A/N: I'd like to point out that the ages for the Fantastic Four in this story are as follows:
Reed/Mr. Fantastic: 31
 Sue/Invisible Woman:30
Ben/The Thing: 31
Johnny/Human Torch: 24

CHAPTER 2:

Sue couldn't help but be amazed by the technology this little village in the middle of nowhere-which she had never heard of-posessed. They seemed to run on natural energy from a large aqueduct that ran through the center of the village, but they had televisions and radios as well. There didn't seem to be any solar panels on the various buildings-so it wasn't the sun powering the village-and there didn't seem to be any power lines crossing over the streets.

'Maybe they're under ground?.' she thought to herself. She didn't get a chance to ponder on it though, as the pearl eyed man had a tight grip on her arm and he wouldn't slow down just so she could look around. Pearl eyes lead her up a large staircase through the middle of the village, while the villagers came out of their homes and stores to get a look at her. Sue came to the conclusion that she probably looked pretty ridiculous to them-dressed in her dark blue and white jump suit-so she couldn't blame them for their curiousity.

At the top of the stairs the two came to a large gate-this one about a fifth of the size of the main gate she'd come in through-where Sue could see a gigantic tower standing in the courtyard beyond. The pearl eyed man knocked twice on the gate and-after ten or so seconds of waiting-the gate creaked open to reveal another group of villagers.

Each one wore a navy blue combat suit with matching boots, and a grass coloured vest over the top. Sue noticed that-just like the group that met her at the main gate-each one of the villagers wore a leaf head band on some part of their body.

"This way please.." the pearl eyed man asked, motioning for Sue to follow him into the tower-which opened up for them as the two approached-and they went up another staircase into a large circular room, with one large window for a back wall, and an old wooden desk in the center, where a woman with honey blonde hair sat. She was drinking some sort of alcohol from a small cup as the two entered-Sue could smell it on the air-and she looked up at the pearl eyed man and the super heroine when they entered with a little haze in her eyes.

"Lady Hokage.." the pearl eyed man said as the honey blonde woman looked up. "The intruder.." he let go of Sue's arm-which she immediately used to nurse her broken arm again-and stood off to the side. The honey blonde woman-the 'Hokage'-stood, revealing an ample breast that Sue couldn't help but stare at. Not out of attraction, just out of amazement. It shocked her that the woman could stand without having to lean forward.

"Thank you Neji.." the young man bowed. "Hello there..." she said, turning to Sue and surveying her outfit. "What the hell are you wearing?.." Sue didn't answer straight away-she was a little shocked by the woman's arrogance. "Hmm?.."

"It's...my suit...listen, I'll answer any of your questions, but could you please get me some medical aid?...I'm pretty sure my arm is broken." The honey blonde watched her for a moment, then walked around her desk to where Sue stood and gently took hold of her arm. It stung, but Sue thought it would be best to just go along with it if it meant that she could get help.

"Hmm..it's just a fracture above the elbow...SHIZUNE!.." the sudden change in tone, pitch and the fact that the woman screamed right next to Sue's ear gave the blonde super heroine a migraine. A small black haired woman in a matching robe came sprinting into the room with a small pig in her arms.

"Yes lady Hokage?..." the woman said in a nervous voice.

"Can you get me something to kill this woman's pain?..I'm fixing a fractured arm." the shorter woman nodded and left the room again as quickly as she entered. "Over here."she said, leading Sue to a chair opposite the one she had been sitting in.

"Thank you.." Sue replied, sitting down and letting the Hokage go to work on her.

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"Well..it seems to only be a concussion.."

In the middle of a forest somewhere-they hadn't quite been able to figure out where yet-Reed knelt on the thick grass, luring the eyes of Johnny-who was leaning against a tree-around left and right with his index finger. They'd woken up here less than an hour ago and Reed had come to the conclusion that it would be best to stay put until they could contact help. So far, Reed hadn't been able to make any contact through his ear piece-he'd assumed that the explosion at Doom's castle had caused it to malfunction in some way.

