Location: Bayville Football Field

Today was the day of the Bayville football game. Usually I don't like football but I'm here to support my friend Jean Grey, who wanted to take pictures of the game. Plus she's dating the quarterback Duncan Matthews. Personally, I'm not fond of the guy considering he's a jerk who picks on the little guys. However, since for some reason Jean likes him, I just keep supporting her in her relationship with him.

By the way, my name's Trent Russell, and I'm what's called a mutant. Being a mutant means I have powers that others don't have. In my case, I can create constructs out of energy. I can use that energy to create things like disks I can throw, or energy bolts, even force fields; basically, I can create anything my mind can think up. If you're trying to picture what I look like I have brown hair, blue eyes, white skin, jeans, suede shoes, and a blue t-shirt.

So right now we are in the middle of the game where Duncan has the ball and is about to score a touchdown. Right when he is about to make it he gets tackled by one of the rival players. Luckily for the home team, Duncan scores a touchdown. Jean is there with him taking pictures of him. I'm currently sitting on the bleachers with my other friend Scott Summers and his friend Paul Haits. Scott is fiddling with a quarter through his fingers, looking at Jean with Duncan. It's no secret that he likes Jean and is jealous that she is with Duncan. I tease him about it frequently but he just denies it.

Scott is still fiddling wuth his quarter when suddenly he drops it and it falls into the bleachers. "Oh man. My cash." Scott says. Suddenly we spot a pale hand take a wallet from someones back pocket. Scott says to me and Paul, "Hey check it. Looks like someone's taking up a collection." "Whoa should we call the cops." says Paul. Scott replies, "Hold that option open." He get up and I follow him.

We head down under the bleachers where we hear Duncan and his goons picking on a pale skinned kid named Todd Tolansky. "Well, hey. If it ain't Toady Tolansky picking up a little spare change." I hear Duncan say. Todd replies, "Uh...Hi Duncan. Look I can explain." Duncan simply grabe him and says, "Shut up frog face!" He bangs him on a pillar. Scott and I move towards them while this happens.

One of his goons says "Let's crush him Dunc!". I jump in and reply "How about we don't, Dunc." They all look at us. Scott says, "Just chill. The wallets are still there. How about we give him give back the cash? No harm done." Todd immediateley agrees and says, "Yeah. Yeah. See? He-Here's the money." "What do you care about this scuzzo, Summers? Russell?" Duncan says to us. I simply reply, "Not much. But I'm not crazy about three against two either. So how about we settle this peacefully?"

Duncan just replies, "I think me and my buds are gonna squash this slimeball. So you two and Summer's stupid 'sunglasses at night' can just bail." Duncan proceeds to throw Todd on the ground. I see Scott ready to take off his sunglasses and shoot his optic blast. I grab his shoulder and say, "Scott, we cant show our powers remember?" He lowers his hand and says, "I know, but we have to do something."

Then, just as Duncan is about to step on Todd, Scott goes to grab Duncan and says, "I said, knock it off!" He tosses Duncan toward his goons and they fall on the ground. Todd just jumps away from us. Like he literally jumped. Duncans goon saw and said, "He's getting away!" The goons let go of Duncan (Duncan falling on the ground on his face) and go after him.

I say to Scott, "I'll make sure they don't do anything to him." I run over to where the goons go. I run into Jean. "Trent, what's going on?" Jean asks. I say to her, "Your boyfriend was roughing up a kid named Todd Tolansky and right now he is dealing with Scott." "What?" Jean replies and we look over to see Scott and Duncan fighting. Jean shouts, "Scott, no!" Duncan punches Scott towards a pillar. "Scott!" Jean and I shout. Scott hits the piller, his glasses come if and beams of red concussive energy come out of his eyes. Those beams hit Duncan as well as a propane tank. The tank explodes. Jean and I looking in horror.

Later, the fire trucks and the police get here. The firemen work to put out the fire that the explosion caused. Jean and I go find Scott. The broken pillars were on fire and It was hard to see. Jean says" It's too hot to touch, at least with my hands. She lifts a pillar up from the ground with her telekinesis. I see Scott's sunglasses and pick them up with a force field i form around it. I then hand them to Jean. "Thanks, Trent" She says to me. I say "No problem." Jean looks up and finds Scott sitting on the ground with his eyes covered. We go over to him. Jeans touches his hand saying, "You okay?" She puts the glasses on him. He says, "Jean. Oh, wow I-" Jean inturrupts saying, "Shh, I know." She looks over to where Duncan is being looked at by paramedics. She says to us, "Look, you two better split." So Scott and I head out to the side of the bleachers.

