disaster at the soccer tournament

|a month later|

Jean is playing in the schools girls soccer team and makes a game deciding shot, getting praised by everyone including Scott, Kurt and Evan who came to watch her play and Duncan who she is driving home with which gets on the red shades wearing teens nerves.

On the ride back to the Institute the three boys see a car chase which leads to an accident with a criminal unconscious in his car, which is dangling off a bridge over a full school bus.

Scott instructs Kurt to port the man on to the ground and he shoots the car away from the school bus once is falls.

|Xavier Institute|

The new recruits are playing around in the frontyard, flaunting their respective powers, some trying to impress girls, others to prank someone.

"So those are the new recruits huh? Looks like we've got our hands full." Logan says looking out of the window, watching the kids play around with their powers, destroying parts of the school accidentally.

"Yes, a spirited bunch but good kids though I'm afraid it'll be harder to keep a lid on things and maintain our anonymity." Charles says.

"Not to mention our buildings, we're definitely gonna need Ben and Scott as instructors. Where are they anyways?" Logan says, seeing a fireball fly past their window.

"Charles, excuse me but I think you may find this interesting." Storm says walking into the room and turn on a TV, showing a news report about Scott using his laser to safe the kids in the schoolbus.

"That answers half of your question I suppose and Ben is taking the day off with Rogue and Kitty, though I know where I can find him if the situation needs his attention." Xavier says, looking at Logan who only grumbles "kids." In response.

|With Rogue, Kitty and Ben|

The three of them are standing on the edge of the cliff behind the school, looking downwards.

"Are you sure about this?" Kitty asks Ben.

"Yeah come on trust me. I build it myself." Ben tells them and slings both girls over his shoulder, transforming into Four arms and jumps downwards, landing on the stone platform to their left he made a week ago because the professor requested one, telling him that it will be needed for their future training sessions.

"Warn us next time." Rogue tells him while there are still hanging over his shoulders.

"Sorry." Ben replies and puts the girls down, turning back human.

"So what's the big deal bringing us down here?" Kitty asks looking around.

"Come on." Ben says with a grin and leads the girls down the stony path he made leading into a cave near them, while another other leads back to the top of the cliff via steps.

Ben leads them around the corner into the opening off the cave and they see a door there.

"Seriously you put a door into a mountain?" Rogue asks Ben.

"Sweetheart, just trust me OK. You'll both like it, I think." Ben replies, making the girls look at each other and shrug while Ben is inserting his key and opens the door for them, holding it open so they can enter.

The two girls walk through the door and enter a huge room, build into the mountain.

"Ben, I'm guessing you made this room?" Rogue asks looking around.

"Yep." Ben replies proudly.

"Are you sure it's gonna hold? I mean the Institute is not for from being over our heads I'm guessing." Rogue says concerned.

"Yes It'll hold. I reinforced the structure from the inside with my crystals and did the calculations with greymatter." Ben tells them, making them give a relieved sigh.

"So what do you think?" Ben asks showing them around the small room he build and the bits and pieces of furniture he got.

"One question, how did you get that through the door?" Rogue asks pointing at a enormous Bed at the end of the room.

"Phased through the mountain." Ben replies as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

"And nobody else knows about this?" Kitty asks exited thinking she may find some peace and quiet here away from all her noisy friends.

"Only the professor and Logan could track us easily but I doubt that he will." Ben replies.

"How did you pay for this?" Rogue asks jumping onto the edge of the enormous bed to sit there.

"Remember those things I have in my room, stacked on the walls?" Ben asks, getting a nod positive from both girls.

"Well those were some inventions for various purposes and I sold one of them quite successfully. I'm not nearly as wealthy as the professor but I'm doing good especially considering I'm still a minor." Ben informs them.

"Oh that's great Ben, I'm so proud of you." Kitty says happily and gives him a big hug.

"Thanks Kitten." Ben replies.

"So is this all you wanted to show us or did you have something else planned? I mean you told the prof. that we're taking the whole day off." Rogue asks him, taking off her shoes once she sees that the floor is rather clean and lies down in the middle of the bed, spreading out her limbs."

