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Jotunheim:Carrying Pickles on her back, Jean Grey is scaling an icy mountainside.After her encounter with Namor, she now knows she has to become a badass warrior and learn to slay an immortal god creature made of sentient fire. And this is the most sensible bit of advice she has gotten since this whole mess started.
She is no shrinking violet. She fights. Even leads an X-team. But warrior? Slayer? No. A few months ago, she still used her telekinesis to cut up cake. She’s never been to war or fought to the death. But there’s a guy on top of the mountain who absolutely has. Again and again.
Holy hell! she swears. On the other side of the pass are a group of orcs, intent on taking the Odinson’s head. Silently, Jean runs ahead.
A hall further up in the mountains. The Avengers were mighty, yes, the Unworthy Thor or Odinson as he currently calls himself rambles but also green. Green as the flesh of the cursed toads that plagued them that day. Loki had them all but beaten. Every advantage clutched in his trickster fist. And he knew it. But Thor knows his brother as he knows his own self. He acts out the battle with his stein instead of his hammer.
That moment, Jean bursts in. babbling about what she went through to get here. She apologizes for being over-caffeinated. She introduces herself and reveals there is an army of Orcs up here on their way to murder him. Odinson replies with a noisy belch. He apologizes and she realizes he is drunk. She orders him to snap out of it. She grabs his stein and empties the beer, looking around for some coffee. The barmaid pours her some.
Jean barricades the door telekinetically and muses aloud that a drunk Thor is better than no Thor. She hasn’t seen his hammer anywhere. So if he left it near the toilet or anything, now would be a good time to get it. Sore topic, the barmaid coughs. Oh right, Jean recalls. He’s Odinson, now. Thor’s a lady. He’s more than well-armed enough, he replies showing his battle axe.
He asks why she came to see him. Jean explains she’s got this big crazy battle coming. Not just the orcs. Something worse. The only way she will survive is if she levels the hell up. This may sound dumb, but she thought maybe he could teach her to become a warrior.
The barkeeper, Lana, has dressed for outdoors and wishes them good luck as she leaves. Odinson tells her goodbye.
Whatever, Jean shrugs as she looks outside. She’s probably screwed. And that’s assuming they survive the next few minutes. Adding something alcoholic to his coffee, Odinson muses, her dilemma reminds him of his own misspent youth. He was just a boy then, just past his fifteenth nameday. His brother and he wanted so desperately to prove themselves in battle. Yet no one would allow it. Were they not the sons of Odin? Had they not been born and bred for the battlefield?
Odinson’s narration:So young Thor and Loki set out on their own to prove themselves. Armed with smug grins and borrowed weapons from Father’s armory.
Present:Jean sees the horde advancing and suggests they do story time later. They are going to be kinda busy soon.
Undeterred, Odinson continues. They had it in their fool heads that they could tame the fabled Lavadon. Squelch its fire by sheer force of will and ride the proud beast back to Father… as irrefutable proof they were ready to join him in battle.
Again, Jean stresses she wants to take a raincheck on the tales of yore.
That Lavadon torched them from toes to nose, Odinson continues undeterred. He’ll never forget the taste of Loki’s burning hair at the back of his throat. They sprinted from that cave. A pair of bellowing blustered buffoons. But that was a lesson well learned-
As the orcs smash through the door, Jean shouts exactly how drunk is he? Please get over here and hit someone! Thor looks up from his drink, Verily! he announces and joins the battle. Apologies. He boasts there aren’t enough orcs in all the realms to kill the Odinson. Jean points out he was so drunk. He begins boasting about his stamina. Jean interrupts suggesting he stop his grandpa stories for five minutes. Odinson points out she came here searching for him. He assumed his reputation… Can they please talk later?! she shouts.
While Odinson still manages to down the occasional mead, Jean admits she isn’t super comfortable being outnumbered. Her comment calls to mind another of his stories.
Long ago, he answered a call to cross the Rainbow Bridge. An army of men begged he lead them against a rival tribe that stole their land and lifestock…
Odinson’s story:He figured it would be a quick affair. He was newly worthy of carrying Mjolnir. They didn’t realize their rivals had a sort of god of their own, a Frost Giant. He fought Thor’s men then beset Thor himself. They fought day and night, and Thor knew, even if he won, he would have to contend with the enemy army afterward. Finally, he threw the hammer into the sky and called the thunder.
Present:Cool! Jean still fighting shouts. Too bad she doesn’t have a big friggin’ magic hammer! However, with psychic energy, she manages to create one and uses it to smash down the next orc and quite a few others before wondering what the hell that was.
Odinson smashes the orc who was about to attack her. Looked to him like a big friggin’ magic hammer, he opines. Jean thanks him for the safe. So warrioring, he continues. Lesson one. Teach! Jean tells him.
Thirty minutes later, the job done, they both sit at the bar. This reminds him of another story, he begins. Jean groans. Last week, he was on a drinking holiday down in Bergen when a little bird flew in. Told him a horde of Orc assassins has been asking after him. As she can see, he can always handle a few Orcs. But they are a sloppy bunch who fight hard and dirty. He knew, Jean realizes. Odinson continues that he made a loud drunken show of heading up the mountain for a high altitude drink. And lured his enemies to the highest ground where collateral damage would amount to a few broken bottles of mead.
Jean realizes that with all his stories he was just trying to answer her questions. Odinson admits teaching is not his greatest skill but he can spin a drunken yarn and most of them are true. Surviving means shuffling this way and that. In an attempt to strike balance between preparation, execution and dumb luck. Know your enemy. Know yourself. Plan whatever you can and control as much as they let you. But never let those feet fall flat. Improvise or die. Experience is of course the sturdiest armor, but as she saw there is nothing better in this world or the next than a big friggin’ magic hammer.


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Mount Yoshino, Japan:Teenage Jean Grey sits next to Psylocke, trying to meditate. Odinson had told her about the importance of weapons before becoming embarrassingly drunk. Jean figures she will need some good weapons to defeat the Phoneix. So here she is meditating with the world’s foremost PSI-weapons expert.
Jean asks about a rough estimate on how long this is going to take. Psylocke sighs. Jean complains about the pins and needles in her legs. Betsy explains the point of this is clarity of mind. To remove all distractions and enter a state of serenity. Athletes call it “the zone.” Impatience defeats them. Jean needs to relax and let it happen. No timeline then, Jean sighs. Cool.
Betsy continues that the power she seeks is in her mind. But it is buried underneath all the other rubbish. Let the rest drift away and focus. Sounds great, Jean thinks, if you are a purple, ninja lady and serenity is your thing. But she can’t sleep without the TV on. Quiet doesn’t turn her brain off. It turns it up. She is actually getting more anxious. She gets up and swears. This is not working. Silence and solitude suck!
Plan B then, Betsy decides and calls the munching Bamf Pickles. Moments later, he has teleported them to a noisy night club, Club Shred, in Philadelphia.
Jean sputters. Betsy explains the music is Jericrow and criticizes the latest album as a bit soft. Jean wants to know why they are here. Betsy reminds her she didn’t care for the cherry blossoms. Perhaps silence isn’t her thing. Let’s try noisy. She tells her to dig deep. Find her weapon.
Jean figures this is better at least and is about to manifest something when somebody runs into her. Instead of apologizing, the two guys give her grief and she telekinetically pushes them away while everyone else cheers. Plan C, Betsy figures.
Pickles teleports them into what Betsy calls subterranean death caverns, where they are about to be attacked by mindless irradiated mole monster. As a monster leaps at her, Betsy tells Jean not to overthink it. Just do her thing.
In desperation, Jean creates two small psychic shards to bury in her attacker’s skull. She is excited when she realizes she is manifesting a psychic weapon but, when another vampire moloid grabs her from behind, her weapon disappears again. Psylocke decapitates him with one elegant move and orders Pickles to get them out.
They land on a rooftop in Madripoor. That was exciting, Betsy remarks. And they have learned a thing or two. She kills the Moloid they have accidentally taken along and continues that Jean’s issue isn’t focus. Neither clarity of mind nor death metal distraction helps draw out her inner weapons. They came at moments of peak fear. Her fight or flight response. Is that bad? Jean asks. Just a bit late, is all, she is told. Ideally, they’d have her ready and armed at the start of this crap. Not near the end when she is pinned down and desperate. So how do they fix that? Jean asks. How else, Betsy replies. Trial by fire.
The basement of this building houses the largest Hand resurrection chamber ever built. She opens a trap door. Someone resurrects hands? Jean asks. Ninjas Betsy clarifies. Sort of Frankenstein zombie ninjas. They mass produce them here. Jean gets to stop it. She wants her to jump down there and fight an army of ninjas? Jean asks. Betsy corrects she wants her to sneak in there, set a load of explosives which she hands to Jean and sneak back out. Then Betsy will implode them and bury the chamber under a ton of steel and concrete. Point is, strictly black ops. No big loud brawls. No fight or flight.
As Jean climbs down, Betsy telepathically instructs her to end every encounter swiftly. Use her weapons wisely. Dagger, not chainsaw. How is she supposed to—Jean begins. Betsy interrupts, She is an omega level telepath with a mindscape roomy enough to contain a blazing god bird. Get out of her own way for once. Suss out what headspace she needs and go there. No more handholding. Jean complains that Thor’s pep talks are a lot nicer. She’s British, Psylocke retorts, unimpressed and sober.
Around the corner stands the first ninja guard. Psylocke telepathically suggests Jean start small with this one. Small blunt objects. Sneak up behind him and knock him down.
Another mental voice suddenly suggests Jean could use her powers properly instead. Pop into his zombie ninja mind and turn off all the lights. “Would you hush?” Jean mutters. What was that? Psylocke asks. Nothing, is the reply.
On Betsy’s instructions, Jean manifests a club but also gains the sentry’s attention. She is panicked as she defends herself. Betsy explains the purpose of the exercise is to stretch herself. The other voice suggests she ignore her and jump. Jean levitates herself telekinetically as a second Ninja comes running. Psylocke is pleased with her decision and suggests she end this swiftly. Jean complies.
