Disclaimer: Yeah know, even if I said I owned all the stories I use here (I don't own them, it's just for effect) there's not much anyone could do. Are they gonna sue me? It's not like I have any money. Think about it, if I had a job, would I have the time to write this? (Oh and I know the Juggernaut wasn't in the X-Men movie, But I needed a good villain. And why make up a new bad guy when it's so much easier to steal, err I mean borrow, one)

Cryos stalked through the undergrowth tracking his pray. And of course, being tracked by that same pray.

It was dark, but he could still see a bit. Suddenly, a faint purple glow appeared in front of him. He'd been spotted!

With nothing to lose now, he launched himself at the glow, but it was too quick. The glow dropped down to the ground and he went right over it.

A small energy wave flashed up at him, briefly illuminating the owner of those glowing purple eyes. But Cryos wasn't going to fall for a trick like that.

With a burst of speed, he vanished and reappeared behind the shooter of that wave.

Still moving with extreme speed, he grabbed her hands and pinned them behind her back. Then he whipped his tail around her ankles.

"It's over." He said. "End simulation!" The lights in the danger room came up and the holographic forest vanished.

Cryos looked down at Kentra, held fast in his hands. He expected her to be disappointed, but to his surprise, she was smiling over her shoulder at him.

"It's not over yet." She told him. Cryos had just enough time to think, What the-, before her purple eyes flashed and twin energy beams fired from them!

Cryos leapt backwards and just barely got out of the way. Kentra turned and fired several more shots. Cryos did a series of backflips to escape.

"Well, someone's been practicing." Cryos gave a nod of approval. "But have you been practicing your speed as well?"

Kentra dropped into a fighting stance and made the multiversal bring-it-on gesture, beckoning him with a curl of the finger.

Cryos smiled at her before going into his own fighting stance. They glared at each other for a moment before he launched himself at her.

He swung wildly, but she got around every punch. She kept going for close to a minute before making a mistake.

Fortunately, Cryos saw it in time and pulled his punch. She opened her eyes to the sight of his fist mere inches from her face and breathed a sigh of relief.

The first time she had tried dodging punches she'd ended up taking a solid punch to the face, leaving her with a black eye that was still visible as a faint shadow.

Surprisingly, this incident early in her training hadn't discouraged her, but only made her try harder. They'd only been training together for two weeks but she had already surpassed Cryos's wildest expectations and showed no signs of peaking anytime soon.

"Ok," She said. "NOW you win."

Cryos smiled and looked up at Professor Xavier at the Danger Room's controls. "Professor! If you could adjust the lights so I can't see Kentra's eyes maybe she'll do better!"

The holographic jungle reappeared and the light took on a purplish cast. Kentra's eyes were no longer stood out like candles in the dark. "Perfect, thanks!"

They were about to start again when the simulation turned off. "Hey!" Shouted Kentra and Cryos together.

"I'm sorry." The professor said. "But we've just received word of a Draco sighting. I thought you'd want to know."

"Where is he this time?" The X-Men were helping to track Draco down. Over the last two weeks he had been spotted in Brazil, Argentina, France and Japan. But he had escaped them each time.

"He's made an appearance in Australia, where he's been attacking parking meters."

Cryos sighed. "He's stealing from parking meters?" It was a dumb, but typically Draco, thing to do.

"Actually no." The Professor answered. "He's just smashing them open and going through all the coins. But as far as the authorities can tell, no money is missing."

"That's strange." Cryos thought it over and tried to come up with a logical explanation for Draco's behavior. Finding none, he just said, "Prep the X-Jet. I'll be there in two minutes."

He and Kentra flew up the elevator shaft to the mansion. He told her to make sure they got the jet ready fast while he found Zon.

Zon wasn't hard to find. He'd been spending most of his time with Wolverine doing Tai-Chi.

He enjoyed the ancient discipline and claimed it had a calming effect. Of course, he had been forced to come up with a modified version. The style that humans used didn't quite work right when you have four arms and four legs. Not to mention the fact that his limbs didn't bend quite the same as a human's.

The time that wasn't spent with Wolverine was spent on the roof of the mansion, where he worked on his both his fighting and meditation. So Cryos headed up to the roof and gave Zon an update on the situation with Draco.

Zon was eager to help and followed Cryos down to the landing bay where the X-Jet was parked. Wolverine was already there, as were Cyclops, Jean and Storm.

There were two other mutants there as well, both teenagers. Amara Aquilla, codename Magma for her fire powers, and Bobby Drake, codename Iceman for obvious reasons, were happy to be on their first combat mission.

