"How could you do this?!"
Reed Richards glared furiously at Kraft.
First, a cat and a dog had chased them around and beaten them up. Then a dog had subjected them to a lengthy barrage of vicious insults. Finally, his fiancée had nearly died beneath a cat's claws. All of that had left the proud, brilliant scientist seething.
But for the sake of his troublesome future brother-in-law, Reed Richards had ultimately swallowed his anger.
What he hadn't expected was that Kraft could actually strip Johnny of his powers in so little time. Having been shown up, Reed Richards felt his embarrassment turn to anger.
After all, when Ben Grimm had first come to him asking for help with his mutation, Reed had told him that it was an extremely difficult problem, not something he could solve quickly.
Combined with the fear that his own powers could be targeted, that sent Reed Richards's attitude straight downhill.
The Invisible Woman, who had never wanted her brother stripped of his powers, also glared at Kraft. On top of that, she had nearly died beneath a cat's claws earlier. By now, Susan was letting her anger cloud her judgment.
"What right do you have?! Who are you to strip Johnny of his powers?!"
Overcome with rage, Susan screamed and fired a force-field shockwave at Kraft.
The Invisible Woman's shockwave was invisible and incredibly fast. With his ordinary human reflexes, Kraft had no chance of reacting in time.
Fortunately, Kraft knew about that weakness himself. Besides, he occasionally had to deal with flying tackles from his dear little sister Arale, so he had long since built himself an emergency response device.
The Dream Armor automatically equipped itself in an instant. The Invisible Woman's shockwave merely knocked Kraft's head slightly to one side.
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