All right! All right! I've gotten so many requests and e-mails demanding I tell the ending of Ascension that I have no choice but to share it to shut you all up.

Here's your stinking ending! Hope y'all choke on it!

(Runs screaming into the hills, never to be seen again.)


X-men: Evolution Ascension, Part 2

-- Xavier removes the deactivated control collar of Apocalypse from around his neck. His is free again, crippled again. Jean levitates him. Charles thanks Jean for saving him. They embrace.

-- Instead of relief flooding his features, Charles Xaviers face darkens. He looks at Jean with great worry and fear. Then closing his eyes, he tries to find contentment in their victory.

Here's how the last few minutes play out...

-- Jean and Xavier break their embrace. Jean says, "Come on, professor. Let's go home." She starts to carry him towards the SHEILD transport where Colossus, Tabita, Amara, and Jamie are waiting.

Xavier: No, Jean, wait. There's...something I have to tell you.
Something that has plagued me for a great deal of time.

Jean: What is it?

Xavier: Being used by Apocalypse...doing the things I did...it made me realize how precious all life is...and how precious my own life is to me. I've been...deluding myself, Jean, for some time, and though I thought it was for the best, it's clear to me now that honesty within is just as important as honesty towards the rest of world...and you, Jean.

Jean: What are you saying, professor?

[Tight close-up on Xavier's face.]

Xavier: That I love you, Jean. With all my heart, I love you.

[Jean gasps and she drops Xavier from her TK hold. He crumples to the ground but is not hurt.]

Jean: W-what?!

Xavier: I couldn't believe it myself when I realized the true depth of my feelings for you. Since the day you came to the institute I've felt drawn to you. At first I thought it was your vitality, you youth reminding me of my own. But over time I grew to see it the woman you are that I admired and adored.

Jean: Professor, stop! I--I think maybe Apocalypse has done something to your mind and--

[Behind Jean, the other SHEILD transports carrying the other X-teams land. The teams all file out with Scott, Logan, Rogue and Kitty approaching Jean and Xavier.]

Xavier: You've been inside my mind, Jean. You know that the only person who could have freed me from the grip of Apocalypse was someone I could never harm. You, my love.

Jean: Professor, stop this right now! Scott and the others will hear you!

Xavier: Why should that be a problem? I think they'll be most happy for us.

[Horrified, Jean backs away from Xavier. Scott, being helped by Logan, and Rogue and Kitty enter the frame.]

Jean: Scott! Scott, something's wrong with the professor!

Scott: What do you mean?

Xavier: There's nothing the matter with me, Cyclops. Jean is just trying to come to terms with the truth that I love her.

Jean: I said stop it, professor! Oh, Scott, this is terrible! It's a nightmare! What are we gonna do?!

Scott: Do? About what?

[Jean looks at Scott with total confusion.]

Logan: Ain't nothing you can do when a person loves you, kid, except love 'em right back. Ain't that right, Scotty?

[Wolvering gives Cyclops a playful squeeze around the midsection. Despite his injury, Scott smiles.]

Scott: You said it, Logan.

[Jean's face is now a mask of horror. She backs away from them.]

Jean: W-WHAT?! Oh, my God! What's happening to everyone?!

Rogue: Jeez, Jean, calm down. We all just survived one heck of battle and you can go getting all hysterical on us now.

Jean: Hysterical?! The professor says he loves and and Scott and Logan are...are...And I'm being hysertical?!

Kitty: Guh! Just chill, red. Go with the flow. I know I will.

[Phasing, Kitty pases through Rogue and then grabs her from behind. The girls giggle. Jean's hold shatters. She grabs her had and slowly spakles of psi energy play over her frame.]

Jean: No! This isn't right! No! None of this is right!

Xavier: Jean, please. We have a wedding to plan.

Logan: Speaking of which, I bet Cyke here looks great in tux.

Scott: I bet you look even better out of one!

[The energy around Jean continues building, shifting, rising into whipping flames.]

Kitty: What's with the light show? Tone it down, Jean!

Rogue: Stop trying to hog the center of attention. You know its reserved for me!

Logan: Keep dreaming, Rogue. It's me in the spotlight.

Scott: With me now, don't forget.

Logan: As if I could, darlin'!

Jean: It's not right! It's not right!! It's not right!!! IT'S NOT RIGHT!!!

[Throwing her head back, Jeal lets out a primal scream. The flames surrounding her frame shoot out like the wings of a huge bird, growing and growing. The X-men all cover their eyes and shield themselves but the flames overwhelm them. The wings spread and spread and spread until everything is consumed and the world disappears into unending flames and the sound of Jean's mad fury.

Suddenly, we cut to an adult Jean Grey asleep in bed but tossing violently. She bolts up with a scream, covered in persperation.]

Jean: No! It's not right! It's not right! It's not...it's...

[Jean looks around, clutching her sheets for protection. It's dark and quiet in her room. Everything is still. A suddent knock on the door makes Jean jump. Looking over, she sees it crack open. Light from the hall floods the room as Emma Frost stumbles in weaing a white robe. She looks a mess, obviously having been roused from sleep herself.]

Emma: Look...sweetie...I sent the twins home hours ago and put the sheep back in the barn, so I'd appreciate it if you'd stop yelling "It's not right, it's not right" at the top of your lungs. I'm trying to bloody well sleep myself now, you know.

Jean: E-Emma? Is that you?

Emma: What passes for me at this ungodly hour.

Jean: Oh. Oh, Em! I just...I had the most horrible dream.

Emma: Hmm?

Jean: Yeah. See, I was teenager again and Apocalypse has this plan to mutate the world with pyramids...

Emma: Again? Ugh! Can't that dimbulb learn a new song?

Jean: And he was using Xavier, Storm, Magneto and Mystique as his Horsemen...

Emma: Don't tell me. Mystique became the horse and the other 3 rode her. Hmph! Sounds like Raven to me!

Jean: No, no, it was worse than that! We managed to beat Apocalype...or rather Rogue did it, the little scene stealing witch...

Emma: Amen to that, sister!

Jean: And then she and Kitty Pryde turned out to be gay and...and so were Scott and Logan...

Emma: Gay? Really? That's weird.

Jean: Not when you consider...oh, god...Xavier said he loved me and wanted me to marry him!

[Emma nearly collapses to the floor in shock.]

Emma: Ew! Oh, god, Jean, what kind of a freak imagination do have going on in there?! That's the sickest thing I've ever heard...and I'm total ho! Ew, ew, ew!

[Jean nods in sad agreement. She gets out of bed and stumbles for the door, putting on a green robe which says "Sunny Delight" on the back. Emma follows her out.

Jean: Bloody hell. I'm won't be hitting the pillow again for the rest of the night, that's for sure. Boy, I need a drink.

Emma: Cheers, me too. Say, was this dream like those other ones you keep having, where you're in that Bayville dump and Rogue's all goth and Storm's just some whiney auntie to a Marrow ripoff?

Jean: Yeah, sadly. But good news, darling. Don't think I'll having any more dreams about that stuff after this. Nu-uh! I think this firmly puts me off Bayville forever!

Emma: Well, then double cheers, sweetie. About time you outgrew 'em.

Jean: Right. It's all about evolution, isn't it?

Emma: S'truth.

Jean, singing: Sweet dreams are made of this...

[Fade to black.]