I do not own X-men evolution or its characters, and I only lay claim to the OC Tyler Klimov. The OC's that show up in my story will be accredited to at the bottom after every chapter once they've appeared.

Well, I finished chapter 3, but I'm bored, so I'm starting on Chapter 4. in the same day. OH YEA lol

A Dark Future Chapter 4- Robert Drake's Road to Damnation

2 weeks had past since Bobby's leave of the X-men, so this takes place right after chapter 3 more or less.

Things had been tough out of the mansion, living in New York, no contact with his parents since his father had joined some new group lead by a man named Graydon Creed, one that was not friendly to 'his' kind. Bobby now despised humans, about 25 had seen him use his powers, and 23 of which attacked him with a group of rallied people. He sat in his bachelor apartment and frowned. He'd been making a lot of money off stealing, but kept it hidden away, and decided to keep a low profile, some 17 year old flashing around thousands of dollars didn't make things less suspicious. Tonight, Bobby was just tired and wanted to have some fun, pull some pranks, get a drink, and maybe ask someone out, he just needed to relax. But hey, stealing a good 920,000 dollars in two weeks from a lot of theft made sure he could go anywhere he wanted tonight. He had no idea how far from relaxed he would be tonight.

Bobby walked down the higher end of town for entertainment, flashing money around for one night was no big problem, he had a good 30,000 dollars with him, and he could do what he wanted. He saw a very high end club/bar and shrugged. He was wearing leather pants, a black V neck T-shirt and a leather trench coat, so he was wearing some dark clothing today, along with his blue tinted sunglasses, which he now took off because of the night.

"Sorry, I can't let you in without some ID," The bouncer said. Bobby noticed that no one was in line but him right now, "And besides, clubs full," He added. Bobby shrugged and went to push past him when the man pushed him back. "I said, you can't come in, now get lost kid," He snapped. "Go home, I'm just here for some fun," Bobby said, "Go home? Why?" He asked, "Because if you don't, you regret it," Bobby said seriously. "Kid, you're about. 5'7, 5'8 foot, most likely 150-165 pounds, I'm 6'7, and 300 pounds. good luck," The large man said almost laughing, Bobby grabbed his wrested and covered it with freezing ice that was enough to give him frostbite, he cried out of pain and fell to the ground holding his burning with cold arm screaming in pain as Bobby calmly walked in after freezing his feet to the ground.

He looked around, not a lot of people, not too few, there was a few tables, dancing, and a bar, it looked very high end, he shrugged and went to have a drink. "Can I get a beer?" He asked. "You got ID?" He asked, "I got inside," Bobby said, "Fair enough," The man said and poured him a beer. Bobby sat there and cooled it down with his powers as he drank it. He smirked, the mansion was nothing compared to this, he could do whatever he wanted. He looked around and noticed a few woman who where most likely 18- 19 who he had some interest in, but all seemed to have dates, and he didn't budge in on someone else's date, it was just rude. He frowned and continued to scan and noticed 2 that where alone, one was sitting at a table alone, and the other was on the dance floor. The one on the dance floor was wearing gray and had black hair and seemed to be dancing happily alone, he then noted she was dancing. with a girl. He immediately looked at the one at the table, she had blond hair, was wearing a white dress, seemed to enjoy being alone, she looked about 19, maybe 20, and he noted she was very attractive, and most likely wouldn't like his attitude based on how she carried herself, so high end. 'Oh well, it'll be nice to get rejected tonight, then I can joke about it later,' He thought.

Bobby sat down in front of her. "Can I help you?" She asked raising a brow. "Don't have a date?" Bobby asked. "No, now go away," She said sipping her martini. "Oh come on, I guarantee I can be fun," Bobby said with a smirk. "How much do you make a year?" She asked, and then answered herself. "If you make less than 200,000,000 a year, I'm not interested," She said. Bobby frowned. "I could if I really needed too." He said grinning. She rolled her eyes. "Unless you leave, I'll be very displeased, what are you, 17?" She asked. "Yea," Bobby replied. "How did you get in? Fake ID?" She asked, "No, the bouncer got cold feet around me," Bobby said with a grin. "I see you're not going to be serious, now, go away," She said. Bobby frowned, "At least wanna talk?" He asked. "No," She replied. "What's your name?" Bobby asked, "Persistent aren't you?" She asked. "Yea," Iceman replied coolly and sat back in the chair with a grin. "If you don't leave, I'll make you regret it, you little street urchin," She snarled. "Oh come on!" Bobby whined and fell over screaming holding his head in agony. Everyone in the club looked and where about to come over when they stopped and all looked emotionless. "I need to go home now," One said. Then the rest started to leave saying similar things, even the employees and manager left under similar things, and locked the door on the way out.

