A football game is taking place at Bayville high as the home team receives support from the students of their school. During the game, the home's team quarterback, Duncan Matthews, makes a touchdown as he falls after being tackled and has his picture taken by Jean Grey.
"Duncan Matthews does it again, this time with a quarterback keeper. The Bayville Hawks seem to have this one wrapped up with time running out." The Announcer said.
Meanwhile, sitting up in the bleachers, Scott Summers is watching the game, with his friend Thea Allen who had blue eyes, brunette hair, and lightly tanned skin, while he's flipping around a quarter with his fingers. Scott drops his change underneath the bleacher he was sitting on.
"Oh, man. My cash." He said but when he tilts his head, he notices a hand going through the bleachers and into the pocket of a man, taking his wallet, Scott taps Thea on the shoulder and points to the hand, "Hey, check it. Looks like someone's taking up a collection."
"Come on, Scott, let's go tell the cops," Thea said as she gets up from the bleacher, but Scott grabs her arm.
"Hold that option open. Got another one," Scott told her and got up from the bleachers.
"Scott, what are you doing?" She asked
"I'm just gonna investigate," He answered and headed underneath the bleachers with Thea closed behind him. When they were underneath the bleachers, they saw Todd "Toad" Tolansky being held up by the collar of his shirt against a wooden beam by Duncan.
"Shut up, frog face!" Duncan barked
"Let's crush him, Dunc!" One of the two football players said.
"Let's not, Dunc," Scott said, making both his and Thea's presence known to them, "Just chill. The wallets are still there."
"Why don't we have him give back the cash?" Thea suggested, "No harm done."
"Yeah. Yeah," Toad agreed and took out the money he stole, "See? Here's the money."
"What do you care about this scuzzo, Summers? Allen?" Duncan asked.
"Not much."Scott answered, "But I'm not crazy about three against one either. So how about we settle this peacefully?"
"I think me and my buds are gonna squash this slimeball. So you and your stupid "sunglasses at night" can just bail." Duncan then throws Toad to the muddy ground. Scott lowers his glasses just enough to see a bright red glow.
Thea spotted it and said, "Scott, not here."
"I said, knock it off!" Scott said as he grabbed a hold of Duncan and told him to knock it off before throwing him against his two fellow football players.
His friends help Ducan up by one of them notices that Toad is escaping, "Hey! He's getting away!" One of them said and they both dropped Duncan before going after Toad.
After falling to the muddy ground, Duncan gets up, "Big mistake, Summers. You too, Allen," He tells them angrily as Scott gets into a fighting stance, and Duncan lunges at Scott
Jean arrives and calls out, "Scott, no!" He looks at her, being distracted, Duncan takes this opportunity and socks him across the brow.
"Scott!" Both Jean and Thea call out as Scott is flown back and hits a beam knocking his glasses off and opens his eyes. The optic blast hits Duncan which knocks him unconscious as the blast also hits a propane tank nearby an unattended snack bar. Causing an explosion and the nearby bleachers to catch on fire, which results in serious collateral damage to the field.
While Jean was at a safe distance, Thea used her telekinesis to put a shield around her to protect herself from the blast and the falling debris.
"It's too hot to touch, at least with my hands," Jean said as she approached the burning beams and lifts them with her telekinesis finding Scott's glasses. She soon finds Scott still under the bleachers as he sits with his eyes closed after losing his glasses and gives them to him.
"You okay?" She asks.
"Jean," He said before looking at the damage, "Oh, wow. I-"
"I know," Jean interrupts him, meaning that she knew he didn't mean to do it.
Thea then towards them as she puts her shield down, "Look we better get going before someone gets suspicious, Jean you should head over to Duncan and make sure he's alright," She tells them.
Meanwhile, Duncan was tended to by medics.
"Take it easy, son. Try not to move." One of the EMTs said as he took off Duncan's helmet and shines a light in his eye.
"What happened here?" The police officer asked Duncan.
"My head. Can't remember," He answered
"Concussion," The EMT stated, "He's been hit hard.
The officer then looks at the fire at the site of the explosion with suspicion, "It looks to me like-," He stopped mid-sentence, Elena smiled knowing that it was a telepathic signal from the nearby Rolls Royce was her Dad, Charles Xavier, "Of course. Must've been a leak in that propane tank."
The EMTs placed Duncan on a gurney preparing to put him in the ambulance Jean walked over.
"Duncan, are you all right?" Jean asked.
"Hey, Jean. Yeah, you know me. Skull like concrete," He lightly taps his head before wincing in pain, "Ow."
