Zapping Fire Balls

She leaned over and gave Warren a soft kiss on the cheek and sashayed back to the bar, He watched her retreating ass and smiled, she looked damn good in those tight black pants. She was almost there when everything went black, Warren raced over to her fallen body…as he picked her up her skin felt ice cold.

Warren picked up Raven's shivering, unconscious form and ran out to his car, rummaging through her bag he found her cell phone and called her Uncle Reed. A woman answered the phone.

"Hello Susan Richards"

"Your niece collapsed at work and her body temperature has dropped rapidly, which for her is very strange given her inherent abilities"

There was a long pause of silence…

"Who is this?"

"My name's Warren and I am a friend of Raven's, please I'm very worried about her my hands almost froze when they touched her!"

"Ok bring her over; my husband will be waiting for you"

Warren hung up and sped off towards her uncle's house (how he knew where the Richards lived we shall never know). Once he got there he picked up Raven bridal style and raced into the house, an attractive blond woman was waiting by the door with two 12 year olds standing behind her. He ran into the kitchen with his long brown hair streaming behind him.

He lay her down on the kitchen table; Reed was waiting there with some examination tools and a microscope thing. He pulled out a small syringe and drew some blood from Raven's elbow vein, place a drop on a glass slide and examined it under he microscope. Her red blood cells were going hay wire and multiplying at an alarming rate.

He heard grunting noises and looked up to see his niece convulsing violently on the table, arching her back and gasping for breath. He saw the two front parts of her long fringe turn stark white! He called out to warren.

"Hold her down…she might hurt her self"

Reed then turned to his wife and asked to go next door and get Johnny; she turned and ran out the door. By the time she returned with her brother, Raven was resting quietly in Warren's arms…her skin was ghostly white. Johnny rushed over and looked at his daughter then stared at Reed.

"What the hell happened to her?"

Reed looked excited.

"Her powers are growing Johnny, just as I predicted" her indicated to the blood work on the computer screen attached to the microscope. "Her cells are mutating again just like ours did after that accident in space, except hers is natural it probably occurred during an emotional episode"

Johnny turned to Warren who was still cradling Raven and gently stroking her hair.

"Young man who are you?"

Warren looked at the slightly shorter super hero.

"I'm Warren Peace, I was with Raven when she collapsed and I was the one who brought her here. She's my friend"

Johnny's gaze softened and he noticed that Raven was beginning to wake up.

"Raven honey is you all right?"

Raven shook her head slightly and looked at all the people standing over her.

"I'm fine Dad, but why am Ion Uncle Reed's table and in the arms of my science partner?"

Warren turned around so that he was facing her.

"You fainted at work so I brought you here, your body was freezing I almost got frost bite just carrying you to the car"

Raven smiled and gently brushed Warren's cheek in thanks. Johnny cleared his throat.

"Warren thank you for looking after my daughter but I think that you should go home now"

Warren looked down at Raven for conformation; she nodded telling him that she would see him tomorrow. He turned and walked out the door, his car could be heard driving away from the house and around the corner. Johnny picked up his daughter and carried her down stairs to the Fantastic Four underground lair. He set her down in a chair and paced back and forth.

"Honey I'm glad that you are alright but just tell me one thing…why did you bring Baron Battle's only child into my sister's home?"

Raven looked up and glared at her father

"First of all I didn't bring him here, he brought me and second of all…I DON'T CARE WHO HIS FATHER IS!" by the end of the sentence she was yelling.

She stood up and slammed her fist down on the computer console and a bolt of lightening struck the house causing the power to go off. She felt the power of the lightening course through her body. The back up power in the lair allowed the lights to come back on by the computer and the power in the three houses remained off.

Raven looked at her hand, then at the consol and grinned; she moved her hands over each other and charged up a ball of static electricity. She flicked it up into the air and performed a couple of soccer moves with it before bringing it down onto the computer console and charging up the power again.

Uncle Reed practically fell down the stairs and threw his arms around his niece whirling her around until she thought that she was going to puke. Plonking her down again he ran over to the older pyro kinetic and jumped up and down happily.

"I knew it! I knew it"

Johnny was confused.

"Calm down Reed, what did you know?"

Reed took a breath.

"Her new power! Raven is developing the ability to control the elements…she's an um…weather bender!" he got all excited again. "It must be a result of the combination of your fire power and Ororo's power to manipulate the weather, which would also explain her hair"

The two older heroes turned to face the young heroine in training; Raven was kicking around a ball of flaming electricity whilst admiring her hair in the mirror. She turned back to her father and her uncle and smiled.

"This Rocks!"

…TBC…

Sorry if the chapter took a while my pretties but I had some minor computer malfunctions. I lost the entire chapter and had to rewrite it. Well Raven has a new power but she is still primarily a pyro, to explain her mother was Storm from the X men. She died when Raven was a kid. The next chapter is in progress. Thank you so much to all my reviewers so far your words of praise mean the world to me. Should Warren and Raven get together or not, you tell me.

Luv yas all,

Reya