XAVIER: "So, how's progress?"
WOLVERINE: "Well, we got Jean back, dealt with Phoenix, Hellfire Club, Sinister, Sentinels & Mangeto, so everything's pretty much running smoothly. Now all we have to get you back from that pesky future and we can start getting things back to normal. Well, more normal for us anyway."
XAVIER: "Good. Now, to keep in the spirit of getting things back to normal, Wolverine, you are now free to step down so that Cyclops, who now has the great love of his life back, thus meaning his competence must be restored, can take over."
WOLVERINE: "Thanks Chuck. These last couple months have been rough, so I'm eager to get back to doing what I do best - being a mean spirited bad ass who's free to go off on lone biker quests whenever he feels like it or has to track down the secrets of his past."
XAVIER: "And you have earned it, oh great clawed hope. Scott, I expect you back at the office at 8:00 AM sharp, just like old times."
CYCLOPS: "Um, heh, yeah, okay, see, here's the thing-"
XAVIER: "Thing? What thing? Since when did you get a thing? Who said you could get a thing? I didn't tell you to get a thing. What is this thing you speak of?"
WOLVERINE: "Yeah Cycke, what's with this thing of yours?"
JEAN: "Scott, you didn't tell me you had a thing."
CYCLOPS: "Well, see, funny story, true story, what you learn about yourself when you're not in charge, well... heh... boy this is an awkward moment..."
XAVIER: "Don't make me read your mind Scott. Just come out and say it."
CYCLOPS: "Okay..." [takes a deep breath] "I don't want to be in charge again. Ever."
XAVIER: "Oh okay I can see that, that's perfectly reason- wait what?!"
X-MEN: "What?!"
JEAN: "When did this happen?!"
CYCLOPS: "Okay okay, calm down, calm down. I know that's a big time shock for all of you, but please just let me explain-"
XAVIER: "Explain?! Explain what?! How can you do this to me?! After all I invested in you?!"
JEAN: "And after I saved you from being crushed by a bus by Magneto! And after all those years I served as the inspiration to make you fight for the cause and make something of yourself?!"
CYCLOPS: "In this version."
JEAN: "Shut up!"
X-MEN: "Start talking!"
CYCLOPS: "Uh... okay, you see, I kinda like not being in charge. Ever since I stopped being leader, I've really loosened up. I'm... looser, more relaxed. For the first time in my life I really genuinely feel relaxed. It's like a huge weight has come off my shoulders. You know my blood pressure's down? And I've been sleeping a lot better too. You know I actually get to sleep in on Saturdays and Sundays now? I tell you that's a beautiful thing. And I've taken up writing & painting in my spare time. You know for the first time in my life I actually have spare time. I've never had that luxury before. And after all the crap I've been dealt by life & the writers, I think I deserve it. I mean, am I not human? If you prick me, do I not bleed?"
XAVIER: "But I spent years molding you into the slave to my cause! I fed you! I clothed you! I put a roof over your head! I gave you gainful employment! I arranged for you to get laid when you were only 16!"
CYCLOPS: "Yeah I know, I'm sorry, I really am, but I'm really liking this experiment we've got going on here with me not being in charge and Wolverine doing all the heavy lifting."
WOLVERINE: "But I don't wanna do the heavy lifting anymore! We had a deal, Summers! We do this role reversal crap for one season to further my already over-exposed popularity and then we go back to normal! I need to be able to do my lone bad ass thing where I get to run off whenever I feel like it! You can't do this to me!"
CYCLOPS: "Sure I can."
WOLVERINE: "No you can't! You're supposed to be Fearless Leader!"
KITTY PRYDE: "Yeah! That's like your thing man!"
CYCLOPS: "No, I *was* Fearless Leader. In theory anyway as far as this particular series is concerned."
X-MEN: "Shut up!"
CYCLOPS: "But now, I'm just another working class X-Man."
BEAST: "This is an outrage!"
STORM: "This is heresy!"
ROGUE: "Blasphemer!"
NIGHTCRAWLER: "Just plain out of character!"
CYCLOPS: "I can see you're all very upset by this, so maybe I'll just come back later and we can all discuss it when you're more calm."
JEAN: "Scott, I swear to God I will not sleep with you until you resume being the leader."
CYCLOPS: "That's cold Jean. That's just cold."
WOLVERINE: "Cycke, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm saying this as someone who likes to see you get hurt, and likes to see you fail miserably, and likes to see you fall on your face and likes to see your most valiant heroic efforts blow up in your face and likes to see you dismissed as a no good unsympathetic loser with no redeeming qualities! You... Will... Be... Fearless... Leader... Again!"
CYCLOPS: "Um... no. No thank you. Besides, they're gonna make me evil next season with the Age of Apocalypse stuff anyway, so I might as well spare us all the trouble of trying to be leader again. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some backlogged Green Lantern trade paperbacks to read."
XAVIER: "No! I cannot and will not allow this! X-Men, attack!"
NIGHTCRAWLER: "But we already had to fight today-"
WOLVERINE: "Get him!" [everyone jumps Cyclops and pulls him to the ground, but Cyclops manages to slip out and exit as the X-Men continue to beat on the wrong guy - Wolverine]