Not very well

The Phoenix was having a very bad day. She would have usually been in her office at Xavier Institute having Charlia pleasure or planning the downfall of those who had hurt her and who could oppose her. Instead of that, she was in the X-Men's jet flying with Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, and Rogue.

She was being sent out with the four of them, and she liked not a one of them. If she was being honest, she would fry them right now. Sadly, that would bring attention she'd rather not deal with from the rest of the superpowered community. Though the other four had no idea, she was imagining their agonizing screams as they were burned alive as she was able to keep the Jean Grey facade going.

So she had to deal with red eyes and beer gut bitching at each other when they weren't giving her body lewd glances, especially beer gut. Beer gut glancing, giving her lewd stares, usually pissed of red eyes, which started another round of bitching from the two. You'd think Southern and Cassonava would be better, but no.

Sadly for a woman that couldn't touch anyone, she couldn't keep her legs closed. So Phoenix had to listen to the southern beg for forgiveness. Well, Cassanova asked if the other guy was really all that and really had been that much better than him. Honestly, Phoenix wasn't really sure about the details, but apparently Southern had been screwing around with some terrorists. How she managed that when she couldn't physically touch anyone without putting them in a coma she didn't know and she didn't really care. She just wishes she didn't have to listen to the two talk about it.

So in the front of the jet she had two man children having a dick measuring contest, and in the back she had the latest drama based on cheaters. The flight lasted an hour and a half, and by the end of it, she was half way to saying fuck it and killing all four of them, consequences be damned. Luckily for that, Rina came for a session with her master, and she began feeling John's happiness at the success he was having at the progress he had made with Rina. That calmed her down enough not to kill the four of them.

In fact, the feeling of her master's happiness and pride that through their bond filled her enough that she actually let out a little smile. This caused the two man children up front to stop their bitching slash dick measuring and stare at her in awe of her beautiful smile. Luckily, before they could comment and ruin the moment for her, they had landed in the target location for the mission.

Now the mission this go around was to deal with the nasty boys. They were a five-man team of muntants that worked for Mr. Sinister; without him, they were now much more of a threat just because they were now just wanton destruction without a purpose. So they had to deal with them before they got out of hand or found one of their old boss's stashes of weapons that would let them cause even greater destruction than they usually could.

The sad part about this mission for the Phoenix is she had to volunteer for this crap. As the other's still thought her too traumatized to go back into the field and was pouring herself into her work at the institute to avoid her problems. She usually used that to her advantage. Sadily, she couldn't this time, as she couldn't let them visit one of Mr. Sinister's lairs without her, just in case they found some prototype of the weapon meant to enslave her or some schematics drawn up for it somewhere that would hint at what really happened.

So she managed to convince the small team set up for this mission to let her come on. Though convince was too nice a word considering that there were no other psychics to see her use her powers or stop her from doing a little bit of influencing with said powers. Though she wasn't happy about having to waste her time on these idiots, she had to do what she had to do for her and her master's future.

They made their way off the ramp of the jet and began to make their way through a small forest that was effectively the front lawn of a small mountain. The inside of the small mountain was the hidden base they were looking for. So they made their way over, sticking to cover, using their years of experience to make their way slowly through the forest and to the lowest point of the mountain. As they were being wary of any hidden sensors or cameras meant to detect them.

Eventually they made their way up the mountain, and the team had Logan use his enhanced smell to follow the last people to go in and out of the base's hidden door to find their way in. Soon enough, they were making their way through the door, Gambit and Cyclops, using their skills as marksmen to cut the wires of any camera they came across before it could spot them.

Well, Cyclops and Gambit were doing that, and Wolverine was using his enhanced senses to find any hidden sensors built into the walls, ceiling, and floor. Though the man distracted the women in the case, Rogue and Phoenix had to watch hallways in case any of the nasty boys happened to be patrolling and attacked well. The boys were distracted.

The team made slow progress as they steadily disarmed any device that could warn the nasty boys they were in the base. The team made their way slowly down the base's steel hallways that were silent except for the small amount of noise made by the X-Men team's feet as they tiptoed down the hall.

They made their way closer and closer to where they figured the main control room was, figuring that was where a few of the nasty boys would be, and if not, thats where they could figure out where they actually were in the base. Their slow passage through empty hallways came to an end as they came into the main control room.

It had multiple computers lining the walls with a large monitor that took up an entire wall. In the center of the room was a throne that, in most circumstances, would have sat Mr. Sinister, but since he was dead in his place, sat Ruckus, the leader of the Nasty Boys.

"Good to see you idiots finally made it. It took you long enough with all your disabling of our dummy surveillance system." Ruckus said with an arrogant mocking chuckle. "Though I don't need all of you, just one of you. So the rest of you will have to go." Ruckus said with a malicious look on his face as several trap doors opened, sending all the members of the team down into the lower levels except for the Phoenix.

"Now it's just me and you, my little beauty." Ruckus said with an arrogant gleam in his eye and a perverse grin on his lips. Phoenix was already wanting to burn him alive, which was a record, she thought. Ruckus pulled something out of his jacket pocket and blasted her with it. He then waited for the light to clear from his weapon blast so he could see the results of his special weapon.