"The Phoenix Awakens"
by Darkstorm Anon, DarkstormAnon@hotmail.com
August 6, 2003
Ok, this time I'm writing it in Microsoft Word, so there should be less grammar errors, (yeah, last time I spelled Phoenix wrong through the whole last chapter) but please, anyone, review this and tell me what you think, as long as you have an opinion. My email address is DarkstormAnon@hotmail.com. This is the continuation of "The Phoenix" that I wrote earlier, and I know it totally screws up the Phoenix plot, but hey, I like it. Anyway, I think its better than the whole Alien deal. I also think its kind of weird that my first piece was more of a romance thing between Scott and Jean, while this one has a lot of action, but it still has too much dialogue for my taste, but the plot demands it. Enjoy.
Jean's House:
Jean Gray is in her bathroom. She levitates her toothpaste towards her, something she has done a multitude of times, only this time, it is different. Sparks fly from her fingertips (yeah I know, Witchy Woman, but its just a coincidence) (not a Beserker spark, more of a fiery one) toward the toothpaste, exploding it all over her and the bathroom. She screams, her father runs up to her and looks around.
The Morlock's Sewers:
A figure approaches through the darkness. The spikes are seen off of the figures back. Calysto looks at him, "Spyke, we were worried about you since Apocalypse attacked."
"He is ill" Caliban moans as he staggering back.
"What are you talking ab(out)…" Calisto is pinned to the wall by spikes on either side of her neck. She gasps for air. The morlock that can paralyze people jumps at Spyke as he just turns around and she lands on his back. She yells in pain as she falls back.
The morlocks desperately try to fight Spyke, but he is too much for them.
The struggle is seen by their silhouettes, the Morlock's attacking Spyke, Spyke prevailing.
Caliban alone runs away through the sewers.
Outside the Mansion:
A robed figure flies toward the outer door of the mansion. It is dark, so the first thought is Magneto, but the figure seems more feminine. She reaches toward the handprint/genetic scanner by the gate. It chirps, "Identity, Jean Gray. Security systems disabled." (or whatever it says in Mindbender). She approaches the front door; it opens before her.
Charles' Room:
Charles is seen in his bed. A voice awakens him, "Charles, wake up, I need to talk."
"Jean?" he replies.
Seconds later the lady walks threw the door. Kurt and Kitty, following her, (being the nosy night owls that they are, and no, they don't like each other in that way, they're just friends.). Walk in and ask the professor who she is. "Let's just say she is an old friend, one that I am very upset with right now." The duo walk away confused but curious. Back in the room you see them peak through the wall, overhearing the conversation. Xavier angrily states, "Just what do you think you were doing, giving her that power when she can barley control her innate ones."
The lady responds, "I had no choice, it had to be done so history could be fulfilled and humani…" She is broken off by Xavier.
"Kurt, Kitty, what did I tell you. Get back to your rooms immediately," he said in a stern, serious, on the verge of angry voice.
As the two walk out a red strand of hair is evident outside the mysterious lady's cape. Kurt comments, "Wow, I've never seen the professor like that before, I guess loosing Jean has really pushed some of his buttons."
Kitty replies, "Gee, I don't know what his problem is, I just wanted to know who that lady is."
At that moment Caliban busts through the door, he speaks to the two kids caught off guard, "I must speak to Charles Xavier, and Jean Gray."
"Jean's dead, but Xavier is right this way." Kurt leads. He knocks on the door, "Caliban is here to see you."
Xavier replies, "Yes, I know, let him come in."
Immediately Caliban lets out in his own weird way, "The morlocks, Apocalypse was after them because of me… Now…"
Xavier interrupts again, "Kurt, Kitty, please leave." They teenagers leave the trio alone.
"Man, what's up his britches tonight?" Kurt remarks.
It dawns on Kitty, "Jean?"
Rogue's Room: (well sometimes she and Kitty share rooms and sometimes not.)
Kitty shakes Rogue to wake her up, "Hey guess what just happened."
"Do you know what time it is?"
Apocalypse's lair:
Mesmero stands in front of Apocalypse's throne. He speaks to a group of mutant cohorts.
"We were hoping to capture the one called Caliban in order to locate the force, but instead of him, we have found another Pestilence. The strongest will be brought together, and will be formed into avatars of amazing power, and the weak shall perish in the fire, thus the world will finally be in his image."
