Addy snorted as the doctor insisted running a couple more tests on her. She wasn't happy about it either, but she told him later. She had family she had to visit. She had heard she was the first to wake up, soon followed by Johnny, Reed, then Victor. She heard that Sue woke up, but she was pretty weak in bed. She was visiting Sue when the doctors caught up with her at the time. It seemed like it took her forever to get rid of them. When she did, she finally was able to get a chance to sit next to Ben's bedside for a while. The second day, she had wised up to their tricks and managed to sneak around them to accomplished what she wanted to get done. The third day, they wised up to her. They finally and deliberately cornered her demanded that she sit around long enough for the tests. They were quite surprised when she lashed out at them. They didn't know what to think, until Reed caught them doing it and explained it to them, that was her normal behavior. He finally got her to calm down, and promised if she takes the test, he'll do it too. So, finally Addy agreed to take the test. Finally on the forth day, she was heading towards Ben's room when Johnny comes runs out and a mirror slamming against the wall behind him.

"You may want to be careful, he woke up on the wrong side of the bed!" Johnny shoots back at Addy as he walks by.

"If it was the side you were on, yeah I'm betting." Johnny stops and looks back at her. She just smiles and continues on her way. When she got closer to the mirror, she carefully skitters around it, her being bare footed and all. Finally she got to turned the corner to see Ben sitting there breathing deeply in and out, trying to calm himself down. He stops and smiles when he sees Addy coming. Sitting down in the chair that Johnny just occuppied, she smiles. "How are you doing, Ben?"

"I'm fine. How are you doing?"

Addy sighes and shakes her head. "Ben, you could be half dead, and me without a scratch and you still worry about me. I'm fine, I'm healthy, and I'm okay."

"Sorry, kiddo, you know me. I have to protect my family."

Addy's eyes light up. "Oh, on that note, I have something for you." She pulls a thin, square object from her sweat pants and hands it to Ben. "I figure you would want it," she says when she smiles.

Ben looks at it and smiles at the picture of him and Deb. "How did you know where to find it?"

"They have all our stuff in our rooms. Your's is over there," she points towards the closest. "I kind of figure you would like it and I know where you put it, so one of the days I visited I went and grabbed it."

Ben looks at Addy and smiles, "Thanks, I guess I do need this."

Addy just smiles, then she glances at the time. "Oh, I have to go. I promised Reed I would look over some of the notes we brought back." She gets up and starts to head out, turning back she smiles, "I'll see you later."

"I must of been out for a while, she seemed a little relieved."


With issue #232 (July 1981) John Bryne took over as writer, penciler, and inker


After getting around, Addy goes outside with her laptop. She puts it down on one of the tables, opens it up, and begins to work on it. Sometime later, Reed comes out and begins to work with her. After some hard thoughts, Reed gets up and looks out over the edge, while Addy continues on with her laptop.

After a while Ben comes out and asks, "Hey, how long was I out?" As he claps his arm with Reed.

"Hey, three days," Reed smiles and replies. "Man I was worried about you. How you feeling?"

"Solid!" Ben states as Addy only glances up at them. "Uh, a little close one, huh?" Laughing he asks, "What was that about?"

With a confused laugh Reed replies, "I don't know. I really don't know."

"But we are working on it," Addy speaks up without looking up.

"We've been going over the figures, again and again, and they all add up."

"Except for that palm pilot I had on the station, but conveniently it got busted, so badly that you can't get anything from it," Addy says again, still typing away at the laptop.

"I just don't understand, maybe I should have aborted s..."

Ben interupts, "Reed, it was a freak of nature, you couldn't have possible predicted it."

"Yeah, I'm still going with the Chaos Therory with it," Addy inserts for the third time in a row.

Ben looks over at her, then back at Reed, "Let it go." Reed just sighes and looks down. Ben glances out over the view and gets an idea. "You know you live through something like this, really makes you appreciate you have the right woman in your life."

Addy glances up at this, wondering what was Ben going with this, but then a thought crossed her mind that he probably saw Sue down there.

"Yeah, you and Debbie are perfect."

"I'm not talking about Debbie." Ben glances down at Sue and Reed follows his eyes.

"What? Come on!" Reed turns to completely look at Sue. "She's got a good thing with Victor. He's smart, he's powerful, he's successful..."

"Maybe you should date him, then," Ben interupts.

"Ben, she ended up with the right guy. Things worked out for the best." Addy just shakes her head. Reed just pats Ben on the shoulder and walks away completely. Ben just looks at Addy and she raises an eyebrow.

"Do I have to do everything, myself?" Addy just tilts her head slightly, nods, then goes back to work.


Bryne modernization of the Invisible Girl into the Invisible Woman, with increased powers, making the most powerful member on the team


After working for a good part of the day, Addy decided she was going to walk around. She began to walk through the woods and was heading back to the complex, when a sudden urge to climb the tree came over her. Shruging, she figured why not, it was nothing new to her. She made it up to the top of the tree in record time. She crouched on the branch in amazement. "What happened?" She could never get this high in a tree, or that fast. Staring at her hands, she noticed that her finger nails turned into sharp retractable claws. She felt an extra weight at the end of her, that kept moving, counter the weight of her body that moved. She scampered down the tree and crouched on the lowest branch. He ears then picked up movement in the under brush. A few seconds later her eyes caught the rabbit making it's way towards her. She focused on the rabbit, as she could see that it got suddenly brighter. She crouched down even lower, then sprung upon it. She heard it squeak in surprise when she grabbed it. Addy could smell the fear off it. She carefully put it down and it took off like mad. Addy just couldn't believe that she just caught a rabbit. She took off running towards the compound, but instinct took over, as her hands hit the ground and soon she was running on all fours.

