Hey guys! I have recently watched Fantastic Four again and decided to write this one. Actually the synopsis might seem not new to you (another love story with Johnny and blabla, but he's soooo cute!! I just couldn't help myself=))), but maybe by the end of this chapter you will be interested. Or at least I hope so=))

So PLEASE write at least couple of words as a review and I will continue if at least one person will like it=) I'm writing another story now which I want to finish too and this one is actually my first sci-fi story. But don't be good=) tell me if it sucks=)

"I just want some rest! Is that so bad?" Johnny said loudly and flopped onto a coach where Ben was already sitting. "Hey Big One! Wassup?" Johnny asked him cheerfully.

"Everything's been perfectly well until you got here."

"Oh I missed you too! Wanna be my date for tonight?" Johnny went on fooling around. "I bet with you we can get a free table in any restaurant and a dance floor will be just for two of us! What you say?"

"Shut it Matchstick!" Ben answered dully.

"It's been almost four years and you still didn't come up with a new name for me?! Does that mean you don't love me anymore?!" Johnny made a whiny face. "Maybe you've been cheating on me? Answer me! Did you find yourself another superhero? Oh how could you? No, you're not The Thing! Guile should be your name!" his voice was getting louder and whinier and he started to sob.

Ben sighed took a pillow and smashed it into Johnny's face.

"Hey work on your sense of humor!" younger guy murmured and the pillow immediately started to smolder.

"You shut up already," Ben sighed again and threw the pillow away.

"Okay, okay! White flag!" Johnny raised his hands defensively. "Wassup?"

"Just don't feel like going to that meeting with guys from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency today. Have bad feeling about that. These guys are up to no good for sure."

"Ben we found each other!" Johnny shouted out happily. "Let's protest against this together! I hate that NGA guys already!"

"Oh come on! We haven't even met them!" Sue came into the room.

"I hate them 'cause they will make us go somewhere and do something and save the world and bla-bla-bla! Can't we just have nothing to do for a while?" Johnny pleaded.

"Johnny it's our job! You said you loved it!" Susan reminded him.

"Everyone needs holidays!"

"Johnny…"

"No, I don't sign up for that! Ben, are you with me?" Johnny stood up from a coach and looked down at Ben.

Ben sighed again.

"No, I guess I'll come to that meeting."

"Oh, sure! See you, Pet Rock!" Johnny took his leather jacket and went out of the room towards the elevator.

"Johnny!" he heard Susan's voice but didn't turn around.

"Have fun with those NGA guys!" Johnny waved his hand still not looking back.

He went through the underground parking lot of the Baxter Building towards his Harley and pulled out his cell phone.

"Linda! Missed me my sweetie? Yeah, that's me, Johnny! Wanna have fun today? Good, good! Call me when you're ready but don't take too long! Yeah, there are a lot of women on my list! Lucky for you you're up first! Got it, be there in one hour!"

"I love this life!" he murmured to himself as he started the engine.

***

"Oh fuck!" Johnny sighed couple of hours later when his buzzing cell phone distracted him from kissing a pretty blonde that was lying on the bed next to him. He found his phone in the pike of clothes on the floor and pressed the 'talk' button.

"Johnny where the hell are you?!"

"Calm down, Reed! I'm having the time of my life," Johnny kissed the woman again still with his phone near his ear.

"You are supposed to be with us! Sue said you would be here!"

"I thought I told her that I wouldn't!"

"Maybe she was hoping that there are some brains in your head but she was apparently mistaken! You know you should pay more attention to what you…"

"Oh, Reed, stop going all fortune cookie on me!" Johnny frowned and leaned back from the woman.

"We were specifically told to be here with our full complement! And I demand you to be here immediately!" Reed's voice was cold.

"Should I fly?" Johnny asked sarcastically.

"No. But you better hurry up otherwise I…"

"Okay, got it, got it! I'll be there!" he sighed and sat on the bed.

"Do you remember the address?"

"Sure."

"Oh good, you're not completely hopeless! Hurry up!" and Reed hung up.

"Are you leaving?" the woman looked at him pleadingly. "Please don't!"

"Sorry sweetie! The country needs me you know!" Johnny was dressing up. "Saving the world again!"

"Can I stand near you on that posters when you do it? I mean, when you will be a superhero again?"

"What do you mean 'again'? Was I bad today?" he asked sarcastically but with a bit of concern.

"No, of course not! You were amazing, Mr. Fantastic!"

"My name is Human Torch!" the guy exclaimed.

"Oh…" the blonde looked confused. "But Mr. Fantastic sounds cooler!"