Scott looks at Jean talking with Duncan and his shoulders tighten and his hands clench. He is upset that Jean is taking more care of Duncan than him. Todd walks to us and says, "Uh, thanks. Really, you know?" I look at him and say, "No problem Tolansky, It was our pleasure, right Scott?" Scott just replies with a disgruntled "Yeah". He walks away from us. I say to Todd, "See you around." I then follow Scott and we head home.

Location: Xavier Institute

The Next day, Scott and I are outside the bathroom, waiting for Jean to finish getting ready so we could get to school. Scott impatiently say, "Give it up, Jean. It's hopeless." Jean say from inside the bathroom, "I'll be done in a second." "Come on. We're gonna be late." He replys. I swear Scott can be really impatient sometimes. I say to Scott, "Be patient Scott, you know how women are with their looks." He just gives me a look that reads "not helping". Jeans says, "Almost done." Scott begins to say, "Look you want me to blow this door..." Suddenly the door opens and out steps Jean. "...down?" Scott finishes in confusion. Jean puts her finger under his chin flirtatiously and says, "So are we going or what?" I look at Scott with a smirk on my face. I say to him, "Dude, you're drooling." He looks at me and says, "Shut up, Trent."

As we head down the stairs, Scott calls out to our mentor and head of the mansion, Professor Charles Xavier, "We're heading out professor." The Professor say in reply, "Just a moment you three. Come here. I'd like you to meet someone. We head to the library where the professor is. We see the professor himself along with someone wearing a grey hood. "This is Kurt Wagner. He arrived late last night." Said the professor. Jean and I wave while Scott does the intro for us, "Hey Kurt, this is Jean and Trent. I'm Scott. How you doing?" Scott takes out his hand to shake Kurts. Kurt, for some reason, backs away like he's afraid somehow. Professoe X says, "Kurt, you're among friends here." I say to Kurt, "Yeah, you have nothing to be afraid of. We're all mutants here." After some hesitation, Kurt takes out his hand, which has only three fingers and blue skin. He shyly says in a german accent, "Hello." Scott looks at the hand in surprise. Kurt sees his look and retracts his hand.

The professor clears his throat and says, "I was just telling Kurt how I set up this institute for gifted youngsters. Youngsters whose Gifts are not always an asset. Right, Scott?" He looks at Scott with a stern expression. Scott sheepishly says, "So, you heard about last night?" The professor replies, "DIfficult not to. It was on all the news channels." Scott tries to explain, "It was a bad situation, and there was an accident. I'm sorry." The Professor replies, "I know. Fortunately no one was badly hur and the true cause was not discovered. But you must be more carefull Scott." "Come on, professor! I'm packing a bazooka behind each eyeball! WHat do you want from me?" Scott says fristratingly. The professor simply says, "Control, Scott. That's what you're hear to learn. That's why you're all hear."

He turns to Kurt and says, "Scotts eye emit a destructive optic blast beam." Kurt takes off his hood and says, "Cool." We all got to see that Kurt has blue fur and hair as well as pointy ears and yellow eyes. He also had a pointed tail. I thought he looked pretty cool, like a furry elf. Jeans says to our furry friend, "How about you Kurt? Got a special gift that brought you here?" Suddenly he disappears in a puff of smoke. Then he reappears in the other side of the room and says, "Maybe." "Whoa." we all said in awe. The Professor says to us, "I'll be helping Kurt Gat settled in. We can talk more tonight." With that, Scott, Jean and I head to school.

Location: Bayville High Hallways

Scott and I went to our lockers to get our lunch. Paul turns to us saying, "Hey, see you two in the cafeteria." Scott replies to him, "We're just grabbing our lunch. Save us some seats." Then Todd Tolansky shows up between our lockers and says, "Yo, Summers. Russell." Then he jumps up to the top of the lockers. He then says to us, "What's up." Scott and I look surprised; a jump that high isn't humanly possible. He must be a mutant like us. With a jump like that and his face resembling a toad, I think I should call him Toad.

