Wow, this one was fast! And long too!

I had some help with the mutations of everyone but Daniel from my friend Post U Later!


A few after the fight with Doom Sue Storm decided to clean up a bit. She would not let this become a common occurrence, but some of this mess was starting to get disgusting (also, Alicia had invited her family for dinner on Friday, so their home needed to look clean).

Once the most disgusting things like leftover food were in the trash, Sue picked up the mail Reed had discarded over the past weeks. She would not open it it without permission (or at least not for now), but she could sort through it to makes sure that all deadlines were met and they wouldn't end up without electricity just because Reed had been too distracted (especially since she was pretty sure some of her fiance's experiments would blow up if it came to that. And if not it was better to be safe than sorry).

Making separate piles for bills, requests, letters for the other people living here and fan mail (and if the pile for the latter just happened to be located in the bin, well, it was probably for the best not to make Reed's ego even larger than it already was), she sorted the mail.

Then, she discovered a letter addressed to "The Oh-So Fantastic Four" by Tony Stark of all people.

Sue briefly considered to wait until Ben and Johnny returned but eventually decided against it. They most likely would be out for a couple of hours more (at least) and whatever Stark had written about might be time sensitive (and the letter had already been ignored for God knows how long).

She opened the letter quickly (but not quick enough to tear it) and read over the letter. It was simply a page-long ramble of Stark about the fact that their group was immediately accepted by the public while mutants - whose existence had been revealed in the sixties - still faced prejudice to the point that they were murdered on the street.

It was something that had not occurred to Susan before, but Stark was right. Oh it was horrible! They needed to do something!

Sue sank into a nearby chair and tried to calm herself. It would do no good if she made spur-of-the-moment decisions. She needed to think this through instead of making fast, emotional choices.

Grabbing a pen and some paper, Susan moved to the kitchen table with the intention of making a list of things they could do to help.

This was how her brother, Ben, and Alicia found her two hours later - elbows on the table, head in her hands and staring over a blank piece of paper.

"You okay, sis?" Johnny questioned. He actually sounded concerned.

Sue shook her head. "No. No it's not. It never was. I just didn't realize."

"What are you talking about Sue?" Ben inquired.

Sue just wordlessly grabbed Stark's letter and held it in their direction.

After Ben made a few attempts to take it, Johnny sighed and almost ripped it out of his sister's hand.

Then he read the letter out loud. The further he got, the more he paled.

An expression of horror could be seen on Ben's face once the letter moved past insulting Reed.

Alicia's face showed acknowledgement and hope. Almost as if she had known this before.

Sue of course immediately asked whether or not that was the case.

Alicia nodded. "I did know. Given my family I could not not know. But I know you did not do this on purpose. You are good people." The Afro-American smiled.

"What you mean 'given your family'?" Johnny asked, putting the letter down and moving to the fridge to grab a cold beer.

"Johnny!" Sue admonished. Ben wasn't sure whether it was for Johnny's comment of his drinking but decided not to question it,

"It's fine, Sue," Alicia dismissed her protest, clearly assuming Sue had meant her brother's statement. "You know I'm from a larger family, right?" She waited from them to nod. "Well, almost all of us are mutants. Only my mother and Lisa aren't."

"Including you?" Ben questioned. "You never told me." He sounded slightly insulted.

"There was no need to."

"What?! Of course there is a need to tell Brickface that you can move things with your mind or something!" Johnny protested.

Sue slapped him. "Sorry for my idiot brother, Alicia. If you do not mind me asking, what is your mutation?"

"My senses, other than my sight of course, are slightly heightened and I am a very low level Empath. Dad and my siblings all have more impressive powers."

After setting the bottle down, Johnny asked what their powers were.

Alicia just smiled mysteriously. "Why don't you wait and find out yourself?"

Johnny looked confused, so Ben explained. "Did you forget that she invited them to dinner on Friday, Charmander?"

Johnny grinned sheepishly. Apparently he did.


Two days later, the Masters family arrived for dinner (and, amazingly enough, everything was tidy, apart from the lab). As the children were all grown up and had moved out, the family didn't arrive at the same time.

The first to show up was Daniel, Alicia's twin brother (he was seven minutes older, making him the second-youngest of the family). He was a comic artist for the Daily Bugle, but he did not like his boss, J. Jonah Jameson at all. In fact Daniel probably hated the man, if Sue were to guess based on the things she had heard him say.

Then Jessica, the oldest of the siblings arrived, wearing a lab coat. She was a Microbiologist at Pym Technology and married to a fellow Microbiologist with the name of Dean Jackson who was looking after their two-year old.

About three minutes later Lisa, the middle sibling entered the apartment through a window. Apparently, she was an agent of SHIELD, an agency no one else had ever heard of (as it was supposed to be according to Lisa). Sue wondered whether or not Lisa was technically allowed to tell them where she worked, but kept her question to herself. If she had judged Lisa's character correctly, the answer would most likely be something along the lines of 'I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you'. A few years later they found out Lisa was allowed to share her job with close family and superheroes (since they would, statistically, find out sooner or later).

She was followed by her parents, Gabriel and Lauren, and her brother, Michael, who worked as radio moderator. As Michael had to drive by his parents' home on his way from work to the Baxter Building anyways, he had decided to pick them up on the way. Michael's mutation was (at least partly) obvious. His skin looked rough and had a lot of bumps of various shapes and sizes.

The eleven of them (they had managed to drag Reed from his lab) had a great evening. Johnny tried to find out the mutations of Mr. Masters, Jessica and Daniel all evening, but he did not succeed.

Once Sue asked politely whether or not it was okay for the family if the Fantastic Four knew, apologizing and informing them of her plan to stop (or more likely reduce) the discrimination to the best of her ability as she did, they agreed to demonstrate.

Mr. Masters - though he had told them to call him Gabriel - stretched out his arm and a small ball of water rose out of Reed's glass. Reed nearly fell from his chair.

Daniel projected an image of his raging boss into the minds of Reed, Ben, Sue and Johnny, causing the last one to laugh uncontrollably.

Once Johnny had calmed down, Michael moved in front of a wall and seemed to turn invisible. Then he returned to his seat and it became obvious that he did not. Instead he just blended into his surroundings. He looked and felt like the wall did and, amazingly enough, he didn't have a shadow. Sue wasn't sure how that worked.

Jessica simply removed her lab coat to reveal a pair of wings.


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~Marvelgeek42