章 13: COLD HEARTS ARE HEARTS TOO
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This is purely a work of fiction. Not meant to offend or incite, but to entertain and maybe inspire.
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COLD HEARTS ARE HEARTS TOO
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The glaring, merciless gaze of unobscured sunlight shone down on the lifeless and barren soil.
The hot, howling winds carried along the eroded sand particles as it moved from one spot to the next, depositing it's sandy passengers across the cracked brown expanse.
Over the horizon was a rapidly approaching visage of a blue humanoid figure, sailing through the skies with crystal wings. The figure spread out his arms, clouds of glistening ice fell from the heavens down to the dead earth. It was nothing short of an ice wave, a tide of white crystals and snow powder. The arid earth greedily sucked in the liquid content in the crystals, melting the snow as it fell to the scalding hot grounds.
The figure pointed at a crater, an iceberg that had no reason being in these conditions filled the massive crater, the steaming block of ice melting to gradually fill the crater with cold fresh water up to the very brim and past.
Large pools of water formed over the deadlands, the blue waters swayed from side to side, reflecting the resplendent golden light of the sun along its depth as it rapidly spread out over the soil.
The crystal figure once hovered over the now wet grounds, sparing a glance at his work of restoration. The figure soared to the skies, hi icy wings flapping behind him as disappeared over the sunny horizon.
"Interesting" A voice pronounced. Like fog being cleared, a green wave propagated outwards in ripples and out of thin air appeared the form of a man. A man clad in a green full bodysuit, a luxurious red fur cape draped over his shoulders, his arms wrapped in intricate golden bands matching the lengthy golden horns on the helmet that adorned his head.
He tapped his chin, a smirk slowly spreading across his face as plans formulated behind his green snake-like eyes. With another wave of green, the man disappeared as though he were never there.
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"Welcome back, glassman" Mindee remarked, handing me my jacket.
"I feel at home already" I answered, sliding on the jacket. I reached for one of ice boxes floating around me and passed it to her.
"What's this?" she asked with a raised brow, sliding the top over.
"A present from Luzon, Happy birthday."
"How'd you know?" she said, bringing her widened eyes to gaze on mine as she finished examining the contents of the box.
"Well, remember all those times you got into my mind? Yea, I also saw some glimpses of yours."
".....Thank you" she replied with her head slightly lowered, trying to hide tinges of pink on her cheeks.
"Awww, are you blushing?" I joked, prompting her to elbow me in the ribs.
"Don't get smug, you show off. Wait a minute, aren't Jade vines a protected species?" she questioned.
"Well, guess you'll just have to keep it a secret" I smiled, earning me a tired stare.
"I'll go get Callie to help me pot the flower before it dies. See you at lunch Drake"
"Sure" I nodded.
She turned around to leave but paused, pushing the locks of hair behind her ear "Thanks again, I really appreciate it" she said.
I pointed at my chest, "That touches me right in the heart. Hey how about we go out tonight celebrate? I know this really good place down in Manhattan"
She smiled sweetly "Yeah, I'd like that very much. See you later, be good while I'm gone badboy" she chuckled.
"Haha" I laughed.
I walked along the hallways, reaching the entrance to Dr McCoy's lab. The good doctor was busily typing codes on a transparent computer terminal. He was so focused he never even noticed me come into his lab.
"Dr McCoy"
He raised his head for a moment "Hmm, ah Mr. Drake. You're back, I take it the project was another success " he talked, agily jumped to the other side of the lab plugging various wires into ports and hitting on switches.
"Yes it was, they should expect a bountiful harvest this year, and also the appearance of a small river running along the route. Here are the specimens the you asked for, still fresh. Let me just help put them in the cryo storage" I stowed the flat icebox into a large cylindrical metal.
"You have my gratitude, my boy."
"No problem, I should probably let you fully focus on your experiments now."
He smiled and waved, "What a helpful young man"
Walking along the hallways, I found my target in the leisure room, he was seated alone with a beer in hand watching an ice hockey match.
"Logan"
"Hey, kid" he turned, "You're back already?"
"Yep" I flopped down on the cozy, comfy seat next to his.
He raised an expectant brow.
"What the hell did you do in Cuba? I'm now indefinitely banned from ever setting foot on Tampa." I took out a small, aged rectangular wooden box.
"Heh! They'll get over it." He gently pulled out a cigar from the antiquated box, bringing it to his nose, he closed his eyes and inhaled the sweet aroma of the rolled up tobacco.
"Almost a century, y'know, thats how long it took to get this box of cigars safely cured. This thing right here has more history than you can believe possible. I'll tell you about it some time." he lit the cigar and took a deep puff of it.