"Well if you'd care to shift your attention over here." Ben says, opening another door, showing them a Kitchen with dining room and another room with a functioning bathroom.

"Hell, you really went all out on this." Kitty says impressed.

"Yeah, I wanted us to have a place we can retreat to or enjoy our peace and quiet, now that the school is getting fuller." Ben tells them.

"Or get some privacy." Rogue whispers to Kitty who is sitting next to her on the bed, testing out the mattress and blushes at her roommate's implications.

"And the prof agreed?" Kitty asks surprised.

"Well once I promised I'd help with some of the projects he has planned he didn't mind as long as I don't dig right under the compound.

"Sweet." Kitty says.

"Anyways, ladies If you'd like to accompany me to the dining room." Ben says holding the door open for them and leads them to the medium sized table he put there.

"I went ahead and prepared a little snack for us." Ben says and gets a dish from the kitchen, reheating it quickly with his fire powers.

"You really are handy you know, how do you get this place clean anyways?" Rogue asks him.

"You really gotta ask?" Ben asks cockily, turning into ditto and multiplying himself before turning into a huge turtle like creature.

"What can you do in that form?" Kitty asks interested.

"I can spin around really fast, becoming a living fan basically." Ben answers, making Rogue chuckle.

"Anyways, the meal is served." Ben says putting the food down on the previously prepared table.

The three of them then eat and exchange a little small talk.

"Wow Ben, I didn't know you could cook." Kitty says impressed.

"Not really, I had to do this like four times until it was edible." Ben says laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" Rogue asks interested.

"cause I was too lazy to get new ingredients so I turned back time and started over again." Ben says smirking.

"You can turn back time?" The girls asks shocked.

"Yeah, but I can only travel backwards by myself so I rarely ever use it." Ben tells them.

"I'm really getting envious of your powers you know that babe?" Rogue says.

"Rogue, I'm sure that given some time I may be able to figure out a way for you to control your powers." Ben tells her, hugging the girl.

"Yeah Rogue, don't give up hope. Plus it's not like you don't have anyone to touch anymore." Kitty tells her, putting her hand on the pale girls back.

"So, any reason you got such a gigantic bed Ben?" Rogue asks trying to change the topic.

"I thought that it's a shame we never go on a date as three like we're doing now and thought it would make things easier, plus that way we can sleep together without worrying so much because there is enough space for you to sleep on your own side." Ben tells her, while they walk back into the living room.

"Uhm, Ben I just realized this but what happens if there is a storm and the waves reach the door or something?" Kitty asks.

"It's isolated, but I actually build the place a little higher into the mountain so it shouldn't be much of a problem, stop worrying about the details." Ben tells her, giving her a kiss on her forehead.

"So, what now?" Rogue asks as the three of them are standing in the middle of the living room.

"Actually I was thinking that if you wanted to, you both could get some swimsuits and meet me back here." Ben tells them.

"Sure sounds fun." Kitty agrees and drags Rogue out of Ben's hideout and to their room.

"So, which one do you think is good?" Kitty asks holding up some swimsuits.

"I don't know." Rogue replies honestly and fetches her black bikini, it being her only swimsuit.

"Oh no Rogue, come on you're taking one of mine. While the plain and classic style suits you I'd like to see you in something more… exotic." Kitty tells her pausing as she looks through her drawer and finds a leopard print bikini for the other girl and hands her the clothing.

"Are you sure? I mean this isn't really my style." Rogue asks her unsure.

"That is the point. Come out let's get you out of your comfort zone." Kitty tells her enthusiastically and fetches a red bikini with yellow leaves as print on it and pockets the clothing.

"Come on let's get back, we don't want Ben to think we ditched him." Kitty says laughing lightly and they hurry back to Ben, who's already dressed in his swim trunks and took off his shirt.

"We're gonna change real quick." Kitty says, pulling Rogue through the open door and closes it behind them.

