Hi, I am continuing… I have made a change to chapter 2, the flash where Heather sees J getting his powers no longer exists as it made no sense and didn't fit in.

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We regrouped back at the Baxter building when Jonny got back from wherever it was he went after the comet thing.

"He looked like a man, but completely covered in silver and he was flying this like… like a surf board thing, I know that sounds crazy" Jonny explained, I gasped, it was the exact same thing I'd been seeing in the strange flashes I kept having.

"No, not at all, so did you follow the shiny man to lollypop land or the rainbow junction?" Ben mocked.

"Look, I know what I saw!" Jonny protested.

"I believe you" I said quietly.

"What?" Ben exclaimed.

"This is gunna sound weird, possibly more so than Jonny, but I've seen him too, I think" I explained, "I've been seeing things lately, strange images in my head, I thought I was just imagining it but maybe it's more"

"It's alright, whatever this things physical appearance is it has the ability to create matter and energy" Reed concluded.

"So it caused the anomalies" agreed the General, who was also there along with his soldiers.

"It seems to radiate cosmic energy when it exerts itself, randomly affecting matter" Reed explained, "Evidently this… entity, this… Silver Surfer didn't want to be detected, it destroyed the sensor"

"It knew it was being monitored?" Sue exclaimed.

"And traced it back to here, we're dealing with something highly resourceful here" Reed completed

At that moment Jonny stood up and groaned.

"Are you feeling alright?" Sue asked her brother worriedly.

"Yeah, I just gotta walk this off" he replied as he left the room.

"We need to destroy this thing before it attacks again" the General orders, "Richards, find me another way to track it"

With that he and his soldiers left.

"Sue I am so sorry" Reed apologised, "The only reason I didn't tell you was because I didn't want you to worry"

"I'm not mad that you built the sensor, it was the right thing to do" Sue explained.

"Oh, great" Reed said relieved and turned to leave but Sue stopped him by encasing him in a force field which moved him back to face her.

"I wasn't finished" she stated.

"Ok, I'm sorry please continue" Reed apologised, his voice slightly muffled by the fact that he was squished in a force field.

"See, this is exactly what I've been saying all along" Sue continued before being interrupted by Reed.

"Could you drop the force field please?" he interrupts.

"We can't even… oh sorry" Sue stopped and dropped the force field allowing him to expand back to his normal shape, "We can't even have a wedding without it turning into world war three!"

"I know, but once we are married, everything will be back to normal" Reed assured her

"We will never have normal lives as long as we do what we do!" She contradicted, "How can we possibly raise a family in all this"

I looked down at the floor; I didn't need to read minds to know what they were thinking.

"I'm gunna go check on Jonny" she said before leaving, Reed turned round to see me standing in the doorway.

"You heard all that didn't you" he assumed, I nodded. Suddenly the pain filled my head again, this time though I didn't see images I only heard.

Your herald summons you, another world awaits, let it be done, quickly.

I shook my head and the pain cleared.

"Heather, are you ok?" Reed asked,

"It was… another flash, a voice this time" I explained.

"How often has this been happening?" he asked suspiciously.

"I don't know, about once or twice a day?" I replied awkwardly.

"Why didn't you tell us?" he exclaimed.

"Like I said, I thought it was nothing" I replied, "Whoa!"

"What? Another flash?" Reed asked.

"I think you might want to look out the window" I tell him, out the window was a flaming figure that could at first glance be mistaken for Jonny, except it wasn't.

"I'm on fire! Aaah help! I'm on fire!" Sue screamed.

"Sue? What's going on? You're on fire!" Reed exclaimed.

"You think?" Sue, who had still been screaming hysterically, shouted sarcastically. "Pull me in! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Sue screamed more as she sank down towards street level and was mistaken for Jonny by some passers-by, both Reed and I ran down stairs as fast as we could and out onto the street.

"Sue, how did this happen?" Reed asked the still flaming and floating Sue.

"I touched Jonny!" she screamed, still hysterical. "He did this!"

"Where is Jonny?" I asked looking around.

"Here!" Jonny's voice came from thin air behind us, ok so Sue's on fire and Jonny's invisible, something is definitely wrong here.

"Try it again!" Reed suggests. I see a slight disturbance in the air as the invisible-Jonny reaches out and touches Sue, he immediately appeared and a now not on fire but completely naked Sue fell to the ground. The crowd started taking pictures but Reed and I tried to push them back.

"Sue, your clothes" Reed exclaimed, taking the hint Sue disappears.

"Why does this always happen to me?" Sue's disembodied voice asked.

"All of Sue's results are normal" Reed concluded after we had got back up to the lab and ran some tests. "But Jonny's…"

"Jonny's are what?" Jonny interrupted.

"Your encounter with the Surfer has affected your molecules, they're in a constant state of flux" Reed explained.

"Is that bad?" Jonny asked, having obviously not understood a word Reed'd just said.

"Well it caused you to temporarily switch powers with Sue" Reed concluded, "Ideally I'd like to run some more tests…"

"Would you like a volunteer?" Ben interrupted, stomping towards Jonny; we all called out in protest.

"This is serious!" Jonny exclaimed, backing away.

"We don't know the extent of his condition yet!" Sue protested.

"This is definitely a bad idea!" I interjected.

"It could be progressive, it could be degenerative…" Reed tried to explain before being once again interrupted.

"…It could be fine" Ben dismissed the concerns and put his hand in Jonny's shoulder. The effect was immediate, energy seemed to wash over both of them then they began to change. I burst out laughing at the scene in front of me, standing where Jonny had been was, well still Jonny but completely covered in orange rock with his hair sticking out the top, and in front of him was Ben but back to how he was before the cloud, trying to extinguish the scorched patches on his now extremely large football shirt.

