Somebody To Love
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Over the next few days Reed, Sue, and I started to run tests to diagnose our powers. He first one up was Johnny. We put him in a titanium chamber and let him power up. "He's heating up from his core." Reed pointed at the monitor. Sue and I looked at it. "And his vitals are normal." Sue noticed. He went hotter and hotter and the thermometer connected to the chamber and our computers.
"That's hotter than I anticipated." Reed told us. "Okay Johnny, back it down." Reed told him.
"I can go hotter." Johnny called back.
"Johnny, just back it down." I told him. But of course he didn't listen, he went hotter. The light started to get brighter and brighter.
"Johnny, back it down right now!" Reed commanded.
"Johnny!" Sue called to him. I put on a pair of dark sunglasses I brought with me just in case this would happen. 'And people say I don't know him well enough.' I thought as I walked down the stairs. I went inside the chamber and hosed him off. As was starting hosing him off Reed hit the fire extinguisher button and we both got hosed down with the cream. He laughed and said to Reed and Sue, "Buzz kill. You guys are crampin' my style."
"You didn't need to press the button Reed. I had it under control." I told him annoyed. "Do you know how long it takes to get this stuff out?" I asked I looked down at my clothes and then at my hair. I looked at Johnny and then turned around. The flames had burned his clothes off and the only thing that was covering him was the cream from the fire extinguisher. The titanium walls of the chamber were melted down too.
"Johnny you were 4000 Kelvin any hotter and you'd be approaching Super Nova." Sue tried to explain.
"Sweet!" He replied. I laughed a little and said, "Johnny, that's the temperature of the sun."
"That's not sweet." Sue told him.
"Not only could it you kill yourself, but you could set fire to earth's atmosphere and destroy human life as we know it."
"Got it Super Nova bad." Johnny gave them a thumbs up and got up.
"Okay on that note, I'm going to go take a shower." I said stepping out of the chamber.
"Shower?" Johnny's ears perked.
"Alone. Don't even think about it." I replied walking off.
The next day we did Ben's tests. Reed brought down a monitor to Ben's rocky chest and said, "We're going to identify the source of the mutation. We're going to isolate your culminant prepositional gnomes."
"Huh?" Ben asked confused.
"We have to do a physical in order to see what got zapped." I put it in simpler terms.
"Oh. Why didn't you just say so?" Ben asked.
We hooked everything up and watched the monitor. "His internal organs are completely solid." Reed stated. We all looked at Ben.
"How bad is it? You know, I used to smoke." Ben asked us.
"Yeah, and I never got why you did that." I replied. Reed looked at me. I shrugged and then he explained to Ben the observation. The next test we did was a muscle reaction test. Sue used at small doctors hammer looking tool to test it.
"You feel anything?" She asked. He replied, "No." I shook my head and went to my room and went inside my closet. I hurriedly ruffled through a few things until I found it. My pride and joy. The sledge hammer. I walked out of the room happily. When I went past Johnny, he pointed at it with a quizzical look.
"We need something with more power." I replied and went back into the lab.
"Okay." I said as I came up to them. I hit Ben with the hammer in the same place Sue did and he kicked the chair. It went up and hit a map and broke.
Sue and Reed did their tests together the next day. Instead of helping them, I hung out with Johnny. We hooked up the play station and Johnny started to play a snowboarding game. I watched him. He was really good. "How do you do that?" I asked him.
"Huh?" He paused it and looked at me.
"Play, I mean." I clarified. I was never good at video games.
"You want to teach you?" He asked. I nodded. He gave the controller to me and showed me which buttons to press, put his arm around me. And he turned it on. "Press the triangle button, here to jump." He said press my thumb down gently on the A button. The snowboarder jumped over a log. "Press the circle and the square buttons to do tricks." He pulled me in closer to him pressed my thumb on both of the buttons. The snowboarder did a few tricks. "And use the X button to increase his speed. And the joystick to move." He guided my hand. The snowboarder passed another couple guys and won the race.