"Yeah, but I'm hotter!" Johnny answered angrily. "Bye!"

"Johnny! Wait! Call me!"

"Yeah, sure," he murmured.

Twenty minutes later he stopped near small white building with huge letters 'The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. New York City' on it. There were couple of cars parked right near it and the building itself didn't look very presentable.

"Oh gee, is that me or are this letters bigger than the building?" Johnny took of his helmet and rolled his eyes.

He heard a sound of another motorcycle and turned his head left. A shiny brand new dark blue Harley was moving fast towards him. As it approached the place near Johnny which was the only spare one the motorcycle stopped abruptly.

"Wow!" Johnny gasped. "Electra Glide Ultra! That is my dream!"

The owner of a dream machine turned his head to him. Then Johnny heard a quiet chuckle and the rider took of a helmet.

"Wow!" Johnny gasped again now loudly, his eyes widened and his body froze.

The rider was a girl about twenty years old with shiny reddish hair until her waist. She got off the Harley and put her helmet on a seat not looking at the guy anymore and headed towards the building.

"Hey! Hey wait!" Johnny ran after her still holding his helmet. "I am here for the first time, could you help me?"

"Yes?" the girl stopped and smiled to him. Her smile was cold and polite.

She was wearing dark blue leans and a black leather jacket with that definitely did justice her slender figure with all curves needed and though she wasn't wearing high heels she was just a bit lower that Johnny.

"I am Johnny Storm but people know me as the Human Torch," he smiled at her with his famous boyish smile that had broken a lot of girls' hearts.

The girl remained silent. Instead of saying something she scanned Johnny down and up again and looked into his eyes. He looked back in her big hazel green eyes for couple of seconds but then it became hard and he blinked.

A small smirk touched her lips. "Wow, I'm impressed," she said sarcastically. "And?"

"And what is your name?"

"How does my name relate to your problem?"

"My problem?" he blinked again.

"You are here for the first time and you need help and?" she was waiting for him to continue.

"Oh, sure," this talk definitely didn't go the way such talks normally did. But this Victoria's Secret Angel should be in my bed! Damn, I love Victoria's Secret! "And maybe you could show me where to go and everything…"

"Well there is only one front door and we are standing right next to it," she smiled politely again, "and I suppose you can come into the building through it. Anything else?"

Johnny felt like a dunce.

"Oh, no, thanks… um… maybe we could…"

"Excuse me but I am late for something," she interrupted him. "Good bye!"

"But…" he wanted to say something but the girl turned away.

She entered the hall. Johnny followed her and noticed a man in a black suit that bowed respectfully to the girl. She nodded to him and turned left to a small corridor. Johnny wanted to follow her but that man stopped him.

"Jonathan Storm?" he asked.

Johnny frowned, he didn't like his full name. But still he nodded hid head.

"I am here to escort you to the conference room, please follow me."

There were only two stories in the building so there weren't any elevators. Johnny and the man went upstairs and soon entered an unexpectedly large room which took obviously all story.

"There he is! Please accept our apologies, Major Woods,…" Reed started but a tall man in a military uniform stopped him.

"Don't worry, Mr. Richards! Our device has also just arrived!"

"You mean, has been shifted?"

"Yes, exactly!" Major smirked. "Well, as we are all here I will start…"

He turned around and a 3D picture appeared right beside him. There was some molecular structure on it. Reed and Sue examined it for a second and then both gasped. Ben looked puzzled and Johnny yawned.

"As you can see this DNA is very unusual even in comparison to yours'" Major smiled. "This substance explodes in contact with air and it's power is incompatible to any of now existing explosive materials."

"But it's structure…" Reed started. "It apparently can impact on other materials…"

"Exactly!" Major said in excitement. "That's the main point. This substance can alter any other material that touches it and therefore change it into this substance. Which basically gives us endless amount of this super powerful material!"

"And why do you need us? Just to boast of having a big bomb?" Johnny asked loudly.

"Johnny!" Sue hissed.

"No, Mr. Storm! The fact is that we don't have that substance yet!" Major answered politely as if he didn't notice the irritation in Johnny's voice.

"So you want us to get you that big bomb?" Johnny went on.

"Exactly!" Major beamed as if he has just heard something really nice.

"But how do you know the capacity of that substance if you don't have one?" Sue frowned.

"Well, Mrs. Richards Let's say we have had opportunities to find that out. Our satellites have tracked this substance according to its estimated capacity and its only sample is in the Pacific Ocean in Mariana Trench."

