MEANWHILE!!

"GOD SPEED!!" Storm waved as the bus containing the blue team pulled out of the station.

"Here's to our GREAT come back!!" Evan said as he high-fived the whole Blue Team.  "Here we are, coming all the way from FAR last and on our way to the next task in Germany!"

"I'd like to think of it as some sort of REWARD for making me teleport so much." Said Kurt with a giddy smile as he bounced around in his seat.

"And if we get to Germany and you suddenly tell us that German isn't one of the 'many languages you speak' then we're going to disown you as a teammate." Lance threatened Kurt.

"German's my first language, Lance." Said Kurt.  Then he looked as though he suddenly remembered something.  "GUYS!!  Can we go visit my parents?!"

"No Kurt." Said Kitty.  "Besides…German is, like, a big country!  What if your parents live on the other side of the country!"

"They don't!" Kurt whined as he pointed outside.  "They live right down that road we just passed!"

"How long have we been in Germany?" asked Evan. 

"Not too long." Said Kurt.  "You just haven't been paying attention.  Now let's go!"  Then Kurt grabbed onto all of his teammates and teleported out of the bus.  "Now you HAVE to come!"

"WHY YOU!!" Lance yelled.  "I don't want to lose this race!"

"I NEVER get to see my parents!" Kurt whined.  "I see them once, maybe TWICE a year and when am I going to be in GERMANY ever again?!"

MEANWHILE!!

"We have to go to Germany?" asked Remy as Storm explained the whole shpeal to the Green Team.

"Yes." Said Storm.  "You will each get a bicycle that you will have to ride there."

"A bike?" Rogue groaned.  "You've GOT to be kidding me!  We have to ride a bike from France to Germany!"

"Yes." Said Storm.

"Is the Professor trying to kill us?" she asked as she slumped down in a chair.

"Can I just run?" asked Pietro.

"No." said Storm.  "You must ride the bike."

"This is going to be fun!" said Jean as she hovered in the room.  They weren't in public so she HAD to use her powers.  "I can feel myself getting stronger already!"

"Jean, just use your powers like you normally would." Rogue insisted.  "I swear, this whole race thing has got you way too excited."

"But I just know that this is benefiting me in so many ways!" Jean said contently.

"If I were you, I would start." Said Storm.  "The other team got a bus and the last team should be here shortly."

"Let's go guys!!" said Pietro as he pedaled off so fast that no one saw him leave.  They all sat there in silence for a minute until he suddenly came all the way back looking annoyed.  "What's taking so long?!  I could only wait in Germany for so long!"

"All right, let's all leave TOGETHER!" Jean said as she started pedaling but at regular, HUMAN speed.

"And maybe we can arrive at Germany TOGETHER." Said Rogue, looking at Pietro but he had already pedaled off at the speed of sound again.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Clef?" Scott said in a voice that sounded very similar to a whine.  "Clef?  Why am I the only one doing this?"

"Keep looking, mate." Said St. John from the group with Todd and Wanda.

"Hey!" said Scott, looking at what he was handcuffed to only to see a shopping cart.  "When did this happen?!"

"While you were wandering around saying 'Clef'." Wanda said.  "Some guy came up and gave it to us but we didn't tell you so we hooked you to a shopping cart."

"Come on!" said Scott.  "We're already really far behind!!  Why do you guys have to be so evil?!"

"Fine…" said Todd, unlocking Scott's handcuffs.

"All right!" said Scott.  "Let's get back to Storm!!"  Then they sprinted around the corner only to crash right into Storm who was just walking around for no reason.

"Oh!" she said.  "I see you found your key!  Well, the next checkpoint is in Germany and here is your means of transportation!"

She pulled four pogo sticks out from behind her back.

"I think it would just be faster to walk." Said Wanda.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Mamma!!  Vati!!" Kurt called, slamming the door open to see his aged adoptive parents conveniently standing right there.  "Überraschung! Ich bin Haupt!"

"…" said his parents, looking Kurt up and down.

"Oh right." Said Kurt, turning back to his team who were standing there looking annoyed.  "I forgot that my parents don't know about my image inducer." Then he looked back at his family and began explaining stuff in German.  Then he turned off his inducer, took it off and set it down on the table. 

"KURT!!" said his German parents excitedly as they bombarded Kurt.

They began talking in German and catching up on old times while hugging Kurt and inquiring about his friends and pointing out the fact that Kurt's never brought home friends before.  Of course, Kitty, Lance and Evan had no idea what they were saying so it was all good!!

"Ug!" said Kurt.  "They want you to look at baby pictures of me."

"Wow!" said Kitty, feeling honored.  Then Kurt's dad came running in with some photo albums and slammed them down on the table.

"Kurt, müssen Sie der Übersetzer sein." He said.

"My dad says that I have to be the translator." Kurt said to the blue team.

"Well this is annoying." Said Evan.

MEANWHILE!!!

"I'm starting to slow down!" Rogue said as she watched the bike carrying Pietro and Remy get farther and farther away.  Pietro was pedaling while Remy was simply going along for the ride.  Rogue had figured that since she had touched Pietro more today than she had in her entire life, that she MUST have absorbed his powers.  And she was right.  So Jean rode along with Rogue as she pedaled at semi-warp speed behind Pietro.

Unfortunately, Pietro's magic was starting to wear off and Rogue slipped further and further behind.

"He… doesn't even notice that we're not behind him anymore." Said Rogue as she struggled and panted and wheezed to keep up.  As you know, Pietro can run long distances and he NEVER seems to get tired!!  That's nuts!  So since Pietro's powers are wearing off of Rogue, she's getting tired now!

"I shall telepathically get in touch with him!" said Jean as she put her hands up to her head and concentrated really hard on Pietro's mind which rushed around about as fast as he did.  "Maybe I'll just lift him off the bike so he can't pedal anymore."