"He won!" I exclaimed happily and kissed Johnny. He kissed back happily and bit lightly at my bottom lip begging for entrance. I didn't let him in. He used his powers and heated up his hand without setting on fire and touched my back. I gasped and he entered. We were in a full-out make-out session till we heard someone call our names. We broke apart and Johnny fell to the floor.
We looked to see who it was. It was Reed with a disgusted look on his face obviously saying he did not want to see that.
"What's up Reed?" I asked him as my hair started to highlight pink.
"You're turn to be tested." He said. I nodded and said, "Let me go change." He nodded. I went to my room and shut the door behind me. I changed into my bikini. It was a halter top bikini that tied. It was blue and had flames on it. I grabbed my IPod and its stereo and went back out to Reed. "So where are we doing my tests? We don't have a swimming pool up here and if we don't take the proper measures, everything in the apartment and the lab will be ruined." I asked Reed, and ignoring the look Johnny had on his face as looked me over. His jaw was practically on the floor. Reed tossed me a London Fog and replied, "We're goin' down stairs. Sue's already down there setting everything up." Reed replied. Johnny stood up and asked, "Can we watch?"
"What am I, a spectator sport?" I asked them.
"You sat in on our tests." He argued.
"Yeah, to help Reed." I pointed out.
"It wouldn't be that bad if we were just watching." Johnny replied.
"He has a point Britt." Ben commented.
With that said we all went down to the pool area. Sue did a good job of arranging it. There was a little lab next to the pool that had glass doors around it to prevent them from getting wet. I gave Sue my IPod and stereo.
"What song?" She asked.
"I have a playlist together. Just press stop when you're done with the tests." I told her as I slipped it out of her hands on put it on the correct playlist. "Just press play when you want me to begin. I took off my London Fog and went over to the pool.
"Ready?" Sue asked after everyone else went into the lab.
"Just a sec." I told her and then went to the diving boards. I climbed up to the highest one and went to the edge of it. It was about six feet. I looked at her and gave her the okay. She turned on my playlist and I dove in to the water. The first song on the playlist was Everything You Ever Wanted by Hawk Nelson (Chipmunk Version). I thought of everything that made me happy trying to settle on something. I sat at the bottom of the pool and exhaled.
"Things that make me happy…"I said to myself. As the song changed I thought of a few things. The song was 21 Guns by Green Day. "Sorry, it took a little while to think." I called to them as a geyser brought me up. I did a back flip and the water curled under below me while I was in the air. I landed on the surface of the water. I did a couple of shenés and with each one water shot up behind me. As the song changed again, this time it was to Love and Memories by OAR. My hair turned blue and my eyes changed to a much lighter shade of blue, an Ice Blue. "No more kid stuff." I said to myself. I turned my body into water and flew up. I flew around in the air, and then look down at the pool water and looked at them and looked back at the water. I brought my hands up and all of the pool water turned into Tsunami and hit the lab. "Oops...I honestly don't know what came over me." I said as I flew back down and went back to normal.
"Brit, your bikini…"Ben said. I looked down and then turned invisible.
"That was awesome!" Johnny exclaimed happily. He came out of the lab with Sue. She handed me some clothes and a towel. "I thought might want these." She smiled.
"Thanks." I took the towel first, put it on, then reappeared and then took the clothes.
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"Our uniforms were exposed to the storm like us, so they can transform like us." Reed explained. He had been in the lab for a week after he and Sue did the tests on us. He was running tests on the uniforms.
"You guys look like an eighties rock band." Ben commented.
"You know Ben this material stretches. I'm sure we can find a way to make them fit." I told as a way to make him stop making fun of them. I was starting to like them.
"Nah, I would be caught dead wearing that." He replied.
"I love these costumes." Johnny said happily. I nodded my head in agreement. "Me too, but I think they're missing something." He smiled at me. "I know, it needs some type of spice."
"They're not costumes." Reed told us annoyed. Johnny did a few kicks for fun.
"You can't use your powers in public Johnny." Sue told him.
"You guys are worse than NASA." He replied to both of them.
