A story about family where a relative of Susan\ Invisible Woman and Johnny\ Human Torch came to visit and reveal himself to be not just a normal relative.
Another day in New York at the office of the 4 great heroes of the world, The Fantastic 4 at the Baxter Building of course the usual stuff when they are off duty; Reeds Richards is doing research and Johnny is well annoying Ben Grimm\ The Thing.
"I am telling you matches I really don't want another one of your pranks." Ben said after been splashed with his soda who was overheated by Johnny.
"Don't blame me brick head it was fun." Johnny said amused while the Thing was rather angry at him.
"Grrrr." The door then opened for Reeds to come in with his pad in hand.
"I see you 2 try to blow up steam again." He said looking around hoping in a sense that Susan who be around to levitate the problem. "By the way where is Susan?"
"Sue went to the airport to pick up our nephew Damian, the son of our cousin Liz married with a Canadian billionaire. And also he entered high school at age 12 and finished at 16." Johnny said leaning on the sofa.
"Couldn't you have gone to pick him up?" The Thing asked.
"I am here to prepare the environment for him; we will have a nice time to tell about my heroic deeds he will surely enjoy all of it."
"If he is like his uncle I am out of here." Ben said to Reeds.
"Let's first meet him Ben. When he will exactly arrive?"
"Pretty soon I hope." Johnny said leaning on the chair.
In the meantime
"So what do you think of this way of traveling?" Sue asked the passenger near her in the fantastic-car.
"Something I should have expected, especially that my aunt here is the Invisible Woman and my uncle the Human Torch half of the Fantastic Four." Said a 17 year old boy in a calculated manner, he was a white slender boy with oval face, dressed with a white t-shirt and a grey pullover and grey trousers with black sneakers, he had black ordered hair, brown eyes wearing a pair of rectangular glasses with a thin dark frame.
"I really am glad that we meet again since we haven't seen each other in years."
"Yes, 12 years, really a lot have changed. And I guess that uncle Johnny will go a bit overboard if we stay to believe how he is doing when he appears at the news?" He commented.
"You don't need to worry if something is too much you can always come to me or the others." Sue said before landing inside the building.
"You mean Doctor Richards and Mr. Grimm I can't wait, especially when you have the time, when you aren't at work. Really wonder how are you in reality when you aren't with saving the world." He said getting out from his seat in the fantastic-car with his baggage.
"We are much more alike then what the news shows you in Montreal or on other televisions." Sue said smiling with a hand over his shoulder. "Who knows maybe after this visit you will start to call Reeds and Ben uncle as well."
"Maybe." He felt a headache coming to him, and placed his hand near his right template.
"Damian, is everything fine?" Sue asked.
"Y-yes Aunt Sue."
"Are your migraines bothering again?"
"In a sense, yes, hundreds of therapies and none worked maybe Doctor Richards will have something to help me in this case." Damian said feeling his headache hurting more and more. His aunt eventually took him by the shoulders to get him to the kitchen. There was a reason for those headaches, an accident when he was 12 in the biology lab with a short circuit. The headaches eventually stopped after a minute.
"Reed will surely help you, don't worry." She said.
"Please I don't want to be a burden now for the Fantastic Four."
"You will not be a burden but I don't want you to suffer those headaches, your mother and father complained a lot about them. Plus been my nephew I only want to help you and nothing more. Hopefully the effects of that accident will be cured." She said smiling before knocking the kitchen door to open.
"Guys this is our nephew…."
"Damian." Johnny exclaimed taking him by the right shoulder. "Long time no see haven't we."
"Yes uncle Johnny 12 years to be precise." He said feeling awkwardly.
"Keeping track of time, too bad it passed so long and what an unfortunate event that your big sister Mary 20 years old isn't she, hasn't managed to come as well."
"Indeed how unfortunate." He said with monotony turning to the other 2.
"Don't seem like too much happy greeting for Uncle Johnny I see." The Thing commented coming to him.
"You must be the Thing or better to say, Ben Grimm, pleasure to meet you." He said expending his hand to shake his.
"Nice to meet you as well, not quite what I have expected to be honest." Ben said his rock hands touching his.
"Awkward situations are something I try to avoid having in this 14 day trip." Damian said before Reeds came to him.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Damian; I heard your father is the famous Louis Du Molais computer and engineering expert."