Spyke, a noticibly different Spyke, a much stronger Spyke, covered in oozing green mess, steps out from the shadows.
Omega Red approaches from another side.
"You too can be a horseman with incredible power, like Pestilence or War. And the stronger and more willing you are, more power will be yours."
Jean's Dorm at a College in New York:
Jean is talking on the phone to Scott, "You would not believe what happened to me two nights ago, I think I may have pyrotechnic abilities now, it all started with toothpaste."
"Toothpaste?" Scott laughs, "what did you do, light it on fire?"
"Actually I blew it all over the bathroom, it took half an hour just to clean it up, but I think I'm getting it under control." Jean picks up a pencil on her desk as it catches on fire.
"Sorry I couldn't get a hold of you last night, with you moving into your dorm and all, but Professor sent me to pick up Alex. He wants to put blocks in as many mutants as he can to keep Apocalypse or Mesmero from controlling them, yeah, he's been really edgy lately."
" I imagine so, with Apocalypse out there."
"He hasn't even told the other students your alive yet."
"He hasn't? Well he's made it quite clear that while I can visit the institute I need to get my parents express permission to go in on any missions, that's so unfair, I'm 18 now, an adult by myself, and with Daddy so freaked out I doubt he'd let me do anything, he was about to not let me go to college. "
Hank McCoy leans over to Scott in the co-pilots' chair, "That's enough Romeo, ahh, 'You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings', so you can land this thing"
"Well, I gotta go, I'll see you later."
As they land Kurt bamfs in, "Hey Alex, long time no see. Scott the professor has an important announcement to make but he was waiting for you to land, something big is going down, even Magneto is here."
The Dining Hall:
The X-men are sitting around the table as always, each talking about the going ons of the previous night. Caliban is there as well as Magneto. But the cloaked stranger is absent. Xavier arrives, "X-men I have gathered you here today because you face your greatest threat by far. In three days we will be facing Apocalypse." The crowd murmurs. "Not only that but we will need all the help we can muster. I have invited Magneto's Acolytes and…"
"Sabertooth" Wolverine hisses.
"No, you'll find that traitor noticeably missing," Gambit spits.
"Anyway," Xavier continues, "I have also invited the brotherhood."
"What!" Scott cries, "this is just like Mystique running the show!"
"I'm sorry, I have no choice." Xavier pushes on, "With Mystique in stone their beef with Apocalypse dwarfs their previous complaint with us, they were more than happy to agree to fight with us. Plus they do have fighting experience."
"I cant allow this," Scott says.
"You have no choice. Although you may be the deputy leader of the X-men I am ultimately the final say."
"Then I must threaten to leave." Scott stands up in a threatening posture.
Xavier forcefully continues, "And Jean will also join us." Scott sits back down.
"You must be loosing your marbles Prof," Tabitha laughs, despite the serious situation, "We all know that Jean is dead."
Scott and Xavier just look at her. Scott says, "But she says you wouldn't let her join us without her dad's permission."
"I won't let her, but she will come anyway."
The group just looks around at each other with a stun confused look, obviously Xavier and Scott were in on something none of them knew anything about.
"You have two days to return. If you still want to go up, with your parents permission of course, meet back here, otherwise stay at home. I have protected you all from his most basic mental attacks, but I cannot guarantee your safety either here or away. Now I will be away myself for a few days. I need to guard everyone I can. Oh yes, nobody tell Jean about this, especially you Scott." He gets up and leaves as Wolverine follows him out the door.
Later that Day:
Boom Boom and Kurt are playing video games against each other. Kurt laughs, "Yeah, I'm beating you!" Tabitha smiles as she slips a little firecracker underneath him. It pops. Kurt bamfs to the ceiling.
"Oww, why did you have to do that?"
She chuckles, looking at the game, "and that my friend, is the finishing move."
The screen shows some cheesy mortal combat type game and the blue character is knocked on the floor by the woman with a big "KO" on the screen.
"I'll get you for this." Kurt teleports on top of her, standing on her shoulders. He then is on the ceiling and is letting Tabitha fall. He then teleports below her and catches her as she is about to hit the floor and bamfs away. Both land safely on the couch.
"Oh yeah," Boom Boom charges up her hand full of firecrackers, "two can play at this game."
"Oh no" Kurt says.
