Dislaimer: Normal disclaimer... I don't own any of the characters except Ember.


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As Wolverine battled with the sentinel above the street was still crumbling beneath the X-Men. The part of teh street where Havoc stood broke way and he started to fall into the gaping hole.


Havoc began to yell as he grasped at the rocks laying on the side trying to keep from falling. It didn't help though because he started falling again, this time into the hole. Ember heard his yell and spotted him. Quickly she fly down grabbing Havoc before it was to late. Landing far enough away from teh hole so that hte ground was stable underneath them.


"Ah told ya once, Ah would get yar back," Ember joked as the two embraced. "Remember I'll always have yours too," replied Havoc as the two parted.


"I've got it under control here," shouted Wolverine as he clawed at the giant robot. "You guys go handle the rest of the problems."


"X-Men," Cyclops called out. "Come on." Once again Cyclops started running down another street in order to avoid the huge gap.


Taking the longer way the X-Men arrived at the warehouse where Magneto had once stood but he wasn't there anymore. There were four metallic orbs though.


"Those orbs are like the one's that took us to that weird planet Magneto took us too." Rogue commented pointing to the orbs.

"They are," Cyclops declared. "Everyone be on the look out."


A glowing card fluttered to the ground in front of the X-Men as they watched on. It landed on the ground before it exploded knocking Ember, Havoc, Jean, and Spike to the ground.


Everyone slowly got up as they searched the area trying to find the cause of the exploding card. That is when they saw them.


Sitting on a stack of crates and barrels was Sabertooth and three other guys. One of them had something similar to a jet back on his back, another was armed in steel all over his body, while yet another one had a stick and was shuffling a deck of cards. The one shuffling the cards had to be the cause of the exploding card.


"Hey X-Geeks," called Avalanche from atop of one of the many buildings. "Watcha doing doing down there?" Standing behind him were Toad, Blob, Quick Silver, Scarlet Witch, and Mystique.

As all the X-Men glanced up it gave the Acolytes enough of a chance to jump off of their seats and snap into action. The Acolytes spilt up and all four ran in a different direction to go after them.


"X-Men go after them," declared Cyclops. "Try to take them down. Be careful though." After stating that Cyclops, Jean and Spike headed off in the direction of Sabertooth. The rest of the X-Men then headed off in seperate directions.


Rogue quietly snuck around the corner of a building tugging at one of her gloves till it slid off. She was not going to be caught off guard. Creeping from behind the corner Rogue was ready to meet her opponent, she wasn't expecting what she saw though. Rogue gasped as the guy with the exploding cards stood before her. She stared into his red eyes as he stared into her green one's. Awestruck Rogue and the mystery man stood there for a couple of moments before he handed her a card and slipped away.


Still in a daze Rogue stared for a moment at the spot where the mystery man had stood before disappearing. That's when she noticed the card she was holding in her hand was glowing.


"Ahhh," Rogue cried out as she threw the card in the air and dove to the ground ducking behind an empty crate. A small explosion erupted knocking dust in the air and pushing the crate she was crouched behind into her. "That guy tried ta blow meh up," Rogue muttered as she picked herself up from the ground.


While Rogue was having problems with one member of the Acolytes Ember was having her own dilemmas with the member with another of the members.


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Thanks for the reviews. Evilbon32 I really appreciated the comment about my swimming. I'll remember what you said at the next meet when I get up on the blocks. :^)