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Beta: Silver Dog Demon.

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"What just happened, Reed?" Sue asked, staring at the now blank screen.

"I don't know," the scientist said, moving over to another screen, "it seems the satellite cut out."

"How?" Ben asked, "There's nothing wrong with that satellite, we were just up there."

Reed typed something into another of the computers, "If I can go back a few minutes . . . ah ha!" he said, "There was an increase in the energy levels of those unknown sources."

"And do you think that Johnny's one of them?" Sue asked, still staring at the screen.

"Looks like it," Reed said, "Give me a few minutes so I can triangulate their location."

"Who was that girl?" Sue asked.

"Knowing Johnny, it's probably his new girlfriend," Ben said, grinning, then turned back to Reed, "How's are things coming Stretch?"

"Almost . . . got it!" Mr. Fantastic said, smiling at the other two. But the smile faltered as he looked back at the screen and frowned, "that can't be right."

"What. Is. It. Now?" Sue seethed, invisible with rage as her patience wore thin. Ben took a big step away from where he had last seen her, and went to look at the screen Reed was next to.

"Where they are, there's no island there, it supposed to be water," Reed said, "and there aren't many uncharted islands in the Indian Ocean."

With Johnny and Luna

"Do you think you've got a family out there?" Johnny asked, looking up at the stars in the black velvet expanse, "I think I do. I hope they miss me. Do you know why those scientists took you? I don't know why they took me, maybe it has something to do with the 'Flame On' thing . . ."

Johnny was babbling, he knew it, but he just needed to talk things out. Luna had gone to sleep some hours ago, but Johnny was having troubling thoughts ever since they took out the satellite.

"Do you think they knew where we were? Do you think they knew what was happening? If they knew what was happening, why would they have let it continue?"

-Stop it-

-Sorry-

Johnny shook his head. It had taken him most of the day to learn how to mind speak without hurting them both. It didn't help that he had a bunch of questions buzzing inside his head.

"But would they? Did I leave them, or did they leave me? Why? Are they looking for me, do they even care?" He rubbed his face, frustrated, "What do you think those mad white coats planned to do with us? Are we finished experiments, or are we missing pieces that'll end up killing us? If you die, will I feel it? Will I die? Will I die instead? Why can I set myself on Fire and fly? Is that normal? It doesn't seem like it. What about your shape shifting ability, is that normal?" He yawned suddenly, then sighed and slumped over, too tired to talk anymore.

When all fell silent Luna opened her eyes and watched him. Johnny was still muttering when he fell asleep. Taking a deep breath, she pushed him onto the ground and leaned back against him, closing her eyes.

"You have so many questions, and I have no answers. I have absolutely no idea, Johnny," she said, "I wish I did, though, if not for both of us, then just for you," she looked up to the beautiful night sky, wishing the answers would come to her. Not receiving any, she closed her eyes and started counting, attempting to lull herself back to sleep.

-The next morning-

Johnny woke to the delicious smell of cooking meat. He blinked to shake off the lingering fatigue and inhaled deeply through his nose. He sat up and stretched his stiff limbs.

"Mmm, what is that?"

"Don't ask, just eat." A flat, plate-like rock was shoved under his nose, full of food. He took it and immediately started scoffing the food down. It wasn't until he was half way through his second plate that it hit him.

"How did you start a fire?" He said through mouthfuls of food.

Luna blinked at him, "I don't really know," she said, looking down at her hands, "you wouldn't wake up after I got back with the wood and food. I thought about dumping you in the water, but then my palm felt itchy," she took a breath, "I looked down, and my hand was on fire. I panicked and flailed. The wood caught fire, and my hand went out. I was going to talk to you about in when you woke up."

Johnny blinked at her, "I'm awake," he said, "Or did you not notice? Should I lie down, stretch, make an announcement?"

Luna throw a fistful of sand at him, "This is serious you jerk! Besides, I just talked to you about it didn't I?"

She laughed, then sobered, "I think I may have borrowed your powers."

Johnny swallowed, "That's great, I've got no idea why I can set myself on fire and survive, and now you're doing it too!" He looked down at the plate in his hand and sighed.

Luna shrugged, "Well, this is a serious problem - I can't go setting things on fire."

"So, I'll just teach you how to control it" He said, smiling.

Luna didn't smile back, Johnny was a little confused, "What?" he asked.

"The fire on my hand, it wasn't like normal fire," she said, looking down at her hands again, "it was silver, and black too."

"Well, that makes sense, kinda," Johnny said, cocking his head to the side in a thoughtful manner, "In my head, you're a silver flame."

"But how can I do the fire thing?" She yelled, "I thought that was your shtick!"

"All for the One, right?" Johnny said, "So you get my powers . . . does that mean I get yours?"

