36. GOODBYE KURT.
KURT (voice-over): It certainly needed a lot of vork, but ve pitched in, all the same, undoing the damage that Magneto did.
{The New Mutants are seen using their powers to demolish Magneto's ugly buildings and start building new houses in the old Bayville style. Kurt, Kitty, Bobby, and Evan go to the local prison and release all the humans being held there. Amanda emerges from her cell, delighted to see Kurt, but then pauses and looks at him sadly, as she realizes how he's changed. Kurt looks back at her, also sadly.
The scene changes to Kurt in the study at a now-restored Wagner End, looking troubled and thoughtful.}
KURT (v.o.): How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, vhen in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold.
{Kurt is sitting at his desk, writing in a large book. Kitty enters the study. As she does so, Kurt turns and looks at her. There is a pained look on his face; it's clear that his shoulder is hurting.}
KITTY: Kurt? What is it?
KURT: It's been four years to the day since Wintertop, Kitty. It's never really healed.
{Kitty walks over to the book and looks at it. It contains an account of their great adventure.}
KITTY: You finished it.
KURT (closing the book): Not quite. There's room for a little more.
{Xavier's old car drives up to Wagner End, with Kurt, Kitty, Bobby, and Evan waiting outside. The Professor smiles and waves at them.}
KURT (v.o.): Forge once told me his part in this tale vould end. That each of us must come and go in the telling. Forge's story vas now over. There vould be no more journeys for him... save one.
{Kurt and an elderly-looking Forge are in the back seat of Xavier's car.}
FORGE: Tell me again, Kurt, where are we going?
KURT: To the harbor, uncle. You've been accorded a special honor. A place on the last ship to leave Marvel-earth.
FORGE: Kurt, any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again? Hmm? The one I gave you?
KURT: I'm sorry, uncle. I'm afraid I lost it.
FORGE: Oh. Did you? I should like to have held it one last time.
{The car arrives at the harbor, and Xavier, Kurt, and Forge get out. Kitty, Bobby, and Evan, who were riding behind them, dismount from their ponies.}
FORGE (looking ahead): Oh! Here is a sight that I have never seen before.
{A great white ship lies at the quay before them. Storm and Beast are waiting by it, ready to help Forge on board.}
FORGE: I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
{Beast and Storm lead him onto the ship. Xavier turns and smiles at Kurt and the others, then speaks.}
XAVIER: It's time, Kurt.
KITTY: Like, what does he mean?
KURT: Ve set out to save Bayville, Kitty. And it has been saved. But not for me.
KITTY (through her tears): You can't mean that! You can't leave!
KURT (giving the book to her): The last pages are for you, Kitty.
{He hugs all three of his companions, Kitty last and longest. Then, smiling gently at her, he turns and walks onto the ship, where Xavier, Beast, Storm, and Forge are waiting for him. The ship sails away into the light as Kitty, Evan, and Bobby watch in silence.
Kitty is seen later returning to Bayville, still looking sad.}
KURT (v.o.): My dear Kitty, you cannot alvays be torn in two. You vill have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. Your part in this story will go on.
KITTY (with a sigh): Well, I'm back.
{She opens the door to her house, and goes in.
The words "The End" appear on the screen.}
DIRECTOR: And, cut! Great work, all of you!
TOAD (running up, shouting and trying to put out the fire): You should talk! What is this, roast toad week?
LANCE: Yeah, and I never even got to interact with Kitty! What's the deal with that?
BLOB: And that little blue furball ate my doughnuts! Wait until I get my hands on him!
PIETRO: Ah, come on, guys. It could be worse.
TOAD: How? How could things get any worse than they already are?
{There is a bamf, and what looks like a female version of Kurt appears in the middle of them.}
LANCE: Who are you?
NOCTURNE: I'm from the future. My name is Nocturne, and Kurt Wagner and Wanda Maximoff are my parents.
TOAD: What? That's the last straw! I'm gonna kill that wookie-boy!
{As he charges off, looking for Kurt, Lance shakes his head.}
LANCE: I don't know if there's any inner meaning or message in this story, but I have learned one thing. Never suggest that things can't get any worse than they already were. They'll always find a way.
{Toad and Kurt briefly bamf into sight, fighting each other, then bamf out of sight again, while the other Brotherhood boys stare at them in awe.}
PIETRO: Good night, everybody!
