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"I don't know."

His voice was grave. "This isn't an ordinary fight. We can't judge it by the usual rules. Or you could ask the Human Torch."

"The Human Torch? Forget it. With his temper, I'm afraid he'll jump into the fight before he knows what's going on." Susan, the Invisible Woman, pressed a hand to her forehead.

As it turned out, Susan was right to worry.

"Flame on!"

Near the Baxter Building, a figure wreathed in fire shot up from a small bar. He traced a dazzling figure eight across the sky and raced toward the clashing gold and blue lights.

"Get lost!"

The Human Torch was still some distance from the lights when a furious shout rang out. The burning superhero plunged toward the ground, trailing a long plume of black smoke.

The interruption did nothing to slow the battle. It had reached a fever pitch.

Jean moved faster and faster, leaving golden afterimages in the air. Each one was a sheet of ignited plasma.

Her hands traced intricate paths through the air. Each stroke rewrote the space around Russell: air became poison gas, poison gas became flame, flame became vacuum, vacuum became a gravitational field, and the gravitational field became a rift in spacetime.

In a matter of seconds, the tiny pocket of space Russell occupied went through an entire cycle of creation and destruction.

His body was destroyed again and again in those extreme conditions, then repaired itself each time.

[Super Self-Healing Experience +1]

[Super Self-Healing Experience +1]

[Superhuman Healing Experience +1]

[Psychic Telekinesis Experience +1]

Russell could not match the Phoenix Force's influence over time and space, but he fought back.

His fingers traced equally intricate paths through the air, each one rewriting the space around Jean.

Jean's hair became metal wire, then