The next morning, Beast apologizes for his behavior. Xavier explains that it was bound to happen, and he knew that Beast had been sneaking out at night. Beast begins saying how he was a fool to think he good go into the real world in his current state again. Xavier offers to make him a holo-watch like Kurt's, but Beast says it's still hiding and refuses.

In the halls, Kitty and Bobby are discussing their difficulties in Earth-sciences class. Kitty overhears Beast's dilemma, and convinces Xavier to help her talk Beast into leading a field trip to the secluded Great Redwood Forest. Xavier offers, but Beast refuses, saying he couldn't be trusted. Xavier explains how it would be far from anyone else in such a secluded area, and Beast accepts.

In the kitchen, Beast is explaining that the trip is for students falling behind in their Earth-sciences class. Beast alerts the students that this trip is not necessarily voluntary, and that Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Iceman, Spyke, and Shadowcat will be accompanying him. Bobby and Evan are less than thrilled to go, but they have little chioce.

Cut to the Great Redwood Forest, where the Velocity is being covered by Sunspot. Wolfsbane tells him that it's fine the way it is, and Spyke takes the free moment to register a complaint about the trip before walking head-on into a bush. The students walk along, following Beast. Spyke continues complaining, and Beast doesn't seem to care. At camp, the students set up their tents. Later, while everyone else is studying, Spyke covers himself in poison ivy. Beast realizes it's a ruse, and asks Kitty to help him put on some calimine lotion. Later, as the students swim, Beast take sthe time to display his acrobatic expertise before diving in the lake. Suddenly, he seems very saddened, and walks off, followed by Kitty. Kitty asks if there's anything wrong, and he explains that he's enjoying his animal nature too much, that it's not who he is. She comforts him by saying, "Well, then, maybe it's who you're meant to be." Beast walks off, telling her to go back to camp, and finds a trout out in the river, stuck on a rock. He sets it free, hearing someone step on a branch. He doesn't know it, but there are Bigfoot hunters in the area.

That night, at camp, the men return to base and show their leader some footprints and fur. The leader, a scientist, explains while it is compelling, it's hardly proof. The camera man from earlier says he's got proof, and shows a video of Beast walking in the river. They all presume him to be Bigfoot, and joke that he got his jockey shorts from some camp site. Two hunters are there, ready to go after the huge game.

The show returns with Beast giving the students an assignment. He says that since the assignment shouldn't take more than an hour, they'll meet back in four hours. He tells them if they need him, he'll be in the teacher's lounge, and that he hasn't decided where that will be yet. Wolfsbane jokes that since they're to find five mineral samples, a go-getter like Sunspot will probably bring back ten. He says that the first five are cake, and everything else is icing, and he likes icing. She says that she thought he was putting on some weight.

Elsewhere in the woods, the Bigfoot hunters are blowing on Bigfoot calls. One of them asks his friend where he got the call. He replies that he got it at the Bigfoot trading post on Route 5, and to ask four Mulder. The astute watcher will not the X-Files theme in the background as he says this. Beast overhears the conversation, and drops behind a rock to respond with a made-up call of his own. The hunters all stop to figure out what the sound was. Beast rolls a boulder down the hill to scare them away, but the two hunters are hot on his trail and seem to know what they're doing. They're accompanied by the scientist, who is supremely interested in "Bigfoot." They begi shooting him with tranquilizers, and he chases after them. He is caught in an electro-magnetic cage, and soon passes out.

Later at the camp, they're discussing their catch, and the doctor explains the trap. The students don't understand the technical jargon, but one of them says that it looks like they caught the "real McCoy." Beast groans, and the doctor comments that it almost seemed like "Bigfoot" understood what his student said. The students walk away, and the hunters say they should stuff him. The doctor disapproves of this idea.

Elsewhere, the students are searching for Beast, and Kitty suggests that Wolfsbane should track beast. Wolfsbane then converts to her wolf form, and begins trailing his scent.

Back at the camp, Beast wakes up, and talks to the doctor, nearly scaring the man from his wits. He asks Beast if he said that, and Beast replies by asking him about the cage's workings. The doctor asks how he knows of such things, and Beast says they'll give anybody a degree now. The doctor realizes that Beast is not Bigfoot, and Beast says, "Hey, I'll even quote Shakespeare if you'll let me out of here." The doctor attempts to, but the hunters catch him and prevent him. Beast tells him, after the hunters leave, that there are others looking for him, and the doctor assures him that he'll release him soon enough.

Back to the students, who are hunting for Beast in the rain.

The hunting party moves down the road in the rain, and a mudslide knocks the lead vehicle into the river, along with two others. Beast is on the lead vehicle, and the scene ends with a shot downstream of the river flooding towards them.

The show returns with the flood overtaking the vehicles. As the truck he's on hits a tree, Beast's cage is thrown into the river, and the students watch as he sinks. The spring into action. Iceman creates an ice bridge, allowing the students to get directly over the river, as well as an ice dam to stop the river flow, as Sunspot converts to his blackened state, fire surrounding him, and he dives into the river. He rips Beast's now deactivated cage apart, and returns his teacher to the surface, where Beast tastes fresh air once again. Beast tells the students to come with him upstream and save the Bigfoot hunters. The begin by Beast uprooting a tree, andmoving Iceman and Shadowcat into place to start moving everyone onto the tree. However, when the hunters see Beast, they begin chasing him again as the doctor hollers for them to let him go. One hunter draws a bead on Beast, just as Wolfsbane bites it from his hand. The other prepares to fire, but Iceman, completely encased in ice, freezes it in his hand. Spyke, releasing his spikes, explains that "Bigfoot's" got friends. As one hunter searches for his gun, Kitty phases through a tree, causing him to run in terror. The students face down the hunters as Wolfsbane mutates into her werewolf form. Iceman asks what's to be done with the hunters, when Beast, directly above them in a tree, growls, "I'm thinking." The hunters run off, and the students, now returned to their normal states, begin cheering. The doctor says he is fascinated by this, and would love to know more. Beast says he will, someday.

The hunters are with the Bigfoot trackers, explaining their experience. The doctor walks up, saying that it is interesting, but hardly proof.

The students and Beast fly back to the Institute in the Velocity. Iceman comments that without Beast, the flood would've been a real disaster, and Beast replies, "As a wise girl once told me, we are who we're meant to be."