Johnny gets out of the police car that escorted them to the Baxter building. Cameras flash off his sunglasses, as he looks around at the crowd that gathered to watch them. Sue and Reed get out on the other side, look around at all the people. A police officer opens the door to the back of a paddy wagon and Addy hops out. The man steps back as Ben steps out, making the paddy wagon bounce back into place. The police try and push the crowd back as Reed and Sue enters the building. "Is all that for you, Dr. Richards?" a man asks.
"I'm afraid so," Reed says, wearly lifting his hands, as if exhausted.
Johnny, outside, lifts his hands up. He slowly turns around, trying to give the people the most of himself. Ben walks up next to him, with Addy slinking around him and towards the doors quickly as possible. "Come on, Ben, smile. They wanna like ya, Ben," Johnny says as he heads for the door. "Say, hi." He points to a group of kids near the doors.
Ben stops and looks at them, the kids and the group around them gasp and step back. "Uh, don't do drugs," he says as he points at them.
The kids stand there, shocked, and the adults around them begin to clap and cheer. Finally Ben walks into the building and gives a nod to Jimmy. Jimmy nods back, then his eyes gets wide when he realised what was under the coat and hat.
"Welcome back to the Baxter, Dr. Richards," a gray haired mailman says, as he walks up to Reed. "I got the usual." The mail man begins to dig into his mail bag, pulls out a stack of mail, and hands it too Reed. "Good to have you back, sir."
"Thanks, Willie," Reed replies as Willie walks away. He looks up at Sue, "We had a tough year."
"Yeah, like nine straight!" Ben exclaims as he walks up and joins Reed in the elevator.
They all step into the elevator, and it begins to groan. The doors close and Sue pushes a button. The elevator gives a little jerk and everyone looks. "Either, we're moving really fast, or not at all," Johnny says. As a response the elevator buzzes and the 'Exceeds Maximum Weight' light comes on.
They all look at Ben, and he sighes. "I'll take the stairs."
"Wait, I'll go with you!" Addy exclaims as she follows him out.
"You know, you could have taken the elevator," Ben says.
"No way, I was going to let you walk up those stairs alone."
When they finally made it to the floor they wanted, the lights begin to flicker. "I just want to understand it!" a voice rings out. "FAST!"
Ben and Addy finally got in and notices Reed with Victor. "There a problem?" Ben questions.
Victor looks over at Ben and Addy. Ben had the look of what was going on and Addy just glared. "No," Victor says wearily, "no problem Ben." The elevator dings behind Victor and the door opens. "Just pay your damn electric bill and get to work on the cure." Victor quietly says to Reed. Victor glances over one more time to see Addy narrow her eyes considerablity. He knew she heard him. Victor walks over to the elevatior and steps in. Pressing the button the doors close and it begins to go down.
"I really hate that guy," Addy says as she goes over and picks up a couple of bills on the table.
In 1994 a movie was made with B-Movie Director/Producer Roger Corman. It was never released and it can only be seen through bootleg copies.
Johnny stood in a small containment unit and lights his hand on fire. He flings he hand down and the rest of his body catches. "Whoa!"
Reed, Sue, and Addy stood in the observation room watching through all the monitors. "He's heating up from his core," Reed observes.
"And his vitals are completely normal," Sue responds.
Addy takes a few notes. "He's always been a hot head."
1
Addy stares at screen with Ben's information. "If we're going to identify the souce of the mutantion, we need to isolate your recumbent DNA, so we can active positional genomes," Reed explains.
Ben looks over at Sue. "Huh?"
Without looking she replies, "We have to do physical to see what got zapped."
"Oh, why didn't you just say so?" Ben just questions over to Reed.
Addy taps on the keyboard to activate the machine. The image switches to from the front view of Ben, to the inside view. She taps the keyboard a few more times and the view switches to what appears to be a rocky heart.
"His internal organs are completely solid," Reed says as he looks at the image.
They gape at the image a little more, then turn and look at Ben. "How bad is it? You know I use to smoke."
