The Uncanny Fantastic Four
Chapter 29- The Femme Four: Part 3
By
The Uncanny R-Man
Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel.
Somewhere in upstate New York-
Sue's quartet of heroines got ready for a fight as the Wizard's Frightful Four leapt in to attack them. Reed, Johnny, Ben, and Selene had been captured by the evil super-genius and his quartet of villains. Sue and her three compatriots were there to save them.
'Not that I don't appreciate the rescue and all...' The still-human Ben mumbled as he rubbed his head. 'But how did ya find us?'
'I believe that I have the answer, Ben...' Reed revealed as he removed the 4 symbol from his uniform. 'Do you not remember? These symbols also double as tracking devices that allow us to follow each other should one of us get into trouble.'
'Sounds kind convenient if ya ask me...' Ben sniffed.
'It helped, though.' Reed smiled.
'Shouldn't we help the girls?' Johnny asked, indicating the quartet of brawling heroines. 'They might need our help.'
'I'm in no rush.' Selene shrugged. 'Let Sue have her fun. She hardly gets a chance to let loose nowadays.'
Reed did as the sorceress suggested and stood back to watch his wife do her thing. The Invisible Woman was protecting herself from the Wizard's attacks by an invisible force field.
'Ha! Just as I surmised!' the Wizard laughed arrogantly. 'A mere woman could not possibly defeat the Wingless Wizard, so she hides behind a force field.'
'I'm not stalling, Wizard...' Sue retorted. 'I'm just waiting until your suit's batteries exhaust themselves.'
'But... that is impossible!' The Wizard blinked in shock. 'My exo-suit has an inexhaustible supply of energy!'
'Psyche!' Sue grinned as she projected her force field outwards, knocking the flying Wizard from the air. Before the grounded villain could get back up, Sue implanted a mini force field in the circuits of his suit, short-circuiting it.
'You think that you have won, woman?' The Wizard sneered. 'My exo-suit is only one miniscule part of my armour...'
The Wizard's words trailed off as Sue surrounded his head by an air-tight invisible bubble.
'I doubt that suit of yours has an emergency air supply.' Sue stated as she tightened the invisible bubble around the Wizard's head. The armour-clad villain clasped at his throat as he gradually ran out of breath, before falling to his knees.
Nearby, Val was taking on Hydro-Man.
'What's the matter, kid...' The water-manipulating villain laughed as the young heroine hovered above his head on an invisible platform. 'You scared of getting wet?'
'Not in the least...' Val shot back. 'I just wanted some time to finish preparing this little doo-hickey that I had in my pocket.'
Hydro-Man blinked in confusion once he saw the Invisible Girl pull out what seemed to be a television remote control, but with more wires sticking out fo it.
'This is called the molecular accelerator.' Val explained. 'As you can probably tell by its name, it accelerates an object's molecules. It turns a solid into a liquid, a solid into a gas, and so on. I wonder what it'll do to you...'
Hydro-Man started to back away as Val pointed her gadget at him and a blue beam shot out of it, hitting him right in-between the eyes.
'Heh. Is that the best you got?' Hydro-Man laughed. 'That little gadget of yours is useless! Here's a tip, girlie, the next time you wanna try it on with the big boys, stay home and play with your dollie...'
PLOOSH!!
Hydro-Man's boasts were cut short as the villain exploded, drenching Val with water.
'Hmm, I guess I need to sort out a few bugs first...' The teen inventor sighed as she tucked a strand of sodden high behind her ear.
Not far away, She-Hulk and Lyja were taking on the remaining two members of the Frightful Four, Salamandra and the Trapster.
She-Hulk had grabbed the dragon woman by the tail and was swinging her around. Lyja was doing the same with her foe, but she had grabbed hold of the Trapster's leg.
'Round and round the villains go...' She-Hulk laughed. 'Where they'll stop, nobody knows!'
She-Hulk and Lyja both let go of their screaming (and in the Trapster's case, visibly ill) opponents, sending them flying into the air. Both green-skinned women winced in pain as the villains collided in mid-air with a nasty CRACK!
'Ooh, that's got to hurt...' Lyja grimaced. 'Did you hear that sound when their skulls collided? It sounded like somebody attacking a watermelon with a sledgehammer.'
'I wouldn't be so concerned about their safety if I were you, Lyja...' She-Hulk told the Skrull. 'These guys are too thick-headed to come out with any serious damage.'
'I guess they have to make up for the lack of brains somehow.' Lyja laughed.
The Baxter Building-
Once the Wizard and his fellows had been turned into the authorities, everybody returned home to the Baxter Building. She-Hulk and Val were making their goodbyes. The Jade Giantess had to get back to Avengers Mansion, while Val had to get back to class.
'Now, are you sure that you don't want us to give you a lift back?' Sue asked concernedly.
'Mom, I'm fine...' Val reassured her mother. 'I've got a teleportation unit that I... borrowed from Castle Doom when the Sirens and I teamed up with the Young Avengers.'
'D'ya hear that, Stretcho...' Ben whispered to Reed. 'Yer daughter's a Richards all right. Stealin' stuff from Doom and all that.'
'It's not like Victor is using it.' Reed smiled before he turned back to his daughter. 'You ensure sure that you call us as soon as you arrive back at the Xavier Institute, okay?'
'I will, dad.' Val smiled as she hugged her father tight. 'See you all soon.'
And with that, Val teleported away. She-Hulk followed suit as she hopped into her flying Cadillac.
'Everybody stay safe, 'kay?' The Jade Giantess waved. 'Be seeing you!'
Reed, Sue, Johnny, Ben, Selene, and Lyja all waved as the flying car flew away.
'I don't know about you guys, but I could murder some Chinese takeout.' Johnny patted his stomach. 'Getting kidnapped always gives me the munchies.'
'Jonathan Spencer Storm...' Sue groaned. 'Do you ever think of anything else but food?'
'I think Lyja could answer that for you, Sue...' Johnny grinned, giving his Skrull wife a cheeky wink.
Lyja was about to say something in reply when a huge shadow slowly spread across them.
'What in the...?'
Everybody else followed suit and looked up into the sky at the huge Skrull spaceship hovering above them. Ben was the first to say something.
'Hunh. Must be Monday.'
TBC...
Next- The Return of the In-Laws
Lyja's parents, F'rt and N'ara drop in to meet the in-laws.
