Disclaimer: The goblins have run off with the paperwork declaring I do not own X-Men: Evolution, Labyrinth, or any character other than my OCs! The goblins! The GOBLINS!

A/N: This play is dedicated to anyone born before 1990. Thank you!

And now without further ado, Raven and Lightning present…

Labyrinth

Scene 5: Turning Point

"Why is Todd hanging from the rafters by his tongue?" Raven asks as she walks into the studio with Lightning.

"No clue," Fred says, placing his arms behind his back and whistling.

"I don't even wanna know," Lightning says.

"Just get him down," Raven insists.

"I can't climb up there!" Fred exclaims. "The whole building would collapse!"

"He has a point," Scott agrees.

"An incredibly valid point," Jean says.

"Alright then, you get him down, Jean," Raven commands.

"Me!" Jean sighs, but uses her telekinesis to untie the knot in Toad's tongue and slowly bring him down.

He starts kissing the ground. "Oh, thank you, Jean! Thank you! I could just kiss you!"

"Please don't!" Jean groans.

"Well, I won't, because Wanda might get jealous," Toad says.

"Ew!" Wanda says.

Pyro hits Toad on the head. "Ow, what was that for?"

"I think you know what it was for, mate," he answers with a glare.

"That's quite enough!" Raven shouts. "Lights! Camera! Action!"

Remy throws the crystal down the dark, heavily glittered passageway and backs out of the scene.

"No, the cleaners!" Scott shouts.

Down the passageway comes a device Forge has been working on. It fills the entire passage leaving no safe place. It has sharp points on a cone that has several rotating sections. At various positions on the cone are what look like mixer blades, only if mixer blades were sharp knives honed from adamantium. It's coming quickly.

"What?" Rogue asks, watching as Scott takes off at a run.

"Run!" he shouts back to her.

She quickly follows him, screaming. She catches up and instinctively grabs his hand, or actually, because the script says to grab it. They keep running and screaming until Scott trips. Rogue helps him up. "Y'all okay?" she asks as they start running again. "Come on! Faster!" They try very hard to out run the cleaners, but the machine is gaining on them. All of the sudden, they come to a locked gate.

"Oh, no," Scott says, rattling the bars. "The cleaners! The Bog of Stench! You sure got his attention." Remy nods his agreement.

Rogue is looking for other means of escape. She finds false wall in the side of the passageway. She pushes on it until Scott notices and comes to help. They push together until the wall collapses just as the machine reaches them. It passes them by. The back of the machine has a huge bicycle wheel where Cybelle sits and a long twisted pipe that Torpid and Lucid turn in sync. The cleaning machine busts through the chained gate and continues down the passageway.

Rogue and Scott stand up and dust themselves off. Scott notices a ladder. "Ah, this is what we need... a ladder. Follow me."

But Rogue doesn't trust Scott anymore. Like she every really trusted Scott to begin with. "How can Ah trust y'all now that Ah know ya were takin' me back ta the beginnin' av the labyrinth?"

Scott has already started climbing the ladder. "I wasn't. I told him I was taking you back to the beginning just to throw him off the scent."

"Scottle, how can Ah believe anythan' you say?" she asks.

"Well, let me put it this way. What choice have you got?" he replies.

"Y'all're right," she says with a sigh and starts up the ladder.

"You see, you've gotta understand my position," Scott says. "I'm a coward, and Remy scares me." Gambit grins. He has a voice recorder with playback. He rewinds it now and plays it. "I'm a coward, and Remy scares me." Everyone laughs, other than Scott, Jean, and Raven, of course.

"Gambit like t'e sound of t'at," he says. "Let's play it again." He rewinds it again.

Scott's voice is heard saying, "I'm a coward, and Remy scares me."

"Even better t'e t'ird time," Gambit says with an evil smirk.

"Ha, ha, ha, very funny," Scott deadpans. He blasts Gambit with his eyebeam. Naturally, he misses. Gambit's too quick and agile. However, it was a very bad move on Scott's part.

"Scott Summers!" Raven yells. "You are dead! You hear me!"

"Raven, honey, can you wait to kill Scott until after the play?" Lightning begs.

"No," she answers. "I'll have Mystique take over his part."

"Mystique didn't sign a contract for this play. She's not even here."

