Volume 8: The Fourth Impact Chapter 60: Run, little girl, run! Here comes Mason
"Click"
The sounds of twisting spines and cracking skulls echoed in the silent hall of meditation.
It was somewhat creepy. The human body that was lifted into the air by the distorted force of reality twitched violently, and then relaxed its last struggle of life until it fell into eternal sleep.
As the burning power dissipated, no more strange bodies fell to the ground.
That is the end of life.
The black metallic luster on the deceased's body gradually faded, first turning into golden skin, as if some kind of supernatural power was taking effect, trying to bring life back to the dead body, but under the continuous burning of the Phoenix Power, it ultimately failed to complete the process of resurrection.
The moment the golden light disintegrated and disappeared, a magical life finally bid farewell to this earth.
Madeline, wrapped in phoenix fire, hung in the air.
She watched expressionlessly as the man at her feet took his last painful breath, and a certain dark place in her heart also felt the pleasure of revenge.
The Red Queen clearly remembered her last "long stay" in Utopia, in the small house where Mister Sinister conducted the Phoenix Force host experiment. She was devastated time and time again, and was revived time and time again by the "healing" of the man in front of her.
But that is not compassion or zeal.
That was just part of the experiment.
For a girl who was only nine years old at the time, this experience was perhaps too "advanced". She begged countless times that the person in front of her should not treat her anymore. Perhaps letting her die in the burning pain could be considered merciful.
But he responded with silence every time.
Perhaps the silence was not sincere, perhaps it was just a job for the mutant named "Lingdan", perhaps he also felt reluctant in his heart.
But that's all in the past...
"May you not suffer the pain I have endured, and may death give you peace."
The Red Queen said coldly.
She stopped paying attention to the dead man and turned her gaze forward.
The contemplation hall, which had suffered from both spatial distortion and the power of the Phoenix, had come to an end. A black stone door engraved with the royal symbol of X blocked the Red Queen's way.
But she clearly sensed that the Supreme Professor was inside.
The man's mental power, which was so huge that it was terrifying even for the Phoenix host, gathered into a ball, as if he was doing some kind of precise work that could not be disturbed.
Madeline didn't think that the leader who led the X royal family through seventeen years of darkness would be a coward who feared death.
Maybe he wasn't hiding here.
However, the Red Queen no longer paid attention to or showed any curiosity about his behavior.
Now she just wanted to finish this task as quickly as possible to release all the darkness in her heart.
That thing was like a patient with post-traumatic stress syndrome, enveloping her and even manipulating her, making it impossible for her to let go of it all and embrace a new life.
But it all ends today.
Not only with the death of the Supreme Professor, but also with the demise of this world called "Utopia" but actually without any warmth, the past suffering will be completely ended in a few years.
"Bang"
Under the pressure of Madeline's outstretched finger, the power of reality rewriting was applied to the X Royal Black Stone Gate to create a shattered mark. This defense made of strange materials was no longer indestructible in front of the Red Queen who absorbed four Phoenix fragments. As the power was continuously released, the flames enveloping Madeline were also constantly awakened.
Before, it was just the burning wings that wrapped around and protected the body, but when the power was released to the second stage, those flaming wings were also broken down into jumping particles.
They glowed with gold and black light, wrapped around Madeline's slender figure in ionic form, breaking down everything in their path into its most primitive particles.
Even swallowing the light.
In this form, the Red Queen's eyes began to be covered by a sinister darkness.
That is the call of the Phoenix Force.
Although it was born at the beginning of creation and represents infinite future energy, the Phoenix Force is not positive energy in an absolute sense. It was born in chaos and has no such thing as good and evil.
When the host controls and uses it, he also needs to bear the amplification of the mind by the power of the Phoenix. The stronger the willpower, the greater the destructive power can be exerted, but in contrast, the darkness hidden in the mind will be amplified infinitely.
After crossing a certain invisible boundary, the host will be swallowed up by the darkness of the soul and become the most dangerous "Dark Phoenix" among all the Phoenix host's job transfer routes.
Madeline was approaching that limit.
The circles around her eyes were filled with a faint black substance.
This is the most direct impact of the Phoenix Force on the host in terms of reality rewriting. It will not only rewrite the surrounding reality, but also rewrite the host itself.
"Bang"
After the second loud bang, the heavy black stone door shattered.
The peeled irregular rocks were suspended in the air in a weightless state, and the large and small gravels were rotating. The peeled materials were shaped into sharp stone cones, which stabbed towards the Supreme Professor in front of her as the Red Queen's fingers danced.
The latter waved his hand silently.
The telekinesis, as vast as the turning of the sea of stars, was applied in the opposite direction, easily crushing the stabbing stone spike and restraining the Phoenix power attached to it, suspending it several meters away.
The brilliant energy in the ionic state immediately turned into a "curtain" blocking the Red Queen and the Supreme Professor.
"Hold on a moment, it's almost done."
The young professor said in a tired voice.
He was sitting in a black hover wheelchair at the moment, but not because he was cosplaying the classic version of himself.