"Indeed Doctor Richards although I am trying my best to be part of the company my field is towards something else." Damian said putting his black backpack down to give him a notebook.
"Hmm, medicine and genetics quite impressive." Reeds said looking through the pages.
"Some of them contain calculations for robotics and mechanics, this interest helped me enter faculty last year. Right now I am on the summer vacation."
"Impressive, guess we will have a lot to discuss."
"Reed please he should try to relax in this summer and we got a lot of activities together." Johnny said grabbing him by the shoulder.
"Please not something that is for children 6 years of age." Damian said placing his hand on his template in annoyance however he was having migraines again.
"How about today we just stay and relax for a bit. Come I will show your room." Susan said taking him by the hand to lead him to his room that was literally across from hers' she and Johnny prepared it. It was a medium size room with a bed near the window and a white desk with a computer a small sofa and a lamp for reading books plus a wardrobe. His mother explained that he liked to read sometimes and he brought some books with him in his backpack.
"It is nice." Damian said smiling.
"Your aunt dictated everything I would have added some more stuff." Johnny said while forming a circle of fire with his right hand.
"Wasn't necessary actually Uncle Johnny." The teenager said before feeling headaches again.
"By the way I don't know why but is there a bank nearby?" Damian asked confusing the 4.
"There is one nearby, why asking?" Asked Ben.
"I don't know how to explain but, I believe there is a robbery at this moment." He said.
"How would you know?" Johnny asked, the fire extinguishing before hearing the alarm.
"There is a robbery at the nearby bank; sources indicate the robbers are of strange appearance." Said H.E.R.B.I.E the computer.
"How do you know there will be a robbery?" Ben asked the boy.
"This is something I wanted to tell."
"You tell us when we return, till then stay here." Sue said and the FF went on their mission while the boy locked himself in the room his migraines starting again more powerful than before.
"Something isn't right." He went to his back pack pulling out a camera and took a piece of paper to write a note, in a sense this is something he must try to tell when his uncle and aunt return because his issue, wasn't only the headaches. He must prepare for something that is triggered when they turn violent.
At the bank a gang of 4 robbers were filling their bags from the main vault; however there was something to know, the robbers were dressed in something like a black armor and had helmets like those of animals. One was having a mask like a bat, one a male lion and another jaguar the last one just a normal one. They right in that moment managed to pull out a bag full of gold and thousands of dollars.
"We got everything." Said the jaguar theme robber.
"Perfect let's get out of here." Said the boss.
"The flea-circus is leaving already; too bad I wanted a show." Johnny said throwing balls of fire to one of the robbers.
"Darn it, we must leave now." Said the chief and they started to retreat.
"Not so fast." Ben said throwing himself before the jaguar theme robber, but he managed to dodge him and jump over. Mr. Fantastic then came and started to use his hand to get the money they stole before one with a sonic pistol fired at his hand to get it back.
"Let's go now." Ordered their boss and the robbers pulled out from their belts some metallic balls that were thrown to the ground creating a large and dense pile of smoke for the rubbers to vanish while both the heroes, the guards and the civilians were coughing because of it. The smoke eventually cleared.
"Well seems like they had escaped." Ben commented before Reed noticed the marks on the furniture and wall.
"At least they haven't escaped with all the loot." Commented Johnny.
"We have to find them." Sue said before turning to Reed.
"Those marks are quite unnatural." The doctor said touching the marks on the wall before noticing something like a claw and picked it up. "Hmm, interesting."
"Studying architecture now stretch?" Ben asked coming to him.
"Those claws marks seem like it belong to animals, but they seem very oversized." Reed said showing the marks before turning to the claw in his hand "And this claw seems like it had grown naturally as if it came from an animal."
"We will see to this later now, I wish to see how Damian is doing. Tomorrow we will have a fine day together." Johnny said before Reed was hearing a transmission threw his earpiece.
"H.E.R.B.I.E what is going on?"
"Hope your nephew isn't like his uncle in reality." Ben said to Susan.
"We have to return there we have intruders at home."
"Damian!" Sue exclaimed worried.
"Let's go FLAME ON." Johnny said firing himself before all went out from the bank to the Baxter building. Inside the building 4 intruders were moving around the halls all of them were not there to destroy or rob but to find someone.
