Open at a soccer game.
Announcer: And with 7 seconds to go, the ball is passed to Bayville high's star striker, Jean Grey!
Scott, Kurt, Kitty, Evan: All right! Jean, go for the goal. All the way, Jean! Run! Shoot it!
Announcer: She shoots... and it's good! And that's the game as Bayville aces the semi-finals!
Teammates: Yeah! All right, Jean, way to go! Nice work there, superstar!
Scott: Yeah, Jean! Jean, you were fantastic-
Duncan: Hey, Jean, way to go. You stomped 'em like bugs on a sidewalk.
Kitty: Hmm! That Duncan. He knows just what a girl wants to hear.
Jean: Thanks, Duncan. Yeah, everyone played really well today.
Scott: Jean, we're taking off. You riding or walking?
Jean: Oh, Scott, uh, that's ok. Uh, Duncan is driving me home.
Duncan: Yeah. Hey, Summers, maybe we'll even get lost along the way.
Scott: Heh! With you driving, it's pretty much expected.
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In Scott's car.
Kitty: get real! The stone ciphers? Their music is so... last millennium.
Kurt: Oh, not true! They rock big time! Tell her, Scott!
Kitty: Scott? Hello! [car horn honks]
Scott: huh? Whoa!
Kurt: hey! What's his hurry?
Kitty: I don't know. Maybe it's the 12 police cars on his tail. Just a hunch.
The car cuts through traffic. Swerves around traffice and hits the edge of a bridge, teetering over a school bus full of students.
Scott: Oh, no!
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Opening credits.
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Kurt: We've got to do something!
Scott: No! There's too many news cameras!
Kitty: But what about those kids? *the car tilts some more*
Scott: Kurt!
Kurt: I'm on it!
Kurt ports to the car gets the guy out and to a hidden place. Scott blasts the car so it doesn't his the bus. Kurt pushes the guy out to the cops.
Cops: All right, hold it right there.
Kurt ports back to the other two and Kitty phases them through the wall out of sight.
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Back at the mansion. A survey of all the new students and their power. Pretty cool to watch actually.
Logan: So those are the new recruits. Hmph! Looks like we got our hands full.
Professor X: Yes, a spirited bunch. But good kids, though I'm afraid it's going to be even more difficult this term to keep a lid on things and to maintain our anonymity.
Logan: Not to mention our buildings. We're definitely gonna need more instructors and maybe a couple of tanks.
Storm: Charles, excuse me, but I think you may find this interesting. *she turns on a newscast*
News Reporter: Eyewitness accounts are conflicting, but all agree that the falling car was somehow deflected by this strange red flash. Its source is still a mystery.
Professor X: Scott
Scott, Kurt, Kitty pull up out front of the mansion.
Kurt: Ih, maybe we better not mention what happened to anyone, you think?
Kitty: Well, we could just keep quiet about it for a while, like, say, forever. *sees the three instructors waiting outside* Or we could blame it all on
Kurt. Hey!
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Inside with Professor X.
Scott: The thing that really gets me is that I hesitated. I was so worried about anyone seeing me that I almost acted too late. And why? I mean, helping others and saving lives should be the most important thing we do with our powers.
Professor X: Scott, I know this is a confusing issue. Yes, helping others is the right thing to do, but we must also try to remain anonymous, at least for the present.
Scott: It's like we're hiding in shame. What's the harm in letting people know?
Professor X: Because many of these same people are simply not ready to embrace the fact that mutants walk the earth. Look, Scott, I'm not blaming you for what you did. In fact, I'd have done the same thing in your place. I'm just saying you need to do what you can without revealing what you are.
Scott: Ohh, I don't know, professor. I'm having a hard time with this one.
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Chatting with Scott on the computer.
Alex: Ok, right here, ok, look! Trophied it! Your little bro can't be beat in the pipeline, man.
Scott: Yeah, right! Who you surfing against? Little girls?
Alex: No little girls in the semi-pros, dude. And next year, I might even go pro.
Scott: Really? Well...I guess that means you won't be joining us here at the institute for a while.
Alex: Well, that's gonna have to wait. I don't know, Scott. This whole thing about being a mutant, it's...you know?
Scott: Yeah. It, uh, takes a little getting used to.
Alex: But having all these powers is kind of cool. I'm starting to get the hang of it, you know. Although yesterday in the cafeteria, I pointed to an enchilada, and it--heh! It blew up.
Scott: I hate when that happens.
Alex: Yeah. It's real tough trying to keep the old blasters a secret. Yeah, tell me about it.
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At school in the gym.
Toad: Man, this bombs, yo. Even the flies here think they're better than us.
Fred: Yeah. I don't even know what we're doing at school, anyway.
Pietro: But we do know what Lance is doing here. He'd like to get a certain Kitty stuck in a tree. K-i-s-s-i--ow!
Risty: Excuse me. how long do these assemblies usually last?
Rogue: Huh? Oh, too long. But at least it gets us out of class.
Risty: Right, class. My next one should be...
Rogue: Geometry with Mr. Barton. You're new.
Risty: Yes. I'm Risty Wilde from Manchester, England.
Rogue: I'm Rogue. Hang out afterwards. I'll show you where Barton's class is.
Lance moves to sit down behind Kitty.
Lance: Oh, hey, Kitty. Didn't see you there.
Kitty: Oh, look, it's the walking Richter scale. Shouldn't you be erupting somewhere?
