I'm going to try to make this chapter long, okay? This is the start of Phoenix. Lots of action. Please, please review! And thanks to all who have reviewed this story so far: Clever Fox Child, DemonRogue13, reddfire, Wen 1, and Dana! Thank you people so much and please keep reviewing! Here comes the Phoenix!
reddfire: I'll use the tip, and the revenge on those two certain people will be in the next chapter.
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Scott regained conscious in the air, being dragged behind Jean. The gusty winds would not stop wobbling Scott's shades, so he quickly held them in place, and shouted to Jean.
"Jean, Jean! You have to control whatever is inside you!"
But Jean did not answer. Her mind was slowly becoming in cased in her own mental prison, sealing her off from the world. The powerful entity within her was slowly taking control.
Scott knew he would not contact Jean for the time being, so he quickly concentrated on contacting the Professor.
Professor, please hear me! It's Jean! She's under someone's control! Right now, she's heading toward the docks in the Bayville Port! I can't reach her!
Stay calm Scott. We shall be there soon. Don't let her out of your sight.
Scott stared intently at Jean, hoping she would suddenly break free and realize what was happening. But she didn't seem to even flinch.
A bright green flash caught Scott eye just before it hit Jean. The explosion enveloped her and rocket Scott backwards into an aerial tumble. The ground below rushed at Scott as he free fell faster and faster. He could dive into the water, but then Jean's telekinesis stopped him in mid air, only a couple meters away from the dock. Scott sighed deeply, but then dropped to the ground.
He quickly put his hand to his shades, ready to fire at any imminent danger. The green blast had to come from somewhere. Jean was floating silently in front of him.
"Jean, can you hear me, it's Scott." Jean did not respond.
But someone else did.
"Of course she can, you idiot. She just does not respond to those with much lower caliber than her."
A man of Scott's height stepped out of the shadows. His black hair was short and slicked up. His skin was pale blue. The outfit he was wearing was black and metallic blue, with a dark purplish blue cape that hung in large folded strands that reached almost to the ground.
"Who the hell are you?!" Scott questioned.
"You shall know me as Mr. Sinister. And you shall no more refer to the woman in front of you as Jean Grey."
"How do you know her name?"
"That is of no importance, Scott Summers. You shall now know this mutant of your love as Phoenix! The fiery bird, the flaming spirit that rises from the ashes to become one again what it was, in the superb revival!"
Just as the Mr. Sinister finish, he pulled out a gun with a syringe positioned in front. Orange and yellow liquid bubbled inside the syringe. He aimed it directly at Jean.
Scott fired an optic blast, but Mr. Sinister matched the force with a bright green beam from his palm. He shot the syringe at Jean with his other hand. Jean did not try to avoid the fleeting projectile, as she was in her own world, in a powerful trance of her own. The syringe instantly jabbed into Jean's arm, and the liquid drained into her.
"Jean!!!" Scott shouted, as he ran to Jean. The telekinetic mutant dropped onto her knees, hands on her temples. Just as Scott reached her, she screamed. The human female scream changed into an ear splitting bird like scream drowned in fire. Wisps of flame swooshed around Jean and Scott. Mr. Sinister smiled demonically, and made his move away from the dock, unobserved.
The flames grew stronger around Jean like a small firestorm. They were mental flames, but they started to sizzle Scott's clothes and hair. Instead of burning of the flesh, the flames caused Scott to feel and confused.
"Jean, stop what you are doing!! You can beat whatever this is!!"
"Foolish mortal! You can not comprehend the facts that play right in front of you!" Jean grabbed Scott's arm. The sleeve of his jacket burn away, and the sleeve of T-shirt started to burn away also. The touch was a match of a psychic blast. Scott yelled out in pain, but Jean did not let go. The embers increased, torching Scott's hair more, and starting to burn his T-shirt and jacket of his shoulder. Jean still did not let go. "Let this be a warning to you and the others! The Phoenix has risen, and it is unbeatable!! Trying to fight would be futile and meaningless!! The only way to save yourself will be to stay out of my way and serve me, mortal!!!" Jean's screaming was barely heard by Scott, as he was about to pass out from the psychic blasts. "The Phoenix is alive!!!!!!!!"
The flames surrounding the Phoenix swam together into a ball, and then exploded outwards at amazing speeds. After a split second, the whole dock had been enveloped inside the exploding fireball. The night sky lighted up as the fireball seared. The Phoenix shot upward, encased in an armor of flames. The fireball died down, leaving only pieces of the dock floating in the water, and Scott Summers unconscious. "Let this be a warning to all!!!!!!!!" The Phoenix screeched through the sky. Then, in a blast of fire, took off in a flash.
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Charles Xavier reached the end of the port where the dock had been only a minute ago, and quickly tried to telepathically summon Scott.
"He's unconscious."
"I'll go after him, Chuck!" Logan shouted, diving off the road and into the water.
"Storm, Beast, I need you to gather the team from the city. We must regroup and head back to the mansion." Both adults nodded, and took off into the city.
"Hey Chuck, I found him!" Logan found an intact ladder and climbed back onto the road, laying Scott down. He quickly gave him some CPR, and Scott awoke, coughing up some water.
"L-L-Logan? Professor?" Scott stayed barely conscious as he spoke. He was banged up. His shades had been shattered, so his eyes were closed. Some of hair had been sizzled. His jacket was in shreds, and most of his T-shirt had burned off. His pants had also been burned too. Scott suddenly passed out again. Logan started to shake him and softly smack his cheek.