2
Reed and Sue stare at Addy. Addy just looks back and forth between the two of them. "Fine!" she says as she throws her hands up in the air. She shifts in to her feline form and stands there for a second. She grabs the hem of her pants and starts to pull them down a little.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Reed questions.
"Pulling my pants down far enough to let my tail out, duh."
"Isn't that kind of a little low?" Sue questions, her eyes hardening a little.
"Believe me, all the important stuff is covered. Not to mention, I don't even like my pants down that low."
3
Addy yawned as she stared at the screen with Sue's information on it.
"It's not invisiablity, per say," Reed starts up.
"It's not?" Addy questions, half heartedly.
"No," Reed says, then he turns towards Sue.
Addy stands up and stretches. "I'm out of here, I need a nap."
Sue watches her leave and Reed continues. "You should be able to bend light around other objects, even people. If you could control your emotional state, better."
Sue blinks, angerly. "Excuse me?"
"I'm saying if you had a little more self control, you could locate the trigger." Reed slowly beings to swing his chair back and forth. "Can you remember your exact emotions, on the bridge?"
"Anger," Sue begins to huff, "rage," she gives Reed an evil eye, "frustration."
"Okay, is there anyway to duplicate that feeling? Some memory or.."
Sue just tilts her head at Reed, "I'm sure I can come up with something."
4
"You feel anything?" Sue questions as she hits the rubber reflex hammer against Ben's knee.
"Nope," Ben says.
"Here, use this!" Addy exclaims as she tosses a real hammer towards Reed.
Catching it he says, "Okay." He knocks it against Ben's knee. Ben's leg shoots up, kicking a chair, causing it to fly across the large room and smashing against the wall on the next story up.
5
"Are you going to come down from there?" Reed askes as he looks up at Addy, perched on a beam.
"No, I kind of like it up here."
Sue just looks at him and writes some notes down. "You just had to ask her how high she could jump, didn't you?" Sue quitely askes Reed.
Ben comes stomping in and looks up at Addy, then at Reed. "Having some cat problems?"
"She doesn't want to come down," Reed sighes as he scratches his head.
Ben walks closer to the position under Addy and calls up, "Are you going to come down, or am I going to have to shake the whole building to get you to come down."
Addy blinks, then sighes. She paces down the beam, then just leaps off. She lands carefully on her feet, stands up, and brushes some dust off herself. "What?" she askes when she sees them gaping at her.
6
Addy stares at the screen, showing Johnny's temperature going up. She glances out the window and grabs her tinted goggles, putting them over her eyes.
"He's hotter, than I anticipated," Reed says to the two women in the booth with him. "Okay, Johnny, back it down!" Reed demands over the intercom.
Johnny shakes his head. "I can go hotter!"
"Johnny, just back it down," Sue says.
Johnny clinches his fist and flares up hotter. "Uh, guys, he's starting to melt the equipment," Addy states as she taps madly on the keyboard, trying to save as much information as she could. On the screen Addy could see as Johnny's feet slowly starting to lift off the floor.
"Johnny, back it down, right now!" Reed screams out.
"Johnny!" Sue exclaims.
Reed slams down on a button, that causes foam to shoot out, and coat Johnny. They walk out of the observation, hearing Johnny laugh. "Buzz kills." They look to see the containment unit melted completely, gone in the center of the sides. "You guys are cramping my style."
"What style?" Addy shoots back as she pulls the goggles to the top of her head.
Sue ingores Addy's comment and says, "Johnny, you were at 4,000 Kelvin." He stares at her, questions written all over his face. "Any hotter and you would be approaching super nova."
"Sweet!"
"No, you idiot! Bad!" Addy exclaims.
Sue sighes. "That's the tempture of the sun."
Reed steps in to explain the problem with that. "Not only could you kill yourself, you could set fire to earth's atmosphere and destroy all human life as we know it."
"Got it!" He gives a foamy thumbs-up sign. "Super nova, bad!"
