Kotaro sighed and decided to stay quiet. His senses usually didn't mess up like that. He was confused. He walked Zukko and Melchuro waiting for the newcomer's response to Melchuro's question.

The man stopped in his tracks and straightened up to his full height. He took off his glasses and smiled, however the three couldn't see it.

Wiping his glasses with his sleeve he put them back on and looked towards the sky.

"The weather; easily manuvered with our powers as X's. The other people...insugnificant as compared to the numbers that will be lost...." He paused for a moment to let those last words sink in, then he spoke again.

"Don't be worried about the lives of those on the plane, now come a long...unless you do not trust me anymore?"

He turned around and folded his arms.

Zukko looked at Melchuro and gave him a look. Then he turned back to the man and smiled to him.

"I will still follow you, and take the rest of my test."

The man smiled and opened his hands. "Good, good. Maybe your friends will follow, as of now I'm late. Let us go!"

"Hey wait!" Zukko tripped on accident ((actually on purpose....)) and put up a shield to break his fall. The shield brushed the man's hand a little bit so that it glowed a bit.

The man helped Zukko back up. "Watch yourself"
"Sorry...Well let's go?" Zukko got up and followed the man who wears the Vinyrie Insignia.

Melchuro didn't reply to the mans response, but watched him. Zukko sounded like he believed and trusted the man and started following him. But then he saw Zukko trip only, he didn't trip over anything. He watched as the shield came up and the mans hand glowed. He noticed that it didn't glow the same as theirs did, instead it glowed like the insignias of the people they fought. He glanced at Zukko for a moment and realized that Zukko most definitely did not trust and and just managed to expose him for those that paid attention. He hoped that Kotaro noticed and realized they were probably on their way into a trap. To make sure that the man didn't think that he had figured out the truth, Melchuro started following too.

I knew it... Kotaro thought, and looked at the other two. It appeared they noticed too, and since they weren't attacking, he decided to wait until the man took them to their "test".

The man led them through the forest until they reached another large clearing. This clearing was a little more green, but for the most part it looked dry, and little vegetation was around. (except the trees which bordered the clearing).

Zukko followed the man to a large white futuristic looking mansion. To zukko, it looked more like a lab.

"Right this way you will see the location of our testing grounds, and where you and many X's have already come to stay."

He led them to the door and the door opened automatically. Next he took them to a receptionist desk where he rapped the desk with his fist.

A chair swirled around and in it was some secretary lady. She gave him three keys and pointed to a door.

"Follow me" Said the man again, leading them further inside. He opened the door and inside that door was a closet. However, on each of the closet walls there was a door.

The man gave a key to each one of them. Zukko took his key and guessed they each had to go in a seperate door. His reasoning was correct when the man spoke his thoughts.

"The test will begin when each of you enter through those doors. Only one per door. The test is ultimately a tough one, and it does have the potential to kill you. So do come out alive. We have Vinyrie to dispose of." He laughed at his little joke, with that chuckling laugh of his and closed the closet door on the three of them. It was big enough for all three of them to fit....luckily....

Zukko heard a clicking sound behind him, which was the door locking.

"Well looks like we have no other choice now. If it is a trap, let's follow what he said. Let's get out of here alive."

((OOC: Enter through the doors, and make up a test that tests your physical strength to begin with. Anything goes)))

Melchuro examined the key he held and the doors around them. The only one he could really get to was directly in front of them. He inserted the key and turned it. The door opened on well greased hinges and he stepped through. As his feet touched the ground in the new room the door closed by itself and locked him in. Melchuro looked around trying to grasp the room as quickly as possible. It was long, with white walls. The ceiling was a little on the high side and there was nothing in it. On the far side was a door. Between him and the door was a large pit with ropes hanging from the ceiling. There was a very carefully balanced platform with another key on it. To his left there was a sign with large letters stating that if anyone uses "powers" in the room they will feel intense pain, proportional to how much power they would use.

Melchuro walked to the edge of the pit and looked down. At the bottom there was a strange colored liquid. He pulled a coin out of his pocket and dropped it into the pit. When it touched the liquid there was a his and it vaporized. He gulped and looked at the ropes that he would have to use to get to the key and then cross the rest of the way.

