The Demutanator

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The Demutanator

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The residents of the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters wake up one morning to find that their powers don't seem to be working. Like, at all. Though this initially leads to some distress (even though everyone is safe and healthy!), within a day they track down the source of the problem and get to work fixing it! They'll just have to deal with being normal humans for a few days whenever they're at the school. It's fiiiiine.

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February 21st: Jean Grey, unsure of what else to do, decides to head out for some outdoors time, and finds that about a mile away from the school, their powers suddenly start working again. Well, at least it seems to be localized.

Manuel de la Rocha is minding their own business in their room when they hear a loud bang outside. Almost like someone running into a door or a wall... They go out to find Kitty, and any others who have witnessed her mistake.

February 23rd: Scott Summers runs a game of tug-of-war (classic mud puddle included) with the kids since it's the only time they can truly play powerless. It's actually kind of a hit, and the students beg them to run more games in the future.

February 21st

On a bright, sunny day, the residents of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters awaken to a strange and somewhat troubling situation - all of their powers are gone, though otherwise everything is painfully normal. Kurt Wagner is the first to notice, and does some quick research and discovers nothing in the news about this phenomenon at all. In fact, no other mutants anywhere seem to be affected, leaving them even more baffled.

February 22nd

The team pinpoints a child's clubhouse in a nearby park, and inside they find twelve year old Buster McKeever and a strange contraption. He tells them that he built this because his best friend, Opal Owens, was struggling with her powers (the ability to possess inanimate objects for short periods of time), and he wanted to make her life easier. He was able to achieve this because of his powers, which give him super intelligence, but once he turned the thing on... well, he's got no idea how to turn it off since he's back to a regular twelve year old's IQ. Notes he wrote suggest that simply turning it off isn't an option, and while it will run out of power within a month, the X-men aren't willing to wait that long. But at least they know the cause! Kitty Pryde updates everyone on their findings.

February 23rd/24th

With the problem sorted out and anyone who wants to helping with disabling the machine, there's nothing to do but just go about life as much as they can.

February 25th

After a few days of work they're able to safely turn off and dismantle the machine, which used a piece of extra-dimensional technology to make it all work. Luckily, after that's destroyed, there's no chance of replicating it or its effects, a relief to everyone. After talks with Buster and Opal's parents, the two agree to join Xavier's to hone their abilities, and maybe be a little bit more careful with mysterious tech.

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SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

With a heavy sigh and wounded pride, Kurt pulls up a program for the danger room. It's the introductory obstacle course for freshmen with no prior athletic experience. He and kitty had personalized it to be a classic Robin Hood experience, where the students must escape through Nottingham with a small weight (stealing from the rich to give to the poor, naturally).

Kitty and Kurt's cheat codes have both been indefinitely turned off.

"When is the last time you did this with no powers?" he asks. "Genuinely no powers, not just pretending no powers."

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty insists on turning on music for their experience, because maybe they'd be a little less inclined to be morose with Oo-De-Lally ringing sweetly the background. It doesn't work immediately.

"Years." She admits, "I try to stay solid to take some hits, sometimes. But phasing's an instinct. I'm not even sure if solid me is my natural state." It certainly doesn't feel like it. She and the Professor had some talks about that; whether she's consciously making herself solid or making herself phase. It's a bit of a mystery, but the way she feels like someone's cut off one of her limbs now seems to hold the answer. "Have you ever tried to do it without most of your powers?"

His current abilities and appearance are so far removed from what he could even try before that she winces pre-emptively even asking.

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Kurt steps into the hologram, and his clothes change to reflect his role as a bandit with a heart of gold. “Without teleporting? Of course! I encourage my students to make sure they can approach problems without blasting a hole through them,” he says proudly, but as he tries to spin the practice sword in his hand, his pinky catches it on the turn and it clatters to the ground.

Kurt sighs, irritated.

“But there is more to my mutation than teleporting. My whole body is different now. I’m not as fast. Not as coordinated. Like your little Buster, I’m just a normal man.”

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty's at least been in her body before, without powers. Before following him, she closes her eyes for just a second and tries to summon all the dancing and combat training that body had done. Before it ever knew how to be intangible. It makes her feel just a little better to step in, then look down, and have a cute little green cloak. So that's nice.

"I know." She sighs, in empathy. "But not just any normal man. You still know how to move more than other people. You'll get it. It's just gonna be different, for a little while." She demonstrates a sword spin of her own, slowly, trying to emphasize what to do with her pinkies. "Is it super weird?"

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Kurt mimics her hand motion without the sword a couple times before picking it back up. "Ja, but it's getting better. I've mastered running up stairs. Running down them is a bit more of a risk. How are you and solid walls getting along?"

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty, meanwhile and very gently, tries doing a karate chop on a tree. That training is still there, too,but she concentrates on the way it's physical and solid against her foot, rather than cutting through the other side. Then a little quicker, again, once more.

"Better than we started, but I'd still enjoy revenge." She rubs her nose gingerly. "And if it makes you feel better, I don't know that anyone's particularly good at running downstairs."

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

"I was very good at it," Kurt insists, even though he mostly just teleported or otherwise parkoured his way down the mansion's staircases. "Has Peter kissed your nose better yet, or...?"

He tries to spin the sword in his hand again, and it clatters to the floor once more. This is divine punishment for bringing up Kitty's situationship.

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

"Ugh. No." She whacks her own play sword against the tree this time, not loving how static she feels. Usually, she could clear half the field in minutes. Now, she has to whirl and face the first of the fake sheriffs using only her own momentum.

"He wanted to go out this weekend. I had to say no." She tries for non-lethal movement, like she would with a normal enemy,but she's not as fast as she would be normally, and her shoulder gets hit as she tries to dodge. "He sent me a Luke blowing up the Death Star gif and said he understands."

She sidesteps another attack. Barely.

SATURDAY: Kitty & Kurt

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

"A disappointed man," Kurt laments, holding back a grin. He finally gets a good grip on the sword (with no fancy tricks, to his dismay) and runs through the pre-programmed swordfight with one of the evil guard stopping Robin Hood (played by Kitty). He's a little relieved that while his speed may be diminished, his skill is all his, mutation or no.

"You could have gone anyway," he suggests, parrying a blow. "We would have covered for you, and I think your broken nose is very fetching."