I had an idea a while ago about taking most of the Academy X/New X-Men kids and pulling a Mutant X with them and stranding them all on a parallel Earth where a massive fight with Apcolypse killed all mutants. Something like the plot of the first X-Men movie where Xavier is faced with a choice of killing all humans or mutants only he choose the lesser of the two evils and killed all mutants that had an active or close to active x-gene at the time. Now a decade latter the x-gene is starting to emerge again and the kids would have to fill the role of the X-Men on this world. The only survivor of the mutant genocide would be Hank McCoy who only survived because of all the tampering he had done on himself over the years, but he would be crippled and in a wheelchair sort of like how Xavier was.

You do this as a 12 issue maxi series letting the character from New X-Men really shine and take center stage on a world level with Surge being one of those front and center. If it works out you keep the series going and if not then you have the kids come home at the end of the series.