The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic

The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic


A full six weeks later, the whole group had been awake for over a month. They had been questioned, released from quarantine and even dealt with all the press meetings. And somehow Capa had been able to get in contact with Reed Richards. He had agreed to help Capa and the others and had invited all five of them to New York, so he could examine them for himself, and also to determine if it was in fact, the same storm cloud.

Reed had been stunned when Capa had confirmed over the phone how they had come into contact with the storm cloud. Reed was blown away that the man he had spoken to and, the other people that were coming to New York, the man he spoke to especially, were responsible for the sun still shining, and why the people on earth weren’t currently dying out.

It was the last day of tests and physicals, before they left for New York, early tomorrow morning. Capa sighed as he watched Mace continuously throwing an empty soda can up into the air then catching it. The can in question had a light layer of ice over it, where Mace had obviously been practicing his control over his ability with ice. This continued on for a couple of more minutes, before Capa became annoyed by the sight and crushed the can with a mere look, turning it into dust.

Mace faltered as he eyed the little dust particles that now rested on his lap. The other three looked at him in awe and perhaps a little alarm. Mace on the other hand was eyeing the dust then Capa with fascination and evident interest. He thought to himself, forgetting that Capa could hear him. ‘Whoa, that’s some crazy shit. What else can he do?’

Capa spoke up coolly and calmly. “I can read your thoughts, sense your emotions. You’re deeply impressed, even though it deeply pains you to do so, considering it is me, the brainy creepy eyed scarecrow of the group. The unnecessary member, I only recreated the bomb used, and I was the only one who could execute the whole procedure of letting the bomb loose. No I was definitely a useless and unnecessary member, wasn’t I Mace?””

Mace eyed him from between narrowed eyes and asked from between clenched teeth “What else?” Capa stood and walked over to the window and looked out, a faraway expression on his attractive face. He replied “I have telekinesis, meaning I’m able to move objects with my mind alone. I can also see past events that happened to the five of us, I have no idea why, I just can.”

He added “And it would seem my intelligence and brain power has increased by ten times what it had been. Answers and knowledge come to me quicker then is strictly normal or considered human.” He looked to the others and said “Ask me anything.”

Mace asked around a disbelieving snort “Alright Mr Brainiac, what’s 99, 0000 times by 65, 0000?” Capa answered less then five seconds later. “643,500,000,000.” Mace took out his mobile phone and selected the calculator option and tapped in the sum, before pressing equals. He visibly faltered when the exact answer that Capa had given in five seconds flat without breaking into a sweat or batting a mere eye lid, was the exact answer he had gotten on the calculator.

Mace cleared his throat and said “Divide that answer by 110,000, and then add another 90,000.” Capa nodded and, eight seconds later gave the answer in a perfectly calm voice “5,940,000. That’s the answer, I’m certain.”

Mace used his phone to find the answer to the rest of the calculation and visibly paled and lowered his hand that was holding the phone. He shook his head and asked “How can you stand to have that much knowledge and brain power?”

Capa replied “It isn’t easy by any means. It was even harder six weeks ago when I first woke. Why don’t I show you? I’ll take you to the room I first woke up in; no one has dared to have gone in that room since the incident. I completely trashed the room, before I threw that nurse across the room.”

They all agreed and followed Capa to the room. The door was still missing and the large window had been boarded up. The others looked around and stared in awe, even Mace couldn’t conceal his astonishment as he asked “What the fuck were you doing when you woke to have caused this shit?”

Cassie choked out “Jesus Christ, that metal table has been completely caved in, what could have caused that?” Capa replied “I did, with my mind. I’ve discovered my abilities are controlled by my emotions. When I woke I wasn’t in a great place. To put it bluntly I was terrified out of my mind. I had a terrible migraine that felt like my head was about to explode. I was hit with image after image of what happened to us.”

Mace suddenly looked nervous as he asked “What do you mean, when you say everything that happened?” Capa simply replied “I saw you all die. I saw how Tray slit his wrists, and how Corazon was stabbed in the stomach. Cassie was chased by the insane and mutilated member of the previous crew. He had managed to injure her, to the point she was unable to stand and defend herself. She was beyond terrified and exhausted.”

He refused to meet the eyes of everyone else he mentioned, but he did look up at Mace, who had paled and looked more then a little pissed. He looked Mace in the eye and said to him telepathically ‘I won’t go into great detail Mace, but I get the distinctive impression you won’t be quick or willing to deal with the maintenance of a ship, especially in a certain room, that involves liquidated chemicals cold enough to turn a human into a popsicle’

He added ‘By rights you should be a shrivelled and icy corps with mutilated legs. You shouldn’t have survived it, if you somehow had, and without the influence of the cloud, I dare say you would have lost both of your legs, as they had been crushed inside of the tightly seal door of that chamber full of chemicals’

Corazon and the others did not know what was happening between Capa and Mace, but they knew it couldn’t have been good, as Capa was eyeing Mace pensively and Mace looked liked he was about to strangle Capa, or at least cause him some serious physical harm.

Corazon quickly changed the subject, knowing she needed to distract both men, who appeared to be in a silent battle of wills. “Capa, how come you seem to have these more powerful and advanced powers compared to me and the other members of the group?”

Capa broke eye contact with Mace and replied “Because I was standing right in the path of the cloud, and received the stronger blast of the cloud. That’s why I’m the most altered. I have been changed mentally and emotionally, where as you and the others have been changed in different degrees on a physical level.”

