Kinetic Training

[Blake Harlow]

Blake was still getting back into the whole being fully back at the school after having spent most of her time doing the easier of the jobs, which was recruiting. She still enjoyed both jobs a lot, but it was always easier for her to just know where there were other kids coming into their powers at, head out, pick them up, and then drop them back off to the school. Compared to being assigned students or having them sign up with you in order to train with their power. It was necessary either way because they could not graduate unless they could prove that they could control your power and keep them hidden. Thankfully the student she had been assigned was one of the newer students that had been brought to the school. "Saia Cypher..." Blake said out loud to herself as she adjusted her trainers uniform that she always wore when she was doing this job.

She knew this girl, not like on a personal level or anything, but she remembered the name and the face. She was looking through the folder she had been given about the girl as she sat lounging in a wooden chair, feet propped up on another. Yes, she had been the one to pick this girl up and drop her off at the school. She could not recall if they actually talked all that much on the trip. Blake normally went for the whole straight to business, silent type when she was working and wore the necklaces according to that. At the moment she was wearing another necklace but had the others on her, ready to change which one she was wearing if she needed to. For now she would keep the one she was wearing on as she munched on a cherry lollypop. How she loved cherry. "Bored...am I early?" Blake asked herself as she slid down in her chair as she was waiting for the student to knock or just walk on into the room. She had forgotten what time they were arranged to meet so she could have very well been early, or the girl was running late.

[Saia Cypher]

The morning seemed so rushed, classes after class from history all the way to understanding the factors of genetic mutations. None of it was hard for her to understand it just seemed so packed in that it made her head spin. She had been here for a short time now and already was getting the hang of things. So it was not all so bad, and most her free time was spent in the gym playing around and using her power to add to her already good skill set in gymnastics. She sort of wished the school had a program for it, but then again she was not sure how well she would fit in. In any case she would need to start working on following the schools rules in using her powers and understanding how it all worked. Which was going to begin fast since today she had a lesson in training with a trainer. Which was the one place in the school she had not yet known where it was. Which left her running around with her head cut off.

After some time she found the training rooms and had to look through the windows in each one to figure out what one was empty and the one she needed to be in. Of course she could have just looked for the number that went with the sheet in her hand. But nope that was just to easy. Once finding the room she saw the female inside, She looked like some one she knew. Then it popped into her head, it was the same female who had brought her to this school. If she was not mistaken her name was Blake. Opening the door she walked in slowly and made her way over to the woman and offered a small smile. She was a little on the late side which she hoped was not going to cause an issue. After all it was a huge school and getting to find random rooms was not the most easy thing to do.

"Sorry Im late..Kind of took a moment or two to figure out where the room was.." Smiling a little she waited on the woman to speak. And her eyes glanced around the room it was pretty neat inside all types of things to use in training. Though she was not overly sure what kind of training was about to happen. She had herd it was pretty rough at times, And it was a great way to understand your powers and get them out and into use. But hers she figured would be more hard to practice with since from what she noticed so far only worked defensively. Of course if she understood more about what vectors truly where it might help. Yes she could do research on them but for now she honestly did not want to. Plus what better way to learn then practice after all.

[Blake Harlow]

The school was large and Blake could understand getting lost in it, she had done so in the past when she went here. Yet she quickly found maps, asked questions, and did pretty much what she could to find out where she needed to be. That seemed to be ages ago when she was here as a student going to her first training session. She was twenty-eight, and would be twenty-nine within the year so it had been a while since she had actually been a student at the school. Either way, she was staff here and had been since she graduated, putting her power to the use to benefit the school as her way of paying them back for well taking her from being a tomboy, with hand-me-downs, and in a very crowded house. Sure she did miss her family, but she had not seen them since the day she was taken to the school. She did keep up with them in secrete and knew that all her brothers were alive and sort of had families of their own.

The door opened, breaking Blake's thoughts out of the past and back to the present where the girl she was supposed to be training finally was here. She was late. Blake was no drill instructor so she was not going to make Saia run laps around the room or anything. She remained in her slouched position in the chair for a moment as the girl spoke. Blake looked her over for a moment and picking up on her power. Vector Manipulation, interesting indeed. Blake thought to herself, tempted to go on ahead and copy the power herself to get an understanding of it herself, but she didn't want to rush into it. She first wanted to know a little bit about the girl, outside of what was on the papers inside her folder that she kept in her hands as she rose to her feet and walked over towards the girl. "It's alright; if I waited hours it would have been a different story." Blake pointed out, because if she waited an hour she probably would have ended up asleep or just left.

