Chapter 2
''Come on Kurt! Take one for the team! You have to do it!'' Beast's words encouraged me, but my face sank, but Kitty is my friend, my best friend, so I ate the muffin. Kitty beamed at me waiting for an answer, hopefully a favorable one, I chewed it, expecting either a hard as stone muffin or a mushy glob of disgusting flavors. To my surprise I got neither, instead I tasted raspberries mixed in with a mushy center and a more stern, but not hard, surrounding. 'Kitty! These are amazing!'' Kitty did a silent cheer with a fist pump, hugged me tightly, and ran off towards the mansion. I turned over to Beast to find him smiling at me. ''What?'' I asked. ''Oh nothing'' he shrugged. Just as we were about to continue with our training I heard the Professor's voice in my head. ''Every one, we are about to begin our team danger room session, everyone's presence is required'' Me and Beast exchanged a look that said ''We will continue this later''
Once I arrived in the danger room I noticed Jean and Scott were obviously avoiding each other, very unusual since they are always joined at the hip. I decided to ask Bobby about it, and he just ''They had a argument about the kid stuff when they went out to eat and now they aren't talking to each other'' It was no surprise that Bobby knew about what happened not over an hour after it happened, after all we all do live in a house, and no matter how big a house is news will spread quickly in it. Everyone was in their new yellow and blue uniforms that matched, with the only ones not matching being my red, black and white uniform, Beast's rather plain, black tights that only cover his pelvis, and Rouge's yellow and green outfit with a short brown leather jacket, however ours, like all X-Men's, has a X located somewhere on our uniform. Soon after everyone arrived the Professor came over the intercom and told us we would be performing program Teamwork X-35. After a few seconds several turret with non lethal weapons, razors on tentacles, and other odd devices protruded from the ceiling, walls, and floors all with one objective, to break every bone in each of the X-Men's bodies. One of the tentacles swiped at me and I instinctively teleported away from it, however another tentacle lunged at me from behind me that I didn't notice, however Kitty was on her toes and phased both me and her through it. A few yards away from us Storm and Bobby were tackling a few deadly razors that were trying to make them into fresh cut sandwiches. One of them nearly succeeded when Bobby's ice shield broke, which knocked him off his feet and allowed another one to take a swipe at him which, had it not been for Rouge and her super strength stopping it. ''Sugar,'' she teased in her southern Mississippi accent, ''you have flimsier ice than icicles in Hawaii'' Rouge's teasing always put a smile on everyone's face, however Jean and Scott were having trouble over with these tubes that shoot gunk that solidifies on impact. One of them hit Jean after Cyclops and her were too busy arguing for him to break it up with his optic blast before it impacted, another hit him when Jean had to spare a few seconds to give him a dirty look and she failed to create a telekinetic shield to protect him. They were obviously having trouble. Beast however decided to help Jean and Cyclops break out of their chemical cages by breaking the substance with his claws. The first few minutes went ok, until the giant snake like robot came out. It shot icky gunk at Bobby's hands, disabling his ice blasts, then the snakes tongue, which doubled as a shield that reflected electricity almost knocked Storm over, so she decided to throw some lightning bolts at it, not a good idea, the lightning bolts ricocheted off its tongue and hit both Kitty and I, it felt terrible, like a thousand of little snakes biting us all at once the electricity spread throughout our bodies. It wasn't enough to kill us, the Professor would never do that, but it just sort of… made everything go…black...
Kitty and Kurt both dropped faster than a fish out of water, so I flew over to retrieve both of them and snickered to myself ''My, my you two lovebirds can't do nothing without each other can you'' Just then the giant snake knocked Scott's visor off his face and his optic blast started tearing through the danger room, it also would've cut through me faster than a knife through my papa's old fashioned corn bread if I hadn't had dived down through the air and dodged it. ''Rouge,'' Storm yelled at me, ''dive down here and set Kurt and Kitty by me, I'll handle them while you and the others defeat the robotic snake'' I twisted myself around one of the snake's swipes and set Kurt and Kitty down. I looked over at Jean, Scott, Bobby, and Beast and decided that the best course of action would be to take out that snake's tongue. I shot over toward it and kicked one of its eye's and then gave it a proper punch in the tongue to stun it, then I grabbed two sections of the tongue, which made two separate indentions, and tore it in half. ''This tar nation won't be stingin nobody no more'' I watched as the snakes crimson eyes simmered back to the black color which meant that the snake is un operational , almost like a fire burning out. I swooped down and landed on the ground by the exit to the danger room along with the others, with Beast carrying Kitty and Kurt, waiting for the door to open to confirm the session's conclusion, but to my surprise it didn't. ''Professor this door mustn't be working, it's not opening. Jean came to a conclusion ''Maybe it's not opening because the sessions not over'' As soon as she finished her sentence the snakes eyes lit back up, almost like a star being born, and it spit one last monster sized ball of gunk at us, it impacted us before any of us could do anything about it and we all were stuck to the wall. I decided to lighten up the situation by joking ''Boy this stuff reeks more than a pile of road kill on a blazing summer day!'' The others did not seem amused. Soon after our awkward silence began Kitty and Kurt awoke, and the Danger Room door slid open and the Professor approached us all, we all had a look of defeat in our eyes, but I think Jean and Scott were affected the most by our defeat. Professor Xavier then sprayed some sort of solvent on the gunk and soon it dissolved, he then stared at us all with a slightly agitated look ''Everyone, take a shower, get changed, and meet me in the main living room''
Since everyone's rooms were all in the same wing and there was only one way towards the main living room from that wing we all had to walk in silence to the living room. Once we got there Professor Xavier spun around in his wheel chair and looked at all of us ''You all know I'm not angered at any of you, you are all my children, but I am also your teacher, you are all too cocky, too overly confident about your abilities. Not to say that being confident is a bad thing, but when you are all so cocky and all have to be superior to each other and you believe that you must make sure you take that final shot and defeat your foe single handedly, that's when it's a problem,'' he glanced at Rouge, ''also, when you let your own personal issues get in the way, and begin arguing during training and become distracted with your objective at hand is when it also becomes a problem,'' he nodded towards me and Scott,'' now, it is not one persons fault, you must all share the responsibility, if one of you makes a mistake it is all of your burden's, that it what teamwork means, you have all mistakenly believed that you are all invincible and that nothing can touch you, if you all don't work at your own problems and issues then we shall all perish'' Beast chimed in with a quote ''United we stand, divided we fall'' We all glanced at one another and nodded and each silently promised the Professor that we will fix our problems. After the speech everyone went about their individual duties around the mansion. Kitty and Kurt enjoying the rest of her muffins, Rouge, Beast, and Bobby all in the recreation room playing pool, the Professor in the library reading the many books contained within it, but me and Scott were still in the living room, silent but both thinking the same thing. Our psychic link gave one another a general idea of what the other one was thinking. We both spoke at the same time ''I'm sorry!'' We both had a weak laugh and eventually we looked into each other's eyes and decided it was time to stop being angry and figure this out. ''Scott, we can have kids if you want to, I just want to wait awhile, not forever though'' Scott kissed me and replied ''Jean, we don't have to have kids until Xavier figures this whole mess out! I love you and I want us to be together, forever, no matter what, in fact…'' Scott knelt down on one knee and looked in my eyes before clasping my hand in his ''Jean Elaine Grey, will you marry me?'' he pulled out a small black box from his pocket and opened it revealing a small, but beautiful diamond ring. I felt my cheeks become wet and my eyes get were probably red. ''Yes,'' I choked, ''yes I will Scott, I would love too…''