Scott looks around to see if anyone saw the jump. When he confirmed there was no one watching he said to Toad, "That's quite a jump." Toad just replies, "You like it? Suprised you can see it through them smokies of yours. Here, let me help." Then he did the most disgusting thing I've ever seen; he stuck his tongue out, which was long, green and slimy. This long tougne snatched Scotts shades, causing Scott to close his eyes so he won't shoot another involuntary blast.

Toad says, "What's the matter, Summers? Afraid to, heh, open your eyes?" I say to Toad, "We all know what happens when he does, Toad. Now give Scott his shades or I'll blast your warty face." I cause my hands to glow to prove my point. Toad then obliges, "You got it." He uses his tougne to give back Scotts shades. The slime from the tougne touched Scotts hand, grossing him out. Some of the slime got on me too, I was completely grossed out as well.

Toad then tries to talk, "Well, as you can see we all got something in common." "Yeah, now we're all slimy." Scott says sarcastically. Toad immediately says, "No. I mean we ain't like other people." "Your point being?" I reply. "Well I just wanna talk." Toad says, jumping on the lockers, hanging on the front. "You know, get to know each other better. You know." Toad then takes Scotts lunch and swallows it whole. Great so he has a second stomach too? Tood then continues," Maybe, do lunch." I just say, "We'll think about it." Then Scott and I walk away from Toad, going to lunch. I turn to Scott, "We can share my lunch if you want." Scott smiles and says, "Sure, but first, I'm gonna call the Professor and tell him about Toad." "Good idea. He'll want to know about this." Then we head to the cafeteria.

Location: Xavier Institute

That night, I decided to get to know the newest addition to our group, Kurt. "So Kurt, what's Germany like?" "We'll, aside from the circus I performed in, it wasn't very exciting." Kurt replied. I turn to him in surprise and say, "You were in a circus? That's so cool! What kind of acts did you do?" "Well, mostly acrobatics, along with using my powers. But the people thought it was special effects. I went under the name 'The incredible Nightcrawler'." Kurt replies. I ask him, "Nightcrawler, eh? Is that what your codename is gonna be?" He asks, "Codename?" I explain to him, A name you use when we go on missions. Like mine is artillery, because I can create anything I can think of; even weapons." "Oh, thats cool. I guess I'm going with nightcrawler since it makes sense." Kurt says. I reply, "Sounds good to me."

We start to head to the main lobby, where we see lightning flashing outside. Storm, one of our teachers, must be doing something outside. She has the cool power to control the weather. Once we reached the bottom of the stairs, the wind outside blows the doors open. Then I see Toad blown in through the doors, crashing into Kurt. Once Toad and Kurt get back on their feet, Toad starts to insult him. "Whoa, what are you? Some kind of ratty pluch toy." Kurt sniffs the air and cringes in disgust. Then he replies, "The names Nightcrawler, and at least I don't reek like unwashed lederhosen." I chuckle at that. Kurt's turning out to be very funny. Toad just gets mad, "You blue furred freak!"

He makes a jump at Nightcrawler, but he just teleports away. Toad swats away the smoke. Nightcrawler reappears on the chandelier, "As you say in America: neener, neener, neener!" Kurt just keeps getting funnier by the minute. Toad just says, "That ain't gonna help you, boy" He jumps up to the chandelier to catch Nightcrawler, but Nightcrawler just jumps off and clings to the wall below. He taunts to Toad, "You're so slow." He then winks at him and crawls along the walls, Toad growling while he does it. Nightcrawler says to him, "You couldn't catch flies on a windshield." Toad follows him on the walls saying, "Fight like a man." I just chuckle and head to the danger room, our training facility. We have a session so I better get ready.

Once I put my uniform on, I reach Scott and Jean. I say to them, "I hope you two are ready for what this training room of doom has to offer." Scott laughs and says, "It's not that bad." Jean just scoffs and says, "Sure you would say that, you love training." Scott justifies himself saying, "Hey you gotta be prepared for anything." Suddenly the alarms go off. The Professor talks to us through his telepathy saying, "Scott, Trent, Jean! Nightcrawler and toad have teleported in the Danger Room!" Scott panics saying, "Oh, man! The Danger Room has automated defenses!" Jean follows that up with, "It'll attack them wuth everything it's got!" The Professor says to us, "Get in there now!" "I say, "we're on it professor." We all run to the Danger Room.