7
Sue sat on her stool, slowly turning invisiable. "How's that coming?" Reed askes as he looks up at Sue through the machine.
She looks down at herself the jerks, throwing a force out, at Reed, knocking him down. "I'm so, sorry!" She exclaims as he helps him up. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"I, uh, probably thought that was some form of laten hostility." Soon Sue and Reed begin to bob up and down, picking up all the information that was knocked over.
"What would give me that, idea?" Sue begins to walk a way when Reed stops her, by saying something. "I mean, you broke up with me, right?"
Sue puts a tight smile on her face. "Are you kidding?"
"No, I distinctly remember you, walking out my door, ergo..."
"I was ready for the next step, you weren't, ergo, I walk!"
"I think it was a little more complicated than that," Reed states by holding up a finger really quick.
"I just wanted to share an apartment. What was, so complicated than that?"
"There were a lot of variables to consider."
"No, there weren't!" Sue states as she moved a little closer. "There was you and me. There were no variables, no math. It was actually the simplest thing in the world, but like always Reed, your head got in the way."
"No, it didn't."
"Then, what was it?" Reed closes his mouth and looks over at Sue. "Did you feel anything when I left?" Reed swallows hard as he continues to look at her. "Do you feel anything right now?"
Reed takes a breath to say something, when Johnny walks in saying, "Hey, guys!" They turn to look at him. He stands there, with burnt holes in his shirt. "I think we have a serious problem."
Alicia Masters was introduces in The Fantastic Four #8, along with her supervillian step-father, The Puppet Master
"Our uniforms were exposed to the storm, like us," Reed explains to the group in the living room. "So, it can transform like us." He indicates to everyone as he talks, "Becoming invisiable, changing size on demand, and impervious to flame."
Johnny smiles as he feels his suit. Ben just laughes, "You guys look like an Eighties rock band."
Sue plays around with Ben's suit in her hands. "You know, Ben, this material stretches. I'm sure I can figure out a way to make it fit."
"Uh, da duh, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that."
"Uh, Sue, can you alter mine, please," Addy speaks up.
"How?"
"Sleevless, it feels constricting and the suit ending mid-shin. Oh, and a hole for my tail." Addy brightens.
Sue nods, knowing that Addy can't sew stuff like that.
"I love these costumes!" Johnny exclaims. "They're missing something, right? Like spikes or..."
Reed turns to Johnny and interupts him. "They're not costumes."
"You can't use your powers in public, Johnny," Sue informs him.
"You guys are worst than NASA."
"Johnny!" Sue exclaims.
"Maybe it's missing a utility belt," Ben chuckles into his metal glass.
Franklin Richards is considered an Omega-Level mutant
Ben squeezes a whole bag of oranges, getting the juice to collect in a glass bowl. He carefully picks up the bowl in both of his hands and starts to get it towards his mouth, when Johnny walks by and grabs it from him. "Alright, I'm here, let's make this quick. I've got a lot of places I've got to go today." He stops and gives off a laugh. "Oh, wait. I don't go anywhere."
Reed sighes and says, "Johnny, it's imperative we stay inside for the foreseeable of the procedure."
Ben trys to pick up his fork, but keeps fumbling around with it. Addy reaches over and picks it up, handing it to him.
"I know, I know that, Reed!" Johnny exclaims. "When you said that about last time," Johnny points towards his head, "my brain hurt a week."
"Johnny, its to dangerous for you to be in public," Sue says from her news paper.
"You've been saying that for years," Johnny says like it was nothing.
"Probably because it's true," Addy says between bites of her food.
"What worries me is that our powers are evolving!" Reed exclaims.
"I know, I know!" Johnny wipes his hands with a paper towel. "I'm so close to flying guys, I can taste it." Johnny throws the crumpled paper towel on the counter where it catches on fire.
Sue just laughes, "You can't fly."
"Yet," Johnny tries to say offically.
"Johnny, can you put that napkin out," Sue indicates towards the flaming paper towel.
