A choice

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This is the twenty-second chapter! Hope you enjoy it! 1770 views at the time of publishing! Since no one's given me any ideas, I've come up with Garth's power involvement in the Johnny-Victor fligth scene, and sorry if it's not much.

I own no characters except Garth, Lily, and, in a way, Jeff Wagner.

Garth (having learned they were in Shanghai) felt a slight chill in his furless body, his skin pale from all the time covered in fur, feeling the difference. Despite being gutless most of his life, he had completely adapted to his furry body, and it felt strange no longer having a muzzle and having a normal nose again, a weird sight for his eyes. 

He saw Ben (in his normal human form) get a red jumper from a broken shop, then they both looked upwards as he saw Johnny take on Victor, moving his left hand over his eyes over thought it was night. Victor flew towards Johnny, holding his hands out and making a load of rubble come out of the buildings besides him, following him, and the rubble impacting Johnny, sending him back, and, Garth could guess, that the impact would have broken some bones or caused some cuts, which his healing power came in handy for that. He watched as Johnny used Reed's power to stretch his right arm to grab a towers antenna and used it to swing around and fly towards Victor. Garth then looked left and right and saw that Ben had gone somewhere. Not knowing what that man was planning, he just shrugged and looked upwards and continued watching, seeing Johnny shot a fireball at Victor, then use Sue's invisibility to hide. Victor reaction a few seconds later lead Garth to accuse, and a second or two later, it was confirmed correct, as Johnny made himself visible, showing he had stretched his body around Victor's body. He then punched Victor several times before he made himself hotter, Garth noticing his body getting brighter. About two seconds later, he saw the Board drop down. So Garth assumed that the pulse immited thing Reed mentioned had been broken. He then watched Johnny upward his body and Victor flying around in a circle a few times before being whacked by a a bunch of metal beams hooked to a crane, which he guessed was Ben's doing, as he watched Victor fly towards the water. Inside him, he hoped that that would be the last time that Victor Von Doom caused them any trouble, the wind starting to get rough around them. 

With that problem over, Garth then turned his head rightwards, then turned his body in that direction and walked slowly to where Reed, Sue and the Surfur were still at, and knelt down near them. Ben then showed up after him, followed by Johnny who knelt down on Garth's right, his arms still a bit rocky, so he then grabbed Ben's left arm with his right arm and then switched powers again. Garth turned his head rightwards to face Johnny, as he held out his right hand, which Johnny grasped with his right hand, giving him his powers and furry body back. He now was back to his furry self, yet, he didn't feel any excitement or relief he would usually feel under different circumstances. He felt immense sadness for Sue, as something like this had never happened to them before. He then thought that, if he had taken the hit instead of her, he would most likely have healed, and she would be all right, as part of his mind then scolded him for not being fast enough, filling him with a bit of regret. But then the rest of his mind shoved that feeling away, saying she made her choice, she knew what she was doing, and understood what was at stake (which was the world and everything she knows and loves), and, since the Surfur would have been saved no matter who did it, it didn't matter which one did it. And so it wasn't his fault.  Her head then moved back, her body still, meaning she was gone. Garth closed his eyes for a few seconds, tears coming into his eyes, then he opened them, and leaning forwards slightly, he reached his left hand towards Sues head, and closed her eyes with his index and middle fingers. "I'm so sorry." He spoke softly and solemnly, tears going down his furry face, looking at Reed, who looked so sad, and brought Sue's head up to his own for a few seconds.

Garth looked at Sue's body for a few seconds, before noticing something in the corner of his right eye, looked rightwards to see the Surfur had summoned his board, and stepped onto it, his body becoming silver and shiny again, looked upwards then at them. "You gotta go." He heard Reed say to him. The Surfur then knelt down and held out his right hand over Sue's face, then he began twirling his fingers, and moving his mouth in odd ways, his shiny silver fading away on patches around his body, while his hand glowed white. Then, he brought his right hand back and straightened himself. "Treasure each moment with her. And tell her she was right. We do have a choice." The Surfur said slowly to Reed, before then flew up towards the clouds. Garth was confused by what had just happened as he watched him go up, but when he looked down at Sue's face, he gasped (his eyes widened and he his mouth taped open, witch turned into a happy smile) when he saw her move her face and mouth slightly. The Surfur had revived her!

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