Chapter Three: The Salvation of Paradise

[Enchantress]

Victoria’s eyes darted back and forth across the street at the villagers as she gleaned information from their minds.
“Their scared...very scared.” she whispered to her companions as they moved along down the street.
Without the mention of the Kya in any of their minds, she had begun to lose hope until she found one useful nugget of information.
“We’re in the US...and this is the future..somewhat...” she relayed this and again, continued to covertly to get the information they sought.
And then it hit...with the force of ten of the headaches she used to get before the blood transfusion, something seared within her mind and she broke her mental link with everyone. Collapsing to her knees, she bit down on her lip to keep from crying out in pain. Then she heard the laughter.
“Poor child of Darkness...” the Phoenix hissed and cackled at her.
Bringing her hands up to her temples, she quickly dashed away a few tears of pain from her eyes and whispered “shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up” over and over again.
Catching her breath, she began to concentrate, to push past the pain that had invaded her mind and finally caused the Phoenix to open itself up again. But then she realized one critical thing... no one was here. No Hank, No Tessa....no one who understood what she was going through, no one who knew this sort of thing had happened before. Pushing herself up off the street, she shook out her cloak and took a deep breath.
“Sorry...something tried...” she began until she felt a slight wetness to her face, reaching up she knew what it was and sighed. Wiping away a slight trickle of blood from her nose, she took another breath.
“Something is out in the psychic plane...waiting.” she said as she tried to shake off what had just happened. But this one incident, had shaken her to her core. She hadn’t had a nosebleed since Atlantis...a headache either. Now, all of a sudden...here, in this place...she tried to wrap her scientific mind around it, but the answers all evaded her at the moment.
“Anyway...” she rubbed her temple slightly, pushing past the buzz of pain that lingered there momentarily. “No sign of who we are looking for...I’m afraid I hit a wall there. But these people, they aren’t just afraid, they’re terrorfied...” she looked around for a moment at the bustling village before turning back to Alex, Abbey and Iron Fist.
“Something is very wrong here...and I mean VERY wrong.”