"You should have listened to me," She said standing up as Bobby held his head on the floor. "I tried to warn you, but some people are just too thick," She sighed and shook her head slightly. Bobby got up rubbing his head. "What. what did you just do?" He asked. "I just attacked your mind, not that you have much of one," She snarled. "You're a mutant?" He asked. "I see your powers of deducing the obvious are very keen," She said and blasted his mind again with another psychic blast, Bobby fell over again. When he got up he snarled and iced up angrily. "You're a mutant as well?" She asked in shock, "I should have read you mind, this could be interesting," She replied with a grin.

Bobby blasted an ice beam at her and she jumped out of the way and knocked him out with another psychic blast. She turned to see what he had fired and gasped, the entire wall behind her and some of the floor was iced over and she tapped it in shock, and it cracked as part of said wall shattered. She looked over at Bobby and smirked, "I see I have a new pawn," She said with a grin.

Bobby woke up and shook his head; he was currently tied to a chair. "I'm not dead?" He asked himself. "No, your not, you managed to impress me with some of that power of yours," The woman from the night before said grinning in front of him at the threshold of the door. Bobby iced up and broke the rope and attempted to ice her, but couldn't, he fell to the ground holding his head. "I installed some more. useful things in that little mind of yours last night Robert, you've lead a very interesting life," She mocked. "Tell me, how are your father Willis and your mother Maddy doing?" She asked. Bobby snarled on the ground and looked ready to attack again but fell back over in pain and de iced. "You can no longer even try to attack me without feeling severe pain, its wonderful being a telepath." She said. Bobby snarled as he stood up and glared at her. "What do you want?" He asked angrily. "Why Mr. Drake I thought you'd never ask!" She said mockingly. Bobby's head fell down and new he was in trouble, and felt a great sense of self pity wash over him. "Now Robert, don't go and feel pity for yourself, I'm doing you a favor," She said kindly, but it was a mocking kindness. Iceman glared icy spikes at her and she shrugged. "Who are you?" He asked. "Now that is something you should have asked right away, my name is Emma Frost," She said grinning. Bobby didn't recognize the name. "I'm the 19 year old owner of Frost enterprises," She said in a tone that just seemed to make Bobby feel like an idiot. "Oh that's right, you don't watch the news do you?" Frost asked. Bobby shook his head.

"What do you mean, doing me a favor?" Bobby asked. "Currently Robert, a. affiliated group of mine is looking for a new member, to fill in where an older one. well, died." Emma said. "Listen, I hate to burst your bubble, but I'm not much of a team player." Bobby started and felt the pain in his mind start to rise. "I MEAN I AM A GREAT TEAM PLAYER!" He shouted in fear and pain as he held his head. "Learning already," Emma said with a grin. Bobby was now wishing he never left the X-men. "Now Robert, that's shouldn't be true, the affiliation I'm talking about is a very well to do organized group," She said with a grin. Bobby just glared at her. "Right, we're all mutants there, and we have our own agendas. and if mutants take over, we see no problem with it. as long as we are in charge," She added. Bobby now liked hearing that. "Now then, you've been out for 15 hours, I have 1 hour to get ready, just try to remain breathing before we leave," Emma said leaving. Bobby just stood there for a moment before rushing to the washroom, but had no idea where it was, thus took him 4 minutes of painful holding until he found it in the mansion. He then realized something, he was in a mansion!

An hour later,

Bobby saw Emma come down the stairs with a cloak cape over her and she walked past him. "Come along Robert," She said simply. He shrugged and followed, but so far he was not liking this, as far as he could tell, he was more or less this wench's slave until he could find a way to get away. He then felt a sharp pain in his mind. "Do not think of me as a wench!" She snapped. He nodded frantically at the idea of more pain came to mind. 'This is gonna be a long day,' He thought sadly.

Bobby and Emma came to a club after her limo dropped them off and went to park, he noted there where many other limos parked near here as well. She went to the door of a rather old mansion, as far as he could tell they where on a huge estate. "Ms. Frost, whom is this?" A guard asked. "Someone I want the King to meet," She replied. "Very well White Queen, you may enter after he's checked," The guard said. Bobby was frisked for weapons and then allowed in. "Don't get too much fun out of this guys, it may make me worry about what type of place this is," Bobby joked as he gave the guards the middle finger on the way in.