"Do you think he's doing it on purpose?" Kitty asks Rogue while they are changing into their bathing suits.

"Doing what on purpose?" Rogue asks back.

"flaunting that strong body of his." Kitty replies obviously.

"I don't know maybe." Rogue replies.

"Well let's see what happens when he sees this." Kitty says excitedly, pointing between herself and Rogue, who thinks that her top is a little too tight but doesn't point it out.

"Benny-boy. We're ready." Rogue says playfully as the two beauties step through the door, making Ben's jaw drop at seeing their outfits.

"Wow, you are both stunning." Ben says.

"Thank you." They both reply.

"Well come on, let's go for a swim." Ben says and hops into the water just outside the cave.

The two girls hurry after him and are next to him in the water a second later.

"So, what now lover-boy?" Rogue asks teasingly.

"I don't know your choice." Ben replies honestly not having thought the whole date through.

"How about we see who can hold their breath the longest." Kitty suggests and the other two agree.

"One, two, three." They count together and dive down until they reach the bottom of the sea, which is maybe 3 meters deep near the cave.

The three stay underwater for maybe two minutes before Kitty gives up and returns to the surface, sitting down on the ledge prouting out of the water.

Still underwater Ben and Rogue are looking at eachother, trying to make the other surrender by getting them to laugh or distract them. However none of them are giving in and when they reach the three and a half minutes mark Ben suddenly swims to the surface with Rogue following him.

"Phew." Ben coughs out some water, swimming over to Kitty and putting his arms on the ledge next to her legs.

"Hah, I win!" Rogue shouts excitedly.

"Only cause you cheated, again." Ben complains with a pout.

"Cheated? How?" Rogue asks confused.

"Uhm, Rogue. I think you need to retie something." Kitty says pointing at her chest and Rogue sees her bikini top float around her neck but on top of the water.

"I swear I didn't do it on purpose this time, Kitty's top just is a bit to tight for me." Rogue says embarrassed, paddling over to them while holding the clothing over her breasts.

"Ben, can you tie it in the back please?" Rogue asks him sweetly and Ben fixes her clothing problem for her.

"Thanks." Rogue says.

"Humpf, my breasts are not that much smaller than yours." Kitty says her pride having taken a blow.

"You know that's not how I meant it." Rogue says worried she angered her best friend.

"Just kidding." Kitty says sticking out her tongue, "but you know we are still growing don't think I've given up on overtaking you." Kitty tells her.

"Anyways, who wants to relax in a hot tub?" Ben asks.

"You got a hot tub in there?" Kitty asks giddily.

"No, come on follow me." Ben tells them and swims ahead of the girls over to the other side of the cave and climbs on to the ledge he build there, helping his girls up and shows them a generous hole he made in the rocky foundation surrounding the cliff.

"And how is that water hot?" Kitty asks, poking her toe into it, feeling no warmth from it.

"hop in and find out." Ben tells her, getting into the manmade pool and his girlfriends follow him, staying at the edge of the water.

"Easy does it." Ben says to himself, turning into heatblast and slowly increases the waters temperature to an enjoyable level.

"Ohh." Kitty says liking the warm water.

"See, hot tub." Ben says with a smirk.

"All we'd need right now are our own personal masseuses and this is the perfect spa." Kitty says, relaxing and leaning onto the edge with Rogue doing the same with a fair amount of distance between them for obvious reasons.

"Why not?" Ben says and turns into ditto, cloning himself a few times until there are 6 of them in the water.

"I hope I don't look to weird like this." Ben says as three of him swim over to one girl each.

"Don't worry about it, we actually think you're cute looking like this." Rogue tells him, stroking one of the dittos' face.

Ben then starts to massage the girls, telling them to put their heads onto a towel he brought and massages them with one ditto taking care of their neck and arms, another their back and the last one massages her legs. For Rouge he focuses his hands into that of his human self, so the girl won't turn into a ditto herself accidentally.

This process soon ends in a loud moan fest, courtesy of the two girls, whenever a ditto hits a tense spot.

