Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men: Evolution, or any other Marvel or WB property.

Notes: Holy friggin' crap, man! I finally reached 100 reviews! That rocks hard. Thanks everyone. The reviews are always appreciated, and I'm really glad that everyone seems to like the story. Okay, so this is the last chapter of action. There's gonna be some fluff in the chapter after this one, and it should be pretty short, but I have to throw it in there for all of my fellow "fluff" lovers. I hope to get it out before Thursday, but I'm working on small film project right now, and I'm leaving for Key West on Friday (Sep. 12th). So I'll try to get it up soon.

Taekwondodo: Thanks for the encouragement. I'm really glad you like the story because I love "Playing with Fire." It is pretty hard trying to keep up with all of the characters and battles when I write this story, but readers like you make it worthwhile.

Ophelia: You're addicted, huh? That's because I lace my stories with heroin. In all seriousness, thanks for reading. Glad you like it.

x-silver-sapphire-x: Ow! You poked me! Sorry, but I have to end it soon. I promise to write more "Evolution" fan fiction, though! Promise. Just please don't poke me again.

Equavetporsche: Thanks! And wait until the last chapter. I think it should have a whole "buttload" of Kurtty.

Raskolion Phoenix: Thanks so much for the email. I hate it when I miss an episode! And there was some cool Kurt/Marie/Raven moments? Crap! Hopefully Cartoon Network will get to air the fourth season in a couple of months and I can see it.

JDH3: Doesn't Jamie seem like the kind of kid that would say something like that? Jamie rocks. And as always, happy to see you. And where's my new chapter of "Tunnels. . .?" I was promised a new chapter. I feel lied to. And cheap (and not in the fun way). Thanks for the reviews, man.

Storm Heart: Okay, don't get me wrong, I love me some Colossus. I really do. And I like them as a couple much more than her and Lance. But. . .Marvel needs to stop screwing with my head and give me some real Kurtty. They've hinted at hidden feelings for too long, now. Although, I have a feeling that it may happen sooner than later. I have a theory. Anyhow, thanks for reading, and you were missed.

Electric Russian: I swear to you that Minor Domo is a real Marvel character. I'm looking at her in an issue right now. She's dressed like a theatre attendant from the 1920's. Glad to see you back.

RedLion2: Oh, it's so! I'm pushing all the "sappy" buttons in my brain, and it's happenin' next chapter! Thanks for the compliment about the action sequences! And I'll be interested in seeing how I end this, too. Really interested. I feel like I've painted myself into a corner! Glad you like the story!

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"What do you want to do?" Scott asked Logan.

Logan looked around. The Warwolves were all dead, and he watched as Mojo struck Xavier down. Growling, Logan began to walk toward that edge of the arena.

"We go up and meet the tubbo." Logan said.

"I've told you, we can't get out of here." Kurt said, catching up with Logan.

"There's gotta be a way, Elf. No one can hold the Wolverine for long." Logan muttered, popping his claws out.

"Logan, I can appreciate your sentiments, but if the boy says that he cannot teleport out of this arena, we may want to give him the benefit of the doubt." Hank said.

"Mr. McCoy is right. We're not going to get out of here using brute force." Scott said.

"Well, it's certainly kept us alive until now." Logan muttered.

"Where's Roberto, though?" Amara wondered aloud. "He was with me and the Professor. Now I don't see him anywhere."

"Maybe he escaped." Jamie said hopefully.

"Maybe he was taken prisoner. It's gonna suck to have to go back to that building we trashed earlier." Bobby said.

"Okay, everyone listen up." Logan said. "Has anyone but Kurt tried to leave the arena."

There was a chorus of "no's." Some other answers were more interesting.

"I flew too high." Ororo said. "I found that after a certain point that I could fly no higher."

"Me too." Jean said.

"That makes three of us, then." Sam said.

"So then we can't leave by air. What about underground?" Logan thought aloud.

"Hey you morons!" a voice screamed over the p.a. It wasn't the voice that they were used to. It was Mojo's. "Listen up! I was thrilled about the ratings earlier, but now you're all just pissing me off. I'm beginning to think that keeping you may be more trouble than its worth. So I'm gonna sit up here with your teacher and watch you die."

A look of dread came over the teenagers as the crowd cheered. Logan's ground his teeth as he growled at the obese yellow figure sitting far from him. Longshot began to pace, and Hank simply rubbed his eyes.

"Open the doors!" Mojo screamed.

The group turned toward the gigantic double doors as they began to open. Scott walked to the front of the group and stood watching the doors open as he spoke.

"Okay, this is what we're gonna do. Kitty. You phase beneath the ground. We can't escape by air, so maybe Logan's right, and we can escape underground. See how far you can get, then get back here immediately. You'll take us in groups beneath the floor, but not before Jean scans your mind and then gives Kurt a general idea of how far you can go, and where you're going to. That way, he can start teleporting us below ground." Scott said.

