"Now that you are calm, you need to start practicing your Telepathy to be, umm, big? I mean, how will you beat Phoenix in mind?
If my theory, or more like wishful thinking that there is no proof of, you are Phoenix who appeared when half of the universe was erased. Meaning, you might be as strong as half-Phoenix.
So beating it..."
"Dr Banner, I don't think I need to beat Phoenix in traditional sense? I have to retain my sense of self, and make the birdie of cosmic fire and telepathy listen to me?
I will never beat it in direct raw power. What if I work, like a cockroach, umm, like a virus?"
Dr Strange said, "That should be a last resort. But, we need to see if you really have the firepower to not get immediately thrashed."
If I am actually Phoenix of half-universe when Phoenix was dead, maybe I actually have Phoenix Force? Do I have powers of fire?
Banner hummed, "So, we know that Phoenix has Telepathy and is a cosmic bird. It can resurrect people, but needs to negotiate with some 'Lady Death' for their soul, which I would like if it isn't the 'Goddess of Death' that we kind of have the assumption that she died when Thor's planet exploded.
Anyway, it means that Phoenix can most likely manipulate heal bodies, breathing life into them... So it means it can control soul as well, just not the dead ones without asking about it from Lady Death...
We will absolutely need you and Wanda to protect our minds while fighting this thing.
Alright, we will do two things for now.
Dr Strange, you take her to a deserted planet where she can test if she has Phoenix's powers. Cosmic fires on Earth is a no go. Jean, you also try your Telepathy to control the entire planets microbes. Where we killed Thanos for the first time will work.
Second, Jean will train on Telepathy back on earth, to do the virus-thing, by infiltrating the red hex in Westview and rescue Wanda from that thing. We don't know what the hell is happening in it."
Oh... The world is thinking that Wanda is trapped, not she has trapped the Westview Town, right?
Honestly, I don't want to face that crazy bitch witch. She is scary.
Dr Strange frowned at Banners suggestions.
"Wouldn't going for Wanda be the better thing to do first?"
"We don't know what that thing is. Wanda is more experienced and she got trapped. We don't want the same thing to happen to her too.
Phoenix is clearly giving her more time to remain a human, otherwise many people have teleporters around the universe. It can just take control of minds remotely.
So, we don't want to piss it off more than it already is. If the red thing interferes with her mind, it will ensure that Jean is safe.
Take control of someone who can teleport it directly to Earth.
And all of us will be dead.
... That's exactly like my situation with Hulk. Just that Phoenix coming on Earth directly will kill us all.
We need to prepare another inhabited planet where this whole ordeal will happen."
Wow... I totally didn't think of that.
If Phoenix agreed to form Naruto-Kurama like relationship with me, and if there is an off-chance that I, or Phoenix or any of us rampage...
... Things will be a lot more worse than Hulk...
"See, you are not experienced yet. I distracted you with this talk, and the readings..."
I looked at the readings, which I had to steadily increase has dropped to zero.
Banner got up from his yoga mat.
"Alright. I will prepare the equipments and share the coordinates of Thanos's... should it be Thanos' or Thanos's?"
All three of us got stumped on the sudden question.
"Thanos' will mean that there are multiple people named Thano, and their?"
So Thanos's should be right, right?
"Kid, how do you even pronounce Thanos's? It's English. No rule, just whatever sounds better is right. Why are we even thinking about this again?"
Dr Strange brought a really interesting argument in favour of Thanos'.
"Alright. Dr Strange, take me to my Dad. I have to tell him about Mom and Sis. Then lets head out. Can we even breathe there without space-suits?"
Banner said, "Yeah. It's really similar to Earth. Except that madman probably wiped out every moving living thing so that he can have tea in peace."
We nodded, and Dr Strange opened a portal to the room where Dad was. And he was sleeping. I don't want him to wake up right now and tell the bad news.
"Alright. I will pick you up in about half an hour. Talk to your father."
Saying that, Dr Strange portal'ed away.
I inadvertently took a large yawn. I am also exhausted.
'Time to go to sleep. Phoenix, you sleep too.'
'I don't need to sleep.'
It sounded really boastful for some reason.
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Spider-Man, Falcon, Bucky, Valkyrie, Rhodey in War Machine, and a whole bunch of Iron-Man armours, and Hulk-buster piloted by FRIDAY, were close to the island, monitoring the situation through satellite feed.
Captain America is currently fighting her 'clone'. And the clone doesn't seem to have Telepathy and Telekinesis according to the information he sent to Falcon.
But she has injected herself with Super Soldier Serum.
"Where is Thor?"
Rhodey irritatedly asked due to lack of firepower.
Valkyrie shrugged, "Said he is on a journey to find his inner peace. But I have sent the message, he should be arriving soon."
Pepper's voice came from an Iron-Man suit.
"I sent a message to Captain Marvel. The message just arrived. Said she is busy."
Rhodey muttered, "She is useless when there is need for her. Honestly, when we were protecting the gauntlet, couldn't she have just put it on, and you know... She might have actually survived."
The mood of everyone got gloomy as Rhodey pointed out a fact.
But Spider-Man corrected him.
"Well, the snap needed to erase Thanos and his army's memories, place instructions in their head to destroy everything they gained after connecting to Nebula, and then be sent back to time. It needed someone smart and level headed, or timeline would have been messed up."
Rhodey muttered, "Oh. Then I retract my statement. If she used the gauntlet, she would have just killed them without thinking of the consequences...
No, I retract my statement again.
If she had been actually helping us the whole time instead of arriving at last minute, she could have still done it after we told her what to do."
Everyone sighed. Captain Marvel is almost as powerful as Thor, sure. But she is useless.
FRIDAY's voice cut in.
"Jean Grey's heat signature has disappeared. I advise it's the best time to go in."
Falcon, said, "Alright. Our objective is to capture Dr Banner and smack his head to shake out the mind control like Stark did to Hulk and Natasha did to Clint. Her powers shouldn't be stronger than Sceptre, which had Mind Stone.
We don't want Hulk to emerge. It's possible that he might not be under mind-control, but we don't want to test if it's true or not.
We need to wait for Dr Strange, Thor or Captain Marvel to find time to come here. Dr Strange was said to have gone out for a task.
I and Valkyrie will go first to talk to him and realise what the situation is... hey! Why are you drinking right now!?"
"Eh, you are reacting too much. Let's go. He seems to avoid me because I basically kidnapped him and sent him to Grandmaster in the past. Hulk liked the place, but I don't think Banner did."
Saying that, Valkyrie jumped on an Iron-Man suit, and it started flying her towards the island.
Falcon sighed and flew too.
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