"Hey! Hey it's me! I'm back!" exclaimed the now normal, besides the flames anyway, Ben, we all turned and looked at the rock covered Jonny, who was looking down at his arms; he quickly picked up a silver cup from the desk and began using it as a mirror.

"OH MY GOD! Come on! We just said this is serious!" he shouted.

"Oh yes" Ben laughed

"Definitely" I agreed, still laughing.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me!" Jonny exclaimed, Ben and I laughed harder. "Reed, you better be able to fix this!"

"I'm right on it" Reed acknowledged, just then there were running footsteps into the lab.

"Heather? What's going…" James shouted as he ran into the lab but stopped when he saw Ben and Jonny, "…on?"

At that moment Ben shot a blast of fire straight at Jonny.

"Startin' to see why you like that!" Ben exclaimed

Jonny charged at Ben and touched him again causing both of them to turn back to normal, J still stood there wide eyed and staring.

"Ahh crap!" Ben complained at his re-transformation.

"It's not funny!" Jonny protested, "What am I supposed to do in the meantime!"

"Just try and keep your distance from us" Reed suggested.

"You and me are gonna be spending a whole lotta time together Pal!" Ben laughed, James snapped out of his trance.

"Heather, explain" he commanded.

"Ok, long story short, Jonny had a run in with the herald guy and now he can switch powers with us by touching" I explained, his eyes lit up and he ran off. A few seconds later a commotion started.

"Ow! Ow! Quit it! Ow!" I heard Jonny's voice down the corridor "Heather! Get your brother to quit poking me!"

"Judging by the fact that nothing's blown up yet, I'm guessing that the whole switching thing doesn't work on normal humans" I commented to Reed.

"Interesting" he contemplated, "it must only affect those exposed to cosmic radiation"

"Little help here!" Jonny called, Ben's laughter was heard in the background, "Do you want me to burn you?"

"I should go stop him" I suggested before leaving the room. I found them further down the corridor; Jonny was backed up against a wall with J standing in front of him continuously prodding his arm.

"Why's it not working?" J complained aloud.

"J" I said, laughing slightly at the scene.

"Yes?" he replied, still poking Jonny.

"Stop poking Jonny" I said boredly. He pouted but stopped allowing Jonny to slip away. "Now what was this all about?"

"I was trying to get his powers" he explained, I sighed.

"Not this again" I complained, "Look you don't need to have superpowers, you're fine as you are"

"I want to help!" he persisted.

"You can't do anything if you injure yourself with all these stupid stunts" I exclaimed, I saw tears well up in his eyes

"You don't understand!" he shouted, "You're… you're just like Dad!"

I felt like I was stabbed in the chest as he turned and fled from the room. I hadn't meant it like that; I only wanted him not to get hurt! And Dad, he hadn't been the same since Mum died, he tried but after everything with the cloud and the Fantastic 5 he couldn't cope, he grew more and more distant until I found J on the doorstep claiming that he had left altogether, he disappeared. The court had named me J's guardian and now he lived at the Baxter Building full time, but he still wouldn't talk about what happened on that last day. But ever since then he has been obsessed with developing powers.

Feeling deflated and with the aching pain in my chest I decided to retire to my room. I lay on my back across my bed, what had I done, I didn't mean to hurt him! Then all of a sudden it was as if I was hit square in the chest by a massive stream of water or something my vision went black.

Melting. All around me ice was melting. Why was I in ice? What was happening? The familiar figure of the Surfer, now bent forwards his arms splayed out, his hands radiating the rippling cosmic energy. That was what was melting the ice. Then something caused him to stop. He rose, and I rose too, following him with no effort on my part. He did not seem aware of my presence as we floated higher and higher, up and up the seemingly endless, perfectly cylindrical tunnel. Then I noticed a light far above us, the light grew until we emerged from a large circular crater, made with geometric precision, identical to the ones shown to us by the General last week, only this one was in the middle of a frozen tundra. I spotted a black helicopter blotting the bleak white landscape, a lone figure stood at the edge of the cliff, a worryingly familiar one. The Surfer floated towards the figure and walked to one end of his 'board' .

"You've been busy my friend" the hooded figure complimented the shining silver entity, he too seemed unaware of my presence, and yes the voice sounded familiar too, it gave me a foreboding feeling. "Your talents are impressive. Can you understand what I'm saying?"

The Surfer nodded slowly and the figure continued.

"Together we could be unstoppable" the hooded man suggested, seriously cliché much? "Anything could be ours for the taking!"

"ALL THAT YOU KNOW IS AT AN END" the Surfer replied monotonously, the man seemed confused.

"What do you mean by that?" he asked, the cosmic entity turned to leave. "Wait!"

The Surfer continues to leave.

"I said wait!" lightening shot out of the figures hands and hit the silver man in the back, the electricity crackled dissipated on the Surfer's metallic skin and he turns sharply, his normally emotionless silver face now set and angry. Energy surged though him and with a gesture he released that energy and it hit the figure. The cloaked man was thrown backwards, for a second he seemed to turn into a cloud of dust then re-solidify. He shouted out, but the voice sounded different, less metallic, then laughter. I knew that laughter.

No

Suddenly I was back on my bed breathing heavily. The figure was…? No it couldn't be. It was just a dream, wasn't it? Failing to convince myself, I tried to ignore the fear that filled my body.

So here is another chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.

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