"Have you managed to find him!?" Asked one with a male with leopard helmet on.
"Still looking." Said a lion theme helmet.
"It would have been nice to knock first before entering." Johnny said bursting inside to attack the lion theme one while the others entered inside the building.
"It seems the robbery was a distraction." Reeds said.
"I need to go to check Damian." Sue said.
"You go; we have zoo animals that need to be caged." Ben exclaimed before charging and Susan went in the other direction, Reed then attacked and captured the one with a leopard mask, despite the escape attempt Ben managed to catch him by the 'tail' before smashing him against the wall breaking the helmet.
"Not much stuff, wonder how you got inside." Ben exclaimed before the intruder turned around for the face to be seen and the Thing widened his eyes.
"That is new."
Susan managed to get before the room where he was staying; the invisible woman in all cases should have been tired since she only ran as fast as possible to get to the building and now to his room. However she wasn't a normal woman, she was a hero who had a lot of difficulties more problematic then this race. Plus there was the protective motherly instinct was that was also powerful since the boy that was in that room was her and brother's nephew and despite the small fact that they are 3rd grade relatives she wanted him safe.
"Damian!" Sue busted inside but the room was empty. "Damian, where are you?" she moved around the room worried of where she might be, walking to the table with the computer she noticed a camera and a note on. Picking it up, she noticed that it written with a trembling sick hand.
'Watch video number 3, highly important, about accident.'
"The accident?" Sue said opening the camera to look into the screen at the video list finding the video that was indicated pressing on play she saw Damian who was looking sick and frightened wearing only a large undershirt as if something bad will happen.
"The situation is much bad then I though despite the therapies, the accident in the lab was something….that it had cursed me, I am hoping that the visit in New York would help me." The boy placed his glasses down before feeling his headaches coming. "Those…headaches…..that I had been born with are turning more violent…when something bad is happening…since the accident…..and when they come it triggers." The boy hit his fist against the table in the video and out from it yellow fur with black spots was starting to come out extending to his body.
"Oh God!" Sue said watching the rest of the video till she heard something outside probably one person "Damian."
"So we really got fur balls around. Not the ones I like." Ben said the robber before him was having leopard like features before Reed unmasked the one with lion helmet.
"Human-animal mutant hybrids, mostly felines, not expecting this."
"Well it seems we will play with some kitties the rough way." Johnny exclaimed stopping one with a cage made of fire to stop the lion theme one before coming down deactivating.
"RRROOOAAR!" A humanoid panther came down and attacked Johnny before turning to the Thing.
"Come now kitty; let's see what you can offer me." The Thing said before the other mutants formed up behind their teammate.
"It's clobbering time." Ben said readying himself before the mutated animals lunged at him, however the Thing, Reeds and Johnny came to attack them however this time it was a bit harder, especially with the claws that lunged into Reeds while Ben was throwing one attacker here and there. However when the panther mutant was near Johnny, who was still down, tried to attack however he stopped in motion and something like a wave came into its head as well as in the others.
"What is going on?" Johnny asked before another one, this time a cheetah-human hybrid appeared but with some slight differences, it had only an undershirt and a pair of three quarter pants alongside with messy black hair, however the features were just like a feline, like the legs but the head was somehow a bit human, it immediately lunged at the panther throwing him away before going in front of the others and looked at them with ferocity.
"Let's retreat." Ordered the lion theme mutant running away before the Cheetah turned to the 3 heroes menacingly, ready to attack.
"You turn on your mates and then on us. Not quite a good choice of action." Ben said preparing his fists.
"Don't hurt him!" Sue came.
"What?" Ben asked before the cheetah mutant jumped on him.
"Better tell him not to hurt us." Ben commented before he threw the cheetah hybrid away.
"This naughty cat really needs a lesson." Johnny said flying above him however Sue immediately covered the cheetah in a dome of energy.
"Sue what are you doing?" Johnny asked.
"Trying to help him." She said turning to the cheetah who was furiously trying to get out.
"Damian, calm down, they are gone."
"Damian?" Johnny asked confused however the creature was still fighting.