"Kid, you've been doing some real good, I mean it. I'm not the only one who can see that. I know slim(Scott) can sometimes let his ego go to his head, but y'know he's just trying to prove himself capable leader since the prof left. He more often than not goes about it the wrong way, but well his intentions are…good.
Also I won't lie, it is good to have some young blood on the main team"
"Haha, I'm quite the mvp aren't I? Thanks, I'm glad that I can finally fit in with you legends, I will be replacing you all tho"
"Cool it hotrod. Here, your reward" he tossed a cigar at me. "I can smell the smog of the shit-sticks you call cigarettes on you, when you really want something of quality, try cigars, its for real men."
"Woah Logan, did you just encourage and propagate bad behavior?"
He smirked, "Did I? Would you like to return it?"
"Return what"I smiled in return.
'Mr Drake, would you be so kind as to head over to the headmaster's office'
'Miss Frost, you're in my head again.'
I stood from the seat stashed the cigar in my jacket pocket and walked towards exit, Wolverine waving me off.
'You wanna know something I just realised?' I asked her.
'What might that be?' she asked in amusement.
'I'm Iceman, and you're the frost queen. It's a pairing made in heaven.'
'Haha, you have quite the humor, young man' she chuckled.
'You're not so bad yourself, when you're not being stuck up.'
I turned the handle, pushing the wooden door open and stepped into the headmaster's office. Emma met my gaze and her lips tugged upwards. Cyclops was cyclops. A stoic look on his face, his palms brought together in front of his face.
I took a seat and leaned back comfortably into the chair.
"Robert, do you know the consequences of the actions you have taken so far? Do you really know of the lasting effects it would have?"
"Yes, I do Mr Summers. You think I just went to the poles and put the freeze on? You think this was all just willy nilly? I talked to scientists, I brought the best experts and researchers on board. People who are at the very top of their respective fields ran the calculations, we knew what results they would have even before I began. Why do you think it took so long before I even went there? Did you even talk to Dr McCoy about this? Because he knows everything and more, that I do."
He pointed to the TV at the side, bringing up a scene where some people protested against me. They held banners saying I was blaspheming the name of their God. I was the antichrist. Others blaming me for all the floods and terrible weather that had occurred in the past.
"You're bringing us very bad attention."
"Everything has two sides, take the good with the bad. What's the good? Here" I brought up my phone and began playing videos on social media where the majority people made me a sensation. Where people actually didn't hate mutants, but put us on their shirts, some even as memes. Others as artworks, shipping me and Elsa.
"This is the reality of the situation, Cyclops. We can't keep hiding, we can't live in the shadows. Sure, every advantage has a disadvantage, every action a reaction. But that doesn't mean we have to be scared of it."
He burst out in laughter "You're just a kid from a small town of nowhere, what do you know about actions and consequences? Don't fool yourself, just cause you have these scribbles on your body doesn't make you an adult or a man, listen when adults speak. I've been doing this since I was just a boy, I know what's best for us, I'm trying to get us and every other mutant on earth there. Towards Utopia. And you are making that very difficult."
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I was done being nice.
"Who the hell died and made you boss of 'us', that makes absolutely no sense. Who elected you as ruler? I'll be honest, You're not a good leader, sorry let me rephrase that in a way you can understand, you suck! You're just the professor's boy scout, and without him here to hold you hand, your ideals have obviously been twisted. You think you're the messiah? Hah! Go look in a mirror and say that, you'll see how stupid it sounds." I said, looking dead at his eyes.
"I wonder whatever happened to the only person to ever truly believe in you? Oh, yeah. She's buried right in the garden, and what did you do? You cheated and lied to her and when she died, you made out with her enemy right over her grave, on the very same day of her death. Good job messiah" he shot up from his seat, the shock on his face not escaping my eyes.
"Let's all calm down. Drake, don't speak of what you don't know. Scott you're the headmaster, stop th--" Emma came between us, trying to placate us both.
"No just give me a minute! Kid, you're about to cross a very dangerous line" he squeezed his fists so hard I could hear the leather groan, he pointed a finger right at my face. I rose from mine and met his gaze.
"Fuck if I care"
I saw red.
Veeemp! Crash!
The beam from cyclops' eyes struck me and sent me crashing through the thick wooden walls of the office to the hallways.
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"SCOTT!" Emma Frost cried out disbelievingly, she never imagined he'd strike a student with such force.
"Haah!!" "OMG!" "Holysh!$"
The hallways erupted in gasps and screams by the students who gathered towards the noise. They saw the boy's jacket burnt at the front, and his skin an unhealthy scalded red.
