Hi, new chapter here! First though something I want to clarify, in my opinion Doom's transformation in the second film, like Jonny's power switching thing, is temporary, therefore in this story he is back to wearing his mask 24/7 I hope that is ok. I also probably made him more evil than necessary but never mind.
L-I-
Yes Lia, I know you're not dead, can we get off that subject?
L-(Nods)
Ok on with the story…
SuperminionXD
P.S. this chapter has lots of explanation, mostly her mother's experimentation and the betrayal of Lucie/Lucia/… oh just read the chapter…
P.P.S. a couple of things I realised that I did wrong from chapter 8, 1. Jonny calls the robots Doombots though according to the conversation between Heather and Reed in Chapter five he had been considered dead since the second film therefore they wouldn't know about Doombots. And 2. Fliss, the pink girl, I described originally as having blonde hair, I have however realised that this far along in the timeline she has pink hair, I have gone back and changed this so sorry if this is confusing
Darkness swirled around me like smoke, choking me, I was falling and I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't even move. I couldn't even scream. The darkness swirled and contorted itself into shapes, into faces. Evil metallic laughter filled my ears. Still there was nothing I could do, I couldn't move. I was spinning and falling with no end in sight. Then suddenly with a jerk I did stop. I was suspended in mid-air and I still couldn't move. Things began to materialise around me, a floor, walls, a ceiling… everything to make up the cloakroom at my old school, down to the pieces of work pinned to the walls. Two figures also appeared, a taller green cloaked figure whose face had tormented my nightmares, and another smaller blue cloaked figure with chin length black hair and bright blue eyes. Lucie… They both stood and laughed, the evil metallic laughter filled the air. My wrists and ankles felt cold as if they were frozen.
'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LUCIE!" I screamed tears streaming down my face. Then the room disappeared into white light, they light felt strangely comforting. The shining white orb was once more in front of me, it pulsed brightly.
'You must awake now my darling…'
The first thing I was aware of when I came to, was the sensation of something cold and hard round my wrists and ankles, I seemed to be sitting in an upright position with my head slumped forwards. I opened my eyes and looked around, I was in a dark room, most of it was in shadows except for a dingy cobweb covered skylight that shed a pool of light around my chair and flicked shadows of the world outside about the room. I was in a metal chair in the centre of the room, metal loops restrain my hands and feet, funny thing about metal though, it melts!
"Flame on" I whispered and my body consequently erupted into its normal flaming state making the shadows flicker and move. I pressed my wrists against the restraints to melt through but as I heated up there was a buzzing sound and pain zapped through my body, quenching my flames.
"I wouldn't try that again if I were you" the all too familiar cold metallic voice warned, "it's set to release an increasing charge every time your body temperature gets over 100 degrees C"
The hooded figure stepped from the shadows, the light glinting off his metal mask.
"I will escape, you evil murderer!" I hissed, "And even if I don't, Daddy will save me!"
"I wouldn't get your hopes up" He replied, "It's quite ironic really, who'd have thought that my… lab rat would bare Jonny Storm's child"
He chuckled
"Talk about two birds with one stone" he smirked
"What did you do to Mummy?!" I demanded.
"Oh she never even knew, from her perspective it was simply a gap in her memory" he stated coldly, "Shame she had to escape though, I enjoyed hearing her screams…"
"YOU MONSTER!" I screamed in fury, my body heating up once more causing an even more painful shock that seemed to last twice as long.
"Now now, don't unset yourself" He chided, "You know the process wasn't entirely successful, there was one flaw, a weakness if you will, isn't all this ironic?"
Sparks once again jumped between his metal fingers as pain coursed through my body.
"Let me go!" I shouted.
"It didn't take me long to find her, of course there were a couple of… complications in the meantime, but nothing too catastrophic, but learning of you, well that was just too good an opportunity to pass up, there was of course the problem of surveillance, though that was easily remedied."
Another figure stepped from the shadows, this one was smaller. Lucie. Her blue cloak was tattered and torn her face streaked with tears and dirt and her hair tangled. It was her, my best friend, and all along she was a spy, a traitor. This revelation caused my body to once again heat up in anger, prompting another shock three times the duration of the last, it took all I had not to cry out. But I wouldn't give him that luxury.
"L.U.C.I.A., Lifelike Undercover Cloned Intelligence Automation or as you call it, Lucie. That's all it is, a synthetic life form, grown in a test tube for the sole purpose of becoming your friend, reporting on your every move."
Lucie, or the L.U.C.I.A., cowered back into the shadows, her/its watery blue eyes full of fear. I instantly regretted my previous thoughts, it wasn't her fault, it was merely how she was made, she was treated like little more than a robot, but she was so much more, robots couldn't be scared or cry like she was doing now.
"That's a lie! Lucie's my friend!" I protested indignantly.
"Only because she's programmed to be" he taunted.
"You're a liar! A big mean horrible Liar! And very ugly" I shouted in return.
"Was that supposed to insult me? Forgive me if that's not the case" he says calmly.
"Go away and leave me alone!" I screamed.
"If you insist" and he melted once again into the shadows. When I was sure that he was gone I got back to the business of getting out of this stupid chair. I pulled against the metal cuffs, they were solid and I couldn't slip my hands out. I was so engrossed in trying to free myself that I forgot Lucie was still in the room, it wasn't until I felt a hand on my arm that I remembered.
