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"AAAAH!" Kurt flew threw through the air and landed on his back.

"Oww..." he groaned, staggering to his feet. "I don't think I'll be able to walk for a week."

"Come on!" Scott ran up to him. "We're almost there!"

Just then, two turrets rose out of the ground and swiveled around toward them.

"Kurt! Get down!" Scott blasted one of them. But he wasn't fast enough in getting the other. Kurt grabbed Scott's arm and teleported to safety milliseconds before they were fried.

"That was WAY too close for comfort." Scott panted. He pointed to the top of the hill "There's our target."

"Ray! Jubilee! Come on!" Scott yelled to the remaining members of their four-member team, Team 4. "We have to make it to the prize as a team!" Jubilee and Ray ran up to the small cave in the side of the hill where Scott and Kurt were waiting.

"This is insane!" Jubilee complained, picking a piece of rubble out of her hair. "We'll never make it!" All around them, turrets were firing as the other X Men tried to push their way to the top.

"We just have to get out of this cave, and I can teleport us to the top of the hill!" Kurt exclaimed. "Easy!"

"On the count of three, we rush out and Kurt teleports us." Scott instructed. Everyone got ready to dash out. "One...two...three!"

"GO! GO! GO!" They all ran out of the cave. But just before they all could join hands, Kurt slipped on a large patch of ice.

"Oof!" Kurt hit the ground and lay there.

"Knock out the teleporter first: Check!" Bobby grinned triumphantly as he skated away. Jubilee fired a few shots at him.

"Kurt?" Scott called, forgetting about Bobby. "Kurt!"

Kurt didn't respond.

"He's out. We'll have to carry him." Scott said. "There goes out plan of teleporting." Once a team member was knocked out, he or she could not use their powers. Scott's team was still in the lead, but they were about to slip behind Bobby, Alex, Beast, and Jean, or Team 3. Scott, Ray, and Jubilee lifted Kurt up by his arms and started to half drag, half carry him up the rocky slope. Team 3 was battling Team 2, which consisted of Wolsbane, Sunspot, Kitty, and Sam, giving the slow-moving Team 4 a slight advantage. They trudged up the hill, confident of their victory. But in their haste, they forgot about Team 1. Suddenly, strong, tornado-like winds started swirling around them.

"It's Storm!" Ray shouted. "Be care-"

He was cut off by a loud clap of thunder. Storm rose up into the air, and lightning cackled around her.

"Not bad!" she called out to them. "It's time you learned the reason I'm called Storm!"

The winds increased, and they lost their footing. Scott was holding Kurt tightly by the wrist so that he wouldn't fly away.

"She's trying to stall us because her team is lagging behind!" Scott warned his teammates. Rogue, Amara, and Jamie, the members of Team 1, were still at the bottom of the hill, struggling.

"Well done, Scott." Storm praised him. "But identifying the problem doesn't mean necessarily mean you've solved it!" She raised her arms into the air and a bolt of lightning streaked toward them.

"Argh!" Ray clenched his fists and the lightning was drawn to him, his eyes glowed blue as he absorbed it.

Ray cackled with electricity. "Here, Storm. You can have that back!" The pointed his arms toward her, releasing all the stored-up electricity from her lightning bolt. Storm merely ducked to the side, dodging it. But in doing so, she lost her concentration for a second, and the winds died down.

"Attack!" yelled Scott, regaining his balance. He blasted his optic beam at her, and Jubilee fired off some plasma, which hit Storm on the foot.

"Ugh!" Storm was knocked backward.

"Run!" Scott commanded. With Storm temporarily winded, he and his team had a clear shot to the target. They sprinted the remaining ten meters to the top of the hill. There, sitting on top of a rock, was a small, brown box.

"We did it!" Scott punched the air jubilantly. "Now we just need to let everyone know we've made it."

"Wonder what's in this box." Ray picked it up. Everyone gathered around him. Ray grabbed the top and slowly pried it off.

"There's nothing in there!" Jubilee exclaimed. Suddenly, a red, demonic head sprung out of the box.

"AAAAAAHH!" Ray yelled, flinging it into the air in surprise. The box flew through the air.

"Catch it!" Jubilee screamed. They all scrabbled for it madly. But they were too late. Storm, with her team gathered around her, held the box high above her head for all to see.

"Simulation complete." an automated voice said. The rocky hills faded, and they were all back in the Danger Room.

