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Johnny Storm sat in front of a TV, watching a movie with great excitement. He was dressed casually wearing blue jeans and a black t-shirt that stuck close to his upper body. A bowl of popcorn sat on his lap with a large glass of soda sitting next to him, his eyes glued to the TV.

Susan walked in the room, clasping an earring to her ear as she took observation of what Johnny was doing.

"Are you gonna do anything besides sit in front of the TV all night?" Susan asked him.

"Nope, I have a race at 11 pm." Johnny replied still not taking his eyes off the TV.

"Jesus Johnny, your gonna kill yourself on one of those things, I would much rather you sit in that chair all evening." Susan said sighing as she walked into the kitchen.

Johnny rolled his eyes and stood up, taking the hint to lay off the TV for a couple seconds. He knew Susan, and she was in the one of moods where he needed to listen. His handsome face frowned as he looked at her, she wore a pair of pinstriped black pants with a black shirt that came to her elbows. She worse a sparkling necklace and dangling sparkling earrings, her blonde hair straight and the ends curled, clasped halfway back. Johnny again frowned and looked her over.

"You're kinda dressed up, aren't you?" Johnny asked taking a step towards her.

Susan looked at him then down at herself.

"Well…I…no, not really…" Susan stumbled over her words.

"Your going out with Reed aren't you?" Johnny asked, a sly grin forming on the corners of his mouth.

"So, what if I am?" Susan asked walking past him and over to her purse that sat on a wooden table near the door and next to the computer.

"Don't you find it just a LITTLE odd, that Reed rhythms with weed?" Johnny asked placing his hands on his hips, grinning at his own observation.

Susan stood up straight, glaring at him in disgust.

"Johnny! Grow up, don't be a jerk." Susan warned in a scolding voice as she hunched over again to try and find something in her purse.

"I'm just sayin'." Johnny replied walking into their kitchen.

"Your just begging to get your butt beat aren't you?" Susan asked as she closed her purse and looked over at him.

"SUE! Come on, relax ok! You know Reed's a good guy…. his name just makes me laugh." Johnny replied smiling as he got another bottle of PEPSI out.

Susan shook her head.

"Go, get out of here, don't wanna be late for Mr. Richards right?" Johnny replied unscrewing the cap and taking a drink.

"I am getting there, now no parties and no girls or girl over for God only knows what reason ok?" Susan replied.

"Ok." Johnny said rolling his eyes at her worried manner.

"Johnny! I mean it!" Susan replied pointing a finger at him.

"Susan! Relax, I got it." Johnny replied matching her tone.

"Don't get drunk tonight either," Susan replied.

Johnny grinned and chuckled slightly at her.

"Gotcha." Johnny answered.

"And Johnny, please, please, PLEASE, don't kill yourself on that stupid bike, ok?" Susan asked, her eyes full of concern.

Johnny's cocky smiled and faded slightly as he put both of his hands on her shoulders.

"Look at me Sue." He ordered as her wandering eyes finally landed on his.

"I'll be fine ok, I'll be fine. And if I talk to Reed afterwards and he tells me that you seemed distracted or something seemed to have been bugging you, I'll come back and beat your butt ok!" Johnny replied making Susan grin slightly.

"You guys have a good night, or date, or whatever you're calling them. And I…will be fine." He replied seriously and then kissed her forehead.

"See you this evening." Susan replied hugging him tightly, taking in his cologne.

"Ok, have fun." Johnny answered as she departed from him. He watched her throw her purse around her shoulder and head for the door.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Johnny called.

"Oh please, that leaves me a very small amount!" Susan answered laughing as she walked out the door.

"Remember! I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE AN UNCLE!" Johnny shouted at her.

"Goodnight Johnny!" Susan called back and shut the door.

Johnny grinned and turned back around to rest himself on the lazy boy, and looked to his left at the clock, checking the time. He then turned his attention back to the TV.

The streets were dark but were lighted with lights from businesses, town square, and houses. Reed and Susan walked beside each other, Susan's hands were clasped in front of her as Reed's were dug into his dress pants pocket. His black pants and blazer blended in with the night environment but his white dress shirt stuck out enormously.

"Thanks for dinner Reed, it was great…and very, very…very expensive." Susan replied looking down at the sidewalk.

