A.N: This is my last chapter. Thank you everyone for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.
Then out of nowhere Johnny zoomed beneath Alicia. "Heya Ben, miss me?" the teenager said cockily to his companion as he caught her.
"Not really," Ben muttered but was glad he made it. Soon Reed appeared taking large steps and carrying Sue. Ben raised an eyebrow at this. He had a suspicion that there was still a spark between the two but neither of them would admit it. Johnny landed next to Ben and put Alicia down.
"Who is this guy?" he asked.
"Dunno, I call him Metal Man," Ben replied as he checked Alicia was okay. "Metal Man? If I didn't come up with The Thing I think you would've," Johnny said as he tried to stifle a laugh. Ben shot a glare at Johnny and was about to open his mouth, when a bolt of electricity flew between them sending both of them back a little. Ben and Johnny looked over at Victor and saw Reed desperately trying to dodge every bolt thrown at him and hold Sue at the same time. Johnny flew into the air and began to throw fireballs at Metal Man; this distracted Victor and gave Reed enough time for him to put Sue down. Ben, Reed and Sue each used a different way of getting up onto the roof. Reed stretched his legs onto the roof and took Sue with him. Susan put Ben in a force field and floated him up. Ben charged towards Metal Man, who was shooting at Johnny. Ben caught him by surprise with a right hook. Victor stumbled back and watched as the Fantastic Four circled him, Ben in front of him, Johnny behind, Sue on his left and Reed on his right.
"Isn't this nice, we're all here together," he said nervously. As the Fantastic Four drew closer he got an idea, electricity began to spark around him. Reed took a step back warily; he knew something was about to happen. Then without warning Victor blasted electricity from him on all four sides, Ben stumbled back a little whilst Sue protected herself with a force field. Johnny and Reed both went flying in different directions. Reed landed on the roof but Johnny fell off the edge.
"Johnny!" Sue yelled. The Invisible Woman ran to the edge of the roof and searched frantically for her brother. He wasn't on the dock behind the bar and the water was smooth with no sign of disturbance.
"Johnny!" she shouted again as she scanned the water more carefully.
"Sue look out!" Reed said as he saw electricity start to gather in Victor's hands. He stretched an arm to pull her out the way; he pulled her towards him and saw tears were streamed down her face.
"He's gone," she sobbed "he's gone." Sue trembled as she turned around to face Victor.
"You killed my brother," she said quietly. "You killed him," she repeated.
"And," Victor said dismissively. That's it, she thought and sent a large wave of force sending Metal Man over the edge of the building.
Ben walked to the edge of the building and looked over.
"Metal Man's gone," Ben said as Sue and Reed joined him. Susan began to cry again.
"Why?" she asked, "why him? Why now?" Reed put an arm around Sue comfortingly. Ben tried to act like it was ordinary but he couldn't help staring. Reed sensed he was being watched and looked up at his best friend. They exchanged smiles before gazing out sadly at the sea, Ben looked down on the dock and his eyes rested on a skip full of garbage. He swore it was moving. "Hey guys, look at that," he said to the others. Reed glanced at it.
"Probably just a cat," he said dismissively. Ben nodded but watched it; from underneath the bags a hand appeared.
"Guys look," Reed sighed and looked down and his eyes opened wide, he nudged Sue. She gasped and watched it hopefully. An arm followed the hand, it pushed a bag of trash aside and Johnny's head appeared.
"Johnny," Sue cried. The teenager looked up and smiled.
"I'm okay," he said as he gave a thumb ups sign to his friends.
"Oh Johnny," Sue said and she would've stepped off the edge if Reed hadn't been holding her.
"Gave us quite a scare then Tinkerbelle," Ben said to Johnny as he wriggled his way out of the skip.
"Flame on!" he yelled before flying up onto the roof and turning back to normal.
"Johnny, we thought you were dead," Sue said as she flung her arms around her younger brother.
"Me, dead? Highly unlikely. A man made of metal can't stop The Human Torch," he said as he hugged her back.
"Well shall we face the crowd?" Reed asked his team mates.
"Bring it on," Ben said and the four walked to the edge of the bar to face the rapturous applause of the crowds watching.
Victor pushed himself onto the dock. His cloak was dripping and his mask was full of water. He looked around to make sure nobody was watching him. He took off the mask and cloak. He limped over to a clothes bank and pulled out a trench coat. He quickly put it on before hurrying away. One day Mr Grimm. He thought to himself. One day.