The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic

The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic


It wasn’t at all difficult to hear Ben coming towards them. You most certainly did not need Corazon’s enhanced hearing. The term quite as a mouse would never apply to Ben Grimm, and Ben was more then aware of this, it was impossible not to be.

Once inside, he nodded in greeting to both Reed and Sue. Sue gestured for him to take a seat upon a solid stainless steel stool. She hopped it could endure the weight of Ben’s new and much heavier body mass. Luckily it could, and Ben didn’t find himself kissing the floor of the lab.

Once Ben was settled, or as settled as it was possible for Ben to be, considering his current condition, Reed did some X-rays on him. He explained to Ben. “If we’re to identify the source of the mutation, we need to isolate your recombinant DNA, so we can activate positional genomes.”

Ben looked at Sue, as if to ask ‘What the hell did he just say again?’ Out loud he simply asked her “Huh?” Sue sighed, thinking ‘Trust Reed to get all scientific. But wow, that really turns me on’

She answered Ben’s less then eloquent huh, in more simple terms. “We have to do a physical in order to see what got zapped.” Ben rolled his eyes at Reed and asked “Oh. Why didn’t just say so, instead of all of that scientific babble?”

As soon as they had a clear picture, which was not in black and white, but in colour, with Ben’s statistics out lined in green, and you could even see and hearing his heart beating, Reed and Sue scanned them.

Reed commented in wonder “His internal organs are completely solid.” He and Sue eyed Ben in disbelief. Ben did not like the expressions on both of Reed and Sue’s faces. He started to become very worried and asked “How bad is it? You know, I used to smoke.”

Sue commented incredulously “Er Ben, I honestly don’t think cancer or any other heart or lung and liver disease is going to be an issue for you.” Ben asked in panic, not liking where this was going. “What do you mean?”

Reed replied “Ben, your internal organs are completely solid, most likely as solid as the rest of you.” Ben paled. Ok it was official, Ben was disturbed and just wanted to be changed back to normal.

Next they tested his sense of touch and his reflexes. Sue tapped him on the lower part of his leg followed by his knee cap, with a mallet used for their examination. Sue asked Ben “you feel anything?” Ben shook his head and replied “Nope.”

Reed suddenly looked thoughtful, before exclaiming “I’ve got it, I’ll be just a second.” Sue and Ben exchanged a curious glance. Reed returned a few moments later, holding a hammer used for knocking in nails and removing nails.

Ben eyed the hammer in his friend’s hand, and raised a brow that was no longer there. Reed held up the hammer and said “Okay.” He then hit Ben on the knee cap with the hammer. Ben grunted and kicked out, sending the chair that had been in front of him, sailing across the room. It finally stopped, when it imbedded itself in the wall opposite them, high upon the steel balcony.

Sue choked, while Reed looked as if a mere feather could have knocked him off of his feet. He rocked backwards and forwards on his heels, before sighing loudly and said “Okay!” Sue kept eyeing Ben and then the wall opposite them with the chair still imbedded in its plaster.

Ben looked caught between being sheepish and deeply mortified. Oh yeah, he was definitely desperate to have whatever the storm cloud did to him reversed.

Once they’d finished conducting tests on him, Sue asked him to inform the others that as soon as she and Reed were finished doing tests on each other, she would be starting to make dinner. She also told Ben to inform Johnny that she did not want him going anywhere near the candy jar, as she refused to cook after he’d stuffed himself with candy.

Ben nodded with a smirk. He could just imagine the look on the hot heads face when he delivered that message. He could hardly wait. He nodded to both Reed and Sue and promised her he’d pass on both messages.