"Oh, jesus!" He starts to smack down on it, trying to smother it, but the flames just get larger. Addy gets up, grabs the spray hose from the sink, and sprays the fire out.
"So, what's going on, Reed?" Ben askes, with a piece of fruit on his fork, near his mouth. "How are you going to cure us?"
Reed picks up a diagram and holds it up for everyone to see. "I'm going to build a machine, to recreate the storm."
Addy grabs the orange juice bowl, sets it in front of Ben, and sits back down.
"The cosmic rays will travel from this generator," Reed says as he indicates from one part of the diagram and moves over to another part, "to this chamber."
"What, no pop-ups?" Johnny questions.
"If I can reverse the wave signal," Reed ingores Johnny.
"It'll will return us back to normal," Ben tacks on there. Reed nods to that statement. "Huh." Ben goes and takes a bite of the fruit and crunches down.
"Right, so what are the risks?" Sue askes as she flips through the diagram's information.
"Even a small miscalculation could increase our symptoms expansionary, or pehapes even kill us."
Ben holds up his fork and notices no prongs on the end of it.
"Now, dyeing," Johnny starts, "that's bad, right?" They all just look at him. "I say we just let sleeping dogs, lye, guys." He grabs a chair, turns it around and stradles it.
"So, how long is this contraption is up and running?" Ben askes.
"I don't know, it's hard to say."
"How long, Reed?"
"I don't know! I..."
"You don't know!" Ben exclaims as he stands up.
"You don't want this to get worse!"
"Worse, than that," Johnny laughes, but quickly shuts up when Addy slugs him in his arm.
"Guys, look," Sue starts to get there attention. "We're going to be stuck here for a while, so let's just try and get along." Ben just gives a stoney glare over at Johnny.
Franklin's full name is Franklin Benjamin Richards
1
Johnny sprays shaving cream into one of Ben's hands and trys to tickle him, on the face, with the feather part of the feather duster. Smiling he stops to look at Ben's hand, to notice that he doesn't twitch at all.
2
Reed, walking down the hall, in his pajamas, goes to a door and opens it. "Oh!" He sees Sue go invisiable and cover herself with her towel.
"You could knock!"
Reed stands there for a second, not knowing what to do, then back peddles out quickly. "Sorry!" He closes the door. He stands there for a second, thinking what did he see.
3
Johnny calmly walks up to Addy as she paces the room thinking of something. He grabs her close, dips her down, gives her a passionate like kiss, stands her back up, and takes off running as she begins to throw things at him.
4
Reed sitts in his lab, in his uniform and lab coat. Sketching like crazy on a paper, try to get the image out of his head.
5
Johnny smiles as he runs the wooden handle of the feather duster, along Ben's face. He sighes in frustation when Ben picks up his non-shaving cream hand and waves it a little.
6
Reed looks in the mirrior, grabs a piece of his face, and pulls it out to shave down it.
7
Addy, in her feline form, crouches on the beam in the dark hallway. Johnny goes walking under her, and she jumps, landing on his shoulders. He starts to scream, and she jumps off his shoulders before he could flame her.
8
Sitting in his lab, Reed does one last detail to his sketch of his new schematics to the machine.
9
Reeds arm stretches out from one door, across the hall. His hand opens the door and reaches in. Johnny watches as he's hand come out, holding a roll of toilet paper. Johnny smiles and continues on his way.
10
Sue stares at Addy in her feline form. Sighing, Addy starts running full speed towards Sue. She jumps into the air to attack her, when she smacks hard against a force field. Picking herself off the floor she wanders over to her spot and glares at Sue as she takes another bite of ice cream.
11
Smiling, Johnny tryes to run the wooden handle down Ben's face again. Ben's shaving cream hand, flys up and makes a gooey smack in his face. Johnny tryes to hold in his laughter as he raises his arms up in trumpet, before he takes off running. Ben pulls his hand from his face and screams, "JOHNNY!"
