It was tough for Johnny to wake up from the storm and to find Reed and Sue pulling Ben into the station, still unconscious. He blinked before looking over to his left and seeing something that made his face loose all color. Tony, who looked to still be unconscious as well, also had shattered glass all around her. The part of her suit covering her stomach was splotched with blood as some of the glass pieces had lodged into her. Once getting over the initial shock, Johnny scrambled to her side and looked over her wounded body.

"Oh god, Reed!" Johnny yelled even though Reed hadn't been 5 feet from him. Reed turned and his eyes widened at the state of his assistant.

"Tony! Johnny what happened?"

"It must have been from the storm."

Sue came over as well, looking over all the glass around the younger girl. "Where did all the glass come from?"

"She-She was holding one of the extra sample canisters when the storm hit. It must have broke or something." Johnny explained. Reed ran out of the room leaving the Storm siblings with the knocked out teammates. Johnny watched Tony as her breathing came a bit more labored than before, her eyes scrunching up and sweat starting to form on her forehead. A couple seconds later and Reed came back carrying a first aid case and opening it up.

"We need to remove the glass." Reed said, looking through the case.

"But we don't know how deep they're in there. She could end up bleeding out before we get her back to Earth." Sue explained. Reed looked at Tony and saw how her breathing was more labored as well, knowing that she was starting to feel the pain. After making the decision, Reed turned to Johnny.

"Johnny, go find Victor. Tell him we need to get back now for Ben and Tony."

"Got it."

Johnny got up and bolted from the room, going to find the billionaire. Sue and Reed were left with Tony who was starting to wake up. Her eyes blinking open, but only to close in pain that radiated from her stomach. She let out a moan and tried to touch her stomach that felt like it was on fire, but Reed stopped her. "Tony, stop. Don't touch your stomach."

"What happened?" She asked, opening her eyes again and looking around. Then they widened and she tried to stand up. "Ben. Where's Ben?!"

"Tony, you have to stay still."

"Where's Ben, Reed?"

"He's unconscious, but okay. You need to stay lying down." Reed gently pushed her down back to the floor before going through the first aid kit again. "Sue, help Tony take off the top part of her suits. I need to get to the glass and wrap her up good so she doesn't loose too much blood."

"Alright." Sue said, too panicked to fight with him like usual. The blonde threw the lily that was still lying on her chest away and unzipped the two jumpsuits; pulling them down to her waist as Reed took out the larger pieces that weren't that deep. After pushing the suits to her hips, Reed took a gauze and whipped down her stomach to get rid of some of the blood that had started pooling there.

"Tony, I'm not going to lie to you. This is gonna hurt a lot." Reed told her as he got ready to start getting the deeper pieces out of her stomach. Tony looked at him and nodded, clenching her jaw in preparation. Just as Reed was about to start, Johnny ran back into the room. He looked out of breath but a small smile was on his face.

"Victor's okay. He said he's calling down right now to tell ground control that there was a problem and that we would be heading back as soon as possible."

"Good job Johnny." Sue said with a smile before loosing it and looking back down to Tony. Johnny's eyes followed her and was surprised to see the now topless Tony in the room, but then his eyes caught her bloody stomach. His stomach lurched at the sight. "Johnny, I'm gonna need you to hold Tony down. This is gonna put her in a lot of pain and we can't have her moving around." He nodded and slowly got to Tony's side again. Said woman looked up at him and was about to say something when she felt Reed start. The scream that came out of her was loud and echoed all the way through the station for Victor to hear.

"Oh god!" She yelled,trying to sit up but Johnny held her arms in place. There was a clink of the piece of glass falling onto the floor before Reed went in again. Tony started to scream again, the pain the worse she has ever felt. Before she knew it, her vision got blurry and she passed out again.

Thankfully, Reed was able to pull out a majority of the glass. The rest was too deep for him to get without cutting into her so Reed wrapped Tony up with gauze and got her ready to go into the shuttle. When getting up, Sue started to feeling dizzy again, something not feeling right and she too passed out. That left Johnny, Reed and Victor taking care of Sue, Ben and Tony. The shuttle got back safely and Victor got everyone to his medical facility in the mountains. Tony was immediately rushed into surgery as everyone else was locked down into quarantine until the medical professionals knew exactly what the storm had done to them.

