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Ok, guys, All the disclaimers apply, that means all thanks goes to Marvel for the X-Men, I'm just making the story. And I do read all the other stories, and they're great, keep up the good work. They inspire me!
Chapter 24: Future Phoenix
" So, what I want to know, is why." I said, pacing through the now empty pub.
" Why?" Xavier asked from the ceiling.
" Why you blocked my powers and my memories." I asked, " Like that time you came and we rode horses. Or that time I came to stay at the Mansion and...I had to tell my boyfried that I was leaving and feel his anger and sadness and I can't help but thinking this is your fault." I said, feeling a fire explode onto my body, but I extinguished it, " But we all mess up. It must be hard knowing your the reason Jean is dead."
" What?" Erik said.
I looked to him, he was sitting at a table, " If you wouldn't have barred my powers, the Phoenix would have found me and Jean wouldn't have been through so much." I smirked.
" She saved not only herself, but the team." Xavier protested.
I chuckled to myself, letting him fall, " Always us, isn't it. X-Men come and go, but Xavier stays the same." I picked him up and slammed him against the wall.
Erik stood, " That is enough." he shouted.
" Really? Cause I've barely scratched the surface." I said, slamming him back down into the chair, " Where was I?" I asked, putting my hand on my chin, " Oh yeah, I was right about here." I said, slamming Xavier to the floor again.
I smiled as he hit the floor with a thud and I stopped at the pounding of the ground. I looked out of the window and felt fear. People down below were afraid of something.
(It's a giant robot!)
(Oh my, it's gonna kill us!)
I smirked and looked at Xavier, who had blood trickling out of his mouth, then at Erik, who was at Xavier's side. I walked to them and suddenly a bubble formed around me. I noticed Erik's hand in the air and I focused on his hand and it sizzled and the shield wavered. I concentrated on the shield and it shattered.
" Pane, this is not your destiny." Xavier said.
" Of course it is. I mean, I'm the unlikely hero of this story. The anti-hero if you will." I said, " I remember now, Mom brought me to the mansion and we had fun. I have met the X-Men, they knew me. We were friends. Until you fucked with my mind! You seem to have a knack for that!" I said, bursting into flames. As I moved closer to them, the wall behind me exploded and a robotic hand reached in and attempted to grab me! But I turned to it and the hand began to melt! The hand jerked from inside and I walked to the terrace to see a group of five sentinels. I telekinetically grabbed two and slammed them into each other, then screwed off another two's head, then finally I jerked my left hand down and my right hand up and the sentinel that had tried to grab me split in half and fell to the ground below. In all the noise, I guess I hadn't noticed Quicksilver speed and attack Magneto
" You have to stop!" Luna shouted.
Quicksilver stopped and looked up at Luna, then his eyes found me.
" Pane...You're awake?" Quicksilver said, rising to his feet.
I walked closer to Luna, fully planning to pluck her eyes from her head, " You see..." I said.
Pietro sped in front of her and she panted wildly, " Dad, he's different from us. I see fire. He's Pane? Your son, the Phoenix?" she whispered.
" What are you doin here?" Quicksilver asked.
I smirked and walked to the terrace and turned to them, " I have to find the truth." I said, levitating into the air. I floated over the streets of the gentle paradise of Genosha. I landed on the street and began walked when something zipped past me and Quicksilver stopped in front of me.
" You have to stop this!" Quicksilver warned, " You're only enforcing their image of us! You're giving them ammo and an excuse to pass the Mutant Registration Act."
" Let them pass it." I said quickly.
" LOOK!" he said loudly, grabbing my arm, " This isn't just about you, there are other mutants out there and although you can defend yourself, can you defend everyone else?" he asked.
" Maybe you're underestimating them. Maybe they can take care of themselves." I said angrily, " You knew what he did to me, too."
" Yes." he admitted, " But I was against it. I thought you should be fully aware, but they warned me..."
" About what?" I asked.
" They warned me you might not be able to handle it." he said.
" And what about you? You can't tell me that kicking Grandpa Magneto's ass." I said, looking into the distance, " You should go. S.H.I.E.L.D. has found me." I said floating up into the air.
Quicksilver turned to see a missile coming after Pane and he looked around to see if he could help,but he couldn't. The missile came fast and hard and then he noticed it wasn't a missile, it was a person. Quicksivler looked to Pane, who just smiled.
