-Rosenblatt Residence-

"Maybe I should skip. Nothing says freak like coal for lunch." Duncan Rosenblatt said.

"You're not a freak, Duncan." his mother sighed. Getting Duncan into a school was not easy, due to him getting into fights with bullies that made fun of his scaly, orange skin. However, this new school in Bayville was supposed to have a good record when it came to prevent fights and bullies picking on other students.

"Get real, Mom! I eat coal! And my skin; you can call it pumpkin, you can call it tangerine, or burnt sienna, but let's face it. It's orange." the teen replied, grabbing a bowl of coals and walking to the kitchen table.

Holding a glass of juice, Margaret Rosenblatt quipped, "And 'orange' you just adorable!" Duncan groaned. Hearing a really bad joke like that didn't help his mood. "Duncan, this is a new school, not an execution. Just try to socialize, make some friends, and…"

"And stop getting into fights, but they're the ones who start it! Jerks instinctively drawn to me, like… homing pigeons!" Duncan snapped.

"Duncan, you're a 16 year-old boy like every other guy in your class, and every kid in that school has problems of their own. So if you can just get along with people and keep your temper, everything gonna be just fine."

"Message received." He began to go out of their house to walk to Bayville High. Duncan could not wait to hear the jokes and puns about his appearance, coming from neanderthals and jocks that had a brain the size of a peanut.

His mom said one last thing to him before he left. "Oh, and Duncan?" She gave him the "I love you" phrase in sign language.

"I love you too, Mom."

"Actually, that time it was just, 'Rock on'."

"Ugh."

-Bayville High-

"Come on! We're going to be late! Hurry up, Kitty!" said Scott Summers. He had just finished parking his 1962 Chevrolet Corvette in the student parking section and was trying get the other X-men behind him to hurry up. They had about 10 minutes until the bell rang and Scott always wanted to be on time.

"Scott, we're fine. It's not the end of the world if we're late. And besides, we've got time to get to first period." retorted Kitty Pryde.

The X-men got to their respective first classes and the bell rang. In Rogue's biology class, however; there was a surprise for the class.

The biology teacher stood up and cleared her throat. "Class, we have a new student today. Duncan, could you please come in so I can introduce you?" A teenage boy, standing at about 6'7", with spiked blond hair and what looked to be a really bad spray tan walked in and stood next to him. "I'd like the whole class to give a warm welcome to Duncan Xerxes Absalom Belphegor Gressil Pythias Wu Fan…" The class was chuckling and laughing at Duncan's name.

"Uh, yeah. Just Duncan. Fine, Mrs. Dreakford?"

"Oh, all right. Take a seat, Duncan." He took a seat next to Rogue and Mrs. Dreakford began to pass out trays that each had a frog on them. She began to talk and this continued for a while until Duncan looked at his frog and realized it was not a typical amphibian. It was a Gomorradon, one of his dad's scouts. The teacher must have found it and believed it to be a frog. He couldn't really blame her; she wore thick glasses and was in her early 70's. He looked around. No one had noticed the creature yet, so that was good. Duncan pocketed it and the bell rang for next period. The next two periods turned out okay. When he found an opening between class and lunch, he released the tiny lizard into the bushes. Lunch came around and he looked for people to sit with. He finally found a seat with a group that consisted of a tall kid wearing red sunglasses, a buttoned shirt, and khakis, a pale goth that had clothes that covered her arms, legs, and stomach, and had brown hair complimented with two streaks of white, a petite girl with a ponytail and sandals, jeans that went down to her shins, and a jacket, a short, blueish-black-haired boy who wore jeans and a plain red shirt, and an African American kid with his hair dyed blond and a chevron cut out at the back who wore beat-up sneakers, cargo shorts, and a white tank top.

"You're the new kid right?" asked Evan. Scott smacked him upside the head

"What?!"

"Be a little nicer next time you ask that and I won't do it again." Scott said. "Hi, I'm Scott Summers, the girl with the ponytail is Kitty Pryde, the goth is Rogue, the guy who's currently eating a plate of food that's looks too big for him is Kurt Wagner, and the doofus I just smacked is Evan Daniels."

"Duncan Rosenblatt. Nice to meet you." the kid replied. He seemed nice enough. Rogue could definitely tell he'd had his fair share of bullying. His skin was a dead giveaway. Anyone who was an idiot would definitely make fun of him. The group began to make smalltalk and it was good up until Duncan took out his lunch.

"What's in the bag?" inquired Kitty.

"My lunch." They looked inside and saw a bunch of barbeque coals. The X-men just raised their eyebrows and stared at him.

"You eat coal? Just straight coal?" Kurt questioned.

"Yup. Why, is there a problem?"

"No. I've eaten weirder things, like Kitty's burned cookies and muffins."

Kitty immediately started to protest. "Hey, that was one time! And they were not that badly burned!"

"Kitty, you almost burned down the kitchen and the rest of the mansion along with it. After we turned off the oven, only Kurt dared to even taste the stuff you baked and he spat them back out 2 seconds later." Rogue said. The group began to laugh at the phasing mutant's misfortune. The bell rang and they went their separate ways. The rest of the day went without any trouble.

-X-mansion-

After school, the X-men began to talk about Duncan as they entered the mansion.

Evan was the first to speak. "Do you guys think Duncan's a mutant? I mean his skin was orange. And it looked very scaly."

Scott replied, "He might be. But here's the odd thing. I have never heard of a mutant who could only eat a single item. And that item's coal? I think we should wait to confront him."

"I hope you are right about Duncan. But just in case, let's ask the Professor first and see what he says." Rogue said.

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