Reed grinned as he glanced over at her.

"Well I am glad you enjoyed it, it was worth it then." Reed answered chuckling slightly.

"Are you sure you don't want me to you like give you some money for it or something?" Susan asked kinda feeling bad.

"No, no, no, I do not want money nor do I need it Susan, honestly it's ok." Reed replied grinning wider, finding her very cute at the moment.

"But I feel bad Reed!" Susan complained but grinning to show she wasn't mad at him, just her feelings.

Reed stopped her by grabbing her hand; she in turn looked up at his handsome face.

"If you honestly enjoyed yourself this evening, you have already have paid me back every cent." He murmured, his face looked as if he was in a trace, from her.

Reed moved closer to her face, staring at her in a serious manner, Susan looked back at him. Reed studied every feature of her face, her smoky eyes rimmed with black, her thin eyebrows, and her lips that glistened from gloss and the light from the store behind him.

As he got even closer she could smell the scent of spearmint and cologne coming from him. His eyes looked so dark, mysterious, and beautiful. Her heart raced with excitement as he moved closer, their lips almost touching.

Suddenly a flash of light made them pull back apart and spooked them both.

"Mr. Fantastic, Mr. Fantastic! Are you and Invisible woman tying the knot?" the reporter asked.

"What?" Reed asked looking at him oddly, squinting his eyes and eyebrows.

"Miss Invisible, what is Mr. Fantastic like? Does he treat you right at all?" another asked.

"Uhh, excuse me?" Susan asked then looked up at Reed who returned the look back down to her.

Soon they were surrounded by many reporters, all shoving a mic in their face.

The screams of Mr. Fantastic and Miss Invisible and other questions continued being shouted at them.

"Miss Invisible, how fantastic is Mr. Fantastic in bed?" a woman asked.

"Whoooa!" Reed replied.

"We haven't slept together yet, sorry." Susan answered annoyed.

The reporters eventually cornered the two against the glass window of the business store. Reed looked around for help he then took a hold of Susan's hand, and grinned at her, then took off, dragging Susan with him. They weaved in and out of the mob of reporters until they finally they got out of the crowd and they began running faster down the street, Reed still clasping her hand.

One by one the reporters followed, all running after them. Reed laughed as they ran around the corner, the Baxter building in view.

"Reed, you're so lucky I can run in high heeled boots!" Susan shouted laughing slightly too.

"We're almost there!" Reed said a smile on his face, liking running from danger.

The two ran down the sidewalk, dogging other people as they ran up to the building. Both began banging on the glass door, both smiling as if they were running from their parents or something of that nature.

"They're coming!" Susan answered.

"Hey open up come on, come on!" Reed answered.

An older door opener unlocked the door, recognizing Reed, and swung it open.

"Good evening Mr. Richards." The door person greeted.

Reed allowed Susan to run through first as he followed close behind.

"Thank you!" He called out to the door person as Susan reached the elevator, punching the up button.

Reed and Susan looked across the room out of the glass doors to see more reporters gather outside, recording, taking pictures and trying to persuade the man to open the door.

The ding of the elevator cause them to look back at the elevator, just as the door slide open. Reed pushed Susan in gently and he ran in pressing the number in which his lab was on. The doors seemed to close slower than normal but both rested easy slightly as they felt the elevator going up.

"Wow, that was close." Susan answered laughing.

"It's not over yet, we still need to make it into the lab." Reed answered breathless but smiling wider than ever hunching over slightly, with his hand on a bar, getting air back in his lungs.

They felt the elevator stop and once it opened, again they ran straight down the hall to the lab, laughing the whole way. Susan's boots filled the hallway with noise. Reed laughed as well as he looked behind them to see if anyone was following them, then looked ahead of him and ran faster, his black blazer jacket banging against his elbows as he ran.

Both slowed down in front of Reed's lab door as Reed fished for his key, shoved it into the keyhole and pushed the door open, again letting Susan run in first. Reed slammed the door shut, pressing his right side against it, locking it on the doorknob and then locking it with the latch.

Susan laughed hardly as she sat her purse on the glass table, Reed joining in with her.

"That was crazy." Reed admitted.

"I know, they're like animals." Susan added walking towards him.

"Something like that yea." Reed agreed easing up off the door.