After maybe 10 minutes of massaging the girls Ben turns back human smiling at seeing his two girlfriends' content with the massage and his hot tub idea.

|Meanwhile at the Institute|

Kurt, Evan and Scott arrive at the Institute and Kurt tells them "Maybe we don't mention what happened to anyone."

"Yeah, we could keep quiet about it, or blame it all on you." Evan says, upon seeing their teachers, including his aunt stare them down.

The professor then asks Scott for them to speak in private.

"The thing that really gets me is that I hesitated, I was so worried about anyone seeing me that I almost acted too late, I mean helping others and saving people should be the most important thing we can do with our powers." Scott says.

"Scott, I know that this is a confusing issue, yes helping others is the right thing to do but we must at least try to stay anonymous at least for the present." Charles tells his protegee.

"It's like hiding in shame, what's the harm in letting people know?" Scott asks.

"Because many of these people are not ready to face the fact, mutants walk the earth. Look, Scott I'm not blaming you for what you did. In fact I might have done the same thing in your place. I'm just saying you need to do what you can without revealing who you are." Charles tells him.

"I just don't know professor, I'm having a hard time on this one." Scott replies and leaves his office, heading to his room to video chat with his brother.

"Got the trophy dude, your little brother just can't be beat on the pipeline." Alex tells him showing him a recording of his surfing.

"Yeah right, who're you surfing against? Little girls?" Scott shoot back.

"No little girls in the semi-pros dude and next year I might even go pro." Alex replies.

"Really? I guess that means you won't be joining us here at the Institute for a while." Soctt says disappointed.

"It'll have to wait, this whole thing about being a mutant is just … I don't know." Alex tells him.

"Yeah, definitely takes a little getting used to." Scott replies.

|school|

The next day the new principal is holding a speech in the gymnasium. Scott is waiting for Jean but to his disappointment the redhead decides to sit with Duncan.

Near the gyms entrance Toad, Blob, Pietro and Lance are leaning against a wall with toad hopping around trying to catch some flies.

"Man this bums, even the flies think they're better than us." Toad complains.

"I don't even know what we're doing at school anyways." Blob says.

"But I do know what Lance is doing here. He's trying to land with a certain Kitty-cat." Pietro says while Lance is sulking, looking over to Kitty, who's sitting with Ben while Rogue is making her way over to the two, pushing away the teen next to Ben and sits down, greeting him with a kiss to his cheek.

"Excuse me, how long do these assembly's usually last?" A girl with British accent asks Rogue, scooting over from the other side.

"Oh, too long but at least it gets us out of class." Rogue tells the girl.

"Right, class. My next one should be…" The girl says looking at her schedule and Rogue leans over to her, pointing it out, "Geometry with mr. burton. You're new?"

"Yeah, I'm Misty Wilde from Manchester England." She says.

"I'm Rogue, hang out afterwards, I'll show you where burton's class is." Rogue tells the purple haired girl, before scooting back over to Ben.

"What was that about?" Ben asks curious.

"New student, I'm gonna help her get used to things, so you'll have to get by without me after the assembly." Rogue tells him, giving him a kiss.

"Great, maybe I can show you that place I was mentioning the other day." Kitty chimes in, linking her arm with Bens.

"Sure, sounds good." Ben agrees.

Lance sees this and decides to play a prank on the two teens, by using his powers to cause an earthquake under the school.

Ben glares at him once he sees him stare at Kitty before their attention gets caught by the scoreboard hanging from the roof falling down, heading right for the speaker podium where the new principal is standing.

Jean reacts in time and uses her telekinesis to push the falling scoreboard away from the principal.

"Phew, since when is Bayville on a fault line?" The principal jokes before holding his speech.

"Anyways, I want to welcome you all to a new semester. I know filling the void of your previous principal Mrs. Darkholme can not be an easy job but it's a challenge to which I'm looking forward. And that brings me to what I'm hoping will be the theme of the coming semester. Meeting new challenges. You know, most of us go through live thinking we're not so different from the people around us and that's a mistake, because I'll wager that everyone 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 everyone of you to show up tonight for the big rally."

|after school|

Kitty is waiting for Ben at the schools parking lot when Lance approaches her with his friends waiting next to him in their jeep.

