(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
GUARD 1: Can you believe this heat?
GUARD 2: It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
There you go again. Every night the same thing!
I say heat, you say humidity.
Yeah, well, it's true.
GUARD 1: It's midnight, and it's still 97 degrees.
That, to me, is heat.
GUARD 2: Yeah, but it's the humidity that's making you uncomfortable.
GUARD 1: No, the humidity just makes me wet.
You are making me uncomfortable.
You're just bored.
Bored?
Guarding an empty warehouse? I just can't take the...
(SHIVERING) Say, it's getting cold in here.
(ALARM BEEPING)
Just as I thought. A faulty AE-35 unit. We'll need a replacement.
No prob! I'll just hop in one of the mini-jets
-and pick up a spare at the... -Jubilee.
Busted.
You know you're not authorized to fly the mini-jets solo.
But I'm ready!
Not according to your simulator tests.
Jubilee, you can't keep acting like some impulsive child.
Well, maybe if you'd stop treating me like one.
I didn't catch that?
CEREBRO: Attention.
I am registering violent mutant activity.
Scanning federal satellite transmissions to corroborate.
What type of installation is that?
Property is identified as a federal storage depot.
Restricted access.
Can you determine the nature of the attacking mutant's powers?
Formation and manipulation of ice.
But Storm's in Africa.
Mutant has been identified.
That's Bobby.
Robert Drake. Also known as Iceman.
-(ALARM BLARING) -(GRUNTS)
I hate when I do that.
X-Men! Assemble at theBlackbird at once!
Professor, what's our situation?
I'll explain once we're airborne.
This better be good.
If I don't get a full night's sleep, I'm cranky all day.
Mansion's all locked up. Let's jet!
No, Jubilee. You stay here and prepare the infirmary
in case we need it.
-But... -That's an order, young lady.
The infirmary? What am I, a candy striper?
It's just like before. The guy is trouble.
He's an X-Man.
Was.
What are we up against with this Iceman?
We're not against him, Wolverine.
So then we're with him?
Of course not! He's destroying federal property!
Boy, I'm glad we cleared that up.
Bobby was one of the original X-Men.
Until he left.
(CHUCKLES)
Left? As in quit or canned?
Bobby was difficult.
Always up to some mischief.
But never like this.
You always made excuses for him!
You'd never let the rest of us get away with half the things he did!
I'm not surprised Drake's gone bad. He's a renegade!
Renegade? No. Free-spirited, perhaps.
There you go again, coddling him.
And you are being intransigent!
Listen to me! I don't know what Bobby's up to.
But I do not want him harmed.
He's in enough trouble as it is.
All right, split up.
We grab Iceman and we get clear without taking on those soldiers.
Whoa! This is getting way too hot for me.
BEAST: I see you have retained your engaging sense of humor.
Beast! What's up, besides you? Wait a minute.
Xavier sent you!
Professor Xavier was concerned for your safety.
I don't want his help! Or yours!
OK, pal, you come easy,
or I get to make cocktail ice for a hundred.
Sorry, pal, you're skating on thin ice!
So are you, Drake!
(GRUNTS)
A touch of overkill there, squinty.
You have no right to wear that uniform!
BEAST: It appears we have overstayed our welcome.
Something tells me
this ain't your run-of-the-mill storage depot.
You do have a great facility for the obvious.
Professor Xavier, we've got Drake.
But there's a small army between us and theBlackbird.
This could get ugly.
Please look after Bobby. I'll see what I can do.
Unusual tactic.
Eminently preferable to a physical confrontation.
Says who?
Let's move!
I insist you tell me what you were doing at that government complex!
I have nothing to say to you!
We probably saved your life last night!
Nobody asked you to.
What's with those two? I've never seen the Professor so angry.
It's a surrogate father-son dynamic,
with unresolved issues of dominance.
Beast. In English?
Bobby likes to question authority.
You owe the Professor an explanation.
Why? Last time I checked, I'd flunked out of this loony bin.
You didn't flunk. You chose to leave.
I chose to think for myself,
instead of always playing the good soldier boy.
(EXCLAIMS MOCKINGLY)
Them's fighting words.
Don't push me, Drake. I push back.
Anytime, apple polisher. I'm right here.
Stop it! Both of you!
Are you going back to that compound?
Maybe.
I cannot condone...
It's my life!
I'm not one of your students anymore.
You can't tell me what to feel and who to fight.
You can't send me to detention hall.
On the contrary,
until you prove that you are no danger to yourself or to others,
that's exactly where you're going.
Hey, what is this?
-That's new. -BOBBY: Let me down.
A gravity-suspension device I recently constructed,
using technology gleaned from the Shi'ar craft
found in the Morlock Tunnels.
It is designed to promote healing.
I see it also serves another function.
You don't understand! I've got to get back to that depot!
Bobby, tell us why. Trust me.
Trust you? I tried that once.
I can't trust any of you.
Let me out of here!
CEREBRO: Searching for data. Subject, Iceman.
Shh!
Cut the volume down, will you?
Drake, Robert, second member of X-Men.
Recruited by Xavier at age 16.
High potential. Low discipline.
And seriously cute.
Got to be careful about pretty packages.
What's inside is usually trouble.
I didn't hear you come in. Did you know Bobby?
No. Before my time.
From what I hear, he's dangerous to have around.
Kind of like you.
(GROANS)
Food for the flesh and the spirit.
My spirit and I aren't hungry.
Your attack on that federal compound
suggests that you hunger for something.
Revenge perhaps? Or information.
I'm sorry, Hank. I can't tell you.
By the way, where's Lorna?
This has nothing to do with Lorna!