"You should be fine in a few days..."

Johnny, who had woken up with a morbid headache and had feared the worst, sighed in relief. "Thanks Reed...what happened back there?.." he asked his brother in law, who'd stood up and began surveying their surroundings-which, as far as he could see, was made up of trees, dirt paths and a collection of mountains in the distance.

"I have no clue.." the genius said, extending his body to get a look at their surroundings a bit better. "Victor's machine must have backfired and become an anti-Negative portal..." Reed retracted to his normal height and wrung his hands-a habit he had taken to doing instinctively when he was a little nervous. "It obviously pulled us through and sent us here.."

Johnny had no clue what his brother in law was talking about, but he nodded anyway. Reed didn't seem to notice-which wasn't a bad thing, as it meant he wouldn't go into a twenty minute explanation of the whole concept-and the genius continued with his thinking.

"We can't just stay here..we don't even now where here is." Reed said-Johnny couldn't tell if he was speaking to him or himself, so he didn't answer. "Maybe if I.." Reed turned and began looking at the trees that surrounded them, running his hands over the different trunks and rubbing the various leaves that had fallen off.

"What are you doing, Reed?." Johnny asked after a moment.

Reed turned to him and held out a handful of leaves."I've just now realised..that if I can figure out what kind of trees these are..they can give me some sort of insight into our current position." he smiled-as if what he'd come up with was a fascinating concept-and Johnny sighed. The man was a genius-he couldn't deny that-but sometimes, Johnny thought that Reed was a little mad.

This was one of those times.

Reed extended his arms to tear off some fresh leaves from the highest branches, and began looking them over. "That's odd.." he said after a moment.

"What's odd?.." Johnny asked, standing up awkwardly and walking over to his brother in law, using a tree trunk as a support due to the fact his head was still spinning. Reed gave him an odd look and shoved a massive leaf in his face.

"I've never seen anything like this before..it's some kind of oak, I think, but there's no leaves like this in..."

SCRASHHHHHHH!

The two superheroes jumped at the sound of trees being torn from their roots echoing across the forest area. Reed stretched even higher to see what was going on, and cried out in amazement when he saw a large-at least two story-house in the middle of a field less than a kilometer away.
"Wow..Johnny you have to see this!.."

"I can't fly..remember Reed?..." Johnny replied-he'd never been able to control his abilities when he was sick. Reed retracted back to his normal height again and smiled to Johnny.

"There's a building to the west...It's not even that far...come on." he swung Johnny's arm over his shoulder and began off through the trees, towards what he assumed was their only hope of finding aid.

Due to Johnny being so dizzy, they had to take it slow, but even then it only took about fifteen minutes to get to the house. Reed smiled when he saw it,partly because someone was bound to be inside, partly because it was a fascinating structure for something made in the middle of nowhere. "Just look at the architecture..it's made entirely out of wood and yet the detail is that of something from the rococo period..."

He leant Johnny down on a small bench out the front of the house and went up to knock on the door, admiring the cornices and detailings in the door as he did so. It took a few moments of waiting, but the door opened to reveal a stunning young woman-no older than sixteen or seventeen-with an alarming shade of bright pink hair and eyes the colour of emeralds.

"Hello?.." she asked, obviously on the defensive.

"Hello..Reed Richards.." he held out his hand and the girl just looked at him. "Mr. Fantastic?... of the Fantastic Four?" the girl's green eyes scrunched up a little. "You've not ever heard of me?."

The girl shook her head. "I'm afraid not..what can I do for you.." she seemed a little annoyed with him.

Instead of asking for aid, Reed's mind went over all the information in his head. Trees he'd never seen before and people who hadn't heard of him. Where was he? "Really?...how about the Human To.."

"REED!..." Johnny cried from his spot on the bench. Reed jumped out of his little mindset and smiled.