"Lance just forget it." Kitty yells at him.

"Come on, I said I was sorry for the scoreboard thing. Don't be mad." He tells her.

"Just stay away from me OK?" Kitty says and moves to walk away but he grabs her wrist to stop her.

Ben arrives and rushes over to them, warning Lance "Keep your hands of my girl, our I'll touch you and believe me you won't like that." While Kitty phases her hand free.

"Oh yeah, we'd like to see you try, afterall you goodie twoshoes can't use your powers in public." Quicksilver says.

"Come on Ben, he's not worth it." Kitty tells him, taking Ben's hand and leading them away.

"You know I could have taught him a lesson right? I didn't attend everyone of Logans martial arts classes for nothing." Ben tells her, slinging his arm around the ponytailed girl protectively.

"I know but he honestly is not worth the trouble, now come on." Kitty replies.

"Hey where are you guys going? Not waiting for Rogue?" Scott asks the two as they walk past him, since he's waiting for Jean.

"She's befriending one of the new kids. By the way I think Jean is getting a ride with that football dude." Ben informs him, making Scott sigh disappointed.

"You know what guys? Summers may like keeping things under wraps, but I've had it with hiding our powers." Lance tells his friends.

"but Mystique said…" Bob argues.

"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." Lance says.

|later that day – soccer tournament|

Ben, Scott, Kurt, Evan, Kitty, Rouge and the professor have all come to the game to cheer on Jean and are excited for the game while they are cheering from the stands with Ben standing behind Rogue, enveloping her so she won't have to worry about touching anyone else, which she appreciates and gives him a smile.

"In appreciation for the teams' spirit that's brought us all the way here to tonight's championship game we'd like to present our school mascot the Bayville Hawk." Principal Kelly announces while the soccer player gather on the field. The marching band then start to play a quick tune while the tarp covering the statue of a hawk is removed and flames shoot out of its wings, with fireworks going off over their heads.

"Now, let the game begin." The principal finishes and the referee starts the game, just as the announcer wants to report what is happening Toad uses his tongue to steal the microphone from the man and brings it up ontop of the room he is broadcasting from, handing it to Lance.

"Excuse me folks. Hey, can I have your attention up here!" Lance says into the microphone and quicksilver moves the lights on the field so it's shining at him, Blob, Toad and himself once he rejoins them a second later.

"my name's Lance. I also call myself avalanche, cause I'm a mutant. That's right, me and Blob and Toad and Quicksilver here, we're all mutants. Born different, what you might call freaks. You see there are lots of mutants in Bayville high, Scott summers is one and so is Jean Grey and most of their pals over at the Xavier mutant institute, which is kind of a school for weirdo mutant nerds. Now being mutants means we've got these special powers, with which we can make some improvements, for instance we thought this game'd be a bit more fun if the goals were further apart." Lance says and creates a rift going straight through the field, causing a panic.

"And we thought the principal might want to have a bit more of perspective on his student body." Lance says as Quicksilver speeds around him, picking him up in a tornado.

"Another thing, we think that mascot totally reeks." Lance says as Blob goes over to the burning statue and throws it at the school's roof.

"Sorry prof. Cat's out of the bag." Scott says and leads the others down to the field after they change into their mission suit, save for Ben who rushes over to the school building once it catches on fire and shifts into water hazard, a humanoid creature with a fishlike face, covered in a red and black suit of armor from which he can produce water. Once he reaches the building, he propels himself onto the roof with his water cannons and gets started on putting out the fire.

The X-men gather on the field and Scott says "Alright Lance, you want it out in the open, let's put it our there."

"I've been waiting for this." Lance says hopping down to the field and gets into a fistfight with Scott.

Evan and Kitty take care of the camera equipment by ramming a spike through it or phasing through it, short-circuiting it. Jean uses her powers to pick up Pietro and slam him into Blob.