She sneaks onwards, complaining how stressful black ops is. Betsy urges her to use her fear. Jean climbs down a ladder to run into another ninja. Pretending to be Wolverine, she creates some psychic claws to attack.
On the roof, Betsy and Pickles are having sushi and ramen. Psylocke informs Jean the next level has nine sentries. Jean protests she can’t do nine. Of course, she can, Betsy replies. Center herself. Jean thinks cherry blossoms then monsters. No flight, this is all fight. Now she’s talking, Betsy agrees,
Creating a succession of weapons, Jean takes care of them. The ventilation shaft next, Psylocke informs her after praising her.
Inside the shaft, Jean hears a noise. Betsy figures the bolts are pulling loose. Ventilation shafts aren’t made to hold human weight. Just go through it quickly. She’ll be fine. That’s her advice? the voice pipes up. To the omega level telekinetic? Scurry faster? Jean mutters at the voice to shut up. The voice suggests she use her TK to hold the shaft in place while she crawls through it.
Jean focuses. Betsy asks her why she is stopping and urges her onward. The voice tells her to keep at it. Jean shouts at them all to shut up. She loses concentration and the shaft and her with it fall down. On the ground, she finds herself surrounded by a group of angry ninjas. Flight came back, she tells Psylocke. It’s flight time!
On the roof, Psylocke sighs and orders Pickles to get her to Jean. He informs her that he has to eat first. Since when is there a Bamf limit? Betsy asks in disbelief. It hadn’t occurred to him to tell her earlier? What if they had gotten stuck in the Moloid caves? She climbs down the ladder. Unimpressed, Pickles continues eating
In the building, Psylocke begins mowing down ninjas. Teenagers, she figures. What’re you gonna do? However, she is in for a surprise when she reaches Jean, as Jean has dispatched of all her foes.
Jean explains Betsy had told her fight or flight is her bread and butter. So when she got for real freaked out, she slathered up a slice and used it. Lesson learned, she guesses. Nicely done, Betsy commends her.
As they leave the house a little later, Jean asks why they still have to blow up the building, if all Franken-ninjas are dust. Betsy replies the facility runs another 20 floors underground. Hundreds more ninjas there. Not to mention the resurrection chamber they came to bury. She offers they can get back and fight some more, if Jean likes. Jean assures her she’s good.
Betsy asks who was talking to Jean in the ventilation shaft. Voice sounded familiar but she couldn’t— What? Jean bursts out. She could hear that? Loud and clear, Betsy replies. That fool nearly got her skewered . She detonates the explosives.
Betsy assures her she is not hearing imaginary voices. Someone was talking to her. In Jean’s shoes, she’d want to find out who.


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Greenwich Village:Jean Grey lies on the ground in the middle of a pentagram, while Dr. Strange finishes the preparations for the magical ritual and soliloquizes about Netflix shows. An ensemble cast that large wouldn’t have worked in the past, he opines. It took the better part of a season to get to know everyone. Including the loathsome shrinking violet protagonist. But then, here he sits three weeks and three seasons later. Chomping at the bits for more. He supposes the true test comes when he runs out of backlog and has to wait six months for season five.
Annoyed, Jean suggests he take the ritual thing more seriously. He retorts that, with magic in its current weakened state, he takes it all very seriously. She complains it doesn’t seem like it with the chatting and the snacking. So she expects theatrics? Strange complies. Seamstress of the Sauromandi! he booms. Unstitch this soul from her corporeal vessel. He lectures that theatrics aren’t necessary. Charlatans use them to make their victims believe they get their money’s worth.
Jean sees her spirit rising. Strange’s astral form is expecting her. As this is strictly pro bono, he didn’t bother, he adds. She assures him it’s cool. Now let’s see if they can find that chatty spirit of hers.
They are suddenly surrounded by a column of fire as they begin to travel to other realms. Jean asks what it’s for. Strange admits it is not his doing. Her visitor seems to be more powerful than expected. This is not the work of a garden variety poltergeist.
Jean is somewhat confused, as he seems to enjoy all of this. Because he believes in sincerity of spirit, he replies. And he does so love his work.
They travel through the psychedelic cosmos. Dr. Strange warns her they are getting close. He can feel a presence en route. Dejected, Jean figures it’s going to be the Phoenix. They turn around to find Dark Phoenix standing behind them. She opens her mouth and swallows them.
What they see next is a scene from the past. Jean’s first birthday celebration at Xavier’s. The boys sing for her and she telekinetically passes them slices of cake.
Jean explains to Strange that she remember this. Her awkward birthday party right after she moved into the mansion. None of the other X-Men knew how to act around her yet. What are they doing here? she wonders. Strange suggests the spirit will make itself known in time.
Look at them, Jean scoffs. She remembered the awkward but forgot how happy they all were. Perfect little idiot lives… not a care in the world. Not yet. Ignorance is bliss, Strange supposes.
The Jean from the memory turns around and eyeballs them. Maybe that’s why she brought Jean here, Strange suggests, to remind her of a simpler time. What’s the point? Jean scoffs. Look, life used to be so easy and great, but now—
Great - is she kidding? the Jean from the memory suddenly shouts at them. She’s an omega level telekinetic, using her gift to slice and divide cake to a roomful of wildly insecure boys who can’t decide if her role on the team should be damsel in distress, sex kitten, housekeeper or mascot! If any of them had any idea how powerful she is…
They don’t know because she doesn’t tell them, real Jean points out. She never gave them enough credit. She just assumed they couldn’t handle it and played girlie. And who even cares? The indignity of that crap doesn’t hold a candle to what came later. Knowing what she knows now.
She knows nothing! Memory Jean screams and uses her telekinesis to lash out at her and Strange.
Guess she pissed her off, Jean groans. She and Strange find themselves lying in ruins. They see Gambit nearby and Jean figures those are the X-Men from after her time. Nearby the X-Men, among them adult Jean in her gold and blue outfit, are battling the Acolytes. Strange points out these aren’t Jean’s memories but those of the ghost. Jean figures this is about the Phoenix. Strange doesn’t think so.
Adult Jean has dispatched of her foe and hurries to help Wolverine.
Strange continues this doesn’t feel like an immortal fire god. This is flesh and blood. He believes her spirit is Jean Grey. Adult Jean Grey. The… Jean interrupts. She swears to God if he says “real,” she’s going to…
She’s going to what, little girl? Adult Jean snaps while still battling. People call her real because they knew her. For years and years. Young Jean confuses them. She doesn’t belong. Deal with it!
She now turns to Jean and addresses her directly. She’s been trying to help her for weeks. It’s infuriating! She’s infuriating? Young Jean replies in disbelief. Adult Jean continues that all she’s doing is bellyaching about how she’s not ready. How she’s not her. Young Jean snaps back she didn’t even tell her who she was. She thought she was losing her mind! How does she think she became ready? adult Jean points out. How does she think she became who she is? She doesn’t want to be her! young Jean shouts back. Why would anybody ever want to be her?
“Jeanie, look out!” the beaten Wolverine moans from the ground and they are momentarily taken aback. The next moment, adult Jean is hit by Frenzy. Even while she takes a brutal beating, she keeps on talking to her younger self. She has herself convinced that adult Jean is her nightmare. That her life, which she has only seen glimpses of in other people’s heads, was some kind of dark tragedy. Because there was pain. Because it ended in death. Because it wasn’t the life she envisioned. Well, she hates to be the bearer but that’s just life, princess. Grow up!
As the Acolytes get ready to kill her, young Jean intervenes or tries to as she and Strange already travel on. Why does she hate her so much? Jean fumes. He does not think she will enjoy the answer to that question, Strange warns her. They are in a garden and hear arguing voices. Is it her fault, Ms. Marvelous Milquetoast turned absentee wife? a voice demands. Or is it Scott’s? The speaker turns out to be Emma Frost, arguing with adult Jean Grey over a very uncomfortable Scott Summers.
Not this horror show again, teenage Jean mutters.
No, it’s Jean’s, Emma continues confidently. Scott suggests everyone simmer down a bit. Oh no, “nearly naked” over there wants to dig in, adult Jean snarls. Grab a shovel, hubby! Let’s dig! Scott sighs as Emma threatens, with pleasure.
Strange warns Jean that her older self is goading her. Ignoring him, she protests that her older self is hell-bent on Ghost-of-Christmas Pasting her. That’s fine. But they are skipping this. She can’t do humiliation right now.
She doesn’t like humiliation? Adult Jean asks and her eyes burn. She doesn’t like shame? She begins to be surrounded by flames as she grabs Cyclops’ throat. She can’t stomach the telltale crackle of hopes and dreams on an open flame? she asks and burns Cyclops to everyone’s horror.
Young Jean begins to protest and wants to attack. Strange warns her it isn’t real. She will only feed her fire. Jean shouts Scott’s name and jumps toward him but passes through.
Was she really that foolish once? adult Jean chuckles, as she is surrounded by flames. Has she not been paying attention? What does she think will happen when she meets the bird?
Suddenly, Jean and Strange find themselves sitting in a classroom, where adult burning Jean lectures them that the Phoenix is equal parts good and evil. Pleasure and pain. Both sides, the whole coin. If Jean shies away from her own darkness or hides from dark truths, it won’t just charbroil her lily white butt. It won’t just kill her. It will feed on her ignorant hubris and consume her.
Strange whispers that this is it. This is her test. What test? Jean asks. Burning adult Jean moves closer. Young Jean calls her her nightmare, her monster, she reminds her younger self. As if she’s some godforsaken other. Marvel Girl suggests she look in the mirror. That is exactly who she is. Adult Jean chuckles. “Look in the mirror,” she repeats. Choice words. What does she want from her? Young Jean demands. She wants her to say it, is the reply. She wants to hear it out loud. The unspoken truth her younger self refuses to accept.
Jean Grey is Jean Grey is Jean Grey, young Jean finally admits. Yes, adult Jean agrees. And who is she? “I am you,” Jean finally concedes. “I’m just you.”
