Nope. Charud's next lesson is throwing them off the helicarrier and yelling at them to stop falling.
Well, better than the lessons Picollo might give. "Dodge!"
Well ofc. Energy blasts would be very off-theme for the Cap. Don't suit his aesthetics at all!
I figure you can take some inspiration from the Super Moves he has from video games. Even if he can't project an actual beam, I could totally buy Steve being able to enclose himself with ki, and doing Hyper Charging Star at enemies. Hell, with how good he is with that shield, he might even possibly be able to imbue it with ki and do a variation of Destructo Disc.
Man, if
Winter Soldier happens close to like what it did, I pity Bucky. He was roughly Steve's equal when they fought before in canon, but now Steve has
really been practicing. It makes me think that if it still happens anyway, Hydra will make the Winter Soldier their first test subject for how to possibly use ki.
By the way, I'm surprised Fury hasn't been monitoring the situation more closely,]. I wonder if Hydra has been keeping him busy with distractions, because if he saw Natasha shooting lasers out of his eyes, Fury would have a fucking
assembly plant of people going through Charud's training. Because he's beginning to understand that it's a dangerous universe, and while you might get tech like Tony Stark to make walking tanks, it needs a lot of "back end" support for people to build and maintain such systems.
Charud's camp is essentially the holy grail: a proven reliable method to create super soldiers. No need to re-discover some lost formula, no need to gamble on the soldier being an exemplary person, no danger of mutating people into monsters. All he has to do, is sieve through the entire US armed forces and other organizations for the appropriate people, and run them through Charud's training camp. He doesn't need to deal with problematic individuals who might question orders, when he can have trusted people like Maria Hill and Coulson be trained.
Ok, it's not that easy, I expect that ki training is harder than Navy Seal School or Special Forces training; but the point is, that still gives Fury a bigger pool of potential super soldiers.
It's too bad Hydra might have already thought the same.
~edit~
Also, Charud really
is a merc now, in an older sense of the word. Not just someone being paid to fight, but also in the sense that he's a specialist who has knowledge about a specific form of combat, and he's paid to impart said knowledge to his employers.
Just like Von Steuben. The MO of mercenaries in the past is to have a "core" of fighting professionals, sell their services to people who didn't have said talents but found they need it now. More importantly, most mercenary groups in the past only had a small core of members, and then recruited more people locally if they needed it.