I found myself smiling. I thought it was a threat, but it wasn't. I could feel the thoughts immediately, four of them. I stuck my hand out and the 'thing' stopped in mid-air! I moved closer, Quicksilver moving underneath me, and stopped a few feet away from him.
" Look, I don't know what kind of space evil you are, but I'm..." but Johnny stopped at the sight of me, " You're...awake."
" What are you doing here?" I smiled, " Looking for me?"
" You have no idea." he smirked, " I'm here to get some cosmic baddie. They say it's somewhere around here."
" That would be me." I replied, " I'm pretty popular."
Johnny struggled, " Could ya let me go." he asked.
I smirked and let, allowing him to fall to the ground, " I suppose the rest of the gang'll follow, huh?" I asked. Suddenly a forcefield appeared around me and I looked down behind me to see the rest of the four.
Johnny got to his feet and yelled, " No! It's Pane!" then looked up at me, " You're not a baddie."
" That's what I've been saying, but people only hear what they want." I said quickly.
" You have to stop." Sue said, " There is a new bill, actually an old one, but it causes mutants to have to be registered and..."
My eyes widened, " THe MUTANT REGISTRATION ACT?! That's still trying to be passed." I asked.
" Yes, and they are getting closer, and surely now they'll have reason to." Reed answered.
I looked around and my gaze stopped at an electronics store and immediately saw the blue and red and turned up the volume telekinetically, " It's happening." I said cautiously, staring at the t.v.
" What's that?" Ben asked, " Spider-Man?"
" It's the beginning." I said, seeing Peter's face sprawled across the screen, " I have to go. They'll be looking for me and if they catch me..."
" Come with us, you'll be safe." Johnny said softly grabbing my arm.
" It's not me I'm worried about." I said cooly, " There is things going on in my mind and...it's not safe."
" To be with me...us, or to be around people?" he asked.
Underneath my feet, the ground cracked and above me, lightning cracked, " What do you think?" I asked, looking away. A brief memory played in my head..."No more mutants."
" What?" Sue asked, moving closer, " What did you say?" she asked.
" Nothing." I said, rejoining the scene, " I don't know how I got here, but I need to get back." I said, rising into the now dark sky, " The world will now of my fury!"
" Fury?" Johnny asked, " You're one of the most un-fury-ious people I know."
" It's the Phoenix, Johnny." Reed said.
" We are Supreme!" I shouted into the thunder.
" And we're the X-Men." Logan said, causing my attention to shift to them. cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Emma, Shadowcat, Collossus, Iceman, Angel, Bishop, Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Cannonball, Sunspot, Hellion, Karma, Cypher, Magma, and a full squad of new X-Men, " Hey, bub, you wanna feel fury?"
" YOu can never fathom the extent of my fury! You can never feel the length of my power! You shall perish..." I started.
" Yeah, yeah, perish, I got it." Wolverine growled.
" You have to stop this." Cyclops said, trying to calm me, " we can help you."
" You can never help me!" Emma said behind them, causing them to stare at her, " I am not in need of your help. I'm fine."
" You must stop this foolishness." Storm shouted.
I released Emma and looked down at Storm, " Hey, Ororo. Missed ya at the wedding, but I got you a present." I said causing a bubble to appear around her and slowly contract, " I hate being interrupted.
Wolverine's claws extracted.
" Tch, tch, tch, you wouldn't hurt me." I said patronizingly, " I've heard you can come back from anything...what about melted skin?" I asked, hitting him with a super hot energy beam!
Rogue flew up and I allowed her to touch my face, but when she did, she screamed out and I slammed her into a building, then Cyclops tried to blast me and I bent his beam back at him and it knocked him back at him.
" I tire of...I'm bored." I frowned, " Someone's gotta give me a challenge...how about you?" I asked, looking to the Fantastic Four, specifically Sue.
" I think I can help with that." Sue said, releasing a forcefield that encompassed me.
I looked around as if I was terrified, " Oh no! The horrible field of force is going to hurt me...not." I said, shattering the forcefield, " Once I was just a normal mutant teenager, living at a mansion, then things got..." I looked up at them and saw myself in their eyes. My eyes shifted from red to black with flames emanating from them, and my clothes became a pair of dark red jeans and a lighter red shirt with a black and red jacket, " Complicated."
