The Danger Room was a very unusual place.
Professor X had originally built it as an indoor training ground for young mutants, where they could get used to their powers in relative safety and learn to face real combat.
The academy in Miles's old world had a Danger Room too. He had trained there with Laura, Richter, Charlotte, and the others. As he remembered it, the place was a vast holographic training ground with all kinds of sophisticated equipment. It could simulate different mission environments to suit their tactical needs, but that was all.
The Danger Room in this world, however, seemed different.
"The Danger Room was first built in Westchester. After the war began, we brought its core components and database here, then rebuilt and upgraded it."
Ororo led Miles into the basement beneath the backyard as she explained. "After the upgrade, it could reconstruct environments, create solid hard-light structures, simulate enemies and battlefields, record user data, and use intelligent analysis, dynamic adjustment, and spatial anchoring..."
"Wait. Are you sure what you're describing is just a 'simulation'?" Miles stared at her.
"Children have been injured during training," Ororo replied. "The Danger Room avoids lethal conditions as much as it can, but accidents happen in combat."
"I'm just surprised by how far your 'simulation' goes," Miles said. "Hank has technology this advanced here?"
"It wasn't just Hank. Daniel helped too," Colossus said.
"Daniel?"
"Daniel Eagle. He's Cheyenne, and we also call him Forge. His power is inventing things no one would think possible."
"There's a mutant power like that?" Miles couldn't help growing curious. "Where is he?"
"He left the academy after the Dusk War."
Ororo's voice grew complicated. "When Feirotus descended, everything Daniel had created went out of control. He lost heart and left the academy, hoping to find