The team, who were now fully kitted out in their uniforms, were in the fantasticar heading towards Atlantis. Johnny who usually revelled in these missions was curled up in a ball with his eyes closed, much like a scared 5 year old. Sue chuckled to herself as she looked over from her section of the car to see him like this. "Johnny its only water, get over it" Sue said to him, not sounding even slightly sympathetic.
"Just, water!" Johnny blurted out "You do realise if there is even the tiniest crack in this tin can, we'll be crushed to death by the pressure! Did you even stop to consider that?!"
Sue still couldn't help but chuckle at her brothers reaction, she car was perfectly safe and considering Reed built it himself she had no doubts. Johnny on the other hand acted like a panicked child whenever he was remotely close to water. Although with being a man who literally turns into a human torch, it wouldn't be considered all that surprising. The journey was annoyingly long on the way to Atlantis, after it was well hidden and very deep under the sea. The first part of the journey was nicer; you could see all the marine life and coral. The second half tended to be quite dull, as they got deeper into the sea it became darker and more ominous. It was hard to see anything at all down here let alone anything nice, all with the exception of Atlantis itself.
Johnny was curled up still whimpering, Reed piloting the fantasticar, Ben was taking a nap and Sue was just deep in thought. Their simple activities were broken when the ship jolted causing everyone to hit the right window. All of a sudden the darkness was becoming clearer; the crew quickly adjusted themselves…well all except Johnny who was acting somewhat like damsel in distress with his girlish whines. They had just been attacked by another vessel, as the ship turned to see it the team were shocked to notice it looked a lot like the fantasticar, but more crude in design and build.
"I'm getting us out of here." Reed announced through the comms as he maneuvered the ship out of the line of firing. The fantasticar itself was not built with weapons; normally the team would just get out and fight themselves but in this situation it was very impractical. There was only so much evasion Reed could muster before the ship was hit with another blast, emergency lights went off all in the fantasticar. There was a breech.
"Reed we need to get out of here now," Sue stated, she herself was starting to get worried about the situation they were in.
"Thank you, captain obvious!" Johnny whimpered as he attempted to help with the controls.
Sue shot Johnny a scathing glance but decided to take the high road as usual and not say anything in return. Reed continued to pilot the ship but his pit was badly damaged from the blast, he knew the best course of action but his team would not be pleased with it. So he decided not to ask them.
"I'm going to separate the pits in 321," The four parts of the ship immediately separated giving them all their own freedom to move individually. The rest of the team didn't have the time to say anything to Reed before he did this, which Sue knew was his plan.
Just as this happened another of the crude looking vessels turned up and took another shot at Reed. The car exploded, if they were on the surface it would have looked a lot worse. "REED!" Sue screamed into the comm but she got no reply.
"Suzie we need to get out of here now!" Ben called over the comm to her "We can come back for strecho, he'll be fine I'm sure." Ben was a terrible liar.
Holding back tears Sue began to pilot her car and dodged various blasts, Ben was doing the same. Johnny's car seemed to just sink to the ocean floor, playing possum wasn't the worst idea but both Sue and Ben were sure that wasn't the intension. Sue had managed to pilot her way to a ridge, as she reached the peak she saw it, Atlantis. For a moment she felt a wash of relief but that was quickly ruined when she was jolted forwards from a blast and smacked her head into the console in front of her. "Namor help us." were the last words Sue managed to speak before she passed out.
