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A/N: In this story Bobby is an X Man and Tabitha is back on the New Mutants team and Scott and Jean are in college, are over 19 and teaching some classes to the New Mutants who have matured quite a lot since the whole Apocalypse thing I think that's it for now.

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Character thoughts

Training with the X Men

Dax woke up to the sun streaming in on his face which wasn't very pleasant cuz' it was so bright and shiny and did I forget to mention it was 5A.M but that was the time he had to get up to train with the x men. He quickly and quietly collected his clothes he was going to wear after the session and just threw on a pair of sweats and sleeveless tee. It seemed he was the only one up so he went for a walk around the mansion then came back to find his roommate awake and getting dressed for the day. "Hey Dax nice sweats nice boxers Jack he countered" "huh oh right I'm only wearin' these cuz' I've got a danger room session in an hour and don't want to get my normal clothes all sweaty I went for a run" he said a little out of breath. After our little talk we went to the kitchen to see all the new mutants around the table eating breakfast with the rest of our friends. We sat down next Axle and Josh and the girls and we started eating. About half way through the meal the rest of the X Men came from upstairs and sat down and ate with us as well. Once everyone was finished eating the Professor made an announcement to all the new x men that meant myself Dax Josh and the girls Maddie Kacey and Macey he said something like this "all new x men are to report to the danger room in 15 minutes for their first session as a new team good luck" that's all he said and then we were off to the lockers in the lower levels. Once he had said that the New Mutants went to do whatever it is that they wanted to do and we were on our way to our first danger room session our first real one anyway.

The girls ran ahead of us to get their lockers and we just walked along with Bobby and Kurt the ice making mutant and the fuzzy elf could defiantly tell that something was wrong if Logan was here he and not up front he would say something like this " what's wrong guys ah can smell the nervousness comin' off of yah like a steam boat". Bobby was the first one to speak up "it's nothing to worry about guys Logan and Andy promised they would go easy on you" said Bobby like it was nothing. Ja they promised I think Andy even swear on his dead best friends grave that they would go easy on you Kurt chimed in trying to lighten to mood. We finally arrived at the guys locker room and we quickly got changed but not fast enough because Logan and Andrew walked in the room from the showers with nothing but a pair of boxers on each and let's just say it was not something you wanted to see this early in the mornin'. "What" they both exclaimed like seeing your teachers practically nude was normal and it was normal for Kurt Bobby and Scott not them it was just something they would have to get used I guess.. The three of us quickly got over our shock of seeing Wolverine and Ace in boxers. When that was over they headed down to the danger room where they found all the x men there Hank Ororo Logan Andy and the rest the only one who wasn't there was the Prof and it was a surprise to us all. All of a sudden the Prof's voice came over the microphone and said "today will be a team exercise he said smiling. "Well no duh some of us thought why else would we all be down and in uniform". The professor continued to talk despite the murmurs and groans "like I said today will be a team exercise but the only difference is since we have six new members gesturing toward us you will be split into three teams now the teams have already been selected based on powers and experience and teamwork meaning how well you all work with certain people" he explained still smiling. I went over to Andrew or Ace as he was known in uniform "did you know about this" I asked puzzled he said no he didn't know all he knew was this was a team exercise that's about all any of us knew.

"Great" I thought to myself "we're flying blind and on our first session as a team what if we don't do as well as yesterday what if Logan and Andrew decide to throw us back with the others" all these thoughts and many others were flying through my head. Finally the Professor spoke up again seeing the that the chatter had died down a bit "the teams are as follows Team 1 will be Wolverine Ace Storm and Beast Team 2 will be Cyclops Jean Shadowcat Rouge Nightcrawler and Iceman and team 3 will consist of I'm sorry I don't seem to have codenames for all of you I'll let you take a few minutes to decide on names in about 10 minutes we were ready.

