Two chapters in one day! You guys are lucky though don't expect this all the time, the only reason I did another Chapter is because I am alone in the house so I have lots of time! If you're lucky J may even get his powers in this one! And I have a great idea on Jonny switching powers with Heather. There will also be an explanation for Heather's 'flashes'.
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"They're breaking up the team" Jonny announced as he walked into the general living area where Ben, Alisha and I were. Ben looked surprised and I looked at my feet "Reed and Sue, I just overheard them, they want a nice normal boring life, no more Fantastic 5"
I sighed and looked guilty.
"You knew? What you gunna leave too?" Jonny exclaimed.
"What do you expect us to do? Keep it going just the two of us?" Ben asked angrily.
"And call ourselves what, the Dynamic Duo?" Jonny asked, looking at me spitefully.
"Hey! I never said I was leaving!" I protested, "Besides the Dynamic Duo is taken, we would be more like the Terrific Trio, or alternatively we could find another member so there's four of us, that way we could still be fantastic!"
"When were they gonna tell us?" Ben asked, still angry.
"They'll tell you when they're ready to tell you" Alisha defended. "It's their decision, not yours, and you can't be mad at them for doing what makes them happy"
"Guys, we've got a serious problem" Reed announced, walking in having apparently not heard our conversation. We followed through to the lab leaving Alisha behind. We stood in a row I front of the holographic screen.
"I've been cross referencing the Surfer's radiation through every astronomical database" Reed explained, the screen showed various labelled stars. "Alger 7, Rigel 3, Vega 6"
The respective planets displayed on the screen.
"He's been to all these planets?" Ben asked.
"And now they're all lifeless, barren, some even shattered" Reed explained, "Everywhere the Surfer goes, eight days later the planet dies"
We stood shocked by the information.
"All those people, civilisations, gone!" I murmured in shock, "And we're next"
"How do we stop it?" Ben exclaimed. "We don't even know where he is!"
"What about the craters?" Sue suggested. Reed brought up a program and various equations appear on the screen.
"They're appearing in a numerical sequence!" he exclaimed, hope creeping back into his voice, "The next one should be… latitude 51 degrees… 30 minutes north… longitude 0 degrees 7 minutes west!"
"Isn't that London?" I asked remembering a Geography lesson I had once. At that moment I heard the door slam. "J! J! Come back! It's not what you think! Everything's going to be fine I promise!"
I start running after him but stop, what's the use if I don't save the world first.
What felt like minutes later we were in a helicopter over London, I could see the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament, I would've been excited if it weren't for the whole 'end of the world' thing.
"When he surfaces, we've got to move the fight away from the crowd" Reed commanded.
"No he's too fast to be contained" Jonny objected, "When I see Silver, I'm hitting him"
"Wait, you can't do that!" Reed Protested, "We've got to stick to the plan and work as a team!"
"Oh so where a team now!" Jonny said annoyedly, "That's news to me"
Aah, why now, we're supposed to be focusing on saving the world, thanks a lot Jonny, I complain inside my head. I'm starting to get a bit of a headache.
"What are you talking about" Reed asked.
"You know what I'm talking about!" Jonny persisted.
"Look, we were going to tell you guys…" Reed protested.
"When were you going to tell us?" Jonny interrupted, "When you moved all your stuff out of the Baxter Building?"
"Jonny this really isn't a good time!" Sue shouted at her little brother.
"Kid's got a point" Ben interjected, "You should've told us!"
"Everyone just stop!" I shouted over the arguing and the helicopter noise, "Seriously, you guys are giving me a headache!"
Everyone stopped arguing.
"What is wrong with you people?" the General asked.
We landed but soon after we did a commotion started, there seemed to be a dip in the middle of the Thames, people rushed to the edge to see what was going on, the dip grew then all of a sudden sent out a shockwave causing the concrete to rupture which coincided with a sudden pain in my temple. The shockwave caused a domino effect, windows smashed, people were screaming, and almost nobody noticed the loud snapping of a wire. We all rushed out of the 'copter.