"Hey, why didn't' you just turn us invisible? We wouldn't have had to run from them!" Reed accused taking a step closer to her.

Susan grinned.

"I guess I coulda huh?" She realized.

"And why didn't you?" Reed asked playfully.

"I wanted to be normal. And I wanted to make you work." She said serious about the first one, but making the second one sound sarcastic.

Reed chuckled slightly, but stopped faster than what he started.

Reed again started to gain a trance from looking at her, then touched her cheek, trailing his index finger down her right cheek, sending chills through Susan's body. Reed then kissed her passionately on the lips, praying he didn't make the wrong move and she be offended.

Susan was not expecting it so her eyes widened, but she grinned and then closed them. Her kissing back and touching the side of his neck reassured him and rested his nerves.

Susan pressed herself closer to his body, both opening their mouth a little wider to breath and to gain deeper access as Reed placed his hands softly on her waist. Susan then began moving backwards, taking Reed with her, either of them not wanting to stop their kissing. As she moved them he worked on getting his blazer off, not for sex, but because it was hot in his lab and it was getting in the way. Neither of them cared that one of his walls was made up of completely glass windows, overlooking the dark night of the city, sparkles of multicolored light dotted around.

Reed managed to get it off and just let it drop to the ground, so now all he had was his white dress shirt on. Reed pressed Susan up against the glass table, still kissing her deeply, feeling thankful there was a woman he could finally be able to love at the moment.

Reed then allowed himself to close his eyes, as he tilted his head to the right, placing his right hand gently under her chin, his fingers wrapping around her neck. Susan then maneuvered her right leg in between them and placed her foot on his chest, extending her strong leg, pushing him backwards. Reed's lips parted from hers as he stumbled backwards and into a black leather chair. Reed made eye contact with her as he sat in the chair, breathing deeply for the lack of oxygen he received when he was kissing her.

Susan moved towards him, slowly and grinning she then turned invisible. Reed looked around, finding her presence nowhere. Suddenly he felt something on his lap as she reappeared giggling at him. Reed laughed as well clutching her sides and pulling her closer reuniting their lips once more.

Suddenly Reed's telephone began ringing. Reed and Susan slowly parted and Reed groaned in pure annoyance. Susan grinned slightly in embarrassment as Reed reached over to his side table grabbed the receiver and held it up to his ear.

"Yes?" he asked some annoyance in his voice.

"Reed! Great I am glad you're there, have you identified the large thing in the city?" Ben asked one hand on his steering wheel, the other holding his phone to his ear, everything around him was pitch dark, and the lights on his car gave his face an eerie green glow.

"What thing?" Reed asked sighing loudly in annoyance.

Suddenly a loud piece of machine flew past the wall of long windows over looking the city, the noise shaking the building. Susan clutched Reed's arm as things fell from shelves, tables, and rattled the glass and furniture.

Susan looked around alarmed as Reed's eyes also got a little wider.

"Oh, THAT thing." Reed answered.

Susan jumped off Reed's lap and ran to the window, touching the glass as she looked out.

"You saw it? What did it look like to you?" Ben asked turning a corner.

"I dunno, I didn't get a clear glance of it." He replied as he walked over next to Susan, squinting as he tried to make out the object.

"Is Johnny with him? Where's Johnny?" Susan replied spinning towards him and the phone.

"Where's Johnny Ben?" Reed asked not taking his eyes off the object.

"I have no idea Reed, no he's not with me." Ben answered.

Susan's big blue eyes looked at Reed, hoping. Reed gave a silent sigh and forced himself to look at her and slowly shook his head no. Susan's eyebrows arched down in worry as she rose her one hand up to bite her thumbnail and return her eyes back at the window.

"Alright, hurry down here, I don't know what it is or what it's purpose is, but we're gonna put a stop to it." Reed replied.

"Alright Reed." Ben replied then hung up.

"Susan, let's go check it out." Reed replied walking over to the chair he sat in and slammed his phone down on the receiver.

Susan crossed her arms in front of her chest as if she were cold and turned from the window to Reed, concentrating on the floor.

Reed was grabbing some things from the drawer, searching for some tools. When he noticed her silence he quickly glanced over his shoulder and saw her concerned face.

"Johnny will be fine Sue." He replied frowning as he looked back into the drawer, continuing to search through it.

