In the danger room control room, everyone watches the monitors as Logan dressed as a ninja sneaks into the institute via the air ducts. When he drops into the attic from the air duct, he is met by Storm, who summons a gust of wind causing a window to open, but he then escapes by going back into the air ducts. Storm then sends a flash flood into the air ducts, flushing Logan into the danger room.
Storm joins them in the control room and speaks through the intercom, "You look a little flushed, and the forecast isn't good."
He lunges at her and is frozen. While breaking out of his frosty confinement, "Now, that was cold."
"Then let's warm you up," Storm then nods her head, signaling Elena to press a button. A machine comes out of the wall and fires a laser at Logan. He manages to dodge the laser, lands on top, and plunges his claw into it causing it to explode. Logan is sent flying back and is able to land on his feet.
"Gotta connect first. Got any other party tricks?" Logan asked.
Elena presses another button. A machine comes out from the center of the floor. Three claws come out from it and begin to rotate at a high speed. Logan dodges the claws before he gets to the center and digs his claws in and shreds the wires.
"Stop! It is, at the moment, as much as we can afford, Wolverine," Xavier said as the machine powered down.
Logan removes his mask and says, "Hey, when I give a demo, I give a demo." He then walks to the elevator to join them in the control room.
"Is that demo as in "demolish" or "demonstration"? What was the point?" Scott asked.
"The point of this, Scott, was to teach you about finding the weak points in sophisticated security systems," Elena replied.
"That's right, bub. And I'd say ours needs a little work," Logan said as he walks into the room.
"That was tight. I give it two thumbs up," Kurt said cheerfully, hanging upside down with his tail wrapped around something on the ceiling.
"The vents were pretty easily breached. We'll need to fix that. Maybe electrify them or install poison gas sprayers," Logan suggested.
"Wolverine," Storm said in a stern tone.
"All right. All right. Knockout gas, then."
"Honestly Logan, why do you have to choose the more violent route of things?" Elena asked.
"Is it just me, or is anyone else, like, seriously freaked by all this?" Kitty asked, but everyone just looked at her, "Oh, right. It's just me? Great."
"Relax, Kitty. You'll be fine," Kurt teleports sitting to her left, "We're right beside you," he teleports to her right Popcorn?" he offered, "Oops. Sorry. Next time, I'll honk before I port."
"Whatever. Look, guys, it's late.
If it's no biggie to you I'm gonna, like, drop out," Kitty said as she phased through the floor.
"She's fully not into the fuzzy dude, not that I really blame her," Kurt hangs his head low.
Jean places a hand on his shoulder, "She just needs time, Kurt. She'll come around."
Xavier comes into the control room and tells them, "X-Men, we have an emergency. Scott, get the Blackbird prepped for launch. And since it's a weekend, assemble the full team."
"Yes, sir. What's the mission?" He asked.
"Cerebro has detected a new mutant in Caldecott County, Mississippi. My mental impressions from the scene indicate a highly disturbed individual. Our mutant is a danger to herself and possibly others as well. X- Men, we have a rogue."
Kurt flies the blackbird on their way to Caldecott County, Mississippi.
"Stealth mode stable. Leveling off at 10,000 feet," Kurt said.
"Steady. Now hold it right there. And you've got it! Nice job, Kurt. You'll make a pilot yet," Scott told him.
"Thanks," Kurt sits back and takes his hands off the steering, and uses his feet instead.
"Or maybe not. I've logged our flight plan with the FAA. We're clear through t Jackson. Then we'll take the van."
"Good. You're picking up logistics quickly, Scott," Xavier told him.
"Scott seems so, like, together. So cool, and he's kind of cute," Kitty told Jean.
"Cute?" Jean questioned, "Stiff, maybe. Exacting, definitely. But You know, from a certain angle."
Kurt then teleports outside on the front of the Blackbird. However, he loses his footing and begins to fall, teleporting into the Blackbird and falling on Kitty.
"The Blackbird is not the place to be fooling around. You'll frighten Kitty," Xavier told him.
"Sorry, Kitty," Kurt apologized.
"Just, like, stay away from me!" Kitty exclaimed. She unbuckles from her seat and walks up to the front with Scott.
"Kids," Logan utters in annoyance.
After landing, the X-men took a van to the hospital where Cody is to extract information from him about Rouge. The X-men sit in the van while Elena goes into the hospital disguised as a nurse.
"This really necessary?" Logan asked.
"Yes, Logan. The boy, Cody, is the key to finding our rogue. But he's unconscious, and his mind is elusive. To isolate his memory patterns, I need someone on the inside."
Xavier then uses his telepathy and sees Elena in Cody's hospital room. Cody's parents standing by his side, while his friend paces.
As Elena walks up to Cody his friend starts to ask questions, "He'll be okay, right? You'll help him?"
"Yes, we will," Elena answered, she places her hand on Cody's forehand and sends information to Xavier.
A while later, Elena, Kurt, Kitty, and Logan look around for the girl in an alley between apartment buildings.
"So does this, like, bite, or what?" Kitty asked.
"The prof says the girl's mind is confused and difficult to pinpoint so keep looking," Logan said as he looked in a dumpster he sniffs, but soon catches another sent and sniffs and walks away from the dumpster.
"Vhat? Got a scent?" Kurt asked.
"Yeah. I smell fear."
They followed Logan to where he smelt the fear and soon found the girl with a blind woman. The girl looks at them and runs away.
"That's gotta be her!" Logan said before they chase after her.
"Please leave me be!" The girl cried as she climbed over a high fence.
Kurt teleports in front of Logan and says, "Volverine, wait! She seems to be terrified by you. Let me try."
"Okay, kid. Just don't mess up. Capisce?"
