week before school

4 days later the students have all returned to the Institute after celebrating new years with their friends or family.

"Welcome back students. As you know you have one more week remaining before school starts due to it being renovated, which gives us the opportunity to teach you a lot in this week. Also, I want you all to meet our newest student, Wanda." Charles tells the students gathered in the main living room, the Maximoff waving at everyone nervously.

"Teach us what exactly?" Rahne asks.

"Control, strength. How to defend yourself. The basics which most of the older students know by now." Logan says in his usually grumpy voice.

"Great" Jamie sighs, accidentally splitting into three of himself with each one facepalming himself.

"I will look forward to learning from your tutelage." Roberto says.

"Shut it sunspot. There is no room for suck ups." Ben says, making Logan smirk.

"Well... I'll leave you to it then." Charles says wheeling away with the older teens about to follow him.

"Where do you think you're going?" Logan demands to know, blocking the group from leaving.

"You said we know this stuff already." Kitty says hopefully.

"Not well enough." Logan says, making them groan.

"Now, first we'll split you up between the teachers." Logan says.

"I'll go with Ben!" Wanda, Rogue and Kitty say quickly only to get shot down by Logan.

"This is not your choice. You will be assigned." Logan says and informs everyone whose group they belong to, his, Ben's or Storm's.

"Aww , why is only Wanda in Ben's group?" Kitty pouts, following storm through the institute.

"It's Logan's choice. I'm sure there was a reason." Jean tells her, looking back to the brown-haired teen herself.

"At least we're not stuck on Logan's team. He tends to go overboard with his training." Kitty says.

"Hey there. I'm Sam, but call me Cannonball." The blonde teen introduces himself to Wanda, being the only two under Ben's tutelage.

"Come on follow me you two." Ben says, leading them out of the Institute before picking up both teens under his arms and sprouts insect wings, flying them over the sea behind the Institute.

"Uhm, not that I don't appreciate the ride, but why are we over the middle of the ocean?" Cannonball asks nervously, convinced he can see a shark waving at him from in the water.

"Because this is where we're training." Ben says, shooting crystals from his feet until a platform has formed on top of the water and drops down on it with his two assigned students.

"What are we supposed to do here?" Wanda asks, looking over the crystalline platform's edge.

"Get back to shore without getting wet." Ben instructs, turning into ripjaw and dives into the water, exploring the area a bit.

"I got this, I got this!" Cannonball tells himself, bouncing on his toes a few times before blasting off, destroying the platform with the force and both crash into the water below.

"Yeah. You got this." Wanda says, pulling herself onto the biggest platform before helping him up.

"What are we supposed to do if not fly over with my powers?" Cannonball asks confused.

"Maybe I should use my power." Wanda says uncertainly.

"What do you do anyways? Besides looking hot?" He asks flirtingly.

"Uh, I manipulate reality and actually, never mind he'll tell you." Wanda says pointing behind Cannonball, where Ben is levitating with his ghostfreak form, tentacles erupting from his stomach and wrapping around the teen.

"Flirting with my girlfriend, are we?" Ben says in an eerie voice.

"To be fair he didn't know Ben." Wanda says relaxed, Ben releasing the teen from his hold.

"Oh uh, yeah you're right about that." Ben says sheepishly and lands besides them, reforming the crystal platform and dries the two of with a blast of hot air from a burning hand.

"Man I'm getting good." He says before giving the two a salute and diving into the water again.

"Sooo... you manipulate reality?" Cannonball asks with an awkward pause.

"Yeah, when I don't destroy everything around me..." she says worried.

"Hey, I'm the same." Cannonball laughs.

"I guess." She smirks and tries to push their platform forwards with her powers.

"Nope, the platform stays. Only you two can move." Ben tells them, holding the platform in place with ripjaws.

"Hey, don't dumb rules!" Cannonball complains.

"Complain more and it'll get even smaller." Ben says, biting off a good chunk of the crystal.

"Fine. Geeze and you're dating that guy?" Cannonball remarks, getting pulled face first against the platform, only an eerie laughing heard.

"He can be nice." Wanda says with a small grin, helping up the blonde.

"Yeah sure." Cannonball says, shaking his head in disbelieve.

"Now come on, we have to show him we can do this." Cannonball says, about to try his powers again.

"Wait. Let me try something." Wanda says, raising a hand while pointing at the blonde mutant, making him float in the air.