"The London Eye!" I exclaimed over the pain in my head that had increased three fold, pointing at the large wheel which was rupturing and falling off its stand. Who invented Ferris wheels anyway, all they seem to do is come rolling off? The whole thing began to topple over, there were people still inside!
We sprang into action; Sue created a force field that held the wheel which I reinforced with my telekinesis, though my head was still throbbing. Ben got underneath and lifted it up as Sue and I helped by trying to make it upright again and Reed wrapped his body round the base of the contraption and his arms in and out of the wires, pulling the wheel up like a giant elastic band.
No one noticed the dip open into a whole the sides like a waterfall, the pain in my head increased and it didn't help that the Eye was at least twice as heavy as anything I'd lifted before. The Surfer exited the hole creating a stabbing pain in my head which caused me to release my telekinetic hold on the big wheel. My vision began to blur, I saw an orange flash, Jonny, take off after the Surfer, but he collided with one of the many parts of Reeds arm setting it on fire, the now extinguished Jonny fell to the ground, luckily unharmed as he had absorbed Reed's elasticity, the Surfer escaped.
Meanwhile the fire spread along Reed's limbs causing him to contract until he was normal-person-sized, but on fire, the wheel began to fall once more. Though with the Surfer's disappearance my headache had seemed to subside, now that I could concentrate I regained my telekinetic hold, weak as I may be though.
"Guys? What are you doing?" Sue yelled, stepping back off the ledge and onto force fields she created for her feet. I lifted myself into the air again and concentrated on the top part of the wheel, the 'pods' with the people in were being squished and not everyone was out!
"Ben! Lift it higher!" the on fire Reed shouted.
"I'll try" Ben groaned under the weight but pushed the wheel higher into the air. Once the wheel was aligned with its stand Reed shot a stream of flames welding it back together. The crisis had been averted. We all relaxed, I landed back on the ground feeling drained. We still didn't stop the Surfer though. The world was still going to end.
"Sue!" Reed exclaimed running towards his Fiancé, re-switching powers with Jonny on the way, "Stay back before you get somebody killed!"
Jonny stepped back looking hurt
"Oh my god" Ben exclaimed, I turned to where he was looking, the Thames, or what used to be the Thames, there was no water, boats where lying on the muddy bed and in the centre was the perfect geometric-circle crater, right the way down to the centre of the earth.
"What the hell was that!" the General shouted at us, we were now back in America.
"We'll make adjustments, next time we'll be ready" Reed promised.
"Next time? There won't be a next time!" the General shouted again. "We can't handle this alone, that's why I'm bringing in some help"
"General, if you bring in more soldiers and weaponry you're just going to put innocent people at risk!" Reed protested.
"No more that you already have" the scarily familiar voice came from behind us. We all turned round to see Victor Von Doom in all his non-metallic (and evil) glory. All of us stared in shock, he was unaffected, I frowned, I couldn't hear his thoughts, before I could, but now I couldn't, the only indication of his presence was a strange buzzing sensation like static on a radio.
"Victor?" Reed breathed, still shocked.
"What's the matter?" the now not metal villain mocked, "Afraid of Ghosts?"
There was a roar as Ben charged forwards and pinned him to the wall by his neck, the soldiers all aimed their guns at Ben.
"If you're a Ghost you won't mind if I break your little neck!" Ben growled.
"Let him go" the General commanded, why was he doing that? Didn't he know that he tried to destroy New York two years ago?
"Don't you know who that is?" Jonny protested, obviously on the same line of thought as me.
"Victor Von Doom, he's here under my orders" the General informed us, I came to the conclusion that he is and idiot for letting Doom manipulate him.
"Ben, let him go" Reed relinquished after a short silence. "How is this possible? How are you still alive?"
"No thanks to you five, that's for certain" the former statue replied making a charade of coughing and brushing himself off.
"Von Doom's had contact with the alien" The General informed us "He's got valuable information"
"Information that might just help save the planet" the villain gloated, "now let's just get one thing straight, I hate you" he looks pointedly at Sue "All of you, but the worlds at stake and we need to work together to survive"
"General, we know first-hand, you trust Victor and you're gunna regret it" Reed warned.
