Spidergwen: I have a system?!

Chapter 171: The Phoenix

[3rd POV]

Earlier on Earth, Jean was not having a very good day. She had been at a new school, thanks to the professor wanting his students to get out and about with students more through an exchange program that they could do. Jean didn't really want to do this, but she also didn't really have much of a choice in the matter.

She had been somewhat enjoying the school, going to classes like a normal person, interacting with normal humans more than normal. Well, that was until she realized that the school housed some of the meanest types of humans out there...

Teenage Girls

When the local mean girls had noticed that she was getting the attention of some of the local jocks - not the sort of attention she wanted, for there was only one person she wanted the attention of - they had made it their life's mission to make her miserable. And by god were they doing it.

Bumping into her to make her drop her books or food (Which was the food of the Gods that Gwen made her), making fun of her behind her back, spreading rumors about her, and all sorts of other nasty crap. She didn't even really care all that much in the beginning, knowing that she would only be here for a month or so, until she could go back and continue learning from Gwen like she wanted to.

That was until they decided to flood her locker with water, which included the last picture she had from her best friend in her childhood that had passed away, Annie Richardson. It was a priceless artifact in her eyes, and one that had to be kept safe. She had put it into her locker assuming that no one would be able to touch it, but she was wrong.

As she held the torn pieces of the last picture she had of her best friend, tears began to well up in her eyes, Scott, Kitty, Jubilee, and Bobby all watching with wide eyes at the side, before fierce glares formed on their faces as she gazed at the bullies.

"Oh, is the redheaded bitch gonna cry that we ripped some picture? Wah! Wah! What a baby" The leader of the "Mean Girls" said with a cruel grin on her face, as Jean cradled it in her arms, tears streaking down her face as Jubilee scowled.

"That was the last picture she had of her childhood best friend you bitch!" Jubilee said with a scowl, trying her best not to beat the shit out of the girl.

Hearing this, the girls just laughed again, as the mean girl leader grinned.

"Oh? Well that's just too bad! Maybe the girl deserved it! Or who knows, Grey might have done it herself!" The girl said, as Jubilee snarled and attempted to attack, only for Scott to hold her back.

"Let me at the bitches! Let me at em!" "Jubilee...look" Scott said, eyes wide as she slowly turned, only to get a good look at Jean.

A look of pure unadulterated rage formed on her face as she felt...something. A deep powerful feeling covered her form, as her psionic energy began to burst out of her, the entire building, no...the entire world began to quiver as she slowly rose to her feet and glared fiercely at the girl, tears of hatred dripping from her eyes as she felt the power within her, the cry of the phoenix, one that had unknowingly traveled not just within her, but throughout the universe. And as she was prepared to let it take control, to atomize this bitch who did such cruel things to her, a pop sounded out, as the students' eyes glossed over.

"Calm down little bird, it's okay, I'm here" Gwen softly whispered in her ears, understanding what had happened, that the rage at the girl who had done something so cruel, had been the final straw for the Phoenix Force within her to finally awaken.

"They did this! They destroyed it!" Jean snarled, as Gwen's hand glowed softly, the picture repairing itself as Jean looked down at it, eyes flickering, the flames within dwindling slightly.