The Phoenix raptor rises destroying the room. Is this good or bad? Jean asks Strange. It’s both, the Phoenix announces. It is always both.
The Phoenix explodes. Cool, Strange reacts but Jean disagrees, demanding to know what happened. Why doesn’t she ever understand what’s going on? That is, in his experience, the way of things, he points out. The both return to their bodies.
Is it over now? Jean asks. Strange isn’t sure but points out Jean seems to have passed her older self’s test. One would hope her spirit is at peace. Jean reminds him she exploded. She turned into a big fireball and blew up. Each spirit experiences peace in their own way, he retorts. So long as she’s done hearing voices. Jean figures good riddance. Quite literally in that case, Strange agrees, as he grabs a broom and cleans away the pentacle on the ground.
Jean turns around and swears. Please tell her she isn’t going to stand here and listen to him “Strangesplain” all night, a voice remarks, a voice Strange clearly doesn’t hear, as he asks Jean what’s the matter. What does she see? Time’s a wasting, the ghost of adult Jean Grey remarks.
Nothing, Jean lies tight-lipped and thanks Dr. Strange for his help.


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Having just left Dr. Strange’s home, Jean Grey finds herself in the subway and very much annoyed, as she is being haunted by her older, deader and more self-righteous self. She doesn’t understand why she won’t tell her where they are going? she complains. Ghost Jean retorts that she doesn’t understand why Jean is wearing headphones. That phone hasn’t worked since she took it swimming with Namor.
Because it makes it seem like she’s not a crazy person talking to herself, Jean points out and notes she realizes Ghost Jean is changing the subject to avoid answering the question. Jean accuses her of getting her “ghost jollies” by messing with her and she is sick of it. She’s not taking another step until she tells her where they are going.
Angrily, Ghost Jean points out she is helping her stop the Phoenix. Or maybe she is just figment of her stressed imagination, Jean retorts. Or some supervillain thinks it’s fun to drive teenagers nuts.
Ghost Jean reminds her Dr. Strange told her she was real. Jean retorts Strange thinks he’s banished her. That guy is the least reliable narrator ever! As far as she can tell, magic is just guessing.
People start to be disturbed by Jean shouting at the air. Ghost Jean tells her is embarrassing herself. Jean blames her for not letting her wear her headphones. Losing her temper, Ghost Jean shouts it doesn’t matter. Her childish ego doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what people think. It matters to her! Jean shouts back. Now she has everyone’s attention. The girl is bonkers! a woman laughs.
The ceiling disappears as the Scarlet Witch floats down. The people begin to dissolve. Better bonkers than boring, she announces. Oh God, Ghost Jean mutters disgusted. What is she doing? Jean shouts. Showing off, Ghost Jean opines. She can’t just explode people into Tetris blocks! She frequently does, Wanda laughs and explains she has just rerouted them to Bleecker Street. A ten minute delay at worst. Ökay, but why? Jean asks. Because she is a textbook narcissist who is addicted to chaos, Ghost Jean opines unkindly.
Unaware of their ghostly companion, Wanda tells Jean she looked like she needed a break from all the attention. Magic folk tend to gossip and Strange told her she seemed a bit overwhelmed by this Phoenix business. Of course she is. She remembers that flaming terror from the first time around. And she knows what it’s like to feel real pressure. To look back and see the fate of the whole world perched upon her shoulder. Young Jean seems interested, while Ghost Jean groans in disgust.
Wanda continues when you are the baddest witch in every room you have to take care of yourself. What would that look like? Jean asks. Let’s find out, Wanda laughs and levitates the two of them out, over Ghost Jean‘s unheard protests.
Later, the two of them are jogging in the Savage Land. Ghost Jean still tries to reach Jean. She’d love to give her a Jurassic Park mental health day but, unlike Crimson Tiara here, they don’t have time for this. Jean refuses to listen.
The two start yoga, as Wanda tells her that the thing about being disturbingly powerful is not that it drives you mad. It’s that it raises expectations so high, you feel like you can’t ever let up. Jean agrees enthusiastically. Ghost Jean points out that in her case “letting up” would mean succumbing to a torturous cycle of death and rebirth.
Jean confides to Wanda it’s like being chained to a tread mill that goes faster and faster. Ghost Jean tries to get her attention. What ?! Jean finally shouts unnerved. Why can’t she stop talking for six frigging minutes? Because she is about to be mauled by a T-Rex! Ghost Jean points out. She’s welcome.
Jean telekinetically moves the T-Rex into the sea and snipes nobody thanked her. Wanda points out what she can do when she lets herself drift away. No biggie, Jean replies proudly.
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil:A little later, Wanda is fighting some monsters, while Jean is helping people evacuate the area. Ghost Jean asks how this is relaxing. Marvel Girl replies she isn’t fighting, just helping the people. Which is a lot more satisfying than running around preparing for a psycho war with their flaming fate monster! Also, in case she’s forgotten, this is why they wear these yellow Xes in the first place!
Ghost Jean continues she is worried that, if they don’t keep their eyes on the prize, these people will suffer the same fate as… Over there! she suddenly shouts warning Jean of a mud monster attack. Jean erects a TK shield. Ghost Jean points out how good a team they would be if they worked together for real.
That’s the thing, though, young Jean replies. The ghost is pushing and pushing and pushing her! She can only do so much before she loses her mind!
Wanda lands next to her and tells her that this is not true. She has been conditioned to hide her power. Everyone wants her to run from her true potential. She disassembles a mud monster as she continues it is not the power that leads to madness. It’s the stress. She hugs a relieved Jean and tells her to release that power every now and then, and she will be a goddess amongst men. Jean thanks her. Gross! Ghost Jean comments disgusted.
Even grosser is their next destination, the Monster Metropolis beneath Manhattan, where one of the monsters is giving Jean and Wanda a cooking class.
Enough is enough! Ghost Jean shouts when she finally joins them. She has been arguing with Monster Metropolis immigration for 45 minutes, because apparently unregistered spirits have to be processed! Welcome to his world, a ghostly member of the cooking class comments.
Ghost Jean fumes and suddenly takes over Jean’s body. They are done here! She announces. In control, she turns to Wanda and tells her she has a kind heart and she appreciates that. But she’s swallowed as much as she can of her positivity for one day, so she’s gonna go now. O-okay, Wanda stutters as Jean takes off.
Somewhere inside the body, young Jean protests at that treatment and asks where her older self is taking her. Back to work, is the reply, as adult Jean flies them upward.
Finally, they hover outside a penthouse apartment. What are they doing? Young Jean asks.  Visiting an old friend, is the reply and she knocks against the window. The owner, one Emma Frost, wonders why little Jean Grey comes rapping at her window in the middle of the night. Nevermore, Jean replies. And here she thought it might be something irritating, Emma remarks as she turns into her diamond form. Calling her “little girl,” she asks what Jean could possibly want. Jean telekinetically breaks the window pane and knocks Emma down then enters the apartment.
The once and future Phoenix, Emma mocks. A master of the fiery temper tantrum. While as a pure psychic, she’s always been a touch underwhelming. Emma turns human again, intending to use her telepathy. Gotcha! Jean announces with a grin. Ghost Jean enters Emma’s body. No! young Jean shouts.


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Emma Frost’s mindscape:The grounds of the Xavier Institute:They don’t understand, the five Stepford Cuckoos snootily inform teenage Jean Grey. She isn’t supposed to be here. Something isn’t right.
Say something! the ghost adult Jean mentally orders teenage Jean, who replies she couldn’t explain herself if her life depended on her.
The Cuckoos glare while Jean is talking to herself. Adult Jean said this was Emma Frost’s dream or whatever. How come the Cuckoos are “meangirling” her right now? It’s more of a living memory, adult Jean explains. They’ve penetrated the deepest darkest corners of the White Queen’s mind. The place she least wants them to see.
Cool. Sounds reeal safe, Jean mocks.
Ghost Jean continues that Emma is out and she’ll keep her that way but her subconscious controls her players. They will notice and attack any inconsistencies. Jean has to play along. Fit in long enough to find what they are looking for.
Fit in how? Jean complains. There was no teenage Jean at the time - there was the adult version!
She walks toward the school entrance where Xorn and the special class greet her. Xorn remarks he takes it her trip to Asia was cut short? A little, she replies evasively.
Beak looks up and announces he’s sure this surprises no one - more death and destruction hurtling their way. He refers to a burning engine or something similar hurtling their way with Wolverine on it.
Beast pushes the youngsters aside and catches it.
Logan looks up, surprised that Jean is back. Beast asks if everything is all right. He was under the impression Hong Kong was to be a longer affair.
Why does everyone keep talking about Hong Kong? Jean asks her older self, who explains she was in Hong Kong for this. She orders her to get out before they ask more questions she cannot answer. She doesn’t want this place to turn on her.
Beast and Wolverine comment that Jean is acting screwy and the special class stares at her.
Jean looks at a window. Her reflection is her older self, who explains that, the more they upset the balance of the place, the more the memory will fracture. It will tear itself apart trying to root her out. They are at a disadvantage because of Hong Kong. Even as adult Jean she doesn’t really fit.
Jean wonders if she will really grow up to look like her. If she grows, comes the reply. That’s a fair bet.
The next moment, she is in for a shock as Quentin Quire smashes the window with a club, shouting riot!
Reality:Adult Jean orders her to quit messing around. Angrily, Jean shoots back he attacked her with a bat. Of course, is the reply. Conscious or not, Emma will fight them at every turn. The woman is a force of nature. She can only control her so long. Cool, Jean sighs. She’ll just tell the homicidal figments of Emma’s imagination that they are on a tight schedule.
Unfortunately, she finds herself attacked by the rest of the Omega Gang, one of whom shouts she doesn’t belong. So she’s told, Jean shouts back and takes them out.
Moments later, Logan and Beast arrive, wanting to know what’s going on and taking on the Omegas. Ghost Jean urges Jean to get out. Jean replies she thinks it’s okay now that Wolverine showed up. That’s not Wolverine! ghost Jean reminds her.