"Lia… I'm s-sorry" she apologised, her voice thick with tears.
"Was it always you? Was any of it even real?" I asked painfully.
"I didn't mean to, he made me" she said looking at the floor, she took off her cloak to reveal that her skin was black and blue all over. "He hurt me. But it felt real… for me"
"Then it was real" I assured her, hope creeping back into my voice, "And he's just mean to hurt you like that, Daddy's aren't supposed to hurt people."
"What do they do them" She asked curiously, putting her cloak back on.
"Daddy's are nice and funny and teach flying!" I explained, "I have a Daddy now, I'll show you only I have to get out of this chair first!"
"I'd like that" she smiled.
"Then help me?" I asked hopefully.
"I can't, he'll hurt me!" she protested.
"Then come with me, you can stay with me and my family!" I suggested.
"For real?" she asked.
"Of course!" I assured.
"I'd like that too" she smiled again.
"Then let's get outta here!" I exclaimed. Her expression drops.
"I don't know how" she said sadly.
"That's ok, I think I do!" I explained, "Back home when I saw you, you shot electricity at me didn't you?"
She nodded.
"Do you think you could absorb it instead?" I asked hopefully.
"I was never allowed, but I think so" she said nervously.
"Could you try and absorb the shock from the chair so that I can melt out?" I asked.
"I'll try" she agreed and placed both her hands on the chair ready.
"Stand behind the chair, this might get hot" I warned her, she complied "Flame on" I whispered and began to concentrate the heat around my wrists and ankles; I pressed them against the metal restraints and melted through without getting shocked. I quickly got up off the chair and turned round to see Lucie. Her eyes were glowing white and her entire body seemed to be sparking, her hair stood on end and even her tattered pinafore dress and cloak seemed to be charged.
"It tickles!" she giggled, I grinned before realising that I was still fully flamed up and flaming off.
"Can you turn it off?" I asked.
"I don't know" she frowned slightly, "But I like it, it feels all funny!"
"Ok, let's go!" I proposed, she nodded in agreement and her body sparked a bit more. I walked carefully round the room, lighting up my hand to see through the shadows looking for a way out. I found a door and slowly turned the handle, surprisingly it wasn't locked and the door opened quite easily and silently. Motioning to Lucie to follow me I stepped through the door. The corridor beyond was, like the room, dark and shadowy, from the flickering light of my hand I could see that it went straight ahead for a before it got to another door. We both slipped along the corridor and through the door, which was also unlocked, the room behind was pitch black, the door clicked shut behind us.
"Flame on" I lit my entire body on fire, trying to be ready for anything, and Lucie's sparks grew brighter until they covered her entire body in a sparkly layer. A small red diamond shaped light pulsed on, followed by four others. I burned brighter, pushing back the shadows to reveal the five spider-like robots.
~RECOGNISED: HUMAN TORCH… ERROR, TARGET DESIGNATION INCORRECT, ORDERS: DESTROY ~
The robots called out in unison.
~RECOGNISED… ERROR… ERROR… EEEEEERRRRRRROOOORRRRR…~
The 'bots all collapsed into sparking heaps, I looked over at Lucie who was sparking considerably less than before.
"They wanted to destroy you!" she shrugged guiltily, I grinned. But at that moment we were interrupted by a slow clapping.
"Well done, it seems I have underestimated you. Using my own creation against me" Doom congratulated.
"SHE'S MY FRIEND!" I screamed as I ran at him, my body automatically generated my newly discovered metallic layer, and jumped on him, knocking him backwards. Surprised by my attack he is stunned and hits the floor stunning himself. "Run Lucie!"
She turns and runs out of the room and I followed after firmly kicking my former captor into the wall with unexpected force. We both flee down another corridor and through a series of doors and rooms until eventually we find ourselves outside and out of breath. My protective layer melts back into my skin and I come to a stop, breathing heavily. I looked at my surroundings, a deserted street outside of a warehouse, I had no idea where we were, the skyscrapers on the horizon at least told me I was still in New York, or a big city anyway. There had to be some way to let people know I was here, like at sea where they had flares for if they started sinking. I heard footsteps from inside the warehouse, loud metallic ones. But I didn't have a flare… did I? My eyes widened as I looked down at my own hands, of course!
"Flame on!" I shouted, the orange flames once again engulfing my body. I reached my arms straight up and unleashed a massive stream of fire up into the sky, I could feel the energy draining out of me, I hadn't done anything like this before, so far I had only been able to produce small fire balls and even that took effort. But somehow I had been able to do it. The energy had been sucked from me, my flames flickered off of their own accord and I stood there swaying on the spot.
"Lia? Lia!" Lucie ran back towards me.
Yep, I'm mean again. It gives me great pain to announce that this story is nearly over, the next chapter will conclude the story and then I will do an epilogue. I hope not to abandon Lia and Lucie but at the moment I have no ideas for a sequel so I don't know. If you liked this I have a couple of other stories, as you probably know the Voices trilogy (Yes I said trilogy there will be another) is sort of prequel to this as it tells Heather and James's story, and I also have an X-men Evolution story about Fliss (The pink girl that appears in chapter 8) who is another OC of mine.
Bye for now,
SuperminionXD