Johnny's full name is Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm
Addy laided curled up in a chair, in the living room, sleeping. Johnny walks in, holding a pan of popcorn that started popping in his hand. He walks over to the couch and sits down, watching a Moto-X sports on the television. Staring at the screen, chewing on a piece of popcorn he says, "I've gotta get out of here." Putting the popcorn down he gets up to leave, but stops when he walks by a closest. Looking at his uniform, he grabs it. He goes to put it on and makes his way down to his car.
Sometime later, Addy was awaken by the smell of popcorn. She opens her eyes and sees the pan and a bottle of water sitting there. Figuring Johnny had to go to the bathroom or something she gets up and starts to eat at the popcorn. She reaches for the remote, as if to change it, when something catches her eye. Johnny standing on screen, goes and pulls the moto-x suit off revealing his blue suit underneath. "Guys!" Addy screams out, trying to get one of the other three to see this. He holds up his glove hands to show off for the crowd and the crowd cheers. Ben, Reed, and Sue walk into the room to see what Addy was yelling for. "Look!" she exclaims as she points to the screen.
"He didn't," Sue says as she places her hand on her hips.
"Oh, yes he did," Ben replies. "Flame boy never listens."
"What did he do to his uniform?" Sue asks as she looks at the television screen.
"Samething that Reed did to his," Addy says when she notices Reed pulling back is lab coat to reveal the same number five insignia on his.
They all look over at Reed, but instantly look back at the television when a lady asks Johnny, "Johnny, I've gotta ask you about this outfit." She holds the mike closer to his mouth.
Johnny looks into the camera and says, "Yeah, it's sort of Armonie meets Astronaut."
"So, what are your superhero names?"
"They call me the Human Torch. Ladies call me Torch." The crowd laughes and ohs at that statement.
"What about the rest of the team?"
A picture of Sue comes up on the big screen. "That's the Invisible Girl."
"Girl?" Sue sneers out.
"What about your leader, Reed Richards? I hear you call him, Mr. Fantastic."
"Could have been worse," Ben speaks up.
"Leader, thats a strong word," Johnny could be heard on the television.
"I guess," Reed kind of sighes.
"Is it true what they say about him? That he can expand any part of his anatomy?"
Johnny smiles right at the camera, almost laughing. "Well, I always find him to be a little limp." Reed's eyes get very wide as he just stares at the image of Johnny.
"And what about her?" As an image of Addy comes on screen.
"She is, wow." Johnny makes kind of a face as if he didn't know what to say about her. "She's... Feline."
Addy narrows her eyes dangerously and Ben grinds his teeth a little. "I'm going to kill him!" Ben states just as dangerously.
"What is that?" as the image of Ben appears, "What do you call that thing?"
"That's it. The Thing!" Johnny illustrates with his hand as he moves it. Ben jerks his head back, surprised. "You think that's bad, you should have seen him before."
"Okay, now I'm going to go kill him," Addy states.
They all turn and start heading out the door. By the time they got to the enterance of where Johnny was, he was walking out, with one girl on each arm. "There he is!" Sue points out towards him, as she, Reed, and Addy walked over towards him.
Ben stops when he sees Johnny's car sitting there. He heads over to it, getting a bright idea.
"Johnny!" Sue walks up to him, getting his attention.
"Can we talk about this later, guys."
"No, we can not talk about this later," Sue states.
"Yes, we can, at home."
"What is wrong with you?"
"Where's my ride?" Johnny askes as he looks out. He was answered as a giant red ball flys out and lands in front of him. He stands there, openned mouth, and clicks the unlock button on his keychain, making the red ball beep back. He just stands there, until a licence plate hits him in the head. Turning he looks to see Ben standing there. "You think that's funny, Pebbles?!" Johnny screams as he steps out on to the street, squaring off with Ben.
"Johnny!" Sue steps in front of him.
"What?!"
"You gave us names? You don't think. Now, you're the face of the Fantastic Five?"
"A face that's about to be broken!" Ben exclaims as he walks right up in front of Johnny.
"And skinless!" Addy hisses.
