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Chapter 6

Josh Alvers was tall, seventeen, and cute. Blond haired and brown-eyed, he was every girl's dream. His manners could use some work, though. His father's son all the way.

Jess removed her helmet and glared at the gaping boy in front of her. "Girly bike? I beg your pardon?"

The boy beneath her shook his head. "No, sorry, I thought you were a guy." He flinched as Jess jumped off the van to land in front of him.

"A guy?" Jess blinked.

"Nah, yer a girl." Josh smirked.

"Really? Well, thank you for noticing." Jess growled and turned her back and started to walk away. Mentally she counted, One. . .two. . .three. .

"Wait!" Josh called. Jess grinned, then pulled her face into a frown before she turned to face him.

"What?" Jess growled, inwardly grinning.

Josh reached and rubbed the back of his head. "Uh, I'm Josh."

Jess grinned outwardly now. "I know."

"What?! How?" The last word was more of a suspicious question.

Jess touched her temple. "Telepathic."

From behind a crate not too far from where the van was, Scott, Logan, Rogue, Gambit, and Donovan were hiding. Watching as Jess had made her entrance, Scott groaned. Now, she was talking the Alver's boy right into her hands.

Logan chuckled quietly. "She sure knows how to flirt." Scott motioned for him to be quiet.

Lance walked up to Jess and Josh and draped an arm around their shoulders. "Aren't ya gonna introduce me to your friend?"

"Oh, yeah, Dad, this is Jess. Jess, this is Dad." Josh gestured to each in turn.

"Hi, Mr. Alvers." Jess said, smiling sweetly.

Scott narrowed his eyes. "Alright, enough of this!" Scott stepped out from behind the crate.

Lance caught a bit of movement out of the corner of his eye. He turned. "Summers,"

Scott nodded. "Alvers. Away from my daughter."

Jess, watching this evidently hostile exchange, put a hand to her head. All these hate-thoughts were giving her a headache. Either that or she'd already had one when it started.

You cannot hold me back forever! I shall conquer. . . The strange shrieking cry filled her head again. Jess groaned and dropped to her knees.

Scott stopped arguing with Lance and looked at his daughter. "Jess? What's wrong?" Scott dropped to one knee beside her and put his hand on her shoulder.

Jess was clutching her head between both hands. She looked up at Scott, tears pouring down her cheeks. "Daddy, there's someone else in my head." she whispered.

Scott looked up to see the professor rolling over. He lay a hand on her forehead and closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he looked up at the X-Men who had come over while he was in Jess's mind and said, "The phoenix has entered her mind and struggling for control."

Jess, who had gone unconscious, was now trapped inside her mind. Surrounded by blinding haze, she didn't know where to look when she heard whispers. Suddenly an older person dropped in front of her. Long, bright red hair, amber eyes, and a few more years along in the developing process then she was. Dressed in a revealing black leather jumpsuit, Jess felt she knew the person standing before her.

"Poor girl, you don't remember me. Allow me to refresh your memory. I've been with you since the exact moment your weak mother died. With my previous host gone, I needed a new one. There weren't any mutant women around except you. But yet, with you, I still had to wait. And wait I did, growing ever-stronger."

Jess still couldn't remember. It was like everything she ever was, ever known, was blocked off from her. She could barely remember who she was. "But who ARE you?!"

The woman ran a gentle hand through Jess's hair. "Can you possibly be telling me that your father hasn't told you about the time that I possessed your mother? And how she still bore my mind, till the day she died? About The Phoenix? About ME?!" The last word came out as a shout. The Phoenix clenched her fists and closed her eyes, successfully gaining control over her emotions. "You have yet to realize your power's full potential, yet I can help you. But when I tried, you resisted until I was so tired, I was forced to retreat to the depths of your mind. 'He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.'"

Jess's mind was under a lot of strain, she couldn't concentrate. Phoenix smiled.

"Quit fighting me. You won't win, anyway." Phoenix glowed brighter and brighter, until
Jess had to shield her eyes from the blinding light.

Logan, who had picked up Jess, now stared at her in awe as she began to glow. Brighter and brighter until Logan had to shield his eyes with one arm and hold Jess with just one. Then, pure energy exploded him away from her.

As the air cleared of all the smoke, Donovan looked up to a brightly shining form in the sky. It was Jess, but for her eyes. They were a sinister shade of amber. And that outfit was back, the leather one.

"Jess," he whispered in a kind of awed agony.

Jess threw her arms wide, balls of energy crackling in her hands, static jumping in her hair. "Phoenix has returned! Mortals beware, stand in my way of taking over your dimension, and you shall die!"

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