A/N: Well I think that last chapter was pretty decent although I realize a bit... perhaps boring..? Not really a lot of storyline thrown in, just a bit of basic they go here, go here, do this, do that and now the action starts. But hey, every writer is their own worst critique and I am the WORST critique ever when it comes to my stories, soo it is very possible that this is just me. Still liked it though, and its important for me to feel good about it as well D So here's the next chapter. Also for those who are wondering, this is how the updates for my stories will go (in order): Grand Theft Autumn (Four Brothers story), Time Turner (Harry Potter, Marauder time period story), Fantastic Four: A New Addition (self explanatory), and then my story Secrets Can be Deadly (Card Captor Sakura). My other story just falls in whenever someone reviews. So for those of you who have me on Author Alert, and you see me update Time Turner, you know that this story is next D So anyways here's the next chapter, enjoy D

Disclaimer: Blah Blah Fantastic Four isn't mine. :P

Fantastic Four: A New Addition

EilayAdnayVolieay

Chapter Eight: Getting Alicia Back, Part 2

"Too bad, the Fantastic Four have already arrived. I was really hoping we could just leave to the other hideout, but I suppose now we'll have to fight." Rhia sighed as she stood up. Ice put her hand in front of Rhia, stopping her.

"Perhaps we don't need to fight..." Ice replied thoughtfully. Jake ran up to her.

"What do you mean, perhaps we don't need to fight? Ice, you're not going to seriously chicken out when we've gone this far are you?" Jake asked. He glanced at her face, trying to read her expression. To see what she was thinking... usually, Jake was pretty good at reading minds. That was his ability, to read minds. He enjoyed fear the most, but he had never been able to read Ice's mind. Perhaps it had something to do with the ice that ran through her blood... perhaps she had the ability to close her mind so that he couldn't read what she was thinking. Either way, he knew at this moment he wanted to know what Ice was thinking.

"No, I'm not going to back out. We've gone so far now that it isn't even realistic to think of backing out. But no... the Fantastic Four were easily fooled by Rhia's disguise as... what was that waitress' name, Rhia?" Ice asked. Rhia told her quickly and Ice nodded. "Yeah... Becky. They were fooled by that, even the Human Torch was. You morphed into a whole other person... couldn't you pretend to be someone else? Someone like the Thing's little girlfriend lying on the floor over there?" Ice asked. She said all of this very quickly, because she knew that the Fantastic Four would soon find the room that they were in.

"So you're trying to say I should disguise myself as Alicia over there, you guys are suppose to just run off and hide with her, and then what?" Rhia asked. "I just cause havoc for them? That's not a part of the bosses plan, you know that!" Rhia replied. The sound of footsteps was getting closer, and Ice used her powers to freeze the area around the door to make it harder to open. She had just bought them some time, but not enough to sit around arguing.

"Listen to me, Rhia, its perfect! Right now, we aren't ready to fight them. You know we aren't," Ice added when Rhia opened her mouth to object. "Its not that we aren't able to, but we're weak right now. Our powers are still being... recharged. Until then we can't fight to our fullest abilities, why do you think we were actually having trouble fighting Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm? It wasn't because they were strong, but because we were weak. We were lucky that it was part of the plan to let them survive, follow us, and then the rest from then on was basically Improv. We need to improvise things here, and don't you think it would also benefit us to get on the inside?" Ice exclaimed. Rhia, for the moment, said nothing. What could she say? The plan was good... and it would work, but she had two choices. Fight the Fantastic Four and get rid of them at that moment, or pretend to be Alicia, and hit them when they were weak. Although she didn't like to admit it, she knew that her powers weren't all up to par. She couldn't lift anything overly heavy with her mind anymore, and when she morphed, she couldn't morph into two people anymore. She was still weak... but she could pretend to be Alicia, cause trouble on the inside without suspicion cast on her, and grow stronger all the while.

"Let's do it." Rhia finally decided. She walked up to Alicia... she knew that it was difficult with her powers strong to make herself resemble another human, but she was weak. Would this even work? She stared dead on at the young woman lying on the floor, taking in every inch of her body. She would need to have every detail perfect... she had no idea how well Ben knew Alicia, but she wasn't about to take a chance that he knew her well enough to notice a small detail missing. Finally, she closed her eyes... still picturing Alicia in her mind's eye, and concentrating on that image fully. Jake cringed as he saw Rhia begin to morph into Alicia. He had always found it disgusting when she did that, because her whole body just melted into goo and then rose up from the goo, morphing slowly into Alicia. He knew that she no longer needed the woman to morph. He motioned for Ice to follow and they grabbed the real Alicia. Ice shot out water that froze instantly and they slid out of the window, out of the building and fled away from the Fantastic Four.

