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Ultimate Nightmare, chapter 5
Deep within the compound, Sam Wilson a.k.a. the Falcon comments on how Captain America and the Russian are not fighting. Sergeant Nick Fury tells Wilson to let the Captain take care of business and to just concentrate on getting the door open. ‘Yeah, yeah,’ mutters Sam, before asking again why they are not fighting.
Captain America just stands his ground before “Captain Russia”, saying nothing. The Super Soldier asks Cap if he is looking for an opening, studying him for weaknesses, and boasts that he has none, that he is perfect. ‘The constant super soldier’. Cap tells his opponent that he isn’t perfect, that he is crazy, but before the Russian can react, Cap leaps at him and kicks him in the jaw.
The Super Soldier gathers himself and picks up his makeshift shield, smacking Captain America in the stomach. Cap moves to one side as his Russian counterpart brings his makeshift shield down upon him, but misses, and is splits into dozens of pieces. In the process, the Russians arm is wounded, split open, the insides are a mixture of indescribable workings. Cap is shocked, and the Super Soldier tells him that he doesn’t have the English for what he is. ‘I will kill you now’.
A large door springs open, and the Falcon announces that they are in. Fury calls to Cap, who shoves the Super Soldier’s hard into a wall, and tells his allies to go, as he finishes beating the hell out of the Super Soldier. Natasha Widow, codenamed the Black Widow leads the way into the other room, and shocked, she looks up at the strange creation before her, before telling Nick and Sam to try their radios again, as they are going to need some help. Suspended from the ceiling is some robotic creation - or at least the upper half of him anyway.
Wilson wonders if this is the source of the transmissions, then realizes that it is more than that, and tells his allies to look at the robot again - he is the source of everything here. Sam points out that if you take two things that work and stick them together, the result is unpredictable. He believes this creation to be the Super-Soldier program and that the Russians spent decades prying bits off him and grafting them into test subjects.
The robot starts repeating ‘Escape’ over and over again, before declaring that “it” is coming. Motioning to another large door into this chamber, Natasha holds her large gun up to it and informs her allies that they have company.
The door bursts open, and standing on the other side are three members of the mutant X-Men: Jean “Marvel Girl” Grey, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan and Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin. Fury begins firing upon seeing the X-Men, and staring up at the robot, the mentally-drained Grey declares ‘It’s you…I can hear you…you’re not even human…’.
Wolverine announces that they have been ambushed and rushes towards Fury and his associates. Colossus points out that they don’t have their main super people with them, to which Logan replies ‘Yeah, no Iron Pants or Hammer Guy. It’s gonna be easy,’ and boasts that he will take them.
Fury, Sam and Natasha continue firing at the X-Men, and Fury tells them to stand down, ignored by the X-Men, and as Logan leaps at him, Fury smashes him with his gun, mockingly says ‘Whoops, Oh, I’m trembling. “Little human dog talks trash to me.” I don’t think so’.
Back in the other chamber, the Russian punches Cap in the jaw, causing blood to spurt from his mouth. The Super Soldier trips Cap up and asks him if he knows what this place was, revealing that it was their testing ground. As he elbows Cap in the back, he declares that it made them strong, glorious and proud. He boasts that it made them strong, made them glorious and taught them that Americans are nothing and that there is strength in union. ‘It took a union to make me’.
As Cap is kicked in the stomach, he tells his enemy that fighting isn’t about glory, nor is it about pride. ‘This is the mistake that crazy scum like you always make’. Cap smacks the Super Soldier in the face, causing him to stumble backwards, which gives Cap enough time to pick up a stake-like piece of wood from the ground, and running up to “Captain Russia” he declares that fighting isn’t about winning - and shoves the stake through his enemy’s chest.
Back in the second chamber, Colossus picks up Wilson in his arms and tells him to not fight, as he will not kill him, just put him to sleep. With Colossus’ steel arms around him, Sam replies that it is real “comfortable” and asks him if he organic metal analog, telling him that it is extremely cool.  Colossus thanks the Falcon, before asking him to please let him crush the air out of him. Sam declares that he was thinking - ‘If your eyes really turn to metal, how do you see?’ With that, Sam shoves his thumbs into Colossus’ eyes.
Wolverine lunges at Fury with his claws, telling him that the more he keeps honking him off, the slower he is going to kebab his heart. Suddenly, someone calls ‘Hey! Lucky Jim!’ Logan stops and looks around, asking who called him that, when a grenade is thrown into the room and explodes right beside Logan, causing him to fall over. Cap puts a foot on Logan and his gun to Wolverine’s arm, remarking that he cannot tell a lie, he admits that it was him. Cap tells Logan to settle down, as he has no particular wish to kill anyone else today.
‘Speak for yourself’ declares Natasha as she holds a gun to Grey’s head. Grey is on her knees hugging herself, declaring ‘It’s not human and it won’t stop talking in my head’. ‘Yes dear, you said that,’ says Natasha patronizingly, before telling Jean to shut up or she will be forced to blow her head off for the sake of her own sanity. ’I think the mutants are a little confused, Nick,’ she adds.