"So far the only one I've regretted trusting here is you, Richards" the General replied pointedly.
"Reed don't agree to this!" Ben protested.
"Ben's right, the guy's evil, you can't trust him!" I agree, earning an annoyed look from both Victor and the General.
"Let's see what he's got" Reed agreed reluctantly, we moved over to the screen and a video started playing an extremely familiar scene, my dream. Well part of it anyway, made to look as if the Surfer's attack was unprovoked.
"I made a detailed recording of our little encounter" Doom lied. "Well what do you think"
"I like the part where he knocks you on your ass!" Ben laughed.
"I think you missed some, like I don't know, the part where you ask him to join your evil crusade, or the part where you electrocuted him" I accused.
"Interesting accusations Miss Jones" He replies unphased, "Shame you don't have any proof"
I glare at him.
"And in case you were wondering, it's this that's stopping you" he explained, tapping an earpiece he was wearing, "Interesting piece of technology; I borrowed it from an associate of mine who also has… telepath problems"
I figured that Doom would find some way to block Heathers Telepathy, also if she could read his mind she would know his plans and it would be over before it started. I decided that it would be an appropriate reference if I made him use technology from Magneto's helmet which gives me a chance to advertise my X-men: Evolution story which Heather makes a fleeting appearance in, but she will come in again, they exist in the same universe so that the end of this story coincides with the reveal of Mutants, which explains why the Fantastic 5 aren't available to help stop the Sentinel. More on that another time though.
He turns back to the film.
"Look at where the energy levels surge when he attacks me" he suggested the video played that part in slow motion, but I continue giving him evils.
"The energy was channelled through him but it originated from his board" Reed realised
"If we can separate him from the board, we can cut of his power completely" Victor concluded.
"Then that's what we have to do" the General agreed.
"How?" Jonny asked.
"If I knew that I wouldn't need you people would I?" the villain said coldly.
"You two should get started right away" the General commanded.
"I'm glad we have the opportunity to cooperate again" Victor said, sounding rather fake, "I'll try to talk slowly so you can keep up"
"If you'll excuse me, I have to make a call" I announced, breaking the awkward silence then leaving. I went outside and stood in a corner. I got out my phone and dialed the number.
"Hello, Arachnid delivery services, how may I help you?" Peter's voice answered jokily.
"Peter, cut the act" I replied
"Come on, not even one laugh?" he pleaded.
"If you knew the world was going to end in less than two days and it was up to you and six other people including your worst villain to stop it, would you have time for jokes?" I snapped.
"OOKK, fair point, so what do you need me for?" he asked, now serious.
"I need you to get over here, and bring a couple of things, this could take a while" I explained, and then went on to explain everything else.
An hour later we were both in a spare lab at the military base surrounded by various pieces of tech.
"Ok, from what I can tell, the Surfer entity is constantly emitting a certain frequency of cosmic radiation, the same frequency as your telepathy, which is somehow picking it up, hence the 'flashes you've been having, the headaches you get when in close proximity to him seem to be some sort of interference, like a microphone and speaker being too close" Peter, in normal clothes, concluded.
"Ok, that makes sense" I agreed, "but what are we going to do about it? I can't just collapse in pain in mid-battle"
"I was getting to that, from the scans you gave me that Dr Richards took I've been able to modify this emitter to give out the same frequency rays, and adapt a field that should cancel them out, we'll need to test it first though" he explained, showing me two of the contraptions, a box shaped radiation emitter and a field emitter that appeared to be mounted on a large hair clip. I took the hair clip and examined it, it was a normal slide only with a small circuit board where there would normally be a flower or bow and a small button next to an LED.
"You make it sound simple" I commented, although I am smart with equations and physics and stuff, but when it comes to building stuff like that I'm clueless.
"It is once you understand the basics" he replied, "Now first in order to prove my theory we're going to have to expose you to the radiation without the cancelling field"
"Ok" I agreed, "But not for long, it seems to get more painful as time goes on"
"Ready?" he asked, his hand on the emitter switch. I nodded, bracing myself for the pain. He flicks the switch and the machine whirrs to life. It started as a dull ache but soon increased until the pain in my temples was pounding.
