<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/h3ZzKUc.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>"Cyclops"<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Danger Room<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>Sept. 1st, 1:45 pm<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Wolverine, Psylocke, Shadowcat, Colossus, John(Hellion)<br/><strong>Content:</strong>stays mostly silent while everyone enters. She proposes her own version of the bait and switch in her usual bossy and confident tone.<br/><hr/>Salem didn't bother to do much as the rest filed in slowly. This wasn't a social soiree. She tried to avoid making 'eye' contact with any one as they came in. Only if their gazes crossed each other would she manage a wave or a nod. This was Piotr's show, so instead of trying to keep everyone comfortable and prepared like she was training to do, she let him do all of the work, and tried to learn from him by watching.<br/><br/>It was hard for Salem to turn of her sexual thought tornado. But, when she was preparing for physical training, to put her fighting skills and her mutant powers to the test. It was one of the only times she could quiet the storm and ignore the big bulging muscles of the men around her. Salem found every single person in the room attractive, one after another as they came in, but she only understood what her attraction to men meant, not women quite yet. So, the heat that climbed up her back when Psylocke entered the room, it nearly fried her circuits. She'd almost found her as sexually appealing as John's thick neck, and that angry look in his eyes.<br/><br/>She grinned behind a turned face when Wolverine suggested to close the doors and get things started.<em>‘Typical. I’m here, we’re ready to go.’</em>Salem mocked Laura in her mind.<em>‘I can’t be hurt, and I can stab things with my bones. No need to prepare anymore!’ </em>Salem shook her head and scoffed uncontrollably when Laura made the suggestion.<br/><br/>Her body was hot, pumping with blood from the twenty minute session she'd spent with the punching bags in the gym. So she was sure to keep it that way, using basic yoga postures to keep all of her muscles engaged. The short few minutes that came and went as everyone gathered was enough to make her feel antsy. By the time Kitty was walking in, she just had one fist inside of the other, making sure her gloves fit, feeling the stretch of her back as she flexed the muscles in her chest. It was an exciting moment, when everyone was ready, waiting for the simulation to turn on.<br/><br/>There was a moment of disorientation as the simulation put them into their new environment.<em>‘Ok… I’m used to this.’ </em>Salem fibbed to herself as her stomach turned and her eyes closed. She groaned a bit as she realized she was on top of a building.<em>‘Right...Because… This is nice.’ - ‘How are we getting down?’</em>Salem didn’t exactly fear anything, but she was always making sure her bases were covered, and she didn’t particularly like being up so high.<br/><br/>As Colossus and Legion pitched their battle plans, Salem walked toward the edge to get a better look of the things around her. She couldn’t see the bank from so far away, so she let the description of the building construct an image in her mind. Her eyes were closed as she faced the bank in question. She did her best to remember the layout of the bank from the two or three times she’d been there years before.<em>‘Did I ever go inside?’ - ‘No. I didn’t, damn.’ </em>She had been young and timid. Staying in the car seemed like the better option at the time. Still, she listened carefully; Salem had her quandaries with each suggestion.<br/><strong><br/>“I ... kind of disagree, gentlemen.” </strong>She turned to face everyone, there wasn’t even a moment of hesitation.<strong>“The idea to extract the hostages by distracting the brotherhood is good.”</strong>She nodded to Colossus, aiming for the flaw in his plan that Legion had also noticed.<strong>“But,”</strong>she continued,<strong>“we would want to put as much power into the vanguard as possible to open up the rear flank to it’s maximum disadvantage. And also to protect the vanguard. I like Legion’s suggestion, mostly. I think Shadowcat and Psylocke can work in tandem while the rest of us provide a maximum distraction on the front line. If things go right, Shadowcat and Psylocke will have never been detected.” </strong>Cyclops put her crimson focus on two of the most powerful women she’d ever seen, and gave them a gentle grin.<em>‘Shadowcat and Psylocke were a powerful combination.’</em><br/><br/><strong>“I feel like we would become vulnerable on both fronts if we divide in half. It’s all the same plan, just with variations. I want to pull as many of them into our fight as possible, the faster we take the brotherhood out, the safer those hostages will be.”</strong>Salem felt like this situation was asking for a strong offensive. And she’d been studying battle strategy for four years. Her shoulders didn’t shrug. There wasn’t an ounce of indecision. She didn’t seem like she was about to bite anyone’s head off if she didn’t get her way. But, as she suggested the plan, she certainly believed that it was the most tactical way to proceed,<em>‘for sure.’ - ‘We should take down two or three in the first few moments, forcing the rear flank to dive into the center…’ - ‘Psylocke might even be able to join the fight from behind while shadowcat safely makes sandwiches for the team.’ </em>Salem smiled at the idea of Kitty chewing food and watching the rest of them pincer the opposition into an hysterical retreat. As usual, she tried her best to ignore Laura.