Disclaimers: I don't own the F4 characters, so don't waste your time suing me.
A/n This is my really lame attempt for action... if anyone complains, blame Xdaisy chainx, as I'm doing this for her :):)
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Chapter 19
Tony's body lay still on the ground, blood gushed from the wound in his chest, turning his once crisp white shirt red..
"Oh my God," Sue murmured looking at Reed, who had the same stunned expression on his face.
Standing before them was a man with dark hair. Maria could tell it was Jack's dad, the same blue eyes. He looked an older version of Jack, only he had a gun in his hand, pointing at another FBI agent-Jack, she hoped, would never have held such a weapon of mass destruction.
"You move, and I pull the trigger," the older man sneered at the Fantastic Five.
Maria looked at Ben, who gave her a 'don't do anything stupid' look, to which his daughter nodded.
Suddenly 'BA NG!' the FBI agent fell to the ground, the bullet lodged deep in his heart.
"We didn't move!" Maria cried instinctively, regretting it as soon as the gun was pointed at her.
"Do you wanna go next?" the gunman asked her, his voice laced with bitter anger.
"Leave her alone!" Sue yelled, and shot an energy field at him, sending the man hurtling through the air, and out of sight.
Johnny yelled "Flame On!" and burst into flames heading towards the direction Jack's dad a flow. His sister hot on running (a/n, anybody use that term?) after her brother, with Reed in tow.
"You alright baby?" Ben asked his shaken daughter, putting his arms around her.
She nodded, "Yeah," she was looking at the bodies of Tony and the other agents on the floor, "That bastards gonna pay!" she said with a threatening voice her father hadn't heard before.
Ben nodded just the same and the two of them ran in the direction the other three had gone.
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Jack's dad was lying on the ground groaning, before he slowly got to his feet. He saw Johnny flying towards him, and quickly searched for another gun on his hip. He fired at the Human Torch, but the bullet melted before it could harm him.
Behind Johnny came Sue and Reed. The Invisible Woman put up a force field around the three of them to ward off any bullets that were coming their way.
"How many do you think he has?" Johnny asked Reed after he'd 'Flamed-Off.'
"I don't know, guns aren't exactly in my area of expertise…" he replied. "Sue, how long can you hold it?" he asked her, she could see she was weakening slowly.
"Not much longer," she replied, her voice strained.
The force field was dying slowly, and neither of the three saw Ben and Maria running in the area outside the force field-but Jack's dad did.
He took one look at Maria and fired the gun.
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Maria felt the bullet hitting her, although it didn't penetrate her skin, the force of the hit caused her to double over. Anyone watching the scene (which Maria found strange, this kind of commotion normally drags people out of their homes, and attracts media coverage-and where had the people on the street gone?) would have thought she was a goner for sure.
Instinctively, Ben ran to her side, and was joined quickly by Johnny. But Maria was already pushing herself up slowly. "I'm fine," she said slowly, "It doesn't hurt," she assured them, letting the two men help her stand.
Reed and Sue also joined them, and neither saw Jack pointing his gun and firing. It was only after the bang did they realise this, and it was only after Sue grabbed hold of Reed for support did they realise that she had been the one the bullet found.
Reed lowered her gently to the ground, "Sue," he said weakly. But she didn't say anything, her breathing was coming in shirt gasps.
Everything after that happened in slow motion, the next to get hit was Johnny as he'd run at Jack's dad, but not in his flaming form.
Maria ran to him, cradling his dying form, she whispered that it would be alright, even though she know things weren't.
Ben screamed in rage and threw things at Jack's dad, knocking him for six. He didn't move after that, or get up.
After taking out Jack's dad, Ben walked up to Maria and started shaking her violently…
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End of chapter