"We're ready" I told the Professor out loud alright he said let's hear it. I went first being the appointed leader of the group you can call me "Scream" I said I saw the Prof wrote my name down Axle comma Scream Dax went next he said from now on call me "Astro" his name went down Dax comma Astro Josh was next he came forward and said I will be called Dark Shadow and then he stepped back in line. The girls came next Maddie went first and said call me Flow then Macey went and said Shades call me Shades finally Kacey went and said I'll be called Ricochet the professor wrote down their names and codenames and that was it we could finally start the session. The newly revised Team 3 consisted of Scream Astro Dark Shadow Flow Shades and Ricochet. Now we could finally get started. Before we started I questioned the Professor saying "Um Professor Wolverine's team only has three other people I don't mean to put anyone down but there is no way they're going to win the rest of us have twice as many people that they have" the professor only smiled knowing full well why the Logan's team only had three other people on it but he wasn't going to tell the young mutant why just yet.

All of a sudden the scenery changed into a forest and everyone looked at each other either smiling laughing at I don't know what or just simply staring the competition down thinking of a way to get us out of the way so they could get to their flag first and win. For one last time the Professor's voice came over the loud speaker saying the rules are as follows anything goes powers can be used to the full extent and as soon as he said that everyone in the entire room erupted with shouts of joy. I later found out that the Professor hardly ever lets them go all out in a simple game of capture the flag for fear of someone getting hurt but he knew his X Men would never truly intentionally hurt another teammate and that they had earned a break from all that control having to keep control of your anger emotions or animalistic beast side in check was hard work. He blew the whistle and we were off into the unknown. I had devised a plan a very simple plan actually called divide and conquer. "Scream what do we do know" asked Ricochet with a hint of anxiety in her voice. "We split up divide and conquer" some of them looked at me with questioning eyes but they would never come out and question me I knew that for a fact.

Ricochet Shades and Flow you take the north side and the guys and I will take the south before we split I told everyone to cover their ears and they did and I let out one of my sonic screams knowing full well that three people would be on the ground screaming writhing in pain. True to my word I heard not far off from where we were standin' three distinct screams the first from Ace the second Beast the last one Wolverine.

We set of in two different directions north and south. About half way through we came to a stream "now what" asked Astro frustrated we had come to an obstruction "easy" I said we use Dark Shadow's shadows to cover us and levitate over the stream so that way we wouldn't leave tracks. We did that and thankfully it worked we were over. "I wonder if the girls are having as good a luck as we are" I thought as we went further into the woods looking for our blue colored flag. On the north side of the forest the girls we unfortunately having no such luck they had already run into Storm and Cyclops and had bruisin' all over. "Shades do you see the flag" asked Flow wondering how much time had gone by and if the guys we doin' okay. The two girls heard a rustlin' in the bush behind them it was only Ricochet coming back from scoutin' and she didn't look so good "What happened asked Flow I… ran into Jean and Rouge and it looks like close to the end but they don't have the flag, well that's good right said Shades wrong I said tryin' to catch my breath there are four other people on that team and either one of them could have the flag and we don't know who has it or doesn't. We better get going if we wanna find the guys and the flag said Flow startin' off at a run making us catch up.

