Black Ice

To RogueFanKC: Hey there, Rogue Fan! Nice to hear from you again! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! Oh yeah, Bobby and Lucas finally clash in this chapter! It's going to be brutal, considering Bobby's had an immense chip on his shoulder about Lucas attacking him for months. And I had to have Elizabeth try and reach out to him, because she had no idea about how Bobby felt. She may be the "black sheep" of the Guthries, but she still is a Guthrie. She has a heart. Sapphire Twilight changes her life as well as a lot of others. After this whole thing, she's going to do a lot of changing. So are a lot of people. Bobby's going through a lot of angst after this. Enjoy the new chapter, and I can hardly wait for new chapters of "For Truth, Justice, And The Last Cup of BA's Coffee"!

To Haretrigger: Hey there, Haretrigger! Nice to hear from you again! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! Yes, Bobby did nuke a lot of bridges. Actually, you should read todd fan's "Gifts and Curses" to find out who survived the whole thing. And yes, just now, Lizzie is finding out just now just how Bobby felt. She doesn't know that he attacked the X-Men and her brother. If he did stick around, I'm sure Lizzie would sorted things out. She's not heartless. Yeah, the fight's going to be a bad one, considering that Bobby and Lucas are very powerful mutants. Bobby knows exactly what he's capable of, and he's not afraid to show Lucas just how powerful he's become. Enjoy the new chapter!

To Red Witch: Hey there, Red Witch! Nice to hear from you again! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! Yeah, I hope Lucas is able to put up a fight, too! Enjoy the new chapter, and I can hardly wait for new chapters of "Evolution XMJ"!

To Aaron: Hey there, Aaron! Nice to hear from you again! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! Yeah, Bobby's been holding a lot back. He's an emotional and mental wreck, and he feels he has nothing to lose. Lucas does hate Bobby because of this fight, and for what Bobby plans to do to Elizabeth. Bobby's going to recover, although it'll take him a long time to do so. He's still haunted by Sapphire Twilight in "Gifts and Curses", and that fic occurs four or five years after "Black Ice". Enjoy the new chapter!

To todd fan: Hey there, todd fan! Nice to hear from you again! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! Oh yeah, the big fight will be something special! Enjoy the new chapter, and I can hardly wait for new chapters of "Fourteenth Century Man", "Mutants Make Good Cowboys", and "Gifts and Curses"!

To the pilot of eva unit 04: Hey there, eva! Nice to hear from you! I'm glad you liked the last chapter! My e-mail server was down for emergency repairs. Enjoy the new chapter!

To pauloj1983: Hey there, paulo! Nice to hear from you! I'm glad you liked the last chapter! Well, I think you should read "To Err is Human" by todd fan before you read this. Events in that story lead into "Black Ice". Lizzie never even noticed Bobby during that story, which probably would explain why he's so ticked off at her. Enjoy the new chapter!

Disclaimer: "I am called Korugar's greatest villain by my own people. That is my place in history. Now on your homeworld, the very memory of Hal Jordan is spit upon by its heroes. He shares my pain." - Sinestro, Green Lantern: Rebirth #4

Chapter 37: Sapphire Twilight Part 8: Clash

Bayville Mall

"HAVE A DRINK!" Bobby yelled out, firing two huge jets of water from his hands at Alex Summers and Lorna Dane, the two Nightshift members called Havok and Polaris. The jets of water hit the two hard, knocking them into an electronics store.

"Lorna! Alex!" Lizzie screamed. The psychotic ice-maker turned back to Elizabeth.

"I'll be back as soon as I deal with your little friends." Bobby then blasted Elizabeth with an ice beam, encasing her up to her head in ice.

"Bobby!" Lizzie exclaimed. "Stop! Please, stop this! This won't help you!" Bobby slid into the store on an ice slide. He stared at Alex and Lorna as they got to their feet. He crossed his arms.

"Who else wants to play?" Bobby smirked. Lorna looked around and smirked.

