Trying to Kill Us

Well this chapter is gonna be mean to Johnny.

"Wow…can we go on that thing later?" Merc asked, pointing at the giant Ferris Wheel like thing on the edge of the water.

"I don't think so." Reed said.

"Don't get to have any fun." Merc grumbled. She frowned as she looked down at the water. "Umm…is it supposed to go all…sink-y like that?"

"Definitely not." Sue said. The helicopter they were in landed and all five of them ran out. "Johnny wait here." Johnny stopped and everyone else kept going as the Ferris wheel broke. Sue and Merc stopped between it and the water, and threw their hands up.

"Ok, if I have stronger powers now…why does this seem harder to do then the fire truck was?" Merc asked.

"Probably cause it's bigger?" Sue stated. Merc stuck her tongue out at her. Ben lifted the wheel and Reed stretched quite a bit to hold it up. The girls started to back up as their combined strengths weren't holding it up very well. Merc jumped and looked over her shoulder as the Surfer came out of the hole in the water.

"What…" She muttered. The Surfer looked at all of them and shook his head before flying off.

"Mercy…little help here." Sue said. Merc refocused on the wheel.

"No Johnny!" Reed yelled. Both girls looked up to see Reed's stretched body catch fire and Johnny fall. The wheel dropped as Reed unwillingly let go of it, forcing the girls to step back. One of Merc's hands shot down to keep Sue floating above the water as they continued to step back.

"Oh no." Merc said. Reed sort of hovered above the wheel's post, on fire.

"Ben, lift it higher!" He said.

"I'll try." Ben said.

"Bit more effort girls." Reed said.

"Bite me." Merc said. "I have one hand focused on this." Sue pushed her hands forward a bit more and the wheel lined up nicely with the post. Reed shot fire at it to connect everything back together. Merc and Sue stepped off the water and fell to their knees. "Ow, my head hurts." Ben walked over to them and Merc looked over to where Johnny was standing up. Reed had landed and flamed off. He ran past Johnny, stopping briefly to put his hand on the younger man's shoulder to switch powers back, then ran up to them and helped Sue up. Ben helped Merc.

"Are you ok?" Reed asked. Both girls nodded. Johnny came over. "Johnny stop before you kill someone." Johnny froze and Merc's eyes shot over to Reed.

"Excuse me? What the hell, Reed!" She said. Everyone looked at her.

"He could have gotten you two killed." Reed said.

"It wasn't his fault." Merc said. "He was trying to get the Surfer."

"If he hadn't come towards the wheel…" Reed said.

"Shut up!" Merc said. "God…it was a little mistake and you seemed to have pretty damn good control over his powers so there wasn't much damage done really. It might have even worked out for the best that way." Nobody said anything. Merc rubbed her temples to try and rid herself of at least some of the headache she had achieved in the last little while.

"Look at that." Ben said, suddenly. Everyone looked at the water…or at least, it had been water before. Now it looked frozen and black. Merc shivered as she thought about that covering the entire earth within the next few days. She looked at Johnny then suddenly ran at him and hugged him. Johnny flinched, startled, as Merc wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in his chest, crying for no known reason. She felt Johnny wrap an arm around her and his other hand rested on the back of her head, sort of petting her hair, trying to calm her down.

Merc didn't calm down until they rejoined the General. She had no intention to have him or any of his personnel see her cry. She stood between Johnny and Ben as the General went on about something or other, bringing up something about Johnny nearly getting them killed.

Well this should be enjoyable.

Her eyes snapped up as she heard a familiar voice in her head.

"I've got someone else on the job." Hager said.

"Who?" Reed asked.

"Victor." Merc said. As she said that, the last person any of them wanted to see walked into sight. Ben seemed to growl before running forward, grabbing Victor by the throat and slamming him into the wall. "Uncle Ben!"

"Give me a good reason why I shouldn't…" Ben started to threaten.

"He's here on my invitation." Hager said. Merc looked at Reed.

"Let him go, Ben." Reed said. Ben looked back at him then released Victor, stepping away from him as well.

"Well…that actually was how I pictured this meeting." Victor said, trying to make it look as if being pinned to the wall hadn't disturbed him in the least.

