Who Will Rescue the Rescuers?

"All right let's get this show on the road!" Emma said. "Fire up the Pulsar Cannon!"

"Wait a minute!" Cobra Commander said. "I have a great idea!" He shouted to a subordinate. "Get the United Nations on the videophone!"

"What for?" Emma asked.

"I'm going to blackmail the world into not setting off the Pulsar Cannon," Cobra Commander told her. "I mean they don't know its real purpose. I'll just tell them it will damage the Earth in some way."

"You mean you're going to extort money from the United Nations?" Emma asked.

"Yes and if they do pay up we use it anyway!" Cobra Commander howled with delight. "This way we'll make a profit as well!"

"That's utterly ruthless," Emma looked at him. "I like it. But I want a cut of the profits."

"Fine we'll have the twins work out the details," Cobra Commander waved. "What's more fun than gloating to your enemies in front of an audience who will pay you?"

"You don't mind if I stay off camera do you?" Emma asked.

"Are you kidding?" Destro asked. "That just means more screen time for that egomaniac!"

Already Cobra Commander was deciding how the camera setup should go. "Now after I do my turn and evil stare," He told his crew. "I want you to do a close up on my face. I say 'Citizens of the world…' Blah, Blah, Blah…When I say 'Behold the Power of the Pulsar Cannon!' Cut to the machine and give it one good blast. A short one just so they get the message. And then when I say…And in case you were hoping for GI Joe to save the day…That's when you cut to the cells below. Like that yeah. Let's have a little more light down there. I want the viewers to see how many Joes we have in the cells. Then cut back to me…"

"In other words the standard United Nations Speech?" The cameraman asked.

"Bingo!" Cobra Commander went to his mark. "Places people! This is a live take! And three…two…one…" He turned around with his back to the camera. "Action!"

After a second with his back to the camera he whirled around. "Greetings Citizens of the World," He hissed in his most menacing voice. "This is Cobra Commander the one and only Supreme Leader of Cobra. To the United Nations I have come with a report you might find interesting. It's about global warming. I'm afraid the forecast calls for some extremely high temperatures thanks to Cobra's new weapon! Behold the…"

Suddenly there was a huge earthquake and the sounds of several explosions. "Excuse me please," Cobra Commander grumbled. "I'll have to call you back." He shut off the videophone. "Okay what's going on now?"

"It seems the remaining mutants have returned in order to rescue their companions," Emma Frost said. "Unfortunately for them they are in the wrong section of the castle."

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"Just how many tin cans did Trask make?" Lance groaned as he dodged the Sentinel blast.

"Trust Fuzzy to port us all to the wrong area!" Pietro snapped.

"How was I supposed to know that there were Sentinels here?" Kurt snapped as he dodged the beams.

"Just shut up and run!" Pietro ran around.

Kitty and Wanda managed to destroy one Sentinel by Kitty phasing through its legs and Wanda blasting it with hex bolts. "Don't worry!" Wanda snapped. "As usual it's up to the girls to kick butt and save the day!"

"You took the words right out of my mouth," Emma appeared before them.

"Who the heck is she?" Todd asked.

"I remember her!" Pietro said. "That's Emma Frost! She used to work with Magneto! What's she doing here?"

"It's getting so you can't tell who's working with who without a scorecard!" Todd grumbled. "What does she do?"

That's when Emma sent a telepathic blast at them. "I had to ask…" Todd grumbled as his world went black.

The next thing he knew he was lying face down on something hard. "Did we win?" Todd moaned.

"What do you think?" Althea snapped. They were all in the cells with the others. Kurt, Kitty and Wanda had restraining collars on as well.

"So much for waiting for the others to rescue us!" Ray grumbled.

"Well here we all are," Scott grumbled. "Nice rescue guys!"

"Oh shut up," Lance grumbled.