"Hey, psycho! Look at all the metal here!" Lorna smirked as she called upon her magnetic powers to cause all the metal components in the electrical devices in the store to levitate towards her. "YAH!" She sent all the metal flying towards Bobby. The ice-maker laughed.

"Hey Grasshead." Bobby smirked. "Did you know that metal can conduct cold? And did you also know what happens to metal when it gets frozen?" He fired ice beams at the metal components, freezing them all. Lorna's shock caused her to lose concentration on the metal components. "IT GETS BRITTLE!" The frozen metal components fell to the ground and shattered like glass. "Heh." Lorna snarled.

"I don't think ice can stop plasma." Havok noted as he unleashed a plasma blast from his hands. Bobby quickly turned into his watery state. He was able to use his liquid form to quickly dodge the blast.

"Hey, Summers." Bobby teased. "Your green-haired girlfriend looks mighty cute." Quick as lightning, Bobby froze Lorna solid.

"Lorna!" Alex exclaimed. Bobby smirked.

"I'll keep her around." Bobby laughed. "I just may decide to have some fun with her before I finish her off." He looked at Alex with a twisted grin. "Now I'll have two Summerses with the same powers." Alex paled.

"What do you mean?" Alex mumbled. Bobby smirked.

"You joined Nightshift to get out of your brother's shadow, I assume." Bobby assumed. "If I had a brother like Cyclops, I'd do the same thing. Anyway, you won't have to worry about being in Cyclops's shadow anymore." Bobby's twisted grin grew wider. "I killed him. Wiped him right off the face of the Earth like the little stain he was. He begged me not to kill you before he drowned in a watery demise of my own creation." Alex shuddered in horror.

"Scott…" He mumbled under his breath. "No…You…you…you killed him? Why? How?" Bobby only shrugged.

"A lot of reasons." Bobby shrugged. "He never treated me with any respect. He never bothered to care whether I lived or died. Like all the X-Men, he betrayed me! Betrayed my trust! I TRUSTED HIM! He never heard me out! So I made him pay. Pay in blood." Alex couldn't believe it.

"He…he…" Alex shook, tears coming down his eyes. "He'd never betray anyone! You liar!"

"Really?" Bobby smirked. He whacked Alex across the face with a watery tentacle. "Ask me how much of a liar when you see Scott again." He formed his ice claws, until a jet of flame came out of nowhere and streaked past Bobby's head. The ice-maker turned and saw an angry Lucas standing at the front of the wrecked store. His fists were burning with flame.

"Alex, get Lorna out of here." He ordered simply. Lucas then narrowed his eyes at Bobby. "He and I have some business to settle. Ye murdered me future child, Drake."

"Yeah…" Bobby smirked. "PREPARE TO JOIN IT! NYEARGH!"

The Xavier Institute

"Uhn…" A beaten Sam watched the mutant team known as Freedom Force try to break the ice covering the Institute.

"Now!" Fontaine ordered. Sunfire opened up with his plasma flame. Rictor then added his sonic blasts. Ace followed up with blue laser beams from his claws. Kyle then added on a stream of lightning. Terrell fired a drill made of winds.

"This had better work." Thunderbird scowled, crossing his arms.

"It had better…or the X-Men are doomed." Karma sighed. Meanwhile, Lila was noticing Gina. The Italian-American girl had sunk to her knees.

"Hey, you alright?" Lila walked over to the girl.

"How?" Gina looked up at Lila. "How could Bobby do something so cruel? They never did anything to him. An old…an old friend of mine is in there, and I can't help him."

"I don't know, Gina." Lila sighed. "I guess Bobby's finally just given up and let his mind go."

"I'll tell ya what!" Kyle grunted as he poured on the power. "Ol' Anakin's finally done it. He's finally surrendered to the Dark Side. He's become Vader."

"Oh, quit with the Star Wars garbage." John grunted. Sam watched all this. The Southerner narrowed his eyes and then looked up. "We're not going to make it through!"

