I started hinting about this two chapters back, and in this chapter, I am going to add a little sub plot to help break up the monotony of having to re-edit this fic. This will also give those of you what have already read this fic something different to add to what was already established in this story. Hope you like it, and please don't forget to review.

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Anna arrives back at the office. She stopped off for a quick bite to eat at the studio cafeteria since she didn't get a chance to eat at the café. She and Kitty had spent most of the time talking, mostly about the new guy that Kitty was going out with, much to Anna's dismay.

As she enters the office, there is a large bouquet of roses on her desk. A smile appears on her face, and she walks up to her desk. She smells the sweet fragrance of the flowers, and reads the card that came with it.

Sorry about last night.

Love Jean,

Anna is still a bit miffed at Jean, but she can't help but smile after Jean doing something so sweet.

Anna walks into James' office, and grabs Fred's contract. She had already called the remaining cast members, and rescheduled their meetings to tomorrow. She wasn't able to get a hold of Fred, so she thought that she could just meet with him herself. All she really had to do was get him to sign his new contract, and take down any problems that he may have about the show to pass on to James later. Anna figured, that she would be out of the office by 2:00 at the latest. She might even be able to meet up with Kitty again..... Although, after further consideration, Anna decides that she really didn't want to tag along, or worse, get fixed up on an impromptu blind date.

Meanwhile across town at the Bravo studios, filming was begun on the X-Men's Actor's Studio.

::: Opening Credits:::

The host of the show walks onto the stage to begin the show, and introduce his guests. "Tonight, the Actor's Studio has the honor of welcoming a truly remarkable cast of characters. Their show is the latest incarnation of one of the most popular series in the Marvel Universe. Covering a wide range of topics such as: acceptance, racial tolerance, broken homes, and various forms of teen angst. Together, they have made their show one of the highest rated shows on Kids WB, as well as the Cartoon Network. Student's, Inside the Actor's Studio is proud to welcome the X-Men." The audience begins to applaud as the cast is announced.

"Please welcome to the stage; as Shadowcat, Katherine "Kitty" Pryde…..Scott Summers as Cyclops" Girls in the audience shout as Scott walks onto the stage. "Jean Grey…..The Nightcrawler, Kurt Wagner…..The Rogue." The audience cheers as Marian steps on stage. "As The Beast, Mr. Henry "Hank" McCoy…..Ms. Ororo Munroe as Storm…..Logan as Wolverine." The audience erupts as Logan walks on to the stage. "And of course as Professor X," People are shocked as he walks onto stage. "Mr. Charles Xavier. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the X-Men to the actor's studio."

They all gather on stage in front of their respective seats, and wave to the crowd of students. They bow, and take their seats as the host pulls out two tall stacks of blue cards.
"As many of you may or may not know, many of the X-Men are in fact child stars.
Kitty?"

Kitty is startled by the sound of hearing her name called upon. "Whoa, I wasn't expecting on you to call on me first."

" Well, I like to keep our guests on their toes." The host says with a grin. "What was the first television show that you were on?"

"Ohh, I know that one, this is easy. I was Bulma on the original Dragonball."

"Well, yes you were, but that wasn't until 1996.....Think back, what show were you on ten years prior, way back in 1986?????"

Kitty ponders in her seat, and comes to a shocking realization. "OH MY GOD!!!! Were you talking to my mother?????"

"I have my sources." He waves a stack of blue cards in the air, and smiles.

" How did you find that out, I was probably six years old when I did that. I was so young that I don't even list that on my credits."

"So what was it?"

"I played Starlight on My Little Pony." The audience chuckles, and a few awwwws can be heard from the audience.

Back in the office, Anna takes a seat at her desk, and patiently waits for Fred to arrive. She notices an envelope on her desk addressed to her. She assumes that a messenger must have dropped it off while she was out of the office. She picks up the envelope, and is about to open it when Fred walks into the waiting room. Anna barely recognizes him with out the fat suit on. "Special effects really did an unbelievable job on the fat suit." Anna thinks to herself as she places the envelope into her bag. Good afternoon Mr. Dukes."

"Hello, I'm here for a meeting with James."

"Yes, I'm sorry, but James wasn't feeling well, and went home for the day….."

"Y'know, what! This is Horseshit! Last time, he has an emergency testicular retrieval, then the year before, his wife had to have an appendectomy. I can understand the appendectomy, but is there even such a thing as a testicular retrieval?"

"Mr. Dukes, I'm, sorry, but James really wasn't felling very well."

