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Scene Eight

"Are you all alright? You can see the explosion for miles!" Blaze exclaimed as Gambit took Rogue by the arms and examined her closely as if making sure she hadn't been damaged.

"We're fine," Kitty confessed. Magma nodded her agreement, "Yeah, the Teen Titans got the bomb out of the school. It exploded in the air, but no one got hurt."

"Speak for yourself," Beast Boy moaned, rubbing his behind with both hands. Blaze and Gambit glanced at each other, and then looked at the Titans. "Thank you so much!" Blaze exclaimed, throwing everyone a little with her heartfelt gratitude.

"Do you know who planted the bomb, or why mes Amies?" Gambit queried, folding his arms and keeping his secrets. It was Robin who replied, "We have an idea who, but not why."

"No point discussing it here," Blaze suggested, "We may as well take you back to the Institute. Who wants to order pizza?"

"Glorious!" Starfire clasped her hands in delight, "A wonderful idea."

"I agree," Robin added, as Beast Boy and Cyborg failed to contain their drooling at the mention of pizza. "It would be the Titans' pleasure to accept the X-Men's invitation. But," he looked a little sheepish, "Um maybe we need to make some introductions here?"

"Left to right," Blaze waved her hand across her group, "Iceman, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Shadowcat, Magma, Gambit and I'm Blaze."

"Alright," Robin returned the favour, "Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg and Robin. Now how about that pizza?"

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"Okay so it's a veggie supreme with extra tofu for Beast Boy, quadruple meat feast for Cyborg with a stuffed crust," Kitty checked her list proudly, phone in her hand as she prepared to ring in their order. "What would you like Starfire?"

"Hum, may I please have pineapple, anchovies and hot butter fudge?" Starfire asked, peering at the menu intently. Beast Boy covered his mouth in sickly horror, leaving it to Cyborg to kindly lecture the alien, "Um Star, what have we told you before about pizza menus?"

"Not everything is a topping?" Starfire replied bashfully. Kitty just giggled, "That's okay Star, our pizza place is used to strange orders. Nightcrawler practically lives off of pepperoni and chocolate sprinkles."

"Truly you are a braenif cagglesnarf Shadowcat!" Starfire proclaimed endearingly.

"Call me Kitty," the other girl told her, "And besides, it's totally the least I can do after you stopped that bomb…" With Star and Kitty getting along famously, Cyborg and Beast Boy left them to it. Nightcrawler was coming down the hallway with a tray full of drinks for the guests. At the last moment, he tripped over his own tail and sent the refreshments flying. Beast Boy yelped, as he got drenched from head to foot in orangeade.

"Dude! Watch where you're putting your…tail?" BB changed into a big hairy sheepdog and shook himself from head to tail to get rid of the liquid. Cyborg made a hasty exit to avoid a secondary soaking. Beast Boy changed back and carried on with what he was saying. "Man, how do you do that? One minute you're just a regular kid, then next you're blue, furry and you've got a tail. That's even weirder than what I can do."

"Its this thing," Kurt offered his wrist complete with prized gadget. "Its an image inducer, cool nein? It changes me from looking like this," he indicated to his blue self, "To this." Kurt tapped the inducer to put his other face on. He ran his hand through his hair lavishly, posing. "Quite the improvement, ya?"

"Nah, you looked better blue and furry," Beast Boy replied. Kurt obligingly slipped back into his natural form, asking, "You don't mind people staring at you in the streets?"

"I'm the fantastic Beast Boy, they should totally be staring!" BB quipped with a wave of his hand. "If you think this is odd you should see what happens when I go anywhere looking like this!" He morphed into a giant python, green of course, and proceeded to throw his coils around Nightcrawler. The only problem was that Kurt was suddenly swinging from a chandelier by his prehensile tail.

"Hey dude, you will have to try harder than that if you want to catch me!" Kurt challenged, laughing. "Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" Beast Boy decided, turning from snake to boy to golden, okay green, eagle.

"Hey guys," Iceman interrupted as he, Magma and Robin arrived on the scene. "We're gonna go show Robin the Danger Room, wanna come?"

"Danger Room?" Beast Boy looked confused; at which Robin could only shrug.

"Shouldn't we check with Gambit or Blaze first?" Kurt wondered, not wanting to insult their guests but not sure the Professor would approve. "They are supposed to be in charge."

"We already did Kurt," Magma pouted, hand on her hip. "They said to knock ourselves out."

"Not literally I hope," Robin put in with a smile.

"Alright, you're on," Kurt agreed, "Danger Room, here we come!"