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Of Fire and Ice

Author: Flame

Archive: Yes

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Now that John has left with Magneto, Bobby is determined to make him come back. But attacks on the mansion and gangs of mutants are obstacles in his path. (NOT a romance)(Incomplete)
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Chapter 3
Mutant Gang

Bobby looked around for someone he knew. If John were there, they would already be in the electronics store to stop the robbery. Bobby knew he had to get over him not being there. He didn't need John...

He ran to the electronics store and he saw that a girl was the person armed with the gun. She had her hair up in a bun, and her face showed Asian features. She was wearing all black and black gloves. She looked around the age of seventeen or eighteen. But the most noticeable detail he saw was that she was levitating in the air.

"Give me all the cash!" She said, floating closer to the man. "NOW!"

"Anything you want Miss!" He yelled, opening the register. "Please... just don't shoot!'"

Bobby lifted his hand and concentrated slightly, feeling his power starting to power up and freezing the moisture in the air into ice. The ice shot in a straight line right into the girl's gun, making it a huge block of ice. People around them started to panic.

The girl dropped to the ground and looked right at Bobby. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out two knives and opened them, revealing a shiny, sharp blade.

"Who are you, boy?" She asked. "Why are you using your powers against your own kind?"

"Just leave!" Bobby yelled. "You shouldn't use your powers for stuff like this!"

"You'll pay for this!" She yelled and flew at him, literally, posing her knives in a special stance.

Bobby's ice couldn't stop her in time to save himself, so he followed his instinct and covered his face with his arms. He felt one knife slice his arm, but a second slash never met… only a flash of red light.

Bobby took his arms down from their defensive position and he saw the attacker on the opposite side of the room. He looked behind him to see Scott Summers with his hands on his glasses, revealing to Bobby that he had just blasted her with his optic blast.
"Are you okay?" Scott asked Bobby, walking up to him and taking a look at the gash in his arm.

"I'm fine...," he said.

Scott was about to tell him something else, but he quickly looked up to see the girl getting up and running out of an emergency exit in the back of the store.

"Wait!" Scott yelled and ran after her.

Bobby looked at his options. He could stay here with all these people staring at him, or he could follow Scott and possibly help. He chose to help and ran to the back of the store to join Scott.

The exit led to an alleyway. Bobby looked to the dead end and saw not only Scott and the girl, but five others. Two if them were Logan and Professor Munroe, also known as Storm. The other three were definitely with the girl because they all seemed ready to fight. Bobby ran to their aid.

He stopped a little behind Professor Munroe, Scott, and Logan to see if there was a plan of action. The enemy was already shouting a plan. The original attacker was the leader of the group because she was the on giving out orders.

"Freeze them, Beth!" The girl yelled and a petite girl walked in front of her.

The girl had long white hair and was wearing a dirtied, plain white dress and a light blue sweater, which was also dirty. She was wearing white sneakers and had ice blue eyes that were abnormal and strangely creepy.

Logan summoned his metal claws from his hands and took a lung at the girl, but before he reached her, he was stopped. He didn't struggle to get of his position in mid-air, he just stood in the same position. He was truly frozen. The girl called out more orders.

"Freeze the rest of them, Beth!" She yelled.

"I can't," Beth told her. "This one is to powerful. It's hard to keep him here...".

"I'll take care of this," another girl said. "I'll get the albino chick."

"Good," the leader said. "I'll take the guy with the glasses. Just keep the one frozen Beth, he might be a tricky one to kill."

The girl who was going to attack Professor Munroe didn't waste any time to start her attack.

She was quite unique looking and pretty. She had brown hair with lime green highlights in it, and she wore an all green outfit all the way down to her shoes. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small brown object. It was a seed...

"Surrender now and you won't be hurt!" Professor Munroe told her.

"Shove it!" The girl wearing green yelled and threw the seed at her.

The seed sprouting while flying into a large plant. It grew vines at least six feet long and they immediately wrapped around Professor Munroe, squeezing the life out of her. The other girl was levitating again and had her knives ready for more slicing. She lunged into the air at Scott, dodging all his optic blasts and kicking him in the face. Scott fell to the ground, leaving only Bobby and a boy on the other side standing. The boy was definitely about to fight and cowered over into a corner.

Bobby looked at the girl that was attacking Professor Munroe and he readied his ice power. He aimed for the vines and fired. The vines froze and the girl controlling them looked at Bobby with disgust. Bobby aimed his ice at her now, and froze her legs to the ground.

He turned to the girl who had froze Logan in the air and sent a small mist of ice into the air, aiming right at her eyes. She clutched them and screamed in pain. Logan fell from his frozen space and landed on the ground.

"What da' hell...," he mumbled, but quickly decided to fight and not to question.

Bobby was gonna let him take on the offense and backed away, but a taunting gesture caught his attention. It was from the girl wearing green. She held her hand in front of her, palm up, and blew on it. A mist of purple powder flew from her hand and surrounded Bobby. He took a breath of surprise and soon his mind was getting foggy.

"Sweet dreams, preppy boy!" She yelled, definitely angry... and Bobby blanked out...

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Bobby woke up in a cold room with a bright light shining in his eyes. He could feel that his shirt was off and that there were a few monitors around him, beeping.

"I think he will be fine, Professor," said a familiar woman's voice.

"The spores the girl let loose were quite toxic." Bobby heard the Professor announce. "He could have died."

The light left Bobby's eyes and he was able to see that Professor Munroe and Professor Xavier were next to him.

"Wuh... What happened?" Bobby asked, looking down and seeing if he was in one piece.

"A girl attacked you in an alley way at the mall with toxic spores," Xavier told him. "Her and the others were defeated and brought here. Don't worry, everything and everyone is fine."

"Where are they?" Bobby asked sitting up.

"They are locked in a room right now, I've put a psionic field around the door and window so they can't escape. I've identified all of their mutations... except for the boy," Xavier told him. "But I'll find out."

"I'll help you to your room," Professor Munroe said handing Bobby his shirt. "You should rest for a while. You've got a pretty deep gash in your arm. Give it time to heal."

She did as she said and helped him from the secret section of the mansion to the main level and to his room. He dropped on his bed and Professor Munroe left, shutting the door behind her.

Who were those mutants? Did they have some kind of connection to John? He would soon find out...