Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:02:36 -0700
From: Henry Caval <henrycaval@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fantastic Rebirth-1

Disclaimer: This is a work of complete fiction. I don't own any rights to
Marvel or any of the characters created by Stan Lee and the many other
talented creators of Marvel's many heroes and villans. However I do own the
rights to the characters I create. This contains homosexual relationships
and it will be treated as such. It does not contain any personal
information on the celebrities who portray the roles of the characters.

I'm new to this, so please be gentle. Inspired by Jayden Lopez and his
awesome Fantastic Five story, which I'm hoping he continues some day.

Fantastic Rebirth-1

"Attempting plant extraction." I said as I jumped to the station from our
ship. Despite the lack of speed from the anti gravity of space I made it to
the door and began to use the laser cutter to break down the door. I moved
out of the way as the door burst open from all of the built up oxygen. We
were hired by Von Doom Industries to extract some possibly mutated plant
samples after the first cosmic storm event that took place a few days
prior.

Victor sent us up as soon as he could due to the fact of another cosmic
storm enhanced by solar energy making it's way back to the station. If the
plants survived then they surely wouldn't survive a solar blast along with
the cosmic storm. The storm was so large that you could see it from the
distance that it was in, but there was no way of measuring how far or how
large the storm was. I made inside the station to see the walls thick with
foliage and vines. Their was this sense of gravity in the room, no doubt
the oxygen being made from the plants.

"The readings are amazing. The plants are making oxygen at high levels that
it would be dafe enough to take off your helmet, but the air could still be
toxic so leave it on." George said through the microphone.

"I may need some help." I said in pure wonder and curiosity at the large
pinkish purple flowers that sat in the middle of the main station
room. When I flashed the light over the plants they let out a hissing sound
and smacked the flashlight out of my hand before grabbing it and crushing
it.

"I'll definitely need some help. The plants have become sentient and are
protecting themselves."

"Cameron, get out of there. I'm picking up high levels of toxin in the air
around you. One leak into your suit and you will die." George said
nervously.

"But the mission." I said not wanting to give up the money so easily. "I'm
not leaving without at least one sample."

"Damn it! He's not listening. We have to go in." George said to Mikhail and
Perry, but I could hear him on the microphone.

I walked over the large vines that littered all over the floor, trying not
to step on any of them. I was afraid of the plant trying to attack, before
I had the chance to cut off the flower so I made sure to be as quiet as
possible. When I finally got to the flower, Georgie, Mikhail and Perry
barged in not even trying to be careful.

"Wait!" I cried before the plant began to defend itself. I felt a sharp
pain of an almost blade as a thorn pierced my arm and caused me to bleed. I
tried to run, but was whipped by the plant from the back. I could feel the
cold of the air as my suit was torn in the back. If it wasn't for the
gravity made by the plants then I would've been ripped to shreds by the
vacuum of space through the back of my suit.

"Get that thing under control." George yelled orders to Mikhail and Perry
who were grabbed by the plant's vines and brought to the flower that opened
up and expanded to a large mouth with spike like teeth. They pulled out
flamethrowers and began to fire at the plant, but it seemed to have a
coating of some sort that kept it from being burned.

I took all of the energy I could muster and grabbed George by the hand
before running out of the station to watch as the fuel tank from the
flamethrowers explode and take the station with it. We almost made it to
our ship when the cosmic storm finally reached us and enveloped us in a
heated embrace. Through blurred vision I saw George being vaporized by the
fiery solar energy that followed the cosmic storm. Call it lack of faith,
but I truly believed that I had just died. I couldn't feel anymore pain,
just this feeling of peace.

"Sir, we have reports that the Von Doom Station had just been destroyed by
an unknown source. It happened about the same time that the second cosmic
storm occurred." A Shield agent said reporting to acting director and chief
of Shield, Colonel Nick Fury.

"Is it possible that the storm vaporized it?" Nick Fury asked smoking his
cigar.

"It's a possibility, sir...." The agent said before he was interrupted by
an uninterested Nick Fury.

"Good. Now let's get on more important things like the web slinger and the
trigger happy multi billionaire running around in an overpowered trashcan."
Nick Fury said turning his attention away.

"I think this might be important sir. It appears something living has come
from the explosion and crash landed here on earth. The coordinates are a
little sketchy, but we were able to track it to Kansas." The agent said
nervously at the pissed look Nick Fury gave him. He literally bit straight
through the cigar and spat out the piece in his mouth in anger walking away
fully expecting the agent to clean it up.

"Sir..." The nervous agent asked as he quickly picked up the cigar remains
and went back to work.

"Do you think he is okay?" I could hear a strong male voice ask. Even
through the empty void I could hear perfectly and with a clarity I never
had. I could hear the rumble of a car engine a distance away and a worried
dog's nearly silent whimpers of panic and fear.

"I don't know. I'd say no, but he doesn't have a scratch on him." I heard a
higher male voice say with a slight twang to his voice.

