Alchemist at heart was very much a one up sort of guy. The fireball from pyro dazzled him and sent the room into a bit of a fervor. He never liked to be made a fool of, even less in front of a group, yet neither was he looking forward to a fight between himself and pyro, no instead he merely leaned back in his chair, eyes flitting closed.
Mentally he drew a line of effect between himself and Pyro. Through his shoes, accross the tiled floor, up through Pyro's shoes, jumping to his pants, from there to his shirt and then finally to the middle of his jacket. From there it was a simple matter of redistributing the pigments of his jacket, moving them enough so that the dark fabric throughout it became a little darker, while two simple words appeared in bright red on the mutants back.
KICK ME
Chuckling to himself, Nicolas looked back to his own table, touching the legs back up by replacing those giant tweezers he'd made. He looked up from his work just in time to note that smile from Kitty Pride, one of the schools more famous mutants. His responce was a winning smile of his own that colored her cheeks red, bringing another laugh to his lips as he rested his hand on the table, once again exercising his power.
The table before her shifted, metal growing out from the top of it, looking like base steel at first it quickly took on a green pigment, growing a stock then a bud, before at last errupting as a vibrant red metal rose, the tabletop sinking about a quarter of an inch from his work, the words "Don't have to be shy." Appearing on the surface of it.