Raven glares at Lightning, "Are you trying to pick a fight with me?"

"No, I'm trying to point out that if you kill Scott, the only shapeshifter we have to take over his part is… you."

Raven glares, "Yeah, that's not going to happen."

"So, maybe you can just beat him up after the scene?" Lightning says.

"Agreed," she says. Scott gulps.

"Back to work!" Both directors say, making Scott scream once again.

"What kind av position is that?" Rogue asks.

"No position. That's my point," Scott says, "and you wouldn't be so brave if you'd ever smelled the Bog of Eternal Stench. It's… It's…" Suddenly, the rung Scott steps on gives way and breaks. It falls noisily to the ground below.

"Is that all it does is smell?" Rogue asks, effectively ignoring the dangers of the ladder.

"Believe me, that's enough," Scott says truthfully with a shudder. "But the worst thing is, if you so much as put a foot in the Bog of Stench you'll smell bad for the rest of your life. It'll never wash off." He lifts the manhole cover to exit to underground passage.

The manhole cover turns out to be the lid to a decorative pot… Scott and Rogue climb out of it.

"Now wait just a minute!" Bobby shouts. "I have stood by while entire oceans showed up in the sound studio, islands and mountains too… but this is utterly ridiculous! There is no way Scott and Rogue both fit in that pot!"

"It's kind of a big pot," Jubilee disagrees.

"It's not that's big," Todd argues.

"But they were supposed to be climbing up from underground! The bottom of that pot might be big enough to fit Rogue, but Scott? Come on!"

"I'm with Bobby on this one," Lance pops up. "That pot is definitely not big enough for a secret entrance to the underground passageway. Not to mention, it's sitting on a table!" The pot really is sitting on a table, and there is no table cloth underneath, just air.

Kitty gets into the argument just to torment Lance, "You both, like totally, forgot the most important part!"

"And what is that?" Lance asks sarcastically.

"The magic pot is in a magic labyrinth!" Kitty and Rogue yell. Scott starts crying.

Jean sighs, "Now, look what you've done! Come here, baby." He runs to Jean's arms.

Raven looks at Lightning, "I'm going to kill him. I'm just going to kill him. It's not like I've never killed anyone before, and his part is over." She's obviously talking about Bobby.

Lightning looks offended, "I'm the only person you've ever killed before, Raven LeBeau!"

Raven raises an eyebrow, "You're jealous of me killing someone else? Seriously?"

"Yes," Lightning answers. "Yes, I am." He pouts.

"Fine, have it your way, the loser can live," Raven groans, "but I'm still mad about the play." She crosses her arms and actually pouts. She even sticks out her lower lip. She mutters under her breath, just loud enough for Lightning, Logan, X23, and Sabretooth to hear, "Lousy boyfriend… won't let me kill anyone…" Logan and Sabretooth actually laugh at this.

Lightning perks up, however, "Bobby and Lance, I'd suggest you both shut up about the pot right now, and Rogue, Scott, can we retake that scene? Please!"

Scott lifts the lid off the pot. It clatters to the ground. "Here we are then," he says as he climbs out. "You're on your own from now on."

"What?" Rogue says, climbing out of the magical pot on the table.

"That's it, I quit," Scott says, wishing he could quit the play, but knowing now is probably a bad time for another interruption.

"Wait a minute!" Rogue says, now sitting on the top of the pot. She jumps down, "Scottle!"

"I didn't promise nothing. I said I'd take you as far as I could go."

Rogue steps in front of Scott. She's been waiting for this part of the play, and she intends to enjoy every second of it. "Ya little cheat! Ya nasty, little cheat!"

Jean looks really mad, but Kitty holds up a copy of the script. Jean mutters something about Rogue not having to look like she enjoys it so much. Kitty shrugs because no one else cares.

"Now, don't try to embarrass me. I've… got… no… pride," Scott says the last line through clenched teeth. He turns around and starts walking away.

"Oh, yeah?" Rogue says. She reaches down and grabs the bag that was hanging from his belt. She takes her gloves off as well.

"But them's my eyeglass cleaners, I mean, jewels!" Scott cries out. Rogue is holding them away. The only way he could get them is by touching her skin. "Oh, you give them back! Give them back! Give those back!"

