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Here you go, chapter four.
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Charles Xavier stands barefooted on the foreshore of the Utopia beach with his eyes closed and a nostalgic smile. Feeling the wet sand between his toes and the waves of the water slushing up on his shins.
He recalls a time when he couldn't feel anything below his waist. How he longed to just be able to walk a flight of stairs, take a stroll in the mansion's garden, or even be able to go to the bathroom without so much effort.
It was also during that time when he knew a young mutant that gave him hope for the future of their kind.
"Hello, Scott."
Sadly, that bright and hopeful young boy turned into a bitter, cynical, and now wrathful young man who is currently standing behind Charles Xavier.
"What are you doing here, Charles?"
He doesn't even need to turn around, or read his mind, to know that Scott is glaring hatefully at him. Charles remembers how that look used to be in admiration. How that gazed was once filled with kindness and hope. Now it's a bitter and cynical look.
Xavier opens his eyes and focuses his attention on the horizon, "This spot here reminds me of the cliffside back at the mansion. I recall how you and so many other students often stood at the edge of the cliff and stared off into the distance, gazing at the sunset. All the thoughts the students had while looking towards the sunset. Your thoughts often consisting of how tomorrow's challenges would test you. And how you know you would overcome them."
Scott scoffs in contempt, "That was a naive child who once believed in a fool's dream for his people."
Xavier gets a sad smile, "It amazes me how often we dismiss what we once appreciated in our lives. In a world where it can all disappear in the blink of an eye. We never know when a sunset could be our last."
"If you are just here to discuss sunsets then just leave."
He softly scoffs, "Of course you would dismiss it. After all," he turns to look at the cosmic flaming mutant, "you stopped appreciating everything that you had."
He sees the flames on his former student rise a bit from agitation, "What I had? What I had was a fairy tale of a life where I believed that I actually made a difference every day! It was nothing but a delusion! A fictitious construct, placed in my mind by a manipulative old man."
"So I suppose your friends, your people, and even the woman you claimed to love more than anything was nothing more but thoughts that I placed in your mind."
His anger spiked. Charles can both feel and see it, with those flames it's not hard to. He knew bringing Jean into the conversation would make Scott angry, but he needs him to be entirely focused on him and not his surroundings. Making him angry does just that.
Scott snarls at him, "How dare you bring her into this."
Unfortunately, it's not enough. Charles was so sure it would be.
"Nobody, not even you, understood my relationship with her. All of you judge me for an affair I had when Jean had her own with Logan. I still forgive her for it because I knew my faults just as she did her own."
'Damn, the Phoenix is even manipulating his memories,' The former Professor thinks himself.
Although most saw Scott's and Jean's relationship as one of the purest, it was more much complicated and messy than some were led to believe. They can both share the fault in the failure because the main reason why it failed was that Scott was emotionally repressed and Jean for some reason loved him for it.
(A/N: See for yourself. Is-Jean-Grey-a-bad-girlfriend-considering-she-cheats-on-Scott-with-Wolverine-many-times I actually looked up if Scott was a bad boyfriend, but as it turns out they were both bad for each other.)
Scott has never been good at confronting his own emotions. Add a cosmic bird of fire and it's just a disaster. In order to win, Charles needs to distract him. He's aware of how dangerous this is, but he's confident in his telepathic prowess to suppress enough of the Phoenix in Scott to give them a fighting chance.
He just needs to make him angry enough to lose focus.
"Why don't you say what's really on your mind," Xavier raises an eyebrow at his statement, "How it torments you how I succeeded in where you continuously failed. I put the world the way it's supposed to be, where mutants are supreme, and it kills you!"
Ego. Of course, it's ego.
Charles shakes his head in disappointment, "I am ashamed, Scott. Ashamed that you have forgotten everything I've taught you. Ashamed that you think I would or could ever be proud of what you've done."
