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[b]The Baxter Building
Manhattan[/b]


"JOHNNY!" Ben Grimm yelled as he stomped through the Baxter Building's upper levels. "Come out so I can murder ya!"

"Stop me when I lie!" Johnny said as he ran out of a side room and sprinted down the hallway away from Ben. Ben started to give chase, his rocky footsteps shaking the whole floor. Johnny came the end of the hallway and ducked out on to the terrace outside. Johnny leaped from the terrace, free falling for a few seconds before bursting into flames and taking to the skies.

"Come back here!" Ben shouted, shaking his rocky fist into the sky as Johnny streaked away.

"What's going on?" Sue asked as she stepped on to the terrace. "Oh," she said, her face scowling as she saw what was on Ben's back. Johnny had slapped a sticker read "WIDE LOAD!" in the middle of his back.

"Mind helping me?" Ben asked, pawing at the sticker that was just out of reach. Sue nodded and helped pry it off his rocky back.

"I'm sorry," she said, crumbling the sticker up into a ball. 

"You ain't gotta apologize for him," Ben said with a shrug. "Kid's been a jerk since as long as I've known him."

"I know. He should know better since you're..."

"What?" Ben asked defensively. "What am I, Suze? Crazy? Depressing? What?"

"You know, Ben," she looked away and shrugged. "Sensitive." 

Ben turned away and started to stomp away. "Well, I'm so happy that the ugly rock monster is worthy of your consideration and pity."

"Come on, Ben, you know I didn't mean it like that," Sue called after him. "I'm trying to talk to you, but I can tell you're in one of your moods.

Ben stopped short and looked back at her. "Mood? What mood?"

"You're having one of your pity parties. Anything anyone tries to say to you, you turn it around and use it against us. You want to feel sorry for yourself, go ahead. Just leave me out of it."

With that, Sue turned around and left the terrace. She headed up a few levels to the floor where Reed and Sue kept their labs. Her husband 
 was in the main work station, stretched out underneath a hybrid car.

"How's it coming?"

"Fantastic!" Reed said from underneath the car. "I took out the engine and replaced it with one of my own design. It can go over eight hundred miles an hour, and it's more than adequate to power hover engines and maintain flight."

"A flying car? Is there anything else it does?"

"It runs on water, but it's not as efficient as I had hoped. Only gets two hundred miles to the gallon."

Reed pulled himself out from under the car and stood up, stretching his arm halfway across the room to grab a rag from his work bench. He wiped his greasy hands off with the rag. "So how are Ben and Johnny enjoying their R&R?"

"Don't get me started," Sue said with a roll of her eyes. "They've been bickering pretty bad over the past few days. It's been nearly two weeks since Mole Man in the Ukraine. I think they need something to do."

"Idle hands and all that."

Reed's computer on the other side of the lab dinged, alerting him that he had a priority alert. "Excuse me," he said, stretching the upper half of his body across the room. Sue watched from the other side of the room as he scanned whatever was on the screen.

"We need to find Ben and Johnny," he said as he snapped back to face her. "Something's going on at the UN.


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[b]United Nations Headquarters[/b]


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"This is like a flying tub," Ben grumbled.

"It's not," replied Reed.

"Totally is," Johnny said as he flew by the car aflame. "

They saw the destruction below and stopped their chatter. Gunfire was erupting from every where. Without another word, Ben jumped from the car and fell the fifty feet to the ground. His impact made a small crater on the road, a crater which he climbed out of and started to run towards the building. Johnny flew behind him and followed him into the building.

"I'm going in," Sue said to Reed.

She created a disc of invisible energy which she rode down through the sky and into the building behind her brother and friend. Reed placed the car on standby mode and stretched down to the ground, following in the wake of the rest of the Four into the building.