She places one hand on his head very carefully not touching his skin, but he can't move much. "Uh-uh!" she says playfully.

"Give those back to me!"

Positive she has won this battle, she pauses. "Now, there's the castle. Which way should we try?"

But Scott is still upset about the eyeglass cleaners… or jewels, as the play is calling them, "Them's my rightful property! It's not fair!"

"No, it isn't," Rogue agrees. "But that's the way it is," she says as if she finally understands the meaning of life.

Just then, Magneto walks into the courtyard balancing Pietro, who's sitting cross-legged, on his head. This is accomplished by Pietro's costume feather's being mostly made out of metal. Pietro is dressed up as a metallic bird-hat. Still, Magneto walks slowly. "Boy, you have gained weight."

"Take that back!" Pietro exclaims.

"Lawrrr!" Raven whines. "Just one little person…"

"No."

"But…"

"No buts, Raven."

Pietro takes the hint, "Um, Dad… Maybe we should continue this conversation after the play?"

"Good idea."

"You still get to beat Scott up after the scene is over," Lightning says.

"It's not the same," Raven whines.

"Why are you so whiney today?"

"Because they're ruining my play and you won't let me hurt them!" Raven shouts. She is floating about her chair. Her eyes are glowing, and several things are circling around her.

"Now, that's my girl," Lightning says, right before Raven knocks him through a wall.

"Feeling better?" Wanda ventures.

"Yes, actually I am," Raven says with her usual smirk, sitting down. "Back to work!"

Magneto walks, balancing Pietro on his head, up to a stone seat that is carved to look like books. He sits down. Rogue and Scott run up to him.

"Excuse me, please, but can y'all help me?" Rogue asks.

"Oh, a young girl!" Magneto says.

"Woo, woo, woo!" Pietro says, winking at Rogue, who grins back at him. Gambit glares at them both.

"And, and who is this?" Magneto asks, meaning Scott.

"My friend," Rogue says.

"Well, yes," Magneto says, "and what can I do for you?"

"Please, can ya tell…? That is… Ah have ta get ta the castle at the centeh av the labyrinth. Do y'all know the way?" Rogue responds.

"Ah, ah, well, yes, now," Magneto thinks. "You want to get to the castle." It takes him two minutes to say the last line.

"How'sthat forbrainpower, huh?" Pietro says.

"Be quiet!" Magneto shouts to him.

"Ah, nuts," Pietro whines.

"So, young woman…the way forward is sometimes the way back," Magneto says.

"Ay! Willyou listento thiscrap?" Pietro exclaims.

"Will you please be quiet!" Magneto growls.

"Sorry, allright!"

"Okay?"

"Okay!"

"All right."

"Allright."

"What?"

"Sorry."

Magneto starts to fall asleep, but his eyes pop open, and he looks up at Pietro. "Finished?"

Pietro pauses before responding, "Yes."

Magneto finally focuses back on Rogue. "Quite often, young lady… it seems like we're not getting anywhere, when in fact…"

"Weare," Pietro cuts him off.

"We are," Magneto finishes with a glare up to Pietro.

"Ah'm certainly not gettin' anywhere at the moment," Rogue says.

"Huh, jointheclub," Pietro says. Magneto is pretending to be asleep. If he'd really been asleep, Pietro would have fallen off his head. "I, uh, thinkthat's yourlot. Pleaseleave acontribution in the giantbucket."

For the first time, Rogue and Scott notice Magneto is carrying his helmet. Pietro shakes his father's arm to make the helmet more noticeable. Rogue looks at Scott's bag. "Don't you dare! Them's mine," Cyclops insists.

Rogue looks at a ring she's wearing. "Well, Ah guess Ah can spare this." She drops it into the bucket, er helmet…

"Gracias, Senorita," Pietro says as Rogue walks off, followed by a rather forlorn Scott.

"You didn't have to give him that," he tells her. "He didn't tell you nothing."

"Well, well, then, theregoa coupleofsuckers," Pietro snickers. Magneto snores away. "Oh, it'sso sitmulatingbeing yourhat."

After a while of wandering through the hedged path of the garden part of the labyrinth, Scott asks, "Why did you say that… about my being your friend?"

