THREAD: Human Torch & The Thing
Who: Torch & Thing Where: NYC When: Mid-afternoon What: Thing is down and Torch is the Rescuer. Open: Maybe. Rating: Mild. Johnny had been back for a couple of days now and he hadn't even seen Benny-boy yet! He was kind of missing big and ugly. So he decided to set out and find him, first hitting all the places he knew Ben frequented in his human form. He was unsuccessful and he had a bad feeling in the back of his head, even though Ben wasn't Johnny's biggest fan but he normally would have stomped around by now and grunted at Johnny being back. No one seemed to know where the Boulder was, not even the media knew- they always knew where the Heroes were. Where there were Heroes, there were stories, where there were stories there was publicity, where their was publicity there was money.
So he had one option and one option only- Torch. Torch had great instincts and a knack for finding trouble. So he returned back to base and flamed on, it was safe to change there. He took to the skies and started his search flying along downtown at a rather low altitude trying to spot Thing. But he hadn't found him yet.
It was a little boy who let him know he'd seen Thing about an hour ago near his home. Johnny thanked the boy and headed in that direction. It took him a little while longer until he came across what looked like a big pool of chocolate on top of a building. He knew for sure that wasn't normal. So he landed and investigated- he had no idea what the hell it was. But there was a trail and at the edge of the buildings roof he stood on the edge and looked down.
He felt like the air had gone from his lungs and his brain hurt. It was so bad his flames faltered. "BEN!" He screamed and dashed off the side of the building. "You better not be dead" he called as he landed on the ground his flames having completely gone now, the idea of Ben being dead was worse than any fire extinguisher. So he'd dropped from about the second storey. "Ben!" he called again as he slipped down into the crater. "Ben, come on buddy" he gently touched his shoulder not sure how to deal with this, if Ben swiped at him he was going to die or break something and if Ben died... He didn't want to think of that. "Come on Rockhead, talk to me. Please" Johnny sounded desperate and hurting, he needed to be okay.