A Dreadful Reunion

A/N: I apologize, this might be my last update for a while as I need to get my computer fixed (I'm on a computer in my family's spa, Athena Spa in New York at the moment) I'll try my best to get back to you soon.

Molly Banks was a typical woman. Fair job, nice house and many friends. What wasn't typical was her talking. She wastalkative at best,and she never gave up the oppurtunity to talk over the phone, whether at home or even in a phone booth. Although, today wasn't one of those days.

As Molly started chatting into the booth's telephone, a knock came on the door and she turned around to see Johnny Storm before her. "I'll call you back," Molly whispered into the reciever as she stared in awe. Opening the door, she stepped out as several people began to gather.

"Can I use the phone?" Johnny asked, getting a very weak and barely recognizable nod.

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Sue's phone began blaring as she got out from the Baxter Building, dragging Reed along with her. Immediately removing it from her pocketand putting it into her ear, she greeted, "Hello?"

"Hey sis," Johnny's voice came from the other side of the line.

"Johnny where are you?" Sue asked, finding Johnny's outings quite irritating.

"The docks."

Covering the speaker with her hand, she hissed, "I thought you said he was at the Empire State Building!" Reed could only shrug.

"Sue, I think you should check this out," Johnny's voice came. "This is really big stuff."

"I'm on my way, stay there." She then closed her phone and held out her hand for a taxi.

"Where're we going?" Reed asked, his wrist still being held by Sue's own.

"The docks."

"Um...okay," Reed said, unsure if he should protest or not. A taxi came to a halt at that moment and both Reed and Sue got in quickly.

"Where to?" the driver asked, his arm around the neck rest of the passenger as if it were a person.

"The docks, and hurry," Sue said.

"Hey, you're those Fantastic 4 guys," the driver said, looking at his two passengers with admiration.

"Just go."

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"This...this is horrible," Reed whispered, cringing at the sight of the charred bodies before him. "How could he have escaped?"

"They put him in a big box, you didn't think he was going to escape?" Johnny asked his soon to be brother-in-law.

"Now isn't the time for jokes Johnny. We have a dangerous criminal running around and we don't know where he is," Sue said quite intimidatingly.

"So this guy absrobs electricity, right?" Spiderman asked, who was perched on top of the containers, looking down on the other three. He had only just heard the full story behind Dr. Doom and was reeling from the information but Spiderman kept his cool, not wanting to seem foolish or embarass himself (although he was the veteran).

"Yeah," all three said simeutaneously.

"Well if he needs electricty to be strong, where would he go?"

"The power station, simple," Reed said with eagerness but he suddenly realized something. "Too simple. Victor wouldn't just go to the easiest place we could find him. He's not the kind of guy that would just go to the most obvious spot he would be."

Spiderman nodded, following along exactly.

"Well, judging by how the burns were still hot by the time we got here, Victor couldn't have gotten very far. We better get going," Reed said before looking up at Spiderman. "Would you like tocome withus Spiderman? We could really use your help."

Spiderman seemed to tense. "Sorry but I'm not exactly what you call the biggest fan of teams, didn't take part in much of that when I was a kid," Spiderman said with a dismissive wave.

"We'd really appreciate it if you'd at least look for Victor," Sue said warmly.

"I'll help but I think I should keep my distance."

"Why?" Johnny asked.

"I'm pretty much bad luck," Spiderman said half jokingly.

With a small chuckle, Reed commanded, "Let's move."

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"You know, I was having a really nice time when you called," Ben commented bitterly, as he and Reed sat high on a rooftop. Reed held a small circular object in his hand, which was beeping and had what seemed to be a radar on it. "The hell is that thing anyway?"

"This is sort of like a compass, it tracks down large electromagnetic activity, I made it in my spare time," Reed answered, holding up his device to the sun.

"How much free time do you have?"

Reed shot Ben something between an amused and annoyed look. It did not take long for the two to share a smile. It only took a moment for the smiles to die, a more serious and dark mood setting upon them in its place.

"I can't believe Victor turned out like this, I mean...killing people," Reed said to his best friend, finding it hard to speak of the man who was once one of the most powerful men in the world.

"Hey, you didn't know, none of us did. But what matters is that you got powers too but you used them right," Ben said with surprising wisdom.

Unable to believe that Ben made that beautiful speech up, Reed asked, "Who told you that?"

"Alicia," Ben said and Reed smiled faintly at this. "No luck?"

"Nothing unsual," Reed said, disappointed. "What could he be doing?" As if the device was responding, it began blaring. "I had to ask."

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"Oscorp? What the hell is he doing at a Oscorp warehouse?" Ben asked the others as they came up to a large, dark warehouse that had the large letters speling Oscorp across its front.

"I don't know but I do know that he's in there," Reed said, staring at the windows flashing blue every few seconds. "You ready?"

"I was born ready," Johnny stated confidently.

"For what I don't know," Ben whispered lightly.

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Author's Replies

lulu: Sorry about that, and I hope you can forgive me for keeping you waiting again. I liked that part of the movie too.

cHoCoLaTe-cHiHuAuA: Everytime I write something, people seem to just crave for more. Thanks for the review!

daveykins: I know but it would be odd...

Agent G: I'm getting a migraine about the whole spider sense thing so I'm going to try not to touch on that more then I need to.

jjonahjameson: I did? Whoops. My mistake, I guess I stupidly overlooked it. How dumb of me, heh heh.

Spartan Commander: I know that but it's not like Jonah would actually admit that to the public now would he? I'm not going to try to go far from the comics as I want to stay very faithful. I'm really grateful for all your knowledge, it really helps.

Mark C: As always, I'm paying attention to what you guys have to say. And yes I realize why Jonah says what he says. I've also decided to say Sue instead of Sue as you said.

KitKat514: I've been itching to drop one too. Glad you like it.