"Blake Harlow. It's nice to meet you Saia Cypher; I look forward to training you." Blake said doing the whole official introduction, even if she did introduce herself to the girl before. Back then however, Blake just used her last name since she did not just want people she was likely never going to see again to know her real name. It was just a thing with her. She offered out her hand to the girl so they could shake hands of course, then Blake would move to drop the folder onto the chair she was sitting on. "How have things been for you at the school so far?" Blake asked as her mind worked on how she was going to test the girls ability at first, based upon the information she had on the papers.

[Saia Cypher]

Saia watched her closely her eyes never leaving Blake. It was not that she did not trust her it was just she did not really know what to expect. After all Training sessions meant many different things. So letting her guard down was not in her best interest for right now. She thought for a moment and could not help but think back to how things happened when she learned about her powers. And that of course made her wonder how the recruiters knew as well.. It was a bit strange to be found only days after the power manifested. Shaking the thoughts off and returning her attention back to Blake she smiled softly at her. This should be interesting to say the least. "Thanks..it was my first time coming to the training rooms.."

When Blake introduced herself and extended a hand out she stepped back a bit and shook her head. She did not want to see rude but also did not want to see what happened if she actually made physical contact with some one right yet. Not having control over vectors seemed a bit on the dangerous side. But then again it was useful as well in some aspects. But in this case it was just annoying because she did not really want to offend Blake. The one person who could help her understand how to use her skills better might not be the best person to harm even if on accident.

Looking back towards her after a moment she smiled a little and put her hands inside her pockets. "Sorry.. I cant make physical contact.. And I have been well.. Trying to get used to being here I guess. A lot of new things and stuff to get used to.... Say nothing about learning that im not normal." She smiled a bit more and looked around the room trying to figure out exactly what the lessons would be like. She had to admit she was intrigued. And hoped she would get a good grasp on using her power with out it reacting on its own.

"My power tends to react on its own.. Any way.. um so what are we going to be doing?"
Of course she would ask the question after all she was not shy and was pretty blunt. That was one thing at least she had going for her. Some people did not like it while others did. Either way she was not willing to change for any one.

[Blake Harlow]

Saia had her eyes locked on Blake; she could see it and feel it a little bit. Blake was not really sure why the girl was watching her so closely, but at the same time she did understand. They were here to train and Saia didn't know what Blake had in mind so was just trying to be ready. Girl needs to take it easy. Blake thought to herself, but now was getting a good idea at what training method would work best for this girl. She started to bite and crunch the cherry lollypop she had in her mouth, wanting to complete eating her treat. It would not have been wise to train with food in your mouth, you could choke. Not that it was going to stop Blake from eating candy; she was just not going to eat something with a stick attached to it that could make chocking painful. She could answer all the questions Sais had floating around her head, but she was not mimicking such a power that would allow her to do that, so she didn't say anything.

"Ah, so I'm the first trainer you have had then. Wonderful." Blake said as a smile started to appear on her face. The first one to train with her. Blake thought to herself, knowing that sometimes students would be passed around depending on their abilities and personalities. Guy handled that part if a student did not sign up with a person or had a staff member assigned to a student. They all had their powers so it was important to have student placed with certain trainers to help with improving upon their power. With a power like Saia's it probably was good to put her with Blake who could copy her power and learn to understand it. Blake did find it interesting that the girl was afraid to shake hands. Blake figured the girl would have enough confidence in a staff member to be ready for what could possibly happen as a result of a student’s power.

Blake chuckled a little at the girl's words about not being able to make physical contact but then went on about how she was doing so far at the school. At least she was adjusting well enough so far, it seemed. "You can't make physical contact or you are scared to?" Blake asked with a raised eyebrow as she looked at Saia, giving a small nod at the girl’s words about how her power reacted on its own. "I have it on my files already." Blake stated as she ran her fingers over her necklace as she thought for a moment. Saia asking what they were going to be doing. "Well, I first planned on getting a handshake and seeing what you can do." Blake said, understanding Saia's want to get to things, but also had her way of doing things.

