The Iceman
/ The Iceman 3 Chapter 3 : COLD, COLD PAIN
This is purely a work of fiction. Not meant to offend or incite, but to entertain and maybe inspire.
'Mental conversations'
"Normal spoken conversations".
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COLD, COLD PAIN
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I might have a case of superbly enhanced intelligence. Remember how I said I could experience things through my ice creations? Well that expands to learning as well. Dr McCoy says that I have a multitasking ability that even he can't fully map out. He says my mind forms a conscious almost telepathic link with my creations, allowing me to not only send them orders but see them as an extension of myself.
So what that means is I can do a lot of things at once, giving each task a full focus without being distracted by too much information. Meaning, I can leave an ice bird to read books, an ice clone to browse the internet, while I myself do a whole different activity and still retain the knowledge my clones and creations acquire. I never knew studying could be so easy, this must be how it feels to be a genius. Don't get me wrong I was never stupid, but I wasn't too high on academics ladder. I was more of hands on type of guy, Dan would say, leave the thinking to John, just focus on the leading.
So what I'm trying to say is, I think I might now be a genius. And it's only been a few days since that discovery. But intelligence doesn't necessarily equate to wisdom. The ability to apply intelligence for a productive purpose.
I inhaled the clean night air mixed with the cigarette smoke wafting from the stick in my mouth. The blinking white stars in the canvas of the night sky formed a backdrop for the large beautiful full moon, shining down its pale calming white light.
The X-men weren't around today, said they were going on a very urgent mission. My clone was out scouting and mapping out the best hidden route I could use to leave and re-enter the school grounds without being seen. I needed a way to make cash, sitting around an depending on someone else for everything didn't really sit with my style. Plus if a catastrophic situation should happen outside, I wouldn't mind lending a hand.
I heard an absolutely beautiful piece of piano music that I just couldn't resist, I'm not some audiophile, I just love good music and songs. I froze the cigar solid and tossed it away, walking back inside the mansion.
The halls were empty and deserted. Everyone would normally be in their rooms by 10pm, but since the X-men were out I guess they were inside even sooner.
I walked to the source of the music. The door creaked open, a blond girl sat behind a grand piano, her fingers moving expertly and rhythmically across the black and white keys, producing an amazing music that touched the very soul. It was a perfect blend of yearning and joy.
I knew the girl, she was one of the three Stepford Cuckoos triplets — younger clones of Emma frost. I don't think anyone knows it yet, or maybe they do but just ignore it.
The music came to an end, her fingers resting on the keys her gaze forward.
"I know you're there" She said staring dead at the door.
"I wasn't hiding." I pushed it fully open and walked in grabbing a seat parallel to the piano. "Sorry if I disturbed."
"What do you want?" she asked blandly.
"You play beautiful music, I'd like to listen to it."
She just stared at me and turned her eyes back to the piano. Her fingers slowly started moving across the piano and then came to abrupt stop.
"Someone's here" she said leaving her seat.
And as if on cue the sounds of destruction reached my ears.
Crash!
"Where are the X-MEN!?!"
A screaming, pale vomit-green skin toned alien with a silver metallic breathing gear over his nose crashed through the ceiling right before a girl. The girl created an mecha armor suit of red light. Saving herself from the falling debris.
She instinctively lashed out at the towering alien who dodged her strike and punted her into the wall and then through it.
"Stay behind me" I told Mindee.
"Move. I don't need you to protect me. I can handle myself" she put her hands to her head and stared at the seething alien.
"His mind is protected" she said a little disappointed.
"You child! You dare snoop in Ord's mind! Your insolence will not go unforgiven" the alien shouted and ran at us in a surprising burst of speed. "You will serve as an appetizer till the X-men get here"
"Get behind me. Try contacting miss Frost" I drew her back and stepped forward. I could see the veins in the alien's rage filled eyes. Wait for it, wait for it. When he was just meters away from us now! I created an ice ramp below his feet, launching him into the air. My fist morphed into gigantic proportions racing at his airborne figure.
Thudd! The spikey giant ice fist cracked the alien's jaw when the two collided. His large form shot backwards from the collision, right into a waiting squad of ice clones with bat's and pipes who began smashing down on the alien, swarming and beating it to a pulp.
"Roarhh!!" it rose with a roar and began pushing the clones back with its fists. I created a thin layer of ice beneath its feet causing it to slip and fall when another clone tackled it. I saw his eyes widen and then his thud! face momentarily deform when I slammed down a gigantic ice warhammer on it.
