Chapter one- Broken Field
"Reed, look at me!" Johnny mocked and fluttered his eyelids in an impersonation of his sister. Johnny Storm saw the glare on anger in his sister's eyes but he just lay on the sofa watching racing on the plasma screen looking cool as ever. A boyish grin came over his face as his eyes met with his sisters. "And you thought I had forgotten about you and Reeds date in Doom's hospital eh?"
Susan's hair waved around her head as though being blown by a non-existence breeze. She raised an arm in the arm and a sphere of rippling blue appeared around her hand.
Johnny gulped; he knew his sister's fields were strong but how strong? Sue looked at her brother with hatred and fired the field at the two wooden doors which split into eight pieces. Glaring at Johnny as she passed, Sue walked down the hallway to the lab.
A gasp of relief came over Johnny as he looked up and jumped. "Jesus wide load, stop sneaking up on me like that!"
A deep, throaty, sarcastic laugh came from Ben Grimm. "I'm really not that hard to miss Tinkerbell." A serious look came across his rocky face. "What did you say to Suzie?"
Taking a sip of his soda, Johnny replied "I didn't say anything. Anyway, what's burst her bubble?"
"like you don't know." Out of the corner of his eye Ben saw a sphere of blue pulsing energy come flying his way although he knew it wasn't meant for him and he swiftly moved out of the way.
"Why did you m-." Before he could finish his sentence he was sent flying backwards into the glass partition that separated the T.V room from the lab. Johnny looked up to see a single hand. Looking at where the hand came from he looked down the room a few meters to see the face of Reed Richards. "Ewwwww!" Johnny exclaimed as he quickly stood up.
"Johnny if only your mind was advanced like the rest of the human race then you would have noticed today's headline." Reed tossed the paper to Johnny who caught it and read the headline out loud.
"Doom takes over Latveria and more powerful then ever! Like dude reporters have only seen him once, and anyway how bad can it be?" Johnny quickly ducked out of the way of another force-field.
A grim look came across Reeds face. "Turn to page 5."
Johnny agreed and turned the pages. "Dr. Doom announced to his country that Susan Storm and the rest of the fantastic four would pay for what they did to him. His armor is more improved….blah, blah, blah!"
Reed slammed a fist of the metal desk. "Don't you see Johnny! She's scared senseless! When she hurled a field at him before it had no effect on him! She feels she can't protect herself! The building is even being guarded!"
Johnny glided to the window and was amazed at what he saw. He saw nothing. That's right, nothing. He was amazed because for once the great Reed Richards was wrong. "Hey stretch, there's no one outside apart from reporters."
Reed was making his way toward the window when a throaty yell could be heard. "SUZIE! I'M COMING! GET OFF ME DOOM REJECTS!"
Reed stopped and looked at the stairs then looked at Johnny. Who nodded at Reed and ran downstairs with him. As they reached the lobby they saw the guards fighting muscular men dressed in green wielding guns that fired lightening. Reed noticed that on the attacker's faces were metal masks, similar to the one worn by Dr. Doom.
Johnny storm looked at his sister with a look of fear on his face. Sue was surrounded by a force-field and defending herself against the bolts of lightening which were fired at her. He had a look of fear because the field was fading. He knew Sue needed to keep her emotions in check to stabilize the fields, and at the moment she was a quivering wreck. Johnny ripped off his clothes revealing his blue costume. "FLAME ON!" he roared as his whole body was engulfed by fire.
Reed saw Johnny go to help his fiancé and decided to ward off the attackers along with Ben who was pounding away at what he called the 'Doom Rejects'. Reed stretched two arms, wrapping them around two of the men and smacked them together. He continued doing this, making a path towards where Johnny and Susan were. Ben followed suit, creating his own path which wasn't very hard.
Ben quickly caught Sue as she fell. Her field was gone and she was shaking. "Suzie don't worry. I'm sure this is one big mistake or something." Ben beckoned to Reed with one of his four thick fingers. "Take her upstairs. Me and Flame boy will take care of these rejects."
Reed nodded and extended an arm to the ceiling. He pulled himself up and Sue lay shaking in an hammock like structure Reed had made with his legs. He swung across the room and ran up the stairs and placed Sue on the sofa.
"Inferno storm!" Johnny cried and circled the attackers trapping them in a dome of flame. One of the attackers walked through the fire and clutched his chest in pain.
"We shall leave now. We were sent to deliver this to Mr. Fantastic. But seeing as he's not around. I'll give it to you." He raised a control in the air and the thirty other identical looking men did the same. They pressed a green button and disappeared.
Ben raised an eyebrow. "Neat trick." He groaned. "Tink, give Reed the hologram disk now!" Ben watched as Johnny flew up the stairs and Ben followed. He entered the lab to see Reed hugging Sue and Johny pressing the switch. A shadowed image of Doom appeared.
The sound that came from it was a metallic voice. "I hope you liked my new followers. I call them the doom control. You think you got rid of me! Ha! I'm going to get rid of you and succeed. Flame boy, Crusty, Rubber neck, I'll get you later. But Susan, I'm coming for you. I'll get you. For even in that building you're not safe."
The hologram faded and Reed hugged Sue tighter who had turned white.