Sue and Ben were put into rooms as they were still unconscious. Victor, however, apparently didn't need to be quarantined and wasn't at the facility like everyone else. He however, sent over dozens and dozens of bouquets to Susan's room. He even sent Tony something after he heard she made it out of surgery okay. But what he sent her got under Reed's skin. While Sue got all types of flowers, even ones that she was allergic to; Tony, the botanist, got a cactus.

That's right, a small cactus was placed on her bedside table by one of the nurses after she had come out of surgery. Reed and Johnny both switched when visiting everyone, and Johnny had gone to see Ben when the man woke up.

Ben's eyes opened up and started to blink which caught Johnny's attention, getting him to stand up, "Wake up. Ben! Hey, rise and shine, big boy. How you feeling?"

"Where am I?" Ben asked, looking a Johnny but also noticing that they weren't on the station anymore.

"Back on Earth. We're in quarantine; Victor's medical facility."

"Reed? Sue? Is everyone alright? Tony?"

Johnny looked at Ben and sighed, "Reed and Sue are fine. Tony had to go into surgery though. You two were the only ones...injured."

"What's wrong with Tony?...What's wrong with me?" Ben asked.

"Tony's fine now, don't worry. But,... I swear to you, Ben, they've done everything humanly possible for you. The best plastic surgeons in the world are here, Ben. You had the best." Johnny explained. For a second, Ben forgot about Tony and reached for the mirror near him.

"Give me that mirror." He said, as Johnny grabbed it before him and faced it away from him.

"I don't know if that's a good idea. They said the shock alone-"

"I said give me that goddamn mirror!"

Ben took the mirror from the hot head and faced it away from him, the nerves settling in as he moved the mirror to his face. The heart monitor still attached to Ben was starting to go faster and his heart raced with anticipation, but not excited anticipation. When he finally got a good look at himself, he saw that there was nothing wrong with him, no matter how much he tried to find something wrong. Johnny had made it to the door by this point, smirking at a job well done.

"Unfortunately, the doctors just couldn't do anything to fix your face."He said, laughing and running out of the room just in time to miss the mirror that Ben had threw at him.

Johnny ran down the hall right into Reed who was coming down the opposite way, "Hey. Nice do. Likin' the grandpa look." He said. Reed looked confused, not knowing what he was talking about, but Johnny just kept walking until he reached the room he was going into next.

Opening the door, Johnny walked in to see Tony was still unconscious in bed, her dark red hair sprayed over the pillow. The room had a large window where the sunlight was coming through the barren tree branches outside and making an odd shadow pattern over her face. Johnny looked over to Tony's bedside table and saw the cactus Victor had sent over, a small amount of irritation coming over him. He sat in the seat near her bed and watched as she slept off the amnesia from the surgery and looked the most peaceful he had seen her since they met. Watching her started to make him feel like a creep so he looked around the room again until his eyes landed on the TV set hanging from the wall.

Johnny grabbed the remote off of the bedside table and quickly turned it on to see the news and Victor being yelled at by reporters. "You've been charged with moving science a little too fast."

"By whom? My competitors? Danger is always a part of this-" Before he could finish, Johnny changed the channel, not in the mood for Victor. He looked over to Tony still fast asleep and sent a goofy smile her way.

"What do you want to watch? I bet you're a big Friends fan or something."

"She is." Johnny looked over to the door and saw Reed peaking through, back from visiting Sue. He smiled and walked over to Tony's bed, picking up the clipboard at the end to check her stats. "She really likes Chandler and that other guy who flirts with everyone."

"Joey?" Johnny asked.

"Yeah, him." Reed looked over the charts an didn't see anything wrong before putting it back and walking over to Tony's other side. "She'll be fine, Johnny."

"How did you-"

"You seem to have gotten a bit attached to Tony since the launch. I don't blame you, she's really cool." Reed looked up and smiled at Johnny's slightly blushing face and then walked out of the room, going to go change into normal clothes. Johnny waited for Reed to leave before looking at Tony's face and then back at the TV. He changed it quickly to a rerun of Friends he had saw earlier on his TV, then put the remote back on her table and stood up.

He looked one last time at the woman before leaving the room feeling flustered and not in the good way. He left before he could see Tony move her head towards the cactus in her sleep, and seeing the barren plant sporadically sprout pink flowers out of no where.

yaay! two chapters in two days :)) how are you liking things so far? sorry Tony wasn't in this one very much, but we needed to see some flustered and worried Johnny in here :)