He dreamed of fire, exploding all around him, soothing yet powerful, frightening yet somehow fitting... and in his dreams he was drawn deeper as destiny rewrote itself around his actions. He fell through the fire and then suddenly it bore him up and he flew on wings of scarlet fire... inside him a strange yearning grew, a desire for a color long lost to his mutation, a color he loved most of all. And something primal responded to that yearning, and before his eyes the fire shifted becoming a pure electric blue, still fiery and still powerful but now filled with the color that he felt had always been his deep inside and had been robbed from him so long ago. He soared on wings of blue fire and all the world turned below him, With a wish he dipped and soared amongst the minds there, experiencing their fear and pain. He sensed that eavesdropping on their thoughts was wrong and so with an iron will he wrestled the power under control and erected a wall between them and him and continued to soar enjoying the nearness of their life.
The Phoenix force gazed upon this mind with joy and satisfaction. Here was a mind full of tactics and hungers and full of emotions yet under control where they would not disturb the phoenix's stability. Here was a man who could carry the entity without unleashing its dark side for here was a man who controlled every iota of himself even with the one he loved. The Phoenix sensed the damage done to him long ago and with a thought erased it, healing it completely, even though the power he had once had had been forced somehow into his partner the one called jeangrey. With its power contained in this one it was willing to wait and watch. It would feed this one with its purpose and desires over the next few hours and help it to accept them and understand them. The Phoenix Force shone brilliantly around the mind of this new host... no not a host this time... a partner.
He swam through the stars in his dreams and back to earth slowly -- when he felt something like distress fill the essence of this place he was in. the Phoenix force within him jangled angrily at whatever had disturbed them and he thrust himself in that direction. Quickly he came near to a scene where madness seemed to rein, and with a resignation, he recognized the people involved. Before his eyes Trish Tilby, intrepid reporter, and annoyance was being menaced, along with her equally annoying niece, by the likes of Blob, Toad, Vanisher, Tower, and Locus. She was battered and beaten, but had maneuvered them into a firefight with the police and they were pinned down. Just at that moment, Locus and Tower moved to try to distract the police as they began to retreat, but the movement caused beams to shudder and fall towards Trish and her niece. Anger at their sudden danger caused Scott to act. With the power now within him, he reached out and flicked the beams away even as he manipulated the other beams into pinning bars immobilizing the members of the Brotherhood even as he caused more beams to tap them on the heads just hard enough to knock them out. He cleared a gentle path before Trish to the exit and then rose away from the scene once more. Within him, the Phoenix force seemed to glory in the work they had done, but also seemed hungry. He looked at the world around them and saw all the energy sources around them bursting with energy. His tactical mind suddenly clicked with an idea and connecting to everything he opened himself wide open to the universe...the inherent power of everything around him flowed in and his idea stabilized as he drew equally from everything and felt the whole universe fill him for a second before he was filled and had to shut off the energy flow. By letting his senses guide him he had been able to feed to the Phoenix force's content by drawing on the full binding force that connected everything and thus killed nothing and consumed nothing. With a sense of triumph he returned his senses to his own body, relaxed, felt himself sink into more normal dreams and faded away.
The Phoenix force gazed upon this mind with joy and satisfaction. Here was a mind full of tactics and hungers and full of emotions yet under control where they would not disturb the phoenix's stability. Here was a man who could carry the entity without unleashing its dark side for here was a man who controlled every iota of himself even with the one he loved. The Phoenix sensed the damage done to him long ago and with a thought erased it, healing it completely, even though the power he had once had had been forced somehow into his partner the one called jeangrey. With its power contained in this one it was willing to wait and watch. It would feed this one with its purpose and desires over the next few hours and help it to accept them and understand them. The Phoenix Force shone brilliantly around the mind of this new host... no not a host this time... a partner.
He swam through the stars in his dreams and back to earth slowly -- when he felt something like distress fill the essence of this place he was in. the Phoenix force within him jangled angrily at whatever had disturbed them and he thrust himself in that direction. Quickly he came near to a scene where madness seemed to rein, and with a resignation, he recognized the people involved. Before his eyes Trish Tilby, intrepid reporter, and annoyance was being menaced, along with her equally annoying niece, by the likes of Blob, Toad, Vanisher, Tower, and Locus. She was battered and beaten, but had maneuvered them into a firefight with the police and they were pinned down. Just at that moment, Locus and Tower moved to try to distract the police as they began to retreat, but the movement caused beams to shudder and fall towards Trish and her niece. Anger at their sudden danger caused Scott to act. With the power now within him, he reached out and flicked the beams away even as he manipulated the other beams into pinning bars immobilizing the members of the Brotherhood even as he caused more beams to tap them on the heads just hard enough to knock them out. He cleared a gentle path before Trish to the exit and then rose away from the scene once more. Within him, the Phoenix force seemed to glory in the work they had done, but also seemed hungry. He looked at the world around them and saw all the energy sources around them bursting with energy. His tactical mind suddenly clicked with an idea and connecting to everything he opened himself wide open to the universe...the inherent power of everything around him flowed in and his idea stabilized as he drew equally from everything and felt the whole universe fill him for a second before he was filled and had to shut off the energy flow. By letting his senses guide him he had been able to feed to the Phoenix force's content by drawing on the full binding force that connected everything and thus killed nothing and consumed nothing. With a sense of triumph he returned his senses to his own body, relaxed, felt himself sink into more normal dreams and faded away.