User blog comment:Ultimate Heatblast/What side would Nightcrawler have taken?/@comment-4591819-20120606211045/@comment-4652104-20120608060227

Scott personally asked Storm to stay, to be the team's conscience. (The comic page tells you why)

Plus, she's a goddess and a queen. With that experience I think she's more at home on Utopia actually than at a school.