Disclaimer: Look, you'll have read my first one so why do I need to repeat that I own nothing of any worth?

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Scott sat up suddenly in his room, a deep feeling of dread in his chest as he looked around him wildly. He rose to his feet, slipped on his combat ruby quartz shades and quickly slipped into his black spandex suit which he had strategically placed next to his bed in case of emergencies. In his mind he knew that he had to go and catch up with Jean who had stupidly gone and given her cousin to the Goblin King – how could she have been s foolish? No doubt she would need him to lend her his support.

He only hoped he wasn't too late as he opened his bedroom door and stepped out into a dry dusty field, a large stone wall ran to one side and so he walked over to there. A grumbling little goblin stopped to scowl at him.

"What do you want?"

"To find Jean."

"The girl who's looking for her cousin?"

"Yeah!" Perhaps he was in luck.

"Never heard her of her." The goblin continued to hobble along.

"But – alright, where did she go and if you don't tell me I'll...blast the wall down!"

The goblin looked at him with a bored expression. "She went looking for her cousin who's with the Goblin King in the castle."

"Ok, how do I get to the castle?"

"Through the labyrinth." The goblin was sitting back now and watching him with raised eyebrows. "And let me guess, where's the labyrinth? Well it's through those doors there." He pointed to the wall which swung open on cue.

"Great!" Scott strolled in and looked left and right before choosing left.

"Idiot, he should have gone right."

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Evan wasn't too sure why he was playing a game of cards with a group of odd looking Muppet like goblins. Though he was positive that Jean and her cousin where to blame. After another round of cards, he decided to give up and go find her so he could go home – he had to get plenty of sleep to plot against Pietro.

The spike growing mutant was therefore extremely surprised when he turned a stone wall corner and ran into Kitty who was looking quite happy. "Err, Kitty, any idea where we are?"

"In the labyrinth, didn't you wake up just knowing that Jean had given John to the Goblin King and is going to rescue him?"

"...no..."

"Oh." The girl shrugged, making her brown ponytail bounce as she did so.

Evan waited for a few more moments before asking. "And why are we here?"

"To rescue Jean of course!"

"From?"

"Herself." Kitty rolled her eyes and started to walk on again, annoyed at Evans complete lack of knowledge. "Didn't you pay any attention to anything when you woke up?"

"No."

"Oh that's just brilliant!"

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Over the wall and Logan prowled feeling more than annoyed as he realised that he was completely and hopelessly lost – his scent confirmed that he had walked down this strip of maze before, twice.

The mutant paused in his tracks as he heard Kitty's voice. An idea quickly came to mind so he set about actually getting it done. "Hey, half-pint!"

"Mr Logan?" The voice sounded puzzled. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to get you lot out of this maze and -" He paused, knowing fine well that if he continued then they'd accidentally 'forget' where he was. "And give Jean extra sessions in the danger room for getting you into this mess." He was quite pleased with that, only they would all be getting danger room sessions.

"Ok," it was good old gullible Evan, "I'm going to shoot a spike over and let me know if you're more to the left or to the right."

"Then I'll phase through and bring you over." Kitty added in case he wasn't wise to her idea.

"Then hurry up." Logan lit a cigar and stated to puff at it angrily as he listened to the sound of a spike being grown then flung. His eyes slid to between his legs where the spike had just missed. He was going to personally kill that little toad. "Ok, that was a little close."

"I'm coming through." Kitty appeared through the wall, she was wearing he usual casual clothes as was Logan. "Come on, we've got to find the others now."

This was going to be a long night.

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Well this was just brilliant. Rogue rolled her eyes as she examined the lovely and endless wall. Just brilliant. She sat down, sun bathing for the moment as she plotted revenge on a certain red head. She swore that if she didn't get to see some nice ass by the end of this, then she would probably kill a few people.

"I hope that's a joke, Rogue."

"Professah, ah thought yer ethics went against spyin' in mah head."

The bald man smiled wryly. "In most normal circumstances I would agree with you, however, this is no normal circumstance."

"Aye professah, its ma dream."

"No Rogue, I assure you that this is not a dream."

She raised her eyebrows and sat up. "Ok then, if this is not ma dream, then why I'm ah here?"

"Jean."

"I should ah guessed it was that snotty Miss Popular."

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The weather witch was finding herself in a growing dilemma, where was everyone and why was it dessert hot no matter how much she made this little patch of the maze rain? Giving up on trying to give some plants a half decent drink, she went and found herself a goblin.

It was bright red with a bulbous nose, pointy ears and had a large bushy tail. The thing glared at her for a few moments longer. "Yes?"

"Where are my friends." She concentrated on conjuring some lightning, her eyes turning white as she did so.

"Look lady, I don't know anything about anyone, my guess is they're somewhere and they're not here."