Scott shakes his own head in disappointment, which agitates Xavier slightly, "Of course, unless it's done your way then it's the wrong way," Charles can feel his students' hard gaze on him, "Did it ever occur to you that after constant failure, maybe your way doesn't work? That your naive dream of unity between mutants and humans will just be that! No matter what we do, they will always see us as monsters! Freaks of nature! Or a belief that is protected and supported by the US government, 'God's mistake'!"
There it is! The opening they needed.
Charles shakes his head, "I'm done arguing with you Scott. You need help. I'm shutting you down."
Scott's scoff dismissively at his notion, "You don't have the power," fire begins to swirl around him as he powers up to fight Xavier, "By yourself your nothing against the power of the Phoenix."
Charles nods to that, "Your right, alone I would be completely powerless," he gives Cyclops a hard look, "Thanks to you however, I'm not alone."
As Cyclops raises his hand and fire swirls in the palm as he gives Xavier a questioning look, "What are you-?" He looks to his hand as he sees he can no longer move it. As if it's stuck in the middle of the air, "What is this?!"
The good professor stops making Scott think there is nothing behind him and gains a small smile when he does. Because behind Cyclops are both the Avengers and X-men charging the beach and fighting against Emma Frost. And right behind Scott is Dr. Steven Strange casting a spell to bind Cyclops hands in the air.
A drop of sweat slips on Xaviers forehead as he concentrates on suppressing the Phoenix force inside his former student, "The only reason you were winning was because the Avengers and X-men were divided," he gives a hard glare to Scott as he thinks back to when the X-men and Avengers met, "You gave them a reason to stand together."
(Flashback, Day before, Wisconsin Dane County)
In an open field stands a female brunette with a white streak in her hair in a skintight green outfit. With the sunrise to her left, she raises her hand to block it as she scans the area around her looking for something.
"Hello," she calls out hoping for a response. Not getting one she continues, "Y'all know me as Rogue of the X-men. Ah, come here looking for asylum."
All she hears is the soft rusting of the leaves and grass from the billowing wind. She takes a shaky breath as she wonders if this was a mistake. The professor wouldn't lie to her, but she wonders after everything that's happened if the Avengers are willing to hear them out.
She doubts it, but she still has to try.
"It was a mistake," she raises her hands in a placating manner, hoping they see she means no harm, "A huge mistake ta follow Cyclops and the others. It's just," she struggles with this next part, "He never led us wrong before. He always puts our people first and he tried ta do what the professor taught him ta do."
She closes her eyes in shame for this next part.
"We just wanted ta get back what we lost, so we made desperate choices. We relied on a power that we couldn't hope ta control. And put our faith on a little girl who we didn't give much of a choice," she is, of course, referring to Hope Summers, "And when Scott and them got the power instead, we thought maybe five is better than one. But y'all were right. After all that's been done, we realized y'all were terribly right," she opens her eyes that shimmer with plead, "Please, we gotta right this wrong."
A few more moments of silence before a bright flash of light makes Rogue raise her hand to block it as she clenches her eyes shut.
"It's good to see that what I've taught you, has not been forgotten."
A familiar and very welcomed voice makes her open her eyes. When she does a very relieved and joyful smile graces her face when she sees the man she considers a father to her like so many others standing at the entrance of a quinjet.
"Professor Xavier!" She shouts in joy, "You're here!"
He gives her a smile, "I told you that I would be," as he steps off the platform several other Avengers, such as Captain America and Iron Man, follow behind him, "Tell the others to come forward."
She turns and signals her fellow X-men to come forward and as they do so she hears Starks robotic voice say, "I'm not so sure about this Xavier."
She turns back to the Avengers to listen in on the conversation, "I understand your feelings Stark, but we cannot succeed without them."
"He's right Tony," she hears the good Captain say, "As reluctant as most of us are, we won't beat summers and those still with him without more help."
Rogue looks at them in concern. She wonders if they are still angry about some of them being kept prisoners in less than appealing ways. She hopes that when all is said and done, that maybe they are willing to show leniency.