"Ok, it works you can stop now!" I snapped over the pain, he turned the machine off and almost immediately the pain disappeared.
"Ok, now for the moment of truth" Peter quipped, handing me back the clip, "The green light means it's active"
"Oh no I thought it would be a pink light" I said sarcastically, activating the clip and placing it in my hair, "This better work"
"Let's hope so" he agreed, activating the emitter once more, I sat waiting for the pain, but none came, it worked!
"It worked!" I exclaimed, "Thank you Peter, you just helped save the world!"
"You're welcome" he smirked, then he whispered so that any security cameras or bugs can't hear, "Are you sure I can't help?"
"Sorry they wouldn't allow it, what with you supposedly being a menace and everything" I whispered back.
"Call if you need anything" he said loudly again before giving me a pointed look that said I better stop this and leaving past the security. Deactivating the clip I went to find the main lab where Reed and Doom were supposedly working, I found that only Reed was there with Sue and Doom was nowhere to be found, big surprise.
"A pulse? A tacion pulse!" Reed exclaimed, getting up from where Sue had been trying to get him to relax, "I love you"
He kissed her and then walked off.
"Glad I could help" Sue said annoyedly after he had gone. After that I had taken up the job of a lab assistant, helping to design the pulse emitter, Victor helped too for a while but then seemed to go off on his own, probably to do something evil.
"So exactly how does this thing work?" the General asked as we proposed the idea.
"When we activate the field it will separate him from his board, making him powerless" Reed explained.
"Like a fish in a net" the General commented.
"Yeah" both Reed and Sue answered simultaneously.
"In theory anyway" Reed finished.
"How long till this is operational" the General asked.
"Three hours" Reed replied, the General looked slightly annoyed, "I know I can only go so fast since apparently I've only got Heather"
"What do you need to make this faster?" the General asked.
"Actually there are a couple of things" Reed explained and began listing things he needed.
"Is there anything you need from the Baxter Building, because I was going to go and check on J" I asked when he had finished.
"Of course Heather" he agreed and asked me to fetch a couple of things. I then flew across the city to the Baxter Building and began putting together the things Reed asked me for.
"Heather!" I heard James's voice coming from his room, "Can you come here please?"
I sighed and went to his room, where he was standing in the middle of the floor wearing a strange green and blue outfit, Ok? What was going on?
"Ok what is this about?" I asked suspiciously. "It better be good, I'm trying to save the world here!"
"It worked!" He exclaimed.
"What worked?" I asked even more suspiciously.
"You can call me…"
He disappeared from where he was standing and appeared instantly on the opposite side of the room.
"Flick cause I…"
He disappeared again and appeared in another part of the room.
"Flick from one place…"
He disappeared and appeared again in a different place
"To another!"
I disappeared and appeared right beside me.
"What do you think?" he asked, his eyes alight, clearly expecting me to be impressed.
"I think you're stupid! What on earth were you thinking; you did it again didn't you! You could have been killed!" I shouted at him worriedly, I tried to slap him round the head but found to my surprise, and his, that my hand passed right through, he giggled.
"That's new" he exclaimed smiling.
"You're an idiot J" I told him, "and why do you have that on anyway?"
"This is my costume!" he said proudly, "Of course I'll need a symbol or something so it's not entirely done"
The costume was mainly green with dark blue strips running under each arm and down the sides of his body, it was in the same style as my own costume and the material was similar as well.
"Where did you get that?" I asked, suspicious once more.
"Trade secret" he smirked and ported to my other side, "So can I?"
"Nope, no way, not happening!" I told him firmly, he looked up at me.
"Please!" he begged. "I wanna be Flick!"
"No definitely not!" I repeated
So what do you think of that, a lot happened in that chapter, I think it is one of the longest I've done! It may be a while to the next one depending on when my brother decides to go out because he has a tendency to just hang around downstairs now that he's finished school. On the plus side I have finished college so will have more time.
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