Susan's Apexified look incorporated her thematic blue with Alex's black, with blue shoulder pads that extended down to her arms, transitioning into black gloves that seed to be creeping along her forearms, forming a wavy pattern at the color shift. The blue also extended down her sides in an alternating pattern mixed with black, while her front and back were entirely black, save for a blue glowing V-shaped belt on her waist that accentuated her hips. The blue that went along her sides disappeared at the belt and erged on the back of her thighs and legs, forming into blue boots, while the rest of it was all black. Naturally, in true Apex fashion, it generously hugged her perfect body, accentuating every single curve perfectly yet elegantly, not looking vulgar in the slightest—the body-hugging latex outfits were sothing Alex kept to sexual matters, be it any of his hosts, since his possessiveness ant that any real exhibitionism was off the table. While Alex had also covered her head for protection purposes, he made everything above her neck invisible, leaving her face free as her hair got tied in a ponytail, flowing behind her as it went down to her shoulder blades.
(Imagine Marvel Rivals outfit, but replace the whites with black.)
The now-suited Susan was not only under the fourfold amplification to her physical attributes provided by their level two bond, but also had a crimson glow surrounding her that was distinctly different from the Phoenix Force's slightly orange-red flas that surrounded Jean. Levitating above the ground as Alex supported her utilization of her abilities—effortlessly making up for her weak precision and control—she had a fierce look in her eyes. It wasn't directed completely at Jean, but more at Alex.
[You still want to make continue fighting?]
[Imagine this is a life-and-death struggle. If we don't suppress her, she'll kill . Do you want that?]
Susan was left speechless at his words, unable to retort, and could only surrender to the stubborn creature that had taken root inside her body.
With Alex augnting her control, Susan quickly zipped forward, only stopping a few feet away from Jean as the redhead's fiery aura kept spreading wantonly, attempting to push her away but to no avail. Their surroundings were empty, the force of Jean's unconscious release of power having already thrown everyone away and even destroyed a part of the front of the mansion.
Still, in Susan's current state, the waves of force that were spreading from Jean as the center couldn't do anything to push Susan back as she landed on the ground, covering the rest of the distance on foot while looking up at Jean's floating figure with a frown.
"What's wrong with you?" She asked, concluding that the redhead was no longer in control of her actions.
[She's been possessed by what I'm going to conclude has to be the remnant will of a sleeping entity.]
"aning?"
[Rember our talk about Celestials? There is a similar entity called the Phoenix Force in the universe. Jean Gray can be considered either an avatar, a herald, or even a conduit of that entity, depending on the version. But at the mont, the Phoenix Force is asleep.]
"What's a remnant will?"
[Sothing like an instinct that keeps your power working unconsciously. It can even be considered a self-defense chanism.]
"She needs help…" Susan said, a hint of concern appearing in her eyes.
[Too troubleso…]
"Aren't you curious?"
[I am, naturally. But at the mont, I don't have any real way to suppress Jean successfully. And bonding with her is out of the question. I am not yet ready to risk letting the Phoenix Force form a direct connection with , regardless of whether it's asleep or not.]
"So can we knock her out?"
[Actually, scratch that. Try to hold her off for a little while. I'm close to getting sothing substantial soon that might be able to help suppress her successfully.]
Susan was surprised by the sudden shift and nodded, willing a large number of smaller force fields into existence all around Jean. With that, the wantonly spreading fiery aura suddenly seed to encounter multiple invisible barriers the size of doors that blocked parts of the aura from spreading further. The barriers soon multiplied and spread around, forming a multi-layered hemisphere around Susan and Jean that quickly blocked all of the released energy from spreading any further than a twenty-ter radius around them.
The collective force that Susan had to block made the blonde stagger a little due to the imnse pressure behind it, but with so support from Alex, who helped her keep her force fields stable, she held on successfully.
Once she got the hang of maintaining the outward do, Susan's attention once again focused on Jean. With the redhead barely in control, she had ti to consider her next course of action. As she saw the redhead's chest rising and falling rhythmically, a thought crossed Susan's mind.