He was performing some kind of mental operation. The portable brainwave enhancer he wore on his head had a data line extending from it, transmitting to a diamond-like data device.
The invisible spiritual power was compressed and gathered.
It even interfered with and influenced the real world around the Supreme Professor, causing the refraction of light to be replaced by a rather strange spectrum.
"I'll explain everything to you."
The professor tried to calm Madeline down, but her response was rather blunt.
"You've told me enough lies. I don't want to hear any more."
As she spoke, the ionized light spots surrounding her body transformed into the shape of a phoenix spreading its wings again, projecting energy in the form of flames that was enough to destroy a star towards the Supreme Professor.
In her eyes, the latter seemed to have become the final incarnation of the dark suffering endured by herself and the First Order Conqueror clones, like a cold shackle that entangled and constrained the future.
She must destroy him!
The moment the destructive force collided with the heavy and tenacious telekinesis, the ground and dome of the Hall of Meditation began to decompose, and in the silent collapse, they turned into subatomic matter and melted into the light.
"If you don't want the truth, then give me a few more minutes. After I finish this very important job for all mutants and clones, I will die with honor."
The professor did not choose to fight back. He endured the burning of the Phoenix Fire and said in a gentle tone:
"I will definitely die today! It makes no difference whether it's in your hands or Doom's hands, but I really need this last backup, Madeline... calm down!
You are being reversely controlled by the Phoenix Force. After all, you have not been able to complete the last stage of the experiment..."
"Shut up!"
When the professor mentioned the experiment from several years ago, the darkness in the Red Queen's heart was triggered again.
Those memories that could not be sealed or forgotten flooded into her mind, causing her pupils to be eroded by darkness at a sudden speed up, and also making the Phoenix power she released more destructive.
The professor's mental barrier was rapidly corroded.
Just like the signs of bulletproof glass about to shatter, it is covered with dense cracks. All it needs is one more hit with a heavy hammer to make everything disappear in this final hall full of secrets and sins.
Almost there.
Almost there!
The Red Queen seemed to have seen the future a few seconds later, and she decided to try harder.
But just as more Phoenix power was being released, a bird cry suddenly rang out, a sound that Madeline remembered vividly and even appeared in her recent nightmares from time to time.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp"
The wild phoenix Fox flapped its burning wings tore through the distorted space and flew into the Hall of Meditation which had been decomposed in half. This bird, which was originally only able to walk on the ground due to its size, truly entered maturity after this nirvana rebirth. Its body has expanded more than twice, and its already beautiful feathers now surround its body like dancing flames.
Every feather seems to be sculpted from flames, and the phoenix feathers on the head and tail are, needless to say, the most exaggerated and gorgeous proof that any bird can produce.
It cried excitedly.
Like a streaking flaming meteor, it inserted itself into the energy confrontation between Madeline and the Professor, doggy-paddling in the energy waves that were already turning like a sea of stars, enjoying the destructive arc-shaped plumes released by Madeline, and eating up those flying light spots as snacks.
This scene is the Phoenix version of "Wine Pool and Meat Forest"...
Eat, drink, and act up, good sister! Throw some more of your Phoenix Force at me, since it doesn't look like you know how to use it anyway.
"I suggest you calm down."
When the damn wild phoenix rushed into the battlefield and made Madeline's eyes twitch, the voice of the bastard who had deeply hurt her with a big fight also appeared in her ears.
The original anger and resentment towards the professor quickly shifted at this moment.
Madeline turned around and threw a ball of light that tore everything apart at her stinky brother Mason, who was sitting on the Mobius chair behind her.
But as soon as the ball of light was released, the Red Queen flashed it back into her hand. Under extremely heavy pressure, the power of annihilation was rolled back into active phoenix power and merged into the light feathers behind her.
Mason was unharmed.
He didn't even try to dodge the attacks from his sister who was heading towards self-destruction and madness. He acted fearless because he really was.
Hey, I have a hostage!
The unconscious Iron Queen Gollum was fixed above Mason by the traction beam of the Mobius chair. She was the best human shield for Madeline.
If she wanted to crush Mason to death, she had to kill her best friend first.
“Gurgle…”
The Red Queen was extremely angry.
She suppressed her rising anger. The remaining burn marks and painful convulsions on Gollum's body represented the punishment Mason had inflicted on her after capturing her.
"This is between you and me! Mason Cooper!"
Madeline said coldly:
"It has nothing to do with Gulu, let her go! I will..."
"What happened between us?"
Mason interrupted the Red Queen's threat and pointed outside.
"Look at those mutants who died on the battlefield and say what you just said again! Look at those mutants who burst out of the chests of living people, and dare to say that this is a matter between us!
Your best friend and you have slaughtered at least 200,000 mutants using this method!
I know, this is war.
In war, the two sides cannot talk about morality in order to win, but I still cannot accept this behavior. It has nothing to do with what happens between you and me.
Madeline.
What you two did on this planet was too much. Look at you. You turned yourself into a monster in the name of revenge. How does it feel to have your mind corrupted by the Phoenix Force? "
"I'm not going to argue with you about this, you 'hypocrite'! Let her go!"