Reed steps in, trying to break it up. "Look, this isn't permanent, Johnny. We have to be careful until we are normal again."
"What if I don't want to be normal!" Johnny screams in Reed's face. Addy steps back, realising that what Johnny said, struck a deep chord in her. "I didn't turn into a monster." Johnny indicates towards Ben.
Ben swings back a fist, about to punch Johnny. He stops short in front of Johnny, but Johnny doesn't even flinch. Ben huffs a little, then turns to walk away.
"Johnny, say you're sorry!" Sue grits out her teeth.
A flame shoots out and slams in the back of Ben's head. Ben turns around and points to his head. "Did you just..." He was interupted by another flame that goes soaring and slams in Ben's face.
"That's it Tinkerbell!" Ben screams.
"No, Ben," Reed trys to say, but was drowned out by Ben's next words.
"You want to fly?" He goes to take a swing. Reed jumps in the way and Ben's fist indents Reed. The hit, connects with Johnny, anyways. "Then, fly!"
Johnny flys back and smacks into a Burger King flame broiled whopper ad. Flames shoot off him and adds to the flame broiled effect. Johnny pulls himself off the sign and calmly drops down on the ground.
"Wait a minute, guys," Sue says, trying to get them to settle.
"Ben, don't do this." Addy says, trying to get Ben's attention.
Johnny angerly walks towards Ben. "Let's see if we can get blood from a stone."
"Johnny," Sue trys to distrack Johnny.
"Let's see!" Ben growls. "Bring it, burn out!"
"You two need a time out!" Sue screams as she steps between them. One hand pushes Johnny in the chest, another creates a force field and pushes Ben back.
Ben growls, turns, and walks away. "Yeah, talk to block head. He started it!" Johnny hollors to Ben's back.
"I don't care!" Sue points at Johnny like a bad child. "Damn it, Johnny!" She turns around and follows after Ben. "Ben, wait!"
Johnny turns around and sees Reed and Addy stareing at him. "What?!" He continues to walk around his car, then kicks it.
"You need to learn to control yourself," Reed trys to calmly talking to him. "Think before you act."
"Yeah, but see, that's your problem," Johnny shoots back, "you always think, you never act. What if we got this powers for a reason. What if it was for a higher calling?"
"A higher calling, getting girls and making money?"
"Is there any higher?" Johnny askes.
"A lot," Addy puts in. They turn to look at her and she stares Johnny down. "Most people consider that to be very shallow," she states. They look at her, and she just turns and walks away.
Sighing Johnny looks at Reed. "You know what Reed, this is who we are. Accept it." Johnny turns to watch Addy walk away, then he gets a thought. "Or better yet," he turns to look at Reed, "enjoy it!" He then turns and walks into the coward of people.
The Human Torch's power is limited by the amount of oxygen is in enviroment.
Addy finally shuffled her way back to the Baxter building. As she came in she notices Ben slamming Johnny against the wall. He grabs something with his other hand and slams it against the wall, next to Johnny's head. "Uh, that was the prototype!" Johnny exclaims as Ben let's him go.
Addy walks up and askes, "What's going on?"
"Nothing," Ben growls as he turns and walks away.
Addy sighes, and steps into an elevator, going back up. As the doors close she hears Sue yell out into the lobby, "Ben!"
Addy finally makes it to the top floor and see Reed pushing some buttons that connects to the machine. Reed stops, worried about the fact, that she might know what he was about to do. She just glances up at Reed, nods her head, and quietly says, "Hey."
Reed carefully pretends to kind of notice and gives a half attention wave. Once he hears her door to her room slam shut, he gives a sigh of relief.
Addy shuffles across her room, wearily taking off her shirt, shoes, socks, and jeans. Underneath that she wore her blue uniform. To tired to take it off and to put on a pair of PJs, she shuffles over to her bed. Crashing on to the mattress, she pulls her bed covers up, and closes her eyes. Her eyes snap open when a loud sound of the machine starts to run, but she just mutter, turns over, and trys to go back to sleep.
