))) hi again, people. This chapter should be longer, so fear not! Hope you like. (((

Naddie arrived downstairs to be greeted by a bustling room full of teens. She had forgotten what it looked like before school. At last, everyone settled down for a calm, organized (sort-of) breakfast. Xavier told Kim, Ron and Naddie that they had been enrolled at Bayville High and will go in today with the rest of the mutants. After he gave them their schedules, everyone crowded in to see who they had classes with. Kim was in American Literature with Jean and Physics with Scott. She also had English with Ron. Naddie had Biology and Geometry with Kurt and a computer class with Kitty. Ron was in Social Studies with Evan and had the same Biology class as Kurt and Naddie. Everyone seemed to be in the same gym class.

When breakfast was almost over, Jean and Scott remembered they had to load the bus for the field trip today. They hurriedly finished getting ready in order to leave on time.

When it was time to go to school, Logan had to drive a car in addition to Scott's car since there were now so many people. After arriving at school, Jean and Scott hurried over to the bus loading area and the rest of the X- Men offered to show Kim, Ron and Naddie where the office was so they could check in.

When everything was in order, Ron and Kim walked off together to their English class and Naddie went off to her own first period, chorus. A least it was something she would enjoy doing and maybe she could ignore the fact that she wouldn't see anyone she knew again until third period. Naddie had entered her chorus class at just the right time- they were just getting their new music they would perform at the Bayville Elementary School in a few weeks. She looked through her folder and was happy to recognize a few of the pieces.

The first half of the day went fairly normal. Kim politely introduced herself to all her teachers while Ron quickly fell into his role as class clown. Being in another dimension hadn't changed either of them at all.

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Kim walked down the hall to her third period, Earth Science. She sat down in a desk near the wall and looked around. There weren't any of the X-Men in this class, but that boy a few seats over looked familiar. . . Kim tried to remember where she had seen him before and finally it came to her- that was one of the boys they had met in the mall. What was him name? Lance, that was it. Jean had told her about him. He was a member of this Brotherhood thing, and apparently, they were always getting in fights with the X-Men or something. Kim looked at him. He didn't look so mean or anything when he was just sitting there. In fact, he was actually kind of handsome.

Lance turned and caught Kim's eye. She turned away blushing when she realized she had been staring. Lance smiled charmingly at Kim and winked. The teacher walked into the classroom then and stood at the front of the room.

"Class, I'd like you to welcome our new student, Miss Kim Possible. She's only going to be here a couple weeks, but during that time I'd like you all to be on your best behavior to show Kim what a well-behaved class we are." Several students sniggered at this. The teacher even smiled a little. "Welcome to Bayville, Kim," he said.

"Now, today, we are starting our new unit, on earthquakes," the teacher continued. "Can anyone tell me exactly what causes an earthquake?" Kim thought she heard Lance mutter "me" under his breath, but she could have been mistaken.

After fifteen minutes or so of the teacher's lecture, Kim began to grow bored. She was usually a very good student, but she just couldn't focus. Oh, well. It wasn't like this was going to count for anything when she got back home. When she was just about falling asleep on her desk, she heard something.

"Psst!" She looked around. The geeky-looking boy beside her was holding out a folded up piece of paper. She stared. This weird little geeky dude was giving her a note? Then she looked up. Lance was motioning at the note. He had passed it to her. Kim nodded to show she understood. She made sure the teacher wasn't looking and took the note. She opened it up and there was a message scrawled in semi-neat handwriting.



Kim read the note and scrawled a reply.

She passed it back to the geeky kid between her and Lance and he gave it to Lance. A minute later, she got the note again.

I have time. Meet me behind the gym during lunch and we can talk.
I'll see you then.

Kim didn't know what to think. Was this guy flirting with her? Should she go? She didn't think there would be much harm in it. This guy didn't have any problem with her, only with the X-Men. She wondered what it was all about anyway.

"Alright, class, the bell's about to ring, so I'll try and wrap it up," the teacher said. "Not only do you have to know about earthquakes and what causes them, but you should know how to protect yourselves against them. There will be a quiz on earthquake safety tomorrow, so I hope you all were paying attention today."

"Uh oh," Kim thought to herself. The bell rang and she grabbed up her books, hoping she would be able to get enough information from her textbook. Lance smiled at her as she was walking out the door. She found herself smiling back at him.

"I wonder what the X-Men have against this guy, anyway?" she wondered.

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At lunch, Ron found Kurt, who had already gotten his food, saving a table for all of them.

"Hey, man, what's goin' on?" Kurt asked as Ron walked up.

"Nothing much," Ron replied. "Glad I got here fast. As soon as I got my food, I turned around and there was this huge line behind me! Man, I'm glad my last class was just down the hall. Hey, isn't your last class on the other side of the school?"

"Yes," Kurt said innocently.

"You ported, man!" Ron laughed. "I can't believe it, you cheater."

"Hey, I was hungry!" Kurt insisted. "I'm careful. I don't do it everyday or anything." Ron nodded. The others started to make their way over to the table. Before long, the whole team, minus Jean and Scott, were sitting around the picnic table outside. Everyone was talking and having a good time when Jean walked up, looking ticked. Everyone was surprised.

"Jean! I thought you were, like, going on that field trip today," Kitty said.

"I was!" Jean almost shouted. "Then that Principal Darkholme kicked me out! She said I had too many absences and she wouldn't even listen when I tried to explain! Rogue went in my place!" Jean was really fuming now.