The rest of the X-men reach within talking distance and immediately notice the hard stares they are getting from the Avengers.
Havoc walks forward to Captain America and sticks his hand out, "Captain. I just want to say I'm sorry for everything that's happened and I hope when this is over we can consider each other allies again."
Cap seems hesitant, which worries Rogue and the X-men, but they breathe in relief when he reaches out to shake the young man's hand, "I'm going to be honest, while I hope that too, I'm afraid it might not be so simple."
That gets Rogue and all the X-men on edge. They're worried this might be a trap, but Xavier would never do that to them. And they doubt that they could, or would in Wolverine and Captain America cases, lie to the professor with him being a very powerful telepath.
She steps forward and looks at the Avengers, "Ah get what we did was wrong, but we're here ta make up for it."
steps up and gives the southern girl a hard glare, "There are some things you can't make up for."
Spider-Woman places a hand on the Kree hybrids shoulder, "Easy there love."
The southern girl steps up to give a hard look at the blonde heroine, "Look, whatever personal issues you and Ah got, it ain't the priority right now."
"It ain't about that, sugah."
Rogue was about to retort the mocking from Ms. Marvel, but stops herself and instead looks to the professor questioningly, "Then what's the problem?"
The professor lowers his head in shame and Captain America places a hand on his shoulder, "They need to know."
"Know what?"
Xavier looks to the WWII vet as the man gives him a nod. He closes his eyes and takes a breath, "During the rescue mission in the mountains, Colossus and Magik had cornered the Avengers. Spider-Man decided to fend them off on his own to give the others a chance to escape."
That puts Rogue on edge. If she's reading into his tone then something must of happened to the arachnid-themed hero.
She here's a scoff and shifts her attention to Bobby, who has an amused smile on his face, "Typical web-head, always doing something stupidly noble."
"Bobby." They hear Logan call out. They see the look on his face as he shakes his head, basically telling them to shut up and listen.
Charles, unperturbed, continues, "He successfully managed to stall them to let the others escape and even managed to defeat both Piotr and Illyana by himself by making them turn on each other."
Bobby shrugs dismissively, "So, what's the problem? Ole Sticky fingers feels guilty about making two siblings slap each other around? Sounds like something he would do."
Iron Man steps forward, "He's dead."
Rogues gasps in shock as her blood runs cold.
"What?" Bobby seems to be in the same boat judging from his tone, "You said he got them to turn on each other. How the hell did-"
"From what I was able to gather of their memories," the professor interrupts him, "Spider-Man got them to turn on each other, but only after Magik had stabbed him in the heart. We weren't able to treat him there because the mountain was collapsing in on itself."
"He was bleeding out as we were exiting," Captain America's somber voice carries through, "We weren't able to get him out in time."
Silence reigns through the open field as X-men absorb the information just given to them. Spider-Man, a member of the Avengers and close ally to the X-men is dead.
Iceman lowers his head and clenches his fist so hard they shake.
"Professor."
Charles looks to Bobby, as does Rogue and the rest of the X-men and Avengers.
He lifts his head up and gives the man a teary determined look.
"We need to take Scott down."
(Present)
Rogues didn't know what to say. What could she say? She didn't know Spider-Man well enough to mourn him like the Avengers or some of her fellow X-men like Bobby.
The reason why she felt her blood turn cold at the time was that she knew the implications of his death at the hands of a fellow mutant would cause. She knew that with his death, the X-men and hell mutants in general we're going to have a hard time gaining everyone's trust back.
'But no better way ta start, than ta kick some ass together!' She thought to herself as she and some of her friends attacked Emma Frost while the rest focused on Scott and a few of his remaining allies.
She threw a powerful punch to Frost, strong enough for a shockwave to resonate, but the blonde turned to her diamond form and as a result, barely flinched. Rogue however felt like she hit a brick wall before she got super strength.
Frost backhanded her and sent the Mississippian girl skidding across the beach.