There was a banging sound that was now outside the door. Ben punched the wall and the ice flew off. Rhia, now morphed into Alicia, threw on a look of despair.

"Ben!" she cried out. She didn't need to disguise her voice... when she had been morphing, she had made her voice change to the voice that belonged to Alicia. Ben rushed up to her.

"Alicia! Where are they? Where are the people that did this to you?" Ben demanded. He HAD to know.

"I... I don't know, Ben. They heard you all coming and just abandoned me here. They said they'd get me again later, or that they'd go after someone else... I... I was so scared. They threatened me..." Rhia rushed towards Ben, who automatically pushed her away. Rhia looked up at him confused.

"Ben... what's wrong?"

"Where's Alicia!" Ben demanded. Rhia smiled.

"I am Alicia, silly." She replied. Oh no... I must have forgotten to do something! Rhia thought to herself. She hoped that Ice and Jake weren't too far away with the real Alicia. She had a feeling she might need their help.

"No, you're not. Alicia's blind, she can't see! But you ran towards me... you knew where I was." Ben accused. Rhia put a look of hurt on her face instantly.

"Ben... I knew where you were because I heard your voice. I sensed where you were... have you never heard of people who couldn't see being able to sense when someone was near, and a general sense of where, although never being able to clearly see where? It hurts me that you'd accuse me of something like that... I was just happy to see you, they hit me here, I thought..." Rhia allowed her voice to trail off, knowing that Ben and the rest of the Fantastic Four would fall instantly for her act. She wasn't wrong. Sue rushed up to her, and hugged her.

"Don't worry about Ben, he was just worried about you Alicia. We could barely get him home each night to rest, he was always trying to look for you. He's just being cautious, you understand don't you?" Sue asked. Rhia nodded her head slowly. This was going to be more difficult then she had thought. She forgot that Alicia had been blind... but it hadn't been her that had followed her around, to get her routine down. Ice did that, Rhia just went in and kidnaped her.

"I'm worried about her, Jake. Its been a week now and we haven't heard from her. I haven't even seen anything new in the tabloids about the Fantastic Four. Just something about the Human Torch doing some daredevil act last night, but nothing about the rest. What if they found her out? Do you think she could pretend to be a blind woman?" Ice asked worriedly. Jake walked over to her.

"If we were to check on her... would it make you feel better?" Jake asked. Every day that Rhia had been gone, Ice had been asking the same questions over and over. She was worried about her friend, and she had that right. He just wished she'd try to enjoy the fact that they could spend time together without Rhia always interrupting them. Rhia and several others that were like them knew of his relationship with Ice, but their boss didn't. Not that he would care if he did know, but finally Rhia was gone and wouldn't interrupt them every time they tried to just talk about personal things, and she was still managing to get in the way of it.

"You know, I think that might be a good idea. I'm sorry Jake, I really don't mean to be such a pain... its just I've known Rhia since we were kids when we first got our powers and although we often don't get along I still worry about her just as much as I know she worries about me. Besides, if there isn't anything in the tabloids about the Fantastic Four, what havoc could she possibly be causing there?" Ice asked. Surely by now the Fantastic Four would have slipped it to the tabloids, accidentally or not, that strange things keep happening around them that they don't know any reason to. And if not... what has Rhia been doing all this time? Jake grabbed his coat and tossed Ice hers.

"Lets go, get this over with, and hey, maybe we could go get... dinner?" Jake asked hopefully. Ice smiled.

"Maybe."

"JOHNNY!" Ben shouted. He had been lying on the couch when all of a sudden Johnny came in and asked him if he wanted to try some of the cake that Sue and Alicia had made. Ben had of course said he would like some, and Johnny had dropped the plate of cake on Ben's face and fled with his own plate. Ben stood up and wiped the cake off of his face, accidentally getting some on the floor. Sue came in and saw it and smiled apologetically.

"I guess we should have known that Johnny wouldn't stop joking around even if he did stop acting as selfish as he used to," Sue replied. She wiped up the cake off of the floor and handed a cloth to Ben. "Here, wipe your face up and then go kill my brother. I'll leave you some cake in the kitchen for when you're done," she added laughing. She headed back into the kitchen and sighed.

"What's up?" Rhia asked. Sue smiled in her direction.

"Oh nothing's wrong, really... I'm just... thinking, that's all." Sue replied. She grabbed the leftover cake and put it into the fridge. Rhia walked over to her, making her steps slow to make it seem as though she still didn't know her way around the kitchen yet, even though she really could see everything.