Wolverine sniffs then shouts the kids are right. She isn’t Jeanie. Jean begins to babble trying to explain. Just run, Ghost Jean orders her. Wolverine threatens her with his claws. Jean telekinetically levitates the burning Glob Herman back and throws him at Logan, then takes the chance to run as Ghost Jean repeats it isn’t r al. She’s not the one who has to smell his skin burn off, Jean complains. Has done, many times, comes the unimpressed reply.
Angrily, Jean complains none of this was her idea. Emma Frost brain meat smash and grab? That’s all ghost Jean. Now she has to look for a hidden Phoenix puzzle piece and ghost Jean is too busy judging to give her any direction.
Subdued, the ghost tells her to just lie low and try to blend. She again runs into the special class and Xorn asks to what do they owe the pleasure. Just trying to outrun a pack of murderous rioters, she states then assures them it’s a joke. Ghost Jean calls her a terrible liar with blurting tendencies. Shut up and give her something to say! Jean retorts. The ghost suggests she ask about Emma. The Special class study her suspiciously.
Jean asks about Emma. The Cuckoos passing by inform her they last saw Emma sneaking off to the garden residence with Jean’s husband.
Good talk, she babbles to the special class and intends to go look for Emma. That moment, metal tentacles explode from the ground and attack her. All thanks to Magneto, who was hiding under Xorn’s mask. Sternly, he informs her she is not welcome here. The chalk writing on the blackboard does the same.
That Xorn guy is Magneto? Jean marvels. It was a weird time, her ghost replies and orders her to move her butt. Jean is still wondering about that as the Special Class tries to get her and she jumps out the window, only to be held back by one of Xorneto’s tentacles and dragged inside again.
She is a pretender, Magneto informs her. Unwelcome and uninvited. She does not belong! However, surprisingly two of the special class aren’t in on the act. Angel Salvadore attacks Magneto and smashes his head against the ground, while her boyfriend Beak helps Jean free herself. He promises they will take her to Emma. Jean follows them and they run, chased by all the others constructs from the scenario.
Jean asks why the two are helping her. Hello, their teacher turned out to be a super-villain! Angel reminds her. Jean insists that this isn’t real and they are part of Emma’s subconscious. Shouldn’t they also be trying to kill her? They shrug it off. They are not big on conformity.
They have almost reached the garden house when they are distracted by another sight: a huge Sentinel with three heads. Ghost Jean urges her to ignore it. Sometimes she says the craziest things to her, Jean deadpans. What is that thing? One of the big Sentinels like the ones that destroyed Genosha, Angel and Beak inform her.
The Sentinel kills Angel and Beak. Ghost Jean tells her to ignore it. They aren’t real. Jean calls her a monster. Ghost Jean tells her to grow up. Great, then she’ll be a monster, Jean deadpans as she opens the doors. Ghost Jean tells her to hate her all she wants. Just keep her eyes on the prize.
Jean bursts into the room to find Scott half-naked and Emma dressed in the Dark Phoenix outfit on the bed. He can explain, Scott announces automatically. Emma tells him that’s not Jean. But then she realizes it is Jean, in a way.
Throwing up her hands in disgust, Jean announces she isn’t his stupid wife and doesn’t care about their gross sex party. That’s not why she’s here.
Get out! Cyclops suddenly shouts and fires his optic blast at her. Jean barely dodges as ghost Jean urges she is almost on top of the puzzle piece. Can she sense it? However, Jean is too busy shielding serself from the optic blasts and snarks “Cheater Bro Dream” Scott is little bit distracting. Finally, she grab him with her TK and pins him against the wall.
Emma begins to warn her. Shut up! Jean cuts her off. She isn’t even a little intimidating right now. She spent half the day being hunted by leather daddy era X-Men. And a forty story spider-Sentinel. It’s all just a dumb memory! Right, Emma agrees as she turns to diamond. Her memory. Which means she controls it all. To prove it she turns everything around her to diamond.
Ghost Jean asks Jean if she can hear it… like a pulse… a heartbeat. Jean shushes Emma mid-rant and listens. She finally sees a tiny Phoenix-shaped flicker in Cyclops’ chest. Emma begs her not to. Jean ignores her, breaks Cyclops open and reaches for it.
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An ambulance drives through midtown Manhattan. In it lies teen Jean Grey, close to death, barely breathing, heart beating like crazy and, according to the thermometer, she is on fire.
Also sitting in the ambulance is Emma Frost, who is glaring at the ghost of adult Jean Grey whom only she can see. The only silver lining she sees here is that, for once, Jean Grey can’t claim the moral high ground.
Everything is always a competition with her, Ghost Jean replies. Yeah and today psychic arson wins the cup, Emma snarks, as teen Jean momentarily breathes fire, shortly burning the paramedic.
His partner at the steering wheel asks what’s going on. He doesn’t know. She must be a mutant. Skin’s hot and she’s microwaving the electronics.
She did what needed to be done, Ghost Jean insists. Emma mocks she needed to invade her home in the dead of night, incapacitate and take over her body like some sort of creepshow succubus and allow a stonefisted infant to rifle through her mind…
Does she want an apology? Ghost Jean asks and admits that was a huge invasion of privacy. It was last ditch, desperate and gross, but she’s not sorry. Emma was hiding the one thing on Earth that might help Jean survive the Phoenix Force. She set the child on fire! Emma shouts.
They arrive at the hospital. If Jean can’t handle that little touch of flame, she was already dead to begin with, Ghost Jean replies. She’s a lot colder than she remembers, Emma observes. Ghost Jean reminds her she died since the last time they spoke.
While the medical personnel take teenage Jean, Ghost Jean asks Emma if she remembers being that age. Nothing but question marks between the ears. A little freckled fawn in the headlights. Playing at full adulthood because that’s the expectation. And she has to prepare her for battle. What battle? Emma asks. The battle she lost time and time again when she was older, wiser and surrounded by better, Ghost Jean replies. So yes, she’s cold and blunt and impatient. She’s playing fast and loose with this child’s wellbeing, but only because she’s intimately familiar with what comes next.
One doctor examines Jean and is almost hit by a burst of flame coming from her body. In fact, her whole body emits flame. Hospital personnel try to extinguish it.
Imagine that, Emma remarks calmly. All it took was fear and desperation to turn Jean into Emma. She enters the elevator. Where is she going? Ghost Jean asks. There is only one thing that can help them and they keep it on the roof, is Emma’s reply.
Ghost Jean turns back to see Jean still burning and tries to possess her to douse the flames. Jean screams and ejects her and Ghost Jean wonders if that was their soul screaming. Luckily, the sprinklers start dousing everything including Jean.
Emma grabs Jean and leaves with her over the doctors’ weak protests. She takes the unconscious girl to the roof to a helicopter. Ghost Jean berates her for stealing it. Emma coolly replies she would have preferred a jet, but it will have to do.
In the meantime, in an airplane graveyard in the middle of nowhere Hope Summers is busy cleaning a weapon when her system alerts her to a significant cosmic event. She gathers some weapons including her psimitar and carries them to her flightbike.
Aboard the helicopter, Ghost Jean checks on her younger counterpart. She is no longer burning and trashing but has gone corpse-white. Emma replies they will be in Westchester shortly. She has called ahead. There will be help on the ground.
Dejected, Ghost Jean admits she didn’t mean to torture her. In her defense, it’s more self-harm than child abuse, Emma snarks. Ghost Jean continues she thought Jean could take that tiny bit of Phoenix flame. She thought it would toughen her up. How did she know it was in her mind? Emma demands. Ghost Jean replies she knew because Jean knew. She sensed it when Emma trained her in Canada. Though she didn’t know what it was.
She never could keep her nose to herself, Emma sighs. She can’t help it, Ghost Jean replies with a sad look at Jean. Too much. Too fast. Too soon. It’s all so overwhelming and she’s just made it worse.
She turns back to Emma. She is in no position to judge but what was Emma thinking keeping that thing inside of her? Power, Emma admits, recalling the time when she was one of the Phoenix Five. Glorious life-giving power, only hers for a moment, but what a moment! She kept a tiny flicker. Ghost Jean figures she kept it in that nightmare of a memory just in case Jean came and— Emma scoffs. Not everything is about her. Jean’s nightmare was her love story.
They land somewhere in the forests near Westchester. Emma reminds Ghost Jean that she is not on great terms with the X-Men right now. They’ll take her all the way if they have to.
The help Emma promised are the three Stepford Cuckoos, who cannot perceive Ghost Jean. They snark about Emma seemingly talking to herself and one of them adds they hope she hasn’t killed another Jean Grey. Rolling her eyes, Emma assures them she is alive and they can skim the whole story from her brain in a bit. Drop the snark and help her!
They form a circle around the unconscious Jean. Emma refers to their mistrust of her. Repeated incompetence and betrayal will do that to young people, Phoebe shoots back. Yes, she’s sure their ongoing tantrum is well and truly justified, Emma replies, but for the moment let’s pretend they are mature enough and move on. It will take all four of them to pull Jean from the flame. They must link their minds fully. Because that’s always gone so well in the past, Irma points out. Nevertheless, they comply and focus. Jean screams and the flames move upward into the sky.
Nearby, Quentin Quire sees this and becomes curious. Capable of seeing Ghost Jean, he explains he came all the way from Central Park to tell them they were making a psychic ruckus, but they probably know that already. The four don’t know what to do. Quentin tells them to think outside the box, manifests a psychic gun and shoots Jean in the head.
Jean drops down, the flames extinguished. Angrily, Emma berates him. Quentin points out that the flame was feeding on Jean’s psychic energy. So he shot her in the head and put that big red mind to sleep. Emma examines Jean and reluctantly admits Quentin’s stunt seems to have worked. Jean is much cooler.
Quentin turns around and warns the others: incoming. It’s Hope Summers on her skysled. She crash lands and gets straight to the point. Big bad news. She grabs her weapons and tells them not to kill the messenger. She’s spectacularly well armed.