"Yes. That is our only option. It seems that we will receive no help from anyone of this world." Hank said.

"You have mine." Longshot said, steeling himself.

"The rest of us, we'll just have to fight whatever it is that is about to come through those doors." Scott said.

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"Major! What are they saying? I don't like them talking to each other like that! It looks like they're coming up with some sort of plan!" Mojo screamed, watching the mutants prepare for the battle. As he watched, the ice boy became ice again, a girl turned into a flaming figure of fire, and at least two of the women took to the air.

"What would you have me do, Sir?" Major asked.

"I don't know. You're supposed to be the genius, aren't you?" Mojo said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Mojo watched as one of the girls simply fell through the ground. "See that there! They're planning something! That girl just went through the ground! Make certain that she doesn't show up on the other side."

"You mean below the ground, in the sub-levels, Sir?" Major asked, standing up from his seat.

"Yes, yes, yes! Just do as I tell you to do. Otherwise, your intelligence seems to dwindle in my eyes." Mojo growled.

Major Domo bowed his head slightly and left.

"We will find a way out, Mojo. It's simply a matter of time." Xavier said.

"You know, Teacher, I don't believe that we've seen the dead carcass of the student we found with you. Would you like to see him?" Mojo asked, hitting a button on the side of his chair. "Yes, this is Mojo! I want the remains of the outworlder exposed to the artificial sun."

Xavier heard an incomprehensible buzzing from the speaker on the side of the headrest, next to Mojo's head. Mojo's face didn't just fall. It collapsed.

"WHAT?!?" he screamed.

Xavier smiled.

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Roberto punched through another wall, the shards and shrapnel hitting several of the drones in front of it.

"Where are they?!?" Roberto screamed, grabbing one's shoulder. It did nothing but buzz excitedly and bite his shoulder. Finding that no matter how hard it bit, it couldn't break Roberto's skin, it tried to escape. Roberto threw it to the ground and stomped off.

"Roberto." He heard in his head. "Can you hear me?"

"Yes, Professor, I can." Roberto said aloud.

"Mojo is going to kill the others. They cannot escape the arena. They need your help."

"But how?" Roberto thought.

"How long will your power last?"

"At most. . .twenty more minutes." Roberto thought.

"Good. Come to me." He heard Xavier say in his mind.

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The mutants watched as the creatures poured out of the doorway.

"There are so many of them." Bobby thought. Looking around, he could see his friends, his family, thinking the same thing.

Creatures of all shapes and sizes were entering the arena. Things that looked like an octopus, crawling on the ground in a bed of tentacles, were gnashing their razor sharp teeth at the group. Small beings the size of children, with incredibly large eyes and incredibly long claws were bounding toward them. Giant monsters that looked like praying mantises were crowding the arena. Men that looked like lions, a group of shriekers like the one that Scott and Kurt had faced, and a troupe of Warwolves all began to run toward the assembly of stunned mutants.

"Aw shit." Jamie said.

Kitty held her breath and phased through the ground. With that, the battle began.

Logan bellowed and ran toward the ever-increasing number of vicious looking creatures that were entering the arena. The rest of the mutants followed. Bobby slid to a stop, icing the ground of the arena in front of them. A dozen animals slid on the ice, falling down on one another. Tired, but with at least a little fight left in him, Bobby tried his best to encase the things in ice. He just didn't have the power. As he was about to be stepped on by a rather large lizard-like creature, Scott blasted several yards back.

Kurt stooped over, wrenching another bone loose from a dead creature beneath him. Rolling it over his shoulders, he attacked. Kurt took out two of the tiger-men, sweeping one to the ground with his tail while slamming his "weapon" into the other's face. He turned around in time to have three large, deep gashes torn through his right shoulder by a Warwolf. Kurt screamed in pain, grabbing onto the thing and teleporting. He reappeared, with the Warwolf, fifteen feet up in the air. The two fell to the earth together, Kurt too tired to teleport. They hit the ground with a sickening thud. As Kurt rolled over, he was trampled by one of the large insects. Thrusting upward with the bone, he impaled its leg. It reared back as Kurt crawled out from underneath it. Falling over, the insect crushed two more creatures beneath it.

Logan was like a man possessed. Nothing could stand once he set his blades to it. He cut down foe after foe, the never ending tide of creatures proving nothing more than fodder for him. He had to be careful, since students were fighting all around him, not to cut them in half.

Jean encased Jamie in a TK bubble, hoping to protect him from any sort of attack. However, protecting Jamie, plus fighting what could technically be called a war, was taking its toll on her. She could feel herself weakening. The only thing that helped her to hang on was that, if she could ever get back home, she could finally tell Scott everything that she had been too afraid to tell him before.

