A few minutes later, the machine woke Addy up again. She sits up and blinks. She had gotten use to the sound of it by now, why would it wake her up. After a minute or two, it dawns on her. It was louder. Louder ment a few things. One, Reed screwed something up badly or two, Reed got it to work somehow. Standing up, Addy heads for the door, not even bothering to put her clothes back over her uniform. She makes her way towards the central room, when she hears, "What did you do?"

"Exactly what I said I would," she hears Victor reply. "Build a better, stronger, being and outsmarted the great Reed Richards."

She feels herself shifting again, in her Feline form, carefully and quietly she begins to sneak down the hall towards the second tier that overlooked the room. Her ears twitch a little forwards when she hears Reed say, "If you exposed yourself to the storm, you're indangering your life! You need help!"

"You've always know best."

By this time Addy manages to get to the second tier and looks down on Victor. Reed sees her, but trys not to let Victor know she was there, causing him to let go of some of his strength that was holding him together.

"So, tell me. What happens when you super heat rubber?" Victor asks. Reed's eyes gets wide and he shakes his head. Victor shoots a blast of lightning out towards him. Reed stretches out of the way, and collapes on his knees for a second, in weakness. He then gets up and starts to run around the tier, hoping to get to Addy, hoping to protect or to stop her before she could do anything. Victor fires off another blast and it connects with Reed. He screams in pain and goes flying out the window.

Addy growls, leaps up on the railing, and perches on it. Victor hears her and turns a little towards the noise. He doesn't even try to look for her and calls out, "Here, kitty kitty kitty!"

Hissing, she leaps through the air and lands on his shoulders. He grabs her and pulls her off his shoulders. He then goes to throw her, but she clings to his arm. He flings his arm one more time, giving it a small shock, forcing her to let go. While in the air, she begins to adjust herself, so she could land on her feet, but before she could touch the ground, Victor shoots a bolt of electricity off at her. It slams into her, throwing her back even farther, making her smash into some equipment and lying very still.


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"Ben, Ben!" Sue whispers as she runs up to Ben's prone body.

"Sue!" Johnny calls out.

"Johnny! The machine worked!" Sue calls back. "Give me a hand!"

Johnny comes running over to help Sue when he sees Ben, "Ben!"

"Get his arm," Sue says.

"You alright, Ben? Put him on the steps," Johnny says as he helps Sue drag Ben over to the steps of the machine. "What happien, big guy? I leave you for five minutes."

"The machine," Ben huffs out, "Vic used it on himself. He was affected by the cloud, like us."

"Where's Reed?" Sue asks.

"Vic must of taken him."

"Yeah, but where is Addy?" Johnny asks. Ben snaps his attention from the glass hole to look at Johnny. "She came after you stormed off in a huff."

Ben stands up and yells out, "Addy!" Sue and Johnny stand up as well, and joins him.

Johnny wanders around the room and notices mess that wasn't there before. He gets a little closer to it, then starts to run when he notices a pair of tanned fur and clawed feet sticking out. He drops down near her head and calls out, "Hey guys, over here! I found her." Both Sue and Ben comes running over, just in time to see Johnny pulling his fingers a way from her neck. "She's alive."

Ben sweeps her groaning figure up and takes her to her room. Sue and Johnny walks out on to a balcony, hoping to find Reed there, just like when they found Addy. They get to middle of the balcony and look up at the damage that was caused. They turn to look out, when they hear a roaring noise, to see a missle coming straight at them. Sue looks at Johnny and he looks down at himself. Ben comes walking towards them, not knowing what was going on.

"Oh, no!" Johnny exclaims as he runs over to the railing.

"We gotta get out of here," Sue says.

"I've got an idea," Johnny says without looking at her. He steps back and rubs his hands together.

"Don't even think about it."

"Never do," he replies, runs towards the edge, and jumps.

"What are you doing!? Johnny, no!" Sue runs towards the edge and looks over to watch her brother.

Sue turns to see Ben leaning against a stair railing, panting. "We have to help Reed!"

Sue grabs him by his shoulders and says, "It's to dangerous for you now. You have to stay here." She then take off running towards her room.

