Author's Note:

Thanks to my best friend Into-Your-Gravity for co-writing this fic, which would have gotten nowhere otherwise. We've tried our best to stay true to the characters and the fandom, and we hope you appreciate all our hard work.

Chapter 1: When Johnny met Steve

The first time the Avengers met the Fantastic 4, Doctor Doom had been attempting to take over the world.

Via Doombots.

Again.

As per usual, the Avengers had been assembled to deal with them.

"Stark, is there anyway to take these things out?" came the Captain's voice over the comms, sounding markedly tired.

The fight had been raging for quite a while. Normally, Toni would have had a solution at the ready, but the endless assault of Doombots (Where did Dr. Doom get so damn many of them?!) had kept her sufficiently occupied.

"I'm going to need a moment, Cap, I'm still working on it." she replied tersely, trying to read the data on her (damaged) HUD.

Toni was having the time of her life. She was dodging the onslaught of Doombots on her tail, desperately trying to avoid property damage. Normally, it wouldn't take the Avengers such a long time to dispatch Doom's latest creations, but the Latverian monarch had recently upgraded them. Unfortunately for the Avengers, said upgrades included making the pesky robots impervious to the majority of the Avengers' attacks.

Off to Toni's left, a bolt of lightning, most likely summoned by Thor, streaked across the sky. The lightning was somewhat effective, managing to fry several Doombots, but the majority just kept attacking. Hawkeye was perched atop a building, not far from Thor. There was a look of intense concentration and determination on his face as he sent arrow after arrow into the cluster of Doombots on Toni's tail.

Natasha, as per usual, was handling the fighting on the ground, with Steve. She was shooting everything in sight, which normally would have been an effective strategy. Since the Doombots had been updated, her volleys of bullets weren't even making a dent. Her frustration was visibly increasing, and eventually she just threw her guns off to the side. She opted to take on the Doombots with her bare hands, which proved to be quite effective, given her formidable fighting skills.

Toni's respect for Natasha increased considerably.

Toni twisted, sending a repulsor blast into the considerably lessened thicket of Doombots on her tail. The blast was strong enough to get rid of the few that remained, freeing her up to help one of the others. Both Natasha and Hawkeye seemed to be managing fine on their own, so she flew to join the Hulk, who was looking like Christmas had come early. There really wasn't much Dr. Doom could do to make his pesky robots Hulk-resistant, so the big guy's smashing tactics were as effective as ever.

"Hey Big Green! Having fun?" she called to him, flipping the armor's faceplate up to reveal a grin.

"HULK SMASH!" came his thunderous reply.

Toni gave him another brilliant smile, before flipping her faceplate down again and shooting into a group of Doombots that managed to evade the big guy's wrath. Knowing any further interference on her part would just irritate him, she shot off into the air once more.

The Captain was fighting several Doombots on his own, but seemed to be managing just fine. That is, until a whole new horde of the pesky things started attacking him. Toni landed beside him, taking out as many Doombots as she could with her repulsors, as Steve did the same with his shield. Between the two of them, there wasn't much hope for Doom's (inferior) creations.

After some serious ass-kicking action, the battle ended. The Avengers, as per Fury's orders, were gathered in a conference room on the Helicarrier for their mandatory post-battle debrief.

Fury entered the room with all his usual flair, black letter trench coat flapping and signature glare in place.

"Good work." he grumbled at them.

For the life of her, Toni couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic. Personally, she thought so, as Dr. Doom (of all people) shouldn't have taken the Avengers that long to subdue.

"No thanks to the Fantastic Four." Natasha muttered under her breath, but Fury pretended not to have heard her. He did, however, briefly pause to glare.

"I am aware that Dr. Doom is not our responsibility-"

"Damn right!" Toni sighed, exhausted from the long fight.

"Stark," Fury warned, and Toni held her hands up in surrender, motioning for him to continue.

"As I was saying, Dr. Doom and his stupid-ass machines are not our concern. We are transferring all responsibility for Dr. Doom-related situations to the Fantastic Four, who will be arriving shortly." with that, Fury turned sharply on his heel and stalked out of the room, trenchcoat flaring behind him.

"Well, this ought to be fun!" Toni remarked faux-cheerily, attempting to ease the tension in the room. Her statement was met with general confusion, which was understandable. None of the Avengers, save for her, had actually met the Fantastic Four. She didn't have an issue with all of them, just Reed Richards; the man was smart- a genius, really, she wouldn't begrudge him that- but he had the annoying tendency to mess with science he didn't fully understand.

Coulson and Hill entered a few moments later, herding the Fantastic Four into the room. Pleasantries were being exchanged, but Toni wasn't paying attention. She was far too distracted, and for good reason.

Steve Rogers had just met Johnny Storm.

Steve looked thunderstruck, while Johnny was openly gaping. Steve found their resemblance to one another uncanny, and frankly a little terrifying, and there's no way Johnny's his descendent because Steve never even- OH GOD!

Johnny's open mouthed stare had long since morphed into an excited grin, the promise of mischief present in his eyes.

The situation was horribly awkward and just when Steve thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, it did. Johnny grabbed Steve's hand and shook it, proclaiming (with a wink and rakish grin, no less), "You, my friend, are one handsome devil!"

A/N: And that's it for Chapter 1! Read and Review, let us know what you think. The next chapter will be posted soon.

Next Chapter: Johnny and Toni, flirting, and much more