"You don't understand!" Johnny whined. After Reed had treated and dressed his wounds and after he had relived his torturous experience to the others, he had repeated the plans. But not before Reed had ordered him to get some rest to recover.
"Johnny, we do," Sue replied soothingly.
"No, you don't. He's gonna hurt 'Mara!" Johnny snapped, staring at Susie. "And you didn't even try to stop her going!" He looked into his sisters eyes and saw the pained expression within them. "Hey, I didn't mean it Susie. I'm sorry."
"Yes you did, and you're right. I shouldn't have let her go." She replied knowing she didn't believe what she said, but Johnny needed to hear it.
"Tell us again what you discovered." Reed said, trying to break the tension. Johnny rolled his eyes.
"As I said before," he started, his temper rising. "Doom took Amara to turn her evil. The collar you saw him put on her can control her thoughts and movements. All Doom has to do is command 'Mara to be evil and she will have no choice but to be evil. We have got to save her."
"What I don't understand is why would he go to so much trouble, just to get Amara?" Ben asked. Johnny shot him a look and he added. "No offence, but Sue is probably more powerful. Even you Johnny are."
"Actually that's not true," Reed replied. "Amara's about as powerful as all of us put together, perhaps even stronger." Ben and Sue looked at him in surprise, but Johnny just nodded.
"How do you know?" Sue questioned.
"I discovered it in one of my sessions with her." Reed answered.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Ben asked.
"Shut up!" Johnny snapped. "This is not helping." The others were shocked at Johnny's outburst; usually it was Sue or Reed that said things like that.
"Johnny's right. We need to formulate a plan." Reed started.
"Let's suit up." Johnny interrupted and walked towards his room. He felt a glimmer of happiness; he had always wanted to say that.
The Human Torch, The Invisible Woman, The Thing and Mr Fantastic were standing outside the local newspaper offices. They had been searching the city all morning, looking for any clues as to where Amara was.
"This was a waste of time," Johnny said, frustrated. "I've already told you about a thousand times, Dooms layer is not in this city. It's not even near this city. How is this helping?"
"Someone must have seen something," Sue reasoned. "Just because the editor didn't know anything, doesn't mean we should give up."
"No one saw me being taken did they? If Doom is putting 'Mara through what I went through…he's gonna pay. Big time." Johnny snapped.
"Johnny, calm down." Ben replied. "We know you went through hell, but chances are that Doom won't hurt her."
"But we don't know that for sure, do we?" Johnny shouted. "I'm outa here." He stormed off.
"Johnny come back!" Sue called to her brother.
"Yes Johnny, do come back!" A new voice mimicked Sue's. Johnny stopped walking.
"Go to hell Mina." Johnny shouted, turning round. Mina pretended to look hurt.
"Ouch," she said. "That hurt."
"Isn't she the girl you kissed?" Ben asked, he had never actually seen Mina, and he had to admit she was Johnny's type.
"Haven't you been listening?" Johnny snapped. "She's evil." He turned to go again.
"I'm not the only one," Mina replied quickly. This made Johnny stop in his tracks.
"What do you mean?" Susan asked.
"What do you think Blondie?" Mina taunted. "Amara's the new evil around here."
"Liar," Johnny screamed. He strode towards Mina and shook her.
"I like it when it hurts," Mina replied, flirting. Johnny let her go, his face contorted in rage. He shot a ball of fire at her. Mina easily dodged it
"Temper, Temper." Mina said. "You must be really good in-"
"You bet I am." Johnny replied without thinking.
"Johnny! Not now," Sue replied, shocked at her brother's behaviour.
"Why are you here?"
"I came to see lover boy," Mina said, indicating towards Johnny. She winked at him.
"Is that all you want?" Johnny snapped.
"Well, now that you mention it ive always wanted a pony…" Mina started. "But Johnny, you're a close second."
"Mina, get this into your head: you and me? Never gonna happen." Johnny snapped.
"That's what you say now." Mina smirked. "But how about when you see Amara with her new boyfriend?" She winked at Johnny again and teleported away.
"What do you mean?" Johnny shouted at the spot where Mina had stood.
"I'm sure she's lying," Sue said comfortingly. "Amara loves you; she would never intentionally hurt you." Johnny looked at his sister with disbelieving eyes. He turned for the third time and walked into an empty street.
Thank you's:
The Torch: Thanks a lot :) I'm really glad you enjoy this story 'cos i love writing it. I don't know how many more chapters there will be, but there should be quite a few. And I'm already thinking up ideas for a sequel!
Torchs'-Girl: She may be bad for a bit but she will definitely turn back to her normal self! But I'm not saying how! Thanks for reviewing!
Aquarius12285: Thanks for spotting the wrong name! Anyway I realise its not really a Johnny thing to get so caught up, but yeah he does he really like Amara so I figured he would get angry. I do try to stick to the characters, but times like these it does get a little bit harder! Thanks again!
And thank you to everybody else :)