The boy stared at the ceiling as he lay there. Like a dam breaking open and releasing its contents, a wave of cold spread outwards from his position.
A frigid, cold fury washed over him, like a baptism of demonic blood.
His skin morphed to a blueish crystalline texture. He rose from the ground as though he were ignoring the laws of gravity, and hovered to his feet. He stared at the man with a visor through the hole in the wall.
"I'm going to hurt you, really really bad" he voice took on a sinister, wicked tone.
The boy shot through the hole and into the office, slamming his fist on cyclops's face. The man grunted the pain as he felt his jaw bones painfully strain. The boy was on him, refusing to let him breathe. Emma mentally called for the rest of the staff, and turned into her diamond form to once again try to separate them. She had tried intruding into the tattooed teen's mind, but in his ice form, it was but a futile course of action. The teen sent a blast of ice at the woman, shoving her out of the makeshift office arena.
Scott decided to not take it easy anymore.
VEEEEMP!
He amped up the output of his beams and blasted it fully at the teen's face. But the results weren't as he thought they'd be.
The teen had created a refined circular shield of ice, and the beams impacting the shield were deflected to the side. Scott knew that for the teen to accomplish that, he must made the material of his shield to have a similar refractive index of ruby quartz crystals. Meaning the boy must have practiced! Practiced fighting him and created adequate countermeasures!
Scott continued to blast to blast the teen, who also continued to defend against the red beams.
Slip Scott fell on his back as his feet betrayed him, he lost his footing, thin ice had coated the entirety of the floor while he was busily engaged with the crystal skinned boy.
The teen send an icy javelin shooting at the man. He rolled to side easily dodging the rod set to impact him. On the very floor he rolled on, ice spikes shot from the ground and he couldn't rise fast enough.
A crystal rod and pierced through his calf.
"Arggh! Sonofab¡tch!"
The teen dashed towards the fallen cyclops, a sick smile spread his face. He didn't utter a word, he instead let his actions speak. An icy fist struck the man's face. "Urgh!" The sound utterly displeasant, the man tried to shoot out another beam, but he found his eyes swollen and bounded by ice sheets. Again, the boy struck him. Blood dripped in copious amounts, the man's swollen face already taking on a hint of red and purple.
"Try speaking now."
The teen's hand morphed into a sharp blade, he aimed….he realised that the life of this man was at his mercy, he could end it all here, put a stop to this egotistical fool. 'No, I've done enough' he dropped the almost lifeless body to the floor once more.
Crash!
The large office desk in the center of the room slammed into his side, sending him tumbling away. He once again rose to his feet and turned his cold gaze to the source of the interruption. The x-men were gathered. The metallic Colossus glaring hard at the boy. The others checking up on the badly wounded cyclops. Dr McCoy sending a hurt and disappointed look at him.
'It was bound to happen anyway' the teen said to himself.
BOOOOM!!! KAABOOM!!!
Very familiar sounds that they all dreaded hearing appeared once again, the alarms blared, the school was under attack and this was the worst time for it to be. Not for the occupants, but for the attackers.
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The preacher was dressed in a priest's garment, a large white cross adorned the torso of his cloth, he stood tall with his combed back, gray hair, his grandfather demeanor spoke of kindness and truth but his heart was far from it.
"My brethren, the lord has given us this opportunity, he has given us all we need to wipe these abominations from the face of this world. Do not be afraid of their devilish abilities, our blessed weapons will tear down the evil that they represent. We do the lord's will. Let us Purify them! Let us purify the world!" the man addressed his congregation.
"Purify!!" they responded, raising their weapons high.
"Deploy the dampeners, and let us pray before we launch our attack"
The man spread his hands over the congregation and said a prayer that roused up their spirits. They were prepared to do the necessary.
"Brother James?" he spoke to the man on his left.
"Everything is ready, father Stryker"
"Let's move, for the will of the lord"
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Bombs trailed through the air as rapidly approaching black dots. The first one took me by surprise, none of the others did.
The explosives fell to the earth as their interiors were frozen solid. An ice dome had encompassed the entirety of the school grounds. Trapping everyone in it.
The purifiers had gone for a more shock and awe approach. They knew that they couldn't use sentinels because we had specific detection devices for those from the last attack.
So as I stood here with so much cold anger, that I could freeze over the world. I let it loose on these people running at me with guns and swords drawn. Most of the students were safe in the danger room. The others stood behind closed windows to watch the scene.
The x-men? They stood prepared but they weren't necessary, not anymore.
I let loose an army of ice clones.
I've been preparing for something like this ever since the last attack. I've read of such scenario in comics countless of times. I was not going to be a victim.