"Try it now." Wanda says and moments later Cannonball uses his powers and crashes right through the platform.

"OK, this is just pathetic." Ben says, flying back to the Institute with a dripping wet Wanda secure in one arm while he holds cannonball by one foot.

"You are just a dumb teacher." Cannonball complains.

"No, you just suck." Ben shoots back, dropping the two teens down in the forest behind the institute.

"What was the point of that exercise then?" Cannonball asks.

"It was supposed to show you that used correctly your powers can be used without destroying everything close by." Ben says, "watch. This is pretty much a combination of your powers." He tells them and transforms into cannonbolt, with a pinkish glow coming from inside his balled together form.

He then is elevated into the air and starts rolling on the spot ar high speeds, humming dangerously before shooting towards a tree, only to bounce away before hitting it, only making a few leaves drop down slowly from the winds.

He repeats this, flying circles around them, becoming faster and faster until he crashes through 20 trees in a row and lands on all fours, looking at them with pink glowing eyes.

"This is what I was hoping for but I guess we have to start with your individual powers." Ben says, turning back human and creates a ditto who takes on cannon bolts appearance, only smaller. The cannonbolt clone then jumps and pulls Cannonball with him by his ear, making the blonde yelp in pain.

"As for you." Ben says, looking at Wanda and is enveloped in a pink flash, now having upstanding pink waving hair that seemingly has no form and pink glowing eyeballs.

"What's that?" Wanda asks.

"I call it warlock." Ben says, pointing his finger at a tree and fires a small glowing bullet right through it.

"Nice." Wanda says, trying to do the same, but instead makes the whole tree come down split in half.

"Again, you only want to pierce not fell." Ben says, moving behind her, grabbing her hands and points one out, an unstable ball forming in her hand before blowing them over and ripping up Ben's skin.

"No. Ben, I'm sorry. I..." Wanda apologizes panicking until she feels his lips meet hers, making her relax.

"Don't worry. Logan slashes me up way more when he crashes into me." Ben tells her calmingly and runs a bulky metal arm over the wound, healing it in seconds by reversing time on his arm.

"See. No problem." Ben says, showing her his arm.

"Maybe I shouldn't be around people." Wanda says solemnly.

"You worry too much." Ben says, shaking his head and grabs her hand, pulling her in a bridal carry and brings them out to sea again, creating an ice platform for them this time.

"What are we doing out here again?" Wanda asks.

"I'm gonna show you what real destruction is." Ben says and jumps into the water, putting some distance between himself and Wanda before transforming into way-big, the sea only reaching to below his shoulders.

"This is destruction!" Ben shouts, crossing his arms and creates a massive steam cloud from boiling the water with his energy beam, having placed Wanda on his shoulder.

"I see your point." She says, running her hands over his red and white skin curiously.

"You can't be afraid of yourself Wanda. Believe me on that, I spend years hiding from myself afterall." Ben says, turning into big chill and flies them back to shore, sitting down on the rocks in front of the cave.

"But I am dangerous. I don't even know what destruction I could cause myself. It's unpredictable." Wanda says fearfully.

"Alright, listen up I'm gonna train you so you won't have to fear your own powers ever again." Ben promises, pulling her into his chest with Wanda crying.

|Later that day|

"What do you mean you want to change up the teams?" Logan asks annoyed, the four teachers and Ben standing in the library together.

"Just that. I think that to teach Wanda control I might need help. Kitty's and Rogue's help in fact." Ben tells the older man.

"Fine. Just don't slack up on them cause they're sweet on you." Logan grumbles.

"You know me better than that." Ben shouts after the man, who only responds by flipping Ben off.

"What are you planning to do?" Charles asks.

"A little trip." Ben says with a smirk.

"Just be back on time." Charles tells him.

"Will do prof." Ben says with a fake salute.

"What is going on?" Kitty asks two hours later, standing with Rogue in front of the cave with each girl carrying a duffle bag of clothes and other necessities.

"We're going on a trip." Ben says opening the door and takes their bags.

"Where to?" Kitty asks.

"A deserted island." Ben answers, loading their stuff onto a boat he build with jury rig and spare parts from the institute.

"With this thing?" Rogue asks doubtfully, kicking the hull and dents it.

"Are you trying to get rid of us or something?" Kitty asks.

"No. Just get in alright." Ben says with a frown and waits until they're inside before grabbing Wand and jumps onto the boat too, enveloping it moments later by turning into Upgrade.