Episode Six - Middleverse

Aired: January 27, 2001

Stars: Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Rogue

Appears: Spyke, Jean Grey, Shadowcat, Toad, Avalanche, Mystique, Blob

Cameos: None

Guests: Forge

First Appearance(s) of: Forge

Written by: Adam Beechen

Summary

They continue to argue over the party and Kurt jumps onto the table and says it's time to "party, party, party". His tail pops out while he's dancing and Scott grabs it and yanks him off of the table, saying that it's exactly the sort of thing he's worried about. Kurt and Scott really get mad at each other. Kurt says Scott needs to loosen up, Scott says Kurt needs to quit goofin'. Kurt ports away and lands on a pile of boxes in the basement in the process smashing his image inducer.

Rogue hears (and smells) Kurt port in, and goes down to find out what she heard. Kurt runs into a back room to hide and finds a lab. He trips an alarm and the lab self destructs. Rogue runs in to find out if he's okay, and when she's looking around she finds a gizmo that wasn't destroyed in the blast. Kurt tries to take it from her, and during the struggle she accidentally zaps him with it and he disappears. Kurt ends up trapped in "Middleverse" where he can sometimes see ghost like images of other students.

In the school parking lot, Toad is chasing a bug. Mystique pulls in and runs over the bug, Toad says "ah man, my lunch". Raven tells him if she finds one spot of slime on her new car that he'll be in permanent detention. He wanders away to find Rogue dumping the gizmo in a dumpster. He asks why she's so jumpy and she says there's one less X-Men to push them around. She tells him to leave the gizmo alone and walks off. He pulls it out and zaps the dumpster.

Jean and Scott are talking about how he handled the situation with Kurt. Two kids run out of the boys bathroom screaming about seeing a blue demon ghost. Scott tells Jean to contact Kurt and tell him to knock it off, but she can't find any trace of Kurt anywhere. They run into the Blob and Avalanche. Scott asks what they've done to Kurt and when they don't tell him he jerks up Avalanche and slams him into the lockers. Blob pulls Scott off Lance and Jean and Lance face off. Mystique shows up to break them up and takes Jean and Scott to her office.

Kurt is freaking out in middleverse trying to get free. Meanwhile Toad is already in her office, zapping every bit of furniture into middleverse. He jumps out of the window when he hears Mystique, Jean and Scott coming. She opens the door and runs back out again, screaming about her furniture. Jean and Scott wander to the window in time to see Toad zap Raven's car. When Kurt ports out of the way of the falling car in middleverse, Jean and Scott see him for a split second in the office.

They put two and two together and the X-Men go after Toad. Kurt runs into Forge in middleverse. Forge explains about how he created this "pocket dimension" which he's named middleverse and how he was trapped there back in the 70's. He creates another gadget that will allow Kurt to port back for a couple seconds to tell the others how to save them.

The X-Men catch Toad and ask about Kurt. Rogue shows up to tell them that she did something to Kurt. She takes them to the lab. Kitty and Evan study the gizmo and figure out that Kurt is trapped in a pocket dimension. Scott wants to destroy it, but Forge tells Kurt if they do then the two of them will be trapped forever. Cyke gets ready to blast the gizmo to nothing and Kit asks why she can't just phase through it and quietly short it out. Spyke and Cyke look at her like she has two heads and she says forget I said anything.

Kurt uses the gadget that Forge made for him and ports in to say "Reset. Don't..." before he disappears again. X-Men argue over what he meant. Spyke still wants to destroy it, but Scott says he meant for them to reset it. Scott resets it, but Forge and Kurt need more power to be able to port back through the portal to get home. Kurt ports them to Raven's car.

Blob, Avalanche, and Toad show up looking for Rogue. Scott is surprised that Rogue is working for Mystique. Avalanche asks who's side she's on and Rogue says it's not my fight and leaves. The rest fight over the gizmo. Jean and Scott put the Blob down. Avalanche knocks Kitty through a wall, but she phases back through and calls him a loser. Toad tries to get past Spyke and reach the gizmo, but Spyke puts up a wall of spikes and knocks him down.

Kurt and Forge use the battery from Raven's car and drive it right through the portal. They run over the gizmo smashing it and then straight into the Blob. The Brotherhood take off since the gizmo is smashed. Rogue watches the X-Men and Forge leave the lab. Scott offers Forge a place at Xaviers, but he just wants to go home.

The X-Men load up into Scott's convertable and Kurt and Scott apologize to each other. Scott says he was wrong and they all decide to go to the party after all.

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Quotes

Kurt: Hey! Chicks dig the fuzzy dude. (to kit) Right??
Kitty: I'm like so out of here. Later.
Kurt: Oh yeah. She can't resist.

Scott: Hey! Watch the tail. (jerks Kurt off of table) Now see that's exactly what I'm talking about.
Kurt: You pulled my tail man!

Kurt: What are you doing here?
Rogue: Look who's talking. At least I didn't blow the place up.

Scott: Everyone stand back. I'm going to use full power. This could get messy.
Kitty: Um, You know, I could just like phase through the gizmo and quietly short it out. (blank looks for Evan and Scott) Oh, Right. Forget I mentioned it. (To Jean) Like, What is it with guys and explosions anyway?
Jean: Heh!

Lance: Rogue, Mystique sent us to find you. So you with us or them?
Scott: Mystique?! You're working for her?
Rogue: Hey Summers. You've got your friends, I've got mine. But this ain't my fight. I'm outta here!

Blob: Okay, fork it over losers.
Lance: or this place is gonna rock!
Scott: The projector stays with us. X-Men keep that portal open!

Lance: You and me got a date pretty Kitty. How about a ride on the concrete coaster?
Kitty: Lousy ride loser!

Kurt: (to Scott) There's hope for you yet.
Scott: Tell me about it on the way to Matthews party.
Kitty: Ohh, I can't go remember. I'm like a freshman.
Scott: Hey, you're also one of the X-Men.
Jean: Don't worry. We'll make it happen.

Quick Review

Great Episode, but was I the only one that thought they went way overboard with Kurt goofing off? It just seemed out of character to me. I mean in the first episode he was really upset about making a mistake in the Danger Room, enough so that he was going to leave, but now he brushes everything off with an oh well. Just a minor thing really, but it did catch my attention. I guess when you have different writers on different episodes this sort of thing is inevitable though.

I did really like the table dancing scene and the face off between the Brotherhood (or partial brotherhood) and the X-Men over the gizmo. I'm assuming that they're saving the real action for later in the season cause this one really seemed like more of a tease. The shows are really starting to click together now. I think once Rogue turns next week that we'll really start seeing some fast movement in relationships within the X-Men and confrontations with the Brotherhood.

This episode did have a lot of really funny little bits thrown in, and Spyke is starting to blend in as well, I'm starting to rethink my whole dislike on first sight thing.

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