Susan opened her eyes as her body unconsciously released a huge force field that destroyed things and cracked the walls of the room, with enough force to shake the building a little.
It was fortunate that the building was constructed with a large anti-seismic structure, which absorbed the force released by Susan.
At the same time, Reed was suddenly distracted from the large blackboard in front of him when his body jerked a little.
But her mind couldn't begin to think of a reason for the building to shake when her eyes opened in surprise as she saw her right arm stretched several feet toward the shelf to pull out a marker of a different color than the one she was using.
Johnny, meanwhile, was now rolling rapidly on the floor screaming, with his friend's voice also screaming on the phone as his entire body was engulfed in flames, unaware that he felt no pain.
But their actions caused the sofas to catch fire and the smoke sensor in the ceiling to activate the room's fire suppression system.
And in an instant, the entire room began to be sprayed with water through the dispensers in the ceilings.
But that wasn't all.
The room had computerized security and the heat sensors still found a larger source of heat.
Johnny
And in an instant, Susan's brother found himself covered in white foam.
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Shortly afterwards, the three of them were outside Johnny's room while building employees removed the burned furniture.
The fire in Johnny's room had alerted security, so they arrived at his room quickly to check on the accident.
Regarding the building shaking?
They just thought it was a small tremor.
Instead, they preferred to quickly check their boss's son's room.
If anything happened to Johnny, they were sure to lose their jobs.
But since the room's fire safety measures had already solved the problem, they only had to remove the burnt items.
As for finding out what happened?
Johnny just said he was smoking and nobody said anything as they started working.
After all, Johnny was the son of the company owner and his boss, so no one dared to question him.
Even their foamy state didn't attract their attention.
Johnny was still confused by what had happened and didn't know what was going on. So he answered whatever came to mind and let them work while he waited outside with a towel covering his lower body.
Of course, his body was still covered with the white foam.
It was in this form that Susan and Reed found him.
And when the employees left, Johnny looked at them both and said.
"You're not going to believe me"
Well, contrary to what Johnny believes, his sister and Reed didn't look at him like he was crazy when he told them what happened.
Or at least what he thought was happening, since even he was doubting what had happened.
Inside Johnny's room, the young man, now bathed and dressed, stood in the middle of the now unfurnished room.
The only ones in the room besides Johnny were Susan and Reed, who watched as the young man had his eyes closed while trying something.
"Fire!"
"On!"
"Take it!"
But no matter what the blond guy said, he didn't catch fire like he said before.
"I'm not lying"
"Wait a moment longer," said the blond man as he looked at the two of them and hoped they wouldn't lose patience and think he was crazy.
But that didn't happen.
Reed didn't want to wait any longer and suddenly stretched out one of his arms and pointed towards a nearby table.
And under the surprised gaze of Johnny and his sister, Reed's arm stretched abnormally several meters towards the table and picked up a pen.
And with the same ease, his arm returned to normal and he raised the pen in front of both of their surprised eyes.
But the surprises didn't end there.
Shortly afterwards the three of them were in Susan's apartment and she showed them her room.
Or what was left of it.
Everything in his room had crashed against the walls, destroying almost everything and even cracking the walls.
Even the bed wasn't spared, as it was pushed against the floor.
As they watched the destruction, Susan explained to them what she felt at that moment.
As a sudden force surged from her body, she opened her eyes to see everything around her being pushed away from her.
"You said you had a nightmare…" Reed said, to which Susan nodded.
"So subconsciously you thought you were in danger and your body reacted to protect you."
"I was checking some calculations on my whiteboard..." Reed said, without mentioning that these calculations were about the cosmic cloud that hit them in the space crash.
"...and I was frustrated by my slow progress," the man said, recalling how he felt at the time.
"And I suppose my frustration made my arms unconsciously reach out to grab the markers from afar so as not to waste too much time."
"What were you doing?" the man asked Johnny.
"I was having phone sex," he said in blond without any shame.
"What?" said the young man when he saw his sister bring the palm of her hand to her face.
Reed, on the other hand, gave a small, awkward smile before suggesting something.
But when Johnny agreed to the idea, Susan told them to go somewhere else, saying she didn't want to see her brother naked, much less in her room.
This made Johnny hesitate, as he also didn't want to lose his clothes while trying to use his sudden powers.
It was Reed who suggested that they use the uniform they wore during the space trip since it was fireproof, and the group quickly went to the warehouse where the uniforms they used were stored.
After Johnny put on the blue suit, the trio returned to the blond man's room.
Along the way they began to theorize about the origin of their powers, which was most likely the cosmic energy that struck them during the accident.
And along with that thought, they instinctively remembered Ben.
"And Ben?" the three of them said at the same time, remembering the fourth member of the group.
'Ben' the trio instinctively thought when they realized their friend might be in the same situation and quickly went to him.
"Ben!" the three shouted as they quickly banged on the door, but no one answered.
And unfortunately for them, the room had an advanced security system that would allow entry with a personalized card or a code.
They could go to the building's security room to get the key and be allowed entry, but they feared they wouldn't have much time.
Suddenly, Susan and Johnny watched as Reed manipulated his hand and arm to squeeze through the bottom of the door, flattening his hand and arm until they were millimeters thick, and shortly after, under their astonished gaze, the apartment door opened.
"Great," said Johnny.
Susan was also impressed, but they were in a hurry and quickly went into the apartment.
"Ben!" the three shouted as they called out worriedly to their friend.
They had exhibited strange peculiarities, and the cosmic cloud was the prime suspect, leading them to wonder what had happened to Ben.
But when they arrived at the room, the eyes of the three of them opened in surprise when they saw a huge hole in the wall of their friend's room, and their friend already sitting on the floor with his face and arms against his knees.
And as they suspected, Ben had also been affected by the cosmic cloud.
But the effects the cosmic cloud had on Ben seemed to be greater, as his friend now appeared to be covered in rocks.
"Guys"
When Ben looked up, he stared at his friends in despair.
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Soon the group found themselves in Reed's laboratory to undergo further tests to assess their situations.
And because they didn't want anyone to know what was happening, they didn't tell anyone.
After all, what was happening to them was extraordinary, and they feared how people would react.
They were especially afraid of being turned into subjects of experiments.
Ben even had to put on an extremely large coat and an equally large hat to cover up his new shape.
And of course, the first to be examined was Ben, since he was the one who showed the greatest changes.
His entire body was covered in rocks.
The man placed himself inside a large machine under Reed's instructions and soon they obtained results.
It wasn't good news.
Just like the outside of Ben's body, his inside was also solidifying, and soon all of him would be pure rock.