She quickly erects a computer unit and suggests they wake up Jean so she can explain. And that’s why they shouldn’t let Cable raise kids, Celeste observes tartly. Hope continues that satellites have been showing surges of power popping up around the planet the last few days. This morning she got pinged again. This was a lot bigger – cosmic-level. Vaguely bird-shaped. And headed here. While the others still try to process the news, Hope figures the Phoenix is –
Here! Jean who has awakened states. The Phoenix is here!
And that’s how you steal a scene, Quentin grins. Ghost Jean and Emma instantly want to make sure she is all right. Jean just repeats the Phoenix is here. Unimpressed, the Cuckoos remind here she keeps on saying that the Phoenix is coming. Repetition makes it seem less impressive. They get it: the Phoenix is coming.
Hope grimly corrects them. Jean didn’t say the Phoenix was coming. She said it’s here. She points upward to the Phoenix raptor closing in.


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Westchester:Teenage Jean Grey and her allies run from the fury of the Phoenix Force, which breathes down flames at them, causing a forest fire. Jean realizes that she isn’t ready for this but that there probably is no way of being ready for this.
Hope Summers asks Jean for the plan. Retreat, she is told. Hope points out they have been running away and it doesn’t work. What now?
The ghost of adult Jean reminds her younger counterpart that the Phoenix is only attacking the others to get at her. She needs to say the word. She has to pick the fight. They are now surrounded by a ring of fire.
Jean manifests a psychic sword and shield and addresses the Phoenix. She knows it is here for her, but she won’t be its host. It can try to force her but then it needs to prepare for— Waaaar! the Phoenix screeches and breathes fire at her, which Jean barely manages to deflect with her shield. She calls for Pickles and asks him to get them out.
A moment later, Pickles has teleported them to the abandoned Xavier School in Canada. Hope is the only one who doesn’t know the place. She was thinking remote and cold, Jean explains. Higher ground. Hope takes charge, figuring this place has satellite imaging. So at least they can track the damn thing.
Unseen by the others (except for Emma), Ghost Jean urges Jean to go. They need to leave the others. This is her fight or flight. Not theirs. The Phoenix will scorch the Earth and anyone on it to get to—
Emma rudely interrupts and asks if death has turned her dim or suicidal by proxy. She orders Jean to get her butt inside. They are all helping Jean.
Inside, Hope has managed to set up satellite imagining and announces the bird is headed here in a hurry. She asks for ideas. Ghost Jean again tries to convince Marvel Girl that fighting it alone might seem like madness but think about the stakes. The Phoenix needs a living host. Worst case scenario: Jean will still survive. But will they? Hesitatingly, Jean promises not to let that happen.
Emma explains to the others they need to corral that thing. So follow her lead. They’ll hold it stead so bangs’ n’ bob can strike her blow. Quentin points out that he prefers Jean’s hair that way.
Look alive, people, Hope warns. A moment later, the Phoenix breaks through the wall. Hope hands Jean her psimitar and explains it focuses and amplifies psychic energy. Just point and shoot. Jean does so and shoots a hole inside the Phoenix. Hope fires her guns at the raptor and shouts “let’s twist this damned chicken’s head off!” The raptor grabs her in its beak and throws her against the wall.
Ghost Jean urges Marvel Girl to fire again but Jean points out the Phoenix is too close to Hope. Another shot will disperse the flames and endanger Hope.
Emma, the Cuckoos and Quentin team up and try to psychically cage the Phoenix. Watching them, Jean realizes they’ve helped her as much as they can. Everybody helped her as much as they could, but old Jean was right. This is her war. Nobody can fight it for her.
Emma shouts at Jean to take her shot. Jean runs toward the Phoenix while the others pass out from the stress. She lands on its back. “Gotcha!” she shouts as she strikes with the psimitar. The Phoenix takes to the air and asks “or do I have you?”
It flies high to the air. Jean is confident that no matter what happens the Phoenix will not kill her. She will survive this. Ghost Jean follows them, urging Jean not to let up.
Jean still has the psimitar buried in its back while protecting herself with a forcefield. She doesn’t believe it has come to kill her. Not Jean Grey. Not its favorite puppet. She creates a psychic lasso. She figures if she doesn’t win and lets the Phoenix do this, what would be even left of her? She did her Phoenix homework… smelled the burned flesh… seen the scars. She’s seen what it left behind in the minds of those other hosts.
She begins to strangle it with the lasso. “Nobody ever survives you!” she shouts. So they’re gonna find out… The Phoenix drops and Ghost Jean screams in panic as it crash lands… “If you survive me!” Jean states as she walks from the landing.
She realizes she is not the girl she was when this started. That girl wouldn’t shut up about nightmares. She would have shattered in the crash. She would have burned in the flight. Maybe she’s not full-grown, fully powered, bad-ass Jean Grey. But she gave the Phoenix every single thing she got. And when it crashed, she heard it scream. She felt its fear.
The Phoenix rises with an angry screech Jean is not surprised. Nobody thought she could win this fight. And it’s sure looking like she won’t. But so what? She can’t control if she wins or loses. Nobody can. All you can do is stand and fight. The firebird took her best shot but it’s not over till it takes her last. Jan screams defiantly as she manifests more psychic weaponry for her last stand.
Ghost Jean manifests in front of her and shouts at the Phoenix to stop it. She tells the Phoenix to look at how strong Jean is, far stronger than she was at her age. Look at how hard she’s battled. She is only fighting the Phoenix because she is too young. Because she is not ready. She can’t handle it. She is not her. Not yet. I know, the Phoenix replies. If it merges with her now it will burn her up, the ghost continues. The Phoenix agrees. The ghost realizes the truth and shouts at Jean to run.
But it is too late, as the Phoenix enters Jean and she realizes they were wrong. About the worst case scenario. About the bird and why it came. Makes sense, if you think about it. People tell her all the time. She has her face. She has her hair. She has her name. But she is not the real Jean Grey. The Phoenix never wanted her. It wanted her out of the way.
And with that, the Phoenix burns Jean to ashes. Its work done, it rises triumphantly leaving the ghost to kneel amidst the ashes.


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Jean opens her eyes, realizing she is dead. The last thing she remembers is losing against the Phoenix and pain as the stupid bird burned her up. Now demons surround her and she realizes she is in hell.
Angrily, she uses her telekinesis to throw them off. Realizing her powers still work, she flies away but is then tossed to the ground by a giant demon rising from the lava. What is it they say about the frying pan and the fire? a familiar voice asks. There is another fall after this one, the Darkchild informs her, standing in the demon’s maw. Welcome to the pit! she shouts and attacks Jean with her Soulsword.
Jean dodges and insists this doesn’t make any sense. She creates her own psychic sword. Darkchild states that Jean died and went to hell. Jean deflects her blow and asks why. She lost a fight. She died in a fire. Those aren’t sins. She has been judged! Darkchild insists. The blood of entire worlds drops from her…
That was the other Jean, Marvel Girl interrupts her. Finally, Darkchild shouts she is an abomination. Jean manages to hit her and informs her she is full of crap. Jean is pretty sure Darkchild runs Limbo not hell. What’s the difference? Darkchild demands. Jean doesn’t know, but she should. Darkchild turns into her human form Magik, wearing her Phoenix Five costume. Either way, she informs Jean, she burns.
Her punishment is eternal damnation? Jean asks. She said she did nothing wrong, Magik states. Jean stands by that but admits she and the universe tend to disagree. Good, she understands why it must be that way, Magik announces, bringing her Soulsword down on Jean, who protests she doesn’t understand any of this crap. She never did!
She doesn’t get hit. When she opens her eyes, the scenery has changed. She is in a wilderness, surrounded by some surprised cave people. One of them curiously tugs at her hair, the others seems scared. Jean wonders why. Out of the cave flies a red-haired cavewoman, who orders Jean to get out!
As they land on the beach, Jean realizes the other woman is some prehistoric Phoenix. She wonders if this is her personal hell, then what is personal about Captain Cavewoman? The other woman tosses her away and shouts that even her juvenile thoughts are deafening! She follows Jean into the water, tries to drown her and shouts at her to leave her be. Jean frees herself by telekinetically pushing the woman away and swims upward.
When she reaches the surface, it is no longer the sea but a fountain in a burning city. Sentinels swarm everywhere and Jean realizes this is Rachel Grey’s future. She’s seen this in about six mutants’ minds. If there is a hell for mutants, this is it. She wonders why she is here and is almost stomped by a Sentinel. The robot next tries to blast her. Jean is thrown against a building by the blast and lands in a dark alley where she is expected by four Hounds. Their leader is a familiar face – Rachel, who tells her she can run but not escape.
Rachel orders her Hounds to “sic her”. Jean tries to appeal to Rachel’s better nature. She reminds her she broke away. She is free! Straddling her, Rachel reminds her of what she just said. Nobody gets away. But the Rachel she knows did, Jean insists. She ran far away and she is happy. Rachel hesitates, then power explodes from her as she wears her Phoenix costume. She doesn’t know her at all! she screams.
Jean protects herself with a forcefield refusing to get out of Rachel’s face. Here she is, she points out. She’s not running, she’s not afraid, and she can’t burn Jean up, if she doesn’t understand, just tell her! Rachel slugs her and orders her to die! She already did, is Jean’s response.
When she gets up, she finds her surroundings have changed again. She is surrounded by Shi’ar soldiers, who are shouting they want to avenge the Majestor. Jean figures this is the Shi’ar Civil War, except not really, just like that wasn’t Rachel’s time before. The worlds are really detailed, but they all sort of smell the same. Metallic. Like ozone after it rains.
Jean stalks toward the man whom the soldiers are attacking, another flaming freakazoid burning up the scenery, as she puts it. In this case, it is the Shi’ar Rook’shir who orders his foes to bow or feel his Phoenix Blade. Then their dead eyes can watch as he builds a throne from their carcasses.
Does he know how you can tell someone has gone completely Dark Phoenix? Jean asks. Megalomaniacal monologues. Rook’shir is taken aback. Only crazies want dead people to watch them build stuff, she adds. Rook’shir slugs her and orders her to be silent. He is the fire and the light and she is nothing but a fading ember. He puts his boot upon her face. It is past time he stamped her out!
