Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

keyblade master cole: Scott will get his own dues in time, maybe not now but he will.

treyaxlender63917: Will it's going to be that sort of thing that'll be hung over him for the rest of his life pretty much. Like every time he passes a group of heroes they'll be like 'Dude, that's the guy who went crazy and killed Logan'.

EroSlackerMicha: Like the Phoenix said to Logan, when has anything gone Peter's way? Not exactly word for word but you get it.

Dark King Michael: Had to give Peter a reason to understand that the Phoenix Force isn't something to be taken lightly and he needs to always be on his 'A' game with it because if he isn't, well this happens. I mean he knew that before but now he knows people he cares about can die if he screws up and losses control.

justafan: Originally, I was going to have Xavier die but then I thought about it and realized that to really make this an impactful event, Peter has to experience a personal lost to really put into perspective of what he now is, a cosmic being that can destroy just about anything and anyone if left unchecked. If the population does find out that Peter killed wolverine, I don't think they'll be that put off from it. After all, Logan was a Mutant and in Marvel, Mutants aren't looked upon favorably. But a lot of people would be afraid of Spider-man especially since he took on both the Avengers and X-men and spent most of the fight kicking their asses.

Marveldcfan: Sort of, I mean she knows that Peter himself didn't kill Logan but it'll be hard for her to be around him, you know? But she'll also be holding Scott's X-men responsible as well as the Phoenix Force. After all Logan wouldn't have been killed if the Phoenix didn't get out because of what Scott's people did.

helpusobi1kenobi: No, the story will gain a lighter tone as it goes on for a while after this.

90skid4life: Scott's x-men aren't going to get away from this unscathed, after all they instigated this entire event when they invaded Wakanda. May not be able to pin Logan's death on them, but they can have the deaths of Wakandaian citizens pinned on them since Namor was acting under Scott's orders.

DannyPhantom619: To sort of mirror the events of Avengers vs X-men but with my own twist on it. In the comics, Scott went crazy and killed Xavier, a man he saw as a father figure, here Peter went crazy and killed Logan a man he saw as a brother/father. I didn't notice this until I finished writing the scene.

Spawn Hades: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your broken up by Logan's tragic end. But hey on the bright side, it took the freakin Phoenix Force to bring him down.

jdrussom66: No Logan's dead. The Phoenix incinerated all organic flesh in Logan's body, which means bone marrow, blood, it even had the fires course through Logan's eye sockets and into his brain and reduced it to ash. Powerful as Logan's healing factor is, even it has limits.

Fenrir44: Sort of, but she'll also I won't say hate Peter but she'll find it hard to ever be in the same room with the man ever again. I mean she knows that it wasn't Peter himself that killed Logan but it's still hard to accept that the man that did but didn't kill your father figure is standing right there in front of you and you sort of have to forgive him in a way. Plus having her end up in his harem would be kind of messed up in a way.

Animortal28: Because Logan dying is tragic in any story and rightly so and forces you to endure the feels, Scott or Namor dying, that'd just cause you to celebrate. But each of them is going to get their dues in time. Plus, I secretly feed off people's sadness when a beloved character dies, don't be around me when watching Game of Thrones or Walking Dead, you'll end up a husk.

Dante 101: Yeah, the Carol thing with Marcus, yeah it was messed up by I didn't drop that in there for kicks and drama, Peter's pretty much unintentionally burned a lot of bridges with what just happened. Sure, it wasn't his fault but others and even himself aren't going to see that. Carol might be a lot more hesitant with Peter then Jessica, after all hearing that kind of threat with his voice echoing it, that's not something she can shrug off as we'll be seeing. Wanda will be by his side, after all she committed near genocide of the entire Mutant population. Sure, it may have not been they all died, even though a large number likely did because they needed their mutations to survive or were in a place at the time they could only survive with their mutations like underwater or something.

