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  Aron stepped into the frigid warehouse, his expression as calm as the frost-covered air. His gaze swept over the battleground, lingering momentarily on his battered teammates. With a flick of his wrist, a surge of iergy radiated outward, freezing the reinforts iendrils of frost crept up their bodies, eng them in thick yers of itil not a single enemy mutant moved. They stood frozen like statues, their expressions of surprise and fear immortalized within the ice.

  He walked past Shaw without sparing him a gnce, each step silent on the snow-cround. He k beside Psylocke, his eyes softening as he took in her blood-soaked fently, he pced a hand on her shoulder. A soft blue light appeared under his hand as he transferred his healing ability to help her. Almost instantly, her wounds healed, and her breathing became calm. She opened her eyes and looked at him.

  "Aron," she whispered, trying to sit up.

  "Stay still," he murmured, his voice low and reassuring. "I'll hahis."

  As Psylocke stabilized, Aron moved to Jean, who was barely ging to sciousness. Blood ran down her face, and her energy was depleted to a dangerous level. Aron sehe Phoenix Force simmerih her skin, dangerously close to breaking free. He pced a hand on her forehead, his power flowing through her as he whispered, "Rest, Jean. I'll take it from here."

  With a soft sigh, she fell into a deep sleep. Aron looked at her face for a moment. He felt rage boiling in his heart. She was bleeding from her nose due to overusing her power. He took out a handkerchief and wiped her blood from her face. 'How dare those motherfug bastards!' He stood up and turo face Shaw.

  Shaw's eyes glinted with a dangerous curiosity as he finally had Aron's full attention. "So, the infamous Aron makes his grarance. I must admit, I'm impressed by your timing."

  Aron's expression remained impassive, his gaze cold as the frost around him. "You've hurt my friends," he stated, his voice dangerously calm. "That's a mistake you won't get to make twice."

  Shaw chuckled, seemingly unfazed. "e now, I expected you to be more pragmatic. They're colteral damage. I'm ied in you, Aron. You possess power unlike any mutant I've entered, and I'd rather not waste potential on needless hostility. e with me. Don't you want to know who you really are? I'll help you unlock your true potential."

  Aron's eyes narrowed, the temperature dropping further as his aura intensified. A wave of cold snow dust swept over the area. "You think you manipute me, like one of your chess pieces?"

  "Everyone is a pie the board," Shaw replied smoothly. "You just happen to be a piece of extraordinary value." He tapped the side of his head. "Besides, if you think you use your telepathy to read my mind to find your answers, go ahead and try." He said with a fident smile.

  'Fuckers, just where the heck are they getting so many nullifers and all that mutation suppression shits?' Aron wondered.

  Logan picked up Scott's goggles and put them on Scott's face to prevent his optic bsts from hitting any of them.

  "Hey, kid," Logan grunted as he walked over to Aron, "let's do this together, shall we?"

  "No hey are already dead," Aron said and used his super speed. Those frozen mutants were like a food ptter for him. He checked each of their mutations and absorbed the fire, stone skin, acid, and poisoed ones into his body. He could feel that his power was growing stro an astonishing rate. As for the rest, they were just regur mutations, and abs them would be just a waste of time.

  Then he appeared where he was standing before.

  He snapped his fingers as the frozen mutants shattered into pieces. The fine dust of ice blew in the air as over twenty mutants died in a sed.

  "I must admit, that was impressive," Shaw said. He could feel the ge in Aron's energy after he killed the mutants. "Killing without even blinking aakes years of killing experiend I guess you have a lot of it. Well, e or not, his blood is definitely running through your veins."

  "You are ," Aron pointed his fi Shaw.

  Shaw just grinned and raised his hands in mock surrender. "Wait, let me ask you one question before you kill me."

  "What?" Aron asked.

  Shaw smiled and said, "Is it worth it? Sacrifig yourself to save these people? Your team? This is all about power, Aron. Power is everything in this world. It decides who lives and who dies. If you follow me, I will help you get the ao your questions. You will bee the most powerful mutant alive. So, what will it be?"