[Saia Cypher]

Saia did not really mind the fact that Blake was so strong minded. In fact it was rather interesting, and she figured that she had some unique power herself, to be a trainer it would have to mean Blake was pretty strong as well. If not how could they handle students? The idea of it was pretty interesting and it made her curious as to what her power actually was. Since she knew all about Saia how could she not help but be curious about the lady who brought her here and was not going to work with her on control and training her abilities. But oddly she did not want to ask, she preferred learning it in other means. After all she was here to train and if she knew everything that could be thrown at her then it would not really be so hard in a sense. Over all she just liked the idea of being surprised, so she buried the curious nature and turned her attention away from the thoughts.

When She asked if she was actually just scared of her power a small smile appeared on the girls face. She was not afraid of her power herself, but she was often worried about it harming some one else. Not even because it could hurt them but more because she was not the type to like being yelled at or in any kind of trouble. Though that was starting to change a little, She was getting more back to the rebellious teen ways of life. "Im not scared of it myself Im scared of what it might do to some one else..But if you wish to see what I can do then by all means I will listen.. After all you are the teacher.." A small smile formed again and she took the woman's hand, and firmly shook it. As she took her hand she could feel the vectors around her own body change sending a huge amount of force of momentum from around her and directly forcing it towards Blake, As it did so the floor beneath her would start to crack and shift around.

In seconds the vectors would become more direct and aim at Blake their goal of sending her flying backwards. And giving her body momentum with out her being able to prevent it. Though not directly aiming to move her body but to move what was around them in a aggressive manor. The amount of direct force being brought to motion being enough to send Blake flying backwards If she was not directly prepared for the force.

All the while of her power taking effect she remained silent standing idle. She did not bother with controlling the vectors just yet for now she would wait to see how Blake would react, this was perfect time to see what she would do to not be thrown backwards like a rag doll in the wind. After a few seconds
The distance between Saia and Blake would be increased as Saia moved rather above natural Speed back and returned her gaze On Blake. 

[Blake Harlow]

Blake was not worried in the least bit of what Saia’s power was capable of. It was good to get to see it or even feel it first hand for yourself sometimes. She was trained to handle all sorts of powers and had been trained in her own powers in the time she was at the school. She had her reasons for being confident but it was not something that came off as cocky. At least not in her mind. If someone else thought the opposite, well that was good for them. Blake did not care all that much since she was who she was and that was all there was to it. So long as she had her candy, necklaces, and people she could call friends she would be a happy and content Blake. Blake caught the small smile and knew that she was going to have to change up which dog tag she was wearing. At the moment she had her Yen and Yang dog tag on. The one she wore when she was more so laid back and calm; which she could not be in the case with this girl for training.

Saia explained how she was not afraid of her power but more so what it could do to others, which was still a fear of the power. A fear that she did not have control over her power in such a way that she was worried about the fact that someone could get hurt. It was a good kind of fear and the moment that Saia lost that fear would be the moment where she would continue to understand and gain control over her power. Her power would have control over her. There was a certain need for fear with a power in order to understand it. That was why Blake always liked that powers came with their own limitations and side effects, kept things balanced. “Yes, in this case don’t worry about my wellbeing.” Blake said, but that was not to say that she wanted Saia to outright just lose control or anything like that. She was prepared for whatever was going to happen. Feeling Saia’s power moving and going on the attack in such a way. Could not really call it going on the defensive if Blake herself was not attacking Saia.

Either way, Blake felt the force shoving her back and didn’t even fight it, allowing herself to be knocked back. Having allowed it to shove her and go with the flow she was able to use the force behind the push back to direct her weight that allowed her to do a flip in the air and land on her feet in front of the wall she would have otherwise been thrown into if she had not been ready. Interesting. Blake thought to herself, watching Saia’s moment and figured it was the help of her vectors that she was moving such a way, but she could not be sure at the moment. “Looks like we have a lot of work ahead of us.” Blake said as she removed her Yen and Yang dog tag and swapped it out with her dragon dog tag; this dog tag being more so when she need to be fierce and wise at the same time. She moved over to one of the chairs now that she had her feet on beforehand and picked it up.

“Ready yourself.” Blake said and tossed the chair at the girl, aiming it in such a way that if the girl’s vectors did not react it would go over her head so long as she did not step back to try and catch it or anything odd like that. She wanted to see the difference in Saia’s power when there was something that could be seen as an actual threat compared to friendly contact.