Redrangerlegacy: Killing Logan isn't the only thing that'll be haunting Peter after this, the little thing he said to Carol, that ain't gonna be forgotten anytime soon, which was the intent. But yeah, it'll be a while until we see the Phoenix get back out like this and as hard as it is to believe, it's going to trump this by a huge margin the next time the Dark Phoenix comes out.

Gamerslegacy: I won't say that Peter will go that far but yeah, he really needs to get his crap together because the next time he goes on a rampage, well with his luck there will be no stopping him. Thankfully he will, won't be easy but he has to.

duskrider: That's pretty much the entire Phoenix Saga in a nutshell. Yeah, the X-men saved the day, but in the end the cost was so great that it makes one wonder if they really did win.

gunman: Colossus was still under the Phoenix's control at the time. He was summoned to get the Hulks of it. Well Wakanda is still a sovereign nation, she can't just nuke it and call it a day because the backlash no matter the circumstances will be massive. While she's done a lot of dumb things in comics, that may be a bit too dumb for even her.

Edge of the Dark: Well I have plans to bring in Old Man Logan later on, does that count as bringing Logan back?

Guest: We'll see things like that later on and some will want to use his power for less than benevolent reasons.

Superstar Kid: Yeah but killing Logan, hard as that was, was my way of showing just how bad things got and that it was going to get worse unless something drastic was done. Yeah after this event, quite a few people on both teams will be looking at Peter in a different light, and not in a good way. Her bringing in the Hulk wasn't completely unfounded, after all if there was one being that could possibly help bring down the Dark Phoenix, it was the Hulk. Granted franklin could have too but he's an eight-year-old kid, not something you want near the Dark Phoenix at the time. Yeah on top of the guilt and trauma of this event, Peter's still going to have to learn how to control his new powers so that he doesn't go on a rampage like this again, it wasn't his fault entirely, he barely begun to learn how to handle something like this, but now it's even more paramount that he does.

kspidey2: We'll be seeing what happened to Scott's X-men over the next few chapters.

Scott the Wanderer: The real tragedy with Scott, Magento and Magik is that they aren't really going to learn from this event, I mean they will to a degree but just like in the comics after Avengers vs X-men, they're just going to keep doing this kind of crap of Mutant extremism. Yeah a lot of Logan's pupils at the Jen Grey institute will understand that it wasn't really Peter but well they won't be quick to be in the same room as him if you know what I mean. The FF will be doing everything they can to help Peter, it might burn a few bridges with other heroes but Peter is family to them. He's been there for them and now they're going to return the favor. Yeah I'm pretty sure the guilt that Peter will have from this will dwarf the kind he's feeling from Uncle Ben's death and Ben Reilly's. Yeah what Peter, the Dark Phoenix said to carol was messed up but hearing a thing like that said to her in Peter's voice, a guy that she loves, well that's way worse than hearing some random bad guy or something say it. I mean it's like if someone you cared about came up to you and said they were going to violate you in the worse way possible and not be joking about it, like their dead serious. How the heck do you react to that?

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"Well… this is… well… you know, I for once don't know how to even begin to understand what happened. I doubt even Deadpool himself could find something to say about this entire thing" Stark said as he sat in a small chair, now clad in a simple pair of shoes, jeans and a oil stained heavy metal shirt he got years ago. He was currently in a dark room with only Steve, Reed, and T'Challa present. Xavier would be there soon to help them discuss what it is that just happened.

Before them was a medium sized table with a blanket over it in the vague shape of a human's skeleton. It was Logan's Adamantium coated bones, burned clean of any trace of organic material, effectively rendering the man dead.

"What are you going to tell his next of kin?" T'Challa asked as he glanced at Steve "Laura should be made aware of this as soon as possible at the very least"

"I know, I intend to tell her what happened myself" Steve said, for once the man didn't look confident and have this air around him that said, 'no matter how bad things got, we'll pull through'. Now he just looked broken and tired and seemed to be acting more like his actual age chronologically rather than physically "Xavier will have enough on his plate, no need to make it any heavier than it already is"

"How you gonna word it?" Stark asked with a quirked brow.