Jean’s eyes glow in anger and the next moment the whole planet explodes. Floating in the nothingness, Jean only has time to wonder if that was him or her before she passes out.
She awakes on her bed back at Xavier’s school, dressed conservatively. She figures this is from before Old Beast took them to the future.
She steps into the hallway, where Hank greets her and Scott awkwardly tries to compliment her. She tells them “no” as she passes them by.
She walks down the stairs. Downstairs, Warren and Bobby are watching baseball. Bobby invites her to watch Warren shout at the TV. She has no time for their crap, she cuts him off. What did he do? Bobby protests. He doesn’t exist, comes the reply. She can smell the friggin’ ozone. She’s onto this stupid game. Get out here! she shouts.
A telepathic projection of Professor X appears and asks her why she is agitated. Did she have a bad dream? Jean snaps he isn’t Professor X, so don’t patronize her! He would never… Xavier protests. She’s not doing this anymore! she screams and lashes out. He warns her she will hurt herself. No she’s hurting it! she screams back as flames begin to engulf her.
Xavier turns into the Phoenix Force. Jean demands what this place is. Where is she? The White Hot Room, she is told. A nexus between all Phoenix hosts and their flame. A place of rest and contemplation. A home to every being with whom it has merged. Every host leaves a piece of themselves here. But she is no Phoenix, she is no host. It didn’t choose her. She doesn’t belong.
Hey, it came at her, Jean points out. Jean Grey is the perfect vessel, it continues. The power and influence she wields as the Phoenix is unmatched. She is NOT Jean Grey!
Jean snaps, that that’s what she’s been saying from the beginning! She wasn’t trying to be another her. But it was all “Jean Grey is Jean Grey is Jean Grey!”
The Phoenix claims the true Jean Grey bonded quite willingly. She embraced its flames with arms wide open. Young Jean on the other hand has conspired against the Phoenix from the beginning. Fought and kicked it at every turn. Forced its hand. Forced it to find another way. So it murdered her with fire? Jean demands. And from her ashes another Jean Grey has risen, it replies. Her time is done, and yet she lingers here. Why?
At first, Jean doesn’t understand, then she realizes that the Phoenix didn’t bring her here. This isn’t some punishment or hell. This is the Phoenix’s mindscape and it has been using fragments of the others hosts to push her out. But it can’t, because for some reason Jean is in control here.
She figures that maybe Ghost Jean’s plan to inoculate her with Emma’s Phoenix spark worked somehow. She decides she is done with this stupid thing.
The Phoenix crows it has defeated her. The wheels have been spinning for some time. Its plan has already succeeded. It is the Phoenix. It is forever.
Cool, is Jean’s unimpressed reply. So here’s what’s happening now: It’s gonna shut that big flaming beak for once, swallow however much pride it takes to acknowledge she has won and then focus those death-bringing space god fire powers on fulfilling the one part of her stupid nightmare that has not come true yet.
And it does, as Jean reconstitutes from her ashes back in the wilderness of Canada where the Phoenix killed her.
Sometime later, Jean arrives back in Madripoor. At their home, Iceman awaits her, eager to tell her everything she’s been missing. Jean isn’t interested and walks on. She passes Warren, who announces she was right. Jean’s home. Cyclops adds with all the Phoenix stuff going on, they were afraid. Yeah no, Jean interrupts. Later!
Hank also tries to tell her something, but she doesn’t want to hear, even when he mentions someone waiting for her.
She enters her room and plops down on her bed exhausted. Jean? she cries a moment later. “Back at’cha!” the woman in the doorway replies with a grin. They should probably talk, a very much alive adult Jean Grey continues.


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Jean Grey doesn’t know where she is. She just knows she is dying. Bu that’s nothing new for her. She’s been there so many times before…But there is an urgent feeling that there are others – though she doesn’t know who they are – and time is running out!She tries to move on to what she does know. Jean feels that this is all her fault somehow, so what did she do wrong? She tries to think… to remember. Maybe if she understands, she can fix everything. Her memories are scattered puzzle pieces. But could she have chosen differently?She starts at the beginning. She was born in death. At least as a mutant. When she was a child, her best friend was hit by a car. The trauma awakened Jean’s telepathic power. She held a rapport with Annie and nearly died with her. Should she have held back? She decides against it. She couldn’t have left Annie alone.When Professor Xavier offered to block her overwhelming telepathy, should Jean have said “no?” She decides she was a danger to others, and the choice was right.A few years later, when Xavier offered her a place at his school and the X-Men, should she have refused? No, that was the best!And when older Beast arrived from the future and asked the young X-Men to join him there to save the world, how could she have refused? They left for the future, where their presence made things worse. Until young Cable convinced them to return to their own time, to forget the future and everything they did there. Jean agreed and used the telepathic power she’d regained in the future to make them all forget their future knowledge and added skills. She wonders if that was where things went wrong…She watches as her teenage self suggests to the others, they don’t wipe the memories. What if they need that knowledge? Beast agrees, the future will be abysmal, unless they act. As they walk through the mansion, they discuss this further. Jean stresses that they have control of their powers now and they have seen several futures they now know to avoid. Like the Phoenix, Angel suggests.That moment, Professor X telepathically orders them to come to the Danger Room. Angel worries he will read their minds and they wonder why he hasn’t already. Jean explains that she is blocking him. Scott points out she can’t control everything! So she will control what she can! she insists stubbornly, and they head for the Danger Room after changing into their old outfits.They find the exercises ridiculously easy. Xavier stops the exercise almost immediately, and Jean tells the others that Magneto is attacking in Manhattan. She already knows that? Xavier asks suspiciously. Jean explains the block he put on her telepathy is gone and she can control her powers now. She stresses she wants what he wants: to protect mutantkind and safeguard the future. Xavier begins that she doesn’t know… Jean cuts him off that she knows more than he thinks. She assures him that with her at full power, they are better positioned to fight against evil.Soon, the X-Men face Magneto hovering over a bridge. Jean snaps that, if he thinks this will convince them to join him, he has lost his mind!He wonders why he would be interested in that. This is retaliation for human attacks on mutants! He begins to destroy the bridge, announcing they have much yet to learn. The X-Men attack. Jean finds his helmet blocks her telepathy. Cyclops reminds her of her telekinesis, as the cables controlled by Magneto trap them. He’s fine with killing them? Jean asks. If that’s what it takes, Magneto replies. If that’s the way they play it, Jean decides and telekinetically removes his helmet. She announces, they have seen where his hate takes them. With her telepathy, she reaches into his mind and shuts it off. He drops to the ground.Iceman, Angel and Beast act to stabilize the bridge. Cyclops angrily berates Jean for what she has done. She retorts that he has seen where Magneto’s hate will lead. It is better this way for everyone. And the witnesses? Cyclops demands. Jean suggests she could change their memories, which the boys immediately veto. She decides they’ll spin the situation then. They are the good guys, so let’s bring that in the open. Maybe secrecy is where they went wrong.So they talk to the press. Soon, Iceman gives an interview to reporter Trish Tilby, while Angel is surrounded by fans who demand his autograph.Weeks later, their headquarters is a new Manhattan apartment, bought by Angel after Xavier hit the roof about what Jean did to Magneto.Cyclops watches Xavier on TV debating Bolivar Trask about his anti-mutant messaging. He’d rather fight the Juggernaut, Scott sighs. Jean agrees. One tiny mind tweak… and instant good guy! She can’t keep doing that! Cyclops protests.Hank enters announcing he is finished, then notes they are quarrelling again. About Jean’s little “mind-tweaks,” Cyclops explains bitterly. Hank shows them the Cerebro helmet and explains he’s made improvements. Jean interrupts, this is working. They stop evil mutants from being evil. Mutants aren’t feared and humans don’t hate them. She gestures to the TV: even Trask is coming around!On TV, Bolivar Trask seems to understand Xavier’s position but warns that more mutants appear weekly, and some powers are dangerous.When the whole team is gathered, Hank explains Trask has a point, but his enhanced Cerebro will make finding emerging mutants easier, which should mitigate the dangers. The unit is more sensitive and can notice the first quivers of an emerging power.Jean puts the Cerebro helmet on and finds something: a kid panicking - some kind of psi power. Too far for her to reach him telepathically. They may not get to him in time!They don’t. They just reach the boy’s home to watch it detonate. Jean senses injured people and the young mutant is dying. The other X-Men begin evacuating people while Jean stays in telepathic contact with the young boy until he is gone. She falls down exhausted.When Cyclops worries, she assures him she is strong enough now to accompany him to death. He tells her there has to be a better way.Afterwards, they answer questions from the press, but Jean claims that a gas leak was the reason for the detonation and the chief of the firefighters agrees after some mental nudging.As they return, Angel and Beast are displeased at the lies. Jean reminds them that Trask hates them already. All he needs is an excuse to move against mutants, and they have seen his killer robots in the future.Hank warns there will be an investigation. Forensics won’t back up that story. Iceman adds if he is asked, he won’t lie about this. Jean threatens she can make him think it isn’t a lie. Angel and Iceman coldly suggest, maybe she doesn’t need them at all.Soon, Bolivar Trask reveals on TV that he has proof that mutants were behind the detonation and reveals his Sentinels who will attack the X-Men first.Indeed, the killer robots are already hovering outside the penthouse. The X-Men decide that fighting the Sentinels in midtown is too dangerous. They grab their Cerebro unit and leave before the Sentinels destroy the apartment.They realize Trask’s Sentinels will hunt any mutant as soon as they manifest powers. Jean suggests they already know who some of those mutants will be. And Cerebro will help them find others. They decide to first save Kitty Pryde.Jean brainwashes Carmen and Teri Pryde into believing they are sending their daughter to boarding school. Aboard their chopper, they decide to next get Sam Guthrie and Dani Moonstar.Their next stop is Caldecott County, Kentucky, where a coalmining shaft has collapsed with young Sam buried. The X-Men watch how his power kicks in and he blasts out, saving a fellow miner alongside