Kitty let out a loud and probably embarrassing shriek, but shut her eyes and managed to make herself intangible.

"Ack!"

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Emma sat on her throne, legs crossed and chin in her hand as she surveyed all this thoughtfully. The slightest nods in response to Annamarie when she sent her guesses along, but her eyes never left the playing field. Not that she wasn't paying attention to everything, she really was. From Calvin's eager observations of the others, to Annamarie's processing of the numbers, Kitty's nervous mind and Kurt's....teleporting (why oh why did that boy insist on the term bamfing?).

Perfect, it was working. She had the girl going intangible with some control over it, that was a significant step. Little less vocalizing next time, but good. Remember that feeling of turning it on and try to replicate it again.

To Kurt.Good darling, now one of your choice then back to Kitty on the next. Give the girl a slight breather but straight back to testing her just when she thought she had a few more jumps before needing to deal with it again.

While her gaze doesn't move, and her expression doesn't change from that regal instructor overlooking things look, the voice in Calvin's head is almost confiding. Tell me darling, I know you're a fast learner, do you think come round 2 you could try...two powers? I can help make one easier, but you pick up things quickly from what I've seen. I wouldn't suggest it if I didn't think you could manage. His file indicated he needed motivation, not being put down. It was a bit of an effort for her to do the whole complimenting thing much, too many years of how her father did things clashing with that, but...he's been in the same situation as her. A father putting him down, telling him he wasn't good enough, so perhaps having someone tell him they did think he could manage wasn't a bad idea. She knew she'd have appreciated it years ago.

She has the right tack down for dealing with Calvin. Hot woman, combined with authority figure telling him he can do things - especially things he wants to do. These powers - so much potential. Of course he can do two of them.

Of course. Which ones?"

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Annamarie just catches her breath a little, though she continues to relay guesses on her brother's next moves shortly before he makes them.

Kurt beamed that Anna Marie had gotten his positions correctly. Everyone was taking a breather, so he turned around in his crouch to look at the flinching Kitty. "That vas great, Kitty, you phased before I even got close!" He smiled as well, tail flicking around earnestly.

When everyone was ready for round two, he jumped to D4 and took less of a pause before reappearing behind Kitty in her square.

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"Jimminy!" Kitty shouted. She'd flinched, but managed phase again. "That stuff stinks!"

She looked down. "You're, ah, you're kinda sticking through me there, Kurt."

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Telepathy along with teleportation She responds, before pursing her lips with displeasure and sighing inwardly at 'Jimminy'. Jimminy and Bamfing. Why oh why did they insist on using nonsensical words? There were more than enough ones in the english language that one didn't need to resort to nonsense such as 'Jimminy'.


She snapped for attention and didn't bother projecting her voice, why when she could just speak directly into their minds. You've all gotten the hang of the process, good. Second round we're changing it up. Calvin here will be joining you on the board. Both he and Kurt will teleport about at random, while communicating with each other telepathically about it. I don't want many mid-air mishaps happening. The challenge is to teleport and coordinate with each other. You'll both continue surprising Kitty, individually or both at once. But /coordinate/.

Now girls, while they'll be a team working together, you will too. Annamarie, continue predicting both boys' movements to me. But if your predictions say one or more of them are about to surprise Kitty, you warn her. Kitty darling, you'll have forewarning, so we'll be testing to see if you can control your phasing more without the panic trigger. Though don't let your guard down, prediction is only that sometimes...prediction.

Oh, and none of this Jimminy nonsense. You have a greater vocabulary than that, if not, our next lessons I will make sure you all do. Class darlings, class. Let's all have some. Now, let's continue.

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Excellent! It wasn't intentionally broadcast, but the thought is loud. Two powers, and getting to test the applications of making them work together. His teleportation isn't nearly as instinctive as Kurt's - and as such, his first thoughts are pretty easy to predict. In the process of trying to get the hang of it, he settles for linking to Kurt, letting him pick the pair of coordinates, and running with whatever the more natural teleporter comes up with.

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He was still overlapping? He looked down with a start. "Whoops! Sorry," he added and shuffled so his leg was out of her back.

Frost started explaining and Kurt turned to listen to the new rules. Calvin was going to copy his powers too and communicate to keep them from crashing into each other, and Anna Marie was going to warn Kitty to their shenanigans. A link appeared in his mind and there was... a feedback of excitement which he assumed was Calvin. Grinning, he planned on popping C6 and Calvin could mirror to F3, just to test before they started teleporting around.