So Jean did just that.  Unfortunately for Pietro and Remy, Jean didn't SEE herself doing this so when she lifted Pietro off the bike, the bike continued moving with Remy sitting on the back of it.  If the bike were moving at normal speed, Remy would have been able to jump off but since it was moving at PIETRO speed, Remy was head first into a tree before he even realized Pietro was gone.

Rogue and Jean eventually reached Pietro was just hovering in midair looking VERY annoyed.

"What was up with that?!" he demanded.  "Here I was going SLOWER so that you could keep up with me and you go and pull a stunt like that?!  Now Remy's stuck in a tree and my bike is ruined!"

"Like you even NEED a bike!" Rogue yelled as if that was all she even listened to.  She and Jean dismounted their bikes and walked over to the tree in which Remy had his head stuck in very unrealistically as he struggled foolishly to pull it out.

Suddenly, the tree started emitting a splendiferous glow.  Rogue and Jean stared at the tree for a second before ducking and covering the way the safety videos had taught them.  The tree glowed for a few seconds before exploding suddenly.

Remy sat among the trees charred remains and shook his head as if everything that just happened did NOT just happen.

"We were starting to doubt that you were actually a mutant." Said Jean with a laugh.  "That was the first time you've used your powers this WHOLE time."

"The situation has never arisen." Remy said casually.  He then pulled a band-aid out of his pocket and applied it to the tiny cut that was on his forehead; the ONLY wounds he has to show from two events that should have killed him.

MEANWHILE!!

"Are we the only team that doesn't have some sort of special way of getting from Point A to Point B faster?" Scott sighed as the Read Team's plane from France to Germany took off.

"Well…" said Todd because Scott was stuck sitting next to him because Wanda didn't want to sit next to Todd and Scott didn't want to sit next to St. John.  "The Blue Team has cheated SO bad with Kurt's teleportation abilities that he was specifically told NOT to use.  The Green Team can fly via Jean or go really fast via Pietro.  Also, Rogue could be ANYONE she wants!"

"That was a rhetorical question." Said Scott with a sigh as he struggled to open his little package of peanuts.  "Why do they call these 'FUN peanuts' anyway?!  Do the companies have fun trying to make people open them?!"

Meanwhile, Wanda and St. John were FORCED to sit in first class because there were too many people in coach where Todd and Scott were so the stewardesses told them to sit up where all the beautiful people roam.  Scott smartly took St. John's lighter away and held onto it but he was still a little worried because Wanda and St. John were the most unstable people he knew and they were in an airplane without some sort of supervision.

"Look!" marveled St. John as he looked around at all of the features of the first class section.  His and Wanda's seats were facing each other and there was a table separating them.  "We get our own television!  And this chair reclines all the way!  Oh and we also get…"

"For the lovely couple, we will be serving a wonderful candlelit dinner courtesy of the captain." Said the butler/stewardess who, helpfully, spoke English.  He then pulled out a tablecloth and spread it upon the table and lit two long candles.

"Oooh…candlelit…" said St. John as he gazed upon the candles.

"If I see these candles so much as move in an odd way, I'm blowing them out." Threatened Wanda.

"But wouldn't it be really cool if there were some sort of show going on with them?" asked St. John.  "Very small…not noticeable…very pretty?"

"I don't care about not being noticed." Said Wanda.  "I just know that you would enjoy it."

"Yes." Said St. John.  "Yes I would."

"That's not what I meant." Said Wanda.  "I meant…I'm not interested in having this plane go down simply because you wanted a lightshow."

"It won't go down!" said St. John.  "I have PERFECT control!"

"You can't have perfect control over something that is naturally chaotic." Said Wanda just to challenge what St. John said.

"Well, I do." Said St. John.  "I can prove it!"

"You can, can you?" asked Wanda with a raised eyebrow.  "All right then… make the fire on the top of the candle on YOUR left a perfect cube.  Nothing excess flying around or anything.  It must be a PERFECT cube.  And…increase the temperature so that it's blue."

"Is THAT all?" St. John said with a cocky wave of his hand and a laugh.  "I thought you wanted me to do something HARD."

"Fine." Said Wanda.  "Do it to EVERY candle in this room.  At the same time.  And instead of a cube, make it a skull."

"With my EYES CLOSED!" said St. John. 

"Then do it!" said Wanda.  "And since you said it, do it with your eyes closed!"

"OKAY!!" St. John said with a maniacal little laugh.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Kurt, your parents were really nice." Said Kitty as the Blue Team exited Kurt's house.

"Yeah!" said Kurt.

"Wait, what about your image inducer?" said Evan.  "In case you haven't noticed, you're still blue."

"Oh right!" said Kurt, looking at his hands.  "I'll be right back.  This should only take a second."  Then Kurt went back into the house and after the sound of a rummage for a minute or two, there was the sound of loud Germanic swearing.  Of course, they didn't know it was swearing but they decided to go in and investigate just in case.

"My dad didn't pay attention to wear he plunked the photo albums down!" Kurt said immediately to the Blue Team since he was on his way out to tell them anyway.  He held up his smashed image inducer.  "And look at this!"

"Oh man!" said Lance, slapping his forehead.

"I can't go out like this!" Kurt exclaimed.

Then Kurt's parents said something in German and ran into the other room.  They returned a moment later with a hooded trench coat, much like the one he wore in the first episode.

"This will have to do for now…" said Kurt sadly.

"Come on, we've wasted enough time as it is!" said Lance.

"We didn't WASTE time if Kurt was spending some quality time with his parents that he hardly ever gets to see!" said Kitty.

They all stood there in silence.

"All right, let's go." Said Evan.