Jerry Springer: Welcome to the show today, our guests today claim that they have the most complicated and confusing romances the world has ever known.  (audience cheers)  Of what my producers tell me, this married couple share  the same *controverisal* occupation (audiences hisses at the word "controversial" - Jerry turns to the audience)  Now come on I have a controversial occupation (audience laughs and applauds)  every guest deserves the benefit of the doubt.(turns back to the camera)  Let's make them feel right at home and give a big "Jerry Springer" welcome to Scott and Jean Grey Summers.  (loud applause)  Thank you for being on the show.  

Jean:(holding Scott's hand affectionately)  The pleasure is all ours, Jerry.  

Jerry: (looks them over and surprised expression appears on his face as he notices that they are completely clothed in spandex and begins to look over his cards again) Are you sure you are on the right episode?  Next month is "Our pimp introduced us, we fell in love, and you can't do anything about it!"  show.  

Scott: (horrified) We're not prostitutes! Why would you even think that?  

Jerry: (looking them over again) Well for one thing you two are wearing one piece spandex suits.  What other reason would there be to wear those outfits?  

Jean: I can answer that but I'd have to reveal a secret, not to Scott but to you and the audience, Jerry.  

Jerry: Well Jean what's this secret?  

Jean: We're mutants.  (audience gasps)  Not just that but we're members of the X-Men (audience gasps again) and these are our uniforms.  

Scott: (whispering to Jean) Why did you tell them that?  We're not suppose to reveal our identities.  

Jean: (whispering back) Honey, we revealed it to the producer and besides this is the "Jerry Springer Show", that's what we're suppose to do.  (readdressing Jerry)  Do we qualify for this episode now?  

Jerry: (glares at one of his producers for not writing everything on the cards.  He receives a gesture from his some what French producer to just continue on and turns back to the couple, laughing a little)  Well for this show's standards, you just made it.  It says here on my cards that you two met when you were teenagers?  

Scott: That's correct, Jerry.  (glancing at Jean)  We both joined the X- Men when we were very young and that's how we met.  When I first saw Jean I knew that I was in love.  (audience aww's)  She was the only girl on the team at the time and with the others fighting for her attention I don't why she was ever interested in me.  

Jean: Because I knew I loved you.  ( leans in to kiss him. The audience aww's a bit louder and a bit longer than before and as they do she whispers so that only Scott can hear her) and you'll do anything I say.   

Scott: I loved you too, Jean. (audience aww's again and he whispers back) Can I do anything you say later?  

Jean: ( she slightly nods and turns back to Jerry)  Over the years we have had to struggle past rather odd, even for the X-Men and this show, obstacles but it only ever made our love grow stronger.  

Jerry: (a little surprised)  Odd? For this show?  Would you like to tell us about it?  

Scott: Well, I guess one of the odder one's is when Jean died....  

Jerry: (interrupting) Died?  But she's right there...  

Jean: (laughs) This is where things begin to get complicated.  On a mission I sacrificed myself to save the team and was possessed by an alien entity called the "Phoenix".  It was okay for awhile....  

Scott: ...then my guess is that the "Phoenix" entity was luring Jean over to the dark side and to....  

Jean: make sure that I didn't hurt anyone I cared about, I killed myself.  

Jerry: (scratching his head with the card for a moment) You two really are married, aren't you? (everyone laughs and Scott blushes a little realizing that they had just finished each other's sentences)  I'd like to bring out another guest which I'm told has connections with the both of you.  Here is...  

( the mirror image of Jean walks out on stage and waves to the audience which is now in shock seeing the resemblance.  She doesn't even get half way across before Jean jumps at her and they wrestle each other on the floor.  After a few seconds of hair tugging, three security guards appear to separate the cat fight.  The audience begins in the chant "Jerry!  Jerry!"  as the three guards separate the two women  and they glare at each other with much yelling, when all of a sudden the guards get thrown with a telekinetic blast and the cat fights resumes until Scott walks over and pulls Jean away, barely escaping the same fate as the guards.  Scott sits Jean at his side and the other woman with a smirk on her face straightens her clothes and takes a seat on the opposite side of Scott.)  

Jerry: (addressing the new arrival)  Your name is Madelyne Pryor?  

Madelyne: Yes, that's right Jerry.  

Jerry: Madelyne do you know why Jean is so angry with you?  

Madelyne: That's simple Jerry.  She's a home wreaking slut.  

(Scott restrains Jean as he she begins to stand up)  

Jean: You're the *bleeping* bitch that stole my husband!  (the crowd boos)  

Madelyne: Your husband?  He was married to me when you came *bleeping* back! (crowd boos louder)  

Jean: But he was in love with me first and then you stepped in and took my place!  

Madelyne: No one keeps a rough draft when he can have perfection.  

