Melting the Ice
Ch 2: Cold Heart
Bobby woke up slowly to the annoying beeping of his alarm. The red numbers told him that it was seven thirty. He got out of bed and stretched. He was right he was feeling really good today. The day before was just a case of overload. He had just needed a good night sleep to get over it. He quickly got dressed in his work out clothes and was walking to the elevater when he heard someone yell his name.
Rogue was running towards him. "Are you okay Bobby?"
"Yeah I'm fine." Bobby answered.
"Are you sure…with everything that happened the last few days I wouldn't be alright either." Rogue asked.
"I'm sure." The elevator opened and Bobby stepped into it and said "Don't worry about me Marie after all I still have you." The doors closed leaving a confused Rogue behind. Bobby exited the elevator and walked over to the danger room. The students weren't supposed to use the Danger Room without a teacher present but he didn't care.
The doors closed behind him. "Computer fighting lesson 12! Safety off!" Bobby got into a fighting position as the world around him faded. In front of him stood three huge men.
Storm had just made it to the sub-basement to find that the Danger Room was already in use. She had thought that the Danger Room had been free today, that everyone was supposed to be taking the day off.
'Professor' Storm thought hoping the telepath would catch her thought.
'Yes Storm'
'is anyone supposed to be in the danger room?'
'No, why?'
'I just got down to the sub-basement and it says that the danger room is being used.'
'head over towards the control room, Wolverine and I will join you shortly.'
Storm walked over to the control room. She had expected one of the trouble makers to be the cause of this, she was completely shocked to see Bobby in the danger room. Bobby was fighting three thugs. A thug with a nife approached him only to be frozen solid. The second thug swung a pipe at him. Bobby grabbed the pipe and the thugs arm and threw him. He grabbed the pipe just in time to block a chain from falling on his head. The chain was stuck on the pipe. Bobby froze the chain, which snapped.
Bobby brought the pipe down on the the third thugs head knocking him out. He then turned to face the second thug which had barely gotten back on his feet.Bobby lifted his free hand and sent sharp pieces of ice flying at the thug. The pieces embeded themselves in the thug boddy. The thug fell lifeless to the floor. Storm watched in fascination as Bobby hit the frozen thug with the pipe, shattering him. Storm was soon joined by the Professor and Wolverine.
They watched in silence as Bobby faught on, not caring if some of the moves he used were fatal blows. When it finally ended they noticed that Bobbys injuries had not disappeared with the hologram. He had been fighting without the safeties on.
"Huh, didn't know the kid had it in him." Logan said.
"This is most Peculiar behavior Professor. Bobby has never used fatal moves before in the danger room." Storm said clearly worried.
"Lets keep an eye on him, I couldn't pick up anything wrong but something tells me that this is going to get a lot worse before its all over."
Bobby was walking back towards his room to take a shower when he noticed that there was a lot of kids gathering around the windows. They were whispering in excitement. Bobby looked out the window and saw that it was snowing. It was snowing in the middle of June. Bobby shook his head and continued walking to his room. 'Storm must be in a bad mood' Bobby thought. Once again Rogue caught up to him before he could get into his room.
"Bobby have you seen the weather." Rogue asked in excitement. What was she so excited about they did live in the same building as a mutant that could change the weather. Strange weather shouldn't be anything new to them. "Yeah, it's most likely Storm."
"No. I just heard her telling the Professor that it wasn't her fault and that she couldn't change it. Isn't that weird?" Rogue asked practically jumping up and down.
"Yeah. Storm will figure it out and everything will be back to normal in no time." Bobby said getting really tired of Rogues company.
"Are you okay Bobby you're acting kind of cold." Rogue asked finally clueing in to Bobbys attitude.
"You know what I think what I need is a little time alone."
"Are you breaking up with me."
"I knew you were smarter than you looked." Bobby watched as Rogue broke into tears and ran away. 'Finally she had left. He thought he was going to die of boredom if she hadn't stopped her constant babbling about the weather, and kept asking him if he was alright.'
Bobby entered his bathroom and turned on the water. He quickly pulled his hand out of the water. It was way to hot. He went to turn it colder to find that it was as cold as it could get. 'Oh well, I'll just use my powers to make it colder.' He focused his powers and froze all the pipes. HE stuck his hand under the water and it was now the perfect temperature.
He took of his clothes and looked in the mirror. Most of his chest was now made of ice. What was the most shocking was the fact that his organs had become ice too. If you looked close enough you could see right through him. Bobby raised an eyebrow and got into his shower.