"Maybe he's a superhero! Like Spiderman or Ironman." I could hear a high
pitched male child's voice say with excitement.

"Hush, Tommy." The higher adult male voice said.

"I think he's coming too." The first voice said as my eyes slowly opened
and adjusted to the world around me. I was surprised by the clarity of my
sight and I noticed I could smell the earthy dirt and the dog and the fuel
inside the car some distance away.

"Do you come in peace?" The thicker voice asked coming from a tall buff man
who just smelled of sweat and dirt. He was tanned from long days in the hot
sun. He had quite a scruffy, but cute face. Brown eyes and black curly
hair.

The smaller man was almost the same, but had blonde hair and blue eyes and
a clean shave. They looked at each other and back at me waiting for me to
reply. I looked around and I noticed that I was in a large crater in a corn
field. "I come in peace. Where is here?" I asked confused as I slowly got
up. Flashes of what happened went through my head, I felt bad for George
and Mikhail and Perry, but it's over with. I did really know them so I
couldn't bring myself to shed a tear.

Why was George vaporized and I wasn't? Was I out of the solar waves range?
I dusted nyself off and noticed that I was just about naked. There was only
a scrap of my suit left that was covering my groin. "Don't suppose you have
some clothes I can borrow?" I asked embarrassed.

"Back at the house. Come on space man." The big guy said leading the way
and helping the smaller guy out of the crater. It didn't take an expert to
tell that they were together. I followed them to the truck and got in the
back with the dog who looked terrified of me, th whole ride to their house
the little boy...Tommy, kept asking me questions about if I knew this
person or that person.

"I'm Tommy, by the way. These are my dads. Shilo and Rodger." Tommy said
excited.

"Come on. I'll show you around." Tommy said trying to drag me towards the
house, but couldn't even move me. That's strange, I don't even feel the
pull.

"Come on you big palucka!" Tommy said as I began to follow him. I grabbed
the door handle to open the door and accidentally ripped the door clean off
it's hinges.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do that." I said covering my mouth
surprised at the feat that I just did. I stared at the lighter than a
feather door in surprise. The cosmic storm did more than just enhance my
senses...my strength has definitely been affected.

"It's alright. Accidents happen. Just please be more careful." Rodger the
smaller guy said as he helped me to get some clothes. I went to the
bathroom and took a quick shower. I dried off and changed into the long
sleeve white shirt and overalls and tennis shoes. I looked at myself in the
mirror and noticed my appearance changed drastically.

I stood at 6'2 now with a lean toned body, natural golden tan and crystal
clear sky blue eyes. Perfect straight white teeth and full kissable pink
lips. It's strange...I always wanted to be beautiful, and now that I
was...I wanted to be back to normal. I now realized that I was fine the way
that I was. My short wavy blonde hair was now a long wavy cherry red that
reached my upper back.

I didn't mind long hair, but I didn't want it so long. I grabbed a pair of
scissors to cut it, but the scissors couldn't cut it. It's like my hair was
made of steel or something. It got to the point where I accidentally
crushed the scissors. I tossed them in the trash and focused looking at the
toilet and screamed in fear as red beams shot out from my eyes and
destroyed the toilet. My eyes began to sting from the heat.

"Hey, Spaceman what was that sound." It was Shilo.

"I...uh..nothing. Just a minute." I said closing the pipe by twisting it. I
don't know anything about pipes so I'm praying to God that it doesn't back
up and explode.

"I'm okay." I said as I guided him back to the kitchen where Tommy was
eating a sandwhich. It was about 9:30 at night now. I couldn't help, but
blush at my stomach growling. Tommy laughed thinking it was funny.

"Why are you all wet?" Tommy asked with a smile.

"Shower." I said playing it off.

" Hungry?" Rodger asked making me a sandwich and handing me a beer. "I
don't drink." I refused the drink handing it to Shilo who chugged it
down. Rodger handed me a glass of milk and I quickly ate.

"We'll as much as we enjoyed your company, we have to send you on your way"

"Aw! But papa!" Tommy cried crossing his arms.

"That's alright Tommy. They're right. I need to get going. I have to get to
New York City to find out my condition." I said before shaking both of
their hands and giving Tommy a hug I left the house and began my long trip
to New York City.

"What the fuck is this?" I heard Shilo yell, realizing he must've saw the
toilet I ran at blinding speeds, I relaxed as I realized that I was running
so fast that I was a blur.

"I'm here at the crash site. Subject is mobile. There are truck tire
markings. Tracking now active." The Shield agent said before getting back
on to his high tech motorcycle.

New York City was so confusing to navigate around when you've been gone for
a long time. I had to ask directions a few times, but I made it to the Von
Doom Industries building. I felt the familiar sense of sickness as I saw
the large metal statue in front of the building. The thing along with the
building was a fricken eye sore. Naturally, because I didn't have my
identification with me I had to go through all this security measures to
talk to Victor.

"Just give me five minutes." I said to security guard who had his hand on
my chest. "I'll give you to the count of three to let go of my chest." I
said bitterly which he only smirked and nodded at the other security guards
who all smirked as they pulled out batons.

