An astute observation by Heidi, Shawn nodded. Drones on their own weren't that much of a challenge. Miss Darkholme must have paired them up with something else to make things more difficult. Shawn was still learning the limits of his powers and how he could use them in combat. Of course, he could just shoot things with lightning, but in a metal room, he could easily hit everyone. Instead, he wanted to try something that he had watched on TV. 

Ki, as Shawn understood it, could be perceived as the electrical charges and pulses in ones body. One of the most notable shows that he had been using to study was Dragon Ball, where people used their Ki in order to shoot lasers. Electric lasers! He had to at least give it a try in a safe area. His hands joined together, and Shawn began to generate and condense electricity between his hands, crushing it down as far as he could, pushing it further and further into his closed hands until he found a suitable drone for a target. He opened his hands just a crack, shooting a condensed bolt of energy at one of the drones.

But he missed.

The bolt fired off and hit one of the walls, missing the drone almost entirely, and gaining its attention while he was at it. But he knew that it could be done. Now, all he had to do was channel all of the electricity into his hands without having to physically crush it down with both hands. He just needed to learn to compress it and fire it like finger guns. 

He couldn't take much more time to play around, though. Heidi, one of the few mutants who did not have an offensive mutation, might need a little help with fighting off the drones. She was quite capable in her own right, having a supercomputer for a brain and pretty much having the capacity to outlast any of the drones in the room, but the exercise was all about teamwork, and nobody really seemed to be stepping up to the plate. Nate pitched in, and he was completely right. They needed to be close enough to help, but not bunch up so much that they restricted other people's movements. 

"We need those brains!" Shawn was fairly sure he knew how it was going to go. If they weren't going to be making any progress in working together to beat the drones and traps, then Raven would surely up the tempo to force them together. "Nate, you can mess with light, right? Can you scramble the drone sensors so it's harder for them to see us?"

He ran towards Nate and Heidi, his foot being pulled down as he activated one of the traps. A tube from across the room shot something at Shawn. His hands shot forward in an attempt to electrocute whatever it was flying towards him. It didn't work, and before he knew it, his hands had been cuffed behind his back. They were insulating, too. Nothing he could to could electrocute them or fry them off. He'd need some help getting them off. For now, he was stuck with just kicking electric waves at robots around him.

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Booker and Emma walked through the halls of the mansion. Emma wanted to tag along to see what kind of trouble was happening, as well as how Booker was going to handle it. Surely, whatever happened would be interesting. 

Just as he entered the room, someone teleported out of it. He figured he knew who it was, and was sure that they didn't feed the fires of conflict before shifting out of the area. 

She could see the new boy. Christopher, as she prodded his mind briefly as their eyes connected only for the slightest of moments back in the foyer. He was hovering about, and there was a tigress prowling on the ground. Another boy seemed a little more calm, but the situation was indeed tense. She felt it was best not to prod the Tigress' mind, but found that the other boy was Jacob, and he and the floating boy were now roommates.

"Alright, alright." Booker didn't seem worried at all. A green glow started from the center of the room. From that glow came a panel that spread across the room, exactly half way up the walls to divide Christopher from whom he could only assume was Ayita, or another shifter. Whoever it was, they were now being encouraged to help in bringing down the situation. "Christopher." He nodded at the newcomer in a greeting manner. "Now, can any of you tell me what happened here?"