A/N: Hope you like this chapter. See, I'm trying to hurry. Next week's Hell week but this one's almost relaxing…

Chapter 3

Following her announcement, the majority of the population of Xavier's stared slack-jawed at Willow.  Willow couldn't help but snicker. The woman she had been before coming to the school had started to take over again, ousting the one that didn't even like a good fight.

Rogue was the first to speak up.  "How did you contact these people, Willow?"

Yes," Scott said with a smirk, "how did you contact them?  As far as we know, Miss Forest, you are not telepathic."

"Lay the fuck off her!" Someone had just appeared in the Institute, and from her voice she wasn't very happy. "You might say that she got into contact with me using my own gift."

"No disemboweling them, Tumn.  It's not like I've been Miss Honesty with them.  Can you blame them for interrogation?"  To the other residents of the mansion, it was like Willow was rapidly disappearing while someone else took her place.

"Babycakes, Autumn just isn't happy about the X-Men being here and stifling the hunter we all know lies in your heart," Lorne spoke for the first time, attracting the others' stares.

"Lorne! You do realize you smell like sex?" Nature asked, all tact gone. 

Autumn snickered, and piped up, "He got horny, horny, and did I mention horny!  So, he went and got laid by the first person he found."

While the Xavier's students were confused, Mystique chuckled. "I'd be surprised if whoever he fucked is female."

"Hey!" the blonde yelped. "I may bat for both sides but I'm still female!"

Nature started laughing, soon joined by four new people.  Like the first two, they just appeared with a small pop.  Nightcrawler and the others who noticed the newest arrivals just stared.  The guy who teleported the other three in looked exactly like the green guy with red horns that Willow had called Lorne.  And somehow, Nightcrawler didn't think they were twins.

Knowing her two friends, Nature knew that they wouldn't be laughing. Needless to say, she was very surprised to hear people laughing with her since she knew that the others at the school wouldn't get the joke.  Whirling around, she gasped and started babbling in Spanish. Shifter, Angel, Gambit…Jesse! What are you guys doing here?  Jesse, why aren't you dead?! You're supposed to be dead, that's the way she works. You know it, I know it, hell!  Logan knows it!

"Chill out, baby sister," Angel, also known as Liam Rosenberg, said grabbing her easily.

"Yeah, chill.  Nay, you're kinda stuck with us while we re-bond with you," Shifter, real name Xander, said with a wry grin as he shifted back into his normal form. Dark and handsome, Nature would have gone out with him if they didn't both swing in opposite directions.

Jesse Santiago contented himself with listening to the girl he'd been best friends with for so long. Before long however, he could feel her rage directed towards him.  "And your story is??? Because, hon, everyone knows that Mystique fills in for the PEOPLE SHE KILLS!"

"Nature, Willow, Red!" As her anger grew, he finally had to resort to yelling.  "Yes, she did attack me.  But she didn't kill me."

"That's kinda obvious," the Earth-bound mutant commented. "Wanna tell me what did happen?"

"She used the same technique she always does—"

"Turning their powers against them," Autumn interrupted.

"I know how the bitch attacks," Nature growled. "Now finish telling me what happened."

"But I was prepared.  I fought my heart out and when she thought she killed me, I played dead."  By this time everyone was listening. "But…I'm blind, Red."

The tightly wound girl he'd been friends with for so long, lost her temper.  "And I tried to contact you via the link how many times?! How times didn't you answer?! And don't try to say you're sorry because I'm not going to feel any better until I kill something. And get laid.  In that order."

The other Scoobies present were interesting people.  Two of them were her best friends, and she'd known Lorne for years and officially lost her virginity to him.  Angel, Liam, was her twin brother and Gambit, Remy LeBeau, was one of his lovers. Xander Harris, Shifter, was the final member of that triad.  And Nature herself was an enigma. She had behaved herself for so long and now she was letting the pressure out.

Mystique grimaced as her half-sister shot vines from her hands, which started to choke her immediately. Autumn came in from the side, her eyes and hands both shooting red lasers.  From the other side, Gambit was throwing things he'd charged with energy, and Jesse, codenamed Weather Radar, was causing a million little bolts of lightning to shock her simultaneously. Angle had shot vines out of his hands as well and started to shake her upside down.  Lorne had stepped back to let the others do their thing and Shifter had shifted into the form of a dark-haired woman and was now helping the others by beating her into a bloody pulp.

The X-Men were stunned to say the very least as the Scoobies seemed to get tired of their game and Autumn fired one more blast from her hands.  The blue-skinned mutant was no more.  And Nature had to make her customary remark as they all shifted back out of battle-mode.  "Now can I get laid?"