(Jean jumps at Madelyne again and four guards step in to separate them.  The audience begins another chant of "Jerry! Jerry!"  as the two women are brought back to their seats,  Jean triumphantly waving a long strand of Madelyne's hair.)  

Jerry: (noticing the obvious resemblance between the two) You two look so much alike, are you twins?  

Madelyne: (in a snide tone) You could say that, Jerry.   

Jerry: Scott, is it true that you married both these ladies?  (Scott nods and the audiences boos thinking he had married them a once)  And I can only assume that you left Madelyne for Jean?  

Scott: Well yes Jerry, I did leave her for Jean (audience boos thinking he left one sister for another) but only because I love Jean dearly.   

Madelyne: You left me and your son!  (audience boos louder than ever before)  

Jean: He didn't leave Nathan you bitch, you kidnapped him because you were *bleeping* jealous!  (the audience is speechless)  

Madelyne: I was *not* jealous!  

Jean: You *just* weren't jealous either! You were insane!  Great mother you would have been... besides Scott and me raised him anyway.  (the audience applauds and begins to like Scott again, knowing he's not a dead beat dad)  

Madelyne: And you nearly killed him, giving him that techno - organic virus.  (audience gasps in horror)  

Scott: Jean didn't do that, Apocalypse did!  And we made sure he got well.  

Jerry: (he and the audience is relived) Can I ask how?  

Scott: Well it's complicated but since that's the topic of the show... the virus Nathan received was incurable here so we had to send him to the Askani Sisterhood to be treated.  

Jerry: Who or what are the Askani Sisterhood?  

Jean: They are a group of women three thousand years in the future.  They took Nathan so he would survive and be guided to fulfilling his destiny by killing Apocalypse.  

Jerry: (scratching his cheek) So basically you gave your son, Nathan, to a religious sect thousand years in the future?  

Jean: (softly) Sort of... (angry and horrified boos from the crowd) but we had no choice!  It was that or he would have died!  It's not like we wanted to!  

Jerry: Let's say, we bring out Nathan. (audience applauds as Cable walks out.  He seems rather upset about something and sits down a distance away from the others)  Are you Nathan?  

Cable: Yeah, but I would prefer you call me 'Cable' like everyone else.  

Jerry: Okay Cable, (looking at him) How can it be even be possible that you are any of these people's child, you seem much older than them?  

Cable: (still sad but answers as if he has explained it a million times before) I was raised three thousand years in the future.  I left my time at this age and traveled back.  If you think about it, I should still be a little boy.  

Jerry: (noticing Cable's expression) What's wrong you seem upset about something?  Is it seeing your parents argue?  

Cable: Hell no, that doesn't bother me. I said I should be a little boy not that I am one! It's that your damn guards... wouldn't let me bring my gun out.  

Jerry: (nervously) I see... so what are your feelings about being basically abandoned by your parents when you were small and given to a strange religious sect?  

Cable: Abandoned? I was raised for ten years by them two over there, and of what I heard they were taken away on their Honeymoon.  Now that's dedication.  I don't even think I'd do that for my son, (pausing) what am I talking about, sure I would.  

Jerry: (surprised) You have a son?  

Cable: Yeah, but I'm not going to talk about him on national TV.  This is about their screwed up relationship not mine, even though mine wasn't screwed up.  And another thing, I wasn't taken by a strange religious sect.  Jerry, you have to check your facts, because my sister was the founder of the 'Sisterhood.'  Sure she's a bit strange but that's beside the point.  

Jerry: Your sister?  

Scott: He's talking about Rachel.  She's our first born, I think.  

Jerry: Well I'm intrigued... we'll bring out Rachel after our commercial break. (audience applauds)  

(fades out)
(commercials includes one for "1 800 US LAWYER", one of those Intel commercials with the dancing lab technicians, and one saying "Behold the Power of Cheese.")  

(fades in)  (audience applauds) Jerry: Today we are talking to Jean and Scott Summer's about their complicated romance.  We just met Scott's former lover, Madelyne and his child from that marriage, Cable.  We are about to meet another one of their children, Rachel.  (turning to Rachel, who's sitting next to Cable, a smart distance away from the feuding trio)  It's nice to have you here.  

Rachel: It's nice to be here, Jerry.  

Jerry: Rachel, this appears to be the question of the segment, would you like to tell us whose child you are?  

Rachel: No.  ( a puzzled look appears on Jerry's face as she laughs) I'm just kidding,  that's why I'm here, to add more fuel to the fire. (taking a deep breath) I'm Scott and Jean's daughter from an alternate future that will never happen because I went back in time and stopped a crucial event from occurring.  

Jerry: Well, (pausing for a moment as to accept what he just heard) after you stopped the alternate future from happening what did you do, considering you couldn't go back?  

To Be Continued.....Part Two