[Saia Cypher]

Saia watched Blake contently, she had to admit that her power was something unique as well. And soon as she moved and was able to gain balance and not be effected by the push a smile came to her face. So Ms. Blake could copy abilities. That was why she was not overly concerned, Not in that arrogant cocky way but in a way that showed saia that she did not have to be scared of making reactions of any type using her own powers. The way she moved and was able to come off so naturally really made Saia respect her, And gave her the idea that training would be a lot more fun then she had expected. Though she doubted it would be overly easy as well. "So you copy abilities.. You are really neat.. and seem very honest.. I like you hehe."

Saia admitting she liked a person was not something that happened every day, Since for the most part she never really even talked with other people. Her eyes watched as she grabbed the chair and spoke. She had not really expected that, and plus she was very curious as to what the dog tags where. But for now it looked like it was not going to be the right time to be asking question of it. As the chair came towards her her eyes watched it closely and soon as it came into a distance where it truly could be a threat the vector in which it moved shifted sending the chair straight up into the air and shattering into pieces. While the pieced began to fall back down she caught several of them in another vector and send them flying towards Blake much like a projectile being shot from a gun. The momentum and speed far more increased then would be expected and close to the rate at which objects where tossed from tornado's

She stepped back a bit and spun on a single foot sending herself into a back flip with a twist to the left as she landed several feet back and to the left of where she had been standing before hand. Moving into a more ready stance she turned her eyes on Blake and waited to see how her reaction to the Projectiles that where being launched at her would effect her. She did not want to actually harm her but figured a lesson meant also trying. So she was not just going to hold back either. Plus this seemed like it could be far more fun."If you want me to hold back let me know.. Im not overly sure what type of training this is or what your expecting so I am sorry.."She spoke quickly and in a calm voice, she was just being honest, since it all was true.

[Blake Harlow]

Blake had not actually copied Saia's power, but she could understand where the girl might have gotten confused by Blake's movement. Blake was just good in that way with moving her body and handing what the students powers would toss her way. She might have pulled something in her little flip, which was her own fault for not having stretched first. She would do it later when she had a moment, but for now she was focused on Saia. Ready to react in any way she needed to in order to protect herself and of course asses Saia's ability. "It’s more than just copying. I gain the ability, its weakness, and the more I use it the better I understand it." Blake explained to the girl, figuring she should be clear on her power. There was no need to hide it from Saia since she had a file on Saia's power and could tell what Saia's power was after all. There was no need for such secretes at those, even less when you went to a mutant school and were working with someone who was here to help you get control over your power.

Blake watched close at Saia pushing her abilities and grew a little concerned with hoe the girl was pushing herself. She admired the girl's enthusiasm to push herself to her fullest capabilities, but that came with its risk. Blake was not sure of the side-effects of Saia's power; she had not gotten down to that part in her reading. She did not want to deal with a girl having a seizer or blacking out on her if she could help it. A nose bleed or just fainting she could deal with. Not to say that she could not deal with the extreme ends of what a power could do to a mutant’s body, but she would just have preferred to not deal with them. Pieces of the broken chair were caught and thrown at Blake at an accelerated speed. She was just thankful that she was wearing her training gear so this was not going to hurt that bad. Not that she would stand in the way of any of it.

She did end up copying Saia's power now, in order to get out of the way. Using the kinetic energy down in her feet to push herself just enough to get mostly out of the way from the thrown wood chips. It hurt like hell to even use the power such a way, since again she did not stretch and her internal organs had not been ready for such an abrupt change in velocity. She still got nicked of course, a wood piece making a small tear in her uniform at the top of her shoulder. Blake smiled either way, understanding that this girl had promise, one she learned to be a little less enthused. "I don't want you to hold back per say, but I don't want you pushing yourself so hard. Nor do I think you are ready to have outright combat with me." Blake said with a small chuckle as she reached into the pocket of the uniform and pulled out a few gummy bears and tossed the cherry ones into her mouth, offering Saia some.

"Really I want to see you just how fast you can increase the speed of things without pushing yourself too much." Blake said, pointing to the speedometer she had that would clock the speeds of whatever crossed its path. Blake had various sized objects of different weights that she was going to have Saia test throwing, lifting up, and so on.