The rest of the mutants were doing the very best that they could. They teamed up, and watched each other's backs as the battle continued. They were worn out, however, and the creatures seemed to constantly replenish their numbers. It was as if a line had formed from within the double doors, and they just continued to enter and enter and enter.

"We won't last long like this." Scott thought, and continued to blast as many creatures as he could.

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Kitty fell through the ground, eventually falling through to the hallway below. She solidified as she passed through, falling to the ground in a crouching stance. She found herself surrounded by a group of security guards. Falling backward, Kitty kicked out with her legs, throwing two of the guards against a wall. Two more of the drones took to the air, grabbing at Kitty. She phased through them, backhanding each and then pushing one into the other. The last flew at her, grabbing her shoulders and pushing her into the wall. Kitty grunted in pain, her eyes closing. Then she grabbed onto the drone's shoulders and threw it backward, phasing it through the wall, leaving it there. Then she quickly ran on the molecules of air in the hall, and back through the ceiling. After a moment or so, she ended up back in the arena, next to Jamie. Logan was trying his best to protect the boy, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kitty appear.

"Jean!" Logan shouted.

In the air above the trio, Jean looked down and saw Kitty. As fast as she could, she picked up the mental images of the sub-level and projected them to Kurt. Kurt was in the midst of fighting off yet another tiger-man creature when he abruptly disappeared. The tiger-man creature blinked in surprise and then was hit by an ice blast from Bobby. Kurt reappeared next to Amara and then disappeared again as Kitty fell backward through the ground with Jamie.

Kitty fell through the ceiling with Jamie as Amara was holding off a small group of guards. Kurt did his best to catch both Kitty and Jamie, but succeeded only in breaking their fall.

"Oof!" Kurt grunted. "Sorry, Kitty. . .Jamie."

Kitty simply nodded and then ran back up through the wall. Kurt shook his head, and then turned toward Amara.

"Um, Kurt? A little help would be nice!" Amara shouted, throwing flames toward the guards.

"Who do you vant?" Kurt asked.

"Get me Ray!" Amara shouted, and Kurt teleported away.

Kurt appeared back in the arena in time to get thrown to the ground by an animal resembling the Shrieker that he and Scott had faced earlier. Kurt teleported further away from it, appearing fifty feet from Ray.

"Ray!" Kurt shouted. Ray turned toward Kurt and threw a bolt of electricity toward him. Kurt closed his eyes as the bolt passed him and hit one of the octopus-looking creatures, which had been rushing toward Kurt. Kurt teleported to Ray's side, and then back down into the hall. Ray dropped to the floor, nauseous from teleporting, before rushing to Amara's side to help her. Kitty fell back through the ceiling with Hank. She sat there, panting as Kurt helped her up.

"I'm tired." Kurt said.

"My knees are killing me." Kitty muttered as she ran back through the ceiling.

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"What are they doing?" Mojo wondered aloud.

Major Domo walked back up to Mojo and sat down next to him.

"It would seem that they've found a way out of the arena. They're escaping into the sub-levels." Major said calmly.

"What?!?" Mojo screamed.

"And what are you doing about it?" Mojo asked.

"It's taken care of, Sir. They've fought off a fair number of drones, but we are increasing the number of guards and they won't be able to handle the full brunt of our forces." Major said, once again slightly bowing his head.

"Oh. Well. Good." Mojo said, swiveling his head toward Xavier. "See. You'll never leave."

Simply saying it made Mojo feel better. He closed his eyes, listening to the battle, and imagining how he would kill Xavier.

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Kurt teleported to the hall again, this time bamfing with Sam, and was this time immediately hit in the stomach. Falling to the floor, he saw Amara and Ray were restrained, weapons held to their heads. Hank was restrained as well, and Jamie was unconscious, held by one of the guards. Kurt felt something tap the side of his head, and turned to see one of the strange weapons pointed at his head. ON the floor behind him was Sam, also unconscious. Kitty was behind him, being held.

"I can't phase anymore, Kurt." she sobbed.

"It's okay, Katzchen." Kurt said, before he was hit upon the head and blacked out.

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There was a knock on the door of Mojo's private box. It opened, and the prisoners were marched in. The unconscious ones were dumped on the floor in front of Xavier, who felt his jaw tense.

"Aw! Guests! You see, Teacher." Mojo said, smiling evilly. "Soon, you'll all be dead."

Laughing, Mojo turned to Major.

"Pause the battle." Mojo said.

Major Domo turned to a console on the side of the box. Punching a few buttons, the attacking creatures in the arena suddenly froze. The mutants all halted suddenly as well, looking stunned. All that is, with the exception of Logan, who took this time to cut down a few more monsters.

"Outworlders! Outworlders! Listen to me!" Mojo's voice filled the arena.

All of the mutants turned toward Mojo except for Logan, who continued to slice up more creatures.

"Hey! You! Little man! Stop!" Mojo screamed.

