Part 4:
Jean rose to her feet holding her head. Glory had taken a lot out of her but she wasn't going to let that stop her. She felt Nightcrawler's voice in her head screaming her name and then her communicator rang out loud and clear a medical emergency. All troops were coming out now. It was everything the X-Men had available.
Reaching inside her Jean pulled for that cosmic energy deep in her bowels in her heart strings. The small fire in her heart spread through her body giving her warmth and a feeling of power. Her connection to this power had come back but it was sketchy at best. Though if ever she needed this power it was now. Jean heard people running through the woods near her. Holding onto the tree as she collected herself she saw large pillars of ice shooting with a cracking noise through the woods. They were followed by her husbands classic noise from optic blast.
Jean narrowed her eyes. Glory would pay for all she had done. Clenching both fists Jean pulled herself into the air, "I am Phoenix!" She hissed through pursed lips the built up psychic fire inside her exploding out into a large bird. She moved through the air burning a large patch of the forest around the combatants away. She stood hovering over Glory pointing at her with malice in her eyes, "You shall be judged."
Glory's head snapped up from Cyclops' limp form in her arms, "What do you bring at me now mutants?". She sounded cocky and sure of herself the orange glow of the Phoenix casting all the right shadows across her now naked form stripped from the energy of Scott's beams. Glory leapt at Phoenix an ice wall shooting into her side knocking her over, "I thought I killed you!"
Bobby smiled his body reforming from the moisture in Hank McCoy's body next to him. It sickened Bobby to steal from his friend's dead form but he knew Hank would have wanted him to do it, "Lets say I grow back." Bobby snapped his hands together and concentrated trying with all his might to freeze all the blood and water inside Glory's body.
"What are you doing to me?" Glory said holding her head as her blood cells froze slowly popping and causing multiple aneurisms through out her head. "I need...a brain." She said falling over in pain as Buffy Summer's walked to her side. She walked up back handing Glory hard in the face sending her tumbling and when she landed in her place was a very beat up and very naked Ben.
Phoenix landed powering down. She hadn't needed to use her power. She could feel this man's human weakness from here. Buffy ran to him, "Ben? But how?"
"Did any of you see where Glory went?" Iceman asked confused as to how the hell goddess got away. He thought he had her.
Jean shook her head looking down at Ben. But she could have sworn when she had Phoenix powered up that Glory had become Ben. But now that she was powered down she thought Iceman was right. Glory was missing.
"We can worry about her later. We have medical emergencies people." Jean heard her husband say weakly from the side of the battle. He lay near a prostrate Wolverine. Logan didn't seem to be moving in anyway shape or form. Was he breathing?
Jean lifted all the dead and broken psychically in cradle like holds. She began floating them slowly Buffy and Iceman walking at her side. Northstar stood at the door looking fine his ribs wrapped up with a bandage. Willow and Tara rose as Jean approached and waved their hands in the shape of a circle over the invisible wall opening a door for Jean and her compatriots.
* Jean-Paul take Ben. We found him...he isn't doing well. * Jean said her powers releasing the boy to Jean. Snatching him up the two disappeared around the doorway and out of sight. * Iceman how did you get outside? Who was helping Angel? * She said having in Phoenix form absorbed a lot of random memories.
"Kurt teleported me outside and got the red head witch. She and him healed the injured as best they could. Then the witch came back up here to cast. Moved courtesy of speed boy Jean-Paul the whole time." Iceman said cracking his ice-knuckles. He pushed the door open as Jean floated the rest of the injured to the infirmary. That put Ben, Logan, Cyclops, Angel, Juggernaut, and Emma all on the injured list. Beast and Spike were both dead and jean could imagine that Nightcrawler was exhausted from the amount of teleports he had done in the last hour and to top it all off they had lost Glory.
After dropping off the injured Jean's red locks flipped around heading down the hall towards Cerebra. She would use it to contact Xavier. Get him hooked onto the mini-Cerebro he had with him in the jet so he could scan for Glory. His mind was far more powerful then hers. Running her hands along the grained wood walls Jean felt a memory flash wrapped in fire. It was of Glory becoming Ben and hitting the ground. Could Glory shift shapes? Not according to Buffy and her friends but who knew. Better safe then sorry, * Northstar this is a direct order from acting team leader. Move Ben to the Danger Room. Put on the holding program used for Saber-toothed a few years ago and then lock the room down. *
* Why? * Jean-Paul asked through the link that Jean had opened. In the infirmary he was checking Juggernaut over before giving him the clean bill of health. The behemoth seemed to be doing alright.
* Just do it. I have suspicions. * Jean said shutting the link to further discussion as she came to over lit hall before Cerebra. She touched the metal door letting it scan her hand and eye then said slowly, "Operator Jean Grey. Pass Code Level 4.". The scanner for hands now actually took a piece of your skin so it stung a little. But that was for DNA Verification, a measure built specifically against Mystique.
