Disclaimers: I don't own the F4 characters.
Disclaimers: Same apply, unless stated otherwise, the only characters I own are the ones that are not the F4 characters. Actually, scrap that, the only character I own in this is the girl!
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Chapter 5
The three heroes ran to the direction of where the scream came from and saw the Ben with his back against the wall, and the girl holding a hand up in the air, in the other hand she clutched her bag.
The girl turned to them, "He is an intruder, a monster of some kind, I do not know, I …," she said before Sue intervened.
"It's alright," she said as she approached her and slowly lowered her arm. "He's a friend," she explained.
The girl looked at Ben confused as he dropped to his knees, causing the ground to tremble. "Thanks Suzie," he said allowing Reed and Johnny to help him to his feet. "I take it this is our visitor?" he asked, a question to which Reed answered.
"His name is Ben Grimm," Sue told her, "There's something you should know about us," she said gently. "But first we should all go and sit down," she said looking at the three males, who nodded. All three turned and walked towards the laboratory with Sue and the girl following them.
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When they were all sitting down in a circle, Reed began explaining to her about how they were astronauts, and how they went up into space and were exposed to the cosmic storm cloud. "The cloud altered our DNA," he began, "Ben suffered the most, he no longer looks human," he stated. "I now have the ability to stretch my body," he demonstrated by stretching his arm and touched the ceiling – the girls eyes widened. "Sue can turn invisible and create force fields," on cue the girl looked at Sue as she disappeared before reappearing. "Johnny can become a human fire ball and fly," the girl looked at Johnny and he held up a burning hand.
"I'll show you my flying trick some other time," he said winking at her, making her smile.
The girl looked back at Reed, "Where does Victor Von Doom reside?" she asked.
Reed smiled at her use of English, "He turned out to be evil, and after losing a fight between him and the four of us, he got transported back to his country of Latveria," he explained.
The girl nodded, "I feel it my turn to tell my story," she began, looking at all four faces. "Firstly, allow me to apologise for calling you a monster, I hope you can forgive me," she said looking at Ben.
Ben smiled, "Don't mention it kid, it's all good."
She returned his smile, and took a deep breath and began to tell her story.
"I am not from this planet," as the words left her mouth, each on the team members raised their eyebrows in surprise.
"It is true…" she continued, then all of a sudden she started cackling, a really evil laugh that chilled each hero to the bone. "I have to admit, you have made this oh so easy for me," she said.
Reed looked confused at her change of dialect, "Made what so easy?" he asked, suddenly a little afraid, and he took hold of Sue's hand like a child grasping his mothers.
"Killing you," she said, and pulled out a gun she'd kept hidden in her bag next to her. She aimed at Johnny and fired. He had no time to react and 'flame on', and fell lifeless to the floor.
"Johnny!" Sue screamed, and let go of Reed's hand, and kneeling by her fallen sibling.
The girl took advantage of her not putting up a force field, something which she didn't even think about doing as her brother just being shot was her main priority. She too fell to ground.
Reed held sue in his arms, too shocked to even shed a tear. "What the hell is happening?" Ben asked, he too was shocked and couldn't believe the events unfolding behind his eyes.
The girl smiled a smile so evil it had more stone turning power that Medusa's head, "Don't worry, I don't have a bullet for the two of you. I was going on the element of surprise with the siblings… the two of you are a little bit more complicated." Which was true, would a bullet simply bounce of Reed? Would a bullet even penetrate through Ben's skin?
"Why are you doing this?" Reed asked finally finding his voice. "Why?" his voice cracked as he asked the second question, and tears flowed down his face.
The girl shook her head, "I'm an assassin," she said. "But do I really want to bore you with my story of who sent me to kill you, and why I have healing abilities?" she looked at the two males who were silent. "No," she shook her head mockingly, "I didn't think so."
"I'll crush you bones," Ben stepped threateningly towards her.
The girl smiled a little, "Really?" she reached again into her bag and pulled out a grenade launcher then pointed it at Ben. He blasted into smithereens as soon as she launched one. "I guess not…" she said smiling.
With that she turned to Reed, who looked more bewildered than ever, was this a dream? Was he going to wake up? He pinched himself, and it hurt-he wasn't dreaming.
"I don't understand," he said, still holding Sue in his arms, her blood soaking through his clothes.
"I bet Mr. Fantastic isn't feeling so 'fantastic' at the moment, is he?" she mocked, "Pun intended," she grinned, and pulled out a smaller gun out of her bag. "You didn't even think about searching it, did you?" she teased. It was true, she'd saved Johnny's life, he had no reason not to trust her… but then again he was relatively new to the superhero business.
"Now, this is going to hurt a little bit," she said, and fired at him.
Reed felt the dart pierce his skin, and could feel the heat of the poison flowing into his blood stream. Slowly he lost control of his limbs, and sank to the floor. He had no feeling left in his body, yet was still aware he was slowly melting.
The girl smiled, "I wander if the X-Men will be this easy…" she wandered. Peter Parker fell for it, she healed Mary-Jane and he was putty in her hands. Bruce Banner was a little more difficult, but she killed him in the end.
She could hear sirens in the distant, someone must have reported the gun shots… She gathered her belongings, and quickly ran to the nearest fire escape making an incredibly quick exit, disappearing into the night.
She was never suspected, and never found out, for she was the Secret Assassin. After all, who would suspect a Hero?
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A/n you probably guessed from the title what was going to happen… I decided to change the ending when I wrote a mock ending, and my sister's fiance read it, and thought it was 'sick and twisted… funny in a morbid black comedy way.'
A lot of questions are still extremely unanswered, and confused, but if you look for the answers, there won't be as many questions… after all, what the fun in having all the answers? All the fun is found figuring it all out!
