Back at the institute, in Jade's room, her, Vixen and Kitty were giggling at the phone call they had just experienced.

'Dude! That Lance guy has serious pride issues!' said the blond girl rubbing her right eye. 'Did you hear how worked up he got?' Kitty and Jade nodded.

'Like, TOTALLY!!!' agreed the brown haired girl wiping a tear from her blue eyes. 'I tried to like tell him, but he totally like blacked out on like me.'

'Kitty,' said Vixen delicately, Kitty turned to her, 'Have you ever tried not saying "like" and "totally"? or is it just built in?' asked the morpher frostily not looking at her.

Kitty gasped in horror of the insult. She looked at Jade in surprise who looked back at her, then at her best friend. Then Kitty ran from the room, crying.

'Way to go, Vixen.' said Jade, angrily, 'You just really hurt her feelings.'

'Well maybe she should try and be less annoying!' shouted Vixen right back at her.

'She doesn't do it on purpose!' shouted Jade in Kitty's defence, 'It's just the way she is!'

'Well maybe she should stop being like that!' yelled Vixen furiously, whereupon she stomped from the room heatedly.

'Maybe you should stop being such a BITCH!' bellowed Jade after her.

Suddenly Vixen was back in the room and throwing herself at Jade. She screamed as Vixen morphed into a panther and withdrew 10 very sharp claws, Jade created a sound barrier which stopped Vixen just in time, her claws inches away from the dark haired girl's face.

'PROFESSOR!!!' screamed Jade in terror as Vixen created a large gash in her barrier and snarled menacingly, lifting her paw up again for another swipe at the sound barrier.

'VIXEN!!!' shouted Scott coming into the room as the panther ripped away another chunk of the barrier and scratching Jade's cheek. Cyclops threw himself on the large feline and tried desperately to wrench her off, but she was too strong and continued to gouge large scratch marks in Jade's face.

Jade cried out in pain and fear as she tried desperately to push the panther off. Suddenly Vixen appeared again, but continued to punch the dark haired girl.

'Don't you ever call me a bitch!' she yelled between punches, 'Never call me a Bitch!!!'

'MISS DAVIES!!!' bellowed Xavier coming into the room as Jean lifted Vixen off a battered Jade. 'What the HELL do you think you are doing?' As silence fell upon the room, Spyke came in and took Jade in his arms where she continued to weep.

Vixen was slowly placed back on the ground where she stood silently, panting slightly, splatters of blood speckled around her face and front. Xavier glared at her furiously.

'She insulted--' started the blond girl, but the professor cut across her.

'I don't care!' he roared, 'I have told you TIME and TIME again! This is a PEACEFUL group. How do you expect us to combat other non-peaceful gangs, if we can't even coincide in harmony?'

'I only retaliated!' shouted Vixen angrily, 'She started it!'

'You could have KILLED her, Vixen!' he bellowed back at her, throwing his hand out in Jade's direction.

'Maybe she should learn how to fight!' cried the blond girl doing the same with her own hand.

'Maybe you should learn how to control yourself!' he shouted back at her. 'I forbid you to fight with us until you can prove some self control.'

Vixen stared at him disbelieving, still with a frown on her face. She stood up straight, flicked her hair over her shoulder and walked out of the room, down the corridor and into her room and slammed the door, making the floor shudder.

In her room she grabbed her school bag, stuffed some candy bars in it and a sweater. Then she kicked her door open again and walked out and towards the stairs.

'Vixen?' asked Cyclops coming up beside her. 'Where are you going?' Vixen stopped dead and glared straight into his eyes.

'What do you care?' she asked bitterly still glowering at him. The young man looked back at her, not smiling. 'Besides, how am I supposed to know.' Whereupon she shoved him out of the way and strode out of the door.