Charles Xavier

Code Name: Professor X, Dr. X

Powers: Extremely powerful telepath

Strengths: Intelligent, experienced, calculating

Weaknesses: Not very humble


The fight:

Jean is very hesitant when she enters the Danger Room... Xavier has been her mentor, her father, her friend. He taught her everything she knows -- what can she do against him?

"Good evening, child," Xavier says, sitting in his wheelchair at the other side of the Danger Room. "How nice of you to join the festivities."

"Spare me, Charles -- these ain't no festivities, and you know it!" Jean can feel her anger take control, and even though she realizes that is exactly what Xavier wanted, she cannot stop herself. "And you know full well that I'm no 'child' anymore."

Xavier smiles. "You will always be my child...care to join me in a little dance...?"

Jean feels a tug at the back of her head, and realizes that Xavier has brought her mind to the Astral Plane.

Jean immediately creates a psionic armor to protect herself from any harm, since she knows full well that any harm inflicted on the Astral Plane also harms her physical body...

"Excellent, child... you have created a very powerful armor -- just like I taught you," Xavier smiles an awry smile. "What do you think about my armor... I know it doesn't follow the latest fashion trends, but still; pretty impressive, isn't it?"

Jean doesn't know if "impressed" is the right word... she does feel something, but it's more akin to fear, she thinks to herself... Xavier's created an armor that makes him look like one of those huge evil knights King Arthur had to fight in the tails Xavier read for her when she was little. His armor is black as midnight, and it makes him look invulnerable.

"What's the matter, child? It's not like you to get hesitant around me -- that's your husband's job..."

Jean's just about to answer when Xavier hits her with a telepathic blast that cuts to the core of her mind... Her astral body falls, and she can feel that her physical body does just the same.

"Oh dear, oh dear..." Xavier tries to look shocked. "Don't tell me it's over already -- that would be soooo disappointing..."

With an effort (that feels just like a physical effort) Jean gets up. The surroundings look just like they did when she met Onslaught on the Astral Plane. With a thought she changes the surroundings.

"What's this?" Xavier looks around. "A hospital? My dear, sweet child, no matter how much you feel the need of medical care, this is simply not the way to get it..."

"But, dear, sweet Charles," Jean mimics Xavier. "Don't you recognize the place? Look real careful..."

"You bitch!"

Jean laughs. Her armor changes into a little girl's dress, and all of a sudden her laughter is as light and brilliant as a ten-year-old's.

"That's right, Charles. It's the hospital where you met Amelia Voght for the first time... Don't you remember, Charles... When you..."

"...lost my ability to walk". Xavier's armor falls into pieces, and his body falls onto the 'floor'...

"My, dear, old Charles..." Jean approaches Xavier. "You love it on the Astral Plane, don't you? Here you can walk just like the rest of us..."

"Shut up..."

"Here you don't have to count on the X-Men to do the walking for you."

"Shut up..."

"Poor, sweet Charles..." Jean tries desperately to look sad. "A man with a dream, but without the legs to take him anywhere... Isn't that what the X-Men are for you, Charles? Your legs..."

"I said 'shut up', you bitch" Xavier unleashes a telepathic blast that Jean deflects with a giggle.

"But, Charles... I'm in control now..." She sits next to him, still in a little girl's dress. "I'm here for you now, Charles...isn't that what you always wanted? You wanted me close, didn't you? You wanted me there to give you...comfort."

"Jean, I..."

Jean suddenly gets up. "Don't deny it, you creep -- as Onslaught you showed me how much you lusted after me when I was 16 years old... I was but a child, and you wanted me..." Jean's astral body is flaring with energy. "You pervert!"

"Jean, I..."

"Spare me, Charles... it's over..." Jean's mind leaves the astral plane and the broken Xavier. She returns to her physical body and hits Xavier's body with a TK-blast that flings him all over the danger room, and when it crashes against the wall she can hear every bone in his body break.

"Hmmm... I guess it's over...but it's so strange, I wanted to hit him with that table over there..."

"Well, Jean..." Jean turns around and sees Xavier sitting in his wheelchair, smiling. "I gave you a bit of...telepathic coaxing..."

"But...how?"

