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 yaonne- san and AMBER 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 3: Five
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo
Previously on Johnny:
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."
Sue, Reed, and Ben all rushed towards Johnny as he fell. When they reached him, Sue fell to the ground and pulled his head into her lap, running her fingers through his hair, as if trying to comfort him, even in unconsciousness.
"What in the world just happened," Asked Reed, "What was he talking about?"
Sue was about to reply with an "I don't know," when she looked down at Johnny and instead released a gasp of surprise. Reed hearing the gasp, also looked down and couldn't restrain his own identical gasp of surprise, for he too saw what Sue had seen. Johnny's head and body were shrinking in front of their very eyes, so were his clothes.
When the transformation was complete, in the place of Johnny, there was a little boy, who looked to be about five years old. He had short, blonde hair, and a cherubic face, in other words he looked like a miniature Johnny.
Disbelievingly, even though he'd seen it happen in front of his own two eyes, Reed asked, "Is that….Is that Johnny?"
Sue still couldn't believe that she was once again, after fourteen years, looking at her five year old little brother, could only nod. Meanwhile, Ben, who'd been just as shocked as everyone else about the unexpected little turn of events, saw the Manila envelope that he could swear hadn't been there when they'd first arrived. Knowing that he couldn't pick it up with his now massive hands, he instead called out, "Reed, get over here!"
When Reed got there not even a minute later, He pointed towards the envelope and said, "Look at that, I don't think it was there when we got here." Reed walked forwards, picked up the envelope, and then opened it. Looking at the first content of the envelope, he couldn't suppress his gasp of horror. It was a picture of a boy with a myriad of painful-looking bruises of a variety of colors covering his beautiful face. The boy had soulful looking beautiful blue eyes, the left one of which was swollen past the point of being any help with sight, but what caught Reed's attention was the haunted look in the eye he could see, which seemed to say, 'you can't imagine what I've been through, but I don't really want you to try.' He knew the boy had blonde hair, but that was from the only portion of it that wasn't matted with blood.
The worst thing about it all was that Reed knew this boy was Johnny, but he couldn't bring himself to believe it. As long as he'd known Sue and Johnny he'd considered Johnny to be obnoxious, conceited, self-assured, the opposite of all the signs indicative of abused children. But now Reed wondered just how much he'd misjudged Johnny. He remembered the alien, Frez's, words, "You…no matter how obnoxious you act or pretend to be….you care more about other people than yourself," and then he remembered what Johnny had said, "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?" Those were not words that were used by people that were conceited or had a high opinion of themselves, these were words of people who were selfless, who cared more about other people than themselves.
After contemplating all of this, he couldn't help but wonder how much of the Johnny Storm he knew was a mask and how much was actually the real Johnny. Reed also wondered where Sue was during all this, why wasn't she there for her little brother. He'd determined from her reaction that she didn't know, and wondered why Johnny had never told her. Reed was determined to find out who'd done this to Johnny and when he did, which he would, that person was gonna pay.
What he was unaware of was that these exacts thoughts were also running through the head of another person, Ben Grimm, who'd seen the picture from behind Reed, and was determined to clobber whoever had hurt his matchstick. Then Reed, finally realizing Ben was behind him, turned and they both looked at the Envelope, certain it had all the answers they were looking for, provide courtesy of Frez, the alien.
Then they heard a high-pitched voice question, "Where am I," and simultaneously turned towards Sue, where a scared little five year old boy had finally woken up.
…TBC…
(If you want me to?)
Only 700 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.
