Originally posted by The Weather God
The professor is a much more powerful telepath and his link was not clear as you can see it even caused him pain to communicate with storm. He also mentions that it was storm's lightning that scrambled the link between the two not the whole bad weather, and rachel was unsuccessful at all in linking with storm until she got in the same room with her.
The scan shows that telepathy all the way from Genosha can get through her interference...meaning the Lightning field by no means stops his telepathy because he was communicating at actual time...
Rachel got Storm from close proximity where the field was at it's strongest.
Did i say it was one lightning bolt or does it have to be one lightning bolt when she uses it? No storm should be able to strike multiple lightning bolts at a time. There is a very short lag and i'm not disputing that now am i? But if my strategy plays out with jean trying a tp assault first then storm should be able to have multiple lightning bolts strike(rather she's guiding them or not) to the ground to scramble the link and cause interference. [/B]
Again how's she going to do that when that requires thought + action...and now you're talking about 5 lightning bolts which equals more thought. Remember all those times Jean and Storm went on field missions together. By no means did Storms storms or lightning inhibit Jeans telepathy. It was Storms electrical storm that made it hard for Rachel..but at close proximity she still did it...when the field is at it's strongest.
And again Rachel wasn't out to kill Storm...just calm her down.
BTW A Psi-fry won't allow Storm sufficient concentration to even use her powers as shown when she was knocked out of the sky, niether will a Psi-Force bolt. Or Jean cuts off Storms access to her powers via the brain and freezes her in place like Legion did.