Twice a week the Blue team met in the Danger Room for a training session. Most other teams only trained in the Danger Room once a week, but Scott had higher standards than the other team leaders did.

Cyclops looked over his team, Marvel Girl, Northstar, and Iceman were there; Wolverine was missing. "Does anyone know where Logan is?"

"I heard him get back late last night." Rachel said. "He may not have woken up yet."

"It's not even that early in the morning."

"Scott, it's six thirty." Iceman whined.

"That's not early." Scott waved him off. "If Logan doesn't show up, that's on him. We can train without him. Danger Room, begin program."

Hard light holograms began creating the scenario they would be training in, but halfway through the environment being formed it stopped, as the door opened and Logan entered, not even fully in his uniform yet.

"Huh, almost got to have a training session where I didn't throw Logan at something." Rachel threw her arms up.

"Logan, why are you late?" Scott asked.

"Got home late last night, and slept through my alarm." Logan answered while putting his shirt on.

"Then don't stay out so late."

"You don't dictate my life, Summers."

"You said you could handle your busy schedule, clearly you were wrong."

"It was one slip up."

"If it happens again, I'll have to take you off the team."

Logan growled at Scott in response.

"Danger Room, resume program."

When the environment finished forming, Cyclops made each member go through individual warm-ups and exercises.

Marvel Girl focused on several moving objects at once while the room was filled with multiple distractions. She was doing pretty well until a simulation of Kitty appeared to flirt with her. When that happened, all the objects she was levitating fell.

Northstar had to go through several difficult obstacles while flying while carrying someone else, forcing him to go slower than what he was used to. He easily passed.

Iceman's scenario forced him to get creative. He had to fight several enemies at once and he wasn't allowed to create ice walls to block their attacks, or end the fight by immobilizing them in ice. He managed to win the fight by pinning the enemies to the wall with ice constructs.

Wolverine was thrown at something.

After the individual exercises, a team focused scenario began. Despite Wolverine's usual difficult attitude, they easily beat the scenario. The program ended and the Danger room returned to its normal, sterile appearance.

"That was short." Logan commented. "I shouldn't have bothered getting up for this." He said as he left the Danger Room.

"Logan you know Danger Room training is mandatory." Scott raised his voice. "Just because you think it's a waste of time, doesn't make it less important for the rest of the team."

"Can we skip the part where you lecture me, Slim? I've heard it all before. Being an X-Man is important, I should be more of a team player, you don't like my attitude. Look, I'll make sure not to stay out so late, so I can actually get a good amount of sleep and be up on time and less grumpy next time."

"Okay...thanks for streamlining our usual arguments and skipping to the part where you're more cooperative."

"You're welcome. But seriously, I'm going back to bed."

Scott and Logan went upstairs together. They parted ways when Logan turned in the direction of his room and Scott in the direction of his office. Everything in his office was very organized and precise without even his paperweights being out of place, the exception to this were the papers he had piled up on his desk, all of them tests he had to grade. He was hoping to finish half of them before he had to meet with the team of students he was in charge of training.

Scott's tests always involved free response questions and mini essays. His students hated that he never gave multiple choice questions, but he felt his tests were a better way to gage how much his students had actually learned. The downside of this was that it took longer to grade the test than if they were multiple choice, so he only managed to get about a third of the tests graded.

All four of the students he was training were already out on the field when Scott got out there. Only juniors and seniors were aloud to sign up to be put on these training teams, and the teams always consisted of three to five students who were placed on teams based mostly on their powers. Part of the training was learning how to work with anyone, which is why compatible personalities wasn't considered. That also meant there was a lot of fighting between team members in the first few weeks.

Scott still hadn't got his team past that point, so he wasn't surprised that Briana and Charlie were arguing when he arrived on the training field.

"You have to take this seriously, Charlie!" Briana said.

"Why? Is there something wrong with having fun, while doing superhero stuff?" Charlie responded in a jovial tone.

"Yes. Being a superhero, is a job, an important job, that has to be taken seriously." Briana saw Scott approach them. "Mr. Summers, can you explain to Charlie why he's wrong?"

"He's not wrong." Scott answered. "Yes being a superhero is basically a job, but there's nothing that says you can't enjoy your job."

"He should still take things more seriously."

Scott sighed. He remembered going through this with the original X-Men and the second team. Eventually he realized that as long as they got the job done it was okay if they weren't serious one hundred percent of the time. While he could explain this to Briana, he figured it was best that she learned this on her own. "Let's just get started. Today, you'll be going against another team."

"Which team?" Alex asked. She had memorized the other teams and their powers.

"Logan's team." Scott answered.

"So, Armor, Talon, Jubilee, and Kid Omega?" Alex counted them off on her fingers.

"Yes. In this scenario they've been given a hostage that you have to rescue. You have five minutes to strategize. Briana you'll be the leader."

This was the first time Scott was putting his team up against another team. There wasn't much more he could teach them until they went against actual opponents instead of just doing obstacle courses and team building exercises.

"Okay, the first thing we need to do is take out Quentin." Briana said.

"Use codenames." Scott chimed in.

Briana sighed. "I'm resistant to telepathy in my Obsidian form, so I can take out Kid Omega."

"Resistance isn't immunity." Dusk spoke up.

