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[b][color=#ffffff]The Raft, New York[/color][/b]

[color=#ffffff]The light in the sky had been blinding. Though Johnny had flown Darkseid’s herald far out of sight, the sudden wave of energy that knocked the heroes from their feet could only mean one thing – he’d gone supernova. Sue’s heart had stopped the moment her brother tackled the herald. Johnny had always acted first and thought second. When he’d heard Darkseid’s name, he had seen read, and that much was understandable, but there was no way of knowing whether he’d survive that much heat.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]Slowly the light began to fade and the heroes began to murmur amongst themselves. Had Johnny done it? Had he achieved alone what [i]all [/i]of them could not do together? And if so, had he paid the ultimate price for it? No, it didn’t bear thinking about, Sue gritted her teeth stared up at the sky in the hope her brother might appear before them. But there was nothing.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]Until there was.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]It was a lone figure falling from the heavens. There were no flames. Johnny looked like a dead weight as he fell from through the sky at a breakneck speed. There was no way he would survive such a fall, Sue thought, her heart pounding uncontrollably in her mouth. She couldn’t lose him. She screaming to the heroes for help when the sound of an engine revving drowned her out.[/color]

[center][color=#ffffff][quote=@DocTachyon][color=#f92a0e][b]”Hold onto your horses, kid! Imma comin’!”[/b][/color][/quote][/color][/center]
[color=#ffffff]The flaming biker revved his engines once more and took to the skies swinging his lariat. Sue muttered a silent prayer that he would reach him in time to break his fall. He inched closer by the second, close enough to throw his lariat towards Johnny, when a shock of silver energy announced the appearance of the Silver Surfer.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]He looked near broken, beaten almost, the silver coating on his skin was almost at the point of dripping off him, but he was still alive. His fingers wrapped around Johnny’s uniform and snatched him out of Vigilante’s path at the last second.[/color]

[center][quote=@Byrd Man][b][color=#999999]“ENOUGH.”[/color][/b][/quote][/center]
[color=#ffffff]Floating in the air atop his surfboard the herald seemed to inspect Johnny the same way a predator might inspect its mortally-wounded prey. There was no look of satisfaction to the Surfer’s gaze, only what appeared to Sue to be a detached, almost surgical desire to be done with Storm and the rest of the heroes. [/color]

[color=#9fc5e8]“No,”[/color] Sue muttered under her breath as she looked to Reed, Ben, and the others. [color=#9fc5e8]“He's going to kill him. Please [i]someone [/i]do something!”[/color]

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[color=#ffffff]They sprung into action. Blue Beetle’s jetpack fired into life, Spider-Woman broke to swing in the Surfer’s direction, and Ben balled Reed into a sphere to launch across the open sea to the hovering herald. But there was something in the pit of Sue’s stomach that told her that they would be unable to reach him in time. They were too far out, the Surfer’s exposed pink, fleshy wrapped tightly around Johnny’s unconscious face.[/color]

[center][quote=@Byrd Man][b][color=#999999]“HE HAS GIVEN HIS HEART OVER TO WRATH. HE CARES MORE ABOUT VENGENCE THAN HE DOES JUSTICE. HE IS A POOR HERO. HE HAS BEEN FOUND WANTING, AND HE WILL BE DESTROYED IN THE NAME OF DARKSEID.”[/color][/b][/quote][/center]
[color=#ffffff]The power cosmic flowed through the Surfer’s hand into Johnny’s unconscious body and he awoke with a blood-curdling scream. His limbs flailing wildly as the incredible power that the herald possessed began to course through him. Sue’s desperate screams echoed around The Raft as she watched on helpless to stop her baby brother’s suffering.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]And then she remembered. The pendant.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]Her fingers reached for her pockets and she plucked out the artifact she had been given after her visit to the Triskelion. How did it work? Sue’s nervous, sweaty fingers ran over it as she tried to remember what he’d said. All she had to do was say his name and wherever she was, he would be able to reach her.[/color]

For the first time in decades, Sue found herself appealing to god for help. Not the god of love or forgiveness, but the God of Thunder. [color=#9fc5e8]“Thor…”[/color]