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Nightmares

While Emma was on vacation, she was having nightmares and possible regrets of her murder of Adrienne. As Emma’s telepathy began to play tricks on her, she was having mental illusions of Adrienne being in presence and taunting her. Emma was able to fight of her ghosts and told herself that she did not regret killing Adrienne - she only regretting not killing her sooner.

Find this in X-Men Unlimited #34 (first series).

Attack on Genosha

Emma continued to teach a small telepathy class in Genosha until a group of Sentinels commanded by Cassandra Nova slaughtered 16 million mutants. The X-Men immediately sent a relief team and found Emma Frost under the rubble of this massacre, with a dead student being held in Emma’s arms. The dead student was named Negasonic Teenage Warhead - Emma requested the relief team to revive her, however, they stated she was dead. However, Emma was able to survive this catastrophe due to a secondary mutation, which gave her the ability to transform her skin, including eyes and hair, into a living, flexible diamond. The X-Men took her to the X-Mansion and offered her a chance to be an X-Man, as well as a teacher. …And the offer was accepted.

Find this is New X-Men #116.

Emma’s X-Beginnings

Emma’s codename “White Queen” she used during her Hellfire Club days and Generation X days was no longer put to use. One of the possibilties she disbanded the name White Queen is because she wanted a new start and did not want to remind people of her sometimes evil and twisted ways. Emma fulfilled a normal X-Man’s duties and actively taught at the school. She even befriended a group of telepathic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos. Ironically, they looked like clones of Emma, however, they despised her teaching methods and often engaged in snarky conversations with their teacher. They would usually note to Emma that she was a “heartless soul” and a “danger to children.

The Psychic Affair, Death of a Cuckoo, and the Following Consequences

For the first time in a long time, Emma became seriously attracted to the X-Men leader known as Cyclops or Scott Summers. During a mission in Hong Kong, she attempted to seduce Scott but to no avail. Throughout that night though, it was revealed they talked mostly of Scott’s emotional and psychological problems with the essence of Apocalypse still left in his head; however, they also talked about Scott’s marital problems with his wife Jean Grey.

Find this in New X-Men Annual 2001.

Emma and Scott continued flirtatious conversations, but usually with Scott being the clueless one. Emma offered marital help to Scott’s dying marriage. After some serious thinking, Scott finally went to Emma for marital help. Emma proclaimed herself as a “qualified sex therapist” and promised Scott she would help him with his marriage. However, this “marital help” turned into a psychic affair, which consisted of Emma and Scott exchanging sexual thoughts telepathically. Because Scott’s mind was very twisted as he truly wanted Jean Grey to love him as a husband, Emma frequently changed into a Phoenix outfit with red hair and roleplayed as his wife. The entire “affair” felt very wrong to Scott, however, Emma continued to push him on, claiming there was nothing wrong with. “We’re only exchanging thoughts, darling. Delicious thoughts we can both share!”

Quentin Quire, a student residing at the mansion, became angry of Xavier and the school’s ideals. He led a riot which resulted in the death of one of the Stepford Cuckoos known as Sophie. The four remaining Cuckoos blamed Emma for the death of Sophie, stating that Emma’s encouragement of “independence and bravery” led to Sophie’s death. Emma was saddened by Cuckoo’s accusation and decided to take Angel Salvadore, a rather lowly student of the school, on a shopping spree to get the Stepford Cuckoos jealous. It worked but with consequences: in retaliation, the Stepford Cuckoos contaced Jean Grey and informed her of their teacher’s affair with Scott.


Jean Grey wasn’t exactly surprised of Scott’s disloyalty and Emma’s ploy, however, she was infuriated and ripped through some of Emma’s deepest memories to find out what happened in Hong Kong (before, Jean speculated that Scott could have slept with Emma in Hong Kong). Scott commanded Jean to stop barging into Emma’s memories but to look through his memories. Jean complied, however, she found nothing had happened between the two in Hong Kong. Emma was left in a state of emotional fury and humiliation. Wolverine asked if Emma was all okay - she admitted she hadn’t felt so in love with a man in quite some time. Because Scott was in such a state of emotional distress, he left the mansion and ran off to a bar to get drunk and “figure things out.” Wolverine followed Scott to the bar and listened to Scott’s reasons of why he liked Emma: he felt he was “flying with Emma” and that he liked Emma accepted him no matter what.

Ironically, the X-Men felt sympathetic towards Emma. Beast knocked on Emma’s door, only to find her body was shattered into pieces of diamond. An investigation was done by Bishop and Sage to find out who the killer was. During this time, Jean Grey felt a bit nice and found Emma’s consciousness floating through Emma’s shattered diamond form. Jean successfully reattached Emma’s diamond form. Emma then called out her murderer as Esme, another one of those Stepford Cuckoos.

Rebuilding Another Future

When Xorn went on his insane killing rampage and later turned out to be Magneto (although, it was later revealed he was not Xorn, nor Magneto, but a no-named impostor), he sliced a piece of metal through Esme’s ear, which was close enough to hurt her brain. Esme fell into the arms of her teacher Emma Frost and claimed she wanted to be nothing like Emma. Emma then stated Esme had become “such a wonderful femme fatale” and that she was the most proud of Esme. Esme then died in the arms of her hated teacher, Emma Frost.

Scott finally returned from his absence and approached Emma. He told her that he had chosen between she and his wife Jean. But before Scott could utter another word, “Xorn/Magneto-but-not-Magneto/But-not-Xorn” killed yet another person, which was Jean Grey. Scott ran over to Jean and cried he was so sorry and that he didn’t ever mean to hurt her. The couple was both in a state of emotional and physical agony as Scott held the dying Jean Grey in his arms, yet again. In Jean’s final seconds before her death, she told Scott she understood everything he went through and that she wishes he would live on. As Emma Frost uncomfortably watched from the sides, Jean Grey died in the arms of Scott Summers.

When the disastrous events of the X-Men’s lives finally calmed down, Emma approached Scott while he was visiting Jean’s grave. She offered to rebuild the school and teach a new generation of mutants with him. Scott was bitter enough over recent events and did not feel enough energy to rebuild yet again - he firmly said no to Emma and walked away.

Scott’s choice of not rebuilding the future for mutants lead to an apocalyptic future 150 years after his choice, where all hope was lost and very few mutants remained on Earth. Jean Grey, the current White Phoenix of the Crown then, played a pivotol role in this future where she had the option to fix the “broken time line” and rebuild the future, which would start back up with Scott’s choice. Out of the mercifulness and kindness of Jean’s heart, she fixed the broken time line and uttered the words, “Live, Scott.”

The universe did weird things and then transferred back to when Emma offered Scott a chance to rebuild everything. With perhaps a telepathic push from both Jean and Emma, Scott decided to rebuild the X-Men and teach a new generation of mutants with his new love Emma Frost.

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