A brown eyed woman with a russet satchel slung around her body stood by the Baxter Building entrance. From the corner of one eye, she spotted a vibrantly painted car speed across the street, heading north to another part of the metropolis. In the driver's seat of the same car she saw the person her eyes had been searching for. She now got the green light...to execute the plan. Gracefully she made her way up the building steps, & entered. Another lady who worked at the lobby rubbed her eyes. Was it an optical illusion or did she just witness an something unusual? There had been an attractive woman clad in a white jacket & knee length skirt making her way through the entrance doors. She wasn't anywhere to be seen in a blink of an eye. The lady curiously surveyed the vicinity; Johnny suddenly entered the lobby & walked pretty quickly to the elevator, closing its doors with the touch of a button. Although a little worried, the lady decided to get back to her work. If you were anywhere near the Fantastic Four, Blue Dragon or Leopard X, funny things happened, she thought. Lyja had easily fooled her with some neat shapeshifting.

Ozai was helping Reed upstairs - with a small part of his invention that might cure Ben when the time was ripe. The scientists were deeply engrossed, cutting down on the chit chat; they didn't say a word unless it was regarding the procedure. Reed's best friend was patient (surprisingly but fortunately!) to wait for his miracle cure, but since their experience with switching powers, Reed had grown desperate to push aside other possible inventions. He picked a good day to start this project as Ozai himself had time on his own hands.

"H.E.R.B.I.E., bring up the file 'isolate dot e-l-f," Reed spelled a file name. H.E.R.B.I.E. did so instantaneously.

"I better copy them all to my portable," Ozai suggested, "if a supervillain shows up this morning, they'll go down the drain.."

"You're right," said Reed. On his PDA, Ozai prepared to round up all the large files & store them safely when Johnny came up the floor elevator. "Hey, nerds," he greeted them in his usual way. "Oh, hello, Johnny," Reed greeted him back. "Whatcha doin' today, Doc?" asked Johnny. "I thought your robot's always in top shape..."

"Reed & I are actually working on Ben's cure," replied Ozai.

"What, to make him human again? I hope you'll give him a makeover for the worst instead," Johnny snickered. The two ignored his words. Even Ozai was accustomed to Johnny's mirth. Fortunately he had been pranked by the Human Torch not once since the day he & Azula moved in.

"Oooo, think I can help out?" was Johnny's next question. He got excited, & really, really unexpectedly, he shoved Reed a little aside. Right away, he started attacking Reed's broad keyboard with his fingertips!

"NO!!!! Johnny -," shouted Reed. Ozai had been rendered speechless as well, & couldn't back his friend up with a word of advice to the crazy teen.

H.E.R.B.I.E. panicked, "Jonathan?! What are you doing? Dr. Richards files are being saved! You're..unprotecting them! No!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT DELETING THEM!!" Johnny slammed a larger button with loud warning colours to end his craze, laughing madly. In a matter of seconds, the important files that were being transferred vanished from the big screen. Poor Reed couldn't contain himself & he non-hesitantly bellowed aloud, "I don't have time for this!!!!! This is going to incur your sister's wrath!" It was rare for him to boom like this, but should he display temper tantrums, he frequently stopped at the first sentence. As one saying goes a hot-tempered man stirred up dissension, but a patient man calmed a quarrel. As the FF leader & smartest man on the planet, Reed was wise to be more like the latter!

"More like the wrath of two nerds!" Johnny retorted with a nasty goblin grin.

The scientists stared at him with faces that looked like they already exploded.

"Could you just leave? Now? Please?" Reed forced the words out, slapping a palm to his face. He was seconds away from hyperventilating.

"Alright, then. I'll just be on my way," Johnny added with another snicker while doing an arm stretch. He dashed to the elevator which moved downward. The last of him was his implike expression which almost sent Reed into another emotional outburst.

"I hate to say this Reed, but that........that was intriguing," Ozai broke the silence.

"Ughhh. Never mind," sighed Reed with as much expression as he could let out.

Lyja managed a sinister smile under her disguise as the elevator went lower. Luck took her side - if Reed had had special glasses on, she may have been discovered.

Downstairs, Ben was trotting along the corridor to catch his TV show. The better the show, the more he yearned for some privacy & quietness, or even room for himself to comment or complain. A nearby digital clock struck 3.00P.M., & he tapped the remote. Yet the screen refused to turn on for him. Time & time again he got the same result out of a touch of the remote's power button (& his little light 'taps' were getting closer to breaking the remote...) Letting out a grunt had stopped him short of destroying the device in the nick of time.

He decided to examine what was behind the screen instead. A sizzling noise got his attention; it reminded him of a those Oriental claypot dishes, funnily enough. He thought for a sec about his relishing the "All You Can Eat" status in the city restaurants. For a moment he fumbled around to feel for anything that might raise an eyebrow, but given the uncomfortable position he was in, his large body wouldn't allow him to squeeze into the cavity without hurting the wall & TV itself.

Sure enough, the 'sizzling' mystery was solved by his finding. He felt the wires - they were burnt to a crisp. Still freshly hot, which meant they'd been burnt not more than minutes ago. & a power outlet wouldn't crisp them up so much as this. He knew fairly well from experience whether Johnny or a lightning bolt fried the wiring of equipment. His nonhuman fingertips, in spite of being less sensitive, could still let him know the one person who did this.

"JOHNNYYYYY!!!!!!!!" the TV area shook.

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Has my language quality been reduced in some way??? Apologies if you agree. :'( I'm beat today lol.