As Blob is starting to terrorize some students trapped on the stands Rogue goes over to him, removing her glove saying, "I'm about to feel really big and stupid." She then drains Blob's powers and the bleachers Blob was holding overhimself come crashing down on the two.

Kitty rushes over there concerned and uses her phasing to free the girl.

Meanwhile Toad is trying to steal stuff left behind in the panic, but Kurt stops him by tackling him to the ground and then kicking him off himself, against a wall.

Back with Lance and Scott, Lance is using his powers to move the floor beneath the vizored teen but he gets knocked over by a blast to the shoulder courtesy of Scott.

By using his powers however Lance caused the statue to come loose and it's starting to tip over, heading for Kitty, who is helping students away from the wreckage.

"Kitty!" Ben shouts worried, seeing the golden eagle head for the girl and dives down, turning into crashhopper, a grasshopper like creature with humanoid stance and enormous legs. Ben jumps off the building while falling and pulls Kitty and the girl she was helping out of the way in the last second.

"You OK?" Ben asks concerned, looking the girl over.

Storm then shows up, having been called by the professor and uses her power to put out the rest of the fire by summoning rain.

"Good work Storm." Charles says seeing the fire extinguished.

"Yes, but no downpour can make people forget what they've seen here. The secret is out." Storm tells him.

"Perhaps not, if I can alter their memories of what happened." Charles replies.

"No there are too many, even your mind couldn't withstand such a strain." Storm says warning him.

"How about two minds?" Ben suggests, joining the professor with his arm around Kitty.

"Ben, I don't think you're ready for…" Charles tries to stop him but Ben only replies.

"Just give me the cover story and let's get cracking." Ben replies looking serious, having turned into brainstorm. The professor decides against arguing with the teen and gives him the story mentally and they both start to alter the memories of every non-mutant present.

They finish replacing everyone's memories but when Charles notices that Kelly's missing, he starts to alter the man's memories before collapsing, with Ben having collapsed before him and is resting on Rogue's lap now.

The X-men quickly file out, carrying the collapsed Charles and Ben towards their Van and everyone drives home.

|A few hours later- Institute|

Professor Xavier is regaining consciousness, while lying on a bed in the infirmary and holds his head.

"Easy chuck, you threw your head into overload." Logan tells him, calming the man down.

"But it worked, everyone believes that malfunctioning fireworks were responsible for what happened." Storm adds.

"what about the broadcast, how much got out?" Charles asks worried.

"Non, seems there was some kind of weird magnetic interference that knocked the station off the air seconds before." Logan answers.

"Magneto, he's still alive?" Charles says surprised.

"Wouldn't doubt it, either it was him or our wonderkid over there." Logan says pointing over to Ben who is lying in the bed next to Charles, still knocked out with a worried Rogue and Kitty sitting next to his bed.

"Anyways, I guess we're back under wraps like we should be, I'm really sorry professor. I'm afraid the world really isn`t ready to learn about us." Scott says recalling how scared the teens were of them.

"It appears not, I hope that the others come to realize that as well. My only concern is principal Kelly, I was in his mind when I collapsed. I'm not sure if I finished the job." Charles tells them.

"But what about Ben, how is he?" Charles asks them.

"Physically he's fine, we were hoping you could pop in there once you've rested so see if you can lure him out." Logan tells him.

"Let's see." Charles replies, concentrating on Ben's mind.

"Not now Chuck. You're recovering yourself." Logan tells him.

"He is my responsibility, if I were strong enough to do what needed to be done on my own he wouldn't be here." Charles replies, refocusing on waking the teen.

A minute or so later Ben stirs and looks around, smiling upon seeing his girlfriends.

"Hello beauties, sorry did I make you worry?" Ben asks the two of them.

"Ben, we're not alone." Rogue tells him and Ben turns to the other side and sees The three men looking at him, with Logan having one eyebrow raised saying "Barely 10 seconds awake and already flirting, oh how nice it must be to be young."