Emma took off her cloak and Bobby noted what she was wearing, if you could call it wearing almost anything, her Hellfire club 'uniform'. "DO not think of me like that Robert," She snarled. He grinned, "I had no idea it was THAT kind of club," He said with an evil grin until he fell to the ground in pain holding his head. The White Queen, in her 'uniform' then lead Bobby into a large room where there where many people there.

"Ahh, Emma, how nice to see you this meeting, please do sit," A man with black sideburns said gesturing to a chair. "Who is this?" He asked glaring at Iceman once he followed Emma. Stand next to my chair Robert, She ordered. Bobby stood behind her rather illustrious chair. "This is Robert Drake," She said calmly. "Hello Robert," He replied. "I'm Sebastian Shaw," He said with a friendly smile. "What brings a young man like you here, with Emma Frost?" He added looked at Emma. "He's not my pool boy if that's what you mean," Frost said glaring at him. Bobby tapped his own head to give Shaw the idea that Emma was forcing him. "Ahh, Emma has decided to have some fun with your mind I see. Emma, you know that slaves are not allowed here, Selene is not allowed hers, it' only fair you don't have yours," Shaw said. "I was hoping he could become the Black Rook actually," Emma said. Bobby had no idea what they where talking about.

"Him? What Business savvy does a young man like this have? He looks no older than 15!" The Black Bishop Harold Leland said. "He made 920,000 dollars in the last 2 weeks," Emma said, a mental grin came to her mind. "How?" Asked the White Bishop. "Some people aren't careful enough with there money," Bobby said grinning. "A THEIF? You brought a THEIF here?" The Black Queen Selene spat angrily. "He has much potential, I brought him here not because of his mind, but because of his power," Emma said rolling her eyes. "What does he have?" Shaw asked. "You mean you may let this little. rat in here?" Black Bishop said. "We need a new Black or White Rook, and if he's strong enough, I don't see why not," Shaw said. Selene rolled her eyes and the White Bishop crossed his arms. "Stop staring at me," Selene said to Bobby in annoyance, he noted she was wearing something similar to Emma, but it was black, not white. Do as she says if you wish to live through this Robert, Emma ordered. Bobby immediately looked away. "Well, what can you do boy?" Shaw asked. "He controls the cold it would seem," Emma answered. "Really to what extent can he control the cold?" Shaw asked. "I can make ice," Bobby said frowning. Everyone laughed. "Oh Emma, this has to be a joke," Selene said with a superior grin. Bobby, put Sebastian in a solid ice cage, now, Emma ordered.

Bobby Iced up and pointed his hands at the laughing Shaw, he fired his freeze beams and within seconds there was a large ice cylinder there that with 5 inch thick walls. They heard a muffled roared of anger come from inside. "Bobby is very useful as you can all see," Emma said grinning. The White Bishop and Selene looked at each other while the Black Bishop just looked away. Selene walked over and punched the ice and it shattered. Shaw looked irate and then went to being calm and smirked. "Impressive, I vote him to join," Shaw said. "As do I," Said the White Bishop. Emma smirked, "You already know my vote," She said. "3 out of 5, Mr. Drake is our newest member," Shaw said. "Now pick Robert, black, or white," Shaw said. "Black," Replied Bobby. "Very well then Mr. Drake, you are the newest member of the Hellfire club, the Black Rook, perhaps you can pick up on some things while here, to actually make you a truly worthy member," Shaw said.

1 hour later,

"This uniform is lame, a suit? Come on." Bobby whined. "Shut up, you're lucky you got in," Emma snapped. "NO! I don't even wanna BE here, and I'm just your puppet anyway," He snarled. "Funny Robert, but you'll thank me in the end," She said crossing her arms. "Somehow, I doubt that," Bobby snarled.

