Disclaimer: I do not own in any shape, form, or fashion the Fantastic Four.
Author's Note: This is my first Fantastic Four fan fiction story. I am open to friendly criticism as long as it is relevant to improving the story and/or is not flaming me. All reviews are appreciated!
Prologue
Reed Richards and Ben Grimm stood in the elevator with Susan Storm as they discussed the schedule concerning their trip into space to Victor Von Dooms' space station.
Reed Richards is a brilliant scientist that dedicates his work in helping and improving life on the planet. After learning that a radioactive space cloud of sorts caused the human adaptation changes over the past few thousand years, he discovered that another cloud containing the same DNA altering properties was about to bypass earth a second time.
After NASA rejected his idea of going up into space to conduct experiments when the cloud passed, he turned to the only other man powerful enough to get him there. Victor Von Doom, an extremely wealthy and power hungry man. He too was a scientist of sorts but mainly kept his main interest in the progression of his company. Victor made an extremely unfair deal with Richards and cheated Reed a lot of money for the space trip. He was going to have enough money to pay off debts on the building he owned, the Baxter Building where his lab was.
At least they were going and that was the only thing Reed cared about. This was an opportunity of a lifetime!
Little did the five know that the space trip would change their lives forever. The cosmic storm hit the station several hours too early. Victor Von Doom sealed himself behind the stations' shields while the other three tried to get Ben back in from outside. The end result of the storm hitting Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm, created the Fantastic Four.
They all received different abilities. Sue had the power of invisibility when highly emotional and could bend light around other objects creating blue force fields. Reed Richards could stretch himself like a rubber band. Johnny Storm combusted into flames and would eventually learn how to fly as well as shoot fireballs. Ben Grimm was transformed into a huge, orange, rock-like giant. The reason for Ben's major change was due to the fact that he had been directly hit by the storm outside of the station.
After a bridge accident, partly caused by Ben, the four DNA altered humans saved the occupants on the bridge from certain death. Ben saved a truck driver and a man about to commit suicide and pulled a fire truck back onto the bridge before it could plunge into the icy river below. Susan went invisible and walked through a crowd of onlookers and police and also put up a force field protecting everyone from an explosion caused by propane. Reed saved a fire fighter from falling off of the truck as it hung precariously over the bridge's edge. And Johnny shielded a little girl caught in the middle of the explosion. The onlookers proclaimed them heroes and dubbed them with the team name 'The Fantastic Four'.
Johnny ended up giving the team individual names. Susan was 'The Invisible Girl', Reed was 'Mr. Fantastic', Ben was 'The Thing', and Johnny himself was 'The Human Torch'. A big blowout followed after the other three watched the proceedings on television being broadcasted from a sports arena. They all found Johnny and confronted him. Ben, a little angry about the name that 'hothead' had given him, balled up Johnny's red sports car into a huge metallic ball. Of course this infuriated Johnny and the two were about to get into a major fight if it had not been for Sue that got between the two.
Reed wanted to find a way to turn them back to normal. After a visit from Victor Von Doom at the Baxter Building, Reed was told by Victor to pay his electric bill and get to work on finding a cure. The two seemed to always be at odds with one another, probably because of their attraction to Sue. They both blamed the other for what happened in space concerning the storm.
Reed has built a machine that can hopefully reverse the storm's effects and turn them back to normal. The machine itself uses an exponential amount of power, but unfortunately not enough to receive the desired effects.
Because of Reed's new project he was faced with a newfound problem. How was he to pay his electric bill now?
Stay tuned for the answer!