Johnny stumbles into Susan's court.

“Sigh… It was only a matter of time…” Looking through his closet and finding it completely empty, Johnny Storm shook his head and turned to head out his room to meet the rest of the family. His sister Suzie had asked him weeks ago if he could donate some of his old cloths to a charity Alicia had been doing lately, he didn’t mind at the time but now that his entire wardrobe was close to empty, he was starting to have regrets to saying she could take what she needed. “I’m all for helping out Alicia, but do you have to take ALL of things?”

His sister had been missing for at least 5 days now, ever since the fire at Janet Van Dyne’s place last week. And it was taking quite the toll on him and the others; Reed had stopped his asteroid research to spend time with Franklin and Valaria. Ben had gone to a local boxing gym to cool off for the last couple days himself. But as for Johnny? He tried to distract himself with a few things; spending time with his niece and nephew, but nothing helped.

He may not have been as smart as his sister or Reed, but he knew well enough that a house fire wasn’t something that would take out his sister, especially since there was no sign of her afterwards.

“Hey, Reed? Do you know where Alicia is?” Asked the Human Torch, entering the living room to find him watching a film with his two kids, the pair sleeping on the couch. “I’ve been trying to reach her about my cloths she took, but she’s not answering her phone and she’s not at her apartment.”

Scratching at the stubble at his chin, Reed that about that until he eventually came up with a blank. “Sorry Johnny, I haven’t seen or heard from her for a while… Although…” Getting up from the couch and placing a cushion under his daughter’s head where his lap was, the elastic powered man stood up to think. “I HAVE seen her with boxes in hand heading down the elevator to the storage level, she might have left some of your things there.”

Shrugging, Johnny thought it was a good enough place to start. He was about to head there when Ben came back, closing the door behind him with a deflated punching back over his arm like a towel. “Yeesh! Another one Ben?”

“Yeah… Broken three so far.” After destroying the first punching bag at the gym, Ben had been told to either bring his own or never come back. “Can’t seem to blow off steam lately.”

“Tell me about it…” Shrugging his shoulders, Johnny made his way to the service elevator. Stepping inside he pressed the button for the storage level and sighed, leaning against the wall. “Jeez sis, where the hell did you go? We miss you; Reed misses you.”

Hearing the chime for the sub-floor level, the doors opened, and Johnny was **** to wince and pinch his nose to the stink that wafted in. It smelled like body odour and sweat, like walking into a locker room after practice but WITHOUT the janitor to clean up the place afterwards. Practically having to wave his hand in front of him, He took a step inside and looked around, finding the place pitch black in darkness. “What the hell DIED down here?!” His first step into the large space had him step in something that yielded under his shoe like soft mud, or at least he hoped it was soft mud. Roaming his had around he couldn’t find the light switch, but he did find his hands press up against something that felt like insulation foam caked all over the walls.

Finally, having had enough, Johnny snapped his fingers and created a plume of flame between his outstretched fingers, bright enough to illuminate the entire space… He immediately wished he hadn’t!

Hundreds of glossy reptilian creatures with coiling tentacles and slit yellow eyes stared back at him, hissing at the intrusion into their lair and surrounding the human torch with brandished claws and fangs. The entire storage room looked like the inside of a cave, the walls and floors covered in a muddy substance he didn’t recognize and the ceiling was alive with what looked like throbbing fleshy objects the size of duffle bags that covered the entire surface of the ceiling and some places in the walls.

Looking forward and shivering, Johnny found himself staring into the eyes of the largest ones at the center of the room, sitting on what looked like a massive, bloated slug, closer inspection made him realise it was a part of her… and it WAS a her! Perched on top of it like she was sitting on a stool with her feet resting on the curves of her extended womb, the female creature looked up at the intruder, her four arms brandishing sharp talons and exposing her H-cup breasts when she reared up. A sea of tentacles squirmed and swayed behind her and her reptilian sneer was crowned with a pair of twisting antlers that framed her face like a tribal mask or crown. The hiss she gave off shook the man to his core, which paled in comparison to when she finally addressed him.

“Johnny…. My dear brother…” Smiling back at the human torch with a look that truly disturbed the man, he felt he was being sized up by the she creature speaking in Susan’s voice. “Come join us… Join your nephews…” Seeing the horde of monsters slowly advance closer to him, Johnny panicked.

“Flame on! FLAME ON!”

Enveloping the entire space in an intense gout of flames that swallowed up the horde of hundreds and their proverbial queen, Johnny staggered back into the elevator and practically punched at the return button to close the doors, both to escape and cut off the screeches of pain coming from the room. To his horror, he found that the creatures he thought he killed slowly get up, their burns and welts rapidly healing before his eyes, and their queen glaring back at him, hissing just as the doors finally closed.