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Moment of Awesome - April Parker/Mayhem: April and Sooraya Qadir train in the Danger Room and April discovers just how sneaky Sooraya can be. Damn, it looked like Mayhem could blend into the shadows just as well as she could if she wanted to... game on. Sooraya stayed where she was though, carefully watching the area around her. Three more tiny tendrils snuck out, creating a similar sound effect in two other locations before moving the two earliest tendrils just a bit. Come little spider... come come. Come little spider... come to get the fly. 'There!' April sent a tendril out to the left, web flying to the right as she targeted the sand tendrils nearest the chains. The resulting effect was. "Huh." She tilted her head, then realized she'd made the noise out loud and given away her position. "Shoot." Sooraya gave as many chains as she could a firm tap and amidst the discordant sound, she launched a thicker tendril from the darkness above, tapping April's on the top of her head. Materializing on the closest platform into her human shape for a few moments, her laughter echoed through the space. April shook her head as the noise rang out, both hands shooting web towards the laughter. "That was rude," she called out as she moved to a better vantage point. "We'll have to team up and use it against the others at some point!" "Just don't try this at home, kids!" With those words Sooraya focused and tipped backwards off the platform. "Soo–!" April jumped from her corner, webs flying in front of her in an effort to catch or slow the other woman's fall. After only one tiny moment of freefall Sooraya shifted into her sandform, soaring up in a large plume of sand. The webs were neatly avoided as she became even with April's platform and a fat tendril shot out, wrapping around April's ankle securely. Hesitating only for a second, Sooraya continued rising and pulled April with her. "WH–WHOAAAA" Flying behind a strong tendril of sand was pretty cool once she got used to it. "We're doing this again in group training!!" April called out with a laugh, slowly curling her body towards her feet in an effort to tag the sand keeping her moving. Almost near the ceiling, Sooraya formed a little smirk with a slender tendril of sand before April's face, before simply letting go of her ankle, sending April in a neat little freefall. She rematerialized on one of the platforms and laughter once more rang through the large room. It was instinctive to attempt to slow her fall, and April wasn't so different from others that way. But her instinct twisted, hands and legs in a freefall as tendrils formed automatically, slowing her fall and giving her the ability to glide much like a flying squirrel. "This is SO. AWESOME." Her exclamation was muffled by the wind she generated, but her shrieks of glee were universal. The landing was a bit rough, but what were some easily healed bumps and bruises in the face of flying? She'd do it again. She definitely wanted to work with Sooraya on that being a legit move they could pull off in the field. "Glad you are having a good time. Tired of being trounced yet?" Sooraya called down, still fighting to stop her laughter. "Or do you want a second chance?"