The Temple of Cytorak

"Well here we are in the jungle," Wanda grumbled as they trudged along with the X-Men. Roadblock, Spirit, Lifeline, Low Light and the Blind Master were with them as well.

"Boy when they say see the world when you join the army they ain't kidding!" Fred sweated.

"Being an X-Man isn't exactly dull either," Bobby grumbled. "I am so out of my element here!"

"Not me!" Amara cheerfully walked in the jungle. "Feels like home."

"I like it!" Todd snagged a huge insect. "Yummm! Crunchy!"

"I think I'm gonna be sick," Kitty groaned.

"We're here," Xavier pointed to a huge temple inside a waterfall. It was covered on vines an ominous carvings.

"Cozy place ain't it?" Lance quipped.

"We must be careful," Xavier warned. "There are many traps inside."

"You take the X-Men in with the adults," The Blind Master said. "The Misfits and I will stay out here and be your backup. Just in case Magneto has some of his henchmen around."

"Good idea," Xavier nodded. Although the Misfits didn't think so.

"Okay why are we just standing out here?" Fred whined twenty minutes later.

"Patience," The Blind Master told him. "I have a feeling we must wait."

"Wait?" Lance snapped. "For what? The X-Geeks are having all the fun inside while we're out here missing all the action!"

"Well I'm not in a hurry to see Father again," Pietro sighed. "Although last time he ignored us."

"That's because we weren't important enough for his attention at the time," Wanda frowned. "He hasn't forgotten us, he's just waiting for the right moment so we can be useful to him."

"Oh that makes me feel much better," Pietro rolled his eyes. Just then they heard several explosions and the sounds of screaming. "What was that?"

"AGGGHHH!" Bobby and Ray ran out of the temple screaming.

"I think it's time for us to go to work," The Blind Master said.

"What happened to them?" Lance asked.

"Uh…THAT!" Todd screamed and pointed behind them. Following them was a huge rock statue that was storming towards them. Its eyes were glowing with some kind of red stones. Red stones that shot out beams of fire at them.

"Run for it!" Pietro screamed as they all dodged the fire beams.

"Wonderful," Lance groaned. "Just what we needed, a prehistoric Sentinel! Take this Rocky!" He used his tremors to trip it. Althea used the water to surround it. Pietro ran around it, engulfing the rock statue in water. Wanda hexed it so it shuddered violently. Althea let the water subside so that Fred could smash it into pieces.

"Well that was fun," Fred flexed his muscles.

"Why didn't you use your powers?" Althea asked.

"Gee why didn't we think of that?" Ray said sarcastically. "Maybe because THEY DIDN'T WORK ON THE STUPID THING!"

"Yeah it melted my ice!" Bobby said. "And rocks don't exactly conduct electricity well!"

"Why didn't Summers try to blast it or something?" Fred asked.

"The others are busy with Magneto and the dragon," Bobby said.

"The what now?" Todd raised an eyebrow.

"Come on!" Bobby led the way inside the temple. They ran inside and soon collided with the X-Men running from the opposite direction.

"Nice running into you," Scott quipped rubbing his head.

"Great!" Althea said. "It's lucky we found you!"

"Uh…yes and no," Kurt gulped as he pointed behind them. They turned around and saw a huge grayish purple dragon with very large teeth. It nearly filled up the entire room.

"Oh my…" Todd gulped. "Big isn't it?"

"Scatter!" Everyone did just as it shot out a breath of fire. It attacked and shook the mountain. It shot out a blast that caused several rocks loose where Todd and Kurt were standing. Kurt grabbed Todd and they teleported to somewhere else. They landed with a huge thump.

"Did we kill it or did it kill us?" Todd moaned.

"Neither," Kurt pointed. "Look where we are!" They were inside a huge room filled with red glowing stones on shelves everywhere.

"We found it! Man we hit the jackpot!" Todd said.

"You took the words right out of my mouth," Magneto loomed before them.

"Uh oh…" Todd gulped.

"Magneto!" Xavier called out just as everyone ran into the cavern. "Don't!"

"I'll deal with you later," Magneto reached out for one of the stones. "Right now I need to collect what I came for."

"Oh no you don't!" Todd reached out his tongue to grab it.

"Toad no!" Xavier screamed. "Don't touch it!"

"Why?" Todd held it in his hands. It started to vibrate. "Uh oh…"

"It'll mutate his DNA!" Hank shouted as a bright light illuminated from the stone. "He'll…what in the world?" Every stone in the room started to glow.

That was when the stone turned into dust right in Todd's hands. "That's not good is it?" Todd blinked.

"I don't believe so," Hank gulped.

Then every stone in the temple shattered. "Oops," Todd gulped, wiping the soot off of his face. He saw a very livid Magneto in front of him. "Did I do that?"

"YOU USLESS, SLIMY LITTLE…" Magneto howled with rage.

"Okay we stopped Magneto," Todd gulped. "I think we must be going now!"

Just then there was a terrible roar. "Oh great!" Scott moaned. "Just when things couldn't get any worse…"

The dragon shot out a blast of fire at them. Scott used his eyes to blast at it while Lance used his powers to shake the room. "Stop that you fool you'll bring the whole place down!" Magneto snarled. He saw there were several old spears with metal points. "Just what I need." He used them to pierce the dragon's skin and killed it.

"NO!" Kitty shouted. "You didn't have to do that! It was just protecting the temple!"

"Are you nuts?" Pietro shouted. "Who's gonna protect us?"

"Come on!" Lance shouted. "If we all gang up on him we can nail this creep once and for all!"

"Another time," Magneto pulled out the spears and redirected them towards the teams. While Logan slashed at them with his claws and Jean used her telepathy to deflect them, Magneto made his escape.

"He got away," Scott grumbled.

"Well," Lance sighed. "At least Magneto can't use those rocks anymore."

"How could Toad break an entire room full of mystical gems?" Kurt snapped.

"Let's face it guys, he's a jinx," Bobby grumbled.

"I am not a jinx!" Todd snapped. "I'm a ninja!"

"A ninja jinx," Kurt grumbled.

"Yeah," Todd nodded. "HEY!"

"Could be the effect of Magneto's powers," Hank shrugged. "Some stones are affected by magnetism. I'm afraid we will never know since all the Cytorak gems are now gone forever."

"Actually…" The Blind Master sighed. "That's not entirely true…"

"Oh no!" Lance groaned. "Where is it this time? The Arctic? Africa? The Moon? Where?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple," The Blind Master said. "Do you remember Masaru?"

"Let's see, the traitor who nearly killed us?" Todd said sarcastically. "That rings a bell."

"Well years ago he was given a rare artifact that was carved from one of the Cytorak Gems," The Blind Master said. "Stormshadow informed me that Masaru looted the temple of his ancestors just before he was killed. He gave most of them to a certain enemy of ours."

"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Althea asked.

"I'm afraid so," The Blind Master sighed. "The last Gem of Cytorak is in the hands of Cobra."

"Oh…Goody," Todd groaned.