"Calm down, Jean," Kurt said. "It's just a field trip, no problem, right?" Jean nodded.

"No problem," she said, cooling off a bit.

"You know what this means, Ron," Naddie whispered.

"Rogue is coming!" he whispered back. She nodded.

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On the other side of the school, Kim was around the side of the gym building, looking for Lance. She finally found him, leaning against the wall trying to look smooth.

"So, Kimmie, how ya doin'?" Lance asked.

"I'm alright I guess," she replied. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Why you're here."

"Why I'm here?"

He sighed, then looking to see if anyone was listening, he whispered. "You're not a mutant, right?"

"Right," Kim replied.

"So why are you staying with Xavier?" he asked. Kim hesitated. "You can trust me."

"Can I? I don't see anything wrong with you, but you and your friends don't seem to get along very well with the X-Men."

"So you're saying that makes us the bad guys?!" Lance asked suddenly. Kim shook her head, startled at the sudden outburst.

"No, I'm just saying. . . look, I'm sorry, I have to go. The guys will be looking for me." She ran off towards the lunch area. Lance looked after her, scowling.

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When lunch was over, they all went their separate ways. Kitty and Naddie walked together to their next class in the computer room. When they got there, the teacher announced they would be practicing their typing skills today.

"Aw this is going to be, like, soo boring!" Kitty said under her breath to Naddie.

After they had been typing for awhile the teacher left the room for a minute. Bad idea. As soon as Todd saw the teacher had left, he quietly got up out of his seat, snuck past several people over to where Kitty and Naddie were sitting typing and occasionally whispering to each other. Todd closed in on Kitty, snuck up behind her, and jumped out at her, waving his hands and making his eyes stick out and looking more than ever like a toad. Kitty was so surprised she accidentally phased her hands through the keyboard, shorting it out and making a lot of noise. The teacher rushed back into the room, but Todd had already hopped back to his seat and was sitting there with a sickly innocent-looking face.

"Kitty, is there something wrong?" The teacher asked.

"Um, no ma'am. I just, like. . . I think there's something wrong with my keyboard." She held up the offending piece of hardware, tiny streams of smoke still coming from between the keys.

"I just don't understand it, Kitty. You've gone through three keyboards and a mouse this month! That's some bad luck you have!"

Kitty apologized again. The teacher finally told her it was alright and to get back to work. Kitty sighed and started typing on the replacement keyboard she had been given.

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At the end of the day, the X-kids waited around school for a few minutes looking for Scott. When the bus came and went, they began to wonder. Jean mentally contacted the professor and he told them Scott was alright and that they should return as soon as possible. When they got back to the mansion, the professor was waiting for them. And sitting in a chair close by was none other than Rogue herself. They greeted the professor and smiled at Rogue.

"Rogue here had finally decided to join us," Xavier said. Everyone shook her hand and welcomed her warmly, even Scott. The professor then went on to explain to Rogue about how Kim, Ron, and Naddie had come to be there. After all the introductions, the X-Men asked the professor about Mystique being Principal Darkholme and why didn't he say anything. Everyone seemed rather upset that one of their enemies had been so close to them for so long. When the professor asked Rogue what she thought, she said it really wasn't her place, but Kitty quickly insisted it was, that she was a part of their family now. Rogue smiled to herself, happy to be accepted so quickly by such nice people.

Later that night as everyone was walking to their rooms, Ron overheard Scott talking to Jean.

"Four new members in just a few days!" he said. "I wonder if the X-Men team is complete?"

Ron thought about the new mutants that would be arriving in a few months, and Hank, and all the new people they would meet, for better or for worse.

"You have no idea!" Ron said, but not for Scott to hear.

))) Rogue is now officially here! Yes, rougehobbit and Sarah-Crysala, you can sigh a huge sigh of relief. Everybody partay! Ok, yea, Rogue is one of my favorite characters too and I was kinda disappointed when I realized I had started so early in the season, it would be awhile before Rogue got here, so I did it as quick as I could. I didn't realize at all how much would have to be left out since I started so early, but hopefully I will be able to work with some of the later stuff on my follow-up alternate ending thing I'm going to do. Yall just have to wait and see!

Oh, and sorry this chapter was kinda weird- I would have done it in more detail except I missed the first half of this episode, so I didn't know much of what was going on at all! I don't think it would have been this good if I didn't find this episode guide. And Denaill, if you're reading this, I love your page! But you already know that. Readers, you have to check it out if you haven't seen it already. ( http://x- es I've seen yet and the episode guides and character bios have helped me with this fic tremendously! Thanks again, Denaill!

Pandoras Box, Kimmy B, brody mcda, and everyone else who said Kurt/Naddie, thanks so much for liking what I've already got going! If everyone was saying something like Kurt/Kim (weird!), I just couldn't do it.

Nightcrawlers gurl, yes, you are right. I had been almost completely ignoring Ron's class-clown attitude and 'essential Ron-ness'. I'm correcting that problem as we speak.

x-silver-saffire-x, hmm, I believe a Kurt/Kitty is a Kurtty, so I guess plural would be Kurtties? Lol, that's a very good question. Anyone know the plural of Kurtty?

Everyone else, I think you will be very happy with where this is going, especially with the pairings. I can't make everyone happy, but the majority of reviews lead me to believe that you will be happy with what I have in mind for everyone. And in the end if everyone still isn't happy, there is even more possibility in my alternate ending story (which I am getting increasingly excited about and can't wait to write!). ciao for now everyone! (((