"Don't even think about it!" Luna said, regretting ever bringing up the fire subject, forgetting that it wasn't her that even brought it up in the first place.

"Never do," Johnny said, as he focused on the wolf shape Luna had last used.

The Baxter Building

"Let's go," Sue said, walking towards the Fantasticar, "We know where he is, let's go get him!"

"Okay, just let me finish downloading their coordinates to the car," Reed said, playing with his PDA as he walked to the car, "done!"

"Ben," Sue said, looking at her friend.

"Yeah?"

"LET'S GO!"

Island

Luna growled at Johnny, who was now a hawk swooping around the sky. As it turned out, he could shape-shift. The only glitch was that he had to be on fire first, shift into an animal form and then extinguish the flames - otherwise it didn't work.

"Stop that this instant!" She yelled at him. If he heard her, he chose to ignore the order. Rolling her eyes, Luna looked around, then glared back up at Johnny, "well, if you can't beat them" she muttered, and shifted into a falcon, taking off after the hawk. She would show him who ruled these skies.

After a long race, in which Luna had won, they both collapsed on the beach.

"That was so much fun!" Johnny laughed, stretching. Luna giggled. He turned on her, "You! What kind of name is Luna! You should be called Lightning! How fast were you going?"

"No idea," she said, grinning and still gasping for breath, "maybe 60mph? I don't know."

"We should do that again!" Johnny said, jumping to his feet, "right now! I call the bird you were. What was it?"

"Peregrine Falcon. Fastest creature on-" She froze. Johnny did too, looking towards the horizon.

"Did ya feel that?" Johnny asked, looking over at her.

"Yeah, what ever it is, it's closing in fast." There was a dot on the horizon, and it was rapidly expanding, getting closer "even if we try to shut it down, it'll be here before it stops moving!"

"Can we hide?' Johnny said, looking around, "shape-shift?" He clenched his jaw, and looked at her.

"Shift" she said. They both fell to their knees and rose up as falcons. Not long after they left the island, the silver car landed on the beach. Three people got out of it, or two people and a thing.

"Where is he Reed?" the female said, glaring at the male.

He was busy, looking up, at the two birds that circled the island,

"That's odd" he said, "those Falcons aren't native to this part of the world."

"This ain't the time to be geekin' out, Stretch!" The Thing said.

Suddenly one of the falcons descended rapidly towards the group, caught fire and shifted into Johnny. He landed smoothly on the beach in front of them.

"Oh. My. God." Sue said, frozen, "Oh. My. God." She felt ready to faint – did her brother just do what she though he did?

Johnny looked at them all, "I know you" he breathed, as if coming to a revelation, "I know you!"

Sue seemed to unfreeze when he spoke. She ran for him, her arms outstretched and tears in her eyes. However, she was stopped some feet from him by what seemed like a fireball, but it was silver. Sue looked up, and saw a woman, with raven hair and hard amethyst eyes glaring at her. Out of her back came a set of wings that were keeping her aloft.

"It's alright," Johnny called to Luna, "I know them, I think."

"Of course you know us, Johnny," Sue said, "stop being stupid!"

"Ha! My name is Johnny!" He yelled, jumping, "I new it!"

"Why wouldn't you have known it?" Reed asked, stretching over to where Sue was standing.

Johnny winced, "that's gross."

Reed sighed and rolled his eyes, "Yeah yeah, I know" He said, then pointed to the girl, "Who is she Johnny, how did you meet her?"

-I don't trust them-

-I do-

-Then who are they?-

Johnny glared at her, then turned back to the other three, "Who are you?"

"Johnny, stop kidding, it's not funny," Sue said, glaring at her brother. She wasn't liking this, not one bit.

When his face didn't change, Ben figured something was amiss, "I don't think he's joking, Sue."

At the mention of the name, the girl practically fell out of the sky, and Johnny's face snapped to hers, "You're Sue?" they both said at the same time.

Johnny turned to Luna, "Told you I knew someone named Sue!"

"Johnny," The stretchy man said, getting the pyrokinetics' attention, "how old are you?"

"I'm 24 and how do you know my name?" Johnny asked, his eyes narrowing.

"Who is she?" Reed said, pointing to Sue.

Johnny shrugged, "She's Sue," He said, and the three in front of him smiled, "but that's all I know," they lost their smiles.

Ben, Reed and Sue exchanged glances, "You really don't remember, do you?" Sue asked, close to tears.

"Sorry," Johnny said, upset that he made her cry, "I can't remember anything before waking up in the lab."

Sue swallowed loudly, "What lab?" she asked slowly, dreading the answer. It was in this moment that she noticed his eyes, no longer a sparkling blue, but a shiny, metallic silver. Sue gasped, her hand going to her mouth.

"And your eyes! What happened to them? What's happened to you?" she asked, fearing that things were only getting worse and worse.

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