"Yes, sir!"
"I'll go find the prof. And, squirt, put on your best face," Kurt gives two thumbs up before turning on his image inducer, "No sense freaking the poor kid out any more than she already is. And keep an eye on the half-pint here."
"Hey!" Kitty said, taking offense at what Logan had said.
"He gives nicknames to everyone," Elena told her, "You should hear mine"
"I'll stay with them," Elena told Logan. She and Kitty phase through the fence that the girl had climbed over.
"Half-pint." I'll show him," Kitty said.
They look in front of them and saw Kurt talking with the girl.
"She doesn't look so tough to me," Kitty said, she lunges at the girl. and pins her down.
"Kitty, no!" Kurt and Elena shouted.
Soon the girl pushed Kitty off of her. Kurt rushes over to the girl, she struggles to get Kurt's hands off her arms, but accidentally turns off his image inducer. The girl shrieks before putting her ungloved hand on Kurt's face. She teleports away as Kurt is rendered unconscious and collapses. Kitty gets off the ground and Elena rush over to Kurt.
"Nightcrawler?! Nightcrawler! Kurt! Kurt!" Kitty shouted as she nudged him, "Say something, Kurt, please! Tease me, scare me, anything! Oh, please don't be dead."
Elena kneels and finds a pulse on Kurt's neck, "Kitty, calm down, he's alive. Everything is going to be okay. I want you to contact my father and tell him what happened, okay?"
"Okay."
"I want you to stay here with Kurt. I'm going to find the girl," Elena told her before teleporting away. She stopped teleporting when she heard her father's voice.
"Elena, the girl is in a cemetery. I'll-"
"Don't worry I have her sent, just focus on getting the others there," She interrupted before teleporting.
Elena waits at the entrance of the cemetery until Jean, Scott, and Storm arrive.
"She's in there. She's also scarred and confused," Elena told them," Jean, I want you to go in first and calm her down. Hopefully, with Kurt's memories, she'll trust us."
Jean nods before walking over to the girl.
"Hi," Jean greeted.
"Do? Do I know you?" The girl asked, " Oh, these memories. I'm so confused."
"Yeah, I know. I can relate to what you're going through."
"Jean. You're Jean Grey. You're like the others!" The girl gets up off the ground and backs away from Jean.
"Relax. If you know who I am, then you know I won't hurt you. Look, it's tough to go it solo. Hey, zero pressure, but if you want to talk more you can reach me anytime with this communicator," Jean opens her hand and uses her telekinesis to levitate the communicator to the girl.
She takes it and says, "Latest fashion accessory, huh?"
Storm, Scott, and Elena walk over. Storm says, "We all have one."
The girl looks at Storm and says, "You! You won't take me!
"No, wait!" Scott said as he tries to go after her, but he trips and falls into a puddle.
"I don't get it. We were connecting and then," Jean looked to Storm.
"Then she saw me," She said, "For some reason, she's afraid of me."
"Well, she looked pretty beat. She can't have gone far," Scott said before they start looking around the cemetery.
Scott and Elena eventually came across a mausoleum. The girl came running out and bumped into Scott. She looked at him terrified before pushing him away. Scott landed in a puddle and accidentally fired an optic blast, hitting an electric tower. She runs back inside as Elena rushes over to Scott.
"Careful, Scott," Elena said as she helped him up. She looks up and sees the girl falling. Elena teleports up to the girl and grabs hold of her before teleporting to the ground.
She looks at Elena and pushes her away and gets free from her grasp.
Storm comes behind her and asks, "Child, what is it? We are your friends."
The girl grabs Storm's arm. Scott runs over and asks, "Hey, what's with the effects? Oh, no! No!"
They look at the girl and see that she is rising in the air with swirls of wind around her and lightning and thunder. As the winds get strong enough to break branches from the trees, Jean and Elena form a shield around them and Scott.
"I can hold it off a little," Jean said.
"Give it up," Scott told her, "She's got Storm's powers, but not her control."
Some of the tombs and mausoleums around them begin to crumble.
Elena looks up and sees lighting striking the power lines," Jean, Scott, we need to help Storm. If those power lines hit the water she's fried."
Elena and Jean brought down the shield, and they run over to Storm. Scott jumps in the water and grabs hold of her. Jean and Elena use their telekinesis to lift them before a power tower hits the water.
"I can't keep us up for long," Jean told them.
"Don't worry, Jean. Remember to clear your mind and focus," Elena told her.
"Too much power. I can't control it. I have to" The girl stresses before teleporting away.
When she left the storm dispersed. Jean and Elena lowered themselves, Scott, and Storm to the ground. Once safely on the ground, Jean and Elena rush over to Scott and Storm. Soon, Xavier, Kitty, and Logan holding an unconscious Kurt approach them.
"What do you think happened to the rogue?" Scott asked Xavier.
"She's gone somewhere. Her mind is a jumble. I can't trace it," He answered, "But I strongly suspect the hand of another at work here."
"It was Mystique," Elena said, "I sensed her, but I didn't want to engage. Especially since she's a shapeshifter."
"Then we have to go after her!" Kitty told them.
"There's been enough damage done today. And the girl must come of her own free will or not at all. And we must first tend to our own," Xavier said as Storm and Kurt regain consciousness.
Jean and Scott help Storm up, and Logan puts Kurt down.
Kurt looks around at the damaged cemetery and says, "Looks like I missed quite a party."
"Kurt, you're all right!" Kitty happily exclaimed. She grabs hold of Kurt and helps him up as he almost falls, Easy, you fuzzy elf. Everything is going to be just fine."
"Fuzzy elf"? Scott mouthed in question.
They all headed back to the Blackbird and went home.