Meanwhile in James' home, James is standing in his bathroom staring into the toilet. He giggles uncontrollably as he repeatedly flushes the toilet, and watches a rubber duck that he put into the toilet spin around. James pretends to be the duck, "Oh no, I'm so dizzy. Stop, please, stop. I think I'm going to barf!" James now speaks in his own voice to the duck. "Well, it's a good thing that you're already in the toilet."

Back at the office, Anna tried to get Fred to sign his new contract. "Mr. Dukes, I have your new contract here for you to sign, and if you have any grievances that you would like addressed before the new season starts, then tell me, and I can pass them on to James."

"Yeah, I have a grievance for him. Stop ditching out on our meetings! Forget about an appendectomy, maybe what he needs is an Add-A-Dick-Ta-Me operation."

"Mr. Dukes, please if you would just sign here."

"Y'know, Is it me? I mean does he not like me?" Fred says as he begins to pout. "Why does no body like me."

"Uh Mr. Dukes?????"

"Y'know, I'm sorry about snapping at you, my therapist says that I have acceptance issues."

"So, Mr. Dukes if you could just sign here." Anna hold up a pen, and points to a dotted line at the bottom of the contract.

Fred pulls up a chair. "Y'know, My therapist says that I should try and talk about my feelings to people more."

While Anna futilely tries to get Fred to sign his new contract so that she can go home for the day, Kitty and the rest of the X-men are finding out interesting facts about each other that they never knew.

You weren't the only X-Man on that cast, who else was with you?" Asks the host of the show.

"Jean and Kurt." Laughs can be heard from the audience.

All the X-Men look at Kurt causing the audience to laugh harder causing an embarrassed Kurt sinks into his seat.

"One of our researchers found these in a thrift store, and we got these for you."

A woman walks out on stage, and hands Kitty, Jean and Kurt the My Little Pony doll (Still in its original packaging) of the character that they played. Kitty and Jean giggle wildly as they receive their figures while Kurt sinks into his seat wishing that he really had the ability to teleport out of there.

Scott reaches over and grabs the doll from Kurt. "You never told me that you were in My Little Pony?????" He examines the doll intently before passing it around to the other cast members.

Kurt looks around at his fellow X-men and the laughing audience. "And now you know why."

"Which one were you?" Scott snickers.

Kurt gestures towards the Host of the show, trying to deflect attention from him. "Hey, he's interviewing Kitty right now, you're taking up her time."

"Audience laughs as Kurt is put on the spot again.

"Gee thanks." Kurt pouts. "I played a pony named Ace."

"There were Boy ponies??????" Marian says quizzically.

Ororo leans forward from the back row, and holds up the doll next to Kurt's face. "It's so cute, I can see the resemblance" she says pinching his cheek with her other hand, before he snatches the doll from her.

"Hey, it was my first acting job! And I was only in two episodes.
I was one of the Pony Brothers." Says Kurt which causes the audience as well as the cast burst out laughing.

"That's it," Logan chuckles, "Your nickname is no longer elf, now you're Pony Boy." Audience laughs as Kurt slouches in his seat

Once the audience's laughter begins to subside, the host continues with the interview. "Jean, what character did you play?"

"I played a pony named Patch. I was one of the older teenaged ponies. And Kitty was one of the little ones."

"Then in 1989, you got your first taste as a principal player. Whom did you play?"

"I was Ranma Saotome, on a Japanese anime called Ranma 1/2."

"For those of our students who are not familiar with that show, what was the basic premise of the show?"

"It was about a boy named Ranma who lived at this Ninja School. Then one day, he and his father had a curse cast on them, and every time they got wet, he turned into a girl, and his father turned into a Panda." Laughs can be heard from the audience. "Yeah, I spent half the show soaking wet."

"So it was a comedy?"

Jean looks around the audience. "Yeah I guess you could say it was a comedy. I mean, for whatever reason, Ranma and his father never told his mother about the curse, so they were constantly trying to hide it from her."

"Wait, Wait…..how did they do that?" Kurt interrupts, "It's not like a soaking wet girl and a Panda bear are easy to miss?"

"Well, they told his mother that I was his cousin, and the Panda was my pet." Jean rolls her eyes. "Hey, I didn't write it, I just did what they said to do on the script, Pony Boy. The audience erupts with laughter as Kurt pouts again.

"Then, after a very successful run on Ranma ½, you appeared in your first movie in 1994. A delightful little OAV called Project A-Ko" Audience applauds. "Whom did you play in that movie?"

"I was B-Ko" Jean says sheepishly. "It was a very strange Anime. I mean A-Ko was this tough no nonsense tomboy, and I was the cutesy friend. There was a lot of Lesbian innuendo in it, but I was too young at the time to notice." Jean nervously shifts in her seat. "It was like they took stuff from other anime and just threw it in there. Like A-Ko had super strength for some reason, and I was a princess from another galaxy. Don't ask me how I got there, because I have no clue." Chuckles emanate from the audience.

