The four suddenly found themselves transported to a new arena. It looked like a large boxing ring.

All this teleportation was starting to wear on Phinagin's nerves. He got up to his feet and looked around to see where they were at and who was with him. He was happy to see they had the number advantage till he realized that they had been paired with the multiplying girl.

"What the hell?!" Jaden asked, looking at the boxing ring and the flash photography of the crowds.
"Veronica!" Jayden beckoned when he saw her. Maybe they could convince her that they were the REAL Relman twins somehow. "Get a grip!"

Rhydian was slumped in the corner seat of the ring, still unconscious from Penelope's attack moments before the teleportation.

"With pleasure." Veronica replied, grabbing a hold of the rope and pulling back with all her considerably condensed strength. She laned back into it and propelled herself at the twins, feet first.

Seeing that talking wasn't going to be on the table right now, Phinagin leaped into action. He sprouted a kind of large, bone disc and threw it as hard as he could at the now flying Veronica. He hoped it would knock her off path and away from the twins.

Veronica expected as much, moments before the bone disc would have connected, she split into two. The disc slipping through the gap between her two forms. One Veronica continued to fly towards the twins, while the other now headed towards Phinagin. She rotated in the air, connecting with the mat and springing off of it, aiming for the boy's chest

The twins grabbed hands and Veronica immediately stopped in mid space. "Veronica! This isn't helping!"
"Snap out of it, woman! You're an X-men for crying out loud!"

Phinagin should have expected that from her entrance to the first arena, and silently chided himself for that error. He put his hands out in a "kamehameha" kind of way and grew a large bone wall, studded with spike and a little viewport so he could see if she stopped or changed tactics.

"Can you hold us all?" Veronica asked as she split again and again until there were 7 of her hovering before the twins. Seeing the bone wall sprout up in front of her, the one attacking Phinagin leaped to the side, avoiding it altogether.

"Yes we can. You should know this." the twins said.
Jayden shot Phin a glare, "Lay off, dude! She's our friend!"
"Now... are you going to talk to us?" Jaden asked.

"We don't talk to our opponents. We kill 'em." The Veronicas replied in unison as the free one rebounded herself off the ropes and slammed into the back of the twins.

"Seems like a great friend!" Phinagin said as her free duplicate slammed into the back of the twins. "We should invite her over for a party." he added as he absorbed the wall and replaced it with a large club. He was ok with not killing this chick, but he wasnt about to stand down and let her whoop up on them.

"OW!" the twins grunted and stumbled forward, righting themselves, they wasted no time in lifting all 8 of the Veronicas into the air, holding her there. "Damn it woman!...err...womanssss"

"Release us, Skrulls. You will not make us believe you are the Twins." The Veronicas told them sternly as they hovered before the boys. "Besides, if you intend to restrain us like this, the crowd will be displeased. The least you miserable imitators can do is remove some of our clothing."

"Are you taking advice from our family or what!?" Jayden asked loudly.
"As much as we could love to, we wouldn't do that on GALACTIC TELEVISION!" Jaden added.


A holographic image appeared over the arena. A segment of another fight was playing. Penelope freaking out as shadow leaches latched onto her skin and falling into something black and squirming. "There's always someone tougher on the playground isn't there?" Waya said over Penelope's body, then a moment later something lashed out and she fell, her legs severed at the upper thigh. A moment later the lights went out and the scene cut, back to Penelope pulling away from Waya, bloody as she flopped over into a pool of blood. "I did it..." And the crowd erupted in applause. "One down nine to go..." Mojo's voice said from the video. "How long can the X-Kiddies last without their voluptuous leader?" His laughing broke through in the end as the image faded above them.

Phinagin watched the video till it ended then turned to the twins. "This is ridiculous! They are killing our friends and you are just sitting her talking to this woman who wants nothing more then to kill us all. We kill her, we go home." he said as he grew a spear in his hand that looked more like a giant quill from a porcupine.

The twins stared at the screen in complete disbelief as Waya, THEIR Waya crumbled into a heap of her blood. In blood curdling screams, the twins shouted her name, "WAYA!!" as if it had the power to stop what had already been done. A growing fury raged in their guts and the twins immediately locked arms. Ignoring Veronica, the ground started to shift. Not just the boxing ring, but the ground as well. Their eyes glowed a violent green tint as they began to lift this entire fragment of arena from it's foundation.