Ben sighes as he watches her go. "What did I do?" He continues to stare and then an idea strikes him. He turns to look at the machine, thoughts flying through his head, then he looks back at Sue's form. Once she left, he heads for the machine and begins to press buttons, trying to get it to work.

A bright light seeps into Addy's room. Her body screams in protest as she forces it up. She stands up and walks slowly out her door. She then makes her way over to the railling on the tier. The machine finally stops and the doors open. She watches as a tall rocky man walks out. "Ben?"

He looks up and see her standing there. "Addy, you should be in bed."

Addy goes around the tier, finds the stairs, goes down them, and head towards Ben. She stops in front of him and looks him in his eye. "I'm fine. What are you doing?"

Ben's hands shoot out and grabs her shoulders, when he notices her being to wobble over, steadying her. "Yeah, right. You're fine." He leads her over to a chair and forces her to sit down. "You stay here, kiddo. I'll be back."

She watches him leave and slumps in the chair a little, finally getting a chance to show a little weakness. Her eyes close. She could feel and hear her heart beating. After a while, she opens her eyes, stands up, and heads for the elevator. She press a button and the elevator begins to move. She steps into the lobby, when she reaches ground floor and steps through the wrecked doors, on to the street. She looks around, trying to determine where to go next, when she get's a whiff of Ben's scent. She sniffs the air and begins to head in the same direction to follow it.

She finely gets close enough to the strongest scent, when she hears "Good-bye Ben."

As she starts to run the corner, she hears Reed say, "I can't let you do that!"

"Reed?" Victor laughes, "I'll be right with you."

Addy finally get's a little closer that her feline vision starts to watch as Victor lifts up a pole and goes to slam it down, in what she assumes to be Ben. She hears a thunk and smiles when it won't go any closer to Ben as a blueish light glows, indicating Sue's force field.

"Hello, Susan." Victor turns to see Sue now standing next to Reed. "You three, are pathetic."

Addy hears the sound of a flame hit Victors arm and watches as Johnny lands next to Sue. Victor looks from his arm and at Johnny. "You miss me!"

Addy gets a chesire cat like grin and takes off running, on all fours. She leaps into the air, uses Victor's head as an extra spring board, and lands next to Johnny. Turns she looks at Victor and says, "I've got eight more lifes to go."

Ben gets up and goes to stand next to Reed. "Had a little relapse, huh?" Johnny asks. Ben shoots him a look and Johnny smiles. "Welcome back!"

"This, is gonna be fun!" Victor gloats, as he begins to draw electricty from the surrounding power lines. Once he gets enough of a charge, he shoots a bolt at Johnny. Johnny starts to fall over, but Addy catches him. Ben starts to charge up, to take Victor out, but Victor shoots another bolt at him, causing him to fly backwards. When Sue, deflects a flying object from hitting the crowd, Victor turns and fires a bolt at her.

Sue throws her arm up, causing a force field to block it, but Victor keeps the charge still going. "I can't hold it!"

Addy goes running towards Victor, and kicks him with both feet. She continues to run on when she see Reed come rolling over. Reed jumps up, flats out like a sheet and wraps Victor up. "Johnny, super nova!"

"I thought we agreed that was bad!" Johnny hollors back at Reed.

"Now!"

Johnny goes running towards them and flames up, flying up into the air.

"Addy!" Reed screams as he stretches out towards her.

"Gottcha," she says as she grips Reed's arms. She gives a powerful yank and pulls Reed off of Victor.

Johnny comes flying down and starts to swirl around Victor. Victor starts to fire off a few bolts, trying to hit Johnny. "Sue! You think you can contain it?" Reed yells over to her.

Sue grims as she throws a force field out and around the fire vortex. Ben stands nearby and quietly says, "Flame on, kid."

Victor keeps trying to throw out a couple of bolts. He turns to try and look out, giving a cry of anger. Sue stands there, trying to hold her shield as long as she can, not even noticing her nose starting to bleed. Finally her shield pops and Johnny flys out, flames disappearing from his body. Addy runs over and grabs him, pulling him out of the way.