Jean walks in the door. Both look at her stunned for a minute. Both run up to meet her. Tabitha hugs her. Kurt looks like he's about to hug her, but then sticks out his hand in a weird, I want to hug you but I don't know if I'm supposed to because you're a girl way. Jean looks at him, "What are you doing you silly goof?" She hugs him anyway.
"Its so great to see you Jean." Tabitha exclaims, "we all thought you were dead." She belts out, "Amara get down here Jean's here!!!" She turns back to Jean, "What happened?"
Jean runs her hand through her hair and looks at the ground, "I don't really know for sure." She looks up and changes the subject, "But look what I can do now. She picks up one of their game controllers and unplugs it from the console and brings it her way."
Amara pounces down the stairs, "Jean!!! I thought you were dead" She is crying with happiness.
"Hey, look what I can do, I have your powers now too." She picks up the controller, levitates it closer than, CRACK, a flame flies from her to the controller as it incinerates.
Boom Boom staes, "Wow, that is rocking"
"Man, we only have so many of those," Kurt moans.
"But you're not supposed to be playing video games in the first place."
"But the professor is letting us do anything we want until tomorrow, he's gone." Kurt, curtly responds (haha Kurt, curtly…).
Scott is walking by on the phone, "Come on Jean, pick up."
"Ahem" Jean coughs.
Scott looks at her, drops the phone, runs and picks her up. "I havn't seen you in so long."
"Its only been four days."
"Well, it seems like a lifetime." They look at each other for what seems like forever. (hey this is TV 10 seconds seems like forever) "Oh," he puts her back down. "I was calling because I have to take Alex back home.
"Something's wrong," she says worriedly as she touches his face.
"The professor won't let me say." Scott says. But he doesn't notice Jean overhears him thinking, "I don't want her to know we are going up against apocalypse again." She puts her hand over her mouth.
Rogue walks by the hallway Jean senses her thinking, "Great, now that little Miss Peacock is back in the picture its not I'll never have a chance with Scott, not that I ever would have anyway." All of a sudden she can hear everybody thinking at once: Scott, Kurt, Tabitha, Amara. She levitates into the air, grabbing her head, echoing Power Surge. A haunting voice calls out, "Jean"
"Jean, are you all right?" Scott looks up concerned.
She comes back down, "Yeah, its just sometimes I feel that… you know… something is inside of me."
Scott looks deep in her eyes. Just then Alex bounces in, "Hey bro, look at my new outfit." Alex is decked out in full X-men garb.
Scott scoffs, "Dude, your not on the team, where'd u get that?"
"But hey, I got the powers." He zapps blindly out a window..
"It takes more than, do you know how hard we've been training?"
"But hey, I want to fight Ap…" Scott puts his hand over his brother's mouth.
"Look who's here, Jean." Scott steps on his foot.
"Oh, hey Jean, heard you were dead or something."
"Yeah, you know how rumors are." She flicks back her hair.
"Now get out of that and let me get you to the airport." He looks to Jean, "Professor has the Jet right now." Scott pecks her on the cheek. "I'll see you later." The two brothers run off.
"Show us more of your powers," Amara begs.
"Sure," she looks where Scott ran with a worried look.
The Next Afternoon:
The cast is gathered in the living room. There are some noticeable exceptions, for example Sunspot, Multiple Man, and Cannonball. All of the older X-men are there. The The Acolytes are in one corner, and the brotherhood in another. Kurt is chasing Todd around the room. The X-men talk to each other.
Bobby asks Kitty, "How did you talk your parents into letting you come?"
She smiles, "I didn't tell them what we were going to do."
Bobby laughs, "Yeah, I told my parents I was just on break for the weekend."
Kitty reaches up and pulls Kurt down from his fun.
"Oh why'd you go and have to do that?" Toad looks back and sticks his slimy long tongue out at him.
Kitty whispers, "Why do you suppose Wanda isn't trying to tear apart her dear sweet dad?"
Kurt shrugs his shoulders then bamfs off, landing on top of toad.
Logan looks down at Scott sitting and grins, "No Sabertooth."
Xavier sits outside the door with Ororo. "Professor, are you ready to go in."
"Quiet she is contacting me." A picture of the older Jean talking appears overlaying Xavier's face. Xavier looks up immediately. "Manhattan, he is going after Mr. Worthington. Oh, no, I forgot to protect him." He looks up at Ororo. "Let's go in."
