"K…K…Kurt? What do you call that thing?" Lance stuttered, a large purple dragon-like creature slowly got closer and closer, its head was like a snake, it had piercing orange eyes and glistening white fangs.

"Two Vords! Am-Scray!!!" Kurt yelled back and teleported to near the crowd, trying to keep them calm and still.

"Let's get ready to rumble!" Pietro yelled from the top of the rock, running and getting himself a popcorn and running back in a flash.

The monster dived at Lance. Lance dodged it, listening carefully to Kurt's 'helpful' advice.

"Zat's it. Dance around! Dance around! Vatch ze teeth. Vatch ze teeth. Keep going. Come on. Come on. Lead vith your left. Lead vith your left!…Your other left!!"

Pietro ran in unnoticed and lay a large sword on the floor. Lance soon saw it and ran to grab it. The monster dived at him as he took it in his hands, he turned around and sliced off it's head.

It fell to the floor, motionless.

"All right! All right! You're bad! Okay!" Kurt cheered, appearing next to him.

"See, Kurt? That… That wasn't so hard" Lance sighed as he fell to the floor, lying on his back.

"Lance, Lance, How many heads do you see?" Kurt asked, looking down at him.

Lance looked back up at him.

"Three?"

"Close enough." Kurt said, picking him and the sword up. "Let's get you cleaned up.

A snarl could be heard behind them.

"Zat doesn't sound good." Kurt whispered as they both turned to look.

Where the head was cut off, three stumps were growing quickly, soon forming three heads.

"Definitely not good!" Kurt shouted, shoving the sword into Lance's hands and teleporting himself away to a safe distance.

Lance leapt onto Pegasus' back as he flew past and as the heads would attack, he would slice it off, only for him to find that three more heads would grow, and quicker each time. He gulped as he looked at what he had created, it was a whole swarm of heads, over 60 were looking up at him and diving for him.

"Vill you quit vith ze head slicing thing?" Kurt screamed at him.

One of the heads zoomed up and knocked Pegasus, causing Lance to fall off. He slid down another head, dodging the teeth that kept aiming for him.

"Kurt! I don't think we covered this in training!" Lance yelled as he still slid down the long neck.

Kurt teleported next to him and grabbed his shoulders, they reappeared where Kurt was originally stood. A large claw came and grabbed Lance around the waist, he couldn't wriggle free and he'd dropped his sword before Kurt had rescued him.

The claw was rested a large cliff. All heads straightened and got ready to swoop and kill.

"My favorite part of the game." Pietro chuckled evilly. "Sudden death."

Lance looked around for something to do. He managed to get his arm out of the creature's grip he clenched his fist and thumped the Cliffside, causing, the cliff to crumble, rocks fell mercilessly on top of the many heads, soon the whole body was covered in rocks. The only part if the body which wasn't covered was the hand containing Lance, it was closed tightly and dropped to the floor, lifelessly. The crowd gasped.

"zere goes another one. Just like Rictor." Kurt whispered to himself, containing tears and frustration.

"Game, set, and match…I hope you're proud of yourself. You've just killed your best friend." Pietro scolded himself. Sighing heavily.

The hand moved, the entire crowd gasped in horror. It was alive! The hand shook madly and Lance appeared out of it. The crowd cheered for him. They all ran to his aid, picking him up and carrying him back to Bayville, cheering and chanting his name.

"you gotta admit Kurt, that was pretty heroic." Lance said as he was carried past Kurt.

"You did it bro! You won by a landslide!" Kurt yelled back. Beaming widely.

"Well. What do ya know?" Kitty smiled and clapped her hands along with the rest of the crowd.

Amara: From that day forward. Lance was a hero, he could do no wrong. He was so hot, steam looked cool.

Oh, yeah!

Bless my soul, Lance was on a roll. hunk of the week in every teen opinion poll
What a pro!
He could stop a show
Point him at a monster and you're talkin' S.R.O.
He was a no one
A zero, a zero
Now he's a honcho
He's a hero!
He was a kid with his act down pat
Zero to hero in no time flat
Zero to hero
Just like that
When he smiled the girls went wild
With oohs and aahs
And now his face was no misplace
No longer blah!
From appearance fees and royalties
Avalanche had cash to burn
Now Lance was rich and famous
And now evil had no return
Say amen
There he goes again
Sweet and underrated
And an awesome ten for ten
Folks lined up just to watch him flex
And this perfect package packed a pair of pretty packs
Lancie, he comes, he sees, he conquers
Honey, the crowds were goin' bonkers
He showed the moxie brains and spunk -- yeah!
From zero to hero
A major hunk
Zero to hero
And who'd have thunk...
Who put the glad in gladiator?
Avalanche!
Who's darin' deeds are great theater?
Avalanche!
Isn't he bold?
No one braver!
Is he sweet?
Our favorite flavor!
Avalanche
My man
Avalanche
Avalanche
Avalanche
Look at my Avalanche
Avalanche
Avalanche

Imasmurf93: Don't you think that this is getting a bit too repetitive.

Tabitha: Shut up!


Bless my soul, Lance was on a roll
Undefeated, riding high
And the nicest guy
Not conceited
He was a no-one, zero, zero
Now he's a hotshot, he's our hero!
He hit the heights at breakneck speed
From zero to hero
Lance was a zero
Now he's a hero

Ahh, ah, ah, ah, ahhhh

Yes indeed.

Pietro screamed in irritation.

"I can't believe this! I should have listened to my father and killed Lance when I had the chance. I've got 24 hours to get rid of this bozo, or the entire scheme. Magneto's been setting up for 17 years goes up in smoke!"

"Looks like your game's over. Lance is hitting every curve you throw at him." Kitty smirked, sitting on the stone balcony and watching Lance playing with some children on the street.

"Oh, yeah." Pietro grinned evilly. He walked over and traced the curves of her body. "Maybe I haven't been throwing the right curves at him. Kitten…"

"Don't even go there." Kitty replied, standing up and starting to walk away. Pietro grabbed her arm.

"See, he's gotta have a weakness, because everybody's got a weakness I mean for what? Scott, it was his glasses, for Rogue, hey, She just had a major skin problem, okay? We simply need to find out Lance's"

"I've done my part. Get your loyal minions to do it." Kitty told him, gesturing to Todd and Fred.

"Na, they wouldn't get the right info. I need someone who can... handle him as a man." Pietro replied, with a slight seduction in his voice, suggesting what he wanted her to do.

"Hey, I've sworn off manhandling." Kitty glared at him and looked away.

"Well, you know, that's good because that's what got you into the jam in the first place, isn't it? You sold your soul to my father to stop him from killing your boyfriend. And how does that creep thank you? He ran off with some bimbo. He hurt you real bad, didn't he, Kitten? Huh?"

"Look I've learned my lesson! okay?" Kitty tried to hold back her tears.

"Which is exactly why I got a feelin' you're gonna leap at my new offer. You give me the key to bringing down Shaker maker and I give you the thing that you crave most in this entire, pathetic life" He bent down and whispered into her ear. "your freedom"…