They stand there looking as the fire dies down, showing a melting metal form of Victor standing there. "Is that the best you can do, a little heat?"

"Time for your lesson," Reed says to Victor, "chem 101. What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?"

Ben walks over to a fire hydrant and kicks the top off. "Ben!" Reed calls out. He then places his foot on the geyser of water, redirecting it towards Reed. Victor starts to run towards Reed, but Reed stretches and twists until the water starts to shoot at Victor.

Victor trys his hardest to move towards Reed, but it gets harder as more and more steam begins to rise off of him. Finally after a few tense seconds, Ben closes up the fire hydrant. They all stand there, looking, breathing hard, and waiting for all the steam to clear. When it starts to, a shadowy form could be seen. The steam finally disappears enough to show a metal statue like Victor standing there, not moving.

"Whoa!" Ben says as he looks at the form of Victor. Ben then walks over to Johnny and Addy. "You done good, kid." He looks at Addy, supporting Johnny up. "You too, kiddo." Johnny takes hand that wasn't being supported and slaps Ben on the shoulder. "Come on," Ben directs with his head, as he turns and walks towards Reed and Sue.

Johnny and Addy watch as Reed walks towards Sue. "I think I can support myself, now."

"Okay," Addy just says as she let's go of his arm.

Reed bends down a little and trys to help Sue up, asking, "Sue, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." She get's up with Reed's help.

Johnny comes up and claps Reed on his shoulder. Reed looks at him, then at the group of people that got closer to cheer for them. "Man, I love this job!" Johnny exclaims wearily.

Ben turns to look at Johnny. "Job, huh?"

"Well, we do have the suits," Reed adds in and looks over to Ben.


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Addy sat on the railing on the upper most level of the cruise ship. She could hear the party going on down in the room it was being held in. Thoughts had been running in her head after that battle with Victor. She didn't like any of them, at all, but she knew that now she had to decide what she wanted to do about them. She watches as a couple come out of the party down below and heads towards the railing. After a few seconds she realises it was Reed and Sue. Carefully she turns her head to listen in on them.

"I found a broken gasket," Reed says, looking at Sue, "from space."

"A gasket? Reed come on. There are..." She starts to indicate towards the party, but Reed stops her.

"If one us were to wear it," He holds up something that glints a little in his fingers. Addy watches as he stretches to take to one knee. "No more thinking, no more variables." The rest of his body, slowly slides back down into place and he looks up at Sue. "Sue Storm. Will you marry me?" She turns invisiable, leaving her clothes standing there. Her hand reaches out and slids the ring on to her finger. "Sue, you kind of need to, say something."

"Oh!" Sue responds. "Yes, yes."

Reed sighes and stands back up, he then leans in to kiss her.

Sue laughes. "That's my nose, genius," she says as she begins to appear again. "This are my lips." She touches his face and guides him in for a kiss.

Addy smiles and watches as they stop to look back at the party. She then sees Johnny go running out on the deck, followed by Ben's thumping foot steps.

"Flame On!" Johnny screams as he flys up and into the air.

She watches as he flys out and smiles when she hears Ben holler, "Show off!" She then watches as Johnny goes out and makes the five insignia for their team. Frowning she shakes her head, hating to do what she had finally decided to do. She sat there for most of the night and was glad when it was time for them to go home. She sat in her room writing a letter to everyone in the house hold, then she puts it in an envelope and seals it. She sits and waits for a time when she knows that everyone, even Reed would be asleep. Finally she sneaks out of her room and puts the envelope on the fridge, with a magnet. She sneaks quietly to the elevator and press the down button. The elevator dings and opens it's doors. "Bye, guys," she says as she turns to look back into the building. She steps into the elevator, press the ground floor button, and whispers out as the doors close, "I'll miss you."

After finally making it too the ground floor she begins to walk out, when Jimmy stops to talk to her, with his arm in a sling. "Going out, Miss Weston?"

Addy gives a small sad smile. "Yeah, Jimmy. Need to clear my head."

"Be carefully out there, you know it's not safe, at this time of night."

Addy gives another faint smile and responds, "You should know, I can take care of myself."

Jimmy watches as she walks out the door, never to be seen again.