A/N: THANK YOU MY GLORIOUS REVIEWERS! Many of you wanted to know how Harmony got her powers - well here it is. In this chapter I briefly mention the X-men but this isn't an X-men crossover. I've realised this isn't much of a drama/ angst fic but that is all to come. DON'T WORRY! READ AND REVIEW! You know you want to!

I don't own the Fantastic Four or the X men. Forgot about that it the last two chapters.

Harmony wandered into the kitchen and dining room of the Fantastic Four's home. Sue, Reed and Ben sat at the dining room table. Ben was eating a large helping of scrambled eggs. Sue was eating a delicate fruit salad and Reed was doing his best to type on his PowerBook (A/N: It's all about the apple computers!) and drink coffee. He wasn't too good at multitasking. He groaned as he spilt the coffee all over his trousers. Sue tutted at Reed before noticing Harmony was standing in the doorway looking very awkward.

"Good morning," she flashed the newcomer her best smile. "Did you sleep well?"

"Yeah, thanks."

"Do come join us," Reed suggested with a big smile. Harmony walked over to the dining room and sat down on a chair opposite Sue.

"Egg?" Ben offered

"Make mine sunny side up," Johnny said cheerfully as he walked into the room. Ben glared at him. Sue looked at Johnny suspiciously. He was wearing his favourite jeans and t-shirt.

"Where are you going?"

"Out after Ben makes me my breakfast," Johnny grinned as he sat down next to Harmony.

"Over my dead body," Ben replied.

"Er… Harmony I'll need to run a few tests on you," Reed informed the teenager.

"Okay,"

"I'll also need to ask you a few questions and we can start work on controlling your power,"

"Oh. I kinda already have my power under control," Harmony explained. Reed's jaw dropped.

"You…you meant to destroy my window?" He asked, Harmony felt bad when she heard the devastation in his voice.

"You've never seen that window from the outside have you?" Harmony asked as she tried to justify the deed.

"Why does everyone hate my window?" Reed moaned.

"Cos it's ugly," Johnny replied bluntly.

"Ain't never see anything uglier," Ben told his best friend.

"Like I said. He doesn't own a mirror," Johnny whispered to Harmony. She stifled a laugh and took the glass of orange juice Sue offered her.

"Yo Ben I'm getting hungry. Gonna make my breakfast anytime soon?" Johnny asked his elder.

"No!" He growled. "Make it yourself matchstick,"

"Make me!" Johnny challenged with a cocky smile.

"Boys! Please," Sue said before the argument could escalate.

"I'm just going to change me trousers," Reed said as he stood up.

"Ewww. Do I want to know?" Johnny said when he saw the wet patch on Reed's crotch.

"It's coffee Johnny," Reed said over his shoulder before leaving the room. Johnny's stomach rumbled loudly.

"Hurry Ben. I'm getting really hungry now," he taunted.

"Johnny why can't you make it yourself?" Sue asked her brother impatiently. Johnny shrugged and leaned back in his chair.

"Are you worried about burning our home down in front of Harmony because if you are you can tell me," Sue said comfortingly in a loud whisper. "You could tell me when you were scared of-"

"How d'ya like your eggs Harmony?" Johnny interrupted brightly as he leapt out of his seat and darted towards the fridge.

"I don't really mind."

"Sunny side up then," Johnny decided. Sue smiled to herself as Johnny started to make breakfast at breakneck speed.

"Works every time," she laughed to herself.

Harmony edged nervously into the large laboratory. She cringed when she saw Reed standing by his broken window.

"Reed?" she called. Reed jumped and spun around.

"Ah, Harmony. If you'd like to sit down here," Reed indicated a chair. Harmony sat down and looked at her surroundings. Reed took out a clipboard with some sheets of paper on it. He pulled a pen out of his pocket. Harmony suddenly noticed what Reed was wearing.

"You actually wear that around the house? I though the suits were for the cameras,"

"Yes, well um. These suits are very comfortable," Reed, answered embarrassed. "Anyway… How did you get your powers? Were…were you born with them or…" he trailed off.

"It's a long story," she explained.

"I better sit down then." Reed stretched his arm to his chain on the other side of the room. He pulled it towards him and sat down. He poised his pen ready to write and looked up at Harmony, urging her to start the story.

"Well. I guess I was about six years old. My father was a researcher at Highbury. You've probably heard of them, they've done a lot of testing on Mutants. Well, my father was working on a theory of spreading the X gene quickly. They were a pro-mutant group. Anyway, they came up with a contraption that gave everyone the X gene. I went along to watch the first test … but it went wrong. The machine got out of control and it gave me the X gene. I was given these strange new abilities and was sent to a school in Westchester. Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters or something like that. Anyway, news spread of this weird out of control machine and it was stolen. Next thing you know it's being used on the statue of liberty by a crazy mutant who called himself Magneto. What he probably didn't know was that a lot of people's …systems would reject their new powers. I'm one of the few who were caught up in the accident that are still alive today.

"Wow," Harmony turned around. Ben, Sue and Johnny stood in the doorway listening to her story.

"That is so cool," Johnny added to Ben's comment.

"So you learned to control your gifts at this school?" Sue asked as she sat on Reed's lap.

"Yeah. It's a school for mutants. I was there for a couple of years before I joined a regular school."

"So…um do you use your powers on a daily basis?" Reed asked

"Not really. I've teleported to a couple of places when I'm running late but I can't exactly fly to school or use my lasers,"

"How many people know about your abilities?" Sue asked as she read the question off Reed's clipboard.

"Nobody alive…except from those people at the school."

"Umm. I have no more questions," Reed muttered, he stretched his arm to his desk and put the clipboard down.