"No, but if he tries attacking me, it'll be more difficult."

"He's an omega level telepath. Your resistance will mean nothing to him."

"Then what would you suggest?" Briana snapped.

"I can deal with him."

"How?"

"He's arrogant. He won't think twice before entering my mind."

"Why do you always have to be so obtuse about everything?" Charlie asked.

"Leave her alone, Star-Kid." Alex said. "Just be happy, she's talking to us at all."

"Can we please focus?" Briana tried to get them back on track. "Dusk thinks she can deal with Kid-Omega, and if she fails I'll take of him. Aegis, can you hold back Talon?"

"Um, maybe; I don't think my sheilds can hold back adamantium." Alex didn't have much confidence in her powers. "Wouldn't I be better suited to holding back Jubilee, and Star-Kid can hold back Talon?"

"What? Why?"

"His power works at a distance, and Talon needs to get in close to do anything."

Briana knew Alex had a point about that, but she didn't want to admit it, but she also wanted to win their first fight against another team.

"You have a minute left." Scott informed them.

"Fine, we'll go with your idea, Aegis." Briana conceded. "That just leaves Armor. I can fight after taking out Kid-Omega."

"You have no faith in me." Dusk commented flatly.

"Times up." Scott told them. He led them to where the match would be taking place. Logan's team was already there with a dummy positioned behind them. There were several walls and other barriers positioned between where the two teams were starting.

Scott met up with Logan in an observation area. "How well did your team do with strategizing?" He asked.

"Quire thinks he can handle your team on his own, and wouldn't listen to the others, but Laura remembered how Dusk's powers interact with telepaths and planned around that. What about yours?"

"They have a plan to fight your team, but…"

Logan smirked. He knew what that meant. "Technically if they beat my team within the time limit they win."

"It's not effective." Scott stepped forward. "The time limit is fifteen minutes. If the hostage isn't rescued by then, Logan's team wins. Now start."

Dusk approached the other team as her eyes changed from their usual purple to orange and shadowy tendrils began manifesting around her. The tendrils rushed toward the other team, but they stopped when Kid-Omega shot her with his psychic shotgun. When Dusk was hit with the psychic attack, Kid-Omega's eyes changed to the same orange and dark veins formed around them. The two of them were now frozen in place since they were both keeping the other from making another move against their respective teams.

Obsidian changed into a black diamond form with a rainbow luster, then led the rest of her team across the field. Star-Kid created several star shaped platforms to get over the walls and other barriers, allowing him to get to the other team faster than his teammates.

Jubilee tried to knock him out of the air, but Aegis created a force field to block Jubilee's attack.

Armor threw Talon at Aegis, forcing Aegis to put a shield up to block her. Talon's claws stabbed through the shield, but she couldn't get any further. Star-Kid threw several stars at Talon, knocking her off the shield. Talon made her way to Obsidian who was fighting Armor, but Star-Kid was able to keep her from getting anywhere with a constant barrage of stars.

The fight continued until the time ran out.

Since Scott's team failed to save the hostage, Logan's team won, which Scott knew would happen. He called his team over to discuss what they did wrong. "Dusk, you can let Quentin go now."

Dusk released Quentin, and Quentin stumbled back as his eyes changed back to normal. "What is wrong with your head?" He asked.

"My mind is nothing but an endless void." Dusk answered, but she was making that up to mess with him. The truth was she didn't know why her powers did that to telepaths. She quickly joined the rest of her team with Scott.

"Okay, do you know where you went wrong?" Scott asked his team.

"We couldn't beat the other team fast enough." Charlie answered.

"We were too focused on beating the other team, when we should have been focused on getting the hostage to safety." Alex corrected him.

"Exactly." Scott affirmed. "Your goal was to save the hostage, not beat the other team in a fight. Now, what did you do right?"

"Having Dusk disable Quentin." Briana reluctantly admitted.

"Yes, and overall your strategy for dealing with the other team was pretty good. Now what could you have done differently?"

"Charlie and I should have switched targets." Briana answered. "I could have quickly taken Laura out of the fight, and Charlies powers would have worked against Hisako just as well. Once Laura was taken out. I could have grabbed the hostage and had Alex and Charlie cover me while I got the hostage to safety."

Scott nodded. "Very good. Next week, you'll have a similar scenario, but against a different team. Until then, we'll work more on your team work."

Scott dismissed the team but had Briana stay back. "Briana, how much do you want to be leader?"

"I want it more than anything, but my team is always questioning me, which makes it hard."

"Having your team question your decisions can be hard, but the important thing is you listened to your team when it mattered. If you want, I'll mentor you, to help develop your leadership skills."

"Really, Mr. Summers? That would be amazing! When can we get started?"

"We can get started tomorrow."

"That sounds great. Thanks Mr. Summers." Briana said as she walked off.

Scott waved her off then went back to grading tests, and an hour later he finished. Right before he could get started on making a lesson plan for the next week, Xavier called Scott to his office.

Normally when Xavier called for him, it was to talk to Scott about a mission for his team or to ask Scott for his opinion on some school related matter. This time it was different. When Scott entered his office, Xavier didn't have the same serious air about him that he would for the usual reasons he called him in.

"Why'd you call me in here, professor?"

"Well Scott, I've decided it's time I retire, and I want you to become the new headmaster."