He goes in the room. "Quickly, we must make our way toward Manhattan. He is going after a man by the name of Warren Worthington the third. Some of you might better know him as the Angel." Kurt and Toad fall into line when the Professor walk in.
Rogue looks up concerned, "Why would he be going after him?"
"Apparently our old friend Apocalypse is going after the world's most powerful mutants," Magneto contended, "the only reason he doesn't have most of us is because of your professor's powers. He has already gathered quite a few… associates."
"I will separate you into groups." Xavier went on, "The Black team will consist of the Acolytes, led by Magneto of course. Green: The Brotherhood will be lead by Avalance. Red team: Scott, you will lead Rogue, Boom Boom, and Magma. Blue team: Nightcrawler will lead Shadowcat, Beserker, and Iceman. Instructors, you will be the White team, lead by me, Storm will be my second. Any questions?"
Scott jumps up, "You said Jean was going to be here."
"She will be. Now before we get on"
Toad jumps up, "Yeah, were here to bag Apocalypse right."
"Yes."
"Well, you see, I'm starting to have second thoughts."
Fred grabbed him, "Don't worry, we'll be there for you." Blob gives Toad a noogie.
Brotherhood, you will ride up there with us, Magneto, Hank, I have given you directions to his penthouse. Now I must go to business. Oh yes, and Logan, don't get too caught up with Sabertooth or Omega Red." Logan growls.
Manhattan at Dusk:
The X-Jet pulls above the roof. Xavier looks up. "He's not there." Warren is eating dinner at a fancy restaurant with an attractive lady when Xavier contacts him. He excuses himself and goes to the bathroom. "I must be loosing my mind."
He hears Xavier's voice again, "Warren, this is Xavier."
"Umm, hello." He looks into the mirror. The bathroom attendant looks at him with a weird look.
"This is very important, your life is in grave danger. Where are you?"
"Swordfish's Flight"
"We'll be right there, and Warren."
"Yes?" he responds awkwardly.
"Be very careful."
He walks out the door and looks out the window. They are on the top story of a skyscraper. Just then on the stage the string band is pushed out of the way by a weird force appearing. Apocalypse's ship materializes. Out steps Apocalypse and Omega Red, a more enhanced Omega Red from the last encounter. Spyke emerges, in all of Apocalypse's disgusting glory. Mesmero stays behind Apocalypse. Sabertooth saunters out, smiles at the stunned crowd, grabs a filet of fish off a nearby plates, takes a bite, smiles, and roars. The crowd jumps up and makes a mad dash toward the door. Warren runs back into the bathroom. Yells at the attendant, "Get out! There is a monster out there." As soon as the attendant hits the door, Warren changes into his costume, Angel. He flies through the door. The X-Jet pulls up on the roof. Bezerker busts the roof open. The brotherhood and the blue team jump out into the room. Nightcrawler grabs Beserker, and Avalanche and teleports them into the room. Shadowcat grabs the Blob as they fall through the roof. Avalanche catches Shadowcat as the blob falls on his butt. "Oww," he complains.
"Well I couldn't catch you," Avalanche comments, Shadowcat giggles.
Toad picks up the Scarlet Witch as he jumps down in there. She steps on his foot as they reach the room.
The X-Copter carries the Red team. Scott blows a whole in roof as a rope decends into as the room. "Go," commands Xavier to the rest of the white team. They jump in. Magneto flies over to them and brings Xavier down into the room with him. As they land Magneto's orbs come crashing through the window. The orbs open to let the Acolytes out. The scene freezes a minute, as both groups look at each other.
Nightcrawler looks out, "Spyke? Is that you? But why?"
"Guess." He launches a spike right at him. Kurt teleports away as it sticks in the wall. It is clearly oozing some green gunk out of its tip.
Angel busts out of the restroom, heading strait toward apocalypse. Mesmero looks out from the vessel. Angel runs into the ground holding his head. Angel stands back up, looking evil, and stares at the X-men. Xavier notices Mesmero and directs a psychic blast towards him. Apocalypse puts up a psychic shield and deflects the blast back, directly toward Xavier. Xavier is knocked back in his chair. Magneto looks at the unconscious Xavier, "The fight has begun."
Storm commands, "Red team, take down angel. Brotherhood, get Spyke, and try not to hurt him."
