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"... can you come out of that?" the new girl asked. 

Jacob had stopped doing pushups after she approached with her hand out for a greeting. But when she inquired about his rock form she put her hand back down. The young man was never that great with the ladies and just sat on the ground in his stone form for a few more moments before standing up. He dissipated the armor and it turned back into a pile of rock and stone at their feet. He hadn't taken a shower in about thirty-seven hours, and went toe to toe with one of Mole Man's remaining underground creatures still alive after all these years. The stone understandably comes with a bit of dirt, added to the sweat, had Jacob looking pretty rough. And smelling even worse. 

"You probably wanna stand back, I need to take a shower before I do anything else today..." Jacob commented grabbing a dirty shirt and throwing it on.

"My name's Jacob by the way. Wasn't trying to be rude, I just wasn't expecting company... Did you say your name was Lucida STORM? As in Johnny Storm?" Jacob asked, "You wanna come back upstairs?" he asked another question motioning towards the stairs.

From the look of her attire, Jacob could only imagine what powers she had. He'd heard of Inhumans before, but didn't know much about their royal family or politics. 

[b]Later...[/b]

Jacob had got a shower. And he'd met the aged Human Torch, who he thought was hilarious. The two of them were in Ben's kitchen dining room area with a bunch of Chinese food boxes with the original Thing and Lucy as well. The two founding Fantastic Four members reminisced about old adventures, and a flat screen was on one of the walls playing the evening Channel 4 News. A breaking news report caught everyone's attention when the anchorwoman claimed Atlantis was attacking out of the Atlantic Ocean down by the boardwalk in Coney Island. Authorities were on the scene but the Atlantians advanced weaponry is too much for them. 

"...where have all the heroes gone?" the anchorwoman asked the viewers, "They could really use some help down there!"

Ben and Johnny looked at each other. Then at Jacob and Lucy.

~KL~