When Scott and Kurt use their powers to save several people from a car crash, the question of how much they're willing to ignore to keep their powers a secret comes up. Professor X maintains that the world is not ready to know about them, however the other mutants, now without Mystique's guidance, have other ideas...
Jean's abilities start growing in sudden bursts. At first she tries to ignore it, but with each burst she has increasing trouble regaining control. Meanwhile the school gets a new science/phys. ed. teacher.
After being grounded for reckless behavior during a training mission, Tabitha doesn't need her father showing up asking her to steal money for ''her mother''...
A malfunction in Juggernaut's stasis field leaves the X-Men without adult supervision. Deciding to hold a party, they ditch Scott and Jean in the wilderness. However, things soon get out of control, when one of the guests gives himself access to Cerebro.
The kids get worried when the normally cool and collected teacher Hank McCoy starts having fits of animal rage.
Scott becomes lost at sea when trying to find his brother, who was swept out by a freak wave while surfing.
Xavier starts worrying about the existence of mutants becoming public knowledge when the media starts reporting multiple sightings of a man with angel wings. With most of the X-men on Christmas leave, and Cerebro down for repairs, Scott and Rogue are left having to track the man down themselves.
An African witch-doctor comes to the institute to steal Storm's powers while she is faced with the decision to send Evan back to his parents.
Lance comes to the mansion, wanting to join the X-Men. Unfortunately he has a hard time fitting in, and it doesn't get any easier when he gets the blame for some of the other students' nightly joyrides in the various X-Men vehicles.
When Jean and Amara feel like the boys think they are stronger than the girls are, Tabitha decides that they should form a girl's crime fighting club as the Bayville Sirens.
Magneto steals the remaints of the top secret 'Rebirth' project, a project Wolverine helped shut down all the way back in World War II.
Jean has nightmares about huge circus clowns, then is controlled by the master of that circus, with Nightcrawler, Kitty, and Spyke controlled also.
Forge is working on a device that will enhance Kurt's teleportation powers.
While Beast is taking Kitty, Bobby, Evan, and two other new recruits on a camping trip, a few hunters decide that Beast is really a Big Foot, and they plan to trap him.
Mystique breaks a mysterious young girl out of an asylum and brings her to the Brotherhood House.
Wolverine suddenly vanishes, as the Brotherhood members team up with the X-Men to defeat Magneto.
The Brotherhood and X-Men arrive where Magneto is with his new allies.