"Johnny, what are you doing in my lab?" Reed groaned as his brother-in-law entered and began fiddling with one of his machines.

"No reason. Just thought I'd drop in…see what the scientists…and Ben were up to." He smirked as Ben glared at him.

"Don't touch that." Reed grumbled as he grabbed the machine Johnny was playing with. "We've got a meeting with Palmer Technologies and I can't have you tampering with my equipment."

"Oh is that today?" Johnny's look of innocence would have fooled anyone who didn't know him well enough.

"What are you plotting Johnny?" Ben glared from his seat next to the desk.

"Why do you always think I'm plotting something Mount Rushmore?" Johnny sighed. "Can't a guy pop in and say hi, I mean I do live here."

"Out." Sue had just walked in.

"But Sue." Johnny protested

"I said out. I know why you're here and it has nothing to do with family bonding." She frowned.

"Okay, you got me." Johnny held up his hands. "I just want to see Ray Palmer. I met him before I got kicked out of NASA. He's like me, except with an MBA."

"No you just want to meet his VP who's coming with him." Sue frowned as Johnny put on his best innocent face.

"Palmer has a VP?" he tilted his head.

"That cutesy face didn't work when you were five and it sure doesn't work now." Sue crossed her arms.

"Urgh fine. I came up here to meet the VP, but come on can you blame me?" he held up an issue of the New York Times with Ray Palmer and his main staff pictured on the cover and pointed to the blonde standing next to Palmer. "Her name is Felicity Smoak, SMOAK. And there's no smoke without fire." He looked down at the paper. "I think she's my soulmate."

"That's what you said last week." Ben grunted "How did that work out for you?"

"She was a Mets fan." Johnny wrinkled his nose. "Pinstripes forever."

"This is a serious business meeting and the last thing we need is for you to mess it up because you're trying to get with Palmer's VP." Sue sighed, "especially if her supporting the wrong baseball team causes you to set the lab on fire because of a temper tantrum."

"How often does that actually happen?" Johnny smirked.

"Hey Johnny, I hear the Red Sox have a real chance of beating the Yankees this year." Ben said

"Bull shit." Johnny frowned.

"Eh hem." Reed pointed at the newspaper Johnny was holding in his hand. It had burst into flame. "I see your point." He muttered, dropping the newspaper and stamping it out.

The elevator dinged.

"Well you can kick me out of the meeting, but you can't stop me from saying hello." Johnny rushed to stand next to the opening doors of the elevator.

"The name's Storm, Johnny Storm."

"Believe it or not, I have met you before." Ray Palmer rolled his eyes as he got off the elevator. "How's NASA, oh …wait." He smirked.

"Well joke's on you because I got to space anyway and now I'm a superhero." He turned to face the woman behind Ray. "Johnny Storm, they call me the Human Torch because I'm so hot, I'm supernova." Behind him Ben put his face in his hands.

"Felicity Smoak; certified genius, and therefore too smart to be impressed by that line." Ray said, frowning at Johnny.

"Let the lady speak for herself." Johnny grinned back at Felicity. "Want to get dinner? I'm feeling a spark and where there's – "

"If the next words out of your mouth use my last name as a fire pun, I'm going to hack your birth records and erase you from existence." Felicity tilted her head. Johnny blushed and turned to glare at Ben who was laughing so hard he fell out of his chair.

"She just burned the Human Torch." He wheezed. "Oh I love this girl."

"I'm telling Alicia" Johnny muttered.

Felicity smiled and walked over to Ben. "You must be Ben Grimm, Felicity Smoak. It's nice to meet you."

"Any girl who puts flyboy in his place is fine by me." Ben held out his hand and gently shook Felicity's.

"Sue Storm-Richards and this is Dr. Reed Richards." Sue smiled at Felicity.

"We met once." Felicity smiled. "You were a guest lecturer on a panel at MIT while I was still an undergrad."

Reed smiled. "I'm sorry I don't remember you..."

"That's no surprise." Felicity grinned. "I looked very different then. My hair was black."

Reed's eyes widened. "I DO remember you. Goth girl, too smart for her own good, asked really difficult questions and annoyed all the panelists." He smiled at Sue. "Most scientists don't like being upstaged by a girl."

"I hope you taught them a lesson." Sue grinned. Felicity blushed.

"Well I for one am all about women's rights" Johnny said. "Especially sexual liberation, I fully support a woman's right to do who ever she wants."

"So I guess you'll understand when I say I don't want you?" Felicity smirked as Johnny sputtered. "Seriously, I thought you were supposed to be a lady's man. What kind of women do you usually end up with if those lines work?"

Ben grinned. "Sweetheart, I have the feeling this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Look at him. He's steaming."

Johnny looked down in irritation as the collar his shirt caught fire. "This was one of my favorites." He huffed and turned to leave.

"Try not to set off the fire alarms on the way out." Ben laughed as Johnny gave him the finger.

"Don't provoke him Ben, you know how he responds to conflict." Sue turned back to the lab.

"It's not like I have eyebrows he can shave off." Ben grumbled.

"I'm sorry about Johnny, he's not a bad guy once you…" Sue paused. "Well, he grows on you anyway."

"Like mold." Ben muttered.

Ray clapped his hands together. "So, shall we begin the meeting?"