He added “The cloud healed my stab wound and all the first degree burns I was slowly receiving. I could feel my skin melting, as I was facing the sun head on, as the ship plunged into the heart of the sun. I watched as the bomb shot into the very heart of the sun. Seeing it all close up was the most breathtaking sight I have ever encountered and most likely ever will again.”

Capa was getting sick of feeling the rage coming off of Mace in waves. He snapped “Damn it Mace, you asked for it. If you hadn’t wanted to hear the truth, then you shouldn’t have asked me, plain and simple as that. So knock it off, your emotions are rolling off of you in waves, its giving me a migraine.” He added around a snort “And that is physically impossible, even with your new found strength.”

Mace snapped “Quit screwing around in my head, you fucking skinny prick.” Capa surprised them all, Mace included, when he snapped back “Fuck you. You think I enjoy hearing and seeing your thoughts and feeling your emotions? Damn it, I’m still learning to shut it on and off. I can control everything else, but I still can’t properly switch it on and off. So get the fucking hell off of my back Mace, or I swear you’ll find yourself thrown out of that window from several stories up, before you can blink.”

He irritably ran a hand through his long dark brown hair and added around a hiss “Then we’ll see how much the inhumanly strong, slash human Popsicle can take.” He concluded “I’m sick to the bone of your childish shit. I’ve done nothing to you, except exist and breathe the same precious fucking air as you, you damn fucking control freak.”

He screamed the words you damn fucking control freak. As he did a large crack appeared in the large wooden board covering the window. Mace unknowingly took a step back from the window. He currently did not want to test whether Capa would actually follow though on his threat to throw him several stories out of the window.

Capa sighed wearily and pinched the bridge of his nose and scrunched his eyes closed tightly. He gritted out from between clenched teeth “Like I said, my emotions were drastically altered. I’ve become more confidant and self assured. I feel more comfortable in my own skin, where as I hadn’t before.” He added “And as you all just saw, the down side, as far as my emotions are concerned, I now have a much shorter leash on my temper.”

Capa lifted his head and lowered his hand, before looking up at Mace and saying “Your stronger the me, that I have no such doubt of. But If I truly want and need to I can now more then defend my self against you. I don’t need inhuman strength to do that.” He added icily “You wouldn’t get very far with an aneurism or a dangerous and sudden blood clot to the brain. Trust me on that.”

Mace growled “Are you threatening me Capa?” Capa replied with an icy cold smile, his tone of voice matching. “No, that’s not a threat or a promise, but a matter of fact.” The other group members shifted uncomfortably. Neither one of them needed to be telepathic or empathic to sense or read the tense and highly heated emotions brewing between the two men in front of them.

Corazon who had gained super advanced hearing due to the storm cloud could hear the rapid beating of Cassie’s heart. She was clearly afraid of this new side of Capa. She had to admit that she to felt a little fear after seeing that display of emotion from the previously quite and mild mannered man.

Tray could not help but think that both Capa and Mace needed to get laid, preferably with each other. He was far from being an expert on sexual tension, but even he could see there was a significant amount of unresolved sexual tension between his two male team mates.

Tray had forgotten Capa could read his thoughts and jumped when the man himself said coldly. “I’d sooner lock myself up and throw away the key. Even if he was the last person left alive on the planet, I would still never ever sleep with Stephen Mace. And that you can quote me on Tray.” He added “I’ve not had sex for at least year before I left on our mission. Your right Tray I do need to get laid. But not even I’m that desperate that I’d consider Mace, as even a potential bed mate.”

Cassie and Corazon looked confused, while Tray was bright red and couldn’t meet Capa’s icy unnaturally blue eyes. Mace on the other hand was glowering at Capa and spat. “Like I’d wanna have you as a fuck buddy, I don’t fuck Scarecrows.”

Capa sneered “Good, just as long as we know where we stand.” He added “Now, if you’d all excuse me, I have an appointment with a hair stylist. Then I plan on getting myself a new wardrobe. I’ve been given a new lease of life, and intend to take an advantage of it. It is high time I took an interest in my outwards appearance.” And with that he left the room, leaving the others to stare at his retreating back.

Mace growled “Damn asshole.” Cassie glared at him and snapped “No Mace, you’re the one who is acting like an asshole. You know something I think you’re more bothered by the fact Capa said he would never sleep with you, then the fact he practically threatened to throw you out of the window and called you a control freak.”

Mace spat venomously “Yeah right. You’re fucking delusional Cass. We all know you’re disappointed that Capa hasn’t offered to warm your sheets for you.” Cassie surprised Mace and smirked as she replied “Yeah sure whatever you say, Mace. Keep telling yourself that and even you may start to believe it.”

She turned on heel and paused at the door and said “Oh yeah, I know Capa is not interested in me, but you know what, at least he never good as vowed he’d never consider helping me warm my sheets.” She then continued on out of the door.

Capa, who was on the other side of the building in his room, was still tuned into the conversation. He smirked when Cassie verbally tore into Mace. He cracked a smile and shook his head when Cassie had said “you know what, at least he never good as vowed he’d never consider helping me warm my sheets.” He could practically hear the smirk in her voice.

Capa nodded his head and knew right then, that Cassie would make a good friend and confidant against Mace’s shit. He made a mental note to spend more time with Cassie. He knew it was harmless and so did she, as she had up and said that she knew that he wasn’t interested in her like that.