A/N - Hello! Welcome back to My profile for the 15th installment of our 714 Universe. If you missed out on the time travel and shenanigans, please head on over to robbiepoo2341's profile and catch up on everything that happened in 'Kate And Kurt's Not-At-All Excellent Adventure' then come on back for this one. I will wait. It's totally worth it.

Chapter 1: Scott And Logan Should Not Be Left Alone This Long

The fall semester had started back up at NYU, and Tyler found that he was excited to be back on campus for multiple reasons. He'd finished all of his general classes online after his spring and summer semesters were spent at home, but it would be harder to take everything online now that he was getting more into his pre-med major. Besides, Tammy was starting classes at NYU, and he was more than happy to show her around campus

They didn't have many classes in the same buildings, of course. She was studying to be a teacher, and he had all his classes in the science buildings.

But they still managed to have similar schedules, and the library and the common areas were almost halfway between their two different areas of campus. So on her first day of school, they met up for lunch while she gushed about her schedule, and once the semester went on, they were already planning on meeting at the library to study as well.

It was kind of nice — having his girlfriend on campus.

She was still excited about her classes — and her professors — as they drove back down to the mansion.

"Do you think Annie would help me with figuring out how to write these lesson plans?" Tammy asked. "It doesn't look too hard, but once I get started, I'm not sure what to put in and what to leave out."

Tyler grinned at her enthusiasm. "You know she'd love to help you," he said.

"I just don't want to make her think that's all I want to do when I see her. She was teaching me some … other stuff too."

Tyler grinned even wider at that. "What kind of other stuff?"

"Nevermind," she said, looking out the window. "Nothing earth-shattering."

He glanced her way for a second and shook his head. "Well, not everything can be as exciting as training with the team," he teased. "But I'm sure it's fun, whatever it is."

"Well, I get to spend a little time with her and K," she said, clearly trying to make it sound more mysterious than it was.

He grinned even wider as he thought it over. "Okay. I give up," he said at last.

"That's good. You should keep all that brainpower to apply to matters you can wrap your head around," she teased.

"Oh, I couldn't begin to figure you out," he teased right back. "But it's fun to try sometimes."

It took her a second, but she couldn't stop herself from grinning. "You're trouble," she said as she shook her head at him.

"That's what they say anyway," he said easily as he pulled into the driveway.

"Yeah? Who?" Tammy turned to watch his reaction more closely. "Who says you're trouble outside of me?"

He smiled easily. "Well, you mean it in a totally different way," he said. He paused, thought it over for a second, and then added, "I think Logan would like me to be more trouble, actually."

"He'd like everyone to be more trouble," she pointed out.

"Yeah, but you're not the one with the private lessons with him," he said with a shrug.

"How's that going? Is he harder to work with one-on-one?" she almost cringed at the thought, but she really did have to ask.

"Actually, he's not," Tyler admitted. "He's got a lot of good tips. I just have a hard time getting aggressive with him." He rubbed the back of his neck.

"Is it because it's him?" She had turned in her seat so she was sitting sideways. "Would it be easier if it was someone else?"

"Maybe," he admitted. "It's hard to hit the guy you grew up idolizing, you know?"

"No, I don't know, but I can imagine it's tough," she said. "But if we don't get to team practice on time, we're both gonna get in trouble and probably teased forever about it."

"You mean they don't already tease us?" he asked, though he came around to open her door for her all the same.

"I mean your idol will join in on the whole 'what were you doing for so long' thing," she said. "And he's awful about it."

"He is," Tyler agreed. "He's even worse because he knows we, ah, we're not doing that." He turned a little pink as he took her hand and the two of them headed down to the Danger Room.

When they stepped into the Danger Room after hastily changing into their uniforms, they couldn't have been more than a couple of minutes late, but it didn't stop the teasing from starting right up as Logan checked the time and gave them both a little glare.

"You two didn't go and elope without clearin' it by Slim, didja?" he asked gruffly.

Both of them shook their heads quickly as Tammy tried for the tease and asked, in her quiet sort of voice, "Do you think we'd do that and not invite you?"

"Do I look like I'm overly worried about it either way? Get in line and let's get to work. Some of us have things to do later that don't involve making excuses and draggin' ass," he replied as Scott barely glanced up from the board and started the first sim.

The lighting was dark, and it was still enough that they could hear water dripping off of the ladder on an old fire escape several blocks over as Logan hung back and followed them as they made their way through the sim.

The kids were all primed to fight when Logan dropped the bomb on them. "No powers."

"No powers?" Tammy repeated, looking a bit worried.

