Summary: On the eve of when 4 unknown scientists in space receive their destinies, a young girl on earth received hers too… in the form of a small orange rock.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Fantastic Four and any of the other characters that may show up. I do own Lily Fox and the other characters you do not recognize.

I decided to go ahead and post this since I finished writing 7 more chapters. Story's not done yet lol

Prologue

Lily Fox, so small and petite, yet only seventeen walked in the darkened alleyway at night. She stopped as she heard a whistling sound. She looked around in fear. Boxes and trash littered the ground around her feet. She needed something to alleviate her fears so she looked up to the sky. The stars twinkled in the black night and she smiled. She closed her eyes and she envisioned herself floating among the stars. Far away from the things that scared her, and the things that wanted to hurt her.

When the whistling sound came again, she snapped her dark eyes open. Her eyes still towards the sky, she noticed something among it. It seemed to be dark but bright at the same time. She squinted and noticed the orange color and then as realization hit her, she widened her eyes. But it was too late as the orange object passed the stars, the buildings, and through her at lightning speed.

She let out a soft cry as she was lifted into the air. Her back arched as a burning pain sliced through her chest. Even though she felt the pain of the object, there was no wound as it passed through her. Once it left her, she collapsed on the ground in the puddle of water. Her bright red hair dulled a bit as it lay in the wet puddle. Her eyes slowly closed and her body succumbed to exhaustion.

Chapter 1

The building loomed over her as she looked up. She wanted to get some help from the famous four, as well as some understanding of what happened to her that night. She fiddled with the little rock in her pocket as she debated going into the double doors. She turned, her decision made. The further away she walked, the more guilt she felt for not helping herself. Lily didn't notice the growing crowd until she nearly bumped into someone.

"Watch it would ya?" the portly man snarled.

"Sorry," she mumbled.

She looked around and noticed that something was happening. She squeezed through the throng of people until she was up at the front. She turned over to the woman next to her.

"What's going on?" Lily asked.

"It's the Fantastic Four! They're coming back. They saved people from a burning building," the woman excitedly explained, pointing to the dark black truck as it stopped in the street.

Lily looked and watched as the doors opened to reveal a large, orange, rocky man in dark blue pants. As he stepped out, the truck moved up, free of its heavy weight. Three other people came out from behind him, all attired in blue outfits.

'This is my chance,' Lily thought.

She noticed the walkway light turned green and she stepped off the curb. She walked across the street, but before she could pass the halfway mark, the voice of the woman's cry of horror stopped her.

"Wait! No!"

At the same time came the sound of screeching tires against the asphalt. Lily turned her head to the sound and her eyes widened as she saw a large green van heading for her out of control. She stood rooted to the spot; she couldn't move a muscle as she watched it get closer and closer to her.

The woman's scream knocked her out of her frozen state. She turned her head towards the Fantastic Four and watched as the rocky man ran towards her. She knew within a second he would get to her just as the van would hit her. So she took a step back to the way she went and rocky arms enveloped her before she could run.

"No!" Lily cried. "He's gonna hit us! Let me go!"

But it was too late as the van careened closer to them. The arms tightened around her as she flinched and closed her eyes.

As the people around them watched, the van passed through them effortlessly. The van crashed into the blue force field created by one of the Fantastic Four.

"Ben!"

The voice cried out into the silence. Lily opened her eyes and noticed she was alright and not flattened to the ground. She put her palms on his chest and pushed. He let her go with a startled look. Lily looked at the van and back to the man called Ben.

"I… I…I gotta go," Lily stammered.

"Ben, are you alright?" the same voice said.

Ben watched as the red-headed girl run off into the direction she came, the people around her stepping back to let her go.

"I'm fine. What just happened?"

"I… I'm not sure. You faded and the van passed right through you both," Mr. Fantastic, or Reed Richards said.

"We need to do some testing, maybe you got another ability we missed," Reed said.

"No, that wasn't me. That was her, the girl," Ben said as he pointed towards the direction the girl went.

As Reed and Ben gazed in the direction of his finger, Lily ran. She kept running until she could run no more. She fell to her knees and let out gasping sobs. She cried as she realized how close to death she came to. Another moment passed and the tears stopped. She looked up and recognized her surroundings. She was back in the alleyway of that night. She let out a small laugh.

It seemed a bit ironic to her to go back to the place where it all started, a place of comfort. Unknowing though to Lily, it was about to become a place of terror. She leaned against the brick wall and waited for night to fall so she could sneak out and have no one see her.

Night fell and she had fallen to a light sleep. A noise woke her and fear snuck into her heart. She looked around with widened eyes, looking for the noise. She slid up against the wall as she stood. She heard a snicker to her right and her head whipped.

"Little girl," the voice sang. "You're all alone out here… with nobody to help you."

The man stepped out of the shadows. Wide emotionless eyes bored into hers and she tensed up as he touched her arm.

"Who are you?" she whispered.

"I'm nobody… although her father certainly wants you back. He misses you," the man said.

"My father?"

"Yes. He hired me to find you and bring you back. You weren't that hard to find, especially after that show today," he replied, "come with me and you won't get hurt."

The man brought out a small knife and Lily backed up against the wall even more.

"No, I'm not going back to him," Lily said.

"Pity," he said as he leaned his head next to hers and whispered, "looks like I'm gonna have to tell him…that I had to kill you."

Her eyes widened and he thrust forward. Pain blossomed through her abdomen and she let out a cry.

"Shh…, the man said as he put his other hand over her mouth to muffle her growing cry.

He twisted the knife and she shuddered. Tears leaked out from the corners of her eyes as he pulled the knife out. He let her go as she slid back down to the dirty ground. He walked away as he wiped the blood on his shirt.

"Goodbye, Lily-pad," his voice trailed behind him as he left the alleyway.