Fantastic Four Page #4

Get back here right now! Johnny!

- Settle down!

- [ Reporters Clamoring, Shouting Questions ]

Do you believe this?

- Which one of you is the leader?

- That would be me.

No, seriously.

Okay, son, you're on.

Uh...

during our recent mission

to the Von Doom space station...

we were exposed to

as-yet unidentified radioactive energy.

- What happened on the bridge?

- How can you stretch?

- Is it true you can fly?

- Yeah, I'm working on it. It's actually difficult-

No, actually, we do not know

much more than you do at this point.

Uh, sir, Larry King just canceled.

Apparently there's a bigger story.

NASDAQ was up 9.9-

Bravest-

Actually, here they come now.

You had to see it

to believe it, folks The man-

named the Fantastic Four-

We will be going directly to our lab

to diagnose our symptoms.

[ Reporter ]

Symptoms? Is this some kind of disease?

No! No, no, no.

It's not a disease.

Symptoms? If having special powers

is a disease, then, yeah, we got it bad.

Excuse me.

That thing doesn't look so fantastic.

Ben Grimm is a genuine American hero.

What he means is,

every team needs a mascot.

- [ Laughing ]

- A new day is dawning.

The day of the Fantastic Four!

[ Clamoring, Shouting Questions ]

Look- Look, we went up to space

to find a way to understand D.N. A... .

Cure disease, save lives

Well, now it's our D.N.A.,

our "disease," our lives on the line.

Thank you.

No more questions.

This is how you turn things around?

These freaks on the front page...

your company's in the obituaries?

- I was planning to use the publicity-

- The board's in agreement

- The bank's lost enough already.

- Wait a minute.

It's too late, Victor.

Do you know how much money

I've invested in this company?

Victor, stop.

This isn't a negotiation.

It's a notification

We're pulling out

[ Crowd Cheering ]

Is all that for you, Dr. Richards?

I'm afraid so.

Come on, Ben. Smile.

They wanna like you, bud. Say hi.

[ All Gasping ]

Uh, don't do drugs!

[ Cheering Resumes ]

- [ Grumbles ]

- [ Bell Dings ]

Welcome back to the Baxter,

Dr. Richards.

I've got the usual for you.

- Good to have you back, sir.

- Thanks, Willie.

We had a tough year.

Yeah, like, nine straight.

- [ Bell Dings ]

- [ Pulleys Creaking ]

[ Thuds ]

[ Creaking Continues, Stops ]

Either we're moving

really fast or not at all.

[ Alarm Buzzes ]

[ Bell Dings ]

[ Doors Slide Open ]

I'll take the stairs.

[ Bell Dings ]

How come Ben can't turn it

on and off like we can?

That's what we're here to find out.

- If it happened to him-

- What? You mean, like, we won't

be able to turn it off either?

- That would save time. Ha!

- You wanna walk around on fire

the rest of your life?

- Is that a trick question?

- Grow up.

Come on. Am I the only guy

who thinks this is cool?

We should stay here until we can

define the extent of our changes...

and figure out how to reverse them.

Whoa.

[ Sue ]

Believe it or not, he lives here

[ Reed ] But I have to warn you,

it's gonna be a little crowded in some areas

[Johnny Laughs ]

So, what do you think?

I don't know, Reed.

I think you might be bringing

your work home with you.

[ Laughs ] Come on. Let me show

you guys where you'll be staying.

Busy guy.

[ Crowd Chattering ]

- Hi, everybody.

- Mr. Von Doom!

Would you like to comment

on the recent failure of your I.P.O.?

[ Female Reporter ]

What about the rumors of a takeover?

God, I was so worried about you

Victor

- I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to call.

- Please.

No apologies

I've arranged for your things

to be moved to one of my condos.

- You'll have round-the-clock care.

- Thank you.

That's very generous of you, but I think

I should stay here with my brother...

until we get a handle on things.

Susan, I think you should

let my doctors have a look at you.

[ Reed ]

Victor

What are you doing here?

I'm starting to wonder

the same thing.

- How much do you know

about what happened to you?

- Not much.

- We need to run tests

to see the extent of the damage.

- You let me know what I can do.

We're all in this together now.

Victor, wait

I just wanted to say I'm sorry

the mission didn't go as planned.

Didn't go as planned?

It was a catastrophe

You ruined the lives of four people

With all due respect, we're both to blame.

I told you to abort.

Abort?

I put my company, my name,

billions of dollars on the line.

- I will not let you make me look like a fool.

- If we could understand-

I don't want to understand it!

This isn't one of your science projects!

I just want to fix it, fast!

- [ Heavy Footsteps ]

- [ Ben ] Is there a problem?

[ Sighs ]

No.

- [ Bell Dings ]

- No problem, Ben.

Just pay your damn electric bill

and get to work on finding a cure.

[ Bell Dings ]

Whoa!

Wow!

He's heating up from his core.

And his vitals are completely normal

If we're going to identify

the source of the mutation

we need to isolate

your recombinant D.N. A... .

So we can activate

positional genomes.

- Huh?

- We have to do a physical

to see what got zapped.

Oh. Why didn't you just say so?

[ Reed ]

His internal organs are completely solid

[ Heart Beating ]

How bad is it?

You know, I used to smoke.

[ Beeping ]

[ Reed ]

It's not invisibility per se

You should be able to bend light

around other objects, even people

if you could control

your emotional state better.

- Excuse me?

- If you had more self-control,

you could locate the trigger.

Can you remember

your exact emotions on the bridge?

Anger.

Rage. Frustration.

Okay, is there any way to duplicate

that feeling? Some memory or-

I'm sure I can

come up with something.

- You feel anything?

- Nope.

Okay.

[ Stammering ]

It's hotter than I anticipated.

- Johnny, back it down.

- I can go hotter!

[ Sue ]

Johnny, just back it down!

[ Groans ]

Johnny, back it down right now!

Johnny!

- [ Alarm Buzzes ]

- Ohh!

[Johnny Laughing ]

Buzz-kill!

You guys are crampin'my style!

Johnny, you were at 4,000 Kelvin.

- Any hotter, and you're approaching supernova.

- Sweet!

No, not sweet.

That's the temperature of the sun.

Not only could you kill yourself.

But you could set fire to Earth's atmosphere

and destroy all human life

Got it.

Supernova- bad.

How's that coming?

Oh, I'm so sorry.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah. Fine.

- You sure?

- Yep.

I, um-

[ Chuckles ]

You probably thought that was

some form of latent hostility.

What in the world

would give me that idea?

I mean, you broke up with me, right?

- [ Chuckles ] Are you kidding?

- No

I distinctly remember

you walked out my door, ergo-

I was ready for the next step.

You weren't. Ergo, I walked.

It was a little more complicated

than that.

I just wanted

to share an apartment.

What was so complicated about that?

- There were a lot of variables to consider.

- No, there weren't

There was you and me.

No variables, no math.

It was actually the simplest thing in the world.

- But like always, Reed, your head got in the way.

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