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Moment of Awesome - Jean Grey/Phoenix: Phoenix battles two members of the Marauders - Vertigo and Scrambler.


A telekinetic blast slammed into the man, pressing him into the ceiling like something out of the Exorcist. Jean stepped into view, her eyes burning.

"She's not the only one. What did you do? Where did you send her?"

"I sent her nowhere. She sent herself." He said, his smile never changing. "So Jean Grey. Mutant. Telepath and TK. Hates herself. I think-" He touched his finger to his lips and then pointed it at her. "I think you're feeling sick."

As he did so, a wave of nausea broke over her.

The eggs, fruit, and toast Jean had for breakfast disagreed with her and she found herself expelling it all over the ground as the man she had pinned to the ceiling abruptly dropped with the break in concentration. Jean wiped her mouth in abject surprise, quickly glancing up as she flung her hand wildly at the man who made her sick to knock him backward.

"Sorry Doc." The man was tossed into the wall, but a green and white haired woman emerged from the shadows. She reached out, and Jean's inner ear turned inside out, tossing her to the floor as she couldn't figure out which way was up. "Scrambler is a cunt, but I don't want you to kill him. Yet."

Jean threw up again, though at this point there was nothing in her stomach, and she was left dry heaving. The world was on its side, and upside down, and everything but right. Closing her eyes, she tried to focus, but everytime she moved everything lurched. Her ears began to ring as she crawled, trying to remember where the woman had spoken from, to reach her mind out, but she couldn't focus.

"Laurie said you were a lot more hardcore." The woman took a brief run up and unleashed a kick that caught Jean on the point of the chin. It snapped her head back and sent her reeling down the hall. "I think we should have taken on the X-Men earlier. Scram, you want a pet?"

An explosion of pain burst across Jean's vision, and blood poured into her mouth after biting her tongue. Her X-Men suit kept her from getting scraped up but didn't stop the bruises. As she came to a stop, she coughed, spitting out the blood onto the ground. Her vision, which was already shitty to begin with, was now blurry as she wove in and out of consciousness. A gash on her chin stained her neck with tendrils of blood, and bits of her hair and dirt got caught in it from the landing.

She tried to focus again desperately. sending a desk toward where she thought the woman was.

"On the run. The big bad X-Men aren't so tough."

"Just this one. Rest of the team is having issues." Vertigo snapped off Scrambler's comments. "Let's get her. Collins says she's worth a ton to them."

Collins. That got Jean's attention. But she had more important things to focus on, like survival.

Closing her eyes, she focused on their minds instead of how she was feeling (which was damn hard). Vertigo's mind was stronger, so she went for the other one, sending a telepathic blast at him that was aimed to knock him out. One opponent was better than two.