"I don't see you helping!" Lila snapped.

"I don't see you helping either!" John snapped back. "I can't bust through all that ice!"

"I can't teleport in there either, because I never had been in there before!" Lila snapped back.

"You're gonna make it through now!" Sam grunted. In an amazing show of will, he got to his feet, started to run towards the Institute, take a leap, and activate his powers.

"Kid, no!" Karma yelled. Sam cannonballed his way through the ice barrier, all the way to the other side of the house. A jet of water flew out of the holes, and the barrier cracked. "Look out!" The members of Freedom Force ducked and dodged the streams of water created by the cracking and collapsing ice barrier. The barrier collapsed completely, revealing the soggy and wrecked Xavier Institute. "Oh my God…please let them be alright…"

Bayville Mall

A wall collapsed as Bobby, in his ice form, and Lucas smashed each other through the wall, trading punches, charged with elemental energy. Lucas's fists blazed with flame, and Bobby's fists glowed blue with freezing energy.

"Ye bloody psycho…" Lucas snarled. "Ye come here, and try to kill me girl and me little family? Me child wasn't enough for ye?"

"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Bobby roared, smashing into Lucas with icy fists. He started pounding at the surprised telepath. "You wouldn't listen to me, would you? No! You'd rather treat me like some criminal! You tried to humiliate me! You tried to crush me like an egg!" Lucas's eyes glowed with rage, and he telekinetically threw Bobby off him. The psychotic ice-maker screamed as he flew towards the wall, but just before he hit, he turned into his water form. On impact, Bobby splashed all over the wall. He quickly reformed and blasted into Lucas's gut. "I suffered because of you! I lost everything because of YOU!" He fired a beam of ice at Lucas. The telepath quickly put up a wall of fire to protect himself from the ice-beam, but the beam was too strong. It hit Lucas, sending him into a wall, freezing him into it. "It wasn't enough that you had to take the one girl I ever loved out from under my nose, was it?" He snarled as he walked towards Lucas, changing back into human form. He formed his ice claws, and stalked toward the blond Scot, intent on tearing him apart. "No, it wasn't. Then you and Liz had to make me look like some heartless murderer, huh? Well, you'll listen to me NOW! I did not intend to hurt her! I DID NOT! I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT!" Lucas quickly recovered, and sent a psi-blast at Bobby, causing the crazed ice-maker to scream, put his hands to his head, and fall to his knees. Lucas then used his TK to help him break free. He stalked toward the screaming Bobby, hands ablaze.

"Ye have no right! NO RIGHT!" Lucas snarled. "Ye tried tae kill me, and Nightshift for no reason! Ye think I screwed ye over? Ruined yuir life? Ye're doin' that yerself!" He smirked at the screaming ice-maker. "In yer human form, ye're still vulnerable tae fire. Appropriate." Lucas pointed a fiery hand at the screaming Bobby. "Where ye're going, ye're going tae do plenty of burning." Lucas fired a jet of flame. Bobby, going by instinct, turned into water, and powered his way through Lucas's flame attack, and smashed into Lucas like a football player.

"THAT REALLY HURT!" Bobby howled. "I told you, your telepathy may be something, but fire doesn't hurt me anymore! Maybe I should try another way to make you get my POINT!" He hit the ground with a blue-glowing two-fisted hammer blow, causing the ground below him to freeze. A line of blue energy traveled the ground in front of him, freezing the ground in its wake. The line of energy went over Lucas, not affecting him, but freezing the ground below him.

"Huh?" Lucas blinked, then he noticed spikes popping out of the frozen part of the ground. "YIPE!" Lucas used his TK to save himself from impalement by getting him out of the way. "Bloody…" he noticed Bobby waving his arm at him. Some water from a nearby fountain leapt to life, almost like a snake waking up at the sight of prey. Then like a cobra, the water jumped out of the fountain, wrapping itself around Lucas's body. "Hey what ARGH!" The water coiled itself tighter and tighter around Lucas's body. It was controlled by a madly-grinning Bobby, who had made a fist and was clenching it tighter and tighter.

