Phoenix's journey home comes to a sudden and terrifying halt as she falls prey to a nightmarish predicament. Her suffering at the hands of Doc's sick and twisted obsession has reawakened her worst enemy, an inner demon who batters her relentlessly with whispered lies and decries of hopelessness.

Phoenix teeters on the edge of her sanity, as those around her cry out for her help and the world disintegrates around her. But she is not alone; other heroes and lost friends appear to help her rise from the ashes, if only she can hold onto the edge of the unyielding pit of despair into which she's about to fall.