Disclaimer: I don't own the Fantastic Four, movies or comics, or Chris Evans. I'd be rich if I did. I don't know if an Emporial Building exists, but if it does I don't own it, I also don't own pop tarts but I think they're the coolest thing since sliced bread! I don't know if aliens really exist but I'm not arrogant enough to believe that in this gigantanormous universe, we are the only planet with life.
This is my first attempt at a Fantastic 4 fanfic. Don't know if this is good enough, no seriously I have no idea what I'm doing except that my brain's thinking this, so I'm writing it. I'd like to thank Rose for reviewing, and everyone who reviews after the fact.
Warnings: this will have mentions of child abuse.
This is an AU, it's gonna have flashbacks, and there is a 12 year old gap between Sue and Johnny, at the start of the story. Takes place after Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Johnny
Chapter 2: Good Luck, Johnny Storm
"Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means." Leo Buscaglia
Previously on Johnny:
Determined to never let his sister find out, to be strong enough for them, but especially her, so she never felt guilty, Johnny decided to get some sleep, laying down and clearing his head, like he'd learned years ago, and within a minute, he was out like a light.
Johnny awoke to the feeling of someone, Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic, shaking his shoulder, trying to wake him up. He groaned and curled up on his side, stuffing his head under his fluffy blanket, refusing to be pulled away from the feeling of warmth, comfort, and safety that so far in his life only sleep had ever provided. He held onto it with all the strength he could muster, as Reed tried his hardest to take it away from him. Then with one mighty tug, he didn't think Reed had in him, the blanked was gone. Johnny started shivering as the cold morning air struck him, trying his best to curl into himself, trying his best to be warm.
Then a rocky hand was grabbing him by his wrist and pulling him up to his feet. Then before he knew it, Johnny was looking into the eyes of Ben Grimm, aka the Thing, who said, "Suit up, Flame Boy, there's an emergency and we gotta be there ASAP." When he heard what Ben had said, all traces of sleep left Johnny and he was suited and ready to go within 2 minutes. Then the three men headed towards the kitchen, where Sue Storm aka the Invisible Woman, was waiting for them. She was suited up and holding a Hot Fudge Sundae pop tart, which she handed to Johnny when they reached her. As they walked, Johnny opened the wrapper, using his powers to toast it a little, and started eating the chocolaty treat, while Sue explained the situation.
"Someone's holed up in the Emporial Builiding again , the police say he's holding a woman hostage and demanded for us to be there in five minutes or he's gonna kill her. They arrived outside, right as Sue's sum-up of the situation ended. They entered the Fantastic Four Plane, by now Johnny had finished his pop tart, and headed for the Emporial Building.
They arrived at their destination right in the nick of time, for if they had been a second late, the green, fugly-looking thing looked like it would have killed the lady. They ran in and Reed took over, "Let her go!"
The thing that looked like an alien, just kept a straight face and said, "I don't care about her, you're here," he let the lady, he'd been holding, go, and she disappeared into thin air.
Johnny looked shocked, "Was that…that was a hologram right?" The thing nodded, looking over all of them, he came last to Johnny, his gaze lingering, and he smirked, "Now that's interesting, brave, but ridiculously stupid." Johnny's heart started racing, he couldn't know about it, no way, he hadn't told anyone, he was probably talking about something else; he'd done a lot of stupid things over the years. And he was pretty sure no one and nothing could read min.., "Yes, Johnny, yes I can. What can I say, I have a few tricks up my sleeve...Isn't that what you humans say?"
"Boy, I can't believe sister dearest," he looked contemplatively at Sue, and then continued, "doesn't know. Of course, she was enjoying college while you were being ab…" he was cut off by Johnny, before he could expose the biggest secret of his life.
"Shut up! It's none of your business." Everyone could see that Johnny's chest was heaving, as if he was trying to restrain his emotions, and they were starting to get worried. "But Johnny don't you think, that she deserves to know, after all it is her fau…"
Knowing that thing was only trying to play with his emotions, Johnny once again interrupted him, "No, it's not! It was my decision, my choice."
Smirking in his now familiar cocky manner, the alien said, "Really…Really Johnny, so you wanted to get beaten every day for six months, you wanted to be starved, you wanted to get LLI from being locked up in the dark for so long?"
"Shut up! If I wanted to be psychoanalyzed, I would have gone to see a freakin psychiatrist!"
Sue, who had been quiet up until this moment, finally voiced her and the rest of the Fantastic Four's thoughts, "What…What in the world are you talking about?"
The alien (?), Johnny really needed to find out what it was, was about to answer Sue, when Johnny tiredly asked, "What do you want from me? Huh. Why are you doing this? What's it gonna give you and just what exactly are you?"
The alien looked at Johnny disapprovingly, as if he should know better than to interrupt continuously, but answered anyway, "What do I want from you, Johnny? I don't want anything from you, I just want you to be happy, and that's why I am doing this."
He was about to keep going when he was once again cut off by Johnny, who looked confused, "Why is my being happy so important to you? Let's forget, for a minute, that telling everyone about it isn't really making me feel better. There are a billion people in the world, who deserve to be saved and happy, if not as much then probably more than I do. So why me?"
The slimy-looking creature smiled proudly, although it came out looking more like an awkward grimace, and answered the questions, "That…that's exactly why we picked you. You…no matter how obnoxious you act or pretend to be….you care more about other people than yourself," seeing that Johnny was about to deny everything he'd just said, he raised his hand and continued, "Don't even try to deny it. I can read your mind, remember? You can try to lie to yourself, but it's all in your head, written like a book, I can read it."
Then as if he'd remembered something, he said, "Oh yeah, me…I come from…. what you human know as Mars? My name is Frez." He ignored the gasps of shock emitting from everyone and looking at Johnny continued, "And my master wants me to save you, and now that I've met you," he was now walking towards a frozen, not literally, Johnny, "I want to too." With that he placed his hand on Johnny's forehead, emitting a bluish light, and as Johnny Storm crumbled to the ground, he placed a yellow manila envelope on the ground and disappeared with a softly whispered, "Good Luck, Johnny Storm."
…TBC…
(If you want me to?)
Only 1,000 words! Yay! P.s (alien) Frez is not a main character, but might show up at the end.
So whaddya think? Good, iffy, bad, better, could be better? Should I continue?
If you see mistakes, feel free to point them out. I hope I didn't offend anyone like ever and never do it in the future. I am grateful for your support. *scouts honor*(I was never a girl scout.)
Be honest if you think, I'm doing something wrong, and as before mentioned, I have no idea what I'm doing.
*wishes really, really hard*hope you enjoyed it, yours truly, Brownie.