The Red Queen scolded:
"Otherwise, don't leave... This has nothing to do with you. You shouldn't have come at all, and you shouldn't have appeared at this time."
"You want your bestie? Fine, here you go."
Mason patted the armrest of the Mobius chair, and the groaning Queen Gollum was thrown towards Madeline. Such a quick release made Madeline stunned for a moment, but she quickly hugged her best friend in her arms.
The captain rode the Mobius chair through the shattering hall and approached the Supreme Professor under the protection of the Wild Phoenix Fox, who had a look of pity on his face.
The latter has been completing the work that he has been doing.
The diamond-like device in his hand flickered with a faint light, like a warm fire protected by a solid crystal shell.
"ah!"
A scream came from behind, and as Madeline stared in amazement, the bones and flesh at the junction of Gollum's chest and waist were torn and flew everywhere.
A black, snake-like creature used its claws covered in blood and mucus to tear open the host's body and crawled out.
This little devil-like thing howled, as if it sensed extreme danger, and rushed out of Gollum's body while swaying its long snake-like tail. It withstood the burning of the Phoenix Fire and screamed as it plunged into the shattered hall.
This is the unique gestation process of the alien, bloody, cruel and crazy, an absolute mental pollution, and the nausea it causes to people after seeing it will linger in their ears for days.
But the Iron Queen had a strong physique after all and was attached to the symbiote like serum, so she did not die immediately after the young alien broke out of her chest.
Instead, the vivid pain made her wake up all of a sudden.
“I’m going to kill you!!!”
With blood splashing all over her face, Madeline could no longer suppress the hatred boiling in her heart. Her past and the experience of her best friend were mixed together and completely transformed into something even colder.
She turned around and was about to pounce on the expressionless Mason, but Gollum in his arms grabbed her wrist tightly.
"Gu...lu! (Run! Quickly... He is trying to lure you... into the trap... You are no match for him... Run!)"
The Queen's reminder was of no use in the current situation. Madeline had already jumped up and regarded Mason as her target.
But this was exactly what the captain wanted.
As the mechanical structure of the Mobius chair vibrated, the silver light covered by the main power armor of the universe flickered. The wild phoenix Fox also became excited and blocked Madeline behind him in a flash according to the tactics agreed upon with Mason before.
Mason swung his fist to shatter the Phoenix flames burning in front of him. The scattered flames were completely absorbed by Fox, and the next moment he reached out to grab Madeline's neck.
The light that danced in his eyes was cold.
Before leaving, he told the White Queen that if Madeline continued to be stubborn, he would have to attend a family funeral. Now it seems that the captain was not joking.
"Professor! Control her!"
Mason called out to the Supreme Professor behind him.
With this strongest aid at hand, today's hunt for the Red Queen will surely have a perfect ending. Whether it is imprisonment or demise, there will be an end.
But the Supreme Professor remained unmoved.
After putting down the crystal device in his hand, he raised his hand while sitting in the suspended wheelchair and used heavy force to forcibly separate the fighting brother and sister. He also threw a complex mental protection to Madeline's mind which was being eroded by the power of the Phoenix.
The moment she was isolated from her chaotic thoughts, the furious Red Queen was startled.
She realizes that she has fallen into the trap of the cunning Mason and turns into an insane beast into the hunter's deadly net.
The wild phoenix that can absorb the power of the phoenix, coupled with the main power armor of the universe that it cannot break, is already a standard "anti-Phoenix tactic".
Guru’s warning was correct!
If I don’t leave now, I will never be able to leave!
The Phoenix Force was reorganized and released in a more flexible way, forcibly tearing a phase-shifting rift in the time distortion zone. Madeline disappeared into it and took Gollum's "corpse" with her.
She knew that Gollum could still be saved, and she couldn't just leave her best friend here.
But Mason stepped forward and knocked the Iron Queen out of her hand, causing the Phoenix Fire to jump violently and burst into a blazing red lotus. The two siblings looked at each other in the burning light.
There was a cold light in both of their eyes.
"Gulu won't die. I brought her here in the hope that you can have a good talk once you calm down."
Mason said to her:
“This is my last chance for you, Madeline. Stay! We can talk everything out here…Emma is waiting for you.
She wants me to give you a chance.”
"Calm down, Madeline."
The Supreme Professor also said from the back:
"The Phoenix Force is affecting you, don't let it control you!"
"I hate you!"
Madeline's response was icy.
As Gollum yelled at her to run, the Red Queen painfully let go of her friend's wrist. As she disappeared into the flames, she was alone again and said with red eyes:
"I hate all of you! These stars have never shown me any kindness. The end is coming, and I can only hope it will come sooner! Gulu, don't be afraid.
I will save you.
If they dare to harm you, I will make them die with you!"
"Madeline! Stay!"
Professor Prime held out his hand from his wheelchair, but the flames had faded leaving the hall silent once more.
"Mason..."
The professor wanted to say something, but Mason waved his hand and whispered:
"That's it. We still have work to do."
