Making space for the new arrival.

10 minutes of uncomfortable silence in the service elevator later, Susan, along with her alien, succubus and wendigo counterparts stepped out of the crowded space to the parking lot where the secondary elevator nearby ‘dinged’ and its doors opened for its singular occupant to crawl on her hands and knees out of the tight doorway and stand up to her full height. Stretching her metallic limbs over her head to stretch and twist, the Autobot woman sighed and looked down to the woman standing waist high to her.

“Some constructive criticism? You need bigger elevators.”

“You know what? Ben’s said that several times to Reed and I.”

Following the tall blue metal woman as she walked down the rows of parking spaces meant for the building’s inhabitants, the wendigo in the group looked around and very quickly came to a realisation.

“I can get that you would need to be here considering your size, but wont you be lonely down here by yourself?”

Shrugging with a smile, the autobot woman continued to look for a free spot and smiled when she finally found one. Transforming into her vehicular mode before everyone’s eyes, it was still impressive to see the woman disassemble and reassemble bit by bit, folding and shifting until she stood on four wheels and became the four-seater car she originally arrived in. Revving up her engine, the blue car turned and parked herself into her space before the engine turned off again, leaving only the radio on the dashboard on loud enough for the women to hear.

“I don’t think that will be a problem, I’ve already connected myself to the building’s Wi-Fi while I waited in the elevator, plus I have a little something that should come in handy.”

“Really? What’s that?” Asked the blue skinned succubus, her arms folded under her bust with an elegant tilt of her cloven foot.

Almost in response, a shimmer of digital light flickered in the driver’s seat of the car, revealing Susan Storm waving back to the four women behind the steering wheel. “TA DA!”

“What… Is that a hologram?” Asked Susan, stepping to the side of the vehicle to look at the copy of herself smiling back at her. Startling the Invisible Woman, the holographic copy stepped out of the car without opening the door. Looking behind her and realising she forgot to open the door, the hologram put a hand to her mouth to stifle a smile of embarrassment.

“Whoops! I forget that sometimes.” Chuckled the woman as she stepped in front of the car and looked herself over. Pleased with her current appearance wearing hip hugger blue jeans and a stylish sweater blouse. With a snap of her fingers, the car behind her transformed again to rest at one knee behind her, looming over her human self and sharing the same facial expression as they both spoke in unison. “But yeah, this chassis along with a little help with my forcefields to give it substance allows me to have a solid holographic version of myself to talk and interact with someone… After all, if people saw a driverless car going down the street, what would they say?”

“Say hello to the Google car?”

Turning to look back at the smirking alien woman with both her holographic and mechanical faces, the two gave the four-armed woman an incredulous look before rolling their eyes. Sharing a laugh together, the five in the parking lot gasped when a tremor reverberated through the entire parking lot.

“What the HELL was that?”

Scrambling for the phone in her pocket, Susan called up her husband still up on the top floor of the building.

“Honey? Did you feel that tremor?

*

“Yeah Suzie, I felt it… And SEE it.”

Holding his phone to his ear while watching the television, Reed looked to Johnny and the others at the news broadcast showing a volcano erupting in central park. As the shaky cameras tried to keep the footage going with a news reporter on scene, the reporter panicked when the fissure in the earth began opening further and molten stone creatures began to crawl out and attack everything that was nearby. The camera finally became focused when it was dropped to the ground and the reports fled, the image of a short, green clad man flew out of the earth riding a flying geode and laughing. The picture suddenly going still when flying stones grabbed hold of the camera and levitated it towards the stout little man grinning back through the feed. “FANTASTIC FOUR! I CALL YOU OUT! FACE ME! OR THIS CITY FALLS TO THE WILL OF THE MOLE MAN!”

“Looks like the Mole Man is back in town, honey. He seems irked about something.” Answered Reed, scratching his head in thought. “No, I’ve been trying to get a hold of Ben and Alicia for a little while now, they might not hear their phone. Gear up without him?”

Looking behind him to the other Susans still in the living room, Reed and Johnny shared a worried look. “We can’t just leave the other versions of you here without attendance Suzie, they’d arguably be more a danger than Mole Man ever could be.”

“Does this happen all the time?!” Gasped the supermodel on the couch, her hands to her face in shock as the news feed continued to broadcast the geomancer’s invasion.

“Not really… At least once a month for sure.” Explained Johnny, grimacing when he realised it did not calm the woman, nor the sex **** who looked back up to Reed pleadingly. “T-Though… I’m embellishing that, REALLY!”

*

“Yeah Reed, I got it.”

Sighing as she turned off her phone and turned at the heel with her fingers combing through her hair, the other versions of Susan watching the Invisible Woman fret and asked what was going on.

“What’s going on, did you figure out what the quake was?”

“It’s the Mole Man again, he’s calling out the Fantastic Four… But we can’t go out there, not without leaving my more… Complicated selves upstairs.”

“Well, who says WE can’t go out there?”

“Yeah! I mean it’s the Mole Man, how hard can he be?... He’s not some all-powerful monster in your universe, is he? Because in mine he’s just a shrimp.”

“No… Just a pest who’s out to try and marry me.”

Sharing a laugh, the other four Susans leaned on one another as they tried to catch their breath. Even the hologram fell into her autobot version’s arms laughing. Finally calming down, the alien waved her four arms up in the air and smiled back at her host.

“Oh this will be a sinch then, come on ladies, we’re going to show that little toad what happens when you deal with Susan Storm!”

“Hell ya!” The hologram disappeared and the mechanical woman transformed back into a car, opening all four of her doors and calling out through her radio. “Hop in!”

Getting into the car, the vehicle lurched some when the wendigo took the back seat and pulled her seat back to make room for her legs, sharing the seat with the alien woman in the back. Sitting up front was the Invisible Woman and the succubus who quickly pulled their seatbelts on. Immediately the car revved up and floored it out of the parking spot and out the lot towards the exit. Alarmed at first when Sue realized she was not the one driving, the four were relieved when a chime from the dashboard preceded the lot exit opening just in time for the car to fly out at top speed and drift into an open lane. Heading towards Central Park at top speed.

“Who taught you how to drive?!”

“Oh please, you want to take the wheel?” Asked the voice from the radio with a smug attitude. “Because I can react faster than ANY of you behind the wheel… I can also control the streetlights.”

Seeing every streetlamp in front of them turn green to give them a straight route to the park, the four chuckled to themselves as they made their way there.

Leaning in her seat to whisper to the tentacled alien woman sitting next to her, the wendigo asked the woman in private.

“so, you ever dealt with YOUR Mole Man in YOUR dimension?”

“Oh yeah… I ATE mine.” Blinking in surprise, the wendigo nearly leaned back in shock. Seeing the taller woman’s reaction, the four-armed alien shrugged. “To be fair, I wasn’t myself when I did it.”

“No, I can understand that… I’m a wendigo after all! I’m surprised I didn’t eat a man-wich or two when I first started turning.”

Hearing the two in the back seat, the succubus smiled to herself listening in on the pair sharing in their own painful experiences, a plan brewing in her mind for later just as she turned her attention to the Invisible Woman in front of the wheel. Finding familiarity in the woman’s excitement.

“Get ready Mole Man, you heard of the Fantastic Four? Get ready for the Sensational Susans!”