Individual training was all well and good, but if she wanted these children ready to deal with Shaw and the Hellfire club...there'd need to be teamwork to say the least.

 

So for this lesson, she'd taken them all outside on the grounds, where, newly set up, a section of the courtyard had been sectioned off into squares. Similar to a chess board, sans colour coding, and each square even had a small label in the same notation style as chess boards were done. A to H and 1 to 8 on the correct sides. 

 

She ushered them closer. "While we've mostly done individual training, a little teamwork and trying powers in concert certainly needs to be addressed. But today will still be largely testing your individual capabilities, just having them at the same time as others, and a dash of working in pairs. I'll explain how we'll be doing this today." 

 

"Kurt, darling, I'll start with you first," she said and beckoned him to her with an impeccably manicured hand. White nail polish, of course. "Now, we want to know your limits when it comes to your teleporting." She would not call it 'bamfing' as she'd heard it called around, standards please. "How fast, for how long, how many in a row, all very basic things. Your task to start is simple, you'll be teleporting from square to square here, we'll start off at a leisurely pace and soon work our way faster. You should have no issue with this."

 

Emma turned away briskly and walked towards Annamarie a bit, this time beckoning her closer. "We'll be using Kurt here to test your precognition. I want you to tell me, out loud, once we start, where you predict our teleporter will land next. He won't be going to fast to start, so you should be keeping up with little issue, but I'll be having him move much faster. We want to find out how fast you can be, how accurate given certain, relatively equal, options, and perhaps this will give us some insight into your limits." But also, could she begin to predict an individual's patterns of doing things with enough observation, because that could be useful in the future. Emma indicated three white lawn chairs set up behind the squares that would've been where the white bishop, queen and king would sit in chess. "The one on the far right is yours to sit for this exercise, dear." 

 

She turned to address the class as a whole. "Straightforward exercise so far, Kurt teleports, Annamarie predicts. Now..." A slow smile spread as she looked over at her two remaining students. "Kitty. You've been progressing at being able to turn your intangibility on and off at your will but you need to be better. It needs to be on command, instant," she snapped her fingers. "Like that. The moment you think it, I want it to be. Understand? Right now it seems you can only do it well in reaction to danger, or under stress. That's not enough, but we're using it as our starting point." She indicated the board again. "To start, you will stand in the middle. Kurt, of course, will avoid teleporting on top of you naturally, but once in a while I will tell him telepathically to teleport to the square you are on. Keep on your toes, react quickly, phase through him. If not, well, you'll crash into each other I suppose. But we won't be letting that happen hmm?"

 

Back to addressing the group as a whole. "That will be 'round 1'. Mostly individual training, but combining it. Round 2 will be more difficult and more complicated, and that's where we'll input a little teamwork."

 

Telepathically, to Calvin. Don't worry darling, you do have a part, and you'll be instrumental for the second round I assure you. Telepathy will be needed in both rounds, but the second power I want you to use will change between them. Take the far left seat for round 1, you'll be doing the same thing as Annamarie, but voicing your results to me telepathically. I'll explain round 2 for you when it comes.

 

"A moment for thinking your questions, please do think the particularly inane and obvious ones quietly but preferably not at all. Despite what some school teachers like to say, there is such thing as a stupid question. I expect you all to be better than that."