Steve glanced at Tony with a hardened expression "I'm going to tell the truth. It was the Dark Phoenix that did it, not Peter himself"

Stark held up his hands "Hey I'm just curious is all. I'm not saying demonize Parker or anything"

Steve sighed as he rubbed his eyes, dark lines were beginning to form under them for the lack of sleep "Sorry… it's just-"

"It's okay Rogers, it's never easy explain to people how or why their loved ones died. Especially when the one that did the deed is someone that now dead person trusted" Tony said in a somber tone.

"Will she realize that Peter wasn't in control of himself, that he had nothing to do with what happened to Logan here?" Reed asked as he glanced at the sheet that covered the remains of the famed X-man

"If she's anything like her father, yes" Steve said with a tired sigh as he rubbed his brow "But I doubt she'll ever want to be in the same room as Peter ever again. Not because she'll hate him, which I'm certain for a time she will, but because she might not be able to handle seeing him. I don't know if I could have had it been Sharon, Bucky or Sam that were killed"

Stark nodded at that before he glanced at T'Challa "What about you kitten?"

"What about me?" the ruler of Wakanda asked in a blank tone.

Reed rubbed the back of his head, trying to find the right way to word what he wanted to ask "Well how are you handling your wife-"

"She's no longer my wife" T'Challa said in a tense tone as he leaned against the wall and folded his arms "She stopped being my wife the moment she betrayed our people and joined in Cyclops and Namor's attack on Wakanda which led to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of my people. I had our marriage annulled before my men and I began to recover what bodies we could from the flooded city"

"I thought only the uh head priest guy you have could do that" Stark said with a confused look on his face.

"I am the 'head priest' guy" T'Challa said as Xavier entered with a troubled expression on his face.

The former leader of the X-men glanced at the assembled men before he sighed "I… I don't know what to even say for Scott's behavior, or that of the others that followed him. Namor and Magneto I could understand given their past actions but not Scott"

"There's no explaining a mad man's actions Professor" T'Challa said as he glanced at Logan's remains and tried to wipe the image of him being burned to death from his mind "All we can do is try and repair what damage they caused"

Xavier nodded as he approached the table and let out a shaky breath "It's funny… I always thought he'd outlive all of us. But I guess there are somethings, even the Immortal Wolverine cannot beat"

"Kind of reminds you just how easily we can all die in this life" Steve said as he ran a hand through his hair "Maria wants to place Peter in SHIELD custody"

"Uhhh, aside from the charge of murder which will be kind of complicated too place on him, and before you ask I've already phoned Murdock and Walters to be his defense if Maria tires to push that, how?" Stark asked before he glanced at Reed with a curious look "You got some super cell for him that she can place him in that I don't know about?"

"Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you after finding out that you had plans to use the same weapons satellite you used against the Hulk with parts of the armor you intended to use on the Phoenix if Peter ever lost control" Reed countered with a frown.

"Hey, I was just preparing for the worse case scenario. As much as I don't like it, we had to be ready to put Peter down if it became clear that there was no hope of him regaining control of himself or the Phoenix" Stark said with a heavy sigh before he leaned back in his chair "If saving the world meant being hated by pretty much everyone because I was willing to stop the Phoenix permanently, then fine. Like half the other heroes don't still hate me for backing the Registration Act and trying to lock them up"

"So how does Hill plan to secure Spider-man?" T'Challa asked, ending the discussion before it grew "While SHIELD has many resources at its disposal, I doubt they could succeed where we've failed"

"Well I heard she's been thinking of throwing him into cell similar to the one the Hulk was put in after his war with Earth. Which means miles below the Earth's surface in a remote location, round the clock security made up of reprogramed Adamantium shelled Sentinels, the most powerful psionic dampers that can be realistically made and as many as possible, energy draining machines, basically anything you can think of to secure a being as powerful as Spider-man is now" Steve said with a troubled look on his face.

"And the X-men that took part in Scott and Namor's attack, what happens to them?" Stark asked "We still have Summers and Emma in SHIELD custody"

"Yes, what do you plan to do with them?" Xavier asked as he turned back to Steve with a small frown.