"Right...my brother in law has a concussion..could we possibly call for help from here?.." the girl looked over to Johnny, who payed no attention due to his raging headache, and nodded.

"Bring him in..concussions aren't that hard to cure." Reed nodded and went to help his brother in law up. Inside, the girl lead them to a grouping of bed rolls on the floor, where three other people sat-one dressed in a navy blue jumpsuit and a grass coloured vest, with some sort of helmet on his head, one in an extremely tight fitting suit that bared his mid-section, and a boy with an orange and black jumpsuit, who stood up and smiled when the three came in.

"Hiya!...what's up?..." he said, looking over Reed and Johnny. The pink haired girl pushed past him and went to the spare bed roll-Reed assumed it was hers-and began setting the pillows up against one of the walls.

"Naruto, go get me some hot water, this man is injured." the pink haired girl said, not looking at the blonde, who nodded, then-after giving Reed and Johnny another quick look-wandered out of the room and off down one of the halls.

"Set him down here..." the girl said, fluffing her pillows a few more time as Reed lowered Johnny down to lean against the wall. Johnny groaned in relief as he relaxed, and the pink haired girl turned to Reed. "I probably should have asked this before I let you inside, but who are you?"

"Reed Richards.." the genius replied proudly. "Or as I'm more commonly known..." he held out his hand-which the girl hesitantly shook-before looking over to the other two men in the room. "May I ask who you are?.."

The blonde haired boy-Naruto was it?-came back into the room with a large wooden bowl filled with steaming hot water, and a white towel draped over his arm. "Here Sak.." he said, edging past Reed towards the girl.

"My name's Sakura...thanks Naruto..." she added, taking the bowl from the blonde and leaning down to Johnny's side, where she began dipping the towel into the bowl. "That's Naruto..." the blonde smiled. "And there's our teamate Sai..."the boy with the mid-drift returned Reed's polite smile with a blank stare."And our team's leader, Yamato." the helmet wearing man stood and shook Reed's hand.

"I'm Johnny, I'm pretty fantastic too..." Johnny said to the pink haired girl, who smiled at his obvious attempt at flirting with her. She just shook her head, and wrung out the towel, folding it into a rectangular shape and placing it on Johnny's forehead.

"Keep this on your forehead, it's important to keep the blood flowing through your head." the girl-Sakura-said,standing up and walking out of the room and down the same hall Naruto had before.

The helmet wearing man-Yamato-took the girl's exit from the room as a chance to speak. "So, what brings you to our part of the country?..."he asked politely.

"Malfunctioning portal to the Negative-zone..." Reed replied, shrugging as if it were common for such a thing to happen. Yamato, who looked as if he thought Reed hadn't finished speaking, nodded after a moment.

"Right..." he said, pursing his lips with a look of confusing in his eyes.

"Don't worry...I never understand what he's on about either..." Johnny said from his spot at the wall. Reed wasn't annoyed by his brother-in-law's humorous remark, as it was common practice for Johnny to make fun of him, so he let it slide.

"If I may ask, Mr. Yamato...what country are we in?..." Reed asked, remembering that he had no clue which country-or continent-they had landed on.

"Fire country of course..couldn't you tell by the leaf headbands?..." Yamato replied, a slight tone of humour in his voice-as if it were impossible not to figure where they were by a symbol on a headband.

"I'm sorry?...Fire country?..." Reed said, thinking he'd heard the man wrong. "What continent is that on?.." he added. He liked to think he knew alot about Geography, but he'd never even heard of a 'Fire Country'.

"Ninji..." Yamato replied. Again, the tone of humour was in his voice.

Reed didn't reply this time. There was no such continent as Ninji-as far as he knew,and he knew alot. At least in his universe at least. That's when the revelation hit Reed like a ton of bricks. It was also then that Sakura re-entered the room, knelt down next to Johnny, and placed her small hands on his temples.

"Hold still.." she said, as her hands began to glow a pale green.

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