Phinagin had to use the spear to keep his balance when the ground and the arena started to lift. "What the hell are you doing?" he was preoccupied with the twins and didn't notice that they had dropped Veronica.

Regardless of the shifting of the entire arena, the Veronicas recovered rather nicely from their fall when the Twins lost interest with them. The condensed back down to one and sprang at the boys while they were distracted. Her hands closed around their throats and she squeezed tightly. "I must say, your falsifications are almost believable. If you two expect me to believe you are who you say you are, you'll have to back it up with a little something more than your supposed powers."

Phinagin wasn't about to stand there and watch this Veronica, strangle the twins. With a powerful toss, he launched the spear at the girl as he charged forward again, ready to throttle her.

Unfortunately for Veronica, she was attempting to strangle Jaden. The arena stopped moving and his eyes beamed and caught hers in a strikingly powerful hypnosis. The bone spike aimed at them ceased in mid-air as Jayden stopped it. Although the twins were in a fitted rage over the love of their lives, they still weren't about to harm an old friend.

Veronica's head twitched as she fought the hypnotic gaze, "You've done your...homework...Skrulls...but hypnosis doesn't work if...you're prepared..." She squeezed a little tighter on Jaden's throat, hoping to cut off his air supply before her will to fight the hypnosis wore thin.

Phinagin gave up. If they wanted to die then he was going to let them. He moved over to where Rhydian was laying. "Wake up Rhydian, the twins are dying." he said and gave him a "gentle" slap on the cheek.

The glow grew brighter, tackling her mind full force. He could easily hypnotize eight people at once, surely.

Rhydian groaned and rolled his head from the blow. He felt as if his head weighed a ton. He opened and closed his mouth slowly, looking at Phinagin as he blinked several times. "What the heck was that for..."

Veronica set her jaw, but couldn't turn her eyes away. Then she had an idea. She pulled Jaden close and pressed herself against him.

"Your old friend is killing the twins and they won't let me stop her." Phinagin explained. "So, you know. I just felt like it."

Jaden kept his eyes locked on Veronica's as his mental hand closed in on her mind. He seemed unscathed by her breasts pressed up against him.

Veronica's arms went slack, releasing both the twins as Jaden's powers took hold of her mind. She remained pressed up against the boy, her body radiating the heat of their fight. Her tiny little metal bikini hardly dispersed any of the warmth from her.

"Veronica wouldn't kill them..." Rhydian replied, rubbing the side of his head as he pushed up with his feet until he was standing.

"Oh, ok. Then she must just be giving their throats a deep tissue massage." Phinagin said as he turned to look at them to see if there had been any new developments.

Jaden instilled in her mind to stop fighting and start helping. They WERE the real twins that were WERE the real x-men. Waya was in trouble and they needed out of here ASAP. The glow in his eyes faded and his twin pulled Veronica off.

Rhydian shrugged and grabbed hold of the rope to steady his dizzy head. "A boxing ring? What a weird place to send us...."

Veronica slumped back against Jayden after he pulled her off his brother. Her arm slid up and wrapped leisurely around his neck. "Mmmmm....you know...Skrull or not...I gotta say your forms sure feel like the real deal..."

"Veronica, we NEED to get out of this arena and find Waya. How do we do that?" asked Jayden firmly.

Rubbing herself up against him, Veronica shrugged. "Get out? No one leaves the arena until Mojo says it's over..." She leaned back and looked at the boy. "Mmmm....unless of course someone is injured."

"Rhydian is knocked out- doesn't that count?" Jayden asked, not noticing he had woken up since.

Veronica had noticed, however. "Mmm...he doesn't look very injured, if you ask me." Her left arm slid up the boy's inner thigh, rubbing against him tantalizingly. She knew full well how to get ratings, if they refused to fight, there were other ways to ensure they wouldn't be cancelled. 

Had they not seen Waya be severely injured just now, the twins surely would have taken Veronica up on the offer. Instead, he grabbed her arm and held it away. "Stop it. We need to get out of here."

"I told you, there's no way out unless Mojo wants you out." Veronica replied, snatching her arm back roughly. "If we don't give this crowd a show, we'll get cancelled!"

"I don't give a flying fuck if we get cancelled." Jayden cussed, going back to his brother, "We need to get that sack of fat's attention."

Veronica whirled about and smacked Jayden in the back of his head. It wasn't meant to be a playful smack, nor a rough one. "You moron! Do you not realize what will happen if we get cancelled?!"