Bobby sat in his chair uncomfortably. "Do you like the suit, they don't come cheap mind you, that one is nearly 1500 dollars," Shaw said. Bobby immediately stopped fidgeting with it and put his hands on the table. "Now then, to business, I would like to thank Emma for our new Recruit Mr. Drake," Shaw said and the members of the Hellfire club nodded. "And, now to the real business," Shaw said. "There is technology which I think could be helpful to us that is being shipped to a place called the 'Xavier institute for gifted youngsters', an item called." He was then cut off. "Cerebro," Bobby gasped. Everyone looked at him. "Mr. Drake? Do you have something to comment?" Selene asked. "I used to go there, the mutant detection system, Cerebro," Bobby said. "I told you he could be useful," Emma said with a large grin on her face. "Shut it," Selene snarled. "I know telepaths can only use it. and it's confusing, I also know that the professor made it." Bobby said. "You seem to know much Black Rook," The Black Bishop said. "Yea," Bobby said. "He knows the place inside out, and so do I," Emma said grinning. "Oh goody," Bobby said, he didn't want to fight the X-men, and he knew this would lead to it, he had to help them, he had to. his thoughts where then cut off. If we fight the X-men, Scott Summers will be there Robert, Emma's smooth voice said in his mind. Bobby froze and looked at her; his thoughts of stopping an attack to get Cerebro quickly fled his mind. Emma grinned mentally; molding Bobby to be an asset was easier than she thought.

Bobby went back to Emma's mansion in her limo after the meeting, tomorrow Bobby and Emma would get together with a group of 23 guards to retrieve the item from the truck taking it to Xavier's. Bobby looked around. "Charles, please take Robert to his room," Emma said. 'I get to live here?' Bobby thought. Yes, mainly because I find the idea of you living in a bachelor apartment almost appalling now since you're a member of the Hellfire club, Emma's voice said in his head. He didn't like this woman, well, he did, but not in the sense of personality. Think like that again Robert, and I'll make sure you wake up from the worst nightmare you've ever had, Her voice said. He gulped and nodded.

The next morning Bobby awoke from a terrible nightmare. 'She wasn't kidding,' Bobby thought angrily. He got up and got into his leather pants, shirt and trench coat, like hell he was going to wear a 1500 dollar suit to do this.

He walked out to see Emma sitting waiting for him. "What exactly are you going to do?" Bobby asked. "Evaluate your usefulness," She replied coldly. 'Ahh man,' Bobby thought. "Stop whining Robert," She replied. Bobby frowned and walked out. "C'mon, I wanna get this done," Bobby said. Emma grinned and followed as he noted the guards with them as he looked at there ride, there were 4 helicopters on the ground.

"We'll have to hit it before it gets to the mansion, too many of them there, it would be best if we just disabled the driver and stole it, I can provide cover for whoever does it." Iceman said. "I'm impressed Robert, you actually thought of a tactical idea, I can see Mr. Summers was wrong about you," Emma said meanly. "Leave him out of this," Bobby said angrily. "Poor thing, all abused?" She mocked. Bobby was about to try to ice her when he grabbed his head in pain. "Robert, I'm shocked, you where going to try to hurt me weren't you?" Emma said with a grin. Bobby just glared at her. "We're almost there," She said. "I'll be up here for now, I'll take care of the driver," She added. She then gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Good luck," She said with an evil grin and shoved Bobby out of the chopper. He iced up and hit the ground on his back. 'Ugh,'

Bobby looked at the truck, the driver looked dead on the wheel of the semi, he noted his backup where coming down from there choppers by rope. "One of you man the truck, I'll deal with our company! Secure it and secure its protection!" Bobby shouted. He put his hand to his cheek. 'That was not expected at all,' He thought, but then heard the familiar engine of the X- van. 'Being at a distance while still in the Bayville area, they won't send everyone at once,' Bobby thought and then grinned. The X-van stopped in front of the truck and five of his former allies came out. Ray aka Berserker, Rogue, Kurt aka Night Crawler, Michael aka Specter, and. Scott Summers. aka, Cyclops.

"Bobby?!" Ray gasped. "What are you doing here man?" Ray asked. "Stealin' Cerebro, what does it look like dumbass?" Bobby said with a grin on his iced face. Scott growled. "I should have known you'd turn out this way Bobby, just a spoiled little punk," Scott shouted. "You don't know shit Scott! And none of you are going to be able to stop me, I've got things to do after this," Iceman snarled.

