Title: OMEGA (part 1)
Fandom: X-Men Universe comics / movies
Pairing: Jean G./Emma F. / Ororo M.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Almost to the finish line…
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, but I do love them.
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Jean appears alone in a dome of darkness and wind. She can hear lightning striking. Tt sounds like trains going over uneven tracks. "Emma! Where are you?!" She yells looking for her wife trying to walk further into the vortex of wind. The redhead feels heavy like her body is being weighed down by something. She looks down and sees her pregnant belly. She holds her stomach. "Emilya my love, hold on honey I've got you. We need to find mommy."
She can hear a woman yelling it sounds like Ororo.
"Em-ma!" The redhead yells again. She can't see in front of her face. She suddenly trips over something as her field of telekinetic energy activates subconsciously stopping her fall. She lifts her hands, they are wet. There is blood on the ground. She checks her body and doesn't see an injury. Then she notices what she tripped over. It was a woman's leg. Her heart suddenly began to sink, recognizing EGF imprint on the pants she bought for her wife before she left for India.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…" She whimpers crawling up her wife's body feeling the gaping hole through the blonde's stomach. "Oh God, Emma, baby please wake up….Please please please please please." She repeats as she holds her wife's face in her hands trying to open her eyes. "You gotta wake up Em. Please wake up. Our baby, her name is Emilya, she's so beautif….ullll…." She cries convulsing over her wife's lifeless body. Her own body begins to glow. She can see Emma's bloody body and broken bones. She looked like she had fallen to the ground from a high height. There is something written in blood next to her.
Wats….. us… kil hm….no…kil
The ground begins to tremble as the redhead screams in agony. She suddenly hears a voice in the distance. "Mommy!" Jean quickly turned toward the sound of the voice. She sees a glow crawling around. "EJ! EJ, can you hear me sweetie! Stay where you are. I'm coming!"
The light suddenly moves quickly toward her. EJ is now in front of her holding Emory in her arms. "Mommy Eeree is crying." She says through her own tears. Jean takes Emory into her arms trying to shield her daughter from the sight of her mother's dead body, but it too late.
"Don't look sweetie don't look everything is alright, it's okay." She whispers trying to cradle her child.
EJ looks confused as she hugs her mother. "Mommy brought me here, is she okay?"
Jean tries to think of what to say, but suddenly realizes what her daughter just said. She holds Emily's face with one hand. "What did you say baby?"
She looks into Jean's green eyes. "Mommy brought me here."
The redhead remembers the other Emma, there were two of them here now. "Where did mommy go honey? Do you know where mommy went?" She asks her daughter as her hands tremble. EJ shakes her head no. Suddenly the redhead gets a splitting headache wincing sucking in air through her teeth. EJ tries to comfort her.
~* Jean listen to me, when this dome drops you must take the boy's life. * ~ Phoenix says to her.
~ No I told you I won't do that. ~
~ * You must. He will only leave if his host is dead *~
~ I said no dam it! There has to be another way. Emma said not to kill him. ~
~* If the child doesn't die you know what will happen. *~
The redhead shakes her head back and forth as she holds EJ and Emory tightly. She wasn't going to kill a child. She couldn't.
Outside the Dome
Ororo shouts. "Give me back the children NOW!" Her voice crackles across the sky hitting the dome from every side with lightning, ice, and earth.
Arishem floats above it unharmed laughing maniacally at her. "My sister will be free. You humans have kept her captive all these years. She will awaken and cleanse this world."
Ororo continues her assault materializing her body on the ground next to the dome trying to push through it with electricity. The dome suddenly drops. Arishem is covered in crystal dust and Ororo runs to Jean and the children seeing Emma's dead body. She falls to her knees staring at her partner's mangled body then looks up into the sky seeing another Emma. "How…how is this possible?"
Jean tearfully hands Emory to Ororo.
"Jean! Hurry!" Emma yells bringing the crystallized Arishem to the ground.
He breaks free retracting the crystal around her stomach and stabbing her again. "You are a persistent little ant aren't you?"
The blonde smiles holding his body gripping him as tightly as she can crystallizing his body over and over again. "You have no idea, you sadistic asshole." She says as her body begins to glow. "Jean, do it now, you must do it now!" The blonde yells toward her wife who floats toward her telekinetically.
"Emma we…..we can't kill him. We can't…" Jean cries.
Emma coughs up blood trying to speak as Arishem's body begins to shake. "Bay….baby….He has to die..but that doesn't….mean he has to stay….dead. Just do it." She says losing her crystallized hold on him.
~ *Jean Grey, touch your hand to his body. *~ The Phoenix says.
"No!" She screams as Arishem begins to choke trying to catch his breath. Ororo floats toward them with her hand pointed at the boy. She holds her son and EJ holds on to her leg. Storm covers his head in a cyclone sucking the air out of his lungs.
"Ro stop! Can't you see this is what he wants." Jeans says. Emma and Ororo stare at her in confusion. Arishem tries to laugh with the wind tightening around his neck. "It was Em's last message to us. We can't do this. It's what he wants."
The Phoenix speaks within Jean again.