<Jean?>
I looked around and saw no one. Then I noticed in my reverie, I had teleported. I looked around and I was in a metallic room. There was windows, and outside the windows was the blackness of space. At the center of the room, some...thing stood before a great light. I looked at myself and saw that I was in jeans and a red t-shirt. Not the costumes. I stood, unsure of how to be. I wanted as where we are, but that question would only raise more questions. The last solid memory I have was of Scott leaving. Then I was in the mansion a few years into the future.
" You are right." the thing said, " And I am called Uatu, the watcher."
" What is going on?" I asked.
" You were endowed with much power and the power was meant protect. If you don't respect it, that's who you will become." he said, " If you do not take better care of, not only you, but your powers, you shall be overcome by the Phoenix."
" Gee, do you promise." I said sarcastically, " So...what happened?"
" They had to kill you." Uatu said, " It was harder to kill you than to kill Jean Grey because you were meant for the Phoenix...Many died. Such a sacrifice required your life. You gave your immortal life to bring them back."
" I died?" I asked
" For a while, then you came back and refused to use your powers." Uatu said, " And you aligned yourself with the only survivior of the attack."
By this time I was looking into the light and feeling something, " Who lived? And what if I refuse to use my powers anyways?" I asked.
" Then..." Uatu said, moving beside me and gesturing to the light, " This will be your destiny."
The light changed and all of a sudden I was standing in a dark room. Johnny came in and stood beside me and I snapped out of whatever thought I was in. Johnny smiled at me, but I frowned even more and shied away from him.
" You're...last time I saw you, you almost killed me." Johnny said carefully.
" Last time I saw you, I killed myself, and you know, everyone in the vicinity." I said, ignoring his attempts at a conversation.
" Pane..." Johnny started.
" She brought me back. Someone has to be looking for me." I said fearfully, " Someone is out for me."
" Paranoia." Johnny smiled, " Besides, we've been on the run for months now and I'm not sure anyone is chasing."
" I don't have powers." I said.
" Could have fooled me." Johnny said, " When I found you, you were pretty power-oriented."
I waved my hand and a vase moved slowly, then jutted off the table, " My powers are not reliable. I could kill."
" Or, you know, burn someone alive." Johnny said, referencing something I did to Sunspot.
" If I go back to that place...kill me." I said direly.
Johnny frowned and moved away, " Never. Not gonna happen!" he said angrily.
" It could." I sniffed, " And if it does, promise me."
Johnny looked stunned, then shocked.
" Touching." a voice said behind us, " I'd cry, but (chuckle) who'd notice?" Dr. Doom asked.
" Metal man?" Johnny asked, " Long time, no see. Whatcha been up to?"
" You came for the power?" I asked, surprised.
Johnny looked from me to Doom and stepped in front of me, " We don't have time for this." he said.
I stood and watched the two guys argue about what was going to happen and a voice came to me.
<I won't. He can save me.>
< You are wrong and he will lose.>
< he..>
I stopped as something happened. A metal rod shot through Johnny's chest and he fell lifeless beside me. I looked from Doom to Johnny, then back again. I fell to Johnny's side and tried to bring him back anyway I could.
< I told you.>
" SHUT UP!" I shouted, causing the room to shake.
" The power..." Doom said, moving closer and trying to suck the power from me, but he stopped as I stood.
" What, metal man, can't handle the power? I think you should be dying now." I said, touching his armor, " YOu're not a man underneath there...you're not human anymore."
He shouted in pain and chuckled, " Neither are you." he smiled.
I raised my hand and stripped him of his armor, then set his body on fire! I bathed in his death and as I looked around, I felt empty. I looked up and screamed, causing a shockwave that blew the roof off the apartment we were in and then the vision in the light zoomed out and The Earth became a sun...and out of the sun, a bird flew, then I turned away from the sight.
" It is not only you that is in danger, it is the universe." Uatu said.
" How much of this is going to happen anyway?" I asked.
" That," Uatu said, stepping toward me, " Is is entirely up to you." he said, touching my forehead.
" Hey, kid." Logan said, " Wake up."
I opened my eyes to see Logan and I jumped into his arms, " It was...Something...Logan." I said.
" Kid...Um, what are you doin?" Logan asked.
I looked around and saw that the new group of X-Men had begun training. Hellion and his squad. Emma had just come to the mansion. The others looked at me as if I had lost my mind.
" I'm not saying something Supernatural happened, but Jared Padalicki and Jensen Ackles should so be on here, right on me." I said, breathing out.
" Don't you mean by?' Psylocke asked.
" That too." I smiled.