"Damian, please remember, I am your aunt. I want to help you, try to calm down." Sue said looking into his eyes, once eye contact was made the creature's mind started to turn clear, anger and savage self dissipating, recognizing her.
"A-a-aunt S-Sue." He whispered collapsing to the ground unconscious, Sue then released him from the cage she made with her mind and immediately went to him.
"Everything will be all right now. I promise." She said, before the fur on the body and the tail of the creature started to disappear and his feet started to turn human again revealing himself, dumb striking the others.
"Damian?" Reed asked
"Johnny since when you and Suzy have a nephew that is wild?" Ben asked.
Sometime later in the medical zone
"It was when he was 13 years old he was in the biology lab with the teacher working on some research his group was conducting however something went wrong. Some short-circuit happened during the experiment and a loose voltage cable landed on his head. Liz wrote about this in one of her letters to me, and as for the migraines he was born with them, he went to hundreds of therapies to find something to cure them but it was all to almost no avail." Susan explained while looking at her unconscious nephew who was restrained on the medical bed while Ben was near him.
"This doesn't explain however why he could turn into a human-cheetah hybrid." Johnny said turning to his sister.
"Liz wasn't able to tell this in her letter but I guess Damian should be able to explain everything." Sue said.
"Same old cousin Liz doesn't want people to get concerned or frightened."
"Well in any case I think I found the source of his migraines." Reed said placing an image on the screen of his computer showing strange curved schematics from the Frontal Lob of the brain and like a needle going through the motor strip, sensory strip, parietal lobe touching the occipital lobe.
"It is a brain abnormality that is responsible for his headaches; each lobe of the brain is responsible for a specific reason. The frontal lobe is for Personality, behavior, emotions Judgment, planning, problem solving, Intelligence, concentration, self awareness for example. The occipital is for intepreting vision like colour and movement. The parietal is for sense of touch, pain, temperature as well as Spatial and visual perception, as for the cheetah transformation." Reed placed a diagram with the boy's DNA.
"His genes had suffered from some sort of mutations with a foreign substance."
"Is there a way to cure them?"
"I will make some research on the abnormality; in a way I might be able to cure it. As for the DNA I might need to make more tests to figure something out."
"Not something I had expected from one of cousin Liz's children." Johnny commented rubbing his head, while on the table the teenager started to come back to his senses.
"You were really lucky kid that your aunt Suzy stopped us on time, however helping us before starting to attack us wasn't something too wise out of you. You were pretty close to a Ben Grimm beat down." Ben said to the boy.
"Believe me, it wasn't something I wanted to do especially not in the first day." Damian commented before turning to the door to see his aunt and uncle entering.
"Sorry for what happened Damian, your mother hasn't mentioned the whole situation when he sent me the letter. Not even when I met her last time a month ago she in a sense tried to say something but from what I saw the situation is too overwhelming for her and probably the same is for your father and sister to tell." Sue said deactivating the restraints.
"Don't be sorry in a sense I didn't wanted something like this to happen in the first day while visiting on one hand." He said getting up rubbing his head in shame "And on the other maybe my mother was right about coming here to New York but in my case I was left without any more options to solve this..." He looked to his hands in frustration "Wretched curse."
"We can see that however how come that you can become a humanoid cheetah?" Johnny asked.
"In order to understand this I have to tell that my headaches and migraines are not normal, you know that I had them since I was born. However it is because of one aspect I never managed to tell."
"What that might be?" Johnny asked before feeling a headache small one but quite annoying. "Now I have them."
"When I am concentrated enough, on a person I am able to sense and read the thought it has, however when there is a violent action nearby, it simply comes to my mind triggering the headaches and also I can send waves that create headaches, the thing I had done with the other mutated animals." He explained.
"Telepathic abilities, impressive those are quite powerful from what I can analyse." Reed said before the boy collapsed on the medical table.
"Yet when I do that it hurts a lot."
"Good thing to know, however pick on someone else next time, Ben for example." Johnny said and the Thing groaned when hearing that.
"Don't listen to that kid."
"Problem is that I percept violent thoughts from people that are not in the room if they have thoughts like try to murder, steal, fight and so on that are very powerful, it triggers everything. The more agitation there is in some place nearby it triggers the transformation." He said feeling another headache.
"Is someone doing graffiti outside with Mr. Grimm in an awkward situation?"
