In the Magic Universe, Brad and Carter had been staying at the X Academy for some time. Perhaps their luck was simply off: although they had met this universe's mind mage, Jean Grey, they had found no trace of the Phoenix Force.
Brad had once combined Future Sight with some of the information provided by Kang the Conqueror and the Beyonder to study the existence of the Phoenix Force.
The Phoenix Force came from the Primordial Universe. Born at the beginning of all things, it was chaotic and immortal, eternal yet ever-changing-a power that had existed before Marvel as a whole split into the multiverse.
It was the embodiment of life and psychic power in the Primordial Universe, symbolizing life and emotion.
It was the nexus linking the minds and spirits of everything that existed, or would ever exist, throughout the infinite multiverse, as well as the creator and source of Mental Power.
It was the vessel and ruler of the life and emotional energy of all future generations throughout the infinite multiverse.
The Phoenix Force itself could create and manipulate spatial coordinates across dimensions and any coordinate on a timeline, allowing it to travel to any point in space and time.
Once it possessed a chosen individual, its host could also draw on the Phoenix Force to destroy or erase any spacetime coordinate along a timeline or within a spatial dimension.
Or completely erase one or more parallel universes within a dimension.
Of course, that portion of the information had come from the Beyonder and was little more than dry reference material. The information Kang the Conqueror had provided, meanwhile, was knowledge inherited by Kangs from other universes after certain versions of Kang had been defeated or killed by the Phoenix Force.
Clearly, Brad had no hope of encountering