A/N: NOOOOOOOO! Ya'lls, I just saw X3 on Friday and I was and am DEVASTATED! It was a good movie, but there were things dat I strongly resented. #MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!# They demutantized Mystique, Magneto, killed Xavier (nooo!) and even my most favorite of dem all…Cyclops! (#river of tears#) I kept hoping dat they would come back somehow. Like Magneto and Mystique would get there powers back. I was praying Scott would come back. Maybe like da Phoenix Force would bring him back or something. What's worse is dat he was only in about three scenes which only lasted altogether 10 to 15 minutes at da most. Then…he's dead! I not in love wit him or anything, but he was always da top of my favorite characters in those movies. So, as pissed off as I am, I'm gonna make a little 'Pre-X4' just outta my head. Now, I don't give a damn if it's comic-based or not. Da movie wasn't very comic-based either. At least, not to my liking. Therefore, I'm gonna write what I wish would happen in da next movie (which we probably have ta wait another three years ta see). At da end, it hinted off dat it would be continued. I pray ta God dat it isn't all about Wolverine's little fantasies wit Jean or whatever. I sorry, but it looks ta me like dat movie was really leaning at Wolverine's thing. Not just his 'love' for Jean, but they gave everything ta Hugh Jackman's character. I hated dat. Brian Singer, COME BACK! And Scott, too.
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Dedications: My friends Lamby, CykePhoenixSummers, the Gilamesh Goddess, and my best friend Summers-Spirit who's reviewed all my stories and every chapt in dem. She kept me goin' in my writin'. She kicks ass, peoples!...so does her story! ;)
a week after the Phoenix incident
Mansion
"Now, we'll have to finish this lesson tomorrow," Ororo Munroe announced to her class. It was the class that her mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, taught before he was killed.
"Catching on, Ororo?" Beast's voice asked as he entered the room.
"I don't think I'm fit to teach this class. I'm a history teacher, Hank. This job should've been left to…" she trailed off at the thought of her deceased friend, Scott Summers.
"Storm?" Beast placed his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Hank. It's just--"
"I know. Scott was a dear friend of mine, too. His and the Professor's death were…untimely."
"Oh, Hank," Beast pulled her into a hug as she burst into tears and a gentle rain started falling outside. "I miss them. I miss them so much…and Jean. They were like my…family. I've got none now."
"Now, Ororo, you know that's not true," Storm looked up at him with slightly red eyes. "You still have the young X-Men, Logan, Warren, me--"
"T-That's different, Hank," she pulled away and turned her back. "I don't know. Maybe…maybe it's because this is the first place I haven't been considered a threat or a…a goddess. I just wanted to be normal with powers, I guess," Beast let out a chuckle. "I never hated my powers, but there was something about them--but Scott and Jean treated me like a sister, and the Professor thought me of as a…a daughter, I guess. Now, that feeling's gone. It died with them."
"Ororo--"
"Excuse, me, Hank. I've got to…go somewhere," and she sped out to nowhere in particular.
Alkali Lake
"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" a masculine scream penetrated the dead silence at Alkali Dam. Molecules of some sort joined together. More like back together after they had been torn apart from one another not too long ago. A red blast shot into the sky. Redder than red. It was an optic blast. It can only be generated by one…
Wolverine's Room
Logan paced about his room. Never before had he felt more alone in his long life. Xavier was destroyed by a student he tried to help. Jean was gone once again after he was forced to kill her when she had nearly killed almost everybody. And then, there was Scott. He had died just loving Jean. No. Jean didn't kill him. It was the Phoenix. Scott was the man he had lived in conflict with since day one. But there was something he missed about him. He didn't know what. But still…
WHROOOM!
Logan blinked back at the window. A red blast? How can that be? Oh, but he saw it. He knew where it came from.
"Scott?" he then raced through the halls in search of Storm. "Storm!"
"Logan, what's--"
"Storm, we gotta go back ta Alkali Lake."
"What for?"
"It's Scott. He's alive!"
"Logan, you told me yourself that Jean--Phoenix killed him."
"No. he's alive. I know he is!"
"Logan--"
"Fine! If ya don't wanna believe it, I'll go find 'im myself!"
"Logan, I do want to believe. But…how would you know for sure?"
"Because no one but him can shoot a red optic blast."
"Jean…" the voice of Scott Summers faintly whispered. "Where…are you?" he spoke only that before he slipped out of consciousness and his pulse weakened again.
"Logan, what are we looking for? We've been here for half an hour and all we've found is water and chunks of concrete."
"We'll know it when we see it."
"Well, I don't mean to spoil everything, but--"
"Shh."
"What?"
"I know that smell. And I hear…something."
"Is it..?"
"Yeah. And I know just where he is."
The Cliff Where Scott Was Killed
"Oh, my God, Logan!" Storm gasped. There, right where he perished was their Fearless Leader. Flat on his back, eyes closed, but alive (if he was dead, he wouldn't be there).
Storm dropped and crawled towards Scott, surprised, yet thankful he was alive. "But…he died."
"Well, he's here now, darlin'. Now, are we gonna get 'im back or are we gonna sit here until he dies again?"
"Oh! Let's go, then."