"Yancy Street Gang again."
"And the cheetah thing was because of the accident in the bio lab?" Johnny said.
"The accident was provoked in reality, before going to the lab there was a strange tube in my locker, I picked it up and went to the teacher to analyze it. However out of sudden when we realized what was inside there was an explosion of one of the light tubes on the ceilings. The teacher tried to pull me away, but I tripped and the tube was opened some of the serum that was inside was splashed on my head, and when the cable that electrified me made the substance to entered inside my body. It was reported that someone meddled with the electrical system, making it overload. At first, things were normal for a time after that but when I and professor Delavan realised the gravity of the situation, it was only after a month. When I also transformed for the first time, luckily during summer when a burglar was nearby my house, probably wanting to enter." He explained holding his head as if it weights a tone. "After that I shunned myself from others, only working trying to finish school and find a cure for this, even thou a genius and the boy of a billionaire after that event my life turned into almost an eternal nightmare."
"I really am sorry for what happened Damian; let's hope Reed might manage to help you with this." Sue said rubbing his head, never thinking that she will find her nephew from a cheerful boy to one tormented by mutations while Reeds came to them.
"Well Damian from what you told us your situation is because of the abnormality in your brain, in a sense I can cure it but only if you aren't sensing bad thoughts and actions nearby the magnitude that could trigger your transformation."
"I hope it could be done but when will that be possible?"
"In a way by my analysis, I could try to build a device that I have to place it on your head, just like at the therapies you usually have, of course I will have to run several other tests and by tomorrow it could be finished." Reed said.
"I am glad to hear this but in a sense I didn't wanted to bother with this situation from the first day."
"Hey you will not bother us on one hand, and on the other freaks like us must stick together considering that you probably feel your head explode 14 out of 24 hours every day." Ben said.
"You consider yourself a freak? You are a hero and role model for many people. Me on the other hand I am called the la Bête du Montréal, the Beast of Montreal because when in that animalistic form my mind is 50% clouded into a mist. Animal instincts guide part of that form, although I can still think, after sending telepathic waves and enter the minds of the adversary, like what I did to help you I lose control after that not distinguishing friend from foe for some time. I would have been closed into a cage a long time ago if the people would know who is behind the animal." Damian said.
"You at least don't want to provoke other people; your mind could still think like a human if calmed, others on the other hand that we know started to have different personalities." Ben said.
"He means the Hulk." Johnny said.
"Once I heard people characterising me with the Hulk."
"There are differences; you don't turn green and start to rampage and destroy everything around you, from what I heard the Beast only attacks the one who makes the trouble."
"Doesn't give much consolation." Damian murmured getting on his feet.
"Well in any case we must try to first find a way for you to don't go anywhere outside the Baxter building, New York been very large who knows where we might find you if you transform and go on a 'hunting trip'." Ben said.
"I took some precautions before coming here. In my bag there is a package that contain 15 darts with tranquilizer to put down a normal cheetah alongside a pistol for them this of course it is to try to turn me numb so you could capture me. Or that or restrain me very tight in the bed during the night, felines know very well how to navigate in the dark and to take people by surprise. This been the majority of cases in my experience, most activities coming out at night."
"You can sleep here in the medical room, I will make sure your restrains are tight enough so you wouldn't be able to escape, but we will also take the darts with tranquilizer. I might in this time study your situation to see what could be done." Doctor Reed said.
"I tried several times that; however I managed to escape in some cases, well not all of them to be honest."
"Well if you try to escape, Ben will surely capture you if you try to jump on him." Johnny said.
"It is doubtful you would want that Mr Grimm."
"Hey, one aspect of been a pile of orange granite is that I wouldn't be able to feel you scratching me with your claws. Of course I am not expert in big mutated cats." Ben said.
"Lucky me." He said monotonous picking up someone else's thoughts now.
"Yet is there another thing we should know when you wild out?"
"I in a sense if I am restrained well I stay in that form for approximately 2 hours that depends how big is the conflict that I pick up in a place." Damian explained.
"This might be enough time for me to analyze however I wonder when you pick the next conflict." Reed said.