She still needs to breathe…
Once she realized that, her following actions were extrely swift. With a focused thought, she created a bubble around Jean's head, forming an airtight seal over her neck that blocked any air from passing through. Within seconds, a struggling expression appeared on Jean's face, and her white eyes seed to regain her sense of self as her pupils reappeared for a mont. Just as Susan let out a relieved breath and prepared to remove the bubble, Jean's expression twisted into one of fury as her eyes once again disappeared, leaving behind just a budding fla that entirely covered her eye sockets.
Unable to make sense of the situation, Susan prepared to maintain the bubble, but instead of her hold over the bubble tightening, it loosened, and in the next mont, it disappeared, sending a far stronger backlash than she'd ever experienced before.
"Oof…" She bent forward, coughing, feeling as if she'd just been punched in the gut. "W-what just happened?"
[How interesting… She took over your Psionic Force Fields. Despite yours originating from Hyperspace, and hers being a physical manifestation of her ntal power, the Phoenix Force is a sort of cheat entity. I need another minute, okay? Just hold her off for a little while longer.]
"Easier said than done…" Susan felt a chill go down her spine when she felt Jean's fiery gaze lock onto her. Instinctively, she summoned a layered force field right in front of her, and it extended forward as a visible wave of red telekinesis slamd into it, breaking through most of the barriers and only dissipating by the final few. At the mont, without Alex's support, Susan's internals would have been in a complete ss as she herself would be bleeding from her orifices. Instead, she was let off with a few coughs, feeling as if the air had been punched out of her lungs.
Still, she responded promptly, countering with more force fields that tried to physically strike Jean.
"Can't you help see her force fields like I can with mine?"
[I wanted you to figure it out yourself. Rember how you can fine-tune your invisibility to isolate frequencies? Apply the sa principle to your eyes. The difference between her psionic energy and your psionic barriers is rely the frequency at which they operate. That is why she could interfere with you. Logically, you should be able to do the sa, but that's probably going to require so practice and specialized fine-tuning.]
True to her nature as a genius, it only took a brief guiding hand from Alex before she tapped into her powers to modify her retinas and tuned them to be able to see Jean's invisible telekinetic fields as well. While Susan's were usually barriers and solid shapes, Jean's psionic fields were much more fluid, flowing around her and constantly colliding with the larger hemisphere that enveloped both of them.
With the field evened out, Susan was unable to absolutely trap Jean, and Jean was similarly unable to gain an upper hand due to all of her psionic attacks being blocked by Susan. As the stalemate continued for a minute or so, before either woman was able to think of any way to break it, Susan felt a unique power coursing through her entire body that felt as if her internals were being zapped. The sheer intensity completely broke her concentration, and not only did she fail to block Jean's subsequent assault, but the do also started disintegrating.
Even though she was barely conscious, Jean didn't fail to grasp the opportunity and sent forth such concentrated psionic energy that Susan would have been crushed even with Alex's enhancent. However, before the telekinetic psionic energy could reach Susan, the electrifying sensation ceased. At the sa ti, multi-colored arcs of lightning appeared on her skin. Unlike before, she didn't even feel the presence of these arcs as she quickly raised her arms in defense, barely forming a single weak shield that wouldn't be able to block anything.
Though the impact never ca as a blue glow wrapped around Susan, and she disappeared entirely, appearing right behind Jean. Surprised by the sudden turn of events, she didn't even realize that her body was no longer under her control as her hands unconsciously clasped around the enraged redhead, pulling her into a hug.
Alex had taken full control of Susan's body and activated her powers to the fullest, tapping into the specialized Hyperspace aspect of her Psionic Manifestation to create a five-simplex structure around Jean. With the formation of that structure, six Infinity Stones projected themselves into reality, surrounding Susan and Jean as they seemingly slotted into their respective vertices in the five-simplex, perfectly equidistant from each other to the point of transcending dinsions.
With that, Susan completely lost consciousness as Alex overdrew her powers to activate all six Infinity Stones in an attempt to alter reality on a fundantal level. His goal was simple. He wanted to suppress Jean's connection to the Phoenix Force on a fundantal level. Directly severing or blocking it wasn't going to be enough. He wanted to make it so that such a connection didn't exist in the first place, completely disconnecting this version of Jean from its power.
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