Logan stopped and turned toward Mojo, breathing hard.

"Well, well, well. You're lame excuse of an escape attempt has been. . .um. . .has been. . ."

"Preempted, Sir?" Major offered.

"Will you please shut up?" Mojo yelled. "You're lame excuse of an escape attempt has been preempted by my security. That is all. Major, let the battle continue!"

The mutants all shuddered, and then so did the wall into Mojo's box. The wall was suddenly blown apart, and Roberto walked in, his body surging with the last few minutes of power it could hold.

"Let them go." Roberto growled.

Mojo had had enough. Bellowing, he rushed toward Roberto on his platform, raising his arm. Mojo was an immense being, with a considerable amount of weight. He used this weight to bring his arms down on Roberto's head to crack his skull, to kill him. Summering all the power he could, Mojo brought his arms down. The blow would crush a man.

Roberto simply caught both powerful arms with his hands.

"No. I don't think so." Roberto said, throwing Mojo across the room.

Mojo screamed as he toppled end over end. Roberto crouched and then leapt to Mojo's side as guards rushed him. Major stood up and backed away, praying for both Mojo to be saved, and for him to be destroyed. Mojo's eyes went wide as the boys hands held both sides of his head.

"Tell your guards to back off, or I'll crush you." Roberto growled.

"You. . .you wouldn't dare. You don't have the power." Mojo whimpered.

As fast as he dared, Roberto's hands shot out to grab Mojo's right hand. Squeezing as hard as he could, he crushed the bones of Mojo's wrist, cracking them. Mojo screamed in pain, and motioned for the guards to hold off. Looking up, Roberto saw Major Domo trying desperately to creep away.

"You!" Roberto shouted. "Get my friends out of there."

Major Domo froze, his back turned to Roberto.

"Mojo wouldn't want me to do that." Major Domo said.

"Yes, I would!" Mojo cried.

"No. You wouldn't. I'll be punished." Major said.

"No. You won't. You'll be punished if I end up dead." Mojo said.

Major Domo sighed heavily, and then turned back toward Roberto.

"And how far do you think you'll get, dear boy?" he sneered. "Do you really think that you can leave this world? Your persons have been searched. We know you possess no way to return to your world."

Roberto looked at Xavier, who smiled gently back at him, nodding.

"I'll worry about that. Just get my friends out of there." He said.

Major Domo looked at Mojo, who was staring at him hard. Major Domo shook his head, not really caring if Mojo died. Major knew that he would actually prefer the spineless one to die. Instead, he gave the order to release the mutants.

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The mutants could suddenly hear the Professor's voice in their heads.

"Roberto has bought us some time. You can leave the arena now. We must meet as quickly as we can in the entrance hall to return to our reality. You must move now. Roberto doesn't have very much time."

As quickly as they could, the mutants ran, flew, and bounded out of the arena, and toward the entrance hall.

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"We'll be leaving now." Xavier said as Hank picked him up off of the floor.

The unconscious mutants had regained consciousness and were trying their best to stand. Roberto looked Mojo in the eye, silently warning him not to try anything. For his part, Mojo simply continued to whimper at being thrust into the face of danger for the first time and suffering pain. Roberto climbed off of the mammoth being.

"You'll never be safe." Mojo said softly.

"What?" Roberto asked, advancing on the being again.

"I said. . .you'll never be safe." Mojo said, his voice becoming brave again. "I'll find you. I'll find you and kill you all."

Xavier shook his head.

"If you want that war, you know where to look. Our numbers are only increasing in our world. And remember. . .we know how to find you, too." Xavier said as Hank carried him out of the box.

"I'll get you. I'll get you." Mojo whispered.

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The two groups met at the abandoned floating chair of Xavier's. Evan reached into the chair and found the device.

"Ve're going home." Kurt whispered to himself.

"That's right, Fuzzy." Kitty whispered in his ear, wrapping her arms around him. "And I couldn't be happier to be going home with you."

"We still have to go through seven at a time. Kurt, Scott, would you like to go first?" Hank asked, watching as a group of security drones begant to surround the group. "We'll have to make this fast. Kurt, Scott, Kitty, Jean, Evan, Marie and myself will go first."

Kurt felt Kitty take his hand in hers, and witnessed Jean lace her fingers through Scott's. Kurt looked at Kitty, who smiled at him. He saw Hank join hands with Marie and Evan place his hand on Hank's back. Hank held out his free hand and activated the device as the others looked on.

And then Kurt closed his eyes, and felt himself going home.

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One more chapter. Not much else to say. The next chapter will be fluff (sue me). It'll just be a little epilogue. I hope to get it up tomorrow. If I don't, I won't be able to post it until after my next vacation, which would be Wednesday of next week. I hope you've all liked this story, and its been fun writing it. I feel really happy with it. We'll see how I feel at the last chapter.

Later.