Log: Alex and Bobby (backdated to January 23rd, 2016)

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Alex and Bobby play around in the snow!


Throwing snowballs at the snowmen he'd built for target practice wasn't much fun, Alex thought as he took off another snowman's head. There was no challenge. But no one wanted to play moving target with him.

Lame.

"Dude!," came the cry from around the corner as Bobby came into view. "If you wanted to have a snowball fight why didn't you just say so?!" Forget the fact that they didn't really know each other that well but he still would've done it because, y'know. Snow.

The rules of snowball fighting - according to Bobby anyway - indicated that anyone throwing snowballs was fair game for having snowballs thrown at them. Never mind that Alex was throwing them at inanimate snowmen, it was still an act of war or something. Bobby wasn't entirely clear on the rules because a.) they didn't really exist, and b.) he didn't really care, he just loved any excuse for a snowball fight.

So he quickly fired off half a dozen quickly formed snowballs at Alex, essentially because Reasons. "Look out, here I come!"

Alex had essentially no warning before it was suddenly raining snowballs. He whirled around, surprised, and saw the white balls flying at him. "Whoa!" He dove for cover behind his army of snowmen, laughing. Now that was more like it!

"Not cool dude!" The fact that he was laughing so hard he could barely breathe didn't really do much for his argument. He used his line of snowmen for cover to move behind a tree, gathering a bunch of snow and whipping his one solitary snowball at the teen.

"It's totally cool! Cold, even!" Bobby said, punctuated with his own laughter. "The coolest actually!" He stood with his hands on his hips and did an exaggerated laugh, then raised one hand at a time, creating a tall wall of ice in front of either side as he did so.

"Now it's time to get serious..." He leapt in the air and put his hands together, then created a huuuuge snowball to hurl at Alex. "HADOUKEN!!!!!"

There was no dodging the snowball of death. Not that Alex didn't give it a valiant effort, but it still ended with him being barreled over and hitting the ground. He laid there for a moment trying to catch his breath before busting out laughing.

"MAN! That was awesome!"

"Hahaha oh my god man, that was great!" Bobby was glad that Alex was laughing at it instead of being upset because that really was a huge snowball. "Are you ok dude?" He walked over to offer him a hand up, still chuckling at his reaction.

Oh that was such a bad idea. Alex shifted a hand behind his back, gathering up some snow. He couldn't fire a dozen snowballs at once. But that didn't mean he couldn't get revenge.

"Yeah dude, totally okay." He grinned as he took Bobby's hand and pulled himself up. "Also absolutely not sorry."

And with that he threw the snowball in Bobby's face and took off running.

Bobby had made the mistake of opening his mouth to ask what Alex meant by not being sorry, so a good chunk of the snow went into his mouth.

"MWMMPH!" He spat out what he hadn't accidentally swallowed then shook his fist towards Alex. "RUDE MUCH!" Bobby was laughing while saying it just the same, because it really was a good one.

He couldn't let that be the end of it though, so with one hand he created a huge snowbank in front of Alex and with the other he lay down a sheet of ice under the other mutant's feet leading to the snowbank.

Alex was laughing too hard as he ran to notice Bobby was Totally Cheating - the result was actually pretty hilarious. Mr. Never-Even-Seen-Ice-Much-Less-Walked-On-It went completely head over heels with a shout, flying and landing in the snowbank. He popped up gasping and laughing.

"Jerk!" He called breathlessly.

"Hey, I resemble that remark, dude," Bobby said, laughing as well. He formed an ice slide and made his way over to the snowbank, hopping off once he got there. Having learned his lesson the last time, he didn't offer Alex a hand, but he waited to make sure his fellow mutant was ok before continuing any snowball throwing.

"White flag, white flag," Alex gasped, still laughing, tossing up some snow over his head. "I don't have a flag but snow is white so close enough. Uncle!"

"Alright, alright, truce it is." He helped Alex up without any further shenanigans, for now anyway, then looked off into the distance. "I think I see someone else coming out." Bobby smirked and raised an eyebrow questioningly in Alex's direction. "Our truce is only between us, right? So maybe we should go pay them a visit."

Alex grinned, already rolling some new snowballs. "Let's get 'em."