Cryos had talked the Professor into letting them come along to try and counteract Draco's own fire and ice powers after he'd frozen Wolverine into an ice-cube on their last encounter. Wolverine was lucky his healing powers had saved him.

Once everyone got loaded into the X-Jet, they took off for Australia.

The X-Jet was fast, they went halfway around the world in less than three hours. During most of the time Cryos was playing cards with some of the mutants. The Professor, who was flying the jet, thought it was quite amusing. But Wolverine got fed up hearing, "Go fish!" and shredded the cards into tiny pieces.

When they got to Sydney, Australia, the jet landed and everyone piled out except for the Professor, who stayed in the jet in case a quick escape was needed. But the city was completely quiet. The only sound was the crackling of flames from a couple buildings and the dripping of melting ice from some others.

"Well, at least we know Draco was here." Offered Kentra.

Wolverine raised his hand for silence. "I can smell 'em." He sniffed a few times and pointed at one building that was less damaged than most. "He's in there." Wolverine started into the building and was caught by a wall of cold blue fire.

Once again, he was frozen in an ice-cube. Cryos grabbed Magma's shoulder and pointed at Wolvie. "See if you can thaw him out or not, either way, catch up with us as fast as you can."

"Got it." She answered before changing form a normal looking teenage girl to a being made of pure fire. Flames shot from her fingertips and began to slowly melt the ice that held Wolverine captive.

Cryos and the others chased after Draco before he could get away, but the little lizard started spitting fireballs at them.

Iceman changed to his ice form. In that form he was able to control his powers better. And he started firing lumps of ice at the fireballs, turning them into harmless steam clouds.

Now Draco had to spit more fireballs just to block Iceman's ice and wasn't able to watch where he was going. Giving Zon the chance he was waiting for.

Flying over Draco, he moved into an intercept course and grabbed the stupid little thing out of the air. And as soon as Cryos got close enough to clamp Draco's beak shut, it was over.

Taking Draco from Zon, Cryos held the little featherbrain up to face level and looked him right in the eye. "Draco, Can you hear me?"

Draco nodded.

"Why did you run away like that?" Cryos asked him. Draco made little mumbling sounds until Cryos let go of his beak.

"I LOST MY PENNY!!" Draco wailed.

"You WHAT?!" Everyone said at once.

"I came down to the planet when we first got here, and my penny fell down a sewer. I tried to find it, but some hobo who lives down there found it first. AND HE SPENT IT! HE SPENT MY PENNY! AND I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING IT ALL OVER THIS STUPID LITTLE PLANET FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS." Everyone just stared openmouthed at him.

And right around then Wolverine and Magma showed up. He was dripping wet and did not look very happy. "I'm gonna KILL YOU!" He bellowed as his claws popped out.

Draco squawked in fear and opened his beak to spit fire at Wolverine, but Cryos stepped in. "Everyone relax!" He looked back at Draco. "You mean to tell me that this was all over a penny!? Draco, what penny was this?"

"Not just any penny, MY penny. The one I found in Washu's lab."

Cryos was silent for a moment, then said, "I think I need to sit down."

He started to sit on a big piece of rubble that had fallen onto the sidewalk. But at the last second, Draco screamed "STOP!!!!!"

Cryos stood back up. "What is it NOW?!"

Draco swooped down to the chunk of concrete Cryos was going to sit on and picked up a tiny object. "My penny!" He announced happily. "It must have fallen out of a parking meter when I smashed it!"

"Does this mean we can go to another Universe now?" Asked Zon.

"Yeah, sure." Cryos was about to make a wormhole into a new Universe, but then the Professor's psychic voice called X-Men! To me, quickly!

Everyone started running as fast as the could back to the X-Jet. It was obvious what the problem was. There was a huge guy with a domed helmet ripping into one of the wings.

"Oh, no!" Screamed Wolverine. "It's the Juggernaut!"

"The who?" Zon shouted over the noise of ripping metal.

"The Juggernaut." Repeated Wolverine. "He's a mutant. His power is super strength. He's called the unstoppable object. And he's got it in for the Professor!"

The Juggernaut was roaring, "I heard on the news that a group of mutants kept showing up wherever that little lizard thing was. So "I just waited until it was on the news again, and I went there!"

"We'll see just how strong he really is." Said Cryos bravely before swooping down out of the air at the Juggernaut.

Cryos managed to get a two handed punch right on the big guy's head. He stumbled a bit, but didn't even fall over.

