All These Looks

I knew it was a good idea to switch Sue and Mercy. I mean, when you think about it, why wouldn't you?? If you can get Johnny jealous then…lol. I'm mean to him sometimes but he knows I love him.

A pulse.

Reed's brilliant plan revolved around some sort of pulses that would trap the Surfer and separate him from his board…

Or at least that's what Merc figured. She couldn't understand his science talk.

And of course, she gave Reed all the credit because Victor seemed to have been working on his own thing by that point. Her curiousity went to an all time high by then.

So now they were at one of the sink hole places in a forest, having just watched Reed stand up to the General (making Sue say that she was hot for him…and making Merc laugh at that statement as Johnny hugged Reed in order to be annoying).

"Wow." Merc said. "I'm just gonna say that the whole in the water at London so was NOT that big."

"Well you weren't standing right no the edge of it." Reed said. Everyone, except Sue, was holding what seemed to be giant square suitcases. The one Reed had, was the most complex and needed Sue's help with preparing it…at least that was Reed's excuse. "Ok…you all know what to do, go at it."

"Right captain." Merc and Johnny said at the same time. They smirked at each other and went in different directions. Ben went the same way as Johnny, leaving Merc to get to her destination by herself.

"Why are forests so big?" She muttered. She hadn't turned on her communicator yet, having not found a reason to really, so no one replied to her rhetorical question. She put her case down where Reed had told her and turned on her communicator, finally, as she popped open the case. She started humming as she crouched down by the case.

"Merc, stop humming." Reed said.

"I gotta do something." Merc replied. "Waiting is annoying. Hey, am I supposed to wait until a specific time?"

"No, just put it in whenever, preferably now." Reed said.

"Do you know how wrong that…" Merc said.

"Merc! Just do it." Reed said.

"Geez, ok, ok." Merc said. She heard Johnny laughing. "Shut up Johnny."

"It's funny, man." Johnny said. "Mine's good."

"So is mine." Ben said.

"Same here." Sue said. "We're just waiting for you now Mercy."

"Ok, ok, I'm going." Merc said. She reached over to the little tube by the globe but then froze. "Uh…guys."

"Yeah?" Four voices replied.

"He's here." Merc said, standing up as the Surfer came around and started towards her. She threw a hand up to stop him using her powers but that just seemed to slow him down, rather then stop him completely. "What the…" He looked at her, much like he did back when she was in the hospital, just not as close.

"Why are you trying to destroy our planet?" Merc asked, trying not to sound scared even though the lack of effect her powers had on the Surfer was fearful enough.

"I have no choice." The Surfer said, after a few seconds.

"What do you mean?" Merc asked.

"Merc!" Johnny said, coming out of trees behind her.

"Wait!" Merc said, throwing her hand backwards and stopping Johnny. She looked at the Surfer. "Why don't you have a choice?"

"I am not the destroyer." The Surfer said.

"Then who is?" Merc asked. The Surfer made no reply. "If you had a choice…would you stop?" There was, again, no reply, but the Surfer's gaze changed as he continued to stare at Merc and she was getting pretty uncomfortable.

"Um…Mercy." Johnny said. Merc slowly took her eyes off the Surfer and looked at her boyfriend. "We got a problem." She looked where he was pointing and saw a missile heading towards them. The Surfer looked and then did the strangest thing: He moved in front of Merc and pushed her back slightly before rising into the air and…absorbing the missile into his board.

"Ok that was cool." Merc said.

"Yeah, ok, he can absorb things." Johnny said. They jumped as more missiles were fired. "Merc, the tube…thingy."

"Oh right!" Merc said, dropping down next to the case again and picking the tube up from its little holder. She looked up at the Surfer then frowned before dropping the tube into the globe.

The effect was almost instant. The Surfer seemed to be having a spazz attack and his whole body appeared to be melting straight through the board. Merc stood up as he fell to the ground and, ignoring Johnny as he yelled after her, she ran through the forest towards the place the Surfer fell.

"…does it feel?" She heard Victor talking and finally came into the clearance where the Surfer was lying unconscious and Victor was standing over him.

"What the hell did you do?" Merc asked.

"What makes you think I did anything?" Victor asked.

"I don't have to read your mind to know you did something." Merc said, narrowing her eyes.

"You're far too suspicious for your own good." Victor said.

"Only when it's you I'm dealing with." Merc said. She flinched as other voices filled her head and the whole clearance was full of army personnel and the remaining Fantastic Five members. A few of the army guys lifted up the Surfer. "What are you going to do with him?" She wasn't quite sure why she was worried but knew that there must have been some good reason for it.

"Lock him up and run tests." Hager said. Merc glared at the man. "You five are to come with us."

"Who…us?" Johnny asked, pointing at himself and his teammates.

"Yes." Hager said.

"Are we prisoners now?" Johnny asked, some time later as the five of them sat in a room that the general had left them in and Merc had informed them that there was someone standing guard. She hadn't spoken since then, preferring to sit in her chair with her arms crossed and glare at the wall.

"It appears so." Reed said. Merc ignored them all, her powers outstretched, reaching around to try and find out what was going on. She was testing their boundaries. The voices in the room were blocked out in her mental sweep…that was until Johnny shook her a bit and their powers switched.

"JOHNNY!" Merc said.

"Sorry…you just looked about ready to murder the wall and you weren't responding." Johnny said.

"I should…" Merc said, then stopped. "Wait a minute…you just gave me an idea."

"Uh…ok." Johnny said.

"We have to find the Surfer." Merc said.

"That's what we've been saying." Reed said.

"Oh." Merc said. "Ok fill me in."

"We were asking you if you could find a way to figure out where he is." Reed said.