"Why do people feel the need to repeat what I say back to me? No. Powers," Logan replied with a grumble. "Need to see who needs work on what, and you can't rely on your abilities all the time. It's one of the biggest mistakes everyone in the business makes." He was the only one there not in uniform — blue jeans, flannel shirt, and cowboy boots — and still, he didn't look very happy.

"Well, guys, try and keep up," Brye said with a confident smirk as she pulled out her green-tipped arrows and looked almost smug.

Logan and Scott shared a look, and Scott nodded almost imperceptibly.

"So… who are we fighting, then?" Sophia asked, looking nearly as nervous as Tammy.

"Keep walking and find out," Logan told them. "I'm here to observe. So don't expect me to step in and pull your back end out of the fire."

The older kids — Tommy and Cassie — shared a look as Tommy looked physically pained at the thought of not being able to run around.

"Stop with the long faces. Learn this now before you end up freakin' helpless in a collar or a dampener field. I want you to be able to beat them back no matter what the damn circumstances are."

"He'll be okay eventually," Cassie teased before Hisako spotted the first sign of who they would be fighting — a couple black-clad ninjas.

"Oh, I see," Hisako said with a quiet smirk. "This is what happens when you put out the right bait."

Logan chuckled and lit up a cigar — the signal for Scott to start the sim in earnest. "Don't use the bait unless you're ready to deal with what comes next."

With that, the ninjas started to pour onto the streets around them, and when Tommy rushed over to hit one of them, he let out a groan of frustration. "I hate being this slow!" he announced.

"Keep your hands up and you'll be fine," Logan advised, leaning against a light post and smoking.

Brye smirked and shot an arrow through one of the ninjas right by Tommy. "Too slow," she teased him with a reckless grin. She spun around and shot him a little cocky salute as well as Logan glanced up at the booth where Scott was with a smirk.

One of the ninjas literally came out of nowhere — sword drawn and going right for her — but she saw him at the last possible second and spun out of his way, trying to keep the ninja from cutting her bow, holding it behind her only to startle when she heard an odd twang and the bow vibrated hard in her hands as if a rubber band had been cut.

"Oops," Logan said, unconcerned as Brye realized that he'd cut her bowstring.

"Hey!" Brye spun to face him with a glare.

"I forgot. No weapons," he told her easily. "Watch your back."

"Rude," she muttered under her breath, still glaring as she turned back to start fighting ninjas hand-to-hand.

Sophia and Tammy were working together, as it was clear that neither of them were confident in their hand-to-hand abilities. And it was also clear that Tyler was making a point to take the heat off of the two girls as he grabbed a ninja who had tried to sneak up on Sophia and pitched him across the street.

"Thanks!" Sophia squeaked.

They were starting to figure it out — with those that were better at fighting covering the others. Tommy and Rico both were plowing their way through the bad guys, and Hisako had clearly been working on her hand-to-hand; she had improved leaps and bounds.

Cassie was calling out helpful suggestions to Brye, who made a face at her. "Thanks, Mom," she teased.

"Somebody's gotta watch out for you," Cassie teased right back.

"Besides, she secretly loves mom-ing everyone," Tommy called out before one of the ninjas managed to hit him hard in the stomach, and he doubled, though Rico managed to grab the guy with his tail and pull him away before he could do anything further.

As the kids began to work more efficiently, Logan walked around the fight slowly, watching all of them as they did as he'd asked, and mentally taking notes, even though he knew Scott had his own list he was building in the booth.

Sophia was having the most trouble, by far. Not that it was something he'd been surprised by. If nothing else, she was small, young, and used to trying to hide in the back of the pack whenever possible — not to mention her girlfriend, Brye, was cocky, confident, and liked to show off for Sophia by shielding her as much as possible.

Tammy wasn't a whole lot better though. She knew some of what Logan thought she should, but it was very quickly clear that she relied far too much on her abilities, and when faced with the need to work without them, she was easily flustered.

But on the other hand, Tyler was turning up the aggression much better — he just needed someone to protect, and the two girls found themselves with a big, strong bodyguard.

Scott frowned down at the group and saw where Logan was watching and quickly figured out what needed to be done to push them. A moment later, a fresh wave of ninjas poured out of the surrounding buildings and swamped Tyler, separating him from the girls.

"It's really weird having them run past like that," Logan said to himself as he glanced up at Scott.

The other kids rushed to try and help Tyler, and Tammy and Sophia both seemed to turn it up a notch to help their bodyguard. Sophia was fighting the way only a very short and skinny girl could fight — all but climbing onto the back of one ninja to try and pull him off Tyler as Tammy rushed to help double-team the bad guys.