Steve was silent for a few moments before he answered in a cool tone "Well as much as I want to pin the blame of Logan's death on both of them, I can't. But They are going to be held responsible and tried for leading an attack on a sovereign nation and killing innocent civilians. I'd have Namor locked in a cell next to them, but he's retreated into Atlantis and as much as I want to go down there and drag him back to the surface to face justice, I'm not going to possibly sacrifice more lives to do so… but I do plan to have him pay for what he helped contribute to"

"I understand…" Xavier nodded as he placed his hands in his pocket and leaned against the wall "I'll be returning to the Jean Grey Institute for higher learning. I don't intend to retake leadership of the X-men, that time has long since passed, but they are now short one teacher thanks to Rachel betraying them and with Logan's death, they'll need a new headmaster… I can't begin to imagine how the students will take this"

"Once word gets out about Mutants attacking Wakanda, and it will… things are going to be a lot more difficult for you" Reed warned his old friend.

At this Xavier chuckled in a grim tone "Richards, when has things not been difficult for Mutants?"

…

"When I'm done with you Carol… the pain… the feeling of violation at the hands of Marcus… will pale in comparison-"

"Carol are you okay?"

Carol flinched at her name being spoken so suddenly before she looked around to see that she was still in Jessica's room. The spider themed woman hooked up to several machines that were monitoring her vitals and pumping either blood, oxygen or morphine into her system. The raven-haired beauty herself was looking at Carol in concern.

The human-Kree hybrid nodded as Jessica's question registered in her mind after a few moments "Yeah… just… just still a little… you know"

"Yeah…" Jessica nodded with a saddened expression on her face as she looked out a window that showed the devastation of the battle between the X-men, the Avengers and later the Dark Phoenix in the distance. The former HYDRA agent doubts the land will ever truly recover from what happened there… or the ones that took part in it.

'God… how the hell is Peter ever going to recover from this?' she thought with worry. Her male counterpart always had a major guilt complex and after what happened, she isn't sure how he'll take it. More often than not Peter just covers up any turmoil he's feeling with a joke or two or just never brings it up and handles it in his own way. Which was bury it and move on best he can.

'But there is no burying this… no joke to hide what he'll be feeling' Jessica thought as the haunting image of Logan's bones and the states of Black Widow, Hawkeye and most of the X-men came to her mind 'He'll never forgive himself… ever'

While Jessica's mind struggled with trying to comprehend what happened after she was taken out by Magik, Carol's mind kept drifting back to what the Phoenix said to her. To hear such a thing and with Peter's own voice no less… it horrified her to the core.

'H-He… he wouldn't let that happen… would he?' Carol thought as she hugged herself while trying to erase the feeling of the Dark Phoenix penetrating her mind with the intent to scar and damage her in ways that even Rogue and Marcus combined couldn't 'H-He would have somehow regained control of himself… right? Sure, it'd be at the last minute and terrifying with how close it was but he would have beaten it somehow'

She wanted to believe that, she did with all of her being but there was that small part of her that doubted it. Peter hadn't shown any real signs that he was resisting the Dark Phoenix's control, at least that she saw when she faced him. After a few minutes, she concluded that she needed time to think and right now this wasn't the place to do it. Carol suddenly got up and made her way to the door, much to Jessica's confusion.

"Carol…?"

The blonde hero stopped before she gave Jessica a tired smile "Just… I'm just going to clear my head is all"

Jessica looked at her best friend in concern. While she was no telepath, it was clear something was bothering the energy absorbing being "Do you want to talk about it?"

Carol looked down at the ground for a few moments before she shook her head "No… at least not now. Sorry Jess, I'll… I'll be back later"

Carol didn't wait for a reply as she turned and left, causing a doctor to jump back in surprise at her abrupt appearance, and made her way to the nearest exit so she could put some space between herself and Wakanda.

