The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic

The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic


As soon as Johnny entered Sue led him over to the tank, while Reed made his way over to the monitor. He watched as Sue opened the door for Johnny to enter. He bit his lower lip to stifle his laughter when Johnny exclaimed “What abomination exploded in here?”

Johnny eyed the tank, then his sister, then the tank again. He shook his head and snorted, as he commented “I’m gonna end up freezing my arse off in there.” He shivered, as he eyed the tank as if it were some kind of death trap set for him.

Sue heard Reed snort, and rolled her eyes and smirked at her brother, as she told him. “Well, your obvious ability is with fire. And fire melts ice of any description, just as ice can put fire out. I figured you’d want to melt the icicles.”

Johnny asked incredulously “Hell, what caused that?” Sue replied “Mace caused that.” Johnny crowed “Well, hello Mr. Freeze.” Johnny had just come up with the perfect name for Mace, like he had with the others. It was simple, but very fitting as far as his twin was concerned.

Johnny stepped into the tank, and instantly wanted out. He attempted to exit the tank, but Sue closed the door before he could. She then went to join Reed near the monitors, where he had been observing and listening to what had been going on.

They could hear Johnny complaining “Ah man, come on, I’m freezing my arse off in here. I’m a heat lover, I and Frosty the snow man are not the best of friends. Didn’t anyone ever tell you frostbite and phenomena are not your friend?”

Sue couldn’t help but burst out laughing, while Reed moaned and covered his face with his hands. He sighed and removed his hands and told Johnny. “The sooner you light up, the sooner those icicles are going to disappear.

Johnny grumbled something less then flattering under his breath, as he slowly raised a hand. He watched as flames instantly covered his hand, as he concentrated. Johnny then shook his hand before throwing it out to the side. This caused the flames to quickly spread, covering him from head to toe.

He exclaimed in part child like delight, and part shock. “WHOA! WOW!” Sue and Reed quickly stood back from the screen startled. They could feel the enormous amount of heat being emitted from the tank. Plus it was a little more shocking and disconcerting to see someone go up in flames, compared to the less dramatic sight of ice.

Sue and Reed looked at the monitor that was recording Johnny’s vital statistics. It showed a Skelton like structure, out lined in bright yellow and orange. Reed commented in wonder. “He’s heating up from his core, just like Mace was freezing from his core.” Sue added “And just like Mace, his vitals are completely normal.”

Suddenly Johnny started to increase his temperature, the heat from the tank also increased as well. Reed eyed the tank in worry. He said worriedly to Sue “It’s hotter then I anticipated.” He called out to Johnny “Okay, Johnny, back it down.”

Johnny replied insistently “I can go hotter!” Sue told him sternly “Johnny, just back it down.” Johnny ignored her and concentrated on going even hotter. He succeeded, and the flames flared dramatically around his frame. Soon, like Mace had, his feet started to leave the ground.

Reed called out sternly, grimacing as if he was in pain, and covered his eyes from the bright flare and heat of the flames. “Johnny, back it down now!” Still he was ignored. Reed was starting to panic now.

Sue gasped and covered her face from the terrible glare and heat of the flames her baby brother was creating, and didn’t look to be backing down anytime soon. She called out anxiously “Johnny!”

Johnny still refused, and his feet continued to raise even further off of the ground. The supporting walls had caught fire, and the metal was starting to rapidly melt, from the intensity of the heat Johnny was creating.

Reed slammed his hand down on a button on the console in front of him. Instantly the tank started to fill rapidly with white foam found inside of a fire extinguisher. The flames started to rapidly decrease intensity and volume.

Johnny hit the floor; the flames that had been surrounding him and had kept him suspended off of the ground had been completely put out. He was literately covered from head to toe. His face and even the melted walls that had surround him, were covered in the white foam.

Johnny called out laughing, as Sue and Reed quickly ran up to Johnny and the remains of the tank. “Buzz kill! You guys are cramping my style.” Sue called out to him “Johnny, you were at 4,000 Kelvin. Any hotter and you’re approaching Supernova.”

Johnny exclaimed “Sweet!” Sue shook her head firmly and replied “No, not sweet! That’s the temperature of the sun.” Reed added “Not only could you kill yourself, but you could set fire to the Earth’s atmosphere, and destroy all human life as we know it.”

Johnny held up both of his thumbs and said “Got it. Supernova: bad.” Once Johnny had crawled out of the melted, foamed cover remains of the tank, he gestured to himself. “Hey! You guys we’ve got a serious problem here.” He gestured to his badly burnt clothing that was hanging off of his frame in tatters.

Reed replied “Yes, I can see that. We’ll deal with that after I’ve finished examining and conducting tests on Ben and Sue, and Sue has helped me conduct tests on myself.” He added “But in the mean time, just don’t set your self a light whilst you’re still dressed.”

He concluded “Could you please ask Ben to come to the lab, as I want to conduct tests on him? He will mostly likely be the most complex, due to his new and harder body structure.” Johnny nodded and exited out of the lab.