"I know, it's just he's so…" Sue struggled in finding the right word, shaking her head from side to side trying to think of the right word.

"Spontaneous?" Reed asked still not looking up.

"YES! If he saw it he might jump into hot shot mode and go after it alone!" Sue replied looking at Reed, thankful he gave her the word she was looking for.

Reed nodded and stood up, taking his attention off the drawer and focused on to her, placing his hands on his hips.

"I just…don't want him to do anything stupid." Sue mumbled softly slowly looking away again.

Reed sighed slightly as he looked at her.

"Hey, come here." He said in a soft whisper, pulling her into his embrace.

Sue closed her eyes as he let her head fall on his shoulder. Reed hugged her tightly rubbing her back soothingly.

"Johnny might be a little wild at times, but he's smart…in some sense. I am sure he's fine. But right now we got to go and find out what that was. And maybe we can get there before Johnny does if he is on his way." Reed replied kissing the top of her head.

Sue nodded in understanding as she pulled away slightly from him.

"Yeah, we should go check it out." She agreed.

"Alright, let's go out the window, it'll be faster." Reed replied.

Sue nodded and jogged over to the window and pushed it open. The night air leaking in the room sending her hair blowing gently back. Suddenly the power died, leaving the room silent and pitch black except for the silver moonlight shinning in through the sparkling windows.

Sue spun around to Reed, peering through the darkness her eyes not yet adjusted. Reed had the same problem so he stood very stiff, to see if anything else would happen or if he could hear anything.

"What happened?" Sue demanded.

A long silence fell before them. Reed's eyes searching everywhere, neither of them moving.

"I…don't know." Reed answered, his smooth voice cut through the silence and gave Sue reassurance.

"Do you thing the object Ben saw has something to do with this?" She asked, her voice also sounding booming loud in the darkness.

"Well I don't think this is a coincidence if that's what you're asking me." Reed replied.

Sue heard shuffling, which she probably guessed that Reed had finally moved and again was looking for something.

"I was afraid you were gonna say that." Sue replied sighing as she desperately tired to make out his figure in the darkness.

Suddenly a bright light caused her to squint. She frowned and covered her eyes with one of her hand.

"Ah, Reed! Please." She replied.

"Sorry." He said softly lowering the flashlight but pointing it in front of her path to him and held out his hand.

"Give me your hand." He instructed.

"Why? What are we doing?" She asked walking to him and clutching his large warm hand.

"We need to see if this is the only room that lost power, and we need to find out if it this was a mistake." He replied shining the light to his doorway and then started moving, taking her with him. "Stay close." He added.

"Gladly." Susan mumbled already hot on his heels without evening have to be advised.

The two reached the door and Reed yanked it open seeing nothing but darkness. Sue took a shaky breath in.

"Guess it's not just your room." She said softly.

Reed shook his head no in agreement with her and pulled her out into the hallway.

"Thank God for that window." Sue replied looking at a window as big as the wall on her right before Reed pulled her to the left, jogging down the hall.

"Thought you thought that window was always ugly." Reed replied bluntly, for he had more important things on his mind.

"I do, but if it weren't here…this hallway would be darker." She pointed out as she followed closely behind him.

"Good point." He murmured stopping, looking around.

"Bet you're never gonna make fun of that window again." He added looking up at the ceiling.

Sue clenched her teeth and smacked him in the shoulder hardly.

"Shut up!" She scolded, finding the time for his jokes very bad.

Reed grinned then slowly lowered his head and eyes to her. He couldn't see her facial features clearly, but he could tell where some things were, like her lips, her nose, and he could see her blink all around the outline of her head and her figure.

"You're…so beautiful." He spoke softly.

He could have sworn he saw her smile widely.

"You can't even see me goofy." She answered back, still blushing at the comment.

"I don't have too." He shot back.

Sue's smile widened largely as she looked down at her fingers, playing with them. Once she felt her cheeks calm down she looked up and opened her mouth to say something but a large thud and a shaking of the building stopped her. Reed whipped his head back down the hallway they were going.

"Come on Sue, we have to get to the soda machines." Reed replied clutching her hand and taking off running, dragging her behind him.

"REED! Now is not the time for a nice cold beverage from Pepsi!" She shouted as she struggled to keep up with him as he ran down hallways taking various turns, weaving in and out.