[Saia Cypher]

Her whole little act did not go with out taking a huge toll. She could feel her head pounding at this point and her focus was starting to get harder to focus on anything. She very well knew the outcome if she made another attempt like that again. And the simple idea of pushing herself was nice and all but she did not feel like a trip to the nurses office while passing out. It just was not her goal for the day. Say nothing about the fact her entire body now felt like it was being pulled in different directions. Shaking it off a bit she tried to offer a smile to Blake and offered her a soft nod. "I don't think I want to try that again any way.. feels like being hit by  truck.. which is not something I can say I enjoy.." She laughed a little and moved from where she was and took a seat on the floor crossing her legs under her and letting out some exercised breaths. This was the best way in which she had learned to get rid of headaches.

Looking back towards Blake when she mentioned the speed in which she could throw something she tilted her head a bit, it made her rather curious herself. But right now she was not sure how well she would do herself either. "Okay just one more moment.. these headaches kinda hurt.." As she spoke she pointed up towards her head first and then shut her eyes and rubbed the temples to sooth it a little. After a few minutes would pass she forced herself to stand back up and reached down into her pocket. Pulling out a small velvet pouch, she emptied the contents from inside of it which reveiled three silver stress balls made from metal. Rotating them in her palm she looked around for a moment and placed two in her left hand.

"Okay I think im ready.." She looked at the best place to aim so the radar could detect the item. And she took a moments focus to build up the energy, how she did so was by rotating the ball quickly around inside her palm letting the energy build up and then tossed it side handed towards the target. Focused on the ball she increased its pure kinetic energy to increase the velocity in which it was moving. And in only seconds it made contact with the concrete wall sending pieces of stone flying from its impact. and the metal ball fell to the floor with a soft clang.

Reaching up to her eyes she rubbed them with her free hand softly and let out a small yawn before looking back at Blake with a big smile on her face. She really was curious as to just how quick she made the little object move. By the impact it had made she guessed it had to be pretty fast, but not as fast as she could have before this all started. She was getting tired and that was something she knew she would most likely need to work on the most. She held a good grasp on how her power worked she just didn't have the endurance to keep it up for long periods of time. Which made a lot of sense really but also frustrated her

.

[Blake Harlow]

"I can’t say I have ever been hit by a truck, but getting hit by a car was not fun, so I think I can understand." Blake said in a friendly tone, having used Saia's power a little bit herself she could understand the feeling as he body complained about what she had done in order to avoid the little projectiles. She was an adult however and had copied a power similar to Saia's so it was not too much of a big surprise on her body. She watched closely as Saia moved to take a seat and did some breathing, assuming the girl was working on getting her body back at a relaxed state to calm down her side effects. Blake fully understood that and was fine waiting for the girl to collect her. Gave her time to full stretch out her body, working on her arms and legs first, and then her core. It felt good to hear bones pop and just the small bit of tension of the muscles pulling when she would stretch a certain way.

"Take you time and try this to see if it helps." Blake said as she walked over closer towards the girl and offered her a lollypop, at least something that looked like a lollypop. It was, just special made by Blake herself that had the whole candy thing to it but also a little bit of medication that helped with headaches. It was important to know how to at least make a few special treats for yourself that also helped with combating your side effects. Since Blake could not turn off her ability to sense other mutants power once she learned how to, she had to deal with a lot of headaches; at least once for sure a day. She was not big on medication so she found mixing it in her candies was a great way to 'trick' herself. Of course she was not giving Saia anything illegal and the lollypop was more candy then it was medicine so she was not worried.

She gave Saia space then and picked up the speedometer in order to be able to take a reading of which Saia could increase the speed of things to. Saia said she was ready and Blake gave a simple nod as she pushed a button and held the speedometer up to be ready for whenever Saia would use her power. She would have preferred Saia to throw it at the target, but the walls were built to be able to handle some crazy mutant powers so having placed a chip short of hole mark in the wall was not a big deal. Not enough that she would be worried about having to file a report on it. She raised a brow at the speed that showed up on the meter and gave a nod as she moved over to note it down on the folder along with some other information of what she gathered so far. She didn't plan on telling Saia at what speed she had thrown it at, not unless Saia asked of course.