"Like this, Lucas?" Bobby laughed. "This is what you did to me, only you used your TK instead of water. Remember, Lucas? You tried to crush me like a freakin' egg! I remember it." Unbeknownst to either of them, Elizabeth was watching, out of sight. "I remember it well. You didn't even give me a chance to explain myself!" A couple tears were leaking from Bobby's cold blue eyes. "Now you know how it feels, Lucas. I've played this memory over and over and over and over again non-stop for months. All I thought about was getting my hands on you and Lizzie again for what you both did to me." Elizabeth's jaw dropped.

Lucas, what did you do? Elizabeth mentally gasped. What did you do to him? She looked around. God, What can I do? Wait…If I'm very careful…

"AGH!" Lucas screamed as the water covering his body squeezed him tighter and tighter. He tried to use his TK to break the hold, but he was in too much pain to focus.

"That's right…" Bobby snarled, eyes glowing deep blue. "Feel it, Lucas. Feel every ounce of the pain you put me through…and a whole lot more." He snarled at the screaming Lucas, breathing heavily. He looked like an enraged predatory animal, who knew that he had a guaranteed kill. "You look everything away. All the things I could never get back…And now I'll make sure you never enjoy your spoils! I'm going to take away the one thing I know I can take away from you…The one thing I still have…life." Bobby cackled madly as Lucas struggled to avoid getting crushed. The mad ice-maker heard giant footsteps. He turned and saw Elizabeth, who was now about as tall as the mall building itself, walking carefully towards Bobby.

"Lizzie…no…" Lucas choked out. "Leave…"

"Bobby, please…" Lizzie begged. "Don't do this."

"Why shouldn't I?" Bobby snapped. "You screwed with me, you oversized biker chick-wannabe! You ruined my life!"

"And you think killing me…and killing Lucas…will fix it?" She shook her head. "No. You'll only end up even worse. Please, Bobby…Ah forgave you for the miscarriage. Ah know it wasn't your fault. Ah know you didn't intend to hurt me. You just lashed out. Ah will stop you if Ah have to, but Ah don't want to hurt you. You've been hurt enough. Let it end, Bobby." Bobby growled, and looked up at Elizabeth. The blizzard appeared to die down a little bit.

"I loved you." Bobby muttered. "You are the one who made me do this. Every day since then, all I was ever able to think about was the fact that you were with Lucas. Every single second, every day, for months, that was all I could think about! The only thing that's kept me going was THIS!" Bobby pointed at Lucas. "I had no one on my side. My parents betrayed and dumped me in the Institute simply because I was a mutant! I'm looking at the one girl I ever loved, and you betray me as well, Guthrie. I make one mistake, and it caused a guy I thought was my best friend to betray me! Everyone I cared about betrayed me! And I knew Freedom Force would as well. It would only be a matter of how and when. No more. NO MORE!" Bobby roared. The blizzard kicked up. He fired a jet of water from his hand at a surprised Elizabeth. The water wrapped itself around Lizzie from her feet to her neck, and it started to squeeze the screaming blonde as well.

"Lizzie…no…" Lucas choked. Bobby grinned his psychotic grin.

"I will never know peace…" Bobby grinned. "Not until you two are dead. Once you two are gone, I don't care what happens to me. Because I will have found peace. Peace at last." A blue laser blast hit the ground just in front of Bobby's foot. Iceman turned around. "You…"

"Stop this, man." Ace Starr warned with a bit of sadness in his voice. He was pointing his glowing claws at Bobby. "I don't want to have to blast you." Bobby scowled.

"Why am I not surprised?" Bobby snarled. "I knew you would betray me."

Next: Sapphire Twilight Part 9: Ruin As Nick Fury and SHIELD help the X-Men recover from Bobby's attack, Freedom Force takes on the mad Iceman, intent on stopping him...hopefully without being forced to take drastic measures.