Upside Down
I just saw the FF2 movie (June 16th) and dudes it was awesome!!! I love when Sue and Reed finally get married, it was so cute. I'm gonna basically make things start working the same way as the movie from now on but of course I'm gonna change it…I kinda hafta so like…yeah.
"Ok so Merc's mental power has blocked the Surfer from affecting her the way it affected Johnny." Reed said.
"Mmhmm…" Merc said, smirking at Johnny who was a rock again.
"Shut up." Johnny said.
"Not my fault you went for the group hug thing when I was hugging my uncle." Merc said. "But I do want my powers back soon."
"Maybe I'll just keep them Miss Smarty-pants." Johnny said. Everyone stared at him. Merc looked at Ben who picked up on what she wanted even though she couldn't telepathically tell him. He didn't seem overly happy but he went forward with her and both slapped their hands on Johnny's shoulders.
"You threaten to keep my powers one more time and you are so getting your butt kicked." Merc said. Mentally whacking Johnny in the back of the head.
"Can you stop doing that!" Johnny said, rubbing his skull.
"What I want to know is why he took Merc in the first place." Sue said.
"I dunno…he looked surprised when he saw that I had broken free." Merc said. "So I'm ruling out him wanting to use me for my powers." There was a beeping noise and Merc looked around.
"Oh…" Reed said. He rolled his chair back and pushed a button on an intercom. "What's up, Jimmy?"
"There's some people coming to see you Mr. Richards." Jimmy said. Merc raised an eyebrow as Reed thanked him and released the button.
"What?" Reed asked.
"Ok I was gone for like…a day." Merc said. "Where did the intercom-y stuff come from?"
"Been here for a while." Reed said. Merc frowned. "You…didn't have your powers and…"
"Got it." Merc said. Johnny patted her on the back a few times.
"Don't worry about it, babe." He said. Merc glared at him as he walked backwards away from her, grinning. When nothing happened her eyes narrowed.
"JOHNNY STORM, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!" Merc yelled. Johnny bolted and Merc chased after him. Johnny halted just as the elevator door opened and Merc collided into his back, causing their powers to transfer again and both of them fall over. Reed, Sue and Ben came around the corner and stopped. Everyone watched the couple rolling around on the floor, different parts of their bodies glowing and catching on fire as they fought.
"Knock it off!" Johnny said, trying to block the blows from his girlfriend.
"You were the one who went and took my goddamn powers and you are such a jerk right now!" Merc said. A loud cough interrupted them and Merc sat up, straddling Johnny's hips, and both looked at the military personal who just entered. "Umm…hi."
"You are…um…on fire." The man up front said. Johnny looked at Merc and saw flames on her shoulders and arms. He grabbed her hips and transferred their powers again before pushing at her and she stood up.
"Who are…?" Sue started.
"General Hager." Reed said. Everyone looked at him. Merc slapped Johnny who slapped her back. "What can I do for you?"
"We have a problem on our hands." The General said.
They re-entered the lab, Merc and Johnny still swapping slaps. The other two military personal did not seem amused by this but the General seemed to ignore them. He dropped an envelope on the desk and Reed opened it before passing out the pictures it contained.
"These were recovered by our satellite." The General said.
"It's…" Sue said.
"We aren't sure what it is." The General said.
"We are." Merc said, smirking as she slapped Johnny upside the head without even looking up from the photo in her hands. Neither of them were sure who had whose powers so they were just resorting to physical attacks. Johnny hit her back in the arm.
"Oh? Enlighten us." The General said.
"We're calling him the Silver Surfer." Merc said. "I just got out of being held captive by him and hot shot here…" She hit Johnny with a burning hand. "Got grabbed by him and now he has power transferring skills. I got grabbed by him and I don't get anything." Johnny grabbed her hand as she went to hit him again.
"Ok…enough." He said.
"Sorry baby." Merc said.
"Yeah, me too." Johnny said. He put his arm around her and she put hers around him, causing a double switch so that their powers stayed with their rightful owner.
"Are they…always…like this?" The General asked.
"Oh yeah." Ben said.
"We need you to track it." The General said. Merc looked at Reed then at General Hager, narrowing her eyes.
"Oh you so don't wanna be here." She said.
"Merc…no telepathy." Reed said.
"Well then what's the point of it?" Merc asked, tossing the pictures in her hand onto the desk and stepping away from Johnny. "I didn't even read his mind. Remember I'm good at the whole body language reading thing." General Hager cleared his throat and shifted a bit.
"Well, as I was saying…we need you to track it." He said.
"Shouldn't be too hard." Reed said.
"Yeah…just use me as bait." Merc muttered, crossing her arms. Johnny looked at sympathetically and would have replaced his arm around her but she stepped away again.
"We won't use you as bait…we'll think of something else." Sue said.
"We'll have your tracker ready soon." Reed said. The general looked doubtful but noticed the glare Merc was giving him so he just nodded and left with his comrades. Sue sighed and sat down.
"This is near hopeless." She said.
"Aww sis, don't think that way." Johnny said. Without even thinking he put his hand on her shoulder. Sue yelped and jumped away, just as she caught on fire.
"Oh my god." Merc said. Sue rose into the air, yelling. Johnny turned invisible and Merc laughed as she heard him think about how dead he was going to be.
"Johnny get back here!" Sue screamed.
"He didn't go anywhere." Merc said, putting her hand on Johnny's shoulder to keep him still.
Bad idea.
As soon as she did that, she turned invisible as Johnny reappeared.
"JOHNNY!!!" Both girls yelled.
"Ok, ok…I can fix this." Johnny said. He held his hand out and moved it. "Merc where you are."
"Einstein…I'm behind you." Merc said. Johnny spun around and grabbed her. Merc became visible and smacked Johnny's hand, which had grabbed at the completely wrong spot. Johnny grabbed Sue's foot and she dropped to the ground, naked. Merc coughed and looked away from her. Sue gasped and turned invisible.
"Why me?" She muttered.
It took Reed only a few days to get the tracker thing set up and he got all the settings into his PDA so that when it found the Surfer, he would know. Merc and Sue were up on the roof, looking around at what arrangements they could do for the wedding.
"This just doesn't fit." Merc said. "The roof is just so…tacky."
"Well where did your parents get married?" Sue asked.
"How the hell should I know?" Merc said. "All I know is that they're married. They could have gone through one of those damn marriage drive-thru things." Sue giggled.
"Ok, ok, point taken." She said. Merc ran her hand through her hair to pull it out of her face as the wind whipped it around.
"Girls! Reed's figured something out." Johnny said, running up to the door. Sue and Merc looked at each other before following him to the lab.
"It's all in a numerical order." Reed said. Merc didn't even bother paying attention to what he said as she looked at the locations the Surfer had gone through. The only thing she really heard was the destruction and something about every place the Surfer touches, eight days later the planet dies.
"That gives us like four days now." Merc said. "He shows up, kidnaps me in one day, the next day I get back and we get talked to by some army guys and it took you a couple of days to build the machine, which, by the way, good job."
"I know how much time it gives us, Merc." Reed said. "But look here…all these places he's been…this is where he'll be next." He had a zoomed image of the next location.
"Oh boy." Johnny said.
Ok so because I saw the movie and I like this part and I made up a part for Merc in it, I'm gonna put it into the next chapter. If you saw the movie then I hope you realize what spot I'm talking about.