The next day Sue and I were taking a walk. We hadn't got to talk to each and just be girls in a while. We passed by a news stand and saw our faces on several magazine covers.
"They don't have anything better to write about?" I asked Sue.
"Oh my..."She said as she flipped through a couple of the magazines.
"Hey you're Susan Storm and Brittany Grimm. You two are 'The Invisible Woman' and the woman who controls water. Do you have a superhero name?" A man recognized us. We tried to walk away but a group of people surrounded us.
"We have two options. Either we could split up and I go by air and you go invisible or we both go invisible." I gave her the choices.
I gave her the choices as we started to run away.
"Invisible. I can't believe we have to do this again." She replied as we tried to gain speed. We turned invisible and took off our clothes so the couldn't find us. When we came back we changed and sat down to have breakfast with everyone else.
Ben squeezed a bag of oranges into a bowl to make orange juice. As Ben went to drink it Johnny took it out of his hands. "Alright I'm here. Let's make this quick. I have a lot of places to go to day." He put the bowl on the counter and laughed sarcastically. "Oh, wait, I don't go anywhere."
"Johnny, it's imperative inside for the foreseeable future." Reed told him.
"Yeah I know, but when you said that last time, my brain heard a week." Johnny replied.
"That's because he did say a week. I had to beg him to let me and Sue go outside this morning." I said getting up and putting my plate in the dishwasher.
"You got to go out?" Johnny asked.
"Yeah for girl bonding time, I don't have an older sister. And Ben doesn't like to talk about girly stuff." I replied and kissed his cheek. He gave me a small smile and nodded. Sue looked up from her paper. "Johnny, it's too dangerous to be in public." She told him.
"You've been saying that for years." He replied.
"What worries me is our powers are evolving." Reed said gesticulating.
"I know. I'm so close to flying." Johnny replied as he threw a napkin down. It lit on fire. I squirted water at and it went out. Sue put her paper down. "You can't fly." She said. I hopped up on the counter. "He can't fully fly yet. When I went in the chamber when we were running his tests he was a few inches off the ground. He just needs to find something to keep him going." I explain to her my observation.
"So, what's going on Reed? How are you going to cure us?" Ben asked him.
"I'm going to build a machine to recreate the storm." Reed told him pulling out a notebook showing him his idea and explained how it would work.
"So what are the risks?" I asked Reed.
"Even a small miscalculation could in increase our symptoms or possibly perhaps even kill us." He answered.
"Joy." I replied sarcastically.
"Now dying, that's bad right?" Johnny asked sarcastically. "I say we just let sleeping dogs lay guys." Johnny leaned against the counter.
"How long until this contraption's up 'n running?" Ben asked Reed. He told Ben he didn't know.
"You don't know?" Ben asked.
"You don't want this to get worse." Reed replied.
"Worse than that?" Johnny laughed. I hit him in the back of the head. "Leave him alone. Just try to get along." I told him. He rubbed the back of his head, but he nodded. We walked out of the kitchen once he was done eating.
We sat on my bed and played poker. "So what do you want to do?" I asked.
"I know this goes against your better judgment…"He started.
"No offense, I'm so bored of poker, I'll do anything." I told him sitting up and putting my cards down showing him the 'Royal Flush'.
"Okay then." He said taking my hand. We went out into the living room to see Ben sleeping. He pulled me to the utility closet and picked out some supplies. "You still okay with this?" He asked. I took the supplies from him. "Every younger sister has a right to prank her older brother once." I told him. The supplies were shaving cream and a feather duster.
We went back over to Ben. I sprayed the shaving cream in his hand. After I was done, Johnny started to trace the lines in his face with a feather duster. It did nothing. I went behind him and flipped it around. He looked at me then tried it that way, Ben moved his other arm. Johnny smiled at me. He traced Ben's face with the feather duster again. The hand with the shaving cream hit him in the face. He jumped up happily and pulled me up in to his arms hugging me. He put me down and we ran back to my room. Ben called after us, we shut the door.
"Definitely much better than cards" I laughed leaning against the door.