"Because ya are," Rogue answers. "Y'all may not be much av a friend, but y'all're the only friend Ah've got in this place." On the other side of the hedge, Viper rides an IAR… creature. "Do ya heah somethin'?" Viper turns a corner before they turn the corner. They just miss each other. "No, it's all right."

"Friend," Scott considers. "I like that. I ain't never been no one's friend before." Several people snicker over that remark. Scott rolls his eyes at them.

Suddenly, a giant roar is heard off stage. Piotr is roaring with all his might into a microphone off stage. The sound is quite deafening.

"Ugh, goodbye!" Scott yells as he turns and flees.

"Wait a gosh-darn minute!"

"Rogue!" Raven exclaims.

"But he!" she points at Scott.

"No cursing unless it's in the script!" Raven says calmly, scaring most of the cast and crew into trembling.

"But he pulled an Evan on me!" Rogue whines.

"You've been dying to say that for a while, haven't you?" Scott says.

"Yup, sure have," Rogue says with a grin.

Scott looks at Rogue, "You know I'd never turn and run on you in real life, right? I'm not Evan."

"Yeah, Ah know, Scott. Ya've only told me a thousand times," Rogue says, "but it was fun ta tease ya!"

Evan glares at them, "Pulled an Evan?"

"Oh sure," Rogue explains, "That's what we say we someone betrays us ta ouh very core because they're a coward like y'all."

"Auntie O?"

"Don't look at her," Kitty says, "She, like totally, came up with the phrase."

Calisto looks at him, "Well, the Morlocks like you, Evan." She mutters under her breath, "At least we pretend to."

"As much as we could all listen to Evan's shortcomings all day…" Lightning says impatiently.

"I know, I could," Raven says with an evil grin.

Lightning laughs, "Yeah, me too, but there is still a play to get on and Rogue, this time…"

"No cussing!" Raven and Lightning yell. Scott screams in utter terror and torment.

"Wait a minute!" Rogue shouts as she runs after Scott. She grabs his arm.

Piotr continues roaring into the microphone.

"Keep the stuff!"

"Are ya my friend or not?" Rogue asks.

"No, no, I'm not. Scottle ain't no one's friend. He looks after himself, like everyone. Scottle is Scottle's friend!" Scott replies, pulling out of her grasp.

"Scottle, you coward!" Rogue calls after him as he leaves her alone. "Well, Ah'm not afraid. Than's aren't always what they seem in this place." But she still jumps as Piotr roars again.

"And cut!" Raven says. "Now just where did Scott run off to?"

"North Carolina?" Jean says.

"You really think that will save him?" Raven growls.

"Well, it was worth a try," Jean replies, for which she is sent flying into a brick wall and knocked out.

Scott shouts, "Jean!"

"I knew that would get you out of hiding, Scott," Raven says sweetly… very sweetly.

Rogue looks around. She can't find Lightning. "This is gonna be bad… Rems, ya wanna go get some coffee?"

"Aw, man, Remy wanted to stick around and watch t'e show."

"Ah'll admit it's a date," Rogue deadpans.

"Let's go," he says.

The sound of Scott's torturous screaming accompanies them as they leave… and for about a mile after they leave, as well.

That's where they find Lightning, reading a Steven King (1) book. "Oh, hey," he says as they pass.

"Can you hear t'at?"

"Of course, my hearing is better than yours," he says, rolling his eyes. "I'll go back and pick Raven up when the screaming stops. She'll want to clean up before our date."

"Y'all are so weird," Rogue says.

"Thank you," Lightning says.

And so we shall leave them, and hope Scott lives long enough to finish the play…

AN: (1) I do not own Steven King or his books. I do like to read them though. XD

I thought I'd be nice and give you another chapter for making you wait so long.

Okay, two chapters in such a short time after so long an absence… Wow! O.o What happened? Well, let's see. Three computer crashes over the past year have really slowed my writing down. I got to thinking about that today. Seriously, it takes time to reinstall all your programs and files and check to make sure they all work… yada, yada, yada… and then it happens AGAIN… 3 computer crashes… seriously? Anyways, I have a bit of time on my hands right now. I won't after this week is over. So, I thought I'd use what I had to get in as much of Labyrinth as I could! Hurray for you. lol

Next up, Piotr makes his appearance and disappearance… and the Fireies come out to play! XD