This is my first fanfic. Please be kind! R and R!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men characters.

Rogue sighed. This looked like the beginning of another boring day at the Institute. It was The last day of September. The excitement of the first day of school having long since worn off, the kids were back to their usual, zombie-like selves.

"Rogue! Like, what are you doing after school?" Kitty's never-ceasing optimisim failed to cheer up the goth.

"Nothin' much.why?" Came the cautious response. For all Rogue knew, Kitty wanted to get her involved in some clam bake to raise school spirit or something. You never could tell what Kitty was thinking.

"Well, some of us are, like, going to the mall. You wanna come?"

"Who's 'some of us'?" The last thing Rogue wanted was to end up at some girly-teen store with a bunch of Kitty's valley-girl friends.

"Jean, Jubilee and Amara. Rhane has practice after school, so she can't go."

Rogue gave out another bored sigh. "Alraht. Not lahke there's much else to do 'round here anyway!"



Rogue should've known better. It turned out that there was a big sale at The Gap, and the girls had thought it'd be fun to find 'the perfect outfit' for Rogue.

"What about this one?" asked Amara feebly, holding out a white t-shirt with the words '2 Perfect 4 U!' written on it.

"Ah'd rather wretch an' die!" replied Rogue.

"Okay, then how about-" Jean was suddenly intrrupted by a large crash from outside.

"What was that?" Jubilee questioned. The five girls rushed to the balcony, where they had a clear view of the first floor. A young girl, about their age, was causing a huge commotion. Upon more examination, the girls noticed that there were sparks flying from her hands. She had already crashed over a couple of jewellery carts, and was gaining quite a crowd.

"What do we do?" asked Rogue.

"We need to get down there and stop her before she hurts someone!" Jean immediately snapped into leader mode.

Once on the main floor, Amara tried to approach the girl, who by this time, was screaming and crying. Suddenly, she saw Jean. With a crazed look on her face, she lunged at the girls, sparks flying everywhere!

Okay, so it's kind of a dumb first chapter. As I said, I'm new at this. Please Review!!!!!!!! If no one likes this, then I shouldn't even bother writing one!!!

August 16, 2002