Xavier laughs. "But, Jean...don't you remember? It's true that I cannot protect myself against a physical attack, but a direct TK-attack is psionic, not physical... That's why I 'convinced' you to hit me directly, instead of with the table... I don't want to die after all..."

Jean puts her head in her hands.

"Oh, God...it's true... During Inferno Psylocke was able to deflect TK-blasts directed straight at her with her telepathy... Ohhhh...why does my head hurt so much...?"

"Because, my dear... As you put it... It's over."

With what looks like tears in his eyes, Xavier sees Jean fall onto the floor with blood running out of her nose and ears.

It truly is over...

The winner: Xavier

Jase has another idea:

It is always a pleasure for a teacher to see his student surpass him in the field of study which the teacher professes. However, in most teacher/student situations, the teacher is not a mutant telepath by the name of Charles Xavier, nor is the student an alpha-classed psi by the name of Jean Grey-Summers, aka Phoenix.

The battlefield for this contest of the psions takes place in the typical arena: the X-Mansion Danger Room. The combatants, Phoenix and Professor X, take their places on the outer edges of the room. Seeing no need to activate the holographic capabilities of the Danger Room, given the circumstances, Xavier opts to take this battle to the Astral Plane, a plane of existence where Xavier is a powerful being.

Once on the Astral Plane, the two mutants form psychic armor to protect themselves from the energies of their opponent. Xavier's armor is simple, given Xavier's uneasiness to waste precious energies on dramatics. Phoenix follows suit, choosing to adorn herself in the colors of her namesake, green and gold.

Xavier tries to open old wounds of Jean's, including the idea that she is really not what Scott sees when he looks upon her. Cyclops, instead, sees Madelyne Pryor and Dark Phoenix, not Jean Grey-Summers.

"Really, Charles, I have dealt with this. You can't pour salt into wounds that have healed over. Unfortunately for you, your mental healing processes are a bit less satisfactory," Phoenix declares as she brushes off Xavier's attack.

Phoenix knows her mentor and she knows which buttons to push. Unlike Jean, Charles never really dealt with his problems, instead opting to hide them away as if they never happened. Jean's arsenal is primarily composed of Xavier's self-doubts and past failures: His failed relationships with Gabrielle Haller, Moira MacTaggart, Amelia Voght and Lilandra Nerimani; his perverted thoughts of his child-student, Jean; Onslaught; his failure to stop Magneto from critically wounding Logan; the fact that HIS way to fulfilling the glorified dream has failed.

As Charles is barraged by these harmful thoughts, his psychic shields crack. As Xavier is distracted, Phoenix retracts a bit of her consciousness into the real world, where she applies her telekinetic powers to the deadly part of the match. As the physical pain starts to pierce Xavier's mind, he removes himself from the psychic plane. The last thing Charles Xavier sees before perishing is Phoenix hovering over his body, slowly crushing him and his wheelchair into one mass.

The Winner: Phoenix

Kristen's version is slightly different:

Okay, not to sound annoyed or anything, but, I mean, come on. In The Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean broke through the protection that Xavier gave her. My version?

Jean walks into the room, and sees the Prof. sitting there.

"I've always wanted to kick your butt, just to prove that I could." Jean twitches her finger, and the Prof. falls to the floor. "I have 'died' twice, and you have lived a long life. I was reincarnated. Twice. I destroyed an entire star system. All with my powers. And what have you done? Started a school. Two words; Big whip. Who was the one who almost destroyed the entire universe with her powers? Me! And you think you can beat me? Yeah, right!" Jean seems to be waiting for the Prof. to respond.

"Who collapsed the first time she used Cerebra? You. We are equal, but you must die for me to come out. So, goodbye." The Prof. moves his hand, and Jean crumples to the floor. The Prof. turns for the door, but it won't open. He sees a shadow, and turns around to see Jean floating in Phoenix position.

"Hear me, X-Man! No longer am I the woman you once knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! I am Phoenix! Jean is wearing her old Dark Phoenix suit, and Xavier is getting really scared. He actually belives that she is again Dark Phoenix. Jean motions at him, and he falls to the floor, dead.

Jean laughs, giggling at first, then louder. She drops to the floor, tears of mirth running down her face. Storm runs in to find out what the matter is, and Jean laughs harder.

"He actually-thought that (burst of laughter) that-I was-Dark Phoenix!" She chokes out.

Winner: Jean. DUH!