"What? You want us to go there?" Reed's eyes widened.

"Actually yes we do."

"But why us? I mean, you have money and trained staff…" Ben spoke for the first time during the meeting.

"Well, there is a catch… This substance actually is dangerous because air is everywhere in the submarine and there might be difficulties in transporting it… with normal people. But your team is known to help the country many times and in case something goes wrong…"

"You are setting us up?" Johnny asked in disbelief.

"No, no, how could you think so? This substance explodes only in contact with all elements of the air and your… er… powers exclude some elements from the atmosphere around you…"

"Oh, I got it!" Reed smiled. "Susan's force field, Johnny's fire, Ben's hard skin and my rubber! These are all perfect storages for this substance! It's absolutely harmless for us! Well according to your estimates."

"I'm glad we understood each other, Mr. Richards!" Woods smiled too. "We will provide you all equipment needed but just in case…"

"Wow! You mean we are going underwater?!" Johnny gasped. "I'm in!"

"And what did you say about that very special device that will help us accomplish this mission?" asked Sue.

"Oh that truly is a very special one! We named it Aquamarine. It can freeze water and other liquids, heat, evaporate and condense it. It can also control water, I mean, make it move in different directions, and it can travel through water in enormous speed," Major looked really pleased as he was saying all this.

"I would definitely like to see that one!" Reed looked interested.

"Trust me, this thing is irreplaceable when you go underwater! Duke, bring it in!" Woods commanded the guy who was standing near one of the doors.

He opened it and another person came in.

"What? Wait. Where's the device?" Johnny raised his eyebrows. "Oh, I got it, it's like a TV-shop! Now you will bring us something, right?"

The girl he met half an hour ago was the person that joined them now. Only now she was wearing a suit which consisted of a tight-fitting short-sleeved jacket and extremely short shorts all black and shiny.

She looked at Johnny as if he was an annoying fly.

"No, Mr. Storm, you are mistaken this time!" Woods smiled at him again. "This is Aquamarine!"

"What? That kid?" Ben raised his rocky eyebrows.

"Yes."

"And she can do what you told us?" Reed was in shock. "She has these powers?"

"Yes, all of them!" Major nodded.

"But how… I mean, is she like us?" Reed was the only one who was able to speak. The others were just staring at the girl who seemed stone calm.

"I think we should go to our laboratory to show you Aquamarine's capacities. Please follow me!"

Woods went out of the room followed by the girl. The others were walking next, Sue and Reed were discussing Major's offer and the 'device', Ben was fully into his thoughts and Johnny was moving his head up and down to have a better view of the girl's back.

Her assets are damn good!

It turned out that this building had elevators. They went to one of them and it opened immediately. There was a lot of room in there and they all fit in even Ben. It started to move down.

"Does this building fit laboratories?" Reed asked disbelievingly.

"Just one, but that's enough for us! Here we are!"

The elevator doors opened and they saw a lab. It was really huge and white and it had an enormously long dark swimming pool in the middle. Johnny noticed that the girl smiled at the sight of it but he himself didn't feel too good.

"Too much water. Don't like it," he murmured to himself. He didn't feel good around big amounts of water lately. Fire and water do not come together.

"Aquamarine, let's begin!" Woods looked at the girl.

She smiled lightly again and went closer to the pool. Members of the Fantastic Four watched her every move. She raised her hand and some water from the pool flowed up. When the girl's hand stopped water formed a ball which hung about a feet above water surface. Johnny saw Reed's eyes widening.

Then she strained her hand and the water ball froze immediately. And when she started to slowly squeeze her fingers water started to evaporate without even melting.

"Cool!" Reed said simply which was so unlike him. But everyone else shared his emotions.

"And what about condensing?" he asked.

The girl turned to him and raised her hand again. She twisted her half-squeezed fist and water began to appear from nowhere. When this water ball became the size of a tennis ball she squeezed her fist and water evaporated.

"Wow," Ben commented.

"'Wow' would be an understatement!" Reed exclaimed. "But how did you manage to…"

"Let's not talk about the details now, Mr. Richards, " Woods interrupted him. "I will give you all documentation when we finish. And now about traveling in water… Aquamarine, get in the pool!"

Johnny frowned at the tone Major commanded the girl. But she apparently was okay with that because she took off her shoes and dived into a pool without saying a word. She hasn't said a word whole time.

The girl dived deep and she didn't show up for like half a minute. Then her head was out of water until her mouth. Her neck was still in water.

"You know you have to get used to be in this suit in water, but for now, you can take it off," commanded Major.