"Why are you all fighting us?" Emma calmly asks them as Rogue looks to her and sees the Phoenix powered telepath tank some explosive arrows fired by Hawkeye on her back without blinking, "We are doing this for all of you."
Thunder and lightning gather around overhead. And Rogue sees a familiar white-haired weather witch at its epicenter with an angry expression, evident by the electricity in her eyes, "It stopped being about us when Namor attacked my people and cost me everything!"
Storm raises her hand and whips it down.
KRAKOOOOOOOOOM
A huge bolt of lightning hits the White Queen. Rogue and all those close by cover their eyes from the flash. Once it subsides, they see Frost standing calmly in a smoking crater.
'We need to hit her with something stronger,' the southern girl sent the thought to those around her with the telepathic link Psylocke and the Triplets made.
Fire begins to gather in the White Queen's hand, "Some sacrifices need to be made, Ororo," she lifts her hand, palm facing Storm, "And it would seem that I need to remind you that your priority is the mutant race and not your ex-husbands' soon to be extinguished kingdom."
THUMP
Rogue sees a familiar green mass land behind Frost. Just as the telepath turns to look, the Hulk slams both fists down-
SMAAASH! (A/N: I don't know the proper sound effect to put here.)
And creates a massive crater with Emma being at the center of it.
Psylocke walks up next to Rogue, a bit battered, and says, "Hopefully that was enough."
Rogue shakes her head, "I doubt it."
A huge gust of wind blows from the side and grabs their attention. They see Scott had intentionally crashed down next to Xavier, blowing him and several others off their feet.
He stands straight as more Phoenix fire circles him, "Do you all honestly believe you can defeat me as I am now?"
Suddenly a multitude of steel frames crash down on him and pile on. Rogue looks around and sees a familiar man garbed in a dark red outfit with a metallic helmet floating in the air with his hands out toward Cyclops.
"Magneto!" Captain America calls out to him and begins to signal him, "Ball it up and toss it to Thor!"
Magneto then balls his hands and the frames imitate it. He then throws his hands up, launching the metal ball to the Norse god as he swings Mjolnir down.
KRAAAAKKOOOOOOOOOOM
A massive bolt of lightning hits the ball and causes an explosion. Magneto shifts the falling metal shrapnel around to avoid hitting anyone.
Just as the dust begins to settle, a blaze of fire hits Magneto and engulfs him. Scott stands in the middle of the surrounding debris with a snarl on his lips, "I would have expected you of all people would understand what I'm trying to accomplish Magneto! But I guess you are just like Charles when it comes down to it! You would prefer to see me fail than to see me succeed in where you've constantly failed!"
Cyclops raises his hand and fire encircles Magneto. He then clenches it and the Master of Magnetism is engulfed in flames.
"Father!"
Rogue sees the Scarlet Witch rushing to her father, hex powers active. Hex energy both surrounds her father and hits Scott and they see him actually react in pain.
Rogue tightens her lips. She doesn't want to admit it but without Wanda, they would have a lot more difficulty defeating Scott and Emma. But if it wasn't for her stupid mental breakdown in the first place, then none of this would be happening!
Rogue's attention snaps back when she sees Thor gets blasted back with phoenix fire as Scott regains his bearings. He gets to his feet when an arrow hits him in the back of the neck. Hawkeye stands at a distance, his bow still up and readying another arrow.
"This is who you all stand with!?" Scott yells at his former X-Men as he tries to stand, the arrow in his neck probably isn't helping, "These people would rather murder us than to see us take our rightful place in the world! Where our people are no longer suffering! A PLACE WHERE WE CAN MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER!"
Rogue sees Iceman slide behind Cyclops on his self made ice ramp, she still thinks that looks dumb, and he ice blasts the Phoenix powered man from behind and circles around him not letting up, "You know you sound just like Magneto did with his brotherhood of mutants garbage!
Scott pushes the ice beam back with his Optic beam, "I CAN DO WHAT THEY NEVER COULD!"
