It was time for the gang to go off to college. Of course some were supposed to be in college already but they decided not to leave the others. Now that Kitty and Evan had already graduated a week ago, they all planned to go off to college.

“It’ll be so hard to leave the Xavier Institute!” Kitty exclaimed.

Of course, everyone knew it would also be hard to leave each other but they all tried hard not to think of that.

“Yeah, it’s as if we lived here our whole lives.” Scott agreed sadly.

It was time for them to leave. Everyone had already applied and got into their colleges.

Scott and Kitty were going to Stanford.

Jean Grey was going to Yale.

Kurt and Rogue were going to UC Berkeley.

And Evan was going to UCLA.

Ororo, Logan and Professor X were planning to stay at the institute and track down more mutants.

“Okay, we’ll take the blackbird to drop you all off at your colleges.” the professor told them.

They all carried their suitcases to the blackbird and got ready to take off.

“Okay, all aboard? We’re headin' to California.” Logan said.

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Meanwhile, the brotherhood were ready to leave too.

“There goes those X-geeks” Lance smirked.

“Yeah, off to goody-two-shoes colleges.” Todd glared at the Blackbird.

“I would have expected you nitwits to get into better colleges than that!!” Mystique screamed. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 

“Hey, take it easy, Darkholme. At least we got into good colleges.” Pietro told her referring to him and Lance.

“It’s Ms. Darkholme to you! And if it weren’t for me, all of you’d be going nowhere!” she replied.

Todd and Fred were going to UC Davis. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 

Lance and Pietro were going to better colleges than that.

“Let’s go already!” Lance demanded.

Slowly, a plane lowered from the sky.

“Magneto’s lending this to us for today.” Mystique told them.

The got on and headed towards California as well.

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At UC Berkeley, they dropped off Kurt and Rogue. Everyone hugged.

“Bye, guys!” Kitty yelled.

“We’ll miss you!” Jean said.

“Don’t forget to visit the institute!” Evan reminded them.

They all planned to visit the institute on breaks.

Next, they went to UCLA.

“Bye, Evan. Good luck in college.” his aunty told him.

“Visit us!” Professor X said.

“BYE” Jean, Kitty and Scott said.

Then, they went to Yale to drop off Jean.

"See you soon, Jean." Scott said.

"We'll miss you!" Kitty told her.

They all hugged for a long time.

Then, they left to drop off the last two kids.

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"Bye Fred, bye Todd!" Lance, Pietro andMystique called.

Then they headed to the next college to drop off Lance and Pietro.After they were dropped off, Mystique tranformed and went to her new workplace.

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"Well, this is it." Kitty said sadly.

"Bye, Professor.Bye, Storm.Bye, Logan." Scott hugged them all.

"Yeah, bye." Kitty had tears in her eyes.

Scott put his arms around her shoulder.

"It's okay, Kitty. We'll visit them." he whispered.

He was about to cry too but he held in his tears.As they stepped off, Logan called out, "Bye, half pint."

Kitty collapsed into tears.

A few hours later, they were exhausted from their hard day.They stepped out into the sunlight.

"I'm beat!" Scott said. "What about you, Kitty?"

Kitty froze."Kitty? Kitty? What's wrong?" Scott asked.

"Look!" She pointed to a spot by the tree.

Scott looked. "Oh my--" he started to say.

Lance and Pietro stood there.

"Hey, look, Pietro.There's the kittykat andbazooka eyes.

"Hey there, X-freaks!" Pietro said.

"What are you doing here??!!" Kitty shrieked.

"Hey, is that the way to greet your friends?" Lance joked.

"Hey, man! Back off and leave us alone!" Scott threatened.

"Scott--"Kitty warned.

"Lets go." Scott told her.

They walked away and went to class.

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Meanwhile, at UC Berkeley, Kurt and Rogue went to lunch.As they were walking past the principal's office, someone stepped out, almost hitting Kurt.

"Sorry--" Kurt started. His eyes widenned in shock."MOM!!!" he said incredulously.

There stood Mystique.

"You work here?!" Rogue asked.

"Yes, hello Rogue. hi, son." she said calmly.

They ran out the door.

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The summer came slowly.But at last, they could go home to their friends and family.They all flew to their families.

On the plane, Kitty and Scott had a seat on the side by the window.They were heading to Kitty's house.She had invited Scott to stay with her family.

"WOW! Look at theocean and the clouds!" Kitty exclaimed.

She was ecstatic since they weregoing back to the institute soon.

"Hey, I wanted the juice,dude!" someone said.

Scott's eyes opened wide."Oh no!" Kitty murmured. "Not them! They're on this plane too!"

"Are they followin' us or something?" Scott asked her.

"Wait, no!Lance lives here too!I forgot.He must have invited Pietro to stay with him." she groaned.

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After two weeks, Kitty and Scott arrived at the Xavier Institute.

"I can't believe Lance and Pietro were on our plane AGAIN!They must be following us." she said."Hey, guys!" Kitty called out.

"Is anyone here?" Scott asked.

They glanced at each other, puzzled.

"Hmm, where could they be?" Scott asked.

Kitty headed up stairs while Scott searched downstairs.All of a sudden, Scott heard a scream.He rushed upstairs and saw the hallway trashed.

"Oh no!" Kitty said in horror.

They headed to the garage and saw that the blackbird was gone.

"Just what I was afraid of." Scott said. "They've been ambushed and kidnapped." he said sadly.

"What do we do?" Kitty asked.

"We'll have to find them." Scott muttered, staring at the sky.

"Okay." Kitty replied nervously.

They looked at each other pale but determined.

"Let's go." Scott said.