"You poor baby." She comforts him.
As Jean tended to Duncan and went in the ambulance with him, Toad came to a jealous Scott and a calm Thea.
"Thanks," He said to them for stopping Duncan, "Really, you know?"
"Yeah," Was all Scott said before he and Thea walk off, heading to his convertible and heading home to the institute. After they left, Toad devoured a fly via his tongue revealing him to be a mutant as he hops away.
The next day, at the Xavier Institute, Elena, in her true form, was meditating in her room when she heard her Dad's voice.
"Elena, could you come down here?" He asked telepathically, " There's someone I want to introduce."
"Sure, I'll be down there in a second," She answered.
"Good, we'll be in the study."
Elena then uncrossed her legs to touch the ground from her levitating meditation stance. She walked down the stairs and into the study that is near the front door when Elena enters the study she sees that her Dad, accompanied by a stranger dressed in overcoats.
"Ah, Elena, thank you for coming. We're just waiting for Scott and Jean, " Xavier said.
"We're heading out, professor," Scott said as he and Jean were walking down from upstairs.
"Just a moment, you two," Xavier told them, "Come here."
Once they were in the study, Xavier began introductions.
"I'd like you to meet someone. This is Kurt Wagner," He gestured to the stranger in overcoats, "He arrived late last night."
"Hey, Kurt. This is Jean. I'm Scott," He gestured to Jean and then himself before holding out his hand," How you doing?" Causing Kurt to back away from Scott.
"Kurt, you're among friends here," Charles reassured.
Both Jean and Scott had expressions of shock on their faces as Kurt's blue three-fingered shakes Scott's hand, "Hello," Kurt said.
"I was just telling Kurt how I set up this institute for gifted youngsters whose gifts are not always an asset. Right, Scott?" Xavier scowled Scott.
"So you heard about last night."
"Difficult not to. It was on all the news channels."
"It was a bad situation, and there was an accident. I'm sorry," Scott admitted.
"I know. Fortunately, no one was badly hurt and the true cause was not discovered. But you must be more careful, Scott. This is exactly why I asked Elena to watch over you at school."
"Come on, professor! I'm packing a bazooka behind each eyeball!," He taps on his temples, " What do you want from me?"
"Control, Scott. That's what you're here to learn. That's why you're all here. Scott's eyes emit a destructive optic blast beam." Xavier explained.
"Cool," Kurt said with a smile as he removed his hood revealing that he was blue and had pointed ears.
"How about you, Kurt? Got a special gift that brought you here?" Jean asked, Kurt then demonstrates by teleporting across the room, impressing both Jean and Scott.
"Maybe," Kurt said.
"I'll be helping Kurt get settled in. We can talk more tonight." Xavier tells them.
Later at Bayville High, after the lunch bell rang, Scott's shuffling items through his locker, getting his paper lunch bag.
Thea walks up to him, "Listen, Scott, I'll try to talk to dad after school about last night."
"Don't worry about it Thea, but thanks." He closed his locker and Toad was behind the door.
"Yo, Summers. Allen. What's up?" Toad said before jumping above the lockers.
Both Scott and Thea look left and right to check if the halls were clear, "That's quite a jump," Scott complimented.
"Like it?" Toad asked, "Surprised you could see it through them smokies of yours. Here, let me help." He then snatched away Scott's glasses with his tongue.
"Hey!" Scott exclaimed.
"What's the matter, Summers? Afraid to open your eyes?" Toad pestered him
"Obviously we both know what'll happen if I do. Now give me back my shades before I go nuclear on you. You got it." Scott told Toad before he was handed back his glasses which were now covered in slime.
"Well, as you can see, you and me got something in common."
"Yeah. Now we're both slimy." Scott said as he wiped the slime off his glasses.
"No. I mean, we ain't like other people." Toad concluded, jumps off the lockers and behind Scott and Thea.
"And your point is?" Scott asked.
"I just want to talk, "Toad then jumps back on the lockers and hangs on, "You know, get to know each other better, especially you beautiful," He said to Thea, before snapping Scott's lunch off the floor with his tongue and eating it, "You know, maybe do lunch."
"We'll think about it," Scott said, then he and Thea left.
"Sure. You think about it, Summers. I got other stuff to do, " Toad then jumped out of a window.
When they reached the cafeteria, they went over to the payphones to tell the professor about Toad.
"Hello, Scott. Elena," Xavier greeted.
"Man, professor. You know it always weirds me out when you do that."
"Sorry. What are you calling about? Xavier asked.