"Then aliens from that galaxy attacked Earth to try to get me back, but they were flying in those Robotech planes. It was very weird."

"I'm still stuck on the Lesbian thing." Scott puts his hands up in defense as Jean begins to hit him playfully.

Now we'll take a step back to Ranma ½ to where Jean first meets one of her future X-Men team mates…..Scott, What character did you play on Ranma ½?"

"I actually played two characters, I appeared in two episodes as a character named Piccolet, and in another episode as Dr. Tofu." The X-Men on stage, as well as the audience burst into laughter.

Kurt laughing hysterically is barely able to say anything. "Dr. Tofu!?!?!?!"

"I wouldn't talk Pony Boy!" Kitty says laughing as Rogue playfully jabs Kurt in his side with her elbow.

"Scott, what was your first impression on Jean?"

"Well, actually, we never really talked much. I mean, I went in, did my bit, and that was it. I mean, at the time, the main cast had been together for several years."

"Jean, was the cast on Ranma ½ very close?"

"Oh yes, I still talk to several of the cast members" Jean ponders for a second, "at least once a month."

"So, while Jean was busy on the set of Ranma, Scott you had a very successful show of your own. What was the show you were apart of in 1997."

"I was Michelangelo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And actually," Scott's voice is drowned out by the crowd's cheers. "And actually, my brother Alex played Raphael."

"For those of you who don't know, Alex Summers co-stars as Havoc on X-Men Evo…..."

"Wait, that was you?" Hank interjects. "Michelangelo was my favorite character!"

Everyone on stage gives Hank a puzzled look, finding it hard to grasp the concept that Hank not only watches kid's shows, but knows the characters by name.

"What?????" Hank looks around quizzically. "You think that just because I'm a classically trained actor that I don't enjoy kid's shows?"

"Well, it's just that you don't seem the type Hank." Ororo observes.

"Hey, I enjoy some mindless entertainment once in awhile." Hank picks up his foot, and lifts his pant leg to reveal that he is wearing Sponge Bob Squarepants socks.

Back on the Kids WB lot, Anna desperately wants to shoot herself.

"Y'know, I'm feeling really angry at James for not being her for my meeting."

"Yes Mr. Dukes, if you could please….."

"Y'know, it's not really his fault. I mean he was sick, he really has no control on when he gets sick Y'know."

"WILL YOU STOP SAYING YA"KNOW AND JUST SIGN THE DAMN CONTRACT!!!!!" Anna thinks to herself as she contemplates homicide.

"Y'know that really felt good to get that off of my chest. My therapist said that opening up to people would help me deal with my problems. Y'know, you shouldn't keep emotions pent up inside, my therapist says that it's not healthy, Y'know."

Anna contemplates jumping out of the office window. "Mr. Dukes, if you could just please sign this contract, we could conclude this meeting."

"Y'know, you seem very tense, is there something troubling you?"

"Yeah, you and your damn therapist!" Anna grits her teeth and whispers beneath her breath "N-No, there is nothing wrong."

"Are you sure? Y'know, my therapist says that….."

"LOOK, I AM HAVING A VERY BAD DAY RIGHT NOW! MY BOSS IS AT HOME WASTED OUT OF HIS MIND, SOMEONE WHO I'M VERY ATTRACTED TO IS GOING OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE TONIGHT, AND NOW I'N SITTING HER LISTENING TO YOU BLABBER ON ABOUT YOUR GOD DAMN THERAPIST!!!!!"

"This is good, you're getting out all of your anger. Y'know, my therapist would say that you are deflecting your anger towards me….."

Anna grits her teeth. "Mr. Dukes, will you PLEASE just sign your contract!"

"Oh, sure thing." Fred takes the pen form Anna, and signs the contract. "Y'know, you should give my therapist a call, he'd do wonders for your aggression."

Anna snatches the pen from Fred. "Thank you Mr. Dukes, James will be in touch."

Fred gets up from his seat, and heads for the door.

"Y'know, I really enjoyed this talk that we had, I'll have to tell my therapist about it. This may have been a breakthrough for me."

Anna shoots Fred an evil look. "Thank you for your time Mr. Dukes."

Fred leaves the waiting room.

"Oh My God! How the hell does James do it! I'd go nuts having to deal with an entire cast of dysfunctional miscreants like that."

Anna gathers her things and begins turning off all of the office equipment. She turns off the lights, and locks up the office.

I hope that you liked the chapter. I hope that you liked that actor's studio thing that I added. It was something that I had for a while, but never finished it.

Hmmm, I wonder what's in that envelope, and who is it from?

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