It was knocked out cold and bleeding.
Holyshit! Did I just fight an alien?
Clink! Of course it wouldn't be so easy. The syringes on the alien's metal gloved hand stabbed at my my face, meeting an ice palm in its path. Instead of stabbing through my palm, the needle syringes bent and broke. The nasty smile on his swollen battered face turned into an expression of disbelief and then pain.
Shicklikle! I flash froze its arm now held in my grasp, solidifying it's internals in ice and sapping out massive amounts of heat at ridiculous levels, in mere seconds of contact his arm turned into an organic popsicle.
He screamed in pain "arghhh!" it tried rising up again but a clone settled it with an ice bat to the face that took him back down and krack! it's frozen blue hand off at the same time, shattering into pieces as it fell to the floor.
"Aiieearghhh!!" he writhe around in pain and agony, he tapped a button his chest armor then tried to hold its now frozen shoulder stump.
"F@#k boy" Who puts needle syringes on gloves? Why would you even stab at ice with it? Do you know how dense my body becomes when I turn to ice? I'm bulletproof in basic organic ice form, without any form of refinement whatsoever, my default form is very dense, imagine when I add more ice to that.
"Go to sleep" I created another ice warhammer swung at his head bam! Vibrations spread along the hammer's length as a result of the force. The alien's reptilian teeth and blood staining the floors. It's beaten and battered body spread eagle. It's breath turned into a wheezing sound through its dented and partially broken nose gear.
This time, he was truly out cold. Get it, out cold you know cuz I'm an Iceman and I use cold…forget it.
I don't know when but a crowd of students had gathered behind me and they couldn't look anymore stunned. I approached the broken wall and gently pulled the kicked girl out of it. She was fine with only a few bruises on her hands. Her hard light armor had her from the worst of the attack.
"Thanks" she said gratefully.
I waved at her "No problem" Crash!
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"Scott, we have to get back to the mansion, now. The girls are calling but something is trying to block them" Emma Frost held her head in pain.
"Wolverine help Peter. Hank, grab the doctor. I'll get the child." Cyclops pushed back his surprise at all the revelations he gleaned of today. This was supposed to be a simple infiltration into the Benetech facilities to find out what was really going on behind the scenes. But never would he have expected to be this shocked.
First he finds out that an alien lunatic brought his friend back to life, and that same lunatic tortured and experimented on him till they were able to create a cure.
He wonders how kitty feels, Piotr Rasputin was her lover before he died in a mission.
[Self destruct sequence initiated, T -10seconds.] an electronic voice spoke all through the complex.
"Oh no, The research! The data! The samples! We can't leave it all behind"
"Sorry doctor, but we have to leave" Hank hefted the doctor over his shoulders and began running behind wolverine.
Cyclops broke the two way glass with a precise red beam, he vaulted through the new opening and grabbed the child. And he too began to run
[6….5….4…]
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Crash! The sounds of glass breaking and doors being slammed open announced the arrival of men and women in blue uniforms bearing a silver eagle insignia on their chests. Guns were pointed at me as were lights from jets and helicopters.
"Put your hands up and step away from the alien" a woman with green hair matching her body suit and glasses spoke. She was in the lead next to Samuel L Jackson with an eye patch.
"I don't think so!" Wolverine yelled out. Jumping from the black bird. Joining him next was Cyclops, Emma Frost, kitty Pryde and a tall, built metal man in only his boxers. The metal man was an exact look alike of Colossus from the Deadpool movie. No he was Colossus. He had died during a mission and now he was back and alive again.
"What are you doing here Fury?" cyclops questioned.
"That's business that shouldn't concern you." The green haired woman replied sharply. The agents pulling out tools and disassembling the armor on the alien. The others keeping their sci-fi guns pointed at us.
"You're in our house hydra hair" Wolverine shot back.
"Correct me if I'm wrong here, wasn't that guy dead" Nick Fury pointed at Colossus.
"He was. Then brought back to life, held and tortured in Benetech. Being tested on like an animal by Ord, so you could develop your cure" Kitty Pryde stated.
"I don't know what you're talking about" fury folded his arms.
Emma raised a brow. "Really? You're clearly in bed with this alien yet you have no clue what he's been up to? Doesn't that seem like your normal super secret spy agency activity"
"How do you even know he's real?" he asked
"I read his mind" Emma said.
"I matched his dna" Beast joined in.
"I smelled him" Wolverine concluded.