Somewhere else in woods a fight was going down between Iceman and Ace each mutant evenly matched and knew each other's weaknesses. Ace hurled a fire ball at Iceman and Iceman countered it with a giant snowball until Ace stopped hearin' something or rather someone he ran off fear in his eyes. The ever so cocky Iceman thought he had won turnin' around and coming face to face battered and bruised very angry lookin' Wolverine and that was the end of that small scuffle. Wolverine sent the ice makin' mutant into a nearby tree and he went down with a thud satisfied he went to rejoin his "partner in crime" in the search for the flag. It seemed like they had been at this for hours and finally Astro Scream and Dark Shadow came into view now out in the open with Flow Shades and Ricochet "did you find the flag asked Flow to no one in particular Astro was the one who answered "no we didn't we think one of the other teams has it "did yah run into any trouble "did we run into any trouble Ricochet thought bitterly to herself no we didn't we just felt like beating ourselves up for fun. "Of course we ran into trouble she practically screamed into Astro's face we had Ace trackin' us for about a mile then we heard him howl in pain then we ran into Storm and Cyclops fightin' and it seems I got the worst of it. Okay so we all had a little trouble that's supposed to be expected said Scream. While we were talking we heard the computer announce 15 minutes that means we had 15 minutes to find the flag and reach the finish line. We heard collective responses of Crap Crud oh no from all around the forest. Good that means the others are crunched for time too thought Scream desperately tryin' to think of a way to get the flag in time. He came out of his thoughts when he an all to formal growl come out of tree line it seemed that was a signal of some sort because suddenly there was a flurry of people rushin' to their respective flags tryin to get to it before the other two teams. Without even thinking his feet were carryin' him toward their team flag his teammates running behind him. "Come on guys we can do it their just a bunch of people just like us we can beat'em to it" I practically screamed at the rest of the team now only inches away from our flag. The computerized voice came through countin' down from 20 "not helpin'" I thought to myself. The clock kept goin' down

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10 seconds that's when it happened a blur of black and silver and that's when I knew it was over Ace had grabbed the red flag for his team. The clock continued to count down as Cyclops raced to his flag red faced and angry that he wasn't the winner but he was a good sport about.9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 the timer ran down and with a loud beep it announced it was the session was over and that the winner was the Red Team Team 1. Once again the Prof's voice came on one last time "Congratulations Red Team you won capture the flag it was then at that moment that I realized why Wolverine's team only had three other people on it and that was because that's all that was needed no more no less in the words of The Wolverine We're the best there is at what we do minus the what we do isn't very nice part but he had figured it out non the less.

The Professor than came in from the control room to congratulate all of the teams on a job well done. After that the Professor left to go check on the rest of the mansion and its residents we hadn't realized that we had been down there much of the morning. On our way back to the locker rooms the girls and Ms. Munroe came and congratulated us on a job well done we were a great is what Kitty and Jean said on there way passed us and Rouge took me aside and said "Don't let ol' Wolverine and Ace intimidate yah sugah yah're natural born leader don't and don't yah forget she said with smile and headed towards the girls locker room. When the guys and I reached the lockers everyone was crowdin' around the three guys on Storm's team clappin' on their shoulders saying nice goin' guys nice show of heroics that was pure talent. Once everyone was showered and dressed the Professor came in and saw how sore some of us were and he said any and all who need to go to the infirmary I suggest you go now looking at the assortment of people and injuries. He knew even with Wolverine and Ace's healing factor he still wanted Hank to check them out with a good bill of health. A few minutes later they were cleared from Hank and able to go about their day. We all headed up once everyone was bandaged up and given home care instructions like for Rouge she sprained her ankle so she couldn't walk on it so she had to use crutches or have her half-brother Kurt teleport her everywhere but other than that everyone else only had minor beatings and bruising.

About an hour later I was in the rec room with Jack N my new roommate flippin' through the channels bored out of my mind I was about to get up and go to our room when I heard Bobby talking about this new movie The Green Hornet ask soon as I heard that I dashed out of the room and towards the group of guys I called friends. "Hey guys watcha doing" I asked innocently "they said we're going out to a movie". Do you and the guys wanna come if you mean the girls too then yeah sure we'll come with you. Then it was settled we would go at 4:15 and we would have dinner afterwards. Jack and I went up to our room to change I mean who wants to go out to the movies in sweats I don't. Once we had told the girls about the movie they too went to their rooms to change clothes and freshen up. At around 3:30 we were all piled into two cars and off to the movies and have a good time. Today he thought as he sat between his roommate and best friend Maddie that it had turned out to be a really good day and couldn't wait to find out what tomorrow would bring.

A/N: That's the end of chapter 4 read and review please tell me what you think I'd really appreciate it.

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