Chapter 5- Fear of two Friends 2
"What's the matter Reed?" Glen mocked as he slowly stepped towards Reed who was cornered in an alley. Behind Glen, Sonny had turned on his black flame and Sal was creating a grey force field.
Reed jumped over the three just as Glen went to punch him. He clutched his stomach as Sonny had struck him as he jumped over with a flaming hand. He was knocked back into a car as a grey force field was hurled at him by his enemy. As he went to get up he was punched by The Rock and was sent flying into the air.
Reed braced himself for the fall but was caught by the most unlikely person. Doom. Reed looked up at Doom who now wore a white cloak instead of the green. "Koon! Why do you always our to ruin our fun!" Sonny hissed. Koon. Soony. Sal. Glen. Reed had been in to much of a panic to figure it out. Everything was reversed. Apart from the Baxter building…..so maybe that was the key to get back. Reed silently slipped away as Koon and the Fearsome Four spat insults at each other.
Climbing up the side of the building, he climbed through the smashed window. He searched for a means to get back but something going on outside caught his attention. Koon was fighting off attacks of force fields, flame and tremendous punches. Reed went to call out to the white cloaked man but fell out of the window and fell hard on the floor. He closed his eyes and saw black.
When he opened his eyes he saw Sue staring down at him with a concerned face. "Reed are you feeling okay?" She asked whilst Ben had walked over along with Johnny who was heating some popcorn in his hand.
"I'm fine….well no I'm not, There were the fearsome four and Doom was good and I fell twelve storey to my death." Reed quickly said.
"Reed, you were dreaming. The gas the spider gave of caused hallucinations in our sleep. Although I put up a field it still got to you and Johnny before the field had fully developed and Ben and me still breathed in a little as well."
"What did you visualize?" Reed asked looking at Sue, then Ben and finally Johnny who was now salting his popcorn.
Sue was the first to answer. "I visualized that the public was hunting me down because I destroyed the town using force fields. It was horrible I was sending people flying into the air so that they wouldn't attack me…and all the blood." She lowered her head and Ben put an arm around her.
"I saw myself human and Doom was killing everyone I cared about in front of me knowing I was helpless. But he didn't kill Alicia, he kidnapped her….then I blacked out and woke up here." Ben said with a hoarse voice.
Johnny put an arm around Ben. "Was I one of the people you cared about." He answer wasn't verbal but physical as Ben grabbed Johnny and hugged him tight along with Sue with tears rolling down his cheeks. Gasping for breath Johnny managed to break free. "I imagined I was at the playboy mansion, then it was set alight by me." Johnny said munching away on popcorn as though watching a movie. "Hey, what's that on the window?" He pointed out.
Reed stretched an arm over and peeled the envelope off the window. "It's addressed for you." He told Ben as he passed it to him.
Ben opened the letter and his face looked horrified. "You know that other letter I got? Well it's him again and he's took Alicia. It was Doom sending the letter." He passed the letter to Sue who put it on the bedside cabinet.
"Ben, don't worry my guess is that to know where Doom is we have to go to his roots. The Inflamarae." Reed's head along with Sue and Bens looked at Johnny.
"I'll drive." He said running outside to his Red sports car which had been modified to carry extra weight. Ben was second in and sat with Sue in the back whilst Reed sat in front. Johnny turned the key and drove off. He should know the route to NASA after five years, Shouldn't he?