"Who's this?" Juggernaut bellowed. "A new mutant pipsqueak for me to pound on?" He looked up into the X-Jet's cockpit. "Charles, you're too kind. This is gonna be fun!"

He turned back to Cryos and smiled through the little slots on his helmet. As Cryos got ready to fight this… thing, he heard the Professor's voice in his head. Cryos! There's only one way to stop the Juggernaut. You must remove his helmet, then I can subdue him with a psychic blast.

Cryos just nodded before launching himself at the Juggernaut. He was knocked away like a fly. Cryos hit the ground, hard. He landed in an awkward position and felt his ankle twist in a way it should never be able to bend.

"Woh, this guy's strong." He saw Zon moving up to take on the giant, and was slapped aside just as easily.

Zon tried going around the back while the X-Men attacked from the front.

Kentra flew around the Juggernaut as well, but not to attack. She ran to check on Cryos. "Kentra, go get Draco." He pointed at the little lizard that was sitting on a rock and laughing hysterically every time the Juggernaut knocked someone down.

"But your ankle," She tried to say, but Cryos wouldn't let her finish.

"It's just sprained. It's happened before. I'll be fine in a minute. Now go get Draco! I've got a plan."

Kentra nodded and flew back to the lizard, grabbed him off his perch, and brought him back to Cryos. He held him up and said, "Listen Draco, I need you to get that guy's helmet off!"

"No, this is too much fun!"

"Draco! Do it or loose the penny!" Cryos was in no mood to put up with Draco now.

"AHHH!! NOO!! NOT THE PENNY!" Draco held his penny close and flew at the Juggernaut. Cryos watched him struggle with the buckles, but he wasn't big enough to open them. So he came back.

"I couldn't do it. I'm not big enough to push the buckle and open it." He sounded honestly sad.

"Well don't just stand there." Cryos yelled at him. "Do something!" Draco's sad look vanished as he happily stood up on his hind legs and started to dance the Macceraina. "SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE!!!" Cryos yelled.

"Oh, why didn't you say so?" Draco fluttered back over to the Juggernaut and flew right into the bug guy's helmet through the eyehole.

The Juggernaut started screaming instantly. "AHHHH!!! GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!"

Everyone fighting him backed off as he started thrashing crazily. And after a moment of that, he took his helmet off!!

Draco flew back to Cryos muttering, "It stunk in there. He needs a shower."

The Juggernaut started screaming again, but this time in pain. Cryos looked up and saw the Professor in the X-Jet with his eyes closed and his hands on his temples.

The Juggernaut fell, unconscious, to the ground. Zon walked up to Cryos. One of his small claw arms were gone, but he looked happy.

"I was wrong." He apologized. "I guess that stupid little thing has some uses after all."

"Yeah," Muttered Wolverine. "but can it get us home? The X-Jet's trashed."

"Actually, he can." Cryos threw Draco up into the air and Draco transformed into his spaceship form. Leaving the X-Men gaping in awe.

Draco landed next to the jet and opened his mouth. "Come on." Cryos led the way into Draco's mouth. "You ride in here. He can get us back to the mansion in a couple of minutes."

"Well," Said Iceman, "It sure beats walking." Everyone followed him into Draco's mouth and up into the cockpit. (The Professor needed a little help of course, no wheelchair ramp)

When everyone was inside, Draco landed on top of the X-Jet, wrapped his huge pillar-like landing-gear legs around it, and lifted it up into the air with them.

About twenty minutes later, Draco dropped the X-Jet into the front yard of the Xavier institute.

"DRACO! Cryos yelled. "I said to put it down gently!"

"Oops," Draco's now deep voice echoed around them. "Sorry."

Everyone got out of Draco before he collapsed back down to his lizard form and stood on the grass with everyone else.

"I guess this is goodbye." Cryos said to the X-Men.

Wolverine muttered, "Good riddance, I say."

Professor Xavier ignored the cranky mutant and said, "I'm sorry to see you go Cryos. And both of you too." He said to Zon and Kentra.

Cryos stepped forward and shook his hand before opening a wormhole into another universe.

Kentra started to put her spacesuit on but Cryos stopped her. "You won't need it. See how calm the wormhole is? That's because there's air on the other side."

She said "Oh, ok." And put the suit back in the capsule.

Cryos turned to his friends. "Is everybody ready to go?"

"I've got my penny! Lets go!" Draco started through the portal but Cryos grabbed his tail and pulled him back.

"That caused a lot of trouble last time, Draco. This time, we go together." He put Draco on his shoulder and stepped through the wormhole with Zon and Kentra right behind him.