"What are you doing alive?" Sue asked.

"I don't think we actually killed him." Merc said. "I mean…all we did was…melt him then solidify him."

"Exactly." Victor said. Ben shoved his way past Victor and resumed his spot between Merc and Sue. "Let's just get one thing straight. I hate you." Victor's eyes lingered on Sue. "All of you. I would like nothing better then to see you lose…but I'm here to help." Merc's eyes narrowed.

A few minutes later they were watched a clip of the Surfer attacking Victor. Merc crossed her arms as it got put in slow motion.

"He's drawing power from his board." She said.

"Exactly." Victor said.

"I've seen it." Merc said. Everyone looked at her. "Remember, the guy kidnapped me." She tucked her hair behind her ear.

"We just have to figure out a way to separate him from his board." Reed said. "Any ideas, Mercy?"

"Nope…" Merc said. "I never saw him without the damn thing attached to his feet. Wherever it was that he took me has some pretty damn big doors." She ran her hand through her hair, pulling it back out of her face.

"Separating him from his board could take away his powers." Sue said.

"Exactly." Reed said. "Just have to find the way to do it."

Merc glared as she watched Reed and Victor working in the lab. It wasn't the fact that they had been doing the same thing for almost two hours straight now, or the fact that Reed pretty much ignored her when she tried to ask something. It was more of the fact that Victor was in, what she liked to consider to be a private area that only the Fantastic Five members should be allowed to enter…but apparently not. She sighed and walked out of the lab.

"Whoa, what's got you so uptight?" Johnny asked, walking past Merc.

"Just…having Victor here and…god, I don't trust him." Merc said. "And I can't for the life of me figure out what he's up to."

"You try reading his mind yet?" Johnny asked. Merc looked at him as if she was ready to kill him. "Right…stupid question. Sorry."

"He's figured out a way to block it or something." Merc said. "This is seriously creeping me out here." Johnny went to put his arm around her but stopped and stepped away. Merc looked at him.

"Maybe I should…not…touch…for now." Johnny said. Merc made some disbelieving noise before walking past him. She found Ben and walked over to him.

"Uncle Ben…" Merc whined, sounding like a little kid. Ben turned around. "I need a hug." Her uncle actually chuckled a bit as she put her arms around him as best as she could. "It's not funny…Johnny seems so terrified of touching me now because of what Reed said and I don't like having Victor here because it's creeping me out not knowing what he's thinking."

"Well with the whole Johnny thing…it'll turn around, it has to." Ben said, doing the same thing Johnny did earlier with one hand around Merc's waist and the other in her head. "And as for the Vic thing…well I don't know. I don't trust him being here either but we gotta trust Reed on this."

"After what he said to my boyfriend?" Merc asked, lifting her head from Ben's chest.

"Yeah, kid." Ben said. "Still have to. Think of all the stuff he's done right."

"Yeah I guess." Merc said. "Johnny is so right about him though."

"Why?" Ben asked.

"Remember back in the space station when he was getting you set up?" Merc asked. Ben nodded slowly. "And he said that Sue had a choice between Victor and Reed, and he called Reed the world's dumbest smart guy."

"I see your point…Tinkerbelle's right." Ben said. Merc giggled. "Feeling better now?"

"Yeah." Merc said. "Thanks."

"That's what I'm here for." Ben said. "Make you feel better when flame boy can't…and to clobber things." Merc laughed. "Anything else you need?"

"Yeah…Debbie was such an idiot." Merc said. Ben blinked, really not expecting that. "I mean come on…you promised her a bigger rock…and what rock is bigger then you?"

"You're spending too much time with Johnny." Ben said. Merc nodded. Ben rolled his eyes. "Go get yourself something to eat, don't think you've done that in a while."

"Good point." Merc said. She stepped away from him and went into the kitchen.

PEOPLE READ THIS PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Ok the reason I put that uncle/niece thing in there was because I didn't want to get into the next part without some help. I kinda wanna switch Merc and Sue around (you know…it's Sue in the movie that gets along with the Surfer but since we got Mercy now…). People who have seen the movie obviously know what I'm talking about (I hope) and even people who haven't seen it can still answer the question.