Man: And now, everyone, let's give a warm Bayville high welcome to our new principal, Mr. Edward Kelly! *Lance causes a tremor*
Lance: Hey, Kitty, want to see some real shakin?
The gym shakes and the scoreboard comes down right above the new Principal.
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Jean swings the scoreboard out of the way.
Kitty: Lance, get a clue, ok?
Principal Kelly: Unh! Whew! Since when is Bayville on a fault line? Anyway, I want to welcome you all to a new semester. I know that filling the vacuum left by your previous principal ms. Darkholme will not be an easy job, but it's a challenge to which I am looking forward. And that brings me to what I hope will become the theme of the coming semester- "meeting new challenges." you know, most of us go through life thinking we're t so different from the people around us, and that's a mistake, because I'll wager that every one of us here has some unique talents, some special gifts, some ability that makes us stand out from the crowd. However, that said, I want your second priority to be supporting the girls' soccer team for the championship! And that means I want every one of you to turn out tonight for the big pre-game rally. Can we count on you?
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Outside.
Scott: Hey, Sandy, have you seen Jean?
Sandy: Uh-uh. *giggles with other girls*
Scott: Hmm.
Kitty: Lance, just forget it!
Lance: Hey, I said I was sorry for the scoreboard thing. Come on, don't be mad.
Kitty: Lance, you can be such a jerk sometimes!
Scott: Alvers, leave her alone.
Lance: Hey, go recharge our batteries, goggle boy! This is between me and her.
Scott: Yeah? Well, now it's between you and me.
Lance: Go ahead, Summers! Take your best shot! Let's see those eyes blast me through the fence. Right here, right now.
Kitty: Scott, don't let him bait you. He knows we can't do that stuff out in the open.
Scott: Come on, Kitty.
Kitty: hmph!
Lance: You know what, guys? Summers may like keeping things under wraps, but I've had it with hiding our powers.
Fred: But mystique said-
Lance: Forget mystique! She ain't around no more, so I say let's take principal kelly 's advice and go public with our "unique talents."
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At night at the soccer game.
Annoucer: And playing mid-field for the Bayville hawks, Taryn Fujioka! Rounding out the team, Bayville's star forward, Jean Grey!
Kurt: Yeah, Jean!
Crowd, chanting: Bayville, Bayville! Bayville, Bayville! Bayville, Bayville! Bayville, Bayville!
Principal Kelly: In appreciation of the team spirit that has brought us all the way to tonight's championship game, we'd like to present our school mascot, the Bayville hawk! *The new mascot is unveiled* Now let the game begin!
Annoucer: The game is underway, and it's Bayville taking- *Toad grabs the microphone* hey, give that back!
Lance: Excuse me, folks. Hey, can I have your attention up here?
Kitty: Lance?!
Scott: What's he up to?
Pietro grabs the lights and shines them up on him.
Lance: That's better. My name's Lance. I also call myself avalanche because I'm a mutant
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Lance: That's right me and Toad and Blob and Quicksilver here, we're all mutants. Born different...
Kitty: I--I can't believe he's doing this!
Guard: Hey, you get down from there!
Toad: Sorry, y'all, mutants only.
Lance; You see, there's lots of mutants at Bayville high. Scott Summers over there, he's one. And so's Jean grey, your big soccer star. And most of their pals over at the Xavier Institute, which is kind of a school for weirdo mutant nerds.
Rogue: Man, we're busted big time.
Lance: Now being mutants means we got these special powers we can use to make little...improvements. For instance, we thought this game would be more fun if the goals were further apart. And we figure the principal ought to have a little better perspective on his student body. *Pietro pushes Principal Kelly up with a whirlwind*
Principal Kelly: Ohh! Aah!
Scott: Sorry, Professor X. cat's out of the bag.
Professor X: Storm, we need you!
Lance: Another thing, we think that mascot totally reeks!
Fred picks up the mascot, Scott blasts it out of his hands.
Scott: All right, Lance, you want it all out in the open? Let's put it out there!
Lance: I've been waiting for this.
Kitty phases through the camera, shorting it out.
Camera guy: What? Huh? Ohh! Aah! Ohh.
Rogue: I'm about to feel real big and stupid, if you now what I mean. *grabs Fred*
Kurt: Stick to catching bugs, Toad!
Storm arrives and uses her powers to put out the fire.
Professor X: Good work, Storm.
Storm: Yes, but no downpour can make people forget what they've seen here. The secret is out.
Professor X: Perhaps not if I can alter their memory of what's happened.
Storm: No! There are too many! Even your mind could never withstand such a strain.
Professor X: I really have no choice. Ugh! *hits a wall when he gets to Principal Kelly and blacks out*
Storm: Charles!
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The mansion infirmary.
Logan: Unh. Easy, charles. Take it slow. You threw your brain into overload.
Storm: But it worked. Eyewitnesses believe the hawk's exploding fireworks caused all the damage.
Professor X: What about the broadcast? How much got out?
Logan: None. Seems there was some kind of weird magnetic interference that knocked the station off the air seconds before.
Professor X: Magnetic? Hmm. Could it be that he's still alive?
Logan: Magneto? I wouldn't doubt it.
Scott: Anyway, I guess we're back under wraps where we should be. I'm real sorry, professor. It's like you said. The world isn't really ready to lear about us.
Professor X: I'm afraid not, Scott. Hopefully, Lance and the others will come to realize that as well. My only concern is Principal Kelly.
I was inside his mind when I blacked out, and I'm not sure I finished the job.
Fade to the principal standing in his office looking pensive.
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