Chapter 2- Put out flames

When Sue woke up she wrapped her blue silk dressing gown around herself and walked to the lab, where Reed, Ben and Johnny sat. She touched her head and yawned. "What time is it?" she groaned.

"Time for you to get changed into your super suit sis!" A grin came over his face. "I'm joking, but anyway we know what Doom said to the papers was a lie."

Sue flinched at the sound of Dooms name and looked at the pile of clothes Reed had put in front of her. Sue was too tired to walk to her room, so turning invisible she put the clothes on. When she was visible again she took Johnny's coffee and drank it all.

Reed looked empathetically. "Anyway, as Johnny was saying. We know it was a lie. If it hadn't had been for you Doom wouldn't have been defeated. He knows you were the key to his downfall so…."

Sue smacked her lips and smiled. "…He thought if he scared me, my powers wouldn't work, resulting in me not being able to contain super nova…"

Johnny punched the air. "…meaning that world would burns and you wouldn't be able to live with yourself."

Ben Grimm put down the mixing bowl which he was drinking from. "You were reading Reeds notes, right?"

Grinning mischievously Johnny replied "Of course."

Reed was about to tell Johnny that he couldn't read his notes all his life to be smart but his eyes were adverted to the T.V. "What in the world…Look at the news."

Four pairs of eyes looked at the screen where news reporter Nancy Callahagn was talking about the events that happened earlier that morning. "These scenes are quite shocking. It seems that fantastic four member Johnny Storm, otherwise known as The Human Torch helped in the robbery of New Yorks biggest bank. Could this be the answer to why his flames are now black along with his grey costume? Let's ask…." Before the T.V reporter told them what happened, the T.V burst into flame. Everyone looked at Johnny.

"We're going down town. I'm gonna kick his butt!" Johnny ran to the lab and brought back four blue costumes. Sue and Reed went to get changed whilst Ben got changed in the kitchen. Johnny who had put his on in a second was waiting at the window in the lab.

When the others arrived Johnny beckoned them to the window. His body engulfed in flame and he flew down to the ground where he hovered. Reed stretched his arms and legs so he got to the ground safely, Ben jumped, creating a large hole in the ground. Sue looked at the air in front of her and a blue disk of energy appeared. She stepped on it and hovered at the ground along with Johnny.

Reporters were clustered around the four bombarding them with questions asking them if they had been cloned. Reed took a look at one reporters portable television and saw Sue, Johnny, Ben and himself fighting the police. "Let's go!" He murmured and the four headed to the bank.

When the four got there they came face to face with what seemed to be their counterparts. Each member of the two teams stood near each other looking at one another. Sue looked at a woman who looked like her. But this woman had a dark grey suit and dirty blonde hair flicked out to the sides. The woman's face had make-up heavily applied. "Who the heck are you?" Sue exclaimed.

Reed's counter part looked at Sue. "WE are your dark sides. And we have been hired to destroy you." This Reed also wore a grey suit like Sues dark side as well as Johnnys and Ben's. "And now I think it's time we fought. The Human Torch against The Black Torch. The Thing against The Rock. The Invisible Woman against The Invisible Lady, and Mr. Fantastic against me…" A sly grin came over the imposter's face. "…Mr. Fearsome. Together we are the Fearsome Four!"

Sue was about to open her mouth when the Invisible Lady fired a grey force field at her sending Sue flying into a parked van. "You're going down." Turning invisible Sue fired force fields at her opponent. Who in turn turned invisible and fired force fields in the direction Sue's were coming from.

Johnny was having his own problems. Whoever said fight fire with fire was lying. At one end was Johnny engulfed in red flame and at the other was The Black Torch engulfed in black flame. Both flamers were firing flames at one another. Thinking he had the advantage, Johnny flew into the air unaware that his opponent could as well. "Lets take you down!" Johnny boomed and touched Black Torch's shoulders and absorbed the black flames. Without his flames the Black Torch could not fly and fell to the floor. Johnny saw his opponent to try and make fire but did not succeed.

"In the name of Einstein!" Reed Richards exclaimed as his opponent curled into a ball like himself. They both hurled their ball-like bodies at each other repeatedly but Reed got the upper hand, extending a hand and breaking his opponents nose sending him dropping to the ground next to the Black Torch.

The Rock looked the same as The Thing apart from the fact he was a grayish color and had a head full of spikes. Ben was sent crashing into the glass wall of the bank. But Ben fought back and Kicked Rocky into the pile where the Black Torch and Mr. Fearsome lye. All three stood up as the Invisible Lady appeared in front of her teammates. "Suzie Storm, You'll fall like your family members who are all stupid and…"

Before she could finish the Invisible Lady and her team were sent THROUGH a wall by a deep blue force field. Sue appeared gasping for air whilst her team looked in awe. That was the strongest field Sue had ever created! "You can insult me all you like, But you can NEVER insult my family!"

Johnny began following Reed who was walking over to where the Fearsome Four were lying. "Go Sue! You were awesome! You're on fire!"

Reed put a stretched finger to Johnny's lips. "Stop talking. Supernova." As he finished his sentence Reed wound himself around the four villains.

"FLAME ON!" Johnny shouted as he flew into the air. Ben hauled Reed away and their opponents looked horrified as they were encircled in fire.

Sue raised to hands and blue energy erupted from her hands and spread over the flames containing it. She felt blood trickle down her nose as she kept the fearsome fire at bay. When the fire died down she lowered the field to see four smoking figures.

Ben walked over the the figures and what he saw horrified him. Their faces were mutated and had metal showing through the felsh. Picking one up, he peeled the skin of the face off and found a skull made entirely of metal. The truth dawned on him. They had been fighting robots.

Johnny raised his hands in triumph and smiled expecting the crowd to admire him, but they didn't. All he could hear was a chant. The crowd were saying 'Johnny Storm put his flame out!' repeatedly. Johnny was horrified and without waiting for his teammates erupted into flame and flew to the Baxter building.

Sue followed Reed and Ben as they chased Johnny but something caught her eye. On the floor was a floppy disc. Pocketing it, Sue ran to the building and didn't notice someone throw what looked like a coin in her hair.