"Better than sitting her and doing nothing!" Jaden argued and looked at his brother, "Let's try moving the arena again."

Rhydian looked at the twins curiously. "Move the arena?"

"If we get cancelled, that's it. You don't get sent to the infirmary, you don't get sent home. You cease. Period." Veronica explained, desperate to not allow herself to get cancelled.

"Then what the hell are we supposed to do?!" Phinagin was very close to losing his cool and just wanted to get the hell out of this.

Veronica growled and rolled her eyes. "I thought I already answered that question. The only way out is if Mojo says so. If you're injured and worth saving, you'll be transported to the healer."

The twins faced one another now and held their hands at their shoulders, focusing. As their eyes rolled back, the ground shifted and rumbled as the concrete was being ripped from it's foundation.

Rhydian trembled, pitching to the side and grabbing the ropes to secure himself. "Sheesh...a little warnign next time guys!"

Phinagin had to do the same to keep from being toppled over, "I don't think any of us rate very high in Mojo's mind otherwise we wouldn't be thrown into a fight to the death."

"You're wrong. A good warrior would never go to waste." Veronica told Phinagin, turning her attention towards him. "You are unique, he would send you to the healer if you were injured."

"Really?" the twins asked, then looked at Phinagin. "Think you could help us out with that?"

Phinagin held up his hand and put a bone shoot through before retracting it. Letting them see that the wound healed itself slowly, "I have a healing factor."

"That's not what we meant." the twins said seriously, meaning for Phinagin to injure the two of them instead.

Phinagin thought about it and then sighed, "How do you want me to hurt you?"

"I don't know!" Jayden argued, "Just do it!"
"Please don't kill us though." Jaden added

Phinagin didn't like this at all, but if it was their only option then he would do it. He walked up to Jayden and gave him a quick and hard punch to the ribs, hearing the very familiar sound of bones breaking. Then he quickly followed that up with a hard left hook to Jaden's face, hoping to just knock him out cold, maybe a small concussion.

Jayden fell back and started coughing, trying to catch his breath. That wasn't at all what he had hoped for. "You dick!" he sputtered.
Jaden wasn't any luckier and fell back onto the mat hard from the pop to the face, "MY FUCKING FACE?!" he asked, not unconscious.

Rhydian could help but cough as he started to laugh. He couldn't help it. They totally just asked for exactly that and when they got it, they didn't like it at all. It was funny.

Veronica scoffed when the bone boy struck the supposed twins. That wasn't exactly what she had mind. "Why would Mojo care if they are injured?"

"W-what?!" Jayden began, but coughed, unable to finish.
"You just said...!" Jaden looked at Veronica with anger.

Veronica turned on the twins with a smirk. "I said the great one would send him to the healer." She gestured over her shoulder with a thumb, thrusting it in Phinagin's direction. "A couple of low-grade Skrulls with delusions of grandeur would hardly be warrant saving. Seeing as your kind are basically all the same. But a warrior, especially one with such unique ability...there is potential for higher ratings with that one."

Phinagin threw his hands up in the air. "See. I knew she was talking about me." he added with a shake of his head. Though he did feel a bit like the twins had gotten what they deserved. All they had been doing this whole fight was interfering and now they were not feeling so hot.

"Fuck man...you broke my ribs!" Jayden coughed, or at least it felt like he did. He curled forward and tried to stand.

Veronica couldn't suppress her laughter any further. "Perhaps the combat channel was not the proper place for our bout. The Comedy Channel would certainly benefit..."

"It truly is you, isn't it Veronica?" Rhydian asked her after listening to her laugh. He remembered the sound of that, they all did.

"It is you who cannot be who you claim to be." Veronica told Rhydian in return. There was no doubt that she was who they claimed her to be, but she had yet to see proof that they were as they said.

"She's a bit more of a bitch than before." Jayden sputtered, holding a hand on his abdomen. His twin was too busy sitting and feeling the swollen lump on his face.

"Given the circumstances, can you really blame her?" Rhydian asked Jayden. "All this time Mojo has no doubt told her that she'd never see us again. Clearly, she's accepted that. We just have to figure out a way to prove we are who we say we are."

Phinagin's head was in his hands as they sat there and argued with one another about who really was who they claimed to be and who wasn't. He wasn't going to be able to take much more of this ridiculousness.