We reach the Danger Room. Immediately Scott Give out orders since he is our leader. "I've got the cannons. You two keep them clear of the tentacles." Jean and I reply "On it!" We fly up in the air heading to where Nightcrawler was. Jean lifts him with her telekinesis, getting him out of the way of an incoming tentacle. He say to her, "You're an angel." Jean jokes back, "On occasion. How about you? are you a demon?"

I see Toad about to get crushed by walls coming from the ground. I create a giant energy anvil to block the walls. I strain since this takes a lot of willpower. I shout out to Scott "Cyclops, I can't hold it much longer!" Cyclops is Scotts codename. Cyclops replies, "I got it!" Then he shoots an optic blast with his specialized visor, destroying one of the walls. The anvil I created disappears, and I exhale since it took alot of energy to keep that up. Cyclops shouts to Toad, "Tolansky, over here!" He continues to blast any cannons and I use what energy I have left to blast any tentacles.

Suddenly the professor's voice came from the control room, " Security code override: Priority X. Voiceprint: Charles Xavier." Then we hear a computerized voice saying, "Confirmed. Shut down in five seconds." Nightcrawler suddenly says, "Ah, now I get it. It's a training area. Watch." He teleports to a cannon saying, "I just pull the plug and and-" He unplugs the cannon, which causes it to go haywire. Storm comes in to shoot lightning at it, neutralizing it.

Then everything in the Danger Room turns off. Toad, understandably freaked out, says, "Forget this, man! I've seen enough! I am out of here!" Then he jumps away, probably to get out of the mansion. Scott tries to stop him but it was too late. Scott say, "Sorry, professor. I couldn't stop him." The professor says, "It's alright, Cyclops. He wasn't ready to be one of us." Nightcrawler says in a sad tone, "I blew it too, professor. I'm sorry. You've been wonderful. But I guess...I-I just don't belong here. Then he teleports away, the professor saying, "Nightcrawler, wait!" Scott immediately says, "No sweat, professor. I'll take care of it." I go with him to talk to Kurt.

We find Kurt in the hangar, where we see him admiring a big jet. Scott tells him what it is, "The SR-77 BLackbird. Twice as fast as the SR-71 and with three times the range and firepower. Nice huh?" Kurt says in reply, "Sehr gut. Is it yours? Please tell me you get to fly it." I say to him, "It's ours. And if you stick around for a while, we'll show you how to pilot this bad boy." Scott the say to Kurt, "So what do you say, you want to be part of our team?" Kurt looks uncertain. "Me? I almost got you two killed a few minutes ago." I put my arm around his shoulders saying, "Hey it's fine. We all make mistakes. I know I do. I especially know Scott does." Scott immediatley says "Hey!" I ingnore his reply and continue. "That's why we are here, to learn not to make mistakes like that. That's why we'd like you to stay."

Kurt then asks, "And you guys don't mind the way I look." Scott laughs and says, "Dude, just don't hassle me about my shades and we'll call it even." I just say to him, "And don't make fun of my white skin. I've been called 'neon white' before." Kut simply says, "We have a deal then." "Welcome to the team." I said. Scott says to Kurt, "Come on, we'll show you where they hide the sodas." We then exit the hangar and head to the kitchen.

Once we reatch the kitchen entrance, someone steps out. Someone Scott and I know very well. It was our other instructor Logan, or Wolverine as he likes to be called on the field. I greet him, "Hey, Logan! Finally back from your trip huh?" Logan replys, "Yup, I'm back. And I hope you didn't get in to too much trouble, bub." I scoff and say, "Come on, Logan. When have I ever gotten into trouble?" He simply says, "Anytime you were nearly killed in the Danger Room with your hot dogging." I justify myself saying, "That was years ago Logan. I'm more responsible now." He scoffs and says, "Sure you are."

Then he noticed Kurt and says, "Whos the elf?" Scott immediately says, "This is Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler. Our newest member. Kurt, this is Logan, aka Wolverine. Another one of our Instuctors." Kurt nods and says to Logan. "Pleased to meet you, herr Logan." "You too, Elf" Logan says. I then say, "Well we better get to the kitchenn for a snack. See you around Logan." Logan replys back, "Don't gorge youself in there. You don't want to be too stuffed when we train tomorrow." I say in exasperation, "Yeah, yeah, I get it." We head into the kitchen, leaving Logan to head to his room.