Suddenly he ran into a small room that provided vending and soda machines along with ice and newspapers.

"It's not the soda I want, it's the breaker. Here hold this" He replied shoving the small handheld flashlight into her hands. Reed then squeezing between two vending machines. He placed his hands on the heavy machine and extended his arms shoving it out of the way, revealing the breaker.

Sue shined the light on it, peering at what he was doing. Reed frowned as he banged his fist on it; as a result the small metal door flew open. It seemed to be coincidental that Reed and Sue both gasped slightly. Sue moved closer trying to get a good look at it as Reed moved his face towards it more as well.

"All the wires are scorched." Reed mumbled, applying a mental note in his head but said it loud enough so that Sue could hear it.

"Scorched?" She said wrinkling her nose up and raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, they're all melted together, not to mention yanked out of their sockets." Reed mumbled.

"You think it was Johnny?" Sue asked after hearing the word 'scorched' his face immediately popped into her head.

Reed sighed as he back up further, still studying it and shook his head no.

"No, even at Johnny's lowest temperature it's hot enough to turn plastic to liquid. He couldn't simply melt them together; he's too hot to do mild damage to this." Johnny replied.

Sue said nothing as she looked around. "I'll go check downstairs." She volunteered.

Reed whipped his head back at her.

"To see if this is the only floor that was sabotaged." She finished her answer.

Reed sighed.

"Sue I don't think that-"

"Reed, it'll be real quick. If this is the only floor that this happened too we can guess that someone if here for us. If we're not someone just might be looking for trouble, and that's another idea we might need to figure out." Sue explained.

Reed continued to look at her, the glaring flashlight shining off elsewhere but still lighting up her own face.

"Alright fine, you're right. Just…hurry, and be careful." Reed whisphered.

Sue smiled sweetly at him and nodded then handed him the flashlight, giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"Be back in a couple of seconds." She replied and with that Reed watched her turn and run out the door. He sighed and looked back at the breaker as he heard her shoes clapping down the empty dark halls as she ran…ran away—from him.

Johnny swerved his bike to a complete stop in front of the Baxter building, his mouth open as he stared at the huge hole where the revolving doors used to be. He slowly yanked off his helmet as he continued to examine the hole, then slowly his eyes widened.

"Sue!" He told himself hopping off his bike faster than lightening and found himself running towards it.

Suddenly he stopped himself, his chest heaving up and down as he glared at the angry wound in the building. Ben…he should wait for Ben. He has been told millions of times never to take an enemy alone, and he, himself, agreed with that statement. He fought with himself emotionally as he forced himself to back up as he looked around, his body twitching and bouncing impatiently. He sighed loudly, not wanting to even think about Sue in trouble. Visions, made believe ones, haunted his mind and his eyes and with that he bolted to the building—there was no way he could risk waiting for backup.

Johnny squirmed through the hole and into the dark lobby of the building, which was normally lit with millions of lights dangling from the ceilings and posted on the wall. His hard breathing was the only thing that made a sound in the lobby as he whipped his head over from the left to the right, peering through the dark, as he stood there.

He shook himself out of his eerie state of mind and started running straight back, his shoes echoing on the marble floor. He ran past the elevator doors and slammed on the gleaming silver bar, pushing it open hardly. He was greeted with stairs to his left which he ran up faster than he ever has before. He reached the next level, not taking the time to stop, he rounded another flight of stairs. A large green number 3 caught his eye as he past it, gripping tightly the metal bar as he prepared himself to lift his right leg to run up more stairs.

But something then registered, and he froze.

Johnny slowly looked back at the number 3 painted on the tan wall, seeing specks of black around it. He frowned and walked closer to it, trying to figure out what it was; he guessed it was some sort of tar. He shuttered once he got closer, realizing it wasn't black at all, but dark red.

He swallowed hardly as his shaky fingers rose to touch it and smear a couple of dots on the wall, revealing it was in fact blood; which was also not dried. His fingers departed from the wall and he gave a disgusted look at them seeing the soles of them stained with blood. He looked down to see more sprinkled on the floor leading to the door exiting the stair room. Johnny carefully maneuvered his way closer to the door, carefully looking out the window to see a man lying on the ground in a pool of blood.