Wolverine growls, "I'll take on Sabertooth."
"Fine, you get Sabertooth, the rest of us white will get Mesmero and Apocalypse, Magneto, split your group to attack Apocalypse and Omega Red. Blue team, just fight."
The fight commences. Storm flies toward Apocalypse. Angel intercepts her, squeezing her. Magma throws up a fireball but Rogue stops Magma, "No, he has Storm."
Pyro engulfs Omega Red in a fireball, but Omega Red runs right towards him and wraps around his neck with his tentacles.
Speed is buzzing around the room, not getting in anyone's way, but not really helping either.
Scott blasts Angel down. "Now I'm going for Omega." He runs off as angel gets back up.
Boom Boom lets off a volley of her explosives as Angel flies out of them and hits Boom Boom on the head.
Wolverine and Sabertooth duke it out. Sabertooth throws a table at Wolverine. He slices it, takes a leg of the table, swings around and launches the table back at Sabertooth. Magneto takes all the forks and cutlery, orbiting around his head and sends it hurtling toward Apocalypse. Apocalypse stretches out his hand and the projectiles hit an invisible shield.
Sabertooth jumps on Wolverine, but Wolverine catches him by his feet and sends him flying out the window. Wolverine jumps after him. They fall down stories. Wolverine is intent on his prey. Sabertooth hits his head on a ledge on the way down and starts spinning. He ultimately falls through a covered walkway, cushioning his fall. Wolverine comes down, catching his claws on a light post, swinging around it, spiraling to the ground. As soon as he lands the shredded light post splinters into curls. He runs over to Sabertooth, "Game over, bub."
The blob murmurs to toad, "If we cant touch him, we'll take on someone else." They leave Toad to Avalanche and Wanda, those who don't have to touch him.
Nightcrawler is bouncing around the room, landing on the Angel's back, then the angel rams him against the ceiling or a wall, he teleports away, then teleports back. The angel corkscrews and spins, sending Nightcrawler flying. He is stunned and dizzy.
Avalanche is just beginning to get his rumble on. Wanda stops him, "No, skyscraper, think."
Spyke looks down from the window and sends a spike directly into Wolverine's back. Sabertooth looks up at the window, then looks at Wolverine, "No, game's over for you." As Sabertooth rolls over another spike lands right where Sabertooth's head was. He looks up. Spyke, from the window, gives Sabertooth a mean look. Spyke looks back. Wanda hexes him. He flies into the roof, sticking to it, with his spikes and all. A spike emerges from a hand of his still free, and he spikes the Scarlet Witch, knocking her out. The ground starts to shake under them. Spyke hits him with one of his poison darts too. He digs his elbows into the ceiling, pushing himself out.
Magneto rips a steel beam out of the wall. He yells to Gambit. As it flies by Gambit, he pauses from launching his explosives, and charges the beam. Magneto wraps the charged beam around Apocalypse's ship. A massive explosion rocks everyone back.
The dust clears. There is no sign of Apocalypse's vessel.
Everyone is stunned.
A light flashes where Apocalypse's ship was. It reappears. Iceman attempts to ice the doors shut, but it is no use, it opens anyway.
The Stairway:
Sabertooth is dragging Wolverine up the stairs by the feet. Wolverine's head is hitting along each step. He is being dragged face down. The spike still hangs in his back. Sabertooth emerges through the door, grinning with his stolen prey.
Storm rises through the air, stunned, but otherwise fine. She summons the elements lightning and directs it toward Apocalypse. He instinctively puts up his arm, extending his shiled, bouncing the electrified heat back toward her. Knocking her down once again.
Magneto yells, "Do not try to attack him directly, he will throw your own assaults back at you."
The blob throws Toad. The flying toad goes careening through the air, landing squarely on the Angel's back. The Angel flies outside the building and does a nose-dive. Toad's cheeks flap in the force of the wind until he is forced to jump off. He lands on the side of a building. Angel turns around to squash the Toad against the building. Toad shoots his tongue at the Angel's face, "haha, can't catch what you cant see." Angel immediately flies upward, pulling Toad with him. "Ahh, loothing my gip."
Nightcrawler catches Toad falling.
Kitty goes up to Spyke. He shoots at her but they go right through her. She asks, "Spyke, whats gotten into you?" She grabs him by the bottom of his feet and they start to sink through the floor. She then jumps away, leeving Spyke entrapped in the ground.