~* Jean Grey, you are my last host. I will honor your decision. But this choice is not without cost. In exchange for his life you will give him our life in the void. You may never see your family again. If you are willing to pay this price for this boy's life touch my hand to his body before it's too late. Emma is injured she will die again if you don't, all of you will die. While Emma is still alive this Earth will experience a different fate. The choice is yours. *~
Jean looks over at the body of her wife and the Emma that is struggling to hang on. EJ and Ororo stare at her waiting for her next move. She stares at Arishem and feels intense sympathy for the little boy knowing what's it like not being able to control yourself. The redhead rubs her stomach and smiles. Then she turns to look into her partner's eyes one last time.
"I love you Ro. You're the best thing that ever happened to me."
Ororo takes in a deep breath and squints her eyes at Jean. "I love you too Jean. Tell me what's going on, what are you thinking?" Jean bends down and kisses EJ's cheek and whispers in her ear. "Take good care of them okay. I'll see you soon." EJ gives her a big hug and kiss as she stands up.
Jean takes a deep breath, closes her eyes and touches the boy just as Emma passes out.
The Earth begins to shake as Ororo gets a telepathic message from the Phoenix.
~ * Ororo Munroe Goddess of Earth take the children and the Emma that still lives and leave this place. *~
"What about Jean?" She yells as a wind not her own begins to increase. Jean's body begins to glow.
~ * All is as it should be. This world will be saved. Leave now or perish. *~
~ Ro, baby I'm okay. Get out of here. Hurry! ~ Jean whispers.
The goddess lifts them all up on a powerful wind and floats away. She can hear Jean's voice whispering in her ear as the light over the area increases like an atomic bomb. "I love you Ro. Take care of them for me." Ororo looks down at her son and EJ and her unconscious partner. It couldn't end like this.
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Storm reaches the institute a few hours later. They all receive medical care in the Level 2 Danger Room. The blonde wakes up and has to be held down when she tries to get up and go to her wife.
"Emma, Emma. Stop! She's gone. She disappeared hours ago." Ororo says as she rocks EJ in her arms squeezing the blonde's hand as Hank and Logan hold her down.
"What do you mean she's gone? Where did she go?" Emma shouts watching her daughter suck her thumb.
"We don't know. The light vanished an hour after I left. She….She…told me to take care of you all." Ororo says sorrowfully.
The blonde begins shaking her head emphatically. "No, no, don't you fucking tell me that. I crossed the fucking universe so this wouldn't happen! I lived through hell! Get the Fuck off me!" She screams as Hank tries to put the inhibitor collar on her. She quickly vanishes becoming dust and materializing outside the room. Blood drips from her stomach. Logan couldn't heal her as quickly for some reason. She limps out of the medical lab holding her stomach.
They run to grab her but she dematerializes herself again and rematerializes herself above ground. Hank alerts Charles and the others to try and stop her.
EJ cries squeezing Storm as tight as she can. The little one can feel that there is something wrong. But her 3 year old mind had no way to comprehend it. She recognized her mother but the woman felt different some how. What was going on? She saw her birth mother disappear into a ball of light. The emptiness in her heart was indescribable. Were both of her parents gone?
They couldn't find Emma but they didn't need Cerebro to know where she was going. Logan and Charles took the Blackbird and went after her. She reached southern India and went over the site with a fine toothed comb. Logan and Charles found the defeated woman kneeling in front of a Jean's last message burned into the ground.
I love you Emma Grey-Frost. We will see each other again. Be good to them my love. This Ororo still loves you, remember that. My light is still within you. Live my love and you will the beacon that lights my way home.
She shook head and cried. "Jean how could you do this to me? Why didn't you just kill him? We had Hank here. He would have been fine and you'd still be here damn it! Why Jean! Why!"
Emma yells as Charles approached her placing her hand on the woman's shoulder. "Emma, Jean will be back."
She snapped at him. "How the fuck do you know that Charles! You weren't here! You didn't see what happened. She's gone."
He hands her a golden tablet. The last message from the Phoenix. Charles who softly smiles at her. "Now we should get you home. Your children and your partner are waiting for you. They can't lose both of you in one day." He says looking at her stomach, seeing that the wound had reopened.
They head back to the institute, back home, back to a new life. Arishem was gone and for now so was Jean and their daughter Emilya. The blonde immediately returned to the medical bay to begin her recovery. Logan couldn't keep her wound closed so Hank stitched her up the old fashioned way even he couldn't understand why their technology didn't work on her. She was from a different world but she wasn't physically any different than their Emma save for being a bit older. Even after 20 years the blonde hadn't aged very much, likely a benefit of her mutation.
She found the answer in the Phoenix Chamber when she activated the golden tablet. A holographic Jean appeared.
"Hey baby, I miss you so much. I'm sorry I couldn't share all of this with you. I was honestly hoping what I had been seeing was just a dream. (she sadly laughs) I guess it wasn't huh, because here we are again. So let's explain the obvious stuff first. You can't heal right? That's because you're from a different Earth that exists only as vibration now. This new Earth you are on holds a different vibrational frequency than yours. So things can't readily synchronize with you. The good news is that you will adjust, but it will take time."
The blonde cried as she watched the holographic version of her wife explain why this needed to happen. She told her that she left another program for Ororo and the kids as well. This was all she had left of herself on Emma's previous world as well. The blonde cried remembering the pain her daughters endured under her possessed partner, that they could finally have a real family with this new Ororo brought her joy. It was still hard for her to readjust to loving the Ororo she had always known. Jean also told the blonde that she would return but she had no idea when.
The family went about getting to know one another and building a better life…..but without the glue that held them together.
TBC….
