A/N: Warning! This story contains SLASH in case the summary didn't catch your attention. That means a guy on guy relationship. Yes, I'm immoral for writing this. If you don't like it, don't read it. Thank you. The rest of you, please enjoy.
Pyro watched the scenes play out. He couldn't believe he had a hand in this. It was as though he were watching and wasn't himself. He watched his own body set flame to the very place he once called home. He smirked as he flung his hand out and blew up the bedroom that once held the Iceman.
In the main hallway, a child had tripped in front of him. He stared at them. He remembered this kid. He'd never spoken to them but they could be seen running around the tennis court for no apparent reason. Pyro lit fire in his palm and wiggled his eyebrows.
"Cory!"
Pyro's flame went out. He looked up to the start of a hallway. Bobby.
"Cory, come here! Quickly! Come on!" Pyro didn't even move as the child scrambled up and ran to Bobby with speed he'd never seen... or noticed, at least. Bobby held him in his arms as the child shook in fear. Pyro caught words like 'okay' and 'calm.'
"You don't know what you're doing, Iceman." Pyro relit the fire in his hand.
"No, John. You don't." Bobby lifted the child in his arms and held him protectively. He cast one last pained look at John before turning and running off.
"Stop!" Pyro ran after him. He glared at the Iceman.
"Piotr!" He heard Bobby call out as he turned the corner. No. He was handing the child off. Pyro couldn't let Bobby do that. Magneto wanted answers. He wanted hostages.
Pyro nearly hissed when he turned the corner and got a face full of ice. Then he and Bobby stood there, facing each other. Two old comrads now enemies. Fire versus Ice.
Magneto was trying to find the professor. Someone had told the government all about Magneto's operations and exactly where to find him. Who else would know all that information besides Charles, his old friend? Charles, who could know what Magneto was planning almost as soon as Eric himself knew it. The government was knocking down their doors and Magneto wanted revenge.
Bobby, however, usually wouldn't have any point to it. But now that Pyro saw him in the moonlight shining in the windows, Bobby was wearing one of those blasted X-Men uniforms. Dammit. They were told to capture every X-Men they could.
Pyro couldn't help but glare. Bobby was one of those 'inner circle' losers now. To make matters worse, Piotr was running off with all the kids. Bobby was the only thing between him and the other mutants.
"Move, Iceman." Pyro enlarged the fireball in his hand, casting a red glow over their faces.
"John, what are you doing? You're killing the school!" Bobby yelled.
"Magneto just needs some answers. I'm here to distract." Pyro smirked. He felt powerful. Bobby was in a situation where he had no control. He liked it. John could feel his fellow Brotherhood mutants surrounding them in the shadows. Bobby either didn't notice or didn't care.
"I wont fight you unless I have to," Bobby's voice was barely audible above the raging fires and general screams around them. Pyro knew Bobby wanted to go help the poor children stuck in their rooms.
"I'm sorry, Bobby."
The Iceman seemed shocked to hear his own name. As if on cue, two mutants jumped out of nowhere and tackled Bobby to the floor. John expected Bobby to bounce back, covered in ice and fighting, but he didn't. He just struggled like a normal human until they caught him in the neck with a tranquilizer.
Pyro watched on in confusion. Why didn't he fight back?
– – –
Again, John was watching from outside his body. He was standing in Magneto's new headquarters. This was the control center, fitted with all the monitors and security screens they needed. Though, Pyro had to actually learn all the controls while Magneto just had to think of it and it happened. It was kinda annoying.
Each wall had a large window looking into a large, lower room, except the wall with the door. Magneto stood by the right wall, staring into the room below.
"Shadowcat." Magneto explained to Pyro's curious gaze. "You probably don't recognize her with her hair all messy and her face covered in soot."
"No. No, I remember her. She was annoying. She-..." Pyro paused. Magneto gazed at him curiously and he shook his head. "Never mind. It doesn't matter."
The two looked back at Kitty as she was put in the device that would neutralize her powers so they could contain her. She was unconscious currently. John remembered Kitty flirting with Bobby all the time even though he was dating Rouge. Pyro found it childish and it made him angry.
Pyro walked to the next window and gazed down. Ah. Speak of the devil. Rogue was contained in this room. She struggled but, with her X-Men suit on, she couldn't touch and harm the others.
This made John happy. He never liked Rogue much. He didn't understand how Bobby could be in a relationship where he couldn't even touch his significant other. Didn't that defeat the purpose? Bobby just liked her cause she was cute and vice versa... then again, John probably liked Bobby for the very same reason. He was cute.
Suddenly, a ball of ice flew past Pyro's head. He jumped in surprise and ran to the window it had come through. The rest of the window was intact besides the hole where the ball had come from.
"Contain him!" Magneto's voice boomed out into the room. John shook lightly. Iceman, fully armored, was finally fighting back. He threw off one mutant and froze another. Neither could attack him now.
"Mystique!" Magneto ordered. John saw the blue woman drop from the ceiling and Iceman turned too late. She caught him with a needle in the shoulder. The ice shimmered and melted away, leaving only Bobby.
John hated the pained look etched on Bobby's face. He was about to say something to Magneto when Mystique suddenly kissed Bobby before putting him in his restraints. Some new form of anger and jealousy welled up within John.
What did that blue bitch think she was doing? That was completely unnecessary. She even had the gall to turn to the window and wink up at Pyro and Magneto. Oh, if he could light her on fire, he would.
"We'll begin interrogation immediately," Magneto announced. Pyro nodded.
"Of course," he agreed.
He couldn't help but watch Bobby Drake, barely conscious in his restraints. It kept his ice aimed at the ground and was strong enough to withstand the power of his body armor. In fact, it had been built to withstand Piotr's iron strength.
The once mighty iceman seemed so small and helpless from up here. John felt this nagging sense of dread. Something was going to happen soon. Something bad. For Bobby, for Magneto, for Pyro himself, or for the world... he didn't know. But something was definitely coming.