Which was a bad thing, for those trying to stop her.
It was the X-Men that she was up against, Cyclops and Storm and Phoenix and the rest. She was determined to bring down the school. This place that had used her, that wanted her back as she had been before she’d awakened. It was a prison that she refused to return to, just as she refused to listen to their lies that they would respect that she was alive, now.
She didn’t see the portal opening up behind her, only felt the sudden jerk of being grabbed by some force and yanked backwards. She fell and landed on the ground, but the X-Men were no longer firing at her. The yard was quiet, instead. And there was a quiet in her head that she was entirely unused to, as though there were no pieces of technology around. That gave her pause.
But only for a moment, as then she felt them, like small lights in the dark. She reached out for one instinctively, grabbing Maia ‘mentally’, and in doing so felt everything light up around her, waiting for her command. The security system was shut down. She could feel the presence of another in her head, not something that she’d been expecting from the foothold she’d gotten. She reached out to Maia with something like words.
Who are you? What are you?
At the same time, she mentally formed several hard light constructs, slamming them into the front of the school. They may have retreated somehow, but she wasn’t going to stop.