Zukko took his key and managed to fit it into the door on the left. He entered a room which was as small as the closet. However a ladder was directly in front of him. He looked up and noticed the ceiling went on and on and on and on and on....(ect). It went on so long that he couldn't make out the top.

The door behind Zukko closed and locked with a slam and a click.

I guess going up is the only choice, Zukko thought to himself. He stepped onto the first step of the ladder and began to climb. On his way up the walls began to have holes in them, some holes had slots.

Out of the holes shot spikes, and out of the slots shot buzz saws. Zukko was unawares of this as he was focused on his climb.

When Zukko was level with a hole in the wall, he triggered the trap, and spikes shot towards Zukko. Zukko's shoulder was hit, and he whipped around and saw a few more spikes shooting at him. He put up a shield to defle- POOF
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Zukko had an intense pain in his shoulder as he stared at the ladder in front of him. What just happened? Zukko thought to himself as he reached to his shoulder, trying to massage the pain.

He found a spike in his shoulder, and he yanked it out with a cringe.

"That's right, I was going up when...I got hit, used my shield, and ended up back here?" Zukko shook his head and tried to heal himself. -[i]POOF!/i]
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"Okay, now i understand what's going on. I can't use my energy without teleporting back to the beginning." Zukko managed to his shoulder with his bandanna and began his climb again.

Zukko was already halfway up when he realized the wall opposite of him was close enough. He jumped off the wall and performed a wall jump back to the ladder.

He continued his wall jump until he got to the top. With his method Zukko managed to avoid triggering the traps. And even when he did trigger a trap, he was well above the trap's target.

"Well that wasn't terribly bad" Zukko said as he cringed from his shoulder pain. He opened the door in front of him and entered another room.

In this room there was nothing but darkness. In the middle was a single light that shined upon a little crystal ball. Rather than reflect the light however, the crystal ball absorbed it with a mix of light. So it glowed a little bit from within.

Zukko looked around the room and tried to find the way out. When he couldn't really figure out where it was he took a good look at the Crystal ball. He saw inside the orb was a door? Shrugging, he went up to the ball.

He picked up the orb and his hand with the insignia reacted to the ball. Inside the door he went....

(OOC: after your first test you will all go through this same thing. The next part of the test will somehow display your 'energy'. So somehow make a test that relates to that)

Melchuro stepped back away from the edge and looked at the ropes. He carefully assessed which ones he would need to use to move quickly to the key, then to the door. After he had his plan, he ran at the edge and jumped. He grabbed the first rope, swung and moved to the next rope.

This isn't that hard. . .

As Melchuro grabbed the next rope, the rope broke off from the ceiling. He desperately grabbed at a different rope and swung over the key and grabbed it. As he did this he reassessed the ropes. Half the ropes he planned on using were barely connected to the ceiling. He moved rope to rope, getting closer to the far edge but the ropes he need were no good. When he was finally only a yard away, he lost hope. The only ropes left were thin and frayed.

Blood and bloody ashes! How am I going to get the rest of the way across.

As he thought that, the rope he was on twanged as it started to break. He started swinging and then leaped off it towards the edge. As he fell, he realized he was going to be inches short. His insignia glowed as he called on wind that blew him onto the far edge. He hit the ground howling. The sign was right and it felt hit he dipped his hand into molten lava.

He got up after a little bit and walked to the door, unlocked it and walked into a small room with an orb absorbing all the light in the center. He walked up to it and picked it up to examine it and it sucked him inside.

Zukko was in a never ending room of white. Down from the 'ceiling/sky' was a shadow.

The shadow looked a lot like Zukko, but it had a shadow blade and was ready to attack. Zukko tried to hit the shadow back with his energy katars and it vanished.

Then 3 more came to Zukko and he easily took em out... Next the numbers multiplied and he was surrounded by 100 of these shadows.

Zukko healed his shoulder and proteced himself with his sheild. This was obviously a test of endurance. To see how much energy he could use for long periods of time.