Clicking herself into the cold seat inside Cerebra she powered the machine up. The moment she did she felt something at the base of her skull. A voice of sorts not physical or psychic. It was as if she had a residual energy from her connection to Glory earlier.
Shaking it off Jean spread her mind out along the plane finding Xavier's own in contemplation. She could see her brother and cousin in law playing cards together rather solemnly. Xavier instantly noticed her presence.
* Jean! How fares everything? * Xavier asked both of them knowing full well he had monitored the entire fight.
* We lost Glory. But Xavier I have a worry... * Jean never finished her sentence as a flash of Glory appeared on the psychic plane. It snarled and then smiled seeing Dawn.
* What?! * Jean said psyhic armor appearing over her skin. Xavier's astral form rose to face the Goddess but as quickly as she had been there she was gone.
* Jean that came from your head? Are you connected to the Goddess somehow? * Xavier asked facing directly towards his old student and now equal.
* That's my worry. When I used Phoenix I fear I created a connection between us. I think I can see her for who she really is and... * Jean said saying but Xavier silenced her.
* We will not speak again until this is resolved. If Glory is in your head we can't lead her to Dawn. I will use force if necessary to keep you away Jean. * Xavier said and suddenly Jean felt herself back in the room with Cerebra. What had she done.
. . . .
Drusilla sat in the basement feasting on the dead Pizza Hut worker. She had her new clan with her. Seventeen vampires she had collected from around New York City. Only one of them old enough to actually matter. That was the brown haired male in the corner. He was at least Spike's age and claimed to be descendant of the Master line just as Angel, Darla, Spike, and Dru were. The Master had created multiple descendent lines so his claim could be valid. His age fit anyway.
"Skylark my white night is dead." Drusilla said suddenly her eyes drooping as she dropped the corpse to the floor. She rose to her feet placing both gloved hands on the side of her face. Spike was dead his light was gone from inside her. Spike had been a bad puppy lately but Dru still loved him.
"Who is dead?" One of the younger vampires said and Dru shoved him over in anguish.
Then Dru felt something inside her mind. A woman in a red dress appeared to her and told her to get the Key. To hunt this "Xavier" he was Spike's killer. Dru's lips curled and looked around the room, "We hunt Spikey's killer. The bald man pays for being naughty."
To Be Continued...
P.S.
Sorry it took so long and was so horribly short. The next one will be much better as it will have Glory's stand and Dru's fight with Havok...so yes more soon.
Jean rose to her feet holding her head. Glory had taken a lot out of her but she wasn't going to let that stop her. She felt Nightcrawler's voice in her head screaming her name and then her communicator rang out loud and clear a medical emergency. All troops were coming out now. It was everything the X-Men had available.
Reaching inside her Jean pulled for that cosmic energy deep in her bowels in her heart strings. The small fire in her heart spread through her body giving her warmth and a feeling of power. Her connection to this power had come back but it was sketchy at best. Though if ever she needed this power it was now. Jean heard people running through the woods near her. Holding onto the tree as she collected herself she saw large pillars of ice shooting with a cracking noise through the woods. They were followed by her husbands classic noise from optic blast.
Jean narrowed her eyes. Glory would pay for all she had done. Clenching both fists Jean pulled herself into the air, "I am Phoenix!" She hissed through pursed lips the built up psychic fire inside her exploding out into a large bird. She moved through the air burning a large patch of the forest around the combatants away. She stood hovering over Glory pointing at her with malice in her eyes, "You shall be judged."
Glory's head snapped up from Cyclops' limp form in her arms, "What do you bring at me now mutants?". She sounded cocky and sure of herself the orange glow of the Phoenix casting all the right shadows across her now naked form stripped from the energy of Scott's beams. Glory leapt at Phoenix an ice wall shooting into her side knocking her over, "I thought I killed you!"
Bobby smiled his body reforming from the moisture in Hank McCoy's body next to him. It sickened Bobby to steal from his friend's dead form but he knew Hank would have wanted him to do it, "Lets say I grow back." Bobby snapped his hands together and concentrated trying with all his might to freeze all the blood and water inside Glory's body.
"What are you doing to me?" Glory said holding her head as her blood cells froze slowly popping and causing multiple aneurisms through out her head. "I need...a brain." She said falling over in pain as Buffy Summer's walked to her side. She walked up back handing Glory hard in the face sending her tumbling and when she landed in her place was a very beat up and very naked Ben.
Phoenix landed powering down. She hadn't needed to use her power. She could feel this man's human weakness from here. Buffy ran to him, "Ben? But how?"
"Did any of you see where Glory went?" Iceman asked confused as to how the hell goddess got away. He thought he had her.
Jean shook her head looking down at Ben. But she could have sworn when she had Phoenix powered up that Glory had become Ben. But now that she was powered down she thought Iceman was right. Glory was missing.