All the while, she tried to ignore the Dark Phoenix's threat in Peter's voice as it had her pinned to the ground and at its mercy.

Unknown to her, Wanda and Pietro were making their way towards Jessica's room to see if the spider themed woman was alright when they saw the blonde bombshell rush pass a startled doctor and down another hallway.

"What do you think that was about?" Pietro asked as he glanced at his twin.

Wanda frowned as she could sense the emotional turmoil off Carol before she sighed "I'm not sure, but I can hazard a guess that it relates to what happened with Spider-man…"

The speedster nodded as he followed Wanda into Jessica's room. He gave the spider powered woman a small nod and rested against the wall while Wanda spoke with her. She was more Spider-woman's friend then he was anyhow.

"How you feeling?" Wanda asked as she sat in where Carol likely was.

Jessica shrugged before she winced as pain from her abdomen flared up again "Oh you know, just having to deal with the fact I got impaled by some mutant demon girl hybrid and that the guy I like and was supposed to keep safe went on a rampage because I got stabbed and nearly destroyed an entire nation and killed a good friend of ours"

"You know you did everything you could to prevent that" Wanda said.

"Yeah, tell that to Logan…" Jessica said as tears began to pool in her eyes before she brushed them away "I'm sure he'd have a thing or two to say about my skills in protection but that might be a little hard for him given that he's actually dead this time"

"Jess… no one could have predicted that this would happen. Yes, we knew the risks of Peter losing control because of what happened with Jean all those years ago and yes maybe we could have done better in making sure it didn't happen like perhaps moving him somewhere where Scott and his X-men couldn't follow so easily. Like one of the pocket dimensions in the Sanctum Sanctorumor even K'un-Lun but what's happened, happened. We need to accept that, hard as that will be and do what we can to repair the damage done and try and prevent something like this from happening again." Wanda said.

Jessica nodded as she gazed down at her blanket "Hindsight… it can be a real bitch huh?"

"Yes…" Wanda said with a sad smile "It can be"

"You know, it's funny" Jessica said with a small sniffle "When I first saw Peter awake after the Phoenix bonded with him and heard him cracking jokes, I thought everything would be alright. Sure, things with the X-men would be tense for a while until Peter somehow got to fixing what happened to the Mutant population and after that… heh my first thought was to find the nearest bed and throw him down on it and give that man a night to remember, the first of many in fact. Hell, Carol was more than welcome to join in since it's obvious to everyone except Peter she likes him"

Wanda couldn't help but chuckle sadly at that "Sounds live heaven for any man, the attention of two women like yourselves"

"Yeah, it does" Jessica said before her smile dropped "And then Scott attacked, me getting nearly killed… now I don't even know what's going to happen to Peter. I mean he leveled a good portion of Wakanda and killed Logan, those aren't things that are going to get brushed under the rug. It's going to get out and people are going to talk and Peter… even though he hardly shows it, I know he's bothered by some of the things others say about him. Either on the team or the media and Jameson sure as hell doesn't help with is constant rants…"

The three were silent as they sat there, trying to figure out where things would go from here. It was obvious that after today, nothing would be the same. For them, for the X-men, for the Earth or Peter.

"Wanda…?" Jessica said as she glanced at Wanda with a nervous but hopeful expression.

"Yes?"

Jessica seemed unsure how to word what she wanted to say before she eventually took a deep breath and went for it "Do you think… that when Peter wakes up… could you, be there for him?"

Wanda's brow rose like this "What do you mean?"

"Well… it's just… maybe you can help him with what happened" Jessica said as she began to fidget under the Maximoff twins stares, more so Wanda's then her brother's "I mean it's just that-"

"I have more insight of… losing it… and you want me to help him get through this?" Wanda guessed.