"That now depends." Damian explained before turning to Ben. "By the way there is another thing to know; when a person is thinking of another person that is close in an area I sense that person. And your girlfriend wants to eat lunch with you tomorrow Mr. Grimm, she is working on another statue in her workshop." Damian said and Johnny started to giggle.
"Thanks for the info?" Ben asked awkwardly.
"It is the abnormality; it makes me read other people's minds at random and especially if one thought of that person that isn't here."
"Really need to get rid of that." Ben said before the boy collapsed on the table as if knocked holding his head that was as if ready to blow up.
"What is going on?" Johnny asked.
"Two...rival...bands...at an alley...some meters from here...want to fight one another...with...clubs and knifes." Damian said feeling his body changing again.
"Ben, restrain him while I tie him up!" Reed said and the Thing grabbed him by the shoulder to press him on the medical table while Reed activated the metal restrains to his hands, feet and body while fur and the cheetah self was coming out.
"HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS." He started to hiss menacingly at the four while struggling to escape.
"H.E.R.B.I.E analyzes his brain and the abnormality, and show me all the data that comes out." Reed said while stretching himself to get to his computer while Damian started to behave even more like an animal wanting to go on a hunt.
"Reed, we can't let him suffer like this." Sue said while looking at her nephew who started to grrr and hiss at them more.
"Susan, Johnny go and stop that gang fight, Ben make sure he remains restrained." Reed said and both Susan and Johnny went out to stop that fight while Ben remained near the now teen human-cheetah who looked at him menacingly.
"HIIIIISSSSSSSSSS."
"Listen kid, try to cage the animal and stay put I don't think we want an incident now since we try to help you. Plus I don't think you want to fight with me and hurt yourself." Ben said while the boy still growled and looked at him menacingly.
"GRRRRRR."
"You better do what I told you quick, in my case I don't want to wrestle a cat. But if you insist, I am always ready for it." Ben said while the cheetah teen narrowed his eyes at the Thing in anger.
In the mean time
"You will regret that." Said a street gang member holding a club after been scratched by the knife of his opponent.
"We will see about that." He said assaulting him but the other hit him with his club pushing him back, before attacking again but a force dome came and stopped the assault of the other.
"We usually don't interfere in street gang fights but you picked up the wrong time for a fight." Susan said before Johnny came and set fire to the clubs turning them to ash and the knifes to be too hot to be hold in hands.
"And guess you don't have weapons now to fight." Johnny said sarcastically while flamed on.
"Darn it! Run." Said the gang leader and each started to disperse.
"Damian's ability really could be useful, too bad that the abnormality turns him into a half animal person." Johnny said.
"Let's hope Reed managed to get the data that was needed to cure the abnormality, at least to no more have headaches and turn savage when an animal." Sue said returning home.
Back in the lab
After sensing the fight stopped by his aunt and uncle he immediately collapsed on the table and started to calm down although he no more had headaches, he was still in his animal form but he was now tired from the struggle but his mind was starting to clear itself.
"I thought that he should be turning back after calming down, a gang fight isn't that much a conflict." Ben said.
"He will turn back to normal after a couple of minutes don't worry; he however needs to have his mind in control of his body again." Reed said looking over the data. "I don't know however, how much it will take till that happens."
"It will not take long." Damian said in a much more thick and heavy voice.
"Damian, you are all right, your mind is stable?" Reed said.
"I am taking control back, little by little, for now however I am able to think and talk normally. But my animal instincts are still on, in a sense I need my body to be exhausted enough to turn back, in those cases however when I am successfully tied up it take some minutes till my mind take back the control." Damian said while his aunt and uncle came back.
"Glad you are back, although still a bit an animal." Johnny said.
"Wouldn't be that a problem, if my mind could control this form as well."
"That is because of the abnormality, the savage self is tied to it, once removed you wouldn't go out of control when your mind captures information regarding different crimes around." Reed said.
"That or we might need a leash if something goes awry tomorrow." Johnny said.
"Johnny, you are not putting your own nephew in a leash." Sue scolded him while the boy felt awkward.
"Just saying."
"Well in any case at least your cat self will not scratch today." Ben said.
"For the moment, I need to pass the night. Argh" Damian said painfully turning back to normal.
"Good news is that I collected enough data in order to make a cure for you it shouldn't take too long and I guess that you might need to stay restrained till I finish it that when you sleep." Reed said.