"That's what I was doing." Merc said.

"We were going to send Sue…" Reed said.

"No." Merc said. "I'm going."

"You can't." Johnny said, putting his hand on her shoulder, switching their powers again.

"Sure I can." Merc said. "You switch powers with Sue, then with me, then with her again so that she winds up with Telepathy, you wind up with your own powers, and I wind up with invisibility."

"Wouldn't it just be easier for me to do it?" Sue asked.

"Look…I have to talk to him. I have to find out why he kidnaps me one day and then protects me from missiles the next." Merc said.

"Sounds reasonable." Ben said. "Let her do it."

"I still don't…" Reed said, but Johnny seemed to be on Merc's side. He put his hand onto Sue's shoulder then onto Merc's shoulder, then back onto Sue's just before she caught her whole body on fire.

Getting out of the room was easy as Johnny distracted the guard. Merc walked quietly through the halls until she found the room she was looking for. She waited until it was empty before slipping through the door she had held open just a bit with a force field.

"I know you're there." The Surfer said. Merc walked up to him and turned visible. "How are you able to do that?"

"My boyfriend." Merc said. "You grabbed him…he can now switch powers with us. So he switched with his sister then with me…weird story." The Surfer just stared at her again. "Umm…I'm Mercedes…you can call me Merc…or Mercy…whatever. Uh…do you, have a name? Other then like…Silver Surfer?" He didn't reply. "Can you…stop…staring at me please?"

"I am sorry." The Surfer said, looking at the door that Merc had come in before looking back at her.

"If you're not the destroyer…who is?" Merc asked.

"Galactus." The Surfer said.

"Is that a…plant?" Merc asked.

"He is the eater of planets." The Surfer said.

"Ew." Merc said.

"I prepare the planets for him." The Surfer said.

"Can't you stop it?" Merc asked. "Why do you do this?"

"If I don't…then he will destroy my planet…and my love." The Surfer said. Merc looked at him sadly.

"Is that why you protected me?" She asked. Very slowly, the Surfer nodded. "Why did you kidnap me?"

"You were the first one to notice me." The Surfer said. "On this whole planet."

"And I didn't even have my powers then." Merc said. The Surfer looked confused. "It's a long story." They heard noises and Merc turned invisible again. "How does Galactus know where you are?"

"The source of my power is the beckon." The Surfer said.

"Ok that…your board." Merc said. The Surfer nodded. "I have to get back to everyone else. We will get you out of here." She slid her hand into his for a second before leaving the room as easily as possible.

"How do you defeat something that can eat planets?" Johnny asked, once Merc returned, switched her powers back, and filled them all in.

"Very carefully." Ben said.

"It's going to be today." Reed said. "Eight days…the time is up."

"Yeah we know." Merc said. "So we have to get out of here, then get his board before…" She stopped.

"What?" The others asked.

"I think I just figured out what Victor wanted from all of this." Merc said. They got out of the room, having to knock out the guard first, and then ran through the halls trying to find where they had the board hidden. "He's going to use the board to gain extra power or something."

"He was working on something when he should have been helping Reed." Sue said. "Maybe it's something that would enable him to control the board."

"Yeah probably." Merc said. "Would not put it past the guy." They ran around a corner and Merc stopped. "There's something not right." Next second, there was an explosion up ahead. Sue ducked one way and Johnny pulled Merc another as a piece of the wall came flying at them.

"Well…that was close." Johnny said. The wall piece fell to reveal Ben stuck in another wall.

"Speak for yourself Tinkerbelle." Ben said.

"Where's Reed." Sue asked. Everyone looked around. Ben got away from the wall to reveal Reed behind him.

"Sorry." Ben said, once Reed got out as well. By that time, Merc was already through the hole into the room where the explosion came from. She gasped and the others all came in.

"Oh my god." Sue said. The general was, in simple terms, dead. Merc looked away from him and at, what she guessed was the containment for the board…had the board still been there.

"He's got it." Reed said.

"What now?" Ben asked.

"I don't know." Reed said. "Merc?" She looked at them.

"We have to get the Surfer." Merc said, walking past them and back into the halls.

"Why?" Sue asked.

"A) I promised we'd get him out." Merc said. "And B) He's the only one who knows how to control that thing. If we can get him out, get Victor off the board, and then get the Surfer back onto it…maybe he can get Galactus away from us in time."

"It's crazy…but it could work." Reed said. They followed her to the room where the Surfer was and Ben broke through the wall.

"This is your lucky day." He said. Merc went forward and flicked her wrist, unshackling the Surfer. He fell and she had to catch him.

"Little help." Merc said. Ben stepped forward and took him from her. "Thanks Uncle Ben."

"No problem Sweetie." Ben said. "How do we get out of here?"

"The car." Reed said. Merc raised an eyebrow as Reed started playing with his PDA again. "Alright, let's go." He put it away and everyone followed him this time.

"What car do we have that can get us out of here?" Merc asked.

"The same one we used to pick you up." Ben said.

"Oh." Merc said. "That thing. Gotcha." They got to a stairwell relatively unnoticed. There was one officer that Johnny tried talking to but Merc just knocked out.

"Think you could lend a hand here Mercy." Ben said. Merc looked at her Uncle who was still carrying the Surfer. She turned her hand, palm up, and lifted it, causing the Surfer to lift up as well. It made things a bit easier as they went up the stairs as quickly as possible.

READ ME PLEASE!!!

Ok stopping it there. The whole second movie stuff will either be done next chapter or the chapter after that. Then…I dunno…I might continue with the story or I might end it. I want to know what you people think. If I end it, I'll probably put in an epilogue where it's like a few years later with kids involved or something. I might just do a sequel though because I think I have an idea.