There's this company called Spear Sports which is making a new drink called POW-R 8. And this bunch of Morlocks is busy sabotaging the factory.

The Morlocks:
You know Callisto, yes? Super-senses, wears an eyepatch.
There's a little girl with enormous hands, who can paralyze people by touching them.
There's a funny-looking green guy who can look through walls.
There's a lady who can melt metal, I think.
There's also someone who turns into a green monster, but whatever.

Um, okay. So the Morlocks are making a disaster, and a security guard comes to see what's going on, and the little girl freezes him, at which point he makes a *really* strange noise. Escape!
The boss comes with his right-hand man, and wants to know who's been doing this, and orders more security.

Scene: Bayville High

A bunch of kids cut the skateboarding kid out of the POW-R 8 promotional poster and runs off with it.
Evan opens his locker, and the picture pops out. It has thumbtacks pushed through from the back to make spikes. He rips it down.
Some kid comes and says "Haha, really funny." He tells Evan that the picked-on kids should stick together.

In another hallway, Scott sees Kitty.

Scott: Oh no!
Jean (comes over): What?
Scott: Kitty's coming this way!
Jean: *Run*.

So Kitty goes out into the parking lot, and sees Scott's empty car, and walks away. Then Scott pops up behind the wheel, and Jean is in the passenger seat, and they get ready to go. Then Kurt 'ports onto the hood.

Notes: Hey! No powers on school property! Does he wanna get expelled?

Kurt: Hey, Kitty got her driver's permit.
Scott/Jean: We know.
Kurt (gets off the hood): And she's looking for anyone over eighteen to drive with her.
Scott/Jean: We know.
Kurt: I bet the Professor will ask one of you to do it!
Scott/Jean (driving away): We know!
Kitty (sees them): Hey, let me drive! Aww... (sees Rogue) So, Rogue, when do you turn eighteen?

Scene: The street.

So then Evan is going home after school, and the kid is following him, and they run into some much bigger kids. One of them looks like Duncan's friend.

Kid: Hey, remember me?
Big Kid: Yeah, we threw your books in the dumpster yesterday. You want to follow them?
Kid: Ah, ah, I got a mutant friend now.
Evan: What? You just wanted me to fight your battles for you? I'm outta here.
Big Kid (grabs Evan): Hey, aren't you that spike kid? *pushes Evan to Big Kid 2*
Evan: You wanna find out? Keep pushing!

Well, they do.
Evan gets really mad, and uses his spikes. He throws the first jerk in the dumpster, trips the second with a long spike, then uses the spike like a pole vault to kick the third jerk in the chest.
And suddenly there's a crowd watching them. Kurt and Amanda walk over. Kurt is all, well, you know, and he goes to Evan.

Kurt: Show's over, thanks for coming.

Then they go behind a corner and teleport home.

Scene: The Institute.

So the Professor is sitting, and Scott and Jean come in.

Jean: You wanted us?
Xavier: Yes. I have a mission for you, if you think you can handle it.
Logan (enters): Sounds dangerous. I could use a good adrenaline rush.
Scott: Sure. No problem. All yours.
Jean: You owe us. (exits with Scott)
Logan: So, what's the mission? Does it involve explosives?
Xavier: Hopefully not. (offers key to the X-Van)

Upstairs, Ororo sees Evan go by, still all spiked up.

Ororo: Evan?
Evan: *Not* now, Auntie O! *slams bedroom door in her face*

Evan sits on the bed and looks at himself in the mirror. He gets up and tries to retract his spikes. Eventually they go away, and he takes off his shirt. Then he realizes he still has spikes down his back.

Evan: What's happening to me?

Scene: Outside the Institute.

Kitty goes speeding down the driveway in the X-Van.

Logan: Wait for the gate, wait for the gate!
Kitty: *phases X-Van through gate*

Scene: Institute kitchen.

Evan is drinking from that two-gallon jug of milk. Well, not directly.

Ray: Hey, can I have some of that?

Evan passes the milk, and realizes the back of his hand has bone plates all over it. He tries to hide it.

Ray: Aren't you going to that skate competition today?
Evan: Yeah, why?
Ray: Because it's about to start.

Scene: Outside the Institute.

Okay, Kitty is back from driving. Some parts of the X-Van fall off. A few road signs appear to be phased halfway through the hood. Kitty (who was wearing her seatbelt, yay) gets out. Then Logan gets out the other side.

Kitty: I *so* have the hang of this.
Logan: *grunt*
Kitty: I can't believe how many crazy drivers are on the road! And so *rude*. So, hey! When's lesson number two?

Logan meets the Professor inside, and gives back the key.

Logan: Jean's right. I do owe them. And I owe you, too.

Scene: A skateboarding arena.

Now we're at the competition. Evan signs in and joins the contestants. Jamie, Bobby, Kurt, and Ororo are in the stands. Callisto is loitering under the stands. Kurt demonstrates his mastery of American slang.

Kurt: Yeah you go Evan whoo!

The boss from earlier, Guy (not pronounced the French way) Spear, introduces the competition, which is really just to promote POW-R 8, which goes on the market next week.
Okay, so people are skateboarding on the ramps, and it's Evan's turn, and he's good.

