Disclaimers: the usual. We own nothing minus Vorsie, Lightbulb, Rebs, Electricia and 'Wenny'.
The Temple
"You guys don't talk much, do you?" said Wenny, as she stumbled along after the rest of the group.
"I'm sorry Laithy, what do you want to talk about?" asked Smith.
"Tell me about your enemies again," answered Wenny. The rest of the group groaned.
"OK, well, first of all there's Neo. He's my archenemy. Then there's Trinity and Morpheus with him. The English lot, the albino one is Lightning, she and Alex West hate each other. Vorserkeien, well, she's a bit of a dreamer and doesn't have a clue about what's going on at the moment. Lara Croft, that's Electricia's sister, is a Tomb Raider. She and Lightning lead the other side. Lets see now … ah! The X-Men, they're a bunch of mutants, who …" By the time he had finished all of the others were nearly asleep.
"Oh, Smithy, you make it sound so exciting," smiled Wenny.
* * *
Meanwhile, Lara and co. were searching round the outside of the temple.
"It's going to be a trap door," said Lara.
"We may have missed the entrance," answered Lightning hopefully.
"It's a trap door," repeated Lara.
"Sugar," muttered Lightning.
"Why are trap doors so bad?" asked Vorsie.
"Vorsie, look at the ground," said Lightning slowly. Vorsie looked down at the floor. "What do you see?" continued Lightning.
"Fur cones," said Vorsie. "But Lighty, I don't unders …"
"Apart from fur cones," said Lightning, slightly annoyed now.
"Sticks," said Vorsie, now very confused. Lightning put her face in her hands.
"Apart from sticks," said Lightning.
"Fur cones, I've already told you th …"
"Fine, apart from fur cones, sticks and anything on that dratted floor!"
"Nothing." Said Vorsie. Lightning screamed.
"WHAT DO MEAN NOTHING?"
"Well, you told me to tell you what was on the floor apart from sticks, fur cones and anything else on there. So that must mean nothing."
"Fine, fine. Forget what I just said. What are you standing on?"
"Nothing."
"I said forget what I just said, not remember what I just said!"
"Oh, soz Lightbulb, err, socks I think."
"What?"
"Well, technically, I'm standing on my socks. You know the big fluffy pair that matches with the dressing g…"
"Quite honestly Vorsie, I don't care. I told you not to bring those socks anyway, you already had enough."
"But I like my pairs of socks to be even. I only had 49 pairs and I wanted 50!"
"Vorsie, I'm getting tired …"
"Have a rest then."
"Shut up! Vorsie, what are your boots touching?" Vorsie looked at her boots.
"Socks and … Snow!" A huge cheer came from the crowd.
"Well done Vorsie. Now, snow hides the trapdoor, so we can't see it!"
"I knew that! Was that all you were trying to tell me? How did we get onto this conversation anyway?" asked Vorsie.
"Forget it," groaned Lightning. "Honestly, I don't know why I bother …"
They carried on, but 30 mins later Vorsie started wandering off the path.
"Vorsie, come back!" shouted Legolas, chasing after her. Suddenly the earth seemed to give way. Legolas fell through a gap in the soil.
"Leggy!" yelled Vorsie, jumping in after him.
"Hey, Vorsie found the trap door. Well at least she's useful for something!" said James. "We better go down to see if they're alright."
"Someone has to look after the professor while we're gone," said Phoenix.
"I will! I will!" said Rebs.
"We need you," said Lara.
"I'll be fine," said Xavier. "You be careful." Lara nodded and both her and Lightning jumped down the hole, followed by everyone else.
* * *
Soon after the X-Men had gone down, Powell found the trap door. He smiled.
"Come on, lets go," and they silently slipped into the hole, weapons drawn and ready.
As soon they were all in, they saw a long, dark tunnel. Alex took the lead.
It wasn't that long before they came to a problem. There were two ways to go. Powell, who had researched the whole thing before coming told them to take the right. Little did they know that the X-Men had chosen the other path, which was a quicker route to the temple, but much more dangerous.
* * *
It was not very long until Lara found her way through the narrow passage. But at the end there was a problem.
"The exit's blocked!" Lara said as they waited, huddled up to each other. "Stand back, I'm going to break it down." Sure enough, after a couple of kicks, the door fell forwards, into a bright room. The stone was gold-coloured and scattered around the place there were remainders of pillars and statues. They had reached the temple.
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Vorsie: Whoa! Talk about a short chapter. Oh well. R&R