Rogue is looking around not knowing exactly what to do. Professor X warned her not to touch anyone under Mesmero's control. She can't get close to Omega red. She sees Sabertooth coming in the door. She runs toward him. He drops Wolverine, grabs the podium the waiters use to check people in, and throws it at her. It hits her squarely on the head. She falls over. Sabertooth stands over her, "For one of the most powerful mutants, you sure are easy to take out."
Wolverine wakes up, his eyesight is hazy. Obviously his healing factor is able to fight Spyke's poison. He gets up, pulls the spike out of his back, looks at Sabertooth, "Get away from her." He jumps on his back, digging his claws in. Sabertooth yells in pain, but shakes him off.
"You know why short stuff? The power, he promised me even more strength. And with that I could take out you. Not like I havn't been able to before." He picks something up and throws it at Wolverine. Wolverine dices it as he dodges easily.
The Beast is grunting like an animal and charging Apocalypse. Apocalypse blasts beast back. Beast grumbled, "So that too failed." He looks up, "If I can get the king, I might as well go for the rook." He jumps on top of Angel and covers Angel's eyes. Beasts jumps off Angel. He gets up to fight but Apocalypse motions for him to stay.
Mesmero yells to Sabertooth, "Get the one called Rogue here, she could still be useful." Sabertooth looks back at Wolverine as Spyke spikes him again. He looks at Spyke, "He was mine." Spyke, still stuck in the ground just shoots a spike at Sabertooth. Sabertooth dodges, grabbing Wolverine, not wanting to relinquish his prize so easily, and Rogue, and brings them back to the ship.
Boom Boom sees Spyke shooting Sabertooth, so she throws a firecracker at him. Spyke launches a spike at the firecracker, then shoots Boom Boom.
The blob walks up to Omega Red, "You're pretty strong huh? But can those metal things of yours move the unmovable?"
"You don't understand do you? These tentacles just don't just squeeze, they squeeze the life out." He wraps them around Blob. The blob is in obvious pain, "And your loss is my gain."
"Not if I can help it." Speed buzzes around.
Omega Red is obviously not concerned. Cyclops steps up. "Let him go."
"Gladly," Omega Red drops the blob and picks up Cyclops. Cyclops lets out his blast at him. Omega Red laughs, "Oh yes, when Apocalypse upgraded my armor, he put some of that stuff that is in your visor. And…" They are slowly enveloped in a fog of death. I've got these now, too." Speed falls on the ground hacking. Magneto pulls Omega out, and throws him against the ground.
Helicopters begin flying around, shining spotlights in the building.
"Boop, boop" an intercom outside says. "We have you surrounded."
Mesmero command, "Return minions, we have enough for now. Omega Red, kill them."
Angel is flying around the room in crazy circles, Iceman and Beserker are going after him, not having much luck, icing up the room and leaving craters. Angel swoops down, snatching Xavier.
Magneto throws plates, silverware, candelabras, anything metal toward Angel, but as Angel dodges into the ship Apocalypse blasts Magneto back.
Omega Red fills the room with his deadly spores and returns to the ship. Spyke make a circle around him in the floor with his spikes and is able to break free.
With Apocalypse's slaves assembled he returns to the nothingness from whence he came, only this time he left with Angel, Rogue, Wolverine, and the dear Professor Xavier.
Everyone in the room is coughing from Omega Red's spores. Scott thinks, "Jean, I love you. This isn't how it should end."
Jean's Dorm Room:
Jean hears Scott's voice. She grabs her heart. She stumbles outside. She sees scenes of the battle, through Scott's eyes. "No!!!" The cosmic entity, the Phoenix, erupts from her. She soars into the sky.
The Battle:
Everyone is on the ground, coughing, weezing, and not having a good time. A fiery being descends to the center of the room. Flames push out the spores in the room. Scott looks up, "Jean?"
From outside the police men, swat team, and the army sit outside. They are about to go inside. The lead Swat officer motions with his fingers, one, two, three.
At the three, the roof of the building is consumed by the Phoenix's flames. The flames rocket to the sky.
Xavier's mansion:
Flames fall from the sky. The entire top floor has been transported, complete with the X-Jet and X-copter. Jean runs to Scott. He smiles, "Took you long enough."