"Hey, Janice. Check this out!" Amara, an 18 year old woman called. She and her best friend, Janice, were shopping in their local mall. Janice was the opposite in looks to Amara. Where Amara had dark hair and blue eyes, Janice had ice blonde hair and green eyes.

"Uh Amara… you may want to…um turn around…" Janice replied. Alex turned to look at Janice; she could hear a note of terror in her voice. Something just beyond the blonde caught her eye. Standing just past her best friend was a monster. Ok, maybe not a monster, but he's freaky all the same Amara reasoned to herself.

"Janice get out of here," Amara said in a braver voice than she felt. "Call the police as soon as you get out, ok?" Amara saw her friend was about to argue. "I'll be fine, but the others won't. Now hurry!" Janice nodded. Amara breathed; inside she was scared, really scared. But she wouldn't show her fear, she needed to be strong. She looked around quickly at all the frightened faces. She glanced back to the man, who appeared to be in a small group, all were masked.

"Hey, Ugly! What do you want?" She called, scaring herself with her bravery.

"Shut up, Girlie" Ugly, the nearest mask said. "Oh and we're looking for you, luckily you just made it that much easier to find you. Thanks." Amara gasped and cursed herself. Then another of the Masks whipped out a tranquiliser gun and pulled the trigger. The crowd, until now silent, screamed warnings. Amara raised a hand to protect herself from the tranq. dart, she shut her eyes praying something would stop the dart. She felt a rush of power surge through her.

"What the hell?" She heard someone call. She opened her eyes slowly and saw the dart flying back to the shooter. She gasped and looked around, trying to find out how the dart had changed direction.

"We'll take it from here," a voice from behind her said. She spun around to see the Fantastic Four walking towards her. "Johnny, go call the police. Ben, make sure the crowd is safe, and then stay by the door."

She watched numbly as Mr Fantastic stretched himself around one of the masks, while the Invisible Woman surprised the others by turning invisible and wrapping a force field around them from behind.

"I've called the police." The Human Torch said as he entered the shop. "Ben's standing guard outside." Amara was amazed; she hadn't really thought the superheroes were that great, yet they already had the situation under control.

"My friends already called them…I think. They should be on their way." Amara said, speaking for the first time since the Fantastic Four had arrived.

"Well hello there, what's your name?" Johnny said.

"I'm Amara and you are?" Of course she knew his name, she had a major crush on him, but she didn't know what else to say. She wasn't used to gorgeous boys asking her anything. I'm not ugly she thought. She had shoulder length straight chocolate brown hair, with to red streaks in at the front, and piercing blue eyes. But she just scared the guys she knew – odd things happened around her.

"Amara? That's a nice name," Amara blushed and mumbled a thank you. "I'm Johnny, Johnny Storm." He grinned at her. "How about I pick you up at 8?"

"Johnny! Now is not the time!" Mr Fantastic shouted over.

"When is a good time? You're always shouting at me!" Johnny replied. He turned back to Amara. "That's Reed, and the Invisible Woman, is my sister Susie." Amara just waved at them. She felt really awkward around these superheroes; compared to them she was nothing.

"Amara, isn't it?" Susie asked and Amara nodded in reply. "We saw what you did back there, but I'm guessing you didn't?" Amara just looked confused.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"You somehow managed to turn the dart around, without even trying." Reed interrupted. Amara gasped.

"I-I've gotta go" She said and she ran out of the exit door.

"Amara, wait!" She heard them shout, but she just ran.

"She was hot!" Johnny said to no one in particular. Johnny turned around to see the disapproving looks of his, in the words of Sue and Reed, 'family'. "Let me guess: 'not now Johnny'" He mimicked, doing an impression of Reed.

"I'm gonna go talk to the police." Sue said as she walked over to the police cars that had just driven up.

"We need to find out how she did that, and why those guys wanted her." Reed said, once Sue came back over. "She could be a clue into solving our problem."

"There you go again! Our powers are not a problem! Think of how many people we have saved." Johnny interjected.

"I do have to agree with him, Reed. If we didn't have these powers, all the people we've saved would most likely be dead." Sue added.

"Hey guys, this is not the time or the place." Ben called. "We need to go back to the Baxter, ok? I'm getting weird looks out here" He added. The others laughed and followed.

"Hey Johnny? Keep an eye on Amara. Don't attract any attention, and only interfere if necessary. Got it?" Reed asked, he had a bad feeling that something would happen to her.

"Yeh sure, see you back at home" He said as he flamed on and flew out of the mall.