"Ahhhh!"
"Father, accept my soul into your kingdo-ahh!"
"Lord, I don't want to di--ghck!"
"Attack brothers, the devil child won't be able to keep this up forev--huk!"
A massacre was occurring. Screams and cries filled the battleground. They shot at the ice knights and the bullet holes closed up again, those that broke up, remolded themselves from liquid.
It was a lifeless, unkillable army of crystal men.
"Rain of pain". Spears of ice filled the skies, for a moment everyone just stopped fighting and stared. The look on their faces as grim realization dawned on them. This was a fight they would not be walking away from. I met the gaze of the one who stood as their leader. An mature gray haired man, his cross was white while the rest had red crosses. Beams of blue light shot through the air and touched upon the man's head.
Poof! It exploded, like a frozen watermelon smashed apart by a sledgehammer. His headless body slumped lifelessly to the ground. "Father Stryker!!!!" "Nooo!"."You monster!!"
"Fall" I said.
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It sounded like the wing beat of a thousand birds all flapping in perfect harmony.
Every person the spear impaled was frozen solid as ice spread through their veins. Silence, pure defeating silence. Littered around the school grounds were flash frozen human bodies, an ice covered landscape and discarded weapons.
Beep! beep! I checked my phone, I got a text from a number I knew well.
Eagle-one: Cashing in the favor. Your coordinates are locked, pickup will reach you in a 60 seconds.
I turned to the x-men, each and everyone of them stood in front of the mansion doors. Cyclops had bandages wrapped around his arm, leg, neck and nose.
"Leeve…nn...doont ...com…. bck, yoo...haave.. huff…noo... placee... heree. Taakn... yoou... nn ...waas ….ah ..msstakee. Yoou...brng... tloouble…. oonlee...Leevee" cyclops spoke through a broken jaw.
You know, I won't lie I honestly thought that maybe one of them would stick up for me, maybe take my side. There's this little ache in my chest knowing that they won't. I don't know why it hurts. I took the wrecked and singed leather jacket off, folded it and placed it down on the grass.
I looked at each of them. "Thank you for everything you've done for me so far."
I turned and walked without a set destination in mind. "Drake!" I snapped my head to sound. Mindee was running towards me with my backpack in her hand.
"I got your stuff from your room, not all of it tho, some of mine is in there too, I had to rush."
"Mindee,young lady where do you think you're going?!"
She draped my old sleeveless hoodie around me. "Here, I liked this one better anyway"
"Young woman?!"
"Can't you see I'm going with my boyfriend!? I'm 18 now, you can't stop me. Don't even try to" she gripped tightly onto my hand.
Her pupiless eyes were focused on mine.
"Drake, it's ok. You're not perfect, you're not a Saint. It's ok, I know it sounds sudden but I like you just the way you are, I accept all of you. I don't know when it started, but I feel a way for you that I have never felt for anyone else. And since I'm 18, we can actually move on together legally. So what do you say? "
I swear, I have never felt this much love. It was like… I don't even have words. It was so warm, cozy, comforting and nice, it was so beautiful and heavenly. Was this love? This thing in me that swore to give my life for this girl if she asked for it? This thing that didn't want to be away from her? What the hell was this!?
"Oh, Iceman I never knew you could cry" she smiled at me and wiped a hand across my cheeks.
"I…I don't….why--"
"Calm down snowman, let's do it a step at a time"
A large silver space ship appeared filling up the skies ahead, it's gigantic metal frame blocking out the light of the sun.
Beep! Beep!
Eagle-one: Pickup here.
I held Mindee's hand and nodded at her. We stepped into the blue light pillar shining down from the space ship.
Mindee's hair swayed gently around her, the blue light giving her an angelic radiance, beautiful was too bland a word to describe her at this moment, as I stared at her it was no different from looking at an angel.
She smiled at me, and I felt reassured. I no longer felt left behind or alone. I had her and she was all I needed. Or maybe I'm not in my right state of mind and I was lost on this high whatever it was.
The tractor beam pulling us upwards to the magnificent technological vessel. I knew that this was a new start to something larger.
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Guten tag zuzamen. It's a good day for regel. I hope you're all aliv, well and in good health.
I bring you chapter 13. The turning point. We begin more progression into the story. How many of you guessed who the snake eyed man was? Tell me in the review/comments.
So the falling out came, Drake is out and we have the start of a gentle young love. I didn't cry, it was just the dust in my eyes. And what else? Oh, space! The new frontier! Yes, I also listened to you all and made a longer chapter, for this special occasion. I prefer to update frequently with shorter chapters though, but I'll consider doing lengthy chapters from time to time.
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