The mass of black continued to pour on them, and after a moment, Scott called it from the booth. "Tyler, Tammy, and Sophia: You're out. Stand off to the side."

The three kids were finally able to move as the ninjas backed off once they were out — and focused their attention on Tommy and Rico, who were getting a little too confident, apparently.

Tammy looked frustrated, Tyler looked resigned, but little Sophia was clearly annoyed. The three of them made their way over to stand by Logan, who was still slowly smoking his cigar, arms crossed and watching critically. But when he saw the look on Sophia's face as she stood nearby, he let out a little breath and took a few steps closer to bump her shoulder. "Just gotta get a few better techniques. Spider monkey don't work too good when you're sixty pounds wringing wet."

"Most stuff doesn't work when I'm sixty pounds wringing wet," she grumped.

He nodded, his gaze still on the flustered junior team members fighting. "Yeah, but I'll show you what does."

She peered up at him with one eye half-closed. "I'm still small and scrawny," she pointed out. "And I'm not strong."

He shook his head a little before he blew out a cloud of bluish smoke. "Don't gotta be," he told her. "Just gotta know how to use their size against them. I fight guys way bigger'n me all the time."

"Yeah." She tilted her head at him and shrugged. "Okay."

He turned her way for a second. "I've kicked the Hulk's ass; trust me on this one."

"Okay," she repeated, though this time she didn't sound quite so disbelieving. In fact, she started to smile the slightest bit.

He hid the smirk well before he glanced up at Tammy and Tyler. "You need to keep your hands up," he told Tammy and then pointed at Tyler. "And you need to freakin' let loose already."

"He was doing pretty well until he got swamped," Tammy argued.

"Don't defend what you don't know about," Logan said, shaking his head with a scrunched up face. "It could have been worse."

"I've been at all his training sessions except yours," Tammy said, drawing herself up. "He does great."

Logan laughed and shook his head, still watching the kids. "Says the girl that can't keep her hands up in her own defense."

"Yeah, I know," she said. "But Ty's good."

Tyler looked like he was about to tell Tammy to let it be, but just then, Tommy broke out with, "I call BS on this sim! There is no way this many ninjas exist in one place at one time ever!"

"I'll take you to Japan with me next time I go, and you can do a headcount," Logan called back. "This doesn't even touch it."

"Yeah, I've heard stories from Kate," Cassie laughed.

"I still call BS," Tommy grumbled.

"He's not joking," Scott said over the speaker. "This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is Logan's warm-up sim."

"What, can't you keep up, Tommy?" Brye called out, still confident even though it was clear she and Hisako were both struggling.

"Keep quiet and get to work," Logan called out. "You guys are setting some kinda record on this sim."

"So slow," Tommy grumbled.

Still, even with the kids struggling and grumbling, they did eventually make it through the sim — even if Rico got tagged out toward the end when he tried to pull some fancy footwork to show off … and ended up falling on the wrong side of the last knot of ninjas.

After the kids got their breath and some water — as well as a few tips from both Scott and Logan — Scott called down from the booth. "Alright, get ready for the next sim. Logan, come on up here — we'll let them handle it on their own and see if they can keep from getting too distracted."

Logan nodded and turned to the kids. "You heard the man. Get ready to try and pretend you're some kinda professionals." He gave them each a look before he headed out and dropped into the seat next to Scott.

The kids got their breath and tried to look like they knew what they were doing — and in the booth, Scott wasn't even trying to hide the grin on his face as he looked Logan's way.

"What's got you grinnin'?" Logan asked.

"You'll see," Scott replied before he started up the next sim — and Logan very quickly recognized the street in Bed Stuy before the first of the tracksuits even showed their faces.

"No," he said to Scott with a disbelieving smile creeping across his face.

"Hey, it was your idea," Scott said, though he just grinned even wider. "You wanted them to be more serious. How long do you think before they crack?"

"This thing is gonna be over before it gets goin'."

"I'm betting Cassie lasts longest," Scott told him as he leaned back and watched the kids.

"Alright. What're the stakes, Slim?" Logan asked, eyes sparkling.

"Loser buys the drinks at Harry's."

"You're on," he agreed before he looked over the kids with a grimace. "Not much to work with. They're all a buncha chuckleheads." He swore under his breath. "Tommy won't last five minutes. Gonna have to go with Ty, but I'm probably buying anyhow."

"Tyler was my second choice," Scott admitted as he leaned back to watch the show.