  As soon as Shaw finished, Aron's palm appeared before his face. "Exactly, power is everything in this world. It decides who lives and who dies." He grabbed his fad smmed him down on the floor.

  He lifted him and smmed him down again. The crete beh Shaw cracked, splintering like gss. Shaw grimaced but quickly tered, unleashing a burst of kiiergy that threw Aron backward. Aron nded gracefully, sliding a few feet before he steadied himself.

  "Impressive," Shaw said as he stood up, brushing the dust off his suit. "But you'll need more than brute force to beat me."

  Aron's gaze remained icy, but his hands began to crackle with energy. If he wanted, he could have absorbed Shaw's power. But he wao see how Shaw was using his power, his movements, his weakness, and every detail of power. Only then would he absorb his power.

  "The's see if you absorb this," He raised his arms, and beams of intense cold shot toward Shaw, freezing the air around him and f deadly spikes of ice. Shaw dodged, his agility surprising, but Aron anticipated it and formed a barrier of ice around him, boxing him in. Then burst him with ice spikes.

  Shaw ughed, pressing his hands to the frozen walls. "All you're doing is feeding me," he taunted, as the energy transferred into him, fueling his own power. In a sudden explosion of kiic force, Shaw shattered the icy prison, sending shards everywhere. Aron raised a hand, abs the shards bato himself to prevent any colteral damage to his teammates.

  "Get out of here. I 't use my full power to fight him," He told Psylocke and Logan.

  They uood. Logan carried Jean and rushed out of the warehouse with Psylocke, Scott, and Kitty. They left the battlefield with Aron and Shaw fighting.

  Shaw stomped on the floor, releasing a massive burst of energy. The whole warehouse shook, and the ground split open, shattering the frozen warehouse and his cage, but Aron raised an iain around them almost instantly. A massive dome of ice covered the area. Shaw cracked his neck, grinning. "What else you got other than just ice? I know you use multiple... Kuggg!!"

  He g his hands, 'Forstbites!?'

  "You know, kiiergy manipution is a cool power, but what if there is no kiiergy to absorb?" Aron said with a smirk, as the temperature tio drop.

  Shaw's legs froze as he felt hard to breathe. He tried to move his arms ao use his stored energy to bst through everything, but he could barely move anymore. He froze up instantly. Frostbites began to form on his skin, spreading quickly.

  Aron walked toward Shaw and touched his head, "Well, I'll take your power. Thank you."

  "H-h-how?" Shaw asked with chatterih.

  "I learo freeze molecules by slowing them down. I freeze you from the i, and when I do that, you have no energy to transfer into your body to warm yourself up. Even if you mao use your power, your body will shatter like a gss doll." Aron began abs Shaw's power and started feeling the energy flow into his body. "Iing. So much power, yet an obvious weakness."

  Just then, a bck smoke appeared behind Shaw. It was Azazel. He tried to grab Shaw and teleport away, but...

  [k] He froze instantly ao the icy ground with a k.

  "What's the rush?" Aron said as he finished abs Shaw's power and touched Azazel's head. "And don't try to teleport away. I have frozen every molecule in your body. Even your brain is frozen solid. I doubt that you even hear me. Well, thanks for the meal." He absorbed Azazel's power.

  He turo Shaas frozen up to his ned asked, "I want to know the ao my questions, but sidering this insane ability, I take a guess. Is it All For Ohe guy without a fad a mask, c up to his nose?"

  Shaw wao say something, but everything turned bck before his eyes. It felt so sleepy and peaceful. He felt tired. He could hear Aron's voice like a distant memory.

  Aron puhrough his frozen body and ripped out his froze, crushing it in his palm. Theomped on Azazel's head and crushed it into fine dust.

  "Thanks to you fuckers, I now know what to do . I'll destroy every single bastard behind this e shit. Only then will I get to live a peaceful life..."

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