Addy got towards the door and went to go in when her reflection in it stopped her. She had a tan fur on her, her eyes were more cat like, her ears sat a little higher and were pointed, her teeth were more fang like, and she had a tail swishing behind her. She just stared at her her reflection, then with a thought she made it slowly disappear until just plain Addy was there. She shakes her head, jerks open the door and walks in. She grabs the nearest person she could and askes them where Reed is. The person points kindly to a caferteria, Addy thanks them, and takes off down that way.

Addy skids to a halt when she sees Reed and Sue, "Guys, we've got a problem!"

They stop and stare at her, there eyes getting large. She didn't think she changed again, so why were they staring like so. That was soon answered when a voice rang out behind her, "Hey, you guyes. Hey." Addy spins around to see Johnny standing there with nothing, but a pink parka around his bottom. "You are never going to believe what just happened to me." He stands there panting, "What?"

"What are you doing? To excited to tell someone you finally got laid, and forgot to get dressed?"

"No," Johnny scoffs, "but I can explain this."


In the '90s Bryne was succeeded by writer Steve Englehart


Soon the group of four where walking fast down the hall way, Addy watching Johnny snapping his fingers, catching them on fire.

"It has to be the cloud!" Sue exclaimed. "It's fundamentally altered our DNA."

"Let's not jump to conclusions," Reed says, trying to keep a calm. "We need a massive amount of evidence, before making that leap."

"Whoa!" Addy exclaims.

"Guys!" They turn to look at Addy, then at Johnny. "Look." Johnny and Addy move closer to Reed and Sue. Johnny holds up his thumb, a tall flame coming off of it. They stared as he snaps his fingers, the flame going out. He snaps it again, and the flame appears again. Snapping once more, he makes it disappear. "Now picture that, but everywhere!" Johnny indicates, waving his hand around his body. "It was everywhere!" They continued to stare at him. "What?!"

Sue looks over at Reed with a 'I told you so' face. His eyes just kind of glance over at her, not wanting to see that face. "The cloud has fundamentally altered our DNA."

Johnny laughs with excitement. "Cool!" They continued down the hall. "You know what, guys, I think I was flying."

"Flying? You were on fire and flying?" Addy askes.

"Yeah, yeah."

"We need to find Ben," Reed just states, trying to get them to think of something more important.

Reed soon rounded the corner, closely followed by Addy. Sue was behind the both of them, and Johnny was behind her, snapping his fingers again. "Cut out Johnny," she says, tightening her voice.

"Getting the hang of it," he says calmly, continueing it.

"Johnny."

By this time Addy and Reed were pounding on the door, trying to get Ben's attention. "Hey, Ben, it's Reed."

"Stop." Sue turned around and looked straight at Johnny.

The flame disappears. "Alright."

"Alright?"

"Yeah, yes."

"God!"

"God."

"What's wrong with you?!" Sue grinds.

"What?"

Reed speaks over them both, "Sue you got the code?"

She walks over to the key pad next to the door and starts to push at some buttons. Addy just keeps pounding and watching through the window. Doing anything to get Ben's attention. They all stop to try and look through the tiny window when they hear a slamming noise against the floor. "Ben!" Addy screams.

"You alright, Ben?" Reed trys to ask through the door.

Sue goes back to pushing the buttons, as Johnny turns down the hall yelling, "Hey, does somebody have keys to this doors?" Sue continued her hardest and Reed looks down. "Anybody?" Reed kneels down next to the door. "Break the glass, it can't be that thick."

Everyone stops, to stare as Reed's arm stretches out, sliding his fingers under the very low door. They watched as his hand stretched up and slowly went for the lock. He unlocks the door, they stood there, continueing to stare as his arm slowly goes back to normal. He looks at them, not believing what happened, did. "That's gross," Johnny just states.

They here a crash, then a crumbling noise. "Ben!" Addy screams again. She pushes her way into his room. They all stopped when the noticed the wall with windows had a big hole in it.

"Ben?" Reed asks, hoping that he didn't cause the hole.

"Look!" Johnny points towards the hole and starts to shuffle fastly over too it. "Looklooklook!" They noticed a large dark figure running through the woods, away from the complex. "What is that thing?"

"That's Ben." Addy says under her breath.

"What's going on?" Victor's voice comes from behind them. They all turn around to see him standing there. "What happened to you?" He asks Sue.

"Victor, are you feeling alright?" Sue questions.

"I'm fine, just a few scraps, that's all."

Reed was talking with Addy, she was nodding saying a few things. "Ben, did this. He's had some kind of reaction, to exposer from the cloud."

Victor's mouth gaps open a little as he looks over and out the hole. "We, all have different symptoms," Sue trys to explain.

"Symptoms?"

"Victor, um, I should have..."

"Just find him!" Victor just turns and walks out of the room. Sue was left standing there, surprised at his snappishness.

"Anybody, got any ideas where the big guy is going?" Johnny asks looking out the hole.

Reed looks down and notices the picture of Ben and Deb. "He's going home."