章節 24: Human Torch

After booking a room in a nearby inn, Arthur took a long relaxing hot bath in order to improve his mood. He had faced a small problem while carrying the unconscious Susan upstairs but it was solved by a big tip in the pockets of the inn keeper. The inn keeper even flashed him a knowing smile, to which he could only smile wryly and proceed to his accommodations.

Originally he wanted to have some drinks, sightsee some places and enjoy. But first he met with Invisible Woman Susan who misunderstood his intentions and mistook him as Puppet master, which resulted in a fight. But then Spiderman popped up and again he also misunderstood him and resulted in a one sided clash.

He took a look at Susan who was still unconscious on the bed. Arthur then took out a bottle of red wine from the mini bar and sat down on the couch to drink it. While drinking he thought about the two battles, although he achieved victory in both of them easily, he was still a bit disappointed that he couldn't break Susan's Shield in one hit.

Although he won in both the battles and that too easily, Arthur found that his attacks were a bit on the weaker side.

Invisible woman Susan and Spiderman were not really powerful superheroes. Although his ability to control fire was good, but it was limited to only manipulating the flames and not increasing the temperature of the flames. It is quite usefull against some normal people or low powered Superheroes, but some stronger Powerhouses could still defeat him. And his sound waves couldn't be used in the midst of allies plus he didn't like opening his mouth wide and screaming....

He then thought about Spiderman who was beaten, what would he do next to save Susan from him, even though it was a misunderstanding. He would most probably look for a helper since he individually couldn't defeat him. Who would he contact? SHIELD? Avengers Alliance? Fantastic Four?

He would probably call Johnny Storm aka Human Torch, since Susan is his elder sister and from what he knew Spiderman was a good friend of his. Human Torch's character was arrogant, brash and impatient. In a matter involving his sister he would definitely not listen to any reason and just charge in recklessly. If he played his cards right he could gain the ability to produce flames without gaining the animosity of other Superheroes.

Human Torch, he could produce thousands of degrees of high temperatured fire, fly, morph his body into plasma like state and was immune to flames.

Originally his plan after devouring Pyro's powers was to go to Hong Kong and take the ability of Chan Ho Yin. He wasn't strong, just a street performer but he had the ability to make his own flames. Now he should change his plans.

"Let's see if my powers can take control of flames from Human Torch." Arthur thought while sipping his red wine and waited patiently.

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"Johnny, your elder sister was taken away by a mysterious man named Arthur Wolf. I have tracked his position, but he is too powerful and I am not his opponent. I alone couldn't save Susan and was defeated by him." Spiderman called Human Torch as soon as he knew Arthur's current position.

At this time, Human Torch was at a club. When he saw that he received a call from Spiderman he first thought of inviting him to club to enjoy and have some fun.

"What? Susan was taken away? Where is she, tell me the address." Johnny sobered up the instance he heard this.

"Are you going somewhere Johnny? Don't you want to spend some time with me?" The girl with Johnny said with a bit of disappointment.

Johnny said: "Don't worry baby, someone is acting recklessly and dared to fight against us Fantastic Four, so I am gonna teach him a lesson and be back soon. We will go somewhere else later. Wait for me baby, I'll return in a jiffy." After saying that Johnny came out from the bar and said 'Flame On' and his body turned into flames and he flew away.

On the roof of Arthur's hotel, Spiderman with his injuries was waiting for backup. Not even twenty seconds after calling Johnny, he saw a fire shaped person coming closer and as Johnny landed, he heard him say: "Where is he? He dared to kidnap my Sister and a member of fantastic four."

"He is at the 9-floor of this hotel, but since he didn't hide himself then he must be prepared. Johnny, we should contact Reed and Ben and wait for them to come. He might be a mutant as he can control fire, you'll be at a disadvantage against him." Spiderman reminded him.

"Mutant? So what, no one can control My fire!" Johnny said confidently, then flew towards the 9th floor. Through the windows he saw Susan lying in one of the rooms. And he saw a man sitting on a couch in the lobby drinking red wine.

"It must you." Human Torch said, and flew into the room.

Bam, crack... The windows were directly destroyed by him.

"Sure enough, he came." Looking at Human Torch in his flame mode, Arthur didn't panic.

"So you are Arthur who kidnapped my sister. Do you want to be an enemy of fantastic four?" Johnny shouted towards Arthur.

Arthur said: "I think this may be a misunderstanding."

"I don't think this is a misunderstanding." Johnny didn't listen to Arthur's explanation at all and released a flame blast towards him. .

Arthur dodged and attack hit the couch instead and blasted it into smithereens. Seeing him dodge Johnny didn't stop and sent more fire attacks onto Arthur.

Poor little Johnny, in his overconfidence had stepped into a trap....

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