Who's Gonna Rescue the Rescue Team?

"Dear God!" Kurt gasped as he saw the other X-Men and Lorna. Their uniforms were torn and Lorna's headgear was gone. They were attached and hung up by several strange green vines and tentacles. "The island's feeding on them!"

"Scott…" Jean moaned weakly.

"Their mutant energy strengthens usssss," Krakoa hissed gleefully. "Makes us strong. Feeds us…"

"Shouldn't have come back…"Bobby said weakly. "That's what it wanted you to do!"

"That's why you let me go! To get more food! You let me lead them here!" Scott shouted angrily. "It was a trap!"

"Yesssss…Like lambs to the slaughter…" Krakoa hissed. "Now it is time we feast!"

"Feast on this!" Logan roared as he used his claws to slice the tubing connecting the others.

"Let's blast this sucker!" John shouted as he used his great strength to tear the restraints off the captives.

"SSSurrenderrrrrrrr…" Krakoa sent out a mental blast at them. It sent most of the team to their knees. Only Logan and John remained standing.

"No way…" John snarled as he struggled to remain standing. "Listen pal…I'm an Apache warrior…AND APACHES DON'T SURRENDER SO EASILY!" He grabbed a huge root and tore it off. "GET BENT!"

"YEAARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHGGGGGHHH!" Krakola screamed and the mental assault stopped.

"I don't know what you did Thunderbird," Scott panted. "But I think you hurt it!"

The walls started to crumble around them. "Let's get out of here before we get hurt!" Peter shouted as he changed into armored form and smashed through a wall.

"I got it covered!" Lance used his powers to help him open a hole wide enough for all of them to run through. They helped the captured mutants escape as well.

"We're not out of the woods yet!" Scott shouted as he blasted at the island. It started to change shape in front of them.

"No kidding!" Todd whacked at the vines with his Bo staff. "Geeze this thing's looking like something that came outta the late night movie!"

The ground reformed before them to an eighty-foot monster with glowing green eyes covered in roots, plants and moss. "THE HUNGER! I MUST FEED!"

"And I thought Blob had an appetite!" Althea whacked at the attacking vines with a short blade.

"Everybody we have to blast that thing with all you got!" Scott used his optic beams to attack. All the mutants tried to fight using their powers, desperately trying to fight off the ground beneath them.

"My lightning has no effect on it!" Ororo shouted.

"Really?" Amara asked as her fire blasts brought on a satisfying scream from Krakola. "My powers seem to be working just fine!"

"YOU WILL SUFFER FOR THIS! YOU WILL BE MINE!" Krakola howled as it attacked.

"AAH SHADDAP!" John shouted as he thwacked at the vines surrounding him.

Several miles offshore the Joes and Xavier watched through their monitors. "What the hell is that thing?" Duke asked.

"That is the island itself," Xavier said. "Somehow Cobra's experiments mutated the entire island, giving it a living mind and a desire to feed on life force energy."

"Oh goody," Duke groaned.

"You mean that island is alive?" Hawk asked.

"Yes and the ones on the island are having the battle of their lives," Xavier said.

"What do we do?" Duke asked. "We can't just bomb the island while they're on it!"

"It does have a weakness!" Xavier concentrated. "And I think I know how to defeat it." He sent out silent instructions to the others.

"He's got to be kidding," Lance shouted as he used his powers to fight with the earth around him.

"You have a better idea?" Rogue shouted.

"I am not exactly enjoying this either!" Lorna snapped. "I have to do the hard part!"

"Stop yapping and keep fighting!" John snapped at her as he broke more vines in half. "WHATEVER YOU'RE GONNA DO! JUST DO IT!"

Ororo flew into the sky and created a huge storm. "Fools!" Krakola laughed. "The rain replenishes us! It makes us stronger!"

"Oh yeah?" Althea concentrated and transformed much of the rainwater into two huge battering ram like forces of water. She used them to blast out huge chunks of earth and wash them away. "How about now?"

Ororo hovered in the sky. Lightning flashed around her. She sent a huge charge straight at Lorna. She screamed as her body recharged itself. "It's working!" She shouted. "Keep it up!"

"Rogue! Now!" Scott shouted. Rogue lightly touched Lorna only taking enough power to keep her from becoming unconscious. Soon she started absorbing the magnetic energy around them too.

"I don't know what the hell they're doing," John grumbled. "But whatever it is they'd better do it fast!"

Xavier closed his eyes and monitored the battle. "Yes now it's my turn!" He sent a telepathic assault on Krakoa.

"YEARRRRGH! WHO DARES?" Krakoa screamed and started to fight Xavier with its mind.

While Xavier was locked in telepathic combat with the creature the other mutants started the second phase of the plan. Which basically was to trash the island any way possible as Ororo fed more energy to both Rogue and Lorna. "POLARIS! ROGUE!" Scott shouted as he blasted away. "DO IT NOW!"

Both girls sent a magnetic force straight through the heart of the island. Krakoa screamed in agony. The monster façade crumbled to the ground along with the earth around them.

"This whole freaking island is breaking up!" John shouted. "She's gonna blow!"