"Cyclops, hey Cyke! Wake up!"
"It's no use Logan, he's in a coma." The Professor opened his eyes after searching through Scott's mind. "It is not that bad, but he needs rest. Let us go find the others."
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Phoenix's shrill cackles could be heard from the streets of Bayville. Although none of them really paid attention to it.Phoenix took flight into the air, gaining speed as she started to pass gray clouds. Finally she halted. The air was cold in the high latitudes, but it did not phase Phoenix's burning energy surrounding her in the shape of a bird. The flaming mutant outstretched her hand, and caused the gray clouds to pull closer to her, gathering up all over Bayville. Fiery electricity zapped in her hand, and formed a sphere of energy. The gray clouds started to a turn a bright orangish color, and started fuming into larger sizes. A blanket of clouds formed a shell like room around Phoenix and the energy sphere, hidden inside the cloudy maze. She released the sphere, and descended downwards through the clouds. As she exited the clouds, orange lightning sparks exploded and danced along the bottom of the clouds. Bayville had become covered in shade, but overhead, the energy lightning still cracked. Phoenix took another look and smiled.
And that only took an ounce of my power.
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The wind had picked up, but there was no precipitation when everyone returned to the mansion. There was still orange lightning.
"The lightning's freaky enough. I just hope acid rain doesn't start coming from those strange clouds." Kurt remarked to anyone, as the group entered the foyer of the mansion.
"Let me check again took make sure who is unaccounted for", Hank McCoy suddenly blurted. He looked over all the students, nodding a couple times. "Rogue, Kitty, Sam, Rahne, Tabitha, and Roberto. And then of course Jean, too." Hank looked questionably at the Professor. He was the only one out of all of them that had the strongest idea of what had become of Jean Grey.
"Logan, Ororo, please take Scott to the infirmary. I shall meet you there. Hank, I would like you to accompany me. As for the rest of you, please talk amongst yourselves or get some rest. I will explain the situation later tonight. And Miss Braddock, I would like you to see me in my office in an hour. Bobby, will you please show her around and then escort her to my office at the proper time?" The ice blasting teen smiled happily.
"Sure thing Professor, I'd love to." Bobby looked at Betsy with a grin. She smiled back.
"That is all for now." The Professor concluded, and exited the foyer, followed by the three adults.
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The rest of the teen mutants had decided to rest in the recreational room. The others ran ahead, while Bobby hung back for Betsy.
"This way my dear", he said, trying to sound charming. Betsy shook her head with a smile. Then she followed Bobby. "So Betsy, where have you been all this time?" Bobby started as they were walking.
"I've been out of the country. I decided to come here because I heard of you guys. So I thought that since I was a mutant, I might as well come here. Does that answer your question?"
"Sure does. I'm Bobby, just incase you didn't hear before." He outstretched his hand.
"You think I'm hot, don't you?" Betsy started suddenly, after shaking his hand.
"I uh, how did you know?"
"You mean besides the obvious looking at me like that? I can read your mind. But don't worry, I don't do it for fun or invade privacy. I could just tell. And don't worry, I think you're hot too."
"Did you?"
"No, I didn't invade your thoughts. I just said what I thought."
Betsy suddenly seductively moved up to Bobby. She slid her hands up his chest and onto his broad shoulders, and gave them a squeeze.
"I know you want me Bobby", she whispered slowly. Then she put her lips to his. One of her hands slid down and skimmed up his chest, dragging his shirt up. Her other hand ruffled his hair, and they kissed again. But suddenly she stopped, and pushed off him. "Stop that, you creep!" Right when Ray was walking toward them.
"You pullin' moves on her Bobby?!"
"What?! I, hey! She was!" Bobby tried to argue, put Ray punched him across the face. "What the hell was that for, Ray!!" Bobby stood up angrily. Betsy backed up to the wall, looking innocent.
"You better leave her alone!"
"Why don't you tell her to keep her hands off me?!" Ray swung again at Bobby, who ducked and tackled Ray to the ground. Betsy simply smiled as she watched the two guys wrestle on the ground.
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"Hey, why don't you dude get a room?!" Kurt shouted at the wrestling mutants.
"I think they look good together", Jubilee piped up. She and Amara giggled.
"That's enough. Two losers fighting gets boring fast." Jamie stated, walking over to stop the fight. Bobby and Ray suddenly stopped and glared at Jamie. They both grabbed onto the front of his shirt and yanked him into the brawl.
Betsy stepped over the three fighting guys. She put her hands on her hips and looked around.
"So, do you guys have anything fun to do around here beside toy with boys?"
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Charles Xavier tapped out of Scott's mind. He then looked at the three mutant adults behind him.
"I expect him to wake up sometime tonight. He should recover by the as well. But I'm afraid we cannot get Jean back as well at the time being."
"Why is that Charles?" Ororo asked.
"Yeah, what's up with Jeannie?" Logan added promptly. Charles sighed and hung his head low.
"Jean has become the Phoenix. Not like she did in Apocalypse's future glimpse. I feel someone else has caused the early development of Jean's inner power. I think whomever that is also planning on persuading her to do their deeds. I do not know who our enemy is yet, but I fear Jean will turn against us. And, she grows more powerful as the time passes. We need to finds out who all is in on this plan. I think whoever is has also kidnapped some of our students. We must find out what is going on before it gets out of control, or it will be a terrible time."
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