"Whoa, your pretty lucky," Johnny said to Harmony. "When Reed was testing me I was here all day,"

"I said I had no more questions. I now have to run more tests." Reed corrected Johnny impatiently. He turned to Harmony and flashed her a smile.

"Well let's get started then,"

Harmony felt awkward standing in the large machine. It was shaped like a box and there was a window in it so Reed could see what was going on inside and visa versa. Sue stood next to Reed near the window; she wore a white lab coat over her normal clothes. Reed leant forward and spoke into the microphone.

"Okay Harmony. I just need you to teleport from end of the chamber to the other," Harmony nodded and disappeared. Sue watched in awe as the girl momentarily reappeared on the other side of the chamber.

"Fascinating," Reed murmured beside her. Sue looked at the screen he was watching.

"This machine was supposed to track the path she took when she teleported just then."

"And?"

"It didn't track her path. This machine would have tracked her through all the dimensions know to man."

"That's not many Reed," Sue notified her husband.

"Well known to me. It seems she's going through a place that seems to hold …well nothing,"

"Like…like Limbo or something?"

"Maybe. I'll have to do more research."

"That's fine Harmony, thank you," Sue said through to the microphone. The glass window of the chamber slid away and Harmony stepped out,"

"Tell me what it feels like to teleport? Do you see anything strange?" Reed asked

"Umm. When I teleport all I see is the dark. Everything goes black for a second and then I can see again when I'm in a different place. It doesn't feel very special. It's kinda like walking,"

"Okay. That'll be all. You can go and find Johnny or something," Reed told Harmony. The girl grinned and walked out of the lab. The man sank down into his chair.

"Coffee?" Sue asked her husband, he nodded tiredly and closed his eyes. Sue smiled and took off her lab coat. She hung it on a peg on her way out of the lab.

As she walked into the living room the sight of Ben and Johnny bickering greeted her. She rolled her eyes, Harmony sat at the end of the couch looking amused.

"I told you! It's impossible to cheat on this game. Believe me I tried!" Johnny yelled at his elder.

"Then how come you gotta perfect score?"

"Cos I'm great at this! Look Rocky; just admit you can't play the game. You don't have to be ashamed, a lot of rocks can't play a play station 2,"

"Why you," Ben lunged for the blonde teenager, Johnny smirked and dodged with ease.

"BOYS!" Sue stepped between the men before the fighting could get any further. "Can you guys go for five minutes without fighting?"

"No," they replied simultaneously.

"Well you just agreed on something. Let's keep it that way. I'm going to get Reed a coffee, just be nice while I make it,"

"No can do sis. I'm outta here. Darren wants me to check out his new car. It's sweet,"

"Now wait a minute. You said you were gonna clean your room,"

"It doesn't need cleaning,"

"Well you need to get rid of all that clutter," Sue said in a know it all voice.

"What clutter?" Johnny asked as he tried to play innocent.

"How about those magazines? Do you really need all those old issues?"

"Hey, I'll have you know pictures of Gina Hadley are worth keeping. She' a role model to beautiful women everywhere,"

"Oh just go," Sue said, clearly fed up with Johnny. He grinned triumphantly and headed towards his room. He reappeared moments later wearing a leather jacket.

"Later," he shouted to the others as he walked into the elevator.

"Aargh! Why do I even bother," Sue muttered to herself as she wandered into the kitchen to get Reed's coffee.

Harmony looked at Ben Grimm. He looked back at her.

"Reed work you hard?" he asked after a few seconds silence.

"Not really. He just asked me to do some simple stuff."

"Hmm. Lucky you. He had me in there all day, sittin' down and lettin' him take x-rays and listen to my heart."

"He said he was gonna do all that stuff tomorrow. He seems pretty tired,"

"Yeah. Reed pushes himself way too hard. When somethin' crops up he suddenly dedicates his life to it. Doom's reappearance has had him in his office all day long. Drives Sue crazy."

"The way Johnny drives you crazy?"

"Don't even get me started on the matchstick. I swear sometimes I could just…" Harmony raised one eyebrow and Ben started to throttle thin air. He was obviously pretending the Torch was standing in front of him.

"Sorry," he said when he noticed Harmony's face. "Come on. There must have been a time when you seriously wanted to do that to someone." Harmony thought back to times when her and her older brother Joseph had argued. But then she had been the annoying one most of the time.

"Have you ever considered that Johnny teases you because you react so strongly?" Harmony offered. Ben considered the idea for a moment.

"Nah

"He likes it because your and easy target. Try it one time, just stand your ground and ignore him. He'll go crazy."

"Wait, what do you mean by easy target. I'm a tough nut to crack. Ah well. I'll guess I'll give it a go. Thanks,"

"No problem. Sometimes only an outsider can see the solution,"

"Your no outsider. Your one of us now,"

"How can I be? I mean you guys know each other so well and somehow Fantastic Five doesn't have a ring to it,"

"You'd be surprised. How d'ya think I felt when I was first called The Thing. Now the name's kinda grown on me. Still the most insultin' thing I've heard though."

"Worse than Johnny's names?"

"It IS one of his names. He gave us our names in an interview with some woman. We didn't even know about it until we watched the footage,"

"Ouch."

"Ouch all right. What's with talkin' about Johnny anyway. You seem to think about hot head a lot,"

"Me! No, why Johnny?"

"Cos that's the second time you've mentioned him in this conversation,"

'He's a good conversation starter," Harmony said, cringing when she realised just how ridiculous it sounded.

"Sure," Ben smiled knowingly "Don't worry your secrets safe with me," Ben pretended to zip his mouth shut, lock it and throw away the key.