The kids clearly hadn't been expecting the simulation to go the way it did, though the look of pure disbelief on Tyler's face when he was the first one to make a solid hit and get a loud "bro" already had the two X-Men in the booth chuckling. And, like Logan had predicted, Tommy didn't make it far at all as he was the next to earn himself a "bro" and started laughing like a loon, now actively trying to get as many "bro"s as he could as the other kids looked unsure about what the heck was going on, half of them trying to keep straight faces as they fought and the other half whispering about whether or not this was a prank of some kind.

By that time, both Scott and Logan were full on laughing, completely beside themselves — full on tears rolling down their faces as they tried to stop, but it wasn't happening with Tommy amusing himself like he was.

"THIS IS AMAZING!" Tommy shouted out between fits of laughter, clearly having given up entirely on taking anything seriously as the other kids started to break down laughing too — though to both Scott and Logan's surprise, it was Hisako that lasted the longest as she looked at the others like they were insane. She cemented her position as the only one not laughing when she looked up at the booth to see that both of their supervisors were in tears laughing as she tsked and rolled her eyes at being the butt of the joke.

When the sim finally died, the entire team was still in fits of giggles, and it took a long time to get any response from the booth. Finally, Scott managed to compose himself long enough to tell the team they were done for the day and to hit the showers before he started to laugh again as soon as the mic was off.

As soon as the mic cut, Logan fell apart again. "Totally worth it — I'm buyin'."

"You were right — Tommy lasted, what, two minutes?" Scott said, still though barely restrained laughter.

"Tops," Logan replied with a grin as he picked his head up off of his crossed arms and wiped a tear away with the back of his hand.

Scott was unrestrainedly grinning his way. "The look on Tyler's face," he gasped out.

"You're gonna print that, right?"

"Oh, definitely," Scott said before he couldn't help himself. "Seriously, bro. It's going to your phone."

The two of them tried to keep a straight face, but it wasn't going to happen. "Kate first."

"I want to be there when she gets it," Scott said, his shoulders still shaking as he tried to get himself under control.

"So do it over coffee in the morning when she's not awake yet," Logan suggested with a grin.

"Oh, that's perfect," Scott agreed.

Logan and K were already tucked into their spot at the table, half snuggled up as Elin played, going over the paper together when Scott came in with the twins and Annie.

The two men nodded to each other as they always did but otherwise didn't really acknowledge each other in the least as they went into their morning routine. As usual, Chance rushed through his breakfast so he could go play with Elin, and Charlie tried very hard to pretend like she didn't want to do exactly the same thing, though she was finished by the time Kurt and Kate came down with Krissy.

Logan glanced up to watch her pour her coffee and blearily lean against the counter, her eyes half closed as she tasted the first sip, topped it off and headed to the table. He glanced at Scott, who was smirking the slightest, and a moment later, the X-Men's leader stood up to go refill his own mug as Kate tried to stay awake.

Her phone was at her elbow when the alert chimed, and she peered at it for a moment with a glare that clearly said "no." She seemed to consider whether or not it was worth it to find out who wanted to talk to her as Erik sat down on her other side and Krissy immediately climbed into his lap with a wide grin as she showed him the new toy she'd gotten for her birthday as a late present from Wade — a very cute little purple stuffed elf that had likely been sewn by her "Deadpoooow-el."

Erik was appropriately aw-ing over the present when Kate finally decided to check the alert on her phone, and when she saw that it was a video from Scott called "seriously, team," she started with a slow smirk.

But it still took her a while to understand what was happening as she watched the video feed of the junior team taking on her sim. It was really more a matter of how tired she was that it took until Tommy started cackling maniacally for her to break into giggles, and once the other kids started up, she was full-on laughing as Erik peered over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow, though even he couldn't help but start to chuckle when he realized what was going on.

"Is that really the best use of the Danger Room?" he asked, despite the wide smile he had on that was impossible to fight off when Kate was shaking with laughter beside him.

But at that, Scott lost all semblance of composure and burst into laughter. Logan wasn't far behind him either, and the two of them were, again, all but gasping for breath as the sounds from the video echoed quietly across the table.

Kurt was laughing too — especially when the kids at the breakfast table started up with the belly laughs as well, clearly tickled by the laughter all around them, even if they didn't understand what was going on. And the kids seemed only to fuel their parents, who fueled the kids — until half the room was gasping for breath.

"I think it's an excellent use of resources," Kurt said over the top of Kate's head Erik's way as he tipped his head, grinning wide, at Scott and Logan still wiping tears.

Krissy seemed to think that Erik wasn't laughing hard enough, too, and she stood up so she could put a hand on either side of his face. "Funny," she said through giggles. Which, of course, had Kate dying harder, with Kurt close behind as he fell apart at the look on Krissy's face when she glanced over at her mother and beamed.