"About what exactly? Your brother? No, I doubt that... he's immature sometimes, but that's not something you really would be thinking a lot about. Wait... its Reed again, isn't it?" Rhia asked. Over the past week she had so far done nothing whatsoever to the Fantastic Four. They had of course insisted that she stay there with them to help lessen the possibilities of her being kidnaped again. Little did they know that the only reason she would disappear was if she decided to become Rhia again suddenly. She didn't know why she didn't attack them... they were constantly showing her that they were weak when just hanging out at home. So why hadn't she tried anything yet? She had multiple chances to kill any of them, but every time she even considered it she made an excuse not to. Like, its too late, or too soon, anything that she could use to talk herself out of attacking them. She hadn't contacted Ice or Jake once as she had promised she would, and she felt bad for a moment because she knew they must be worried. No, she thought bitterly, they probably haven't even noticed that I haven't contacted them. They're likely too caught up in themselves to even care, she decided. Sue's not-so-happy laugh interrupted her thoughts.

"Reed... yeah, I guess that's it. He told me before when we got engaged that he had changed. And I had spent a lot of time with him, and I saw that he did change. But not enough... there's still a part of him that is fully dedicated to his work and although he promised again not to work so much, it still goes first with him so much. I guess what I'm trying to say is... I think I'm having second thoughts about this engagement." Sue grabbed a cup out of the cupboard and poured herself some coffee and grabbed out another cup for Rhia.

"You.. You're having second thoughts? Sue... have you talked to Reed about this at all?" Rhia asked, taking the coffee gratefully and sitting down. Sue took a sip of her coffee and shook her head.

"No. But— " Sue was interrupted by the sound of Ben shouting at Johnny.

"GET BACK HERE TINKERBELL! I JUST WANT TO TALK!" Ben shouted. Johnny ran past the kitchen then stopped and ran back in long enough to grab a cupcake off the counter. He took a bite and put it back down.

"Nice cupcakes Sue. BACK OFF PEBBLES!" Johnny shouted then at Ben who was still chasing after him. Rhia couldn't help but laugh. The Fantastic Four weren't at all how she had imagined them. They had their own fun, their own problems... they were just like her and her other friends with powers. They just fought for different reasons.

"Well... no, I haven't talked to Reed about this. I don't even think he'd hear me out if I tried. I'd just start to talk and he'd tell me how he'd changed, how things were different now when really... I'm just not sure if they are." Sue admitted. Unknown to her, Reed was standing outside the doorway listening. He thought of going in there but realized that at the time that wouldn't be the best thing to do. He instead went into his room to sit and think. He had to turn things around with him and Sue... before he lost her for good.

"I don't understand... look at them, Jake! Rhia's talking to the Invisible Girl as if they're... friends." Ice's voice sounded almost hurt for a moment, but she quickly removed the sound from it. Jake narrowed his eyes.

"I know. And it doesn't look like she's done anything to hurt them. I can't get all of her thoughts, but she's trying to talk Invisible Girl there out of leaving Mr Fantastic. I don't like the way this is looking Ice... I think she may have tur— "

"DON'T even think that, Jake. Its not true... you know it isn't. She's just bidding her time... that's all. Give her time, Jake," Ice pleaded. Jake shook his head.

"I don't know how much time we can give her, Ice. You know we have a strict schedule. We need to finish the Fantastic Four soon... or else it will be our heads on the platter, not theirs. I'll leave her a little note in her email... you know she always has to check that," Jake added. Ice glared at him.

"You want her to blow her cover don't you? Alicia is blind, what if someone walked in while Rhia was reading her email? You don't think that would come off as the least bit suspicious Jake?" Ice asked. Jake sighed... he knew that Ice was right, but what else could they do? They couldn't leave her a note inside because it was possible that Ben or someone else might see it and ask her questions about it. They couldn't expect her to read it in her email because she'd risk blowing her cover... then an idea came to him. He closed his eyes, and Ice shrieked as she saw the veins in his head look like they were about to bust. Finally, the appearance of the veins went down, and Jake opened his eyes.

"I sent her a telepathic message. Let's just hope she gets it," Jake added. He jumped onto the ice slide that Ice provided and slid down to the bottom. He'd be checking again soon...

A/N: You guys are probably ready to kill me now for not having action scenes, and I was but I actually rewrote this 4 times, 3 times with a different idea, and then once with this idea that was submitted by a reviewer whose name at the exact moment I don't have on me since I'm offline, but I will mention it the next chapter for sure. Next chapter will probably have major action scenes and just to let you in on a little spoiler, I'm planning to have it that Rhia has second thoughts about harming the Fantastic Four because she's become friends with them, but Jake wants to make sure their dead and follows them to make sure they are. After that... I guess you'll just have to read. D Hope you enjoyed, go ahead and throw stuff at me for not having more action, I deserve it D And please review.