Jessica nodded "If you could, I mean you don't have to. It's your choice and you won't be alone, I'll be there to help as soon as I can and so will Carol. It's just I don't want to sound harsh but I think aside from Banner, you're the only person here that can say 'I know what you're going through, I've been there and I'll do what I can to help you'…"

Wanda was silent for a few moments, she already made the decision to help the man, a sort of atonement for what she did to the Mutant community. After all, if she didn't suffer such a horrible breakdown in the first place and decimate Mutant kind in not just this Universe but on a multiversal scale according to Doctor McCoy, then Hope probably wouldn't have been born, she wouldn't have been considered the 'Mutant Messiah' and Scott wouldn't have gotten it in his head that somehow, she could use the Phoenix to save Mutant kind from her actions. Though at the moment that was looking less and less likely to happen.

But maybe Mutant kind can still be saved, maybe not by Hope's hands but possibly Peter's. It was a longshot and there was no guarantee it could work but it was better than trying nothing.

Finally, Wanda nodded "Of course… plus I may be a slightly better choice than Doctor Banner"

Quicksilver snorted at this "His advice to Spider-man would be pack your bags and live the rest of your life like a hermit in the wilderness for everyone's safety rather than learn to understand and harness your power rather than risk a rampage every time he's forced to use it against his will and cause even more destruction then before"

His response was met with glares from both women which caused him to shrug "What, you know I'm right"

…

Steve couldn't help but feel a little saddened at the state Peter was in now after his meeting with the others and he came down to check on the wall crawler's state for signs of improvement.

Most of his injuries have yet to heal that weren't life threatening so he was left with a myriad of broken bones, server bruising across his body and to top it all off the man was kept restrained by a combination of Adamantium and Vibrainium locks and chains and several Psionic dampers that were attached to his body to keep him unconscious or at the very least locked away inside his own mind.

And this was before they began to delve into the numerous spells and enchantments that Wanda and the recently arrived Doctor Strange had put in place. For a moment, Steve thought that the added six Dora Milaje, T'Challa's personal guard and most elite women warriors, stationed in the room as well were unnecessary. And to make sure no Phoenix Force energy could possibly leak out; several energy conduits were hooked up to him and rigged to some of the spells keeping Peter secured. If the Phoenix tried to use its power to escape, then theoretically the energy conduits would take that power and send it to the spells to strengthen them.

Steve didn't know how long he stared at Peter's comatose body until Xavier walked up and stood beside him. Minutes of silence passed before Steve spoke in a low voice.

"How do you think he'll take it? Finding out that Logan was killed I mean" Steve glanced at Xavier.

The powerful telepath didn't respond as he did a small scan of the room that Peter was in to see if the Psionic dampers were working in keeping any telepathic abilities that Peter had first manifested since waking up secured. After finding that they were, he pulled back and answered the Captain's question.

"It's hard to say, the key will be making sure that Peter doesn't accidently trigger a response from the Phoenix. But I can hazard a guess, he'll never forgive himself… even if by some miracle Logan comes back to life or because Peter learned to resurrect the dead on his own with the Phoenix's power, he'll be haunted by the Dark Phoenix's actions for the rest of his life"

Steve sighed as he rested against the wall, finding that even after spending decades asleep on ice, he's never felt more exhausted "It's still hard to believe this happened, like it's some kind of bad dream that I'm having and just as it's about to get even wore, I'm going to wake up and find that none of this ever happened. The Phoenix never came to earth, the Avengers and the X-men never fought, Peter never became the new host for the Phoenix… Logan never died"

Xavier didn't respond for a long time as he stared at the heavily restrained form of Peter before he let out a tired sigh and rubbed his brow before speaking "Tell me Steven, have you ever heard of Aristotle's theory on 'Hidden evil'?"

