Stars: Avalanche, Shadowcat, Iceman
Appears: Cyclops, Jean, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Cannonball, Multiple, Rogue, Quicksilver, Toad, Blob, Boom Boom, Xavier, Wolverine
Cameos: Magma, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Spyke,
 

Summary

Avalanche breaks down the Institute gates at night. Alarms go off and the X-Men scramble out of bed to get dressed. Grounds security guns begin firing on Lance, but he uses his powers to wreck them. He meets the X-Men at the front door. Wolverine pops his claws and asks what he wants. Lance tells them he's come to join the X-Men.

Xavier comes out and tells them to give Lance a chance to talk. Xavier agrees to let him join. Scott is shocked, but when he starts to object, Xavier cuts him off and asks Kit to show Lance to a guest room. When they leave, Scott tells Xavier that Lance wouldn't be there unless he wanted something. Xavier says that what Lance wants is to be near Kit. He tells Scott that he believes Lance's feelings for Kit to be genuine and that it's a good start. He tells Scott to give him a chance.

Kit shows Lance to his room. He unpacks by dumping his duffel into one drawer. Kit is about to leave when she hesitates. She loses the attitude and tells him that she thinks it's cool that he wants to be an X-man, but that being at Xavier's can be tough.

Next they show Lance running through a lot of training sessions with the New Mutants. First session is in the Blackbird. Iceman is flying as the others ride in the back. Lance is pretty nervous. Bobby promptly sends them into a spiraling crash and everyone screams. Lance comes looking pretty queasy. Kitty asks him if he's okay and he tells her that he's fine, being an X-Man is a piece of cake. When turns away, he slaps his hand over his mouth and takes off running. Next session shows the NM outside. They're supposed to take out some flying saw blades before they hit them. Magma and Bobby both fail and Scott has to blast the blades out of the air. Lance walks up and Scott slaps a hand on his shoulder and tells him that his new uniform looks a lot better than his old "fruit bowl".

Next session is in the Danger Room. New Mutants are running a gauntlet. Lance makes it to the end without being hit. He throws his arms up in the air and starts hamming it up. They show Scott, Kurt and Kit in the control booth. . They cut back to Lance,  Scott sends out a large padded device that knocks Lance to the ground. X-Kids are lined up in the pool playing drowning victims.  Lance is assigned Rogue. He throws out a lifesaver and hits Rogue in the head. She goes underwater. Lance surfaces near Kit and she starts giggling. He "saves" her. Scott helps Rogue out of the pool.

Next day  Scott  look at his car and realizes that it's been trashed. That night at the Institute, Lance wanders into the hall yawning. He seems to be headed for the bathroom when he sees some of the New Mutants sneaking down the hallway. He follows them. In the kitchen, Kit is studying and making herself a snack. Lance walks past the kitchen door and saw Kitty's head on the plate, he passes out.

That night, Jubes, Sam and Bobby tell Jamie that he can't go out with them again. He makes too much of a crowd. They send Jamie back to bed, then go into Lance's room and ask him along on a "joyride". Jubilee tells him that he's going to get the blame anyway. Lance tells them to forget it, that they've already gotten him in enough trouble.

They took the blackbird and fly through the buildings and then up. Jubilee opens the top hatch and shows off by throwing fireworks into the sky. Kitty and Lance are trying to get into the cockpit, but Bobby pushes the jet wide open and they're thrown to the floor again. She takes Lance's hand and they phase into the cockpit together. They're intercepted by a couple of air force jets. Jubilee climbs out of the hatch and launches some more fireworks. The heat seeking missiles follow them instead and explode mid-air.

Bobby hangs out of the hatch and creates an ice ramp that scoops the jet back into the air. They're able to restart the engines, but more air force jets have arrived. Bobby flies into some caverns/cliff walls to try to lose them, but more missiles are fired. Lance is able to quake the cliff walls and the jets are forced to pull up. But Bobby still isn't able to dodge the missiles.

Kitty tells Bobby to fly straight into a mesa and  grabs a hold of the jet and is able to phase the entire Blackbird. Next day Scott accuses Lance of causing the damage to the jet.  Just then Bobby admits that Lance is innocent and that they are the ones who really did it. They also admit to trashing the van, Scott's car and Logan's motorcycle.