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Annamarie tries to focus to share with Ms Frost and Kitty both, but only the both of them. Focus is important there.

Kurt at C6. Calvin at F2/F3/F4 -- Ms Frost, what's the policy on saying damn? Because all I get is an even chance there.

Kitty took a deep breath to steady herself. Okay, nothing to worry about. Just two teleporters instead of one. Easy.

Just increased risk of collision and/or molecular fusion.

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Emma links Kitty and Annamarie separately for this, and settles back into her seat as the boys look like they're about to begin.

Damn is fine darling. But she finds it interesting that predictions for Calvin are less....sure. Hopefully due to his lack of experience using the power, making him more unpredictable, and not some natural unpredictability to him or his powers.

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Calvin maintains the mental link with Kurt to coordinate the efforts, then teleports with all the signatures of Kurt's powers. He's not as precise as the other, landing on the very edge of his target square instead of right in the middle - that may have something to do with the unpredictability side.

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Kurt rebamfed to a corner, A1, and looked around to see how people were doing. No one was fainting and Calvin at least reappeared in this dimension, which Kurt counted as a plus. And then he tried to not grin too obviously, on the outside at least. Shall we? he asked Calvin and counted to three to bamf at Kitty.

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Yeah, I'm set. Calvin agrees via the link, taking Kurt's coordinates, sighting in the area around Kitty to help visualize his eventual destination, then looks away to try and keep Kitty herself from anticipating so she has to rely on warning. then he teleports on Kurt's mental three count.

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Kittythey'reontheirway Annamarie mentally stammers, trying to get the thought out enough to be a warning.

Kitty had just enough warning to deliver a mental Thanks! before focusing all her mental energy on turning intangible before the boys arrived.

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Emma watched and listened in on all the action, not butting in on any of the mental talk, just letting them get a feel for what worked at first. Once they had that slightly down, she'd get them to pick up the pace. No reason this should be routine and relaxing.

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Kurt aimed low on tackling Kitty and therefore passed harmlessly through her legs to tumble onto another square. Righting himself on the ground, he grinned up at the other two on the chess board. "We'll get you one of these times, Miss Pryde," he added with a proper villainous tone.

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Calvin is still playing it somewhat cautious so as not to run into Kurt - since his teleportation isn't quite as precise.

Not as precise yet, he reminds himself fully. Emma can pick up the thoughts on just how determined he is to master these powers - along with definite signs she's on the right track to encouraging him.

He coordinates another jump with Kurt, once he's ready.

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Annamarie grins at her brother's showmanship, but stays focused on relaying the coordinates. She's really getting the hang of Kurt's, while she's still a little wobbly on Calvin's.

And as she's staring at him to run the numbers, she tries to rein in a thought that it's definitely nice that it's Kurt who's her brother and not Cal. Annamarie will definitely work on not broadcasting that one to Kitty and Miss Frost.

Kitty had never pushed her powers this much before. Never really used them this much before. She was starting to get... tired, in some way she couldn't quite describe.

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There's what's projected over telepathic lines, and there's what's available to be heard without those. And Emma's listening in on all of them. Picking up Calvin's determination, Annamarie's attempt to reign in that thought, and Kitty's fatigue.

The first on that list was positive, good, the boy was determined and motivated. That was easier to work with. The second was relevant, but not directly, and not now. Knowing the relationships and opinions her students had of each other, that was useful. But again, not something that she'd reveal she knew, not until it'd be worth it. Kitty's fatigue though...that was perfect. The girl had barely touched her powers, and they had so much potential. It wasn't just about getting her used to them, it was to reach her limits and push past them.

Just a tad faster now, Kurt darling. Change from where you approach her, and switch up who does it. She's getting used to it being you, predictability is only useful to us when it comes to Annamarie.

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Kurt nodded to Emma's points and out of habit look to Calvin to talk to him. You need to tag Kitty now, Kurt explained to him. I'll bamf close to distract and then you go for it. A one-two hit, alright? For a moment, he thought Kitty looked a little pale, but it could just a part of having pink skin. He bamfed away to start the maneuver with Calvin.

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Calvin signals his agreement via telepathy, and takes a deep breath. Precision time - or something like it. He waits for Kurt's count, letting him teleport first, then following after to try and tag Kitty before she can phase.

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