factors fighting inside her head now. What was right for mutants and what was right for humanity. Before she had been sure that song and unity could bring the two together, or even if that diddnt work that there had to be some other middle ground.

It wasn't but the day before that she had found herself listening for the rumors about the escape, even thinking about planning her own grand escape, though her grand escape turned more into a daydream about her Ju Ju bean and maybe even Jason having some sort of comedy adventure trying to bring humans and mutants together which comes to a climax in paris where Ju Ju and Kim have a duet on stage with Miley Cyrus.

Who ever said That Kimberly's day dreams made any sense?

But now, Something was different. She wanted to fight for this dream, she wanted things to be peaceful and she diddnt want to have to wait much longer for it. She shook herself and thought about her parents and smiled to Shadow X

We realize things are changing, but when they go back to normal, they will be... a utopia. You can stand tall beside us in the new world, Kimberly. If only you bend knee just a little now.::

First Kimmy laughed abit, "Just because things are changing, doesn't mean they haven't been this way before"

Bend Knee? OH, noooo they did not. Did they actually expect Kimberly to bow to them. For a small moment, things clicked back into place and Mazu was herself again "I know you don't actually expect me to bow...uh huh...aint going to happen."
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