Ororo: I never knew he was so *good*.
Kurt: No doubt, this is his world.

When Evan is done, he grabs a complimentary POW-R 8 from the barrel. Callisto walks by and stage-whispers "Poison!" Evan drops the container.
More skating. People are majorly wiping out. Evan goes again, he's awesome.
All the contestants are sitting around, drinking POW-R 8. Many cheers to the animators for putting at least one girl on the bench.

Other Contestant: You heard me, disqualify yourself!
Evan: Why? I haven't cheated!

And they're shoving each other. Great.
Mr. Spear, now acting as referee, comes over.

Other Contestant: This guy's a mutant!
Spear: You're a mutant?
Evan: Yeah, but my power has nothing to do with my skating!
Spear: I'm going to have to talk to the judges about this.
Evan: Forget it. I know where this is going.

He skates away, grabbing another POW-R 8 as he passes the barrel. He tosses the lid and drinks some. He starts to wobble and see double. Then he shoots a whole bunch of big spikes, which go through everything and cause mass hysteria.
More screaming in the background! Yay!
So two spikes go through the scoreboard (four contestants are listed, Evan is winning), and the thing starts to fall over towards the bleachers. Ororo uses wind to push it back the other way, and Bobby ices over the damaged supports.
Some guy is panicking and knocks a kid over the railing. Falling...
*Bamf*, and *Bamf*, and they're on the ground. Kurt teleports away as the kid turns around. Then the kid's hat falls on his head.
Oh, now Ray is here. He sees Callisto and seems to recognize her.

Scene: The Institute.

At the mansion, Jean and Scott are walking. Kitty is inside a nearby room.

Kitty: Hey, has anyone seen Jean or Scott?
Jean: It's gonna be one of us, and it's not gonna be me. *floats Scott through the door*
Scott: Hey! Jean!
Kitty: Oh, hi Scott!

Scene: The sewers.

There's tents and stuff. Evan is lying in an alcove. The green guy pours some junk into his mouth.
Caliban doesn't seem to trust Evan, and he's arguing with Callisto. Evan wakes up and wobbles over to them.
Callisto tells him that they're down there because they have physical mutations that wouldn't be accepted topside. Evan now has spikes everywhere, including his face.

Notes: Ha, Kurt! *Evan* was the first to grow horns!

So, um, blah blah.

Caliban: Intruder detected...Berserker.
Callisto: I can see in the dark, Ray. You can't sneak up on us.

And Ray says...I dunno. Nothing interesting. Then the little girl paralyzes him.
Okay, the green guy tells Caliban that security at Spear is higher, and they could use Evan's help, and Caliban still doesn't trust him, but Evan wants to go, so they all go.

Scene: Outside the Institute.

In the mansion driveway, Kitty pulls up in Scott's car. She phases out by running through the hood. Kurt meets her on the porch. They know that Evan is missing, and go to join the search. *Bamf*

Scott: I never want to ride, in another vehicle again, as long, as I live.

Scene: Spear Sports factory.

Back to the Morlocks. They break into the factory and they're trashing stuff. Evan and Callisto pour something into the vat that's supposed to taint the entire supply and then gum up the plumbing.
Oh yeah, the point here is that POW-R 8 is dangerous to mutants, even by skin contact. And the waste stuff runs down into the sewers, and the Morlocks are dying, you get the idea.
So the guards come, and they're shooting, and some electric cable breaks and touches the vat the little girl is standing on, and she gets electrocuted, and she screams (her only line in the episode), and she falls, and Evan (on the ladder) catches her, and he jumps to the ground.
All the vats fall over like dominoes, and the Morlocks are running ahead of the POW-R 8. Evan is carrying the kid. Running, running...dead end. Evan shoots spikes to make a double ladder up the wall. Climbing, climbing...dead end.
Then Scott shoots down from above, miraculously not hitting anyone. Jean flies down the hole, holds off the POW-R 8, and levitates everyone up to Scott, then flies out.
When they look around, Evan is gone. Great.

Scene: The sewers.

Ray is getting un-paralyzed, and the Morlock turns into the green monster (Ray seems to know him, too), and Ray runs away, back to the street.
I forget how the next part goes, exactly, but the X-Men wind up down the sewers, looking for Evan. Kurt is crawling on the ceiling. I dunno if that's helpful, maybe he just doesn't want to walk in the muck.
Anyway, Evan appears to his aunt, and tells her he wants to stay down there for a while. She's all sad, and he says goodbye and walks off with his new friends.

Scene: Spear Sports factory.

The Professor is touring with Mr. Spear. The boss says he didn't know the stuff was dangerous to mutants, and Xavier believes him. After he leaves, Spear tells his right-hand man to step up production...POW-R 8 has just become a lot more valuable.

Outside, Xavier gets into the car and tells Logan to drive home.

Kitty: Like, Mr. Logan said I could drive. Hang on, we'll be there in a jiffy!
She's wearing a cute chaffeur's hat.

As the car drives away, you can see an afraid-for-his-life Xavier in the window.

The End

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