"We can worry about her later. We have medical emergencies people." Jean heard her husband say weakly from the side of the battle. He lay near a prostrate Wolverine. Logan didn't seem to be moving in anyway shape or form. Was he breathing?
Jean lifted all the dead and broken psychically in cradle like holds. She began floating them slowly Buffy and Iceman walking at her side. Northstar stood at the door looking fine his ribs wrapped up with a bandage. Willow and Tara rose as Jean approached and waved their hands in the shape of a circle over the invisible wall opening a door for Jean and her compatriots.
* Jean-Paul take Ben. We found him...he isn't doing well. * Jean said her powers releasing the boy to Jean. Snatching him up the two disappeared around the doorway and out of sight. * Iceman how did you get outside? Who was helping Angel? * She said having in Phoenix form absorbed a lot of random memories.
"Kurt teleported me outside and got the red head witch. She and him healed the injured as best they could. Then the witch came back up here to cast. Moved courtesy of speed boy Jean-Paul the whole time." Iceman said cracking his ice-knuckles. He pushed the door open as Jean floated the rest of the injured to the infirmary. That put Ben, Logan, Cyclops, Angel, Juggernaut, and Emma all on the injured list. Beast and Spike were both dead and jean could imagine that Nightcrawler was exhausted from the amount of teleports he had done in the last hour and to top it all off they had lost Glory.
After dropping off the injured Jean's red locks flipped around heading down the hall towards Cerebra. She would use it to contact Xavier. Get him hooked onto the mini-Cerebro he had with him in the jet so he could scan for Glory. His mind was far more powerful then hers. Running her hands along the grained wood walls Jean felt a memory flash wrapped in fire. It was of Glory becoming Ben and hitting the ground. Could Glory shift shapes? Not according to Buffy and her friends but who knew. Better safe then sorry, * Northstar this is a direct order from acting team leader. Move Ben to the Danger Room. Put on the holding program used for Saber-toothed a few years ago and then lock the room down. *
* Why? * Jean-Paul asked through the link that Jean had opened. In the infirmary he was checking Juggernaut over before giving him the clean bill of health. The behemoth seemed to be doing alright.
* Just do it. I have suspicions. * Jean said shutting the link to further discussion as she came to over lit hall before Cerebra. She touched the metal door letting it scan her hand and eye then said slowly, "Operator Jean Grey. Pass Code Level 4.". The scanner for hands now actually took a piece of your skin so it stung a little. But that was for DNA Verification, a measure built specifically against Mystique.
Clicking herself into the cold seat inside Cerebra she powered the machine up. The moment she did she felt something at the base of her skull. A voice of sorts not physical or psychic. It was as if she had a residual energy from her connection to Glory earlier.
Shaking it off Jean spread her mind out along the plane finding Xavier's own in contemplation. She could see her brother and cousin in law playing cards together rather solemnly. Xavier instantly noticed her presence.
* Jean! How fares everything? * Xavier asked both of them knowing full well he had monitored the entire fight.
* We lost Glory. But Xavier I have a worry... * Jean never finished her sentence as a flash of Glory appeared on the psychic plane. It snarled and then smiled seeing Dawn.
* What?! * Jean said psyhic armor appearing over her skin. Xavier's astral form rose to face the Goddess but as quickly as she had been there she was gone.
* Jean that came from your head? Are you connected to the Goddess somehow? * Xavier asked facing directly towards his old student and now equal.
* That's my worry. When I used Phoenix I fear I created a connection between us. I think I can see her for who she really is and... * Jean said saying but Xavier silenced her.
* We will not speak again until this is resolved. If Glory is in your head we can't lead her to Dawn. I will use force if necessary to keep you away Jean. * Xavier said and suddenly Jean felt herself back in the room with Cerebra. What had she done.
. . . .
Drusilla sat in the basement feasting on the dead Pizza Hut worker. She had her new clan with her. Seventeen vampires she had collected from around New York City. Only one of them old enough to actually matter. That was the brown haired male in the corner. He was at least Spike's age and claimed to be descendant of the Master line just as Angel, Darla, Spike, and Dru were. The Master had created multiple descendent lines so his claim could be valid. His age fit anyway.
"Skylark my white night is dead." Drusilla said suddenly her eyes drooping as she dropped the corpse to the floor. She rose to her feet placing both gloved hands on the side of her face. Spike was dead his light was gone from inside her. Spike had been a bad puppy lately but Dru still loved him.
"Who is dead?" One of the younger vampires said and Dru shoved him over in anguish.
Then Dru felt something inside her mind. A woman in a red dress appeared to her and told her to get the Key. To hunt this "Xavier" he was Spike's killer. Dru's lips curled and looked around the room, "We hunt Spikey's killer. The bald man pays for being naughty."
To Be Continued...
P.S.
Sorry it took so long and was so horribly short. The next one will be much better as it will have Glory's stand and Dru's fight with Havok...so yes more soon.