"Three." He said preparing his baton. I surprised him when I grabbed it
with blinding speed and bent it like a pretzel, handing it back to him.

"Do we really need to go through the rest?" I asked as they put their hands
up in surrender. I walked passed them and up the stairs, no doubt they
would call the police.

"Victor!" I called as I found him in his office during a meeting. "Cameron?
You're alive? You look amazing for a dead man. The space station...."
Victor started surprised that I was alive and standing in front of him.

"The storm...it's done something to me. I need your help. I need to know
what has been done to me." I said worried as I wasn't sure if this was
permanent or if I was going to die soon from all of the built up radiation
that I absorbed.

"I'm afraid I'm not able to study it right now. I'm too busy taking heat
from the partners. Go to Baxter Building and ask for Reed Richards. I'll
tell my guards to stand down." Victor said before going back to the
meeting.

I grabbed a map from a magazine stand without getting caught and followed
it to the Baxter Building. It was an impressive building that came complete
with a bellhop. His name tag read, "Jimmy.". "I'm looking for Reed
Richards. I was told he may be able to help me." I said to Jimmy and he
nodded taking me to the elevator. He pressed the top button and waved me
off as he went back to his post.

When I finally got to the top I didn't know that I was in for the surprise
of my life. A big orange stone golem was blocking my way. I couldn't help,
but stare at him and even jumped when he irritantly barked a gruff,"What
are you looking at pretty boy?"

"Nothing. Sorry. I'm looking for Reed Richards." I said nervously. "He's
over there." He said pointing at a man with salt and pepper hair and who
was wearing a lab coat.

"Mr. Richards. I need your help." I said to him and he jumped in
surprise. "I'm kind of busy. Can it wait till tomorrow? " He asked walking
away from me. I noticed Sue and Johnny Storm talking in hushed tones. They
both know that I am gay and Sue and I were roommates during her rebellious
period.

"Please. I'm kind of freaking out here." I said following him. "We'll if
you've seen the news than you would know that we were all kind of
preoccupied." He said still not wanting to listen.

"Would you just listen!" I yelled with outstretched hands, accidentally
firing blasts of red heated energy at chains that were holding a large
hover like craft that I grabbed as it just about landed on me. He turned
around and looked at me in awe along with the others.

"I said it was important." I said setting the craft down in an empty space.

"Start from the beginning." Sue said said pulling me to a seat.

"We'll after you left I was promoted to the extraction team. Victor sent us
up to collect the plant samples to try to understand what happened to
you...well us. He said that it needed to be done before the next cosmic
storm, because he said that the plants might not make it if they were still
alive." I said, but was interrupted by Johnny.

"No way! That sucks that you got promoted. I wanted that position." Johnny
said with a huff, but silenced his outburst after Sue gave him a look.

"Please, continue." Sue said wanting to hear the rest.

"Well we got there, but the plants were sentient and attacked us. Killing
both Mikhail and Perry. I escaped with George as the station exploded, but
he was vaporized by the solar wave that the storm absorbed on it's trip
around the sun. What is so strange is that I waz hit by the same wave, I
don't understand why I didn't get vaporized too." I said with a sigh
feeling like I should've perished along with George and the others.

"I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. How did you get back to
earth?" Sue asked curiously.

"The storm seems to have charged my cells which allowed me to take the
fall." I said pressing my lips to a tight line.

"From space? I'd say that's impossible, but after what we've been through,
I believe anything. " Reed said with a sigh.

"I'm afraid you'll have to stay here with us while I can accurately analyze
your symptoms."

"You mean like live here? I can't live here. I live in Philly." I said
getting up from the chair freaking out.

"It's only temporary I assure you. You can room with...."

"Me," Sue said interrupting Reed who looked flabbergasted. "We were once
roommates back in the day. It'll be like old times." She hugged me and had
this amused look on her face. "Does he look jealous?" She whispered into my
ear which I just nodded.

"Alright it's settled. I'll call Victor and he'll have your stuff moved
here." Reed said with a sigh realizing that he wasn't going to change her
mind.

"Good. Let's go. I'll show you around." Sue said as she guided me out of
the room, but I could hear Reed talking to Johnny.

"I don't trust him." Reed said to Johnny.

"You're just saying that because he's sleeping with my sister." Johnny said
jokingly knowing that Reed probably didn't pick up that I was gay.

"Their together?  I thought she was with Victor." Reed said with a sigh of
disappointment.

"You thought. No she's not with Victor or Cameron. Cameron's gay." Johnny
said leaving Reed alone to his thoughts.

"Cameron's gay?" Reed asked himself and laughed at how stupid he was acting
and the irony of the situation.

(That's the first chapter. I hope you like it. Please don't put any
pressure to write more.  I get writer's block like crazy. There will be
times when you won't hear from me for months, but please just stand strong
with me. I hope you stick with me for the ride. I plan on making a few
stories and might jump from one story to another. So please bare with me.)