She will get naked? Maybe I should jump in there too? Johnny smirked to himself.

The girl went down to water again and in another half a minute came to the surface again. But her neck was still in water.

"Aquamarine can stay underwater for however long you need," Woods spoke to Reed.

"How is that possible?"

"Aquamarine…" Woods looked at the girl.

She nodded and came higher out of the water. Johnny's eyes widened. There were gills on her neck.

Sue covered her mouth with her hand.

The girl went under water again and turned up in a second her neck in water.

"And now prepare yourselves for a surprise!" Major announced smiling again.

"Isn't that enough?" Sue asked quietly.

"Aquamarine, come here!" Woods commanded again. The girl's head went down again.

Johnny opened his mouth to say that it's not okay to treat a person like a pet but as he saw Aquamarine out of water at the side of the pool words were stuck in his mouth and his jaw dropped open.

The pool was unusually dark and they didn't get to see the girl's body under water. But now she put her hands on the side of pool near them and showed the bottom part of her body.

She had a fishtail.

A long big shiny fishtail covered in emerald green scales with small dorsal fin continuing her spin and bigger flipper in the end.

"A mermaid?" Johnny gasped.

"Yes, Mr. Storm!" Major beamed. "After one of the experiments we got this! Who knows, maybe mermaids did exist some time ago?"

All four of them were speechless.

"Aquamarine can gather speed of about hundred kilometers per hour in water," Woods went on. "This pool is one hundred fifty meter long and she can reach the other side in less than one and a half second."

The girl heard him and dived in water again. They saw her head at their side of the pool, then there was a small wave and a second later she was at the opposite side.

"Or maybe faster," Woods seemed pleased. "Aquamarine can also break some hard materials with her tail. She may not be as strong as Mr. Grimm but still… Anyway, Aquamarine will be a perfect device to get that substance out of the water and transfer it to a submarine."

"But the Mariana Trench is eleven kilometer deep! The temperature there is lower than a human can handle!" Reed exclaimed.

Major smiled again. Johnny was about to start hating this smile.

"Mr. Richards, may I ask you to touch the water?"

Reed did as he was told and swiftly took his hand out.

"It's freezing!"

"Aquamarine can handle any temperature of water, as I said it is a perfect marine device. So, if we are finished with demonstration… Aquamarine, dismissed!"

The girl plunged back into the water.

"We can come back to the conference room to negotiate!" Woods headed to the elevator. The others followed him but Johnny looked back at the pool again. The girl was nowhere to be seen.

Back in the conference room they sat down and Woods looked at Reed.

"So, do you agree to take part in this mission?"

Reed looked at his team members. Johnny nodded immediately, Ben was no so swift but he nodded too. Sue sighed but joined them.

"Yes, Major Woods, we're in!"

"Excellent!" Woods put his hands together. "You will have three weeks to prepare for the mission!"

"Um, Major…" Reed started. "I thought that as long as… um… Aquamarine goes with us maybe she could stay at Baxter Building for these three weeks? So we could get used to each other and…"

Johnny nodded immediately.

"Well, if you want to, than sure!"

"And what is her name?" he asked quickly.

"Aquamarine," Woods turned his head to Johnny.

"No, I meant her human name!"

Major took a deep breath.

"This point of the situation I would like to explain to you. When I call Aquamarine a device I mean it. It is not a human being. It has no human name and you should call it Aquamarine. And I specifically allow you to treat Aquamarine as a device. You may do whatever experiments you need and make it do whatever you need."

All four of them were in shock. Sue spoke first.

"But… she was born human, right?"

"Yes, but it has been altered. It has no senses…"

"What?" Sue gasped.

"Yes, Mrs. Richards! Aquamarine can handle any temperature conditions and cannot feel pain. It can break rocks and if it is hurt, it will still continue the mission."

"You mean she can heal?"

"No, unfortunately it can't. It just doesn't feel pain."

"Stop calling her 'it'!" Johnny shouted.

"Mr. Storm, USA has invested millions into this device and…"

"Then why do you give us such an expensive… um… device… to experiment on?" Reed asked calmly but his face was red with anger. "What if we…say… break it?"

"Here is the answer to your question," Woods took a folder from the table and handed it to Reed.

"Aquamarine will arrive to Baxter Building tomorrow. All contracts will be ready by next week. And also tomorrow we will start preparing you for the mission," he looked at the team.

"Any questions?"

They all shook their heads.

"Well, than we are done! Thank you for your help! The country will appreciate it!" Major smiled again.

"Yeah, sure," Johnny murmured.

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