The Optic beam breaks through the Ice blast and hit Bobby off the slide, but he manages to roll to his feet. As he fires again he shouts, "You mean like murdering our friends!"
Rogue can see how angry Iceman is at Scott. But in truth, she knows he blames himself just as much.
(Flashback, K'un-Lun Temple)
Bobby's gotta admit, this place is a lot nicer than the mansion and Utopia. He's been exploring the mystical kung-fu temple, trying to get his mind off of certain things. Things he doesn't need to deal with right now. As he was exploring he discovered something interesting.
A lot of the kung-fu movies he watched were pretty close to accurate.
He saw a bunch of monks scrubbing the floors, dusting the decorations, and vacuuming the carpets. He didn't expect to them have vacuums, but he wasn't going to voice that.
And when they weren't cleaning the place spotless, they were training to the point where he thinks Wolverine would have trouble recovering from. He saw these guys swing staffs at each other's stomach to build strong abs. Others were rubbing, from what he discovered, glass sand on their faces to develop a thick skin. And he saw a few do handstand push-ups on poles while doing the splits and holding a bucket on each leg that was filled with metal sand and weighed fifty pounds each.
That last one had him crossing his legs a little.
He's brought out of his musing when he walks by the temple's exit and hears some familiar voices. He stops and sticks his head out to see his two ex-girlfriends, Rogue and Kitty, in a conversation. The southern girl leaning on a pillar and the valley girl sitting on the top steps.
"I'm worried what's going to happen if we beat Scott," That's Kitty's voice.
"You ain't the only one," and that's Rogue, the accent helps him tell, "Ah'm pretty sure all of us are."
He hears Kitty groan, "Dammit Piotr. He should've known better. I mean he has enough problems with Cyttorak, why the hell would he think the Phoenix would be any different?"
A rhetorical question if he's ever heard one,
"Maybe because he's got lead for brains."
-but one he feels inclined to give a lame quip to. Spidey would be proud.
They both jump a bit in fright at his sudden appearance. When they see it's just him, they both relax.
Although Rogue gives him an annoyed glare, "It's rude ta skulk around you know."
He gives her an playful affronted look, "I wasn't skulking. I was exploring this place. Then I heard you two talking," he walks and sits down next to Kitty and leans back, "Which reminds me, we need to make sure Logan doesn't get any ideas for training from here. I'm pretty sure we can get sued for child abuse."
Both women nod in agreement as Kitty says, "You know I was thinking the exact same thing."
"Ditto."
A few seconds of silence pass before Kitty places a hand on his shoulder. He doesn't need to look at her face to know she has a pitying look, "Are you okay?"
He doesn't respond. How could he? He feels like it's his fault that one of his closest friends is dead. And why wouldn't he? He helped capture a lot of the Avengers. He may not have known what the Rasputin siblings were doing, but that doesn't matter considering the result was a good friend's death.
"Did you know him personally?"
Rogue's question snaps him out of his thoughts. He looks at her, "You mean did I know who he was underneath the mask? Yeah, I did."
She nods and seems to hesitate with what she says next, "Was he… someone important?"
He narrows his eyes as he looks at her strangely, "Why are you asking?"
She shrugs, "It's just- everyone seems ta be taking his death hard and all. So-Ah don't know- It just seems like they might be overreacting."
"What d'ja jus' say!"
Bobby and they jump to their feet in fright and look to see a familiar orange rock monster charging towards them with his sights set on Rogue.
Kitty immediately raises her hand in a stopping motion as The Thing comes close, "Woah there big fella, she didn't mean anything by it."
He stops but keeps his angry sights on the southern girl, "You had no idea da type of guy he waz, so ya better keep yer trap shut!"
Bobby sees Rogue has her fists by her side in preparation for a fight in case The Thing keeps going after her. That is not what they need right now. He needs to do something.
Iceman steps in her defense next, "Ben, take it easy man. She just didn't know him like we did, alright."
The Thing turns his glare at Bobby and he recoils because now it's more hateful, "Only my friends call me Ben. And you and I Icy, we ain't friends."
