Chapter 16: New Powers, New Problems - Initial Mastery

Chapter 16: New Powers, New Problems - Initial Mastery

The underground base, once a mere hideout, now buzzed with a new kind of energy. It wasn't just the hum of Adam's cobbled-together servers; it was the frantic, almost chaotic energy of two brilliant minds grappling with impossible powers. Fitz and Simmons, newly imbued with the Room-Room and Heal-Heal Fruits, were like kids in a candy store, only the candy store was made of pure, unadulterated reality-bending power, and they occasionally tripped over their own feet trying to use it.

"No, Fitz! You're creating a localized spatial distortion, not a portal to my coffee mug!" Adam yelled, ducking as a stream of coffee from his mug (which was, indeed, not where it should have been) arced across the room, narrowly missing his head. Fitz, looking mortified, had accidentally warped the space around the mug, sending its contents flying.

"My apologies, Adam! The… the spatial vectors are more complex than I anticipated! It's like trying to calculate a four-dimensional chess game in my head!" Fitz stammered, his hand still glowing faintly with a purple aura. He was trying to create a small, contained "Room" to organize his scattered notes, and instead, he'd turned his desk into a cubist nightmare.

[SYSTEM MESSAGE: 'LEO FITZ' ROOM-ROOM FRUIT MASTERY AT 15%. 'JEMMA SIMMONS' HEAL-HEAL FRUIT MASTERY AT 20%. RECOMMENDATION: CONTINUED TRAINING. EMPHASIZE CONTROL AND PRECISION.]

"Fifteen percent? Twenty percent? System, you're a harsh critic. They just got these things yesterday," Adam thought, but aloud he said, "It's alright, Fitz. Just remember: less 'mad scientist with a spatial anomaly,' more 'surgical precision.' Think of it as a really, really complicated scalpel."

Simmons, meanwhile, was having her own set of issues. She was trying to heal a wilting potted plant Adam had brought into the base, a small act of kindness in their grim surroundings. Instead, the plant had suddenly exploded with vibrant, uncontrolled growth, its leaves unfurling at an alarming rate, nearly engulfing her. She looked like a startled botanist caught in a jungle. Her hand, glowing with a soft, warm light, was still outstretched.

"Oh dear! It seems I've… overcompensated," Simmons murmured, trying to disentangle herself from the rapidly expanding foliage. "The cellular regeneration is far more potent than I anticipated! It's not just healing; it's accelerated growth! The ethical implications of unintended biological proliferation…!"

Yelena, who had been observing the chaos from a safe distance, leaning against a wall with her arms crossed, finally spoke, a dry smirk on her face. "Looks like you two are going to be busy. Fitz, try not to accidentally teleport yourself into a wall. Simmons, maybe don't turn the entire base into a jungle. Light-Light Fruit is much simpler. Mostly just involves running really fast and shooting lasers." She then demonstrated, zipping across the room in a golden flash, leaving a faint scorch mark on the wall before reappearing beside Adam.

"See? Yelena gets it. Efficiency. Elegance. And minimal accidental property damage," Adam said, winking at Yelena. "Alright, let's try this again. Fitz, focus on creating a small, stable Room. Imagine it like a bubble. A very precise, very controlled bubble. Simmons, think less 'super-growth ray' and more 'targeted cellular repair.' You're a surgeon, not a gardener on steroids."

They spent days, then weeks, in intensive training. Adam, using his Adaptive Body, would demonstrate perfect control over various energies and physical feats, inspiring them. He'd show Fitz how to subtly manipulate air currents within a confined space, how to create a perfect vacuum, how to bend light. He'd show Simmons how to isolate specific cellular structures, how to accelerate healing in a precise area without affecting surrounding tissue. He was their living textbook, their impossible mentor.

Fitz, with his brilliant mind, slowly began to grasp the complex spatial mathematics of the Room-Room Fruit. He started with simple tasks: moving objects within a Room, creating small, stable pockets of altered reality. He'd spend hours muttering to himself, drawing complex diagrams in the air with his glowing hand, before finally, with a triumphant cry, he'd perfectly levitate a wrench across the room.

Simmons, with her compassionate heart and meticulous scientific approach, focused on the ethical applications of the Heal-Heal Fruit. She practiced on small injuries, then on more complex tissue damage (using synthetic samples, much to Adam's relief). She learned to control the flow of energy, to target specific cells, to heal without over-regenerating. She even discovered she could subtly enhance existing biological processes, making her a formidable bio-engineer.

Yelena, already a master of her Light-Light Fruit, became their sparring partner, their speed demon. She'd zip around them, forcing Fitz to react with spatial distortions, making Simmons practice rapid, targeted healing on simulated injuries. Her sarcastic commentary was a constant, but strangely motivating, backdrop.

"Come on, Fitz! If you can't even catch me when I'm standing still, how are you going to contain a rampaging alien?" she'd taunt, then vanish in a flash of light.

"Simmons! My fake arm is still broken! Are you even trying?!" she'd complain, after Simmons had healed a dummy's limb with a slight tremor.

Despite the teasing, the bond between them solidified. They were a team, learning to trust each other's instincts, to anticipate each other's moves. Adam watched them, a profound sense of satisfaction settling over him. He had found his people. His Adapt-Alliance. And they were getting stronger, faster, more capable with every passing day. The universe didn't know what was coming for it.

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