himself.Jean states Trask will have registered him and the Sentinels will come. Jean takes over Sam’s mind and brings him to their place. What about his family? Iceman asks. Sam was supporting them after his father’s death. Not any longer, Jean replies. Now they don’t even remember his existence. Inside the plane, he still rages at her that she acts like mutants are more important than normal people. Maybe they are, she replies, tired, Trask seems to think so.Hank announces they need a place to hide those kids while they collect more. So they head to Xavier’s. They find Xavier in the library playing chess with Magneto, who is also in a wheelchair. He brough him back, Jean states coldly. Some of the way, Xavier replies. She did quite a number on him. But how? Why? Jean stammers. Xavier coolly reminds her he has quite a lot more experience than her. Why? He believes in free will and trusts in time Magneto will become a force for good. He is surprised this development displeases her, he needles. These days Magneto’s and Jean’s philosophies seem to align.Mutants are under attack. She is doing the best she can, Jean bristles. He could have shown her a better way, Magneto interjects. She isn’t a terrorist! Jean retorts. She won’t use her power to kill! Magneto tells her to give it time. Xavier sharply tells him that’s enough.Jean explains Sam’s powers have kicked in. The others’ will soon. She asks him to keep them safe and tells the team to come with her.Xavier addresses Scott. Are they with her? Scott admits her methods may be questionable, but she needs them. However, Iceman and Angel decide to stay with Xavier Jean’s methods aren’t right. Hank and Scott follow Jean, and Hank proposes they will bring Xavier the other mutants they rescue.Magneto asks Xavier if he thinks he is like her. Passionate but misguided? Is that why he saved him? Passion has its uses, Xavier retorts. He thinks Erik will make an excellent teacher. The school is going to get crowded and the children will need their protection.Journalist Trish Tilby walks the streets at night, when suddenly she is grabbed from above. King Kong-like Beast climbs up a building with her until he gets to the roof. She’s got it wrong, he informs her. He pleads with her to listen and asks her to consider her sources, before she scripts fear-mongering articles. Those “stolen” children she wrote about are mutants, kids who haven’t yet manifested powers. The X-Men saved them from…Trish cuts him off. Saved by kidnapping? she scoffs. By erasing their families’ memories? But others did remember and asked questions! There are records! Supplied by Trask, Beast ventures. Covering his own tracks. Trish asks what he means and Beast reveals that Trask took a number of those missing kids. They tried to save as many as they could but… Why? Trish interjects. He is trying to create a mutant army, Beast explains, whereas they are… Are keeping everyone safe and try to stop a genocidal war, a new voice announces, as Jean puts Trish in a trance.What did he think was going to happen when she wrote about Trask’s mutant army? Jean asks Hank.Angrily, he shouts that he was getting through to her! She reminds him she is a telepath and she disagrees. Bobby’s right! he snaps. She has become a monster!Angrily, Jean lashes out at him with her telepathy. She realizes what she has done a moment later. That wonderful mind destroyed, Cyclops states, and for what? Why does she think she gets to control everything? That her vote is the only one that counts? If he walks away, will she fry his mind too? He grabs Trish and Hank and walks away. He tells her to do what she wants. He is not on board anymore.Weakly, Jean protests she is not a monster, then silently admits to herself that she is. She tried so hard, but she did it wrong. She has to stop the anti-mutant leaders and make the rest afraid. But how? She is just one person. Alone, unless…She had felt the Phoenix from the beginning but ignored it, but now, when she calls, it comes, and so she decides that in order to save mutantkind she will have to be a bigger monster.And soon, anti-mutant leaders, preachers or politicians are telepathically stopped or killed by Phoenix.Trask with his plans for a mutant army is the next target.In Westchester, Professor X has managed to restore Hank, even though he is still too weak to join the team. The X-Men inform Professor X and Magneto about the nature of the Phoenix. Angel points out that the president has fallen to the growing anti-mutant hysteria. He may be next!They track Jean to Washington, and so an X-Men team of Cyclops, Angel, Iceman and Magneto - all wearing anti-telepathy / telekinesis helmets – get ready to confront Phoenix, to distract her while Professor X does the telepathic part.Phoenix attacks them and tells Magneto he at least should know when he is beaten. Xavier contacts her and pleads these attacks are disastrous. For them at least, she shoots back.Angel tackles her from behind and begs her to talk about this. She retorts it is too late. Maybe it always was. Shutting down their leader has to be the answer. How else can she keep all of them safe? She fends off Cyclops’s optic blast.Xaver tells her she is creating martyrs, and new leaders will arise… worse because she has given them a greater focus. That can’t be true! she rages.Iceman blasts her next, while Xavier points out that Jean herself said they hate what they fear, and right now humanity is very afraid.Jean orders them to quit fighting and Xavier to quit shouting at her. They know what she can do, she threatens.Xavier continues, so do the humans. It’s on their media across the globe. Jean has given them terrible things to fear. And greater hate than she had thought possible.No! Jean shouts. Overwhelmed, she screams at them to stop talking… to stop fighting! She lashes out wanting everyone and everything to go away.She is surrounded by nothingness. This isn’t what she wants. Nothing else left but the Phoenix. She realizes what she has done in her pride and willfulness. She discards that option.Present Jean realizes they were right to let the skein of time unravel without entanglement until…She looks at a space shuttle hurtling toward Jamaica Bay.She knows exactly where it all went wrong!


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Dead Reckoning
Jean has decided that forgetting their adventures in the future was the right decision in her early years as an X-Man. She turns to a second pivotal moment in her life…The X-Men were in a space shuttle facing a solar flare that would kill anyone unprotected. The autopilot was destroyed, meaning someone would have to steer the shuttle from the unprotected command center. Jean absorbed the necessary knowledge to pilot the shuttle from Dr. Corbeau’s mind, telepathically knocked out Cyclops who wanted to stop her and snapped at Wolverine when he challenged her decision.She almost made it, but her telekinetic shields collapsed and with her last breath she cried for help.The shuttle landed in Jamaica Bay, everyone survived and she emerged as Phoenix, though she wasn’t quite herself. None of them knew that she was possessed by a symbiotic power that was drawn to passion, and which would thrive in the darkest corners of her soul and revel in destruction…Jena wonders what if instead of grabbing control, she would have chosen to listen.She bucking for martyr of the year or something? Wolverine asks her roughly. Instead of verbally kicking his ass, Jean asks if he has a better idea. It turns out he might have. He explains he has a healing factor, so he is likely to survive the radiation. She has the knowledge and can direct him telepathically from the shielded cabin. Gruffly, she admits it is a good idea.Jean and Wolverine stay in rapport and the flight begins. When the radiation hits, they realize they may not survive. Scott confesses his love to her, and Jean realizes he thinks they won’t make it. Wolverine interrupts the tender moment, as they are losing oxygen. Jean assists him. When the shuttle is about to break, she uses her telekinesis to strengthen it.As their rapport deepens, she learns more about Wolverine, such as his name Logan. She learns about aspects of his past. He used to have bone claws. She wonders how old he is when she learns that he fought in WW I and II. However, much of his memory is lost for some reason.His healing factor is about to give up. She won’t let that happen and she adds her strength to his. As she does so, his mental blocks shatter and they learn about Logan being experimented on at the Weapon X facility. Jean cries in horror, realizing he came to the X-Men for a haven, even if he didn’t know, and he trusted her enough to let her into his mind. She prays for God to help him.The shuttle crashes in Jamaica Bay and the X-Men swim up. Suddenly screaming, Wolverine rises violently from the water. He seems to be burning and bone-spikes grow from several points of his body, while he rants that they though he couldn’t hear them… that he’d become just an animal… but he understood every word! He is Phoenix, risen from the ashes of his past, and he will make them pay!Surrounded by Phoenix fire, he flies away, leaving the X-Men to wonder what just happened. Jean isn’t sure. She is locked out of his mind now. All she knows is some power has healed him, changed him and, somehow, he’s moved beyond himself. He’s going after the people who tried to turn him into a mindless monster. And he’s going to destroy them!Later, the X-Men are gathered around Professor X back in the mansion. He is satisfied that they managed to slip away from the crash undetected. So far, their involvement in the incident isn’t suspected. To keep up that illusion, they are going to Ireland to Cassidy Keep, where Banshee grew up. Sean happily welcomes them. Jean tries to protest, but Xavier asks if she doesn’t think they deserve a vacation?Privately with Scott, she complains about Xavier. No word about Wolverine? They saw him rise from the water, burned, scorched, nearly a corpse. And then he got better and those spikes grew and he flew. Since when can he fly?Scott plays devil’s advocate and assumes Xavier knows more than them. He probably had reasons. Then he should share them! she snaps. She’s going to Canada after Logan! Why? he asks. To stop him or help him if she can? She doesn’t know. She’s just going. Scott states he will accompany her.Jean thinks to herself she has always loved Scott and wondered at the passion hidden beneath his self-discipline.The two of them slip away (and somehow manage to get new uniforms) and soon are making their way through the snowy, Canadian landscape, leading to the Weapon X complex. Scott fears it is a wild goose chase, but Jean assures him she senses Logan. She asks why he came. He replies that Wolverine went mad and he won’t let Jean face that alone.Jean muses she never liked Wolverine or wondered what lay behind his insufferable attitude. But now she saw the horror of his past and knows how he feels about… a lot of things…She wonders why she is so snappish toward Scott and keeps thinking of Logan.They find the first bodies. Scott accuses her that, even seeing the carnage, she loves Wolverine! Not the way he means, she replies, but she knows him. The people here put the adamantium in him and tried to turn him into a killing machine. She explains they are tied to American dark ops, to Trask with his Sentinels, and other anti-mutant fascists… to hate groups around the world.She telekinetically lowers them into the underground complex.When Logan escaped, he killed the leader, but that didn’t stop them. She thinks that Professor X knew