A Mutant's Hero Academia [BNHA & X-men Crossover]

TWO

Phoenix;
Ancient Greek: φοῖνιξ, phoînix) is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.
According to some sources, the phoenix dies in a show of flames and combustion, although there are other sources that claim that the legendary bird dies and simply decomposes before being born again.

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Yumi sighed as she stared out her bedroom's window.

She'd been released from the hospital weeks ago, but Yumi struggled still with her newly discovered memories. The situation was springing an existential question that she didn't know the answer to.

'Am I Jean, or am I Yumi?'

The young redhead supposed she was both. After Jean's sacrificial death to destroy the cosmic entity that had possessed her, she must've been reborn, reincarnated, as Akano Yumi. She didn't know how many centuries later though. Once she had first stared into the mirror with dull looking eyes, she'd come to realize that she looked exactly the same when she was six years old in her past life. She still possessed long firey red hair and translucent green eyes.

One thing for sure was that she definitely retained the memories of her past years as Akano Yumi, she remembered being her with clueless bliss. In her past years of life as Yumi, all her memories of being Jean Grey had been hidden away. Locked into the deepest portion of her subconscious. And so she came to a slow realization.

She was always Jean and she was always Yumi.

Now, Yumi was left with the question of why? Why was she reborn?

There was only one reason why she was reincarnated. A curse. A punishment. To be forced to remember her past, to live with the heaviness of her sins on her shoulders. Perhaps she deserved it, after killing her mother and friend even if both were accidents.

A big prove of this being a punishment was that she was still a mutant in this lifetime. Or should she say, possessed a quirk.

Jean was no stranger to the plight of the mutants.

Mutants were the evolutionary progeny of Homo sapiens, and they were generally assumed to be the next stage in human evolution after the exposure of their presence to society. With that being said, humans never truly accepted them. Perhaps it was from an instinct that urged them to battle their own extinction and protect themselves.

And although mutants weren't openly hunted, they were still feared and unaccepted. They were an oppressed minority.

But now it was different, she didn't know how many centuries had passed for it to happen, but the world was reformed.

They were all mutants. Professor X was right. They really were the next step in evolution. Homo sapiens eventually lost the battle, and now they were viewed as a minority. The unlucky few. The quirkless.

It was a utopian reflection of her past world.

Everything became a mutation or quirk based society. Her current father, Akito, used his mind reading quirk to his advantage, working as a psychiatrist and specifically specializing in criminal psychology. Apparently, he did a lot of analytical work with pro heroes.

Heroes.

In this world swirling with chaos that profession came into the limelight. Apparently along with the generalized superpowers came an explosive increase in crime. As the country was stuck in the slow progress of drastic law reforms, courageous people started performing heroic acts.

Just like she and the X-men did in the shadows. All to be accepted by society. A dream that never came to fruition in the past.

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