Originally Posted by
Omega Alpha
Like I said earlier, Scott had been back for days already, there was no reason for him to arrive in the middle of the battle to distract everyone, only because WiFi came up with a stupidly contrived plan to prove his worthiness or something that didn't need to exist (really an excuse by the writers for Scott not being there).
And it's not like he could have done any worse than Jean and the others did, who couldn't think of anything better than trying to overpower him. Attack Nate by surprise, depower him, have Hope copy his powers, teleport him to a volcano or something, etc, there were better options that what happened.