"At least the restrains here will hold me, I just hope that the cure will not take too long to make." Damian said while looking at Ben in a way feeling bad he at least can spend time as a normal person but Ben Grimm is something surely worst and feels ashamed for having to divert their energy for him.
"Hey, kid how about you eat something there is still some time till the sun settles completely." Ben said deactivating the restrains.
"Maybe I could, hopefully I don't turn cheetah while out of my restrains." He said.
"Let's get you to eat something first for now." Sue said smiling helping him up.
"And don't worry, I will get the darts." Johnny said.
"Uncle Johnny, please don't flame on, they aren't fireproof." Ben and Sue went to the kitchen to prepare a special dish from Ben's own aunt. In a sense the situation went smooth during that dinner "Not many times I have a dinner without headaches."
"At least you weren't in the animal form during dinner." Ben said.
"Not many times I stay without headaches at dinner or as a civilised person time by time." Damian said washing his dish after eating.
"Wonder still how many people outside a room or building could you detect with your mind." Johnny asked.
"I pick up thoughts of other people at random usually in the case of criminals however they come out of sudden, in any case I wish to no more have to intrude in personal lives of others around unwillingly." Damian said before feeling headaches again.
"A neighbour heard what happened earlier and thinks there was some sort of super-villain attacking, quite annoyed at the noise."
"More rather a flea circus and your headaches aching provoking a not very pleasant situation for you." Johnny said.
"Really wish to escape this." Damian said his pain increasing now.
"You sense another crime?" Sue asked holding him by the shoulder.
"Yes...and this has the magnitude necessary to turn me again...Tranquilize me, quick." Damian said holding his head, Sue immediately went to get a dart just when they noticed that he was starting to grow fur on his hands, however Sue managed to plunge the tranquilizer in his shoulder. And immediately after that Damian started to feel his body deserting him no more feeling strength both in body and mind but luckily his fur was starting to disappear.
"Let's better put you to bed and restrains you on." Ben said taking him up.
"Can't believe I have to restrain my own nephew as if a wild animal." Sue said.
"Wouldn't be for long you don't need to worry. Reed will surely erase that pain in his brain." Ben said getting him to the medical wing to be restrained.
"It happened again hasn't it?" The teen asked feeling numb and weak waking up in restrains.
"Almost, would you need another shot to pass the night?" Ben asked.
"No I think I will pass this time. Really want to rid myself of those things both the headaches and mutated DNA." Damian said tired.
"Sure, you do, although I really admit that if you wouldn't go savage you might really do great as a hero." Johnny said.
"Doubtful, in my case I really wish to rid myself of it, thinking of myself as a mutated animal freak was the main source shunning myself from been a normal teen, although there are people who help me, the thought of turning savage and harm them is my main source of wanting to rid myself of this." He said clenching his right fist.
"Sleep for now Damian, tomorrow hopefully Reed will cure you." Sue said.
"What happens if the restrains will break?"
"H.E.R.B.I.E, make sure he doesn't leave this place if the restrains break and he turns cheetah."
"No problem Susan, if the animal comes he will not go anywhere till tomorrow." H.E.R.B.I.E said.
"By the way if he is still in that form, remind us to get a leash tomorrow just in case." Ben said looking at the teen.
"Wished this visit to have started better." Damian commented.
"Damian, between us, we had worst visits then yours, at least your condition can be contained because your mind isn't totally turned off when you go cheetah."
"I really am sorry now for the one who has to turn into the Hulk, but I guess he doesn't have headaches as powerful as mine."
"He doesn't probably, but his personality is that of someone else when he hulks out, I would say an irony this time." Johnny said while the boy collapsed his head on the pillow.
"God, prevent me from turning animal tonight."
At a secret location
"Unfortunately we haven't managed to take him sir. There had been complications." The Lion mutant reported to a man behind a shadow.
"No matter at least we know that he is at the office of the Fantastic 4. We will manage to fulfil our agenda very soon, and we shall make sure of that." Said the man in a calm but heavy voice.
"When shall be the time to strike?" The panther mutant asked.
"We will strike tomorrow when they least expect. No more diversions." Said the man with an evil smirk.
Author's note: Hope you enjoyed the lecture; next chapter will be coming soon.