03-18-2015, 09:06 AM
For something that would revolutionize the world, Michael's task was painstakingly dull. He longed for the open air while they breathed in the purified and recycled oxygen he could not get used to.
The first lesson his men recruits learned was distinguishing and producing the five base powers that compromised the Ascendant power as a whole. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Spirt.
The first few days were spent in simple exercise. One would be asked to extend a net of one power on demand while another would be asked to identify which was used. It only took a few days. It was for the most part intuitive, but Michael did not risk lives on intuition intervening.
The following lessons were a graduation of learning to use multiple powers at once. Starting with the basic of two through to all five together. The nets he taught were extremely simple and functional. The combination of Air and Fire proved to be the most popular. More than once he had to swat away a ball of floating fire, often having to douse burning clothes. After the doctors grew annoyed at the too-frequent requests for new uniforms, he announced that there would have to use whatever they had with no extras. Nonetheless, the singes and stains grew until all of them turned up with some kind of ruined piece of clothing.
These lessons Michael extended far longer, making sure that every man could spin at least one net using all five powers combined. It proved to be enlightening. From what he observed, each man had different strengths and weaknesses. Most exceeded in Fire and Earth while being relatively weak with Water and Air. Michael's strength in Air proved to be one of many oddities he found.
Time stretched on and the weeks passed by. He was constantly tense and drained and keeping a strangle-hold on his emotions wore thinner each day . So he retreated to the solace of the bubble of emptiness that came with the power increasingly more often. The effect spread throughout the entire facility like a plague of melancholy.
It would not be long until someone snapped.
The first lesson his men recruits learned was distinguishing and producing the five base powers that compromised the Ascendant power as a whole. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Spirt.
The first few days were spent in simple exercise. One would be asked to extend a net of one power on demand while another would be asked to identify which was used. It only took a few days. It was for the most part intuitive, but Michael did not risk lives on intuition intervening.
The following lessons were a graduation of learning to use multiple powers at once. Starting with the basic of two through to all five together. The nets he taught were extremely simple and functional. The combination of Air and Fire proved to be the most popular. More than once he had to swat away a ball of floating fire, often having to douse burning clothes. After the doctors grew annoyed at the too-frequent requests for new uniforms, he announced that there would have to use whatever they had with no extras. Nonetheless, the singes and stains grew until all of them turned up with some kind of ruined piece of clothing.
These lessons Michael extended far longer, making sure that every man could spin at least one net using all five powers combined. It proved to be enlightening. From what he observed, each man had different strengths and weaknesses. Most exceeded in Fire and Earth while being relatively weak with Water and Air. Michael's strength in Air proved to be one of many oddities he found.
Time stretched on and the weeks passed by. He was constantly tense and drained and keeping a strangle-hold on his emotions wore thinner each day . So he retreated to the solace of the bubble of emptiness that came with the power increasingly more often. The effect spread throughout the entire facility like a plague of melancholy.
It would not be long until someone snapped.
"She saw a flaring halo around his head, radiant in gold and blue. It shouted of glory and power to come"
"No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."