Bobby gets a guilty look on his face, "Look Ben, I know-"
"You don't know squat!" He loudly interrupted him.
"Hey!"
Bobby and them hear and turn their attention to the source of the shout and see the Wolverine walking to them. He's got to admit, he's never been so relieved to see the most dangerous X-man just pop up out of nowhere.
He stops just a few feet away, "Any reason why you all look like you're about to have a cage match?"
The Thing angrily jabs a finger at the southern girl, "She sayin' that Spidey dying ain't that big a deal 'cause he wasn't nobody important to her!"
"Ah didn't say that!" She retorts heatedly. She then shifts her gaze to her fellow X-man, "Logan, Ah was just saying that people die all the time. Especially people like us. We do everything we can to protect the world and sometimes we die trying. All Ah meant was that Spider-Man did what a lot of us would do."
"And that's suppoze to make it okay!"
"No! Course not! It's just Ah don't get why everyone is taking it so hard when not a lot of y'all liked him!"
Kitty gasps in shock, "Rogue!"
"Well tell me I'm wrong! I didn't know him like most of y'all but I got eyes and ears. And I've seen and heard y'all talk how annoying the guy was and how hardly any one ya hanged out with him outside the mask and costumes."
That gets everyone to quiet down. Except it became even tenser. The only sounds are birds chirping and Ben Grimm's stone fingers grinding into his palm.
"Tell me some'in, SkunkHead," Bobby sees Rogue twitch at the nickname, "You got a family outside dese guys," he gestures to everyone else present, "someone who can't fight for demselves."
Bobby can see Rogue try to think of someone, but comes up with nobody. He could say the same. He's not very close with his own family.
Ben closes his eyes as he lowers his head, "Everyday, dat guy put on dat mask. No one made him. No told him to. He just did it to help people. And sure, dere are other ways he could help. He was a smart guy that even Reed waz impressed by," Grimm looks down somberly, "but as big as his brain waz, his heart waz even bigger. He always put others over himself. And the people he loved most seemed to pay da price if he wasn't careful. It's why he wore da mask. Why he had a hard time trusting people," he opens his eyes to glare at Iceman, "because too many times do people that he considers friends turn to enemies."
Immediately Bobby is struck with guilt. He knows what Grimm is referring to. When he helped capture him and the other Avengers that were imprisoned in the mountains. He felt like crap after it happened. Especially when he heard what they were doing to them in those mountains.
The Thing shifts his glare back to Rogue, "So ya see girly, Spidey may not have been someone important to ya. But to a lot of people he waz a hero, to others he was a friend, and to a few he was family."
Logan walks up behind Ben and places a hand on his shoulder, "Alright, they get it already. Just let it go."
Thing shrugs off Wolverine's hand and walks away. Leaving Bobby and the girls to think on his words.
Rogue looks to the ground in shame and frustration, "It's not like we wanted this ta happen."
"Well it did," Logan bluntly says to her, "What did you all think? That forcing change would turn out okay? That at the end of it all we'd come together, hold hands and sing Kumbaya?"
Damn that web-heads humor is contagious if Logan is making jokes like that.
Rogue gives him a pleading look, "Logan."
"No, you know what I don't want to hear it," he interrupts her, "When you make stupid choices like you did, then you have to live with the fallout. Ain't nothing to do but that."
Bobby watches the older mutant frustratingly walk away. He doesn't know if his annoyance comes from the Avengers constantly dogging the X-men or the X-men making excuses every time. And to be truthful Bobby doesn't care. Because no matter what they say to him, he'll know-
"It's our fault."
His proclamation gets the two X-Girls attention.
"Bobby," Rogue speaks up, "We didn't know something like this would happen."
He whips around to face her and yells, "No we did! We just denied it because we wanted to fix what happened! We were so desperate to fix everything and so sure of ourselves that we barely considered the consequences!"