"I also did that" beast added finally.
"This is Peter Nikolaievitch Rasputin. And he deserves an answer Nick. You own him the damn truth" Kitty said with cold anger in her tone.
Fury rubbed his brow and sighed. "Agent Brand?"
"You don't have the the authority to make me divulge classified information like that"
"What I have is the urge to disappear and leave this place at the mercy of very unreasonable super-powered individuals. So you might as well tell them the truth, it's not like they're going to like it anyway"
"I really don't have to be here right?" I asked trying to leave.
"No you stay. Students back to your rooms immediately." Cyclops ordered. I don't really do well with orders, but I understand the situation right now. It's best we put up a united front.
"You did this?" Wolverine asked, to which I nodded. Making the others express their surprise.
The green haired agent Brand frowned harder. "I'm special agent Abigail Brand. I head the Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department (S.W.O.R.D.) We work with Shield handle matters extraterrestrial"
"The government and its acronyms. Honestly adorable" Beast interjected.
"Heh" wolverine snorted.
"I didn't pick the name. The fact is shield has its hands full trying to keep this world together. And somebody has to keep track of the others."
"So funding terrorists isn't enough anymore for earthlings huh? We're selling arms to aliens too?"
"What we're doing Mr Summers is trying to prevent a war. The Breakworld's technologies include something called Timeshadows. It let's them see a partial version of the future, not change, not visit, just see.
"They saw a world in chaos, burning to ashes in flames. The Breakworld gone, utterly destroyed. All by a mutant. Most likely an X-Men."
"So you got together and decided to take care of the muties once and for all, huh?" Wolverine spat.
"Deal with the facts bumblebee. Our own precog division confirmed the findings. A mutant will almost certainly destroy breakworld in the next three years. That's a whole world gone because of one mutant. Ord came here with a declaration of war. The cure was just diplomatic tap dancing till we could get a lead on the mutant who was going to be responsible".
"Did you know what he was doing to Peter? All this time did you know?" Kitty questioned.
"Yes" she answered simply. This woman is bold. "Fury didn't, it wasn't his departmen-" Kitty interrupted her with a punch square on the jaw "You're a monster" she told agent Brand. "Say whatever you want, but I'm the reason you get to sleep peacefully at night without worrying about aliens razing your home to the ground"
Nick Fury gestured for everyone to calm down. "Ok, that's done. Here's what we're all going to do. We are going to walk away from here with our prisoner like nothing happened, which after Shield is done here will be more or less true."
His agents had already constrained Ord to metal body restraints. And carried him out on a stretcher.
"Surely you must be joking." Beast said.
"Of course, this is one of those jokes I'm so famous and loved for"
"What agent Brand has done is inhumane, illegal and appalling"
"I'm not going to speak for my counterpart here and neither is she. Fact is she blew it on many levels and that will not go unmarked." Fury nodded. "But she's dealing with a bigger picture. And trying to stop a war that got much closer to inevitable. And since, interestingly the only things that got wrecked at Benetech was all the research, serums and data, I'd say you should count your blessings "
It did work out quite conveniently didn't it?
Fury turned to me.
"And good job taking out Ord here kid, he might need a one armed themed rebranding now. But If you want to do some real good for your world and country, consider reaching out to us. We're have a program that could use people with your abilities"
"He's not going anywhere. He's with us" Cyclops states with a hardened gaze at Fury.
"I say let him decided what he wants"He handed me a card as he turned to leave with agent Brand following behind him.
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The X-men silently watching him leave and then turning to me.
"You did a good job keeping the others safe in our place, kid." Wolverine gave me a thumbs up.
Beast nodded. "Although your methods might have been a bit too lethal, I admit you were quite brave to stand up to face such a threat"
"For now, you should get some rest. We'll talk more about this in the morning. That goes for everyone" Cyclops said.
I wasn't really tired but whatever. I got some pat on the backs as I left the X-men in the hallways and made way to my room.
Indra shot up from his bed and excitedly grabbed on to me.
"Bro! You were awesome! You went all Rambo on that alien dude. And your ice people woow! I didn't even know yo could do that. Bro you've gotta teach me some moves!" he spoke without pause. I just smiled and chuckled rubbing his hair with ice. It's like having a kid brother, it was nice.
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Hello People!
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Wow, here you have it folks. Chapter three in all its glory.
Rob is now in the thick of things, and things are about to get a lot more thicker(Lel). His first alien fight, oh how fast they grow.
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