"It matters not." Veronica said, walking to the side of the ring and reaching beneath it. "I have told you the way to gain freedom from this episode. You misunderstood." When she stood back up, she held a large hammer in her hands. She fixed her eyes on the boy who held his head in his hands. "You will be injured and he will take you to the healer. From there you might find release." Without further explanation, she swung the mighty hammer and smashed it into Phinagin's chest

Phinagin heard the swoosh of something through the air, but looked up in time to see the hammer hitting his chest. With an emptying sound, the air was knocked from his lungs and he was lifted off the ground and thrown to the other side of the ring. He lay where landed and wheezed as he struggled to breath, "This... Had...better work..." he mumbled to himself between forced breaths.

"How's about you pretend to defeat us?" Jaden asked, still with a hand on his head.

"You look pretty defeated to me and I hardly had to lift a finger." Veronica told him, setting the haft of the hammer upon her shoulder.

Rhydian couldn't believe she'd just done that..."You want proof?" He reached out with his powers and took hold of her own hammer, twisting it around her and bonking her lightly on the head

The twins had gotten up completely and were trying to shrug off their injuries. They still couldn't believe that Veronica didn't accept that they were the real deal.

"Tell me what kind of machine would allow me to manipulate an inanimate object like that?" Rhydian asked her as he lightly bonked her on the head again.

Veronica gaped as the hammer repeatedly tapped her on the head. She knew of no technology that could replicate Rhydian's abilities. She looked at him and couldn't help but smile. "Rhydian..."

"You gotta be fucking kidding me!" Jayden spat, throwing his arms up in defeat.

"I said it before. What the twins could do was easily replicated. Calcium manipulation is uncommon, but not entirely unheard of, especially out here. But I have never before seen someone do what Rhydian Novak could do." Veronica told the supposed Jayden with a glare. She glanced at her wrist as though there was a watch there. "He'll wake up in a minute, given his healing factor I'd wager. Bet he won't be too happy either...where'd you guys find him anyway?" It seemed she'd suddenly gotten past her disbelief in them. She looked at the twins expectantly. "I still don't fully trust you are who you say you are boys, but if this is the real Rhydian than I suppose he wouldn't be hanging out with a few fakes. If we're quick about it, there's a chance to escape when the medic arrives. It's very brief, but she opens a portal to get here, luckily they're two way. We jump the medic and escape from this channel."

"What about-" Jaden glanced up at the many cameras that were beaming down at them. Not to mention the crowd. It's not like anyone wouldn't see them escape.

Veronica smirked, "Ratings gold, gorgeous." She licked her lips and strolled over to Jaden. Running her hand along his arm, she whispered, "Haven't you ever seen escape movies? The fans love 'em."

Again with the sexual touching, "Uhh... yea I suppose so." Jaden replied with a smile despite his jab to the jaw earlier. "You know- you owe us for these." he pointed.

Veronica slid her hand down along his arm slowly. "Tell you what, tiger. You get us out of here, and I'll give you anything you want." She leaned in close as she said that part, to indicate precisely what she meant.

"Hey hey-... You punched me in the gut!" Jayden added, chiming into the conversation. "Don't forget that! I get sexy favors too!"

Veronica tossed her hair over her shoulder and flashed him a smile. "If you get me out of here, I'll give you the same treatment, pretty boy."

"Pitting us against one another?" Jayden asked.
"We don't work like that, tulip." Jaden added. They were both smiling in their usual ways, intending to BOTH get that favor.

Veronica looped her arms into each of theirs and smiled from ear to ear. "Now why ever would I want to pit the two of you lovies against each other?" She pulled them close and planted a kiss on each of their cheeks. "When I can easily have two for the price of one?"

The twins smiled, glad she finally knew it was them. "We missed you, tulip." they said in unison. "You're going to have to explain what happened... is... Kale here too somewhere?"

Veronica shook her head slowly. As far as she knew, she was the only one Mojo saved.

"Oh...damn." they frowned, "So- L-let's just focus on getting the fuck out of here and finding the others."

"Can you guys levitate him through the portal?" Veronica asked, pointing at the unconscious Phinagin. "If we can't get him through the portal, we'll have to leave him behind."

"Easy." they said, determined not to leave anyone behind.

"Good. Cause here she comes." Veronica said and pointed at the shimmer of light a few feet from Phinagin's side.