"Well done, Team 1." The Professor said over the microphone system. "Storm, Amara, Alex, Jamie, you will have the rest of the day off. The rest of you, however, will clean up the Danger Room."

"Aw, man!" Scott said in disgust. "We almost won, Ray. Thanks a lot." He stalked angrily out of the room.

"Yeah. Next time, have a little more self-control." grumbled Jubilee.

"Come on, guys!" Ray complained. "You can't blame me for that! How was I supposed to know that was going to happen?"

"The point of this exercises is to teach you how to handle difficult situations," Storm said, coming up from behind Ray. "Including the element of surprise."

"Easy for you to say, you won because of me." Ray muttered. Storm chuckled.

"Also part of the training, Berzerker." she said. "One mistake you make could mean the victory of your enemy in real life." Storm, along with Rogue, Amara, and Jamie, walked out of the Danger Room. The remaining X Men looked around in dismay. They had a lot of work ahead of them.

Meanwhile, a the Brotherhood of Bayville Boardinghouse...

"Be careful with him!" Mystique snapped. "We can't risk him getting hurt."

Freddy and Lance were carrying the young boy they had apprehended in Minneapolis from Lance's Jeep to the Brotherhood of Bayville Boardinghouse. The boy had proved too difficult to subdue, so Mystique had to sedate him.

"Hey, Pietro, open the door, will you?" Lance grunted. Pietro opened the door and Freddy and Lance brought him into the sparsely furnished first floor of their house.

"What do we do with him?" Freddy asked.

"Lay him down on the couch." Mystique instructed. "An old friend is coming to have a look at him."

"Sure." Lance and Freddy gently set the boy down on the couch. "Anything else you need us to do?" Lance asked.

"No." Mystique answered. "I'll handle it from here."

Lance, Freddy, and Pietro walked off. But Wanda lagged behind.

"What're you going to do with him?" she asked.

"We're going to convince him to join us." Mystique turned and looked Wanda in the eye. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"No, no, of course not." Wanda backed away. "Just...curious." She turned and hurried from the room. Mystique perched on the edge of the coffee table and waited. Not five minutes had gone by when the doorbell rang. Smiling to herself, Mystique got up and opened the front door. Standing there was a beautiful young woman. She had straight blond hair and pale blue eyes. And she was wearing all white.

"Hello, Emma." Mystique greeted her. "So glad you could make it."

Back at the institute...

"Ugh. This is the last time I do that simulation." Kitty groaned as she and the other members of the losing teams trooped into the kitchen for a snack.

"Tell me about it." Ray rubbed his back. "I'm sore all over from cleaning the Danger Room. Not to mention my teammates will never let me live this down."

"Oh, yeah, and the Professor wants to see you, Rogue." Amara added, plopping onto a chair.

"Me? Why?" Rogue set down the glass of water she was drinking.

"He didn't say." Amara told her as she grabbed an apple.

"Huh." Rogue walked out of the kitchen.

...

"You wanted to see me, Professor?" Rogue entered the living room, where the Professor was waiting.

"Yes, Rogue. I have a few questions I need to ask you."

"Okay." Rogue sat down.

"When you were in Minneapolis trying to reach that boy, you touched him, correct?"

"Yeah, why?" Rogue replied.

"I need information about him." The Professor went on. "And I hope you can give me some."

"Uh, sure." Roge thought for a minute. "He's a powerful geokinetic. But...he's been using his powers for years."

"That doesn't make sense." The Professor reasoned. "Cerebro would've detected him."

"Wait, there's more." Rogue went on. "He has a twin sister...I think she might be a mutant, too."

"A twin who's also a mutant. Very interesting." The Professor mused. "Anything else? A name, perhaps?"

"No, I can't find anything about a name. He has a mother, and..." Rogue stopped.

"And what?" the Professor prompted.

"I...don't know." Rogue looked puzzled. "It's like...there's something blocking any memories."

"Hmmm." The Professor was deep in thought. "And he's with the Brotherhood now. We'll have to stop him before he does anything rash." He looked at Rogue. "That will be all, Rogue."

"Okay. Let me know if I can do anything else." Rogue got up and left. The Professor was just about to go to his room when he felt someone in his mind.

"Oh, no." he whispered. He checked again, just to be sure. There was no doubt who it was.

"Emma Frost." he whispered.

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