"One of the students here, he's kind of like us," Scott replied
"Yes. Todd Tolansky,"
"You know him?" Scott asked
"Cerebro just got a reading. He must be using his powers openly now."
"Anyway, he's not the kind of guy I'd want to share a room with. I mean, to put it bluntly, he's got the personal hygiene of a dead pig." Scott expressed his distaste in recruiting Toad.
"We cannot turn our backs on anyone, Scott. You know that." Xavier told him.
"Yeah, I know."
"So should I bring him in? Thea asked.
"No need, Elena," Xavier tells her, " Speak with you later."
They then ended the call and carried on with their school day. When the day ended Scott, Thea, and Jean returned to the Institute, and as they entered the Institute, Elena returned to her normal form before Xavier communicated with her telepathically.
"Elena, could you audition someone with Storm for me?" He asked.
"No problem," Elena answered, " I assume that the one that will be auditioned is Todd Tolansky."
"Yes, he should be here later. I want you and Storm to get ready."
"Of course, " She said and left to put on her X-men suit and then joined Storm for the audition.
Later that night, Toad, in his battle uniform, slipped through the gates of the Mansion and made his way towards the mansion itself before Storm and Elena spotted him and used their powers to create rain above him. As the lighting nearly shocked him, he dodged it and fled from the grass. During his run, he was further attacked by Storm and Elena, who was willing to attack him with more thunder and lightning as he ran. Toad finally made his way into the Institute after being sent in by Elena's telekinesis and Storm's wind. Soon, Storm and Elena fly into the Institute.
"Yes. Tolansky is indeed gifted. He could be one of us," Xavier said as Storm and Elena walk up to him.
"Sometimes, professor, I feel your good heart blinds even you from the truth," Storm claims.
Then they saw Kurt and Toad chasing each other down the hall and, in the process, knocking things over.
"This test is over. Todd Tolansky does have the special gift of the X-gene," Xavier announces, " He's welcome to join us if he so desires."
"Only thing I desire is blue boy's fuzzy head," Toad said before proceeding to attack Kurt.
The two quickly were at each other's throats before Nightcrawler teleported himself and Toad. Elena then used her telepathy to find them and her breath hitched when she found them in the danger room.
"Father, they're in the danger room," She informs Xavier.
He then uses his telepathy to contact Jean and Scott, "Scott! Jean! Nightcrawler and Toad have teleported into the Danger Room!"
Xavier, Storm, and Elena rushed to the danger room control room.
Xavier went over to the controls, "Security code override: Priority X. Voiceprint: Charles Xavier."
"Confirmed. Shut down in five seconds," The computer announced.
"Now I get it. It's a training area," Kurt realized and then teleported onto one of the machines," Watch. I just pull the plug and, " When he pulled out the plug it caused the machine to attack Scott and Toad. Storm flies down and destroys the machine, and the danger room then went into shutdown.
"Forget this, man. I've seen enough. I am out of here," Toad then ran out of the danger room.
"Tolansky!," Scott tries to stop him, "Sorry, professor. I couldn't stop him."
"It's all right, Cyclops. He wasn't ready to be one of us." Xavier said.
"I blew it too, professor. I'm sorry. You've been wonderful. But I guess I just don't belong here," Kurt then teleported out of the danger room.
"Nightcrawler, wait!"
"No sweat, professor. I'll take care of it," Scott went off to find Kurt and convenience him to stay.
Toad jumped out the window he crashed into a table and landed on the ground, and as he shook it off he encountered Logan, whose claws came out of his knuckles.
"Going somewhere, bub?" He asked as he was ready to attack a cowering Toad.
Using the power she gained from Kurt, Elena teleport herself and Xavier to a balcony of the study.
"No, Logan," Xavier urged, gaining logan's attention," Let him go."
Logan retracts his claws and steps aside. Without a second thought Toad left as fast as he could.
"I came back here because I smelled trouble brewing," Logan said before sniffing the air, "Of course, maybe it was just stink boy there."
"I wish it was. Welcome home, old friend. We've missed you." Xavier said as Logan tips his hat as he smiles back at him.
Elena flies down and wraps her arms around him, and he wraps his arms around her waist to pull her close.
"It's good to have you back, Logan," She said with a smile.
"It's good to be back," He smiles back.
The two walked inside the institute and everyone was in the foray welcoming Kurt to the X-Men and then took notice of Logan and Elena.
"Logan, I would like to introduce our newest X-Men, Kurt Wagner," Xavier said as he gestured to Kurt.
"Nice to meet you, Kurt," Logan greeted
"Nice to meet you too and call me Nightcrawler," Kurt said.