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Moment of Awesome - Jean Grey/Phoenix: Having defeated the Black Queen, Jean finds something lies beyond Roma's fictional world and acts instinctively to fix it.


In the silent stillness, a glint of light caught Jean's attention and she caught the eye of something, something that she knew somehow had been there all along: a bird, made of fire. The sight of it seemed to set off a spark, a flash of knowledge that she didn't quite understand.

Sitting up, Jean climbed to her feet. Somehow, the dark energy that was left of the woman had been filtered down to its rawest form, floating around them like a glistening white fog. But something seemed to stand out among the fog: deep, raw gashes that seemed to be carved into the very air. A wound that needed to be healed.

And somehow, in that moment, she knew that she was more than this life she had now. She was a healer.

Something guided her hands, and the fog-like energy seemed to grow thicker that she directed toward the gashes to cover like a balm. As the energy spread throughout the cracks it moved beyond the room they were in, farther and farther, beyond the Earth, to the moon, to the stars, and the galaxy, and the universe. And Jean's mind followed, like Alice down the rabbit hole, curious to where it might lead.

Emma had not been paying too much attention to the fight between Selene and Jean behind her, trying her best to take on Selene’s remaining acolytes and allow Adam to escape in the aftermath of the massive use of his powers that had left him so drained.

But she felt it as Jean’s mind stripped Selene down to nothing and then burned it away and then, somehow, expanded outwards again, channeling down cracks and holes in the world that healed over behind the flow of Jean’s energy. But in its wake, Jean thinned, her mind following and expanding outwards, flowing away, dissipating, stretching more than it was ever meant to.

Emma’s mind was no longer caged, completely free at last of Selene’s leash. But she had paced the edges of that cage a million million times in her captivity, learning how to capture a mind. She took that hard-won knowledge now and used it to build a psi-shape, channels and bars that she used to capture Jean’s mind as it began to turn to wisps, pull all of it back into the room, into Jean, into a psyche she recognised. Jean’s mind stabilised within the shape Emma had made for it and Emma sighed and released the shape, let Jean’s mind free, once again whole.

They say that two heads are better than one. And in this case, if those two heads happened to belong to two powerful telepaths, well...It was comfortable to say that it was very hard for an illusion to be maintained.

As their minds linked it worked like a wrecking ball, crashing into the false wall that was the world.

But what lay on the other side?