"Very good. Now I want you to do the same thing with each of these objects in the bag and I'll record the speed." Blake said as she gestured towards the bag as she made herself comfortable leaning against the wall and pulled out another special lollypop for herself and popped it in her mouth. Next time they would work on endurance since Saia already seemed pretty spent in that area, so for now she was just going to see the different speeds Saia was able to get with different objects. In the bag she had a softball, baseball, marbles, a plastic ball, and one of those spiky balls filled with air that was normally a child’s toy or a chew toy.

[Saia Cypher]

She was amused really by Blake, she seemed so calm and nice, as well as really understanding. Things like that made saia feel far more comfortable then if she was not around people like that. She was a bit tired at this point but knew part of training was pushing herself, though also knew better then to push to hard. Straining ones mind to hard was one heck of a problem just waiting to happen if not careful. And if she was not careful well she would wind up at medical and having to deal with the questions asked their which in turn would only create more of a headache for her. And guess what that was not something she wanted to do. 

"To be honest.. I dont know if I can do it with all these items.. " She looked down at the bag and searched its contents. Some seemed like the would be easy enough while the weights of them was not the issue it was more that she would be doing this multiple times in a row. "I will give it my best though.." She was stubborn and was not one to want to just give up. Pushing herself was how she had been raised, her parents where not the types to just accept giving up on something. 

Reaching into the bag she took out two of the items the baseball and the marbles. Rolling the marbles around in her hand she focused on the target and then gave a quick flick of her wrist sending three of the marbles at it, each one shattering against it with contact. They where just glass after all. And where small enough where it was not hard for her to focus on increasing the potential in their speeds. Even with their being more then one. 

Next she took the base ball in her hand and threw it as hard as she could at the target, right as it left her hand she put more focus on it then she generally did, and watched it come apart in flight and smiled a little at it made a very loud booming sound in the room when it made contact. She did the same with the softball and the plastic ball. Each one with the same amount of effort. This was not so bad, and it was not putting a huge amount of strain on her at least not yet. Though she could feel the pressure building in her head. But after all the lolipop that was now in her mouth seemed to be helping a good deal.

Pulling the last ball from the bag she giggled at it, and squeezed it in her hand a bit. Then tossed it into the air before catching it again and sending it flying towards the target making it pop on contact. This was actually kind of fun. Even if it was training she found it to be better then math class or some of the other boring classes. "Thank you for the lolipop by the way.. seems to help .."

[Blake Harlow]

Blake was many things, her dog tags were pretty much everything that she was and she just took to selecting certain traits about herself and focusing mainly on them. She was wearing the one she was now because she felt it would work best with Saia. It seemed to be proving true with how Saia seemed to have warmed up to Blake already and at least she was up for trying things. Blake was just happy she had not landed with one of those stubborn kids who thought it was a better idea to fight everything and hate the world. Didn't they get that everyone here was just trying to help them and the less effort they put in the longer they would end up having to stay at the school until it became something more of a prison then a home. At least Saia was being honest about not being sure if she could actually do it but was going to try.

"Don't push yourself too hard, this is more so to get an understanding of the details of your power." Blake pointed out with a friendly smile as she was pleased that Saia was still going to give it a try. Yes, working with this girl was going to be easy and Blake would probably be fine with being this girl's trainer for the rest of her years as a student at Bellefonte Academy and possibly if she would still want any help if she decided to stick around and go to college at Bellefonte as well. She watched and kept the speedometer up while Saia went through the bag and tossed everything. Blake clocking all of the speeds and writing it down on her paper. Making a note that Saia seemed to like breaking everything that Blake was having her throw. She was just glade that this was not coming out of her own pockets.

Blake blinked a moment at the popping sound, having inwardly jumped because well something popped. She was not like scared or anything like that; it just caught her off guard for a moment. Either way she still wrote down everything, pleased with the recording and would always do updated once probably once a month to see how Saia was improving. "No problem. I made them myself and they help out a lot since I get contact headaches with my ability." Blake said as she finished up charting everything down and offered Saia a water. "Take a quick break and I'm going to have you trying with a few heavier objects." Blake said as she went to another bag that had larger balls in it. One perfect for dodge ball, another a bowling ball, and a beach ball. The ones full of air would be the hardest to even get enough kinetic energy working in, and if Saia could even throw them with how large they were, but she still wanted to see.