Med lab
"This is strange, indeed," Beast exclaimed as he looked at readings on Scott from a computer. Logan was with him.
"What's strange, Furball?" Logan asked as he put a visor on Scott's face as he lay unconscious on a med table. "He's alive. Isn't that supposed ta be a good thing?"
"Wolverine, it is how he is alive that is unusual. There is nothing that shows to have brought him back. By all means he should be dead."
"It's simple: his molecules rejoined and his organs started ta run again."
"Things don't happen that way, Wolverine. Something had to've triggered it. Though, I cannot find an explanation."
"Alright, ya made your point. But he's back, so what d'we do now?"
"We be careful."
later
Storm kept watch over Scott for the next couple of hours. His vital signs were still the same: low, but there.
She was just about to fall asleep when she heard a beeping sound from the computer. Scott's pulse went up to a little over normal, his blood pressure improved, and is breathing was less shallow.
"Scott?" Storm approached him
"Storm…" he whispered. He then sat up, showing he was strong again.
"We've--I've missed you."
"Good…to be back." Tears of joy filled Storm's eyes. They embraced.
Scott suddenly deeply inhaled. Storm pulled away to look at him. He had a sly grin on his face. It reminded her terribly of Jean when the Phoenix corrupted her.
"You know, you are very…beautiful." His voice was strangely dark and evil.
"Scott? Are you alright?"
"Alright…and back."
"Scott," Storm began to back away, though he advanced. "M-maybe you should…lie back down. You-you don't s-sound…well."
'Scott' (or was he?) took hold of her. "You are very, very beautiful."
"Let go of me. Scott, let go of me!" Storm began to panic. This wasn't at all the Scott she knew.
"You do not talk to Scott. Scott is gone. The Phoenix is back. The Phoenix is apart of two this time. Not just one." He hissed close to her ear.
"Let go of me!" Ororo screamed. The room shook as it did when it was Logan and Jean in the lab. 'Scott's' smirk widened.
Before anything else happened, Logan, Iceman, and Beast burst in.
"What the hell--!" Logan shouted.
"You!" Storm seized the chance to run to Hank.
"What's goin' on here?" Bobby asked, but Logan knew the true danger.
"Get outta here!" and the other three raced out.
"You killed me once! You will not succeed again. I am now two, not just one.
"Why d'you come back?"
"I am the Phoenix!"
"I seem to recall that you were a corruption in Jean. You killed Scott."
"The boy did not die with Grey the first time. Now that they were both dead, I arose in both. There minds are now one. If I dwell in one, I dwell in the other. They will always live because I always arise!"
"Really?"
Battle
Logan finally got the chance to pin 'Scott' against the wall, but the Phoenix was far from giving in.
"The Phoenix always wins in the end!"
"Dammit, Scott! Don't let this happen! You're stronger than this! I know the Scott I know is in there somewhere. You always had a need for control, so control this!"
As if right on cue, Scott's rapid, angry breathing slowed and his fierce expression slowly drained into one of confusion and near tears.
"Oh, God. Logan!" he looked at him with hurting eyes behind the visor. "What did I do?" he looked around at the jumbled lab. "What the hell is this? I…can't…control it!" he painfully grimaced in fear, tears, and desperation.
"Scott, listen ta me! Ya gotta fight this!" he grabbed Scott's head in attempt to keep him surfaced.
"I…can't! It-it's too…powerful!"
"Dammit! This thing already took Jean. I can't let it take you, too!"
"I'm trying! I can't--"
"Kid, ya gotta hold on!"
Scott let out a cry of terror as if a film flashed in his mind, "K-kill me, Logan!"
"What!"
"I know what she did! Don't let me do it, too!"
"Ya died once. Your death destroyed us. I ain't gonna let it happen again!"
"Damn you, kill me before it gets out!"
"NO!"
"Please!" tears made a mini river down Scott's young face. "I--argh!--can't…hold it…back!" Logan was at that moment thrown by an invisible Force away from Scott.
"The boy was too weak, especially since he's not a telepath. He's too easily corrupted."
Logan popped out his claws again, "I won't kill Scott, but I'm gonna kill you."
The Scott/Phoenix laughed, "You can't kill me without killing him."
A/N: I sorry I have ta cut it off, but it was gettin' too long for a first chapt. Pleez review! I soooo wanna put more! I'm bringin' in Jean in da next chapt. What do ya'lls think I should put in as a 'conflict' between Scott/Phoenix and Jean? I was thinkin' maybe I should bring her back in da Jean Grey dat we all know and she tries ta confront da Phoenix or something. Then Beast could fill them in about the rapport dat Jean and Scott have. Ooh! Should I bring Xavier back? I wanna! I know I'm probably gonna bring back Magneto's and Mystiques powers. They're my favorite villains. I was kinda disappointed dat Gambit wasn't in X3, so I'm tryin' ta bring him in. But I don't know. Ya'll gotta give me suggestions cuz I don't know what ya'll wanna read. C Ya'lls!
P.S. Like I said before, I sorry dat dis doesn't follow da comic stories hardly at all, but da movie didn't much either ta me. Cuz I was under da impression dat M-Day destroyed mutations.