Disclaimer: Not mine. Never has been. Just a view in the might have been.

This is my first published story so please try and be understanding.

This is based on the mention in the limited series "X-men Forever" that both Iceman and Jean Gray have omega level potential. Here Iceman starts accessing that potential at a much earlier time thus bringing about a major change in X-history. This is set towards the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga issue number 136 of the first volume of X-men if you need an exact jumping off point.

Prologue

Robert "Bobby" Drake, the former X-man known as the Iceman, was not having a good week. In fact he was not having a good month. Some might even say his whole life sucked, but not us. We know better (Probably because we have a godly view of things at the moment.).

Bobby's parents had been giving him a hard time about finding a girl, getting a real job, and settling down; not necessarily in that order though.

Here he was, a young man in his early twenties. An accounting major in college, a good friend, a relatively honest person, and an acclaimed prankster. Oh yeah and a mutant too.

Therein the last laid his problem.

His powers were growing.

Where once all he was able to do was create snow and ice, now his powers were growing. Now he could not just create snow and ice, but also water and increase the humidity in the air.

And not just create it. Now he could manipulate and control what was already in existence. He could also turn into a watery form now too. Not just his own regular icy one.

He had noticed his new abilities upon messing around with his tepid coffee while studying. He had started drawing abstract figures in the air with his finger and that had led to the coffee following what he had drawn in the air and staying there. He was lucky that the coffee was room temperature because when he had noticed he lost concentration and the coffee spilled all over his pants.

So he decided to do what all X-men do when they have a problem with their powers. Return to the mansion and get help with his powers from Professor Xavier.

So he was at the mansion.

The only problem.

"Where the hell is everyone!"