He sags his shoulders as he lets out an exhausted breath, "And you know what? Whether we knew what would happen or not, we still made the choices that led to all of this. We turned on people who were our friends. We helped Scott and the others because we thought we could do what nobody else could."
Is this what Peter felt every day? So many of his friends, Bobby himself included, constantly told him that his Uncle's death was not his fault. He couldn't have known what would happen. And his girlfriend Gwen's death at the bridge all those years ago. He tried to save her but he was inexperienced in a lot of ways. Including how to save someone dropping from a great height.
And here he and his friends are doing the same thing.
"We can't fix the world by making those take responsibility for their actions if we don't take responsibility for our own."
And that is what Bobby is doing right now. Taking responsibility by fighting with the Avengers against his former leader and friend and his girlfriend.
'Although to be honest, I think most of us are okay with beating on Emma.'
Hell, most of the X-men are fighting the white queen right now.
He's brought out of his thoughts when he feels his ice beam punched back by Scott's optic one. His struggle is cut short when he sees Thor uppercuts Summers in the face with his hammer. Iron Man follows up with a unibeam blast to the back of Summers. The former X-men leader impacts the ground heavily a good distance from Iceman.
While Scott's on the ground, Bobby sees the professor walk up to him. He says something to Scott but Bobby is too far to hear. Hopefully, they weakened him enough so that Professor X can shut him down.
THUM!
Bobby's attention is shifted behind him and he sees the Hulk just clapped his hands in Emma's face.
"AAGGHH!"
Once more Ice Man's head whips back to the source of the scream, which was the Professor's, and sees the man clutching his head in pain. Scott more than likely just hit him with a powerful mental psychic blast.
"Scott Summers," he hears Captain America's voice speak out, "You are under arrest for crimes against-"
"Shut up!"
Said man shouts then blasts off in a ball of fire. For a moment Bobby believes he's retreating before an optic beam fires off from his former leader's visor. And it hits the last place he or anyone else would have expected.
Emma Frost's back.
"AAAGGGHHH!"
She impacts the beachfront hard and Scott not two seconds later flies down on her. The collision results in a swirling mass of fire that reaches all the way up past the clouds and makes everyone shield their eyes as sand gets sent everywhere.
"What's he doing?!" Bobby shouts out to anyone listening.
"He's taking her half of the power!" He hears Wolverine shout back.
Bobby's stomach drops at that.
"Scott!" The professor's voice is heard over the rushing winds and blowing sand. Bobby sees the man walking forward into the swirling mass, "Stop this! Please, I'm begging you son!"
The winds stop suddenly as the dust and sand float in the air.
And right in the center of it all is Scott. Fire burning on his shoulders.
The former X-men leader slowly raises his head and looks to the professor, "You are not my father."
"SCOTT!" Xavier shouts with plea in his voice.
Summers raises his hand and the professor seizes up.
"Professor!" Rogue shouts out.
"Scott, don't do this!" Bobby shouts right after.
Scott gets quiet. No sound, no words. As if he's thinking about what he's doing. Before suddenly-
"Goodbye."
Fire explodes from Scott and everyone else once again shields themselves from the light and heat. The light eventually dims enough for them to see the frightening Phoenix Force right in front of them.
And once the light dims more they then see an even more horrible scene before them.
Scott standing over the body of Professor Charles Xavier.
"So this is what Jean felt," they hear Scott's voice and see the Phoenix come out from him, "I am fire and life incarnate," the man begins to float into the air, "Now and forever," the power then bursts out from him in fire and lightning, "I. AM. PHOENIX!"
Only one word can describe what they are all thinking and feeling right now.
And Bobby voices it.
"Fuck."
Done! Finally! I know how many of you have been wanting this. And I'm very surprised at how fast this thing is getting in popularity.
Sad to say I wish I could have done a better ending, but I was stuck, so I went with this.
I also wish it was longer.
Anyway, I'm also sorry to say that this is going to be in the back burner because of my other story.
Check it out if you would be so kind and let me know what you think.
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Till next time.