Steve frowned as he thought it over for a few moments before he shook his head "No, can't say that I have"

"Very few have… it's one of the very few works he written that he never shared with but a chosen few. How it's even lasted this long is beyond me though…" Xavier stated as he glanced back at Peter's 'sleeping' form "It's a long and rather complex topic but the bases of it is that everyone, no matter how good willed or kind hearted they are, all possess a small fragment on sheer and utter malevolence and loathing for everything and everyone around them by nature"

Steve's eyes narrowed at this "That sounds rather morbid"

"It is, but some philosophers and even physiatrists that are somehow aware of this theory have used it to possibly explain why humans can't seem to turn away from a car crash as it happens, why the first thing we latch on to in the news is some story about a mass murder or death or even why we wouldn't hesitate to crush a small insect passing by us. We do these things because a small portion of us, no matter how small, no matter how deeply buried, wants nothing more than to experience or inflect pain and misery on something else. Some chalk it up to mankind's more primal and violent instincts but I don't always believe that"

"And you think that's why Peter… the Dark Phoenix… killed Logan and hurt so many others? Because the Phoenix found Peter's 'hidden evil' and decided to exploit? To have Peter give into some natural malice that he or any of us don't even know we have?" Steve asked with an unconvinced look on his face "That doesn't sound like the Spider-man I know. He'd gladly give his own life for anyone of us or even a complete stranger because at his core, he's a good man. In my eyes, calling him just a hero doesn't do him justice"

Xavier agreed with that, he's seen Peter on a multitude of occasions go out of his way to help others despite the risk, even to save monsters that weren't worth the effort and face down incredible odds that any sane being would back down from.

"Yes, but the other portion of 'Hidden evil' is that when we are exposed to such great horrors, inhumane brutality and rage, a small part of it latches on to our minds… to our souls… and no matter how hard you try, it'll always be there, festering. It's also used to explain people who are always so happy or optimistic when exposed to such things seem unaffected by it. Because even if they aren't affected by it in an obvious way, they'll still be touched by it, tainted for the lack of a better term"

Steve was silent for a few minutes as he stared at Xavier before glancing at Peter "You think that's why no one can control the Phoenix Force? Because it finds and latches on to that and enhances it beyond control?"

"It's crossed my mind from time to time" Xavier said with a sigh before he rubbed his brow "I want to believe it's why Jean seemed so malevolent when she first became the Dark Phoenix despite the fact she was such a kind-hearted woman. After all, how can such a caring and kind woman such as herself destroy a star and doom an entire civilization because of it? But maybe that's just me trying to find some sort of justification, some kind of understanding as to why she did what she did as the Dark Phoenix. Like what I'm trying to do regarding Peter's actions… trying to make sense with what happened"

Silence fell as both men stared at Peter's restrained form for a long time. Wondering how the Queen's born hero was going to respond to what's happened when he woke up. Part of Steve hoped Peter wouldn't so he'd be spared the knowledge that he killed his best friend and nearly leveled all of Wakanda and looked like he wouldn't stop there.

But another part, coldly rationalized that Peter has to own up to what happened and accept the possible repercussions that will come from losing control like he did. The patriotic hero knows what happened wasn't Peter's fault entirely, no one could have predicted that Magik nearly killing Jessica would trigger such a horrible event and lead to someone's death like it did Logan's.

'But it shouldn't have happened in the first place… none of this should' Steve thought with a tired sigh as he turned to leave 'Funny how we only come to realize and regret the decisions that both sides made when it's all said and done… and by then it's too late for some'

…

And done.

Next chapter, Peter awakens and discovers just how far his rampage went as the Dark Phoenix and Kaine arrives to find out what happened to his brother/genetic template.

And before anyone asks, no as far as I'm aware there is no Aristotle's 'Hidden evil' thing. I literally just made that up to possibly explain why in the comics that almost every time someone gets the Phoenix Force, at some point they end up going Dark Phoenix. It has to be more than just 'oh they got angry' or the Phoenix wasn't used to emotions like that before or something like along those lines because more often than not the Dark Phoenix ends up nearly causing mass genocide.

Now this doesn't mean Peter's going to become evil or he's inherently evil in any shape or form, he's not! It's just this little thing that will have you and others think and go 'Damn… that's some deep stuff in a messed-up kind of way and could also explain why that is in comics' or something like that.

And no this won't become some major plot piece that's vital to the story later on or whatever, like Xavier said, sometimes we just need to find something to help us understand why it is that horrible thing happened. It may not be true, but it's something.