At 4.30, Vixen dragged Kurt and Jade down to the wood she had mentioned earlier.

'What did you say we were going to do here?' asked Kurt prodding his inducer, praying it would hold.

'Good point.' continued Jade frowning slightly, 'I can't remember.' she looked at Vixen inquiringly.

'That's cos I didn't tell you.' replied Vixen smiling maliciously at her friends.

'And why are you in costume?' asked the blue boy stopping fiddling with the gadget strapped to his wrist.

'I met someone.' said the blond girl turning around to face the other two, Jade sighed and Kurt rolled his eyes.

'No! Not like that!' she cried out indignantly, 'I wouldn't have brought you guys on a date!'

'Zen what-' he started but stopped abruptly, 'Not Avalanche?' he asked frowning at her. She smiled back flintily.

'I wanna see what h can do,' she said shrugging, 'and he wants to see me in action, too!'

'I bet he brought all his buddies too.' continued Nightcrawler folding his arms sceptically.

'Like who?'' asked Vixen folding her own arms and raising a disobedient eyebrow at him.

'Toad, Blob,' he said counting on his fingers, 'and Qvicksilver.' he finished with him.

'Kvick Silver, eh?' asked the green-eyed girl cheekily imitating his German accent again.

'You called?' came a young man's voice from behind her. She turned around and saw the boy she'd been flirting with earlier.

'YOU?' they both exclaimed at the same moment.

'You're a mutant?' he asked incredulously, eyes wide. She looked at him in the same manner. 'You're even better in costume than in your school stuff.' he continued regaining his flirty posture. 'Can I have your name now?'

'It's Vixen.' came Lance's voice from the trees behind Pietro. 'I told you.'

'You didn't tell me I'd met her.' said Pietro turning around. Out of the bushes leaped a hunched boy who immediately cried out.

'Cuddlebumps!!!' he smiled ecstatically at Vixen who's eyes widened. She turned around and saw Jade cowering behind Kurt.

'Oh!' said the blond girl finally understanding, 'He means you!' she turned around again and looked at the squatting boy, 'Yeah, cos I've never seen you in my life.'

'That's Toad.' said Lance appearing through the trees. 'And this is Blob.' he continued pointing at another boy, Vixen's mouth dropped open when she caught sight of him.

'WOAH!!!' she said slowly, 'He's HUGE!' Jade sniggered behind her, Vixen turned round and smiled at her friend. 'Three guesses who ate all the pies!!!'

'Who would that be then?' came Pietro's voice beside the blond girl. She jumped and clutched her heart. 'I can do that for you, if you like.' he continued gazing at her breasts. Vixen raised an eyebrow.

'Like I'd ever let you.' she said putting her hands on her hips, at that moment Kurt came and stood beside her.

'Let it go, Quicksilver.' said Lance from where he was standing. 'She came to see me.'

Vixen gazed at him, taking in every aspect of his person. He had swapped his torn jeans and baggy shirt for a muddy brown and black outfit with some kind of weird visor.

'Are you crazy, Vixen?' asked Kurt behind her, putting a hand on her shoulder.

'Leave her bright-eyes?' shouted Lance 'I'm gonna show her the real world…'

'I'm gonna rock yours!!!' she cried, the boy glared at her as though she had stolen something of his.

'Hey! That's my line!' he cried indignantly. She smiled in anticipation of a good fight.

Avalanche threw his hands forwards and gritted his teeth as the ground started to lurch. Vixen quickly morphed into a robin and flew straight at him. When she was about two feet away she morphed back into herself and before even touching the ground, threw her leg around and smacked the boy in the side of the face making him fall sideways.

As she landed in a crouching position, a blur of turquoise flashed past her. She stood up as the blur started whirring around her.

She threw out her arm and felt two strong hands grab it. She looked in alarm at her arm and the hands grasping it.

'You didn't really think you could get me like that, did you?' he asked flirtily. Vixen growled in frustration and tried to hit him but he dodged it. She morphed into a mosquito, therefore escaping his grasp, flew behind him, morphed back into herself and kicked him in the small of the back.

'No.' she said as he fell forwards onto his knees. 'I knew I would get you like this.'

She looked over at the others and saw Kurt fighting against the fat boy someone had called Blob, and Jade fending off the smelly one she understood was Toad.

'Hey, Vixen!' came Avalanche's voice again. She looked at him, he was glaring at her with his hands in fists and a bloody nose.

Suddenly the earth started to tremble but before it could get any worse, he floated up off the ground. By the look on his face, Vixen guessed he hadn't done so on purpose, she giggled at him.

'Kurt! Jade!' came the professor's voice behind them. 'I'm very disappointed in you both.' Jean and him appeared from between some trees. 'And you Vixen.' he closed his eyes and shook his head, Vixen rolled her eyes.

'Yeah, Vixen,' said Lance still floating above her head, 'he's ashamed of you.'

'I'm not the one floating in the air.' she retorted sneering. He tried to reply to that but she cut across him 'FLOATER!!!' whereupon she threw some kind of honey like goo at him which hit him in the face.

'Go home, boys.' said Xavier menacingly. The Brotherhood boys all scrambled up, Toad jumped up and grabbed Lance's foot, trying to pull him down. Jean released him and they both tumbled to the ground in a heap before scuttling off.

Vixen brushed her fringe out of her bright green eyes and made her way towards the others.

'I thought I made it clear that we are a peaceful group, Vixen.' he said angrily.

'Kurt's allowed to fight, Scott's allowed to fight, even Kitty's allowed to fight damn it!' she cried almost as angrily as him, 'Everyone's allowed to fight except me and Jade!!!'

'That's true, Professor.' said Jean reasonably, 'And she has proved she's ready.'

'It is true you fought well this evening.' he said putting his two index fingers together, 'but even so. If you can't follow rules, you won't be able to follow orders-'

'I promise I'll follow orders!' cried the girl moving up to him. 'I can do it! Please put some trust in me!'

There was a long pause in which Kurt came and stood comfortingly beside her and the professor thought.

'I'll think about it.' he said finally looking at her.' she punched the air as they started on their way back to the school.