Kurt teleported beside Bobby and was blasted in the chest by an ice beam and fell back shivering. He then noted that Rogue was coming towards him and ice slicked the ground below everything, they where now more or less on a skating arena, due to his powers, he could merge his feet with the ice, he could walk easy, his former friends on the other hand. Rogue slipped and landed flat on her back. Ray blasted an energy bolt at Bobby who dodged and rolled to the side and then pointed his hands out and froze Ray's hands who cried out in the pain from the burning cold ice being trapped over his hands. Bobby dodged out of the way of an optical blast and was then tackled by an invisible force and went into the ground, someone was holding him down. "Enough Iceman!" He heard Specter's voice shout. "Not likely, pinning me down was fucking stupid too, get some new brains, the one you got is shit," Bobby said and froze the invisible figure over him and pushed it off. Specter shivered with hypothermia. Bobby was then blasted by Scott and went flying back. "Just you and me now Bobby," Scott shouted carefully walking forward on the ice, he noted the truck had been stolen, but this was personal, and he and Bobby where going to settle this. "No powers Drake, just man to man," Scott added. Bobby got up and glared at him with his pupil less frozen eyes and turned to his human form and the ice covered ground disappeared. "Alright Scott, your on," Bobby snapped.

Bobby walked straight up to Scott and punched him in the face, Scott went back and punched Drake right back, Bobby then shoved Scott and kicked him in the side. Scott gave off a small cry of pain and returned the blow with a hard kick to Bobby's own ribs, Iceman went back and was caught in the face by a hard right. Bobby fell on his back and groaned sitting up. Scott stood over him with a look of superiority on his face. Bobby tripped Scott and he fell onto his back. Iceman got up and grabbed Scott by the front of his uniform and pulled his head up slightly and iced his right hand and forearm and punched Scott in the face, and then repeated doing it over and over. Scott's noise was bleeding badly now and he was unconscious. "I won," Bobby said looking at his blood soaked hand. Just then he was tackled from behind by Night Crawler and managed to kick him off and saw Rogue back up, he froze her feet to the ground and then shot Kurt in the chest with an ice beam again. He heard the sound of a motorcycle and gulped as it skidded to the side of Logan got off. "Wolverine," Bobby said to his old instructor in fear. "Alright Bobby," Logan said letting his claws out. "This ends now," Logan was about to rush forward when he stopped and stood motionless and then just stood there. "Come on Robert, we have to go, the job is finished," Emma said from behind standing in front of a chopper. Specter, Berserker and Rogue watched Bobby growl and turn around, before he left he stood over Scott. "Fuck you fearless leader," He snapped and spat on him and then got on to the helicopter and fingered his former colleges on the way out.

Wolverine regained his senses and looked around. "Where'd he go?" Logan asked. The conscious X-men stared at him in disbelief. "Don't you remember? You just zoned out," Ray said while chattering his teeth over his frozen hands. "We'll have to get Magma to thaw ya there kid," Logan said. "Sh.SH.SHUT UP!" Ray said between chatters.

"I coulda handled it myself," Bobby said pouting. "Oh poor baby, we have other things to attend to, like the club," Emma said crossing her arms. "Ugh," Bobby replied. "Besides, you proved yourself against Mr. Summers did you not?" She asked. "No," Bobby replied. "You wanted to do more didn't you?" Emma said with a seductive grin. He looked at her, "I'm no killer," He replied. "Sure you aren't," She mocked. Bobby narrowed his eyes on her with an unhappy look. "I can read your mind Robert, I can see that you wanted Scott dead, you should have done it, who cares about things like him? They just get in the way," She said. Bobby shook his head. "Listen, I'm not gonna end up like that for anything alright?" Bobby replied. "Pity," Emma said with a smirk, "You say that but your mind doesn't," She added as a chill ran up Bobby's spine, she was going into his mind deeper than his conscious thoughts, and that was not good for him, that made sure she could manipulate him even more... Because he knew for a fact, she was manipulating him, of course she was, that much was obvious from the whole mind warping thing, but now she was trying to manipulate him mentally, as in his persona, and that was not going over too well with him. But overall, the thing that bugged him most, is in a way, he almost wanted to let her change him, because he knew the old Bobby Drake would have trouble in his new world he had involved himself in. all because he was too persistent on asking someone out on a date.

That's chapter 4! Hope everyone likes it, increasing the Scott/Bobby Rivalry, this isn't gonna be the last time those two clash, Tyler's chapters up next. Will Colossus and Tyler be able to subdue the Russian Super Soldier? And what about after that? Well, find out next time! So there! This is my story! HAHAHAH. Ok I'll shut up now. Read and review please.

DJ 'Zero' McCoy belong to Hybrid Omega, and Michael 'Specter' Raynor belongs to Emerald Knight1. I thank everyone who has submitted a character to me and I hope I will be able to use as many as possible.