"That's not much help." Storm lowered her arms in defeat, the energy leaving the air. "Can you tell me if you saw anyone?"

"I see lots of people, some are green, and others grey, lots of people."

Again, no help. "Did you see one of my friends?"

"Girl with brown hair, has some white at the front? Guy with no hair, uses a chair with wheels on it?"

"Yes!"

"I might have. What's it worth?"

Ororo looked at her hands, adorned with lovely jewellery. "How about this?" She held up a fake gold bracelet.

"Do you take me for an idiot? Something real."

"Here."

The goblin took the newly offered bracelet. "Great." It turned to go.

"Hold on, where are they?"

"Just there watching you." That said, the goblin cackled and ran off.

The white haired woman shook her head. "At least it was just a plastic bracelet." She turned round and looked at Rogue and Charles. "Well?"

"Long explanation..."

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Kurt looked out of his window, high up in his castle, surrounded by his labyrinth and his goblin idiotic slaves. He was the Goblin King, cool. The blue mutant grinned and looked into his magic crystal ball. It seemed that no one had even penetrated the first main ring yet. Typical.

He looked at all his goblins and watched them for a moment. He sighed heavily after a while. "How long until zey get here?"

"Oh, no one gets here, my lord." The slimiest goblin grinned. "That's the point of the maze, isn't it?"

Kurt raised his eyebrows and picked up John absently before swinging him around in a circle. "You know vhat, the rules have just changed and I know ze very goblins for it."

"Me?"

"Too slimy."

"Me?"

"Too big."

"Me?"

"Too small. No, I'm looking for..." He smiled slowly and tugged the sleeves of his long loose top and ignored the skin tight trousers that he was wearing as he flicked his tail. "Ze brotherhood of goblins."

"No! Not them!"

"Ja, them." Kurt laughed and then grinned as all the goblins started laughing and dancing also. Instantly, several goblins were lined up in front of him, each sharing an uncanny likeness to someone.

A particularly green one grinned. "Yo', when do we get to go?"

"Shut up!" One with bright white hair snarled then, in a blur, moved to Toads other side. "Wasn't me!"

"Both of you shut up!" The ground quaked under a thin brown goblin but stopped as a much larger, fatter goblin picked him up.

"Calm down, mien dear Brotherhood. You are ze chosen goblins in zis...plan. I need you to stop our guests from reaching ze castle. Now." He watched them leave then grinned to himself as he turned to look at John. "Don't vorry, they've failed every mission – you can't lose." He paused. "Though this is Jean ve're talking about."

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Said Jean was currently wondering about, completely lost and disorientated. She fell to her knees, dieing of starvation and hunger. A shadow fell across the red heads limp frame and kicked her.

"Yah get up, Miss Perfect. We only bin here for twenty minutes." Rogue crossed her arms. "Now would be ah good time."

"Oh, sorry." Jean instantly picked herself up and brushed off the dust before smiling at the trio. "Hi professor, Ororo."

"Hello Jean, would you care to explain what's happened?" The professor folded his arms and waitede patiently.

"Well, I was fed up with John and..."

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Ten minutes later.

"...dropped down in hunger what seemed like hours ago and then Rogue rudely kicked me."

The southern mutant cracked her knuckles. "Ah'm gonna do a lot worse ta ya at this rate."

"Children." Ororo raised her hands in a pacifying gesture. "Come now, let's just go and find this Goblin King before time runs out – look, there are doors and people just over there."

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The people actually turned out to be cards. There was a red one, and a blue one. Then, to the X-men's horror, they realised that each card had two heads, one at the top and one at the bottom.

Jean fell to her knees again. "What am I supposed to do?!" She wailed.

"Yah can try shutin' up." Rogue marched over to the cards, which stood in front of two doors. "Alright, talk."

The bottom red one replied first. "Try one of the doors!"

The bottom blue took over. "One of them leads to the castle!

"And the other leads to-"

"Certain death, ah heard it before."

"Which one is -"

Rogue growled. "Just shut up an' think back tah th' movie, we only get one question an' one door always lies whereas th' other tells th' truth."

"Very well remembered, you'll be getting an extra mark for that." The professor nodded then smiled. "I know this one." He wheeled over to the red card. "If I was to ask the other door what one leads to the castle, what would he say. Blue or red?"

The top and bottom heads vanished to discuss this. A moment later, the top head popped back up. "Red."

"Then we'll go through blue."

"Why?" Red looked offended.

"Because if you said that the answer is red, then it's actually blue."

"But I could be telling the truth!"

"In which case, he'd be lying."

"But I could b lying."

"In which case, you'd be lying about the correct answer so I still do the opposite."

Everyone took a moment to think this one over and as no one could see fault with it – or actually see the logic in it either, they all walked through the blue door and fell through a huge hole which was lined with hands.

"Ah knew this wasn't a good idea!"