Chapter Nine: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Emma walked out as a storm quickly started. She was still laughing to herself when she saw seven children in odd outfits coming this way.

"And of course, something has to happen to complicate things." Emma said and she flew off to a place where she could have more room to fight and eventually landed at the peak of a mountain.

The children followed after her, and she put her hand by a boulder.

"Let's see how badly I can crush their bones." Emma said with a smirk, and she pushed the boulder.

"Look out!" A boy with a yellow outfit called out. As the boulder came at them, a boy in blue flew up and turned the boulder to ice before he smashed it to pieces.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Emma said angrily. She then flew up as a bolt of lightning broke the ledge she was standing on and illuminated her face. "You know, my ex-husband didn't believe in spankings, but I'm more of a fan of physical punishments. They really drive the message home."

Emma then fired a telekinetic blast from her hand.

"Hide!" The boy in yellow called out, and all seven children hid behind a wall.

"Come on out, kiddies." Emma said with a smirk. "We're not playing hide-and-seek you know."

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Logan gathered everyone around.

"Okay, our only chance to stop her is to surround her." Logan explained. "Bobby, you, Ororo, Hank, and Rogue fly up, and cover her from behind. Kitty, Kurt, and I attack from the front."

"Yeah!" Hank said.

"Rogue, not now." Ororo said calmly, and they split up as the ground unit ran up and dodged Emma's attacks while Kitty and Logan attacked with exploding pellets. Emma defended herself very well when the kids flew up on Bobby's ice bridge, and Bobby tapped her shoulder.

"What?!" Emma asked, and Bobby punched her in the face.

"How could you?!" Emma cried out. "I'm a woman!"

"Oh, I'm sorry." Bobby said. "I…"

"Bobby, look out!" Logan said as he tied up Emma's hands with some vines he cut with his claws, and Ororo wrapped her cloak around her eyes.

"Hey, I can't see!" Emma said.

"That's the point." Logan said. "And I have a nearby friend who can give you your just deserts."

They took the newly bound-up Emma to an imposing house as Logan knocked, and Dr. Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, came out.

"What?" Dr. Strange asked.

"Dr. Strange, this lady killed Mary Jane." Logan explained. "Bobby saw her body as we chased after her."

"Hmm…" Dr. Strange said. "I've heard a great deal about you, Emma. I've heard how vain and arrogant you are, and I've also heard of your jealousy of your daughter."

"Let me go!" Emma called out as she turned her head in the direction of Dr. Strange.

"Very well." Dr. Strange said. "But only after your punishment for your crime starts."

Dr. Strange picked Emma up as easily as if she was a new born baby. He then chanted, and Emma disappeared.

"What did you do to her?" Logan asked.

"I sent her to limbo for a few weeks for some just deserts." Dr. Strange said.

"Eh?" Kurt asked.

"Come on…" Bobby said. "We better… We better pay our respects to Mary Jane."

Everyone looked down and walked off.

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Emma found herself in a blue infinite limbo. She looked around when she looked at a mirror.

Her face looked normal, then slowly and surely her hair fell out, her face was full of wrinkles, her nose grew long, and she seemed to have aged as everyone she ever saw recoiled at the sight of her.

"No!" She called out when suddenly, she returned to normal, but everyone still acted like she was as they just saw her, much to Emma's confusion. She looked around, trying to figure out what had happened.

Dr. Strange had put her in a universe where everyone would treat her as she was on the inside until she learned to be compassionate to people, and she would be in there for a long, long while.

Yeah… I like Emma too much to kill her off. I just see so much good she could do.