THE END (really).
KURT (voice-over): It certainly needed a lot of vork, but ve pitched in, all the same, undoing the damage that Magneto did.
{The New Mutants are seen using their powers to demolish Magneto's ugly buildings and start building new houses in the old Bayville style. Kurt, Kitty, Bobby, and Evan go to the local prison and release all the humans being held there. Amanda emerges from her cell, delighted to see Kurt, but then pauses and looks at him sadly, as she realizes how he's changed. Kurt looks back at her, also sadly.
The scene changes to Kurt in the study at a now-restored Wagner End, looking troubled and thoughtful.}
KURT (v.o.): How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, vhen in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold.
{Kurt is sitting at his desk, writing in a large book. Kitty enters the study. As she does so, Kurt turns and looks at her. There is a pained look on his face; it's clear that his shoulder is hurting.}
KITTY: Kurt? What is it?
KURT: It's been four years to the day since Wintertop, Kitty. It's never really healed.
{Kitty walks over to the book and looks at it. It contains an account of their great adventure.}
KITTY: You finished it.
KURT (closing the book): Not quite. There's room for a little more.
{Xavier's old car drives up to Wagner End, with Kurt, Kitty, Bobby, and Evan waiting outside. The Professor smiles and waves at them.}
KURT (v.o.): Forge once told me his part in this tale vould end. That each of us must come and go in the telling. Forge's story vas now over. There vould be no more journeys for him... save one.
{Kurt and an elderly-looking Forge are in the back seat of Xavier's car.}
FORGE: Tell me again, Kurt, where are we going?
KURT: To the harbor, uncle. You've been accorded a special honor. A place on the last ship to leave Marvel-earth.
FORGE: Kurt, any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again? Hmm? The one I gave you?
KURT: I'm sorry, uncle. I'm afraid I lost it.
FORGE: Oh. Did you? I should like to have held it one last time.
{The car arrives at the harbor, and Xavier, Kurt, and Forge get out. Kitty, Bobby, and Evan, who were riding behind them, dismount from their ponies.}
FORGE (looking ahead): Oh! Here is a sight that I have never seen before.
{A great white ship lies at the quay before them. Storm and Beast are waiting by it, ready to help Forge on board.}
FORGE: I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
{Beast and Storm lead him onto the ship. Xavier turns and smiles at Kurt and the others, then speaks.}
XAVIER: It's time, Kurt.
KITTY: Like, what does he mean?
KURT: Ve set out to save Bayville, Kitty. And it has been saved. But not for me.
KITTY (through her tears): You can't mean that! You can't leave!
KURT (giving the book to her): The last pages are for you, Kitty.
{He hugs all three of his companions, Kitty last and longest. Then, smiling gently at her, he turns and walks onto the ship, where Xavier, Beast, Storm, and Forge are waiting for him. The ship sails away into the light as Kitty, Evan, and Bobby watch in silence.
Kitty is seen later returning to Bayville, still looking sad.}
KURT (v.o.): My dear Kitty, you cannot alvays be torn in two. You vill have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. Your part in this story will go on.
KITTY (with a sigh): Well, I'm back.
{She opens the door to her house, and goes in.
The words "The End" appear on the screen.}
DIRECTOR: And, cut! Great work, all of you!
TOAD (running up, shouting and trying to put out the fire): You should talk! What is this, roast toad week?
LANCE: Yeah, and I never even got to interact with Kitty! What's the deal with that?
BLOB: And that little blue furball ate my doughnuts! Wait until I get my hands on him!
PIETRO: Ah, come on, guys. It could be worse.
TOAD: How? How could things get any worse than they already are?
{There is a bamf, and what looks like a female version of Kurt appears in the middle of them.}
LANCE: Who are you?
NOCTURNE: I'm from the future. My name is Nocturne, and Kurt Wagner and Wanda Maximoff are my parents.
TOAD: What? That's the last straw! I'm gonna kill that wookie-boy!
{As he charges off, looking for Kurt, Lance shakes his head.}
LANCE: I don't know if there's any inner meaning or message in this story, but I have learned one thing. Never suggest that things can't get any worse than they already were. They'll always find a way.
{Toad and Kurt briefly bamf into sight, fighting each other, then bamf out of sight again, while the other Brotherhood boys stare at them in awe.}
PIETRO: Good night, everybody!
THE END (really).