about this, maybe that’s why he recruited Logan. Maybe he had a plan, but it all went sideways when Logan transformed…She is shocked when she sees vats with remnants of living beings in them. She explains he was tortured in a vat like this. They must be trying to build an anti-mutant army…They find Wolverine being shot at and instantly healing thanks to his heightened powers. One of the men stammers: what is he? Retribution! Wolverine snarls, destruction and death! His burning spikes move like a barrage felling the snipers.Jean tells Soctt they must help him. They dispatch of some snipers but Cyclops protests, this slaughter has to stop. Can’t she reach him? He is in some kind of berserker rage, Jean replies. His mind is shielded from her and she cannot telekinetically move him. He doesn’t even know they are here. He urges her to keep trying.Wolverine rants that they are all monsters. The makers and the made – they must all die! Jean appeals to him shouting this must end. This will end when they are all dead! he cries. Fiery energy spikes launch from his body targeting combatants, shattering the tubes that house the growing anti- mutant army. Everybody dies, except the three of them.Then Wolverine realizes who is here and the spikes drop as he realizes he could have killed them too. He didn’t know, Jean tries to console him. He tells her she doesn’t understand. He wanted them dead, and this fire in him made that happen. He couldn’t stop it, even if he wanted to. Only he is himself now and he is damaged at his core. He can still feel it inside. He can’t be trusted. It is in charge now. He asks them to kill him while they still can.Jean refuses but Scott announces Wolverine is right and fires his optic blast at Wolverine.Its fire rejected, the Phoenix leaves Wolverine, looking for another host, someone more passionate and hungry. It enters Cyclops. The energy shatters his visor and he covers his eyes. Jean tells him to look at her. Panicked, he tells her she’d die. Jean doesn’t believe that. He has such self-discipline. He doesn’t know how strong he is. She tells him to try to fight it.He floats before her and warns he cannot do it for long. It is not a being of logic. It thrives on feelings, on his for her… it needs… it loves… it wants… He begs her not to let it use him and asks her to kill him. She refuses and kisses him.Wolverine figures he is right and impales Scott from behind. When Scott dies, the Phoenix Force moves back to Wolverine. In front of a horrified Jean, he uses it to kill himself.Jean has seen enough. Wolverine seemed the logical choice, she murmurs. He could survive the radiation but he couldn’t survive the Phoenix. Not him, not even her distant, passionate Scott. In her reality, she steered the shuttle and let the Phoenix have her. Things didn’t go wrong there, but if not there, then where? She begins to think of her clone Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen…


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Obsession
Somewhere between life and death, Jean Grey believes she has finally found the reason everything has gone wrong: her clone Madelyne Pryor. Every time she deals with her, everything goes to hell. Dressed as the Goblin Queen, Madelyne mocks that, surely, that doesn’t surprise her.Suddenly, all of Jean’s memories seem to be snapshots and she has the feeling of being in a desert, in chains. This awakes other memories of being chained, but then Jean realizes those are Madelyne’s memories. Her memories shackling Jean for a change, Madelyne chuckles. Seems only right, considering how long Jean’s memories shackled her.Can’t she feel it? Jean demands. They are not alone— Is Madelyne--? No, is the reply. Jean is cracking up fine without her help.She’s going to read Jean’s mind, Jean hears someone say and realizes it is Hope Summers. While only Jean and Madelyne seem to be real, she can see Hope and Exodus, as if on screen. She hears Hope say that her mind is on fire. It’s burning so hot! Beyond hot! Hope realizes where they are, though she doesn’t know what it means: What’s the “White Hot Room?”Unseen and unheard by them, Jean exclaims that she doesn’t know what’s happening. It isn’t fair! Madelyne laughs. Jean thought she’d fight fair? That she’d forget what Jean took from her… that she’d forgive the disaster they called Inferno… or does she need to remind Jean?Mr. Sinister wanted an offspring of Scott’s and Jean’s lineage and used Jean’s cells to grow a clone – Madelyne. Awakened by the Phoenix Force, Madelyne emerged an empty vessel, an innocent pawn. She married Scott, had a child, Nathan Christopher, and was abandoned by Scott when he learned Jean still lived.Jean protests that isn’t true! Scott went looking for Madelyne. He was told she was dead!Madelyne continues that, in her pain, she sought power where she could find it. She consorted with demons, N’astirh, chief architect of the Inferno, and his techno-organic rival S’ym. She became part of N’astirh’s planned demon invasion. She was used by them all and ignored by Jean, until she forced the knowledge upon her.Jean points out that they were told Maddie and Christopher were dead, but Scott kept looking. He found the baby cryogenically frozen in a secret creche beneath the orphanage where Scott had been raised. They warmed the baby up but then were attacked by Nanny and the Orphan-Maker. They took the fight outside. In the meantime, demons slipped inside and abducted Christopher. Distracted by the battle, Scott and Jean missed the demons and what they carried.But what if the baby had cried out and Jean had heard his psychic scream?New timeline:Marvel Girl hears the baby’s scream and alerts Cyclops, who blasts the demon Crotus. Jean catches the falling baby and assures him he is safe.Elsewhere, an impatient Gobin Queen demands of the demon N’astirh where her son is. A demon enters to inform them that Crotus was killed trying to get the baby. Furious, Madelyne kills the emissary.N’astirh considers this a minor setback and tells her to learn what she must, while she takes care of the details.He leaves and, a moment later, she is surprised by Mr. Sinister, who announces that she may call him father.Very soon, she is in chains while he soliloquizes. When he calls her “daughter,” she calls him crazy. She has normal parents. He challenges her to give her one memory of her past. She flounders, then recalls the childhood death of her best friend Annie. He reveals that this is Jean Grey’s memory. She remembers flying, fire and destruction, dying on the moon. Sinister reveals that she awoke in a tube the moment of Jean Grey’s death. The memory of the Phoenix fire is real. As her clone, she may share Jean’s link with the Phoenix. When Madelyne demands why she was created, he reveals he needed the offspring of Jean and Scott’s DNA.Madelyne slumps, dejected. N’astirh (who is watching from the shadows) notes this and figures she may need reinforcements.He and S’ym attack Sinister together. At that moment, Madelyne ‘s power overloads the power-dampening chains and she breaks free and orders them to stop. Sinister is hers. Addressing him as “daddy dearest,” she claims he has given her the truth about herself. She understands what she is. Not a mutant like Jean Grey, but still Phoenix-driven, and she has made a deal with demons. She has power of her own, which she demonstrates by killing Mr. Sinister.N’astirh suggests they should go now to get her son. His sacrifice will ensure his rule, and hers by his side. By his side? she replies, displeased. She kills him, announcing she has something better in mind. S’ym leers that it is easy to see that he as the techno-organic demon makes the better consort.However, she has other ideas. Madelyne grabs him by the throat and allows him to infect her with the TO virus, then uses her own power to drain him of his life energy. Now she is thrice powered: by the Phoenix, by demon magic and the TO virus. She may be no real person, no longer human at all, but it seems she is something more. She now is truly the Goblin Queen and her reign is about to begin!In the meantime, Cyclops, Marvel Girl and baby Christopher are flying toward Manhattan. Cyclops notes the Manhattan Skyline is different and asks Jean to contact Ship. She informs him there is interference. She cannot get through.They pass the Empire State Building, which has become taller and a demonish nightmare. Jean wonders aloud. She notices winged beings looking like that also were the ones that tried to kidnap Christopher. They look like demons. And that’s crazy, right? In Illyana’s Limbo, maybe, but not here on Earth. What’s going on?As he steers them past a demonically transformed Statue of Liberty and monsters swimming in the water, Cyclops decides they’ll figure it out once they’ve gotten Christopher to safety on Ship.They finally see Ship, untransformed, and land on deck. As they get out of their vessel, Cyclops asks if Ship knows what is going on. A voice from above tells them: Manhattan has been transformed and invaded by demons. It is Madelyne, now a techno-organic transformed horror with red, spiky skin. She tells them their teammates are there and will soon be dead. As will they. She demands her son Nathan. Cyclops stammers that they thought she was dead. There was DNA evidence…She interrupts that DNA is what Mr. Sinister is all about: her creator made it easy for them to believe. He tried to kill her and destroy all evidence that Nathan existed.He knows, Cyclops admits. He thought he was going mad, that he’d hallucinated their son. But then he found his favorite rattle behind a radiator. He consulted a psychic—Jean interrupts and simply asks why. Madelyne tells her that Scott rejected her love because of Jean. All she has left are hate and rage. She reveals that she is Jean’s clone and shares some of her memories of Annie’s death. Of Jean’s death on the moon - of her dying or radiation poisoning and rejecting the Phoenix. That was when it found Madelyne. She vows that all of them will die, then blasts Scott. His dying words are for Jean to save the baby.Jean lifts him away telekinetically and asks why. Christopher is innocent. Madelyne snaps, his name is Nathan! She made him and can use him as she chooses. His death will open a portal from Limbo to Earth. She will rule it all…Jean tries to protect the baby but her telekinetic shield is weakening against Madelyne‘s onslaught. Jean orders Ship to take the baby and hide him. The Ship opens an aperture which Jean puts the baby into.The Phoenix speaks to Jean, telling her it brought Madelyne to life. It can bring Jean back to life if she accepts its light and its darkness. Jean retorts that darkness and death follow in its wake. She won’t be used, like Madelyne! The Phoenix tells her to die then. As ever, the choice is hers.Madelyne breaks through Jean’s shields. She begins to drain Jean’s life energy, but Jean can telekinetically push her away. Madelyne tells her to live then and see the consequences of her choices.She infects the Ship with her TO virus and it breaks apart. Madelyne describes how she controls the atoms that make up this Ship. They flow out in a molecule-thin wave, infecting every machine, every organic being in its path. Even Jean. Sweeping ever outward, infecting everything. There is more than one way to rule a world…Enough! Jean shouts and rejects this world. Beaten, she complains that she accepted the Phoenix power, she sent it to others, she rejected it. Every choice means death and destruction. What else should she have done? Why ask them? She is the one who created this mess! another Jean Grey, one of many, asks angrily.