Who's Lorna?
Bobby, I am your friend.
I was then, I am now.
Please, tell me what happened.
BOBBY: I tried doing what Xavier wanted.
It was never enough to please him.
Then, after we nearly lost Lorna, I took off.
And Lorna came with me.
I got a job.
We lived like normal people.
We weren't trying to fight the entire world.
We were young and very much in love.
And then the arguments began. Always about our powers
and our duty to use them in the fight for mutants' rights.
Lorna sounded more and more like Xavier.
But I still loved her.
One day I came by her apartment.
She was gone. The place was a wreck.
My only lead was a scrap of paper with the name "Kirby Glen."
BEAST: The location of that storage depot!
I think the government grabbed Lorna.
Bummer.
Hank, get me out of here.
Let go of the past. Xavier wants to help you.
But first, you must trust him.
I can't.
That's a pity, old friend.
Without trust, the world can be a lonely place.
Yes. It can.
Huh?
The book!
Bobby, I forgot to give you... Oh, no.
BOBBY: Perfect. They'll never expect us to hit them again so soon.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
I don't care. I'm going in.
Stay put!
No way!
Would you keep it down?
I was good enough to help you back at the mansion,
I'm good enough to help you here.
You're right.
-Let's go. -So, wait up!
Nail that camera.
-Let's go! -Cool!
Told you, this is a piece of cake.
And we're the crumbs!
(GROANS)
Excellent work. Take them inside.
When I get my hands on Drake,
he's gonna be sorry he took Jubilee.
It's my fault.
I should have found a way to reach him.
How do you know she didn't help him escape?
Yes. She may have overheard my exchange with Bobby
and had sympathy for his dilemma.
CYCLOPS: This is Drake's fault, not yours.
He has no respect for anyone!
Give him an order, he ignores it.
Scott, losing Bobby again has made me realize
that sometimes good leadership is knowing when not to give orders.
Don't worry. I won't say, "I told you so."
Bobby's handiwork. We're going in, Professor.
Keep this channel open.
XAVIER: Good luck.
FORGE: Attention, security guards. Pull back.
Do not confront the intruders. Leave them for us!
"Mutant project." That sounds gross!
(GROANS)
You wouldn't happen to have an aspirin the size of a bus, would you?
Sorry. Left it in my other purse.
These metal mittens block my powers.
Somebody really did their homework.
Yeah?
Guess they forgot to read the chapter about me.
Let's go!
Time to kiss this door goodbye!
-You! -You!
Jubilee! How could you help this misfit escape?
Because he needed us!
The Professor and the rest of you guys were too busy
condemning him to notice it!
That's ridiculous!
No, Cyclops. Jubilee is right.
I fell back into my old role as Bobby's disapproving headmaster.
I should have found a new role, as his friend.
Hate to bust up the therapy session, but your hour is up!
Who the heck are they?
CYCLOPS: Let's move!
I got one!
(GRUNTS)
Nice uniform, pal.
I don't like your attitude.
Cyclops, do you read me? Cyclops!
I don't understand. What gives?
I do not believe we have been introduced.
Oh, dear.
Yo, tiny! Time for you to chill!
Stand still, will you? Hey! Cut that out!
(JUBILEE SCREAMING)
Go on. Take your best shot.
It's your face, pal.
What's this, a two-for-one sale?
No. It's more like a baker's dozen!
(SCREAMING)
I must do something to end this!
X-Men, the mutants you are fighting
seem to know the limits of your powers.
Learn from Jubilee and Cyclops. Change adversaries.
Adjust your tactics to throw them off balance!
Ow!
Thanks a lot.
Care to trade?
With pleasure.
BOBBY: Well, it looks like Xavier had these guys figured.
Yeah. Not bad for an old man, eh?
All right, where's Lorna Dane?
FORGE: She's right here.
Lorna!
Bobby, I...
(GASPS) Havok!
Are you all right?
Bobby, I'm sorry.
FORGE: Professor Charles Xavier.
I am Forge. That is Havok,
Multiple Man, Strong Guy,
Quicksilver, Wolfsbane.
We are a mutant team recently formed
under the auspices of the federal government.
What do you mean?
I work closely with the government in this area.
I have been told of no such program!
You, above all people, can appreciate our need for secrecy.
Great. Now they're hiring mutants to wipe out other mutants.
Not so.
We want to make the world safe for all mutants.
Yourselves included.
Why did you attack us?
You broke into our training camp.
I must admit we did not warn you.
I thought a friendly little skirmish with the X-Men
might teach us a few pointers.
I got your pointers, right here.
What are you doing here?
Forge recruited me in Seattle
because of my experience with the X-Men.
The way you felt, you would've tried to stop me.
So we faked my own disappearance.
Why didn't you tell me later?
Let me know something?
I needed to start over, without the X-Men.
Without you.
I would have come. I would have...
When I joined X-Factor, I also fell in love, with Havok.
Havok and I are fighting to make things better for mutants.
I'm using my powers to help people who need me.
You've lost touch with that, Bobby.
And when you did, I lost touch with what I loved about you.
I'm sorry.
You'll get over it.
Professor?
Bunch of rookies.
Some other time.
I'm counting on it.
Likewise.
Don't go!
Yes, Bobby. Perhaps we should all try again.
Rejoin the X-Men?
(LAUGHING) Nothing's changed, Professor.
By this afternoon, I'd be driving you crazy.
Come on! I like having someone around
who can get into trouble instead of me!
Hey, thanks, kid. You're OK.
I'm counting on you to keep this big shot on his toes after I'm gone.
Think we'll see him again?
I can only hope.
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