As Sam Wilson holds a gun to Colossus’ face, he points out that they cannot blame them, and suggests Natasha listen to what Grey is saying, pointing out that she is an X-woman and their team has psychics, he has read about it. He reminds everyone that Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D.’s psi-division was down, so if this thing is broadcasting on the high electromagnetic frequencies use, as well as the wave bands they picked up…his voice trails off before realizing that the X-Men thought there was a psychic in here.
Sam is willing to bet that the X-Men didn’t even stop to turn on a TV to see is anything else was going on, that the just barreled right in here, to save the underground brain-broadcaster. ‘Morons’. With the X-Men held at gunpoint, Fury asks Wilson what it is they have here, as it looks to him like someone made half a robot out of half a Cadillac. Wilson tells Colossus to kneel down, and cross his ankles, claiming that he could shoot him through the eyes from twenty paces without even trying, before telling Fury that in fact this creation used to be intact, or close to it. ‘Didn’t you?’ he asks it.
‘Yes,’ replies the strange creature, ‘Hundreds years trying to heal as they cut pieces off me’. Wilson tells the robot that as they are here now, it can stop broadcasting. He tells the creation that they are here now, and ready to listen, but that his broadcast is damaging them. He informs it that they want to learn, but that it has to stop the broadcast now.
Jean snaps back to reality as the robot confirms that he has ceased the transmission. He declares ‘Names, in your language: Eidolon Apparition Vision. Name Vision. Vision. Traveler I, running ahead of the thing. Across galaxies. Warning that it is coming, a hundred of your years ahead of the incident wave, a hundred years to defend’.
The Vision as he calls himself, explains his history now, ‘Failure event in my vessel mechanism while entering your atmosphere. Critical failure above this territory. Repair coma found by explorers and buried and dissected over period of decades. Finally. Finally. Broadcast cortex reassembled. A hundred years gone by. Panic failure in role assigned to me by the unquiet dead their voice. Mass broadcast on all frequencies the stories of the dead the warning’.
The Vision tells the X-Men and the others that they must prepare now. Fury asks him ‘For what? What’s coming?’ The Vision replies that there are so many names, so many cultures destroyed. ‘I hold the voices of a thousand dead worlds’. He exclaims that there is a very old culture, has observed dozens of terminal events, their word for it has traveled, and in their language, it means uncreated, ant messiah, poison wave, universal end bringer. ‘Gah Lak Tus’.
Suddenly, there is a brilliant, blinding white light. ‘What in the hell was that?’ asks Fury. Sam replies that he doesn’t know, but it is like someone let a flash bang grenade off, as he couldn’t see a thing for a second. Looking around, they soon realize that the X-Men are missing. Fury asks the Black Widow if she took her eyes off Grey, to which Natasha replies ‘I hate X-Men’.
Fury finally manages to radio up to the surface and tells his soldiers to grab some shovels, as they are going to dig them out of here. Wilson asks the Vision what he was talking about when he said ‘One hundred years’. The Vision ominously replies ‘One hundred years ahead. One hundred years have passed. There is no time left’.
Above the underground complex, Wolverine mutters that there wasn’t even a mutant, just some weird-messed up alien robot. He is angry that no one even took half a day to find out what else might be going on. Jean just tells him to shut up, to which Logan points out that she and Xavier got so sweaty about rescuing some poor little mutant that they didn’t even think twice. He snarls that it is thanks to them that they almost got killed by the Ultimates.
Jean turn around and tells Logan to shut up again, to which Logan asks her what she plans on doing - ‘Drown me with your bleeding heart, maybe?’ He declares that this was a shambles and tells Jean to think. Think about how she and Xavier thought they were so sneaky and clever, but where did all this brain power get them? ‘Flat on your face and with a gun in your ear’.
Turning away from his two close friends, Wolverine mutters that if you ask him, this “Galakty” thing can’t come soon enough, as we are all just dumb enough to deserve to be eaten by some jerk from space. Them for thinking Xavier is the savior, and him for sticking around.
Later, the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarier hovers above an opening in the ground, as the Vision is being lifted from the underground complex into it. Fury tells Wilson that it is all his, that he is going to have to spend every waking hour with him, working out what he is talking about and learning as much as possible. ‘This is officially sixty levels above top secret’.
Sam asks how they are going to explain away the mass broadcasts predicting doom. Fury replies that they will pass it off as terrorists, that terrorists are good for anything. He adds that he knows what Sam is thinking, and tells him that they are not to tell anyone the truth, not until they know exactly what is coming to get them.
Meanwhile, far away in space, someone…or something…has Earth locked on target.


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Weapon X
Manhattan Docks, six months ago:
Listen, it’s all connected! Bruce Banner, dressed only in ragged pants, with a mad look in his eyes tells Spider-Man. That’s it. That’s the secret!
Secret to what? the confused youngster asks. All of – all of this . It’s connected, Banner continues. You – me – They don’t want you to figure it out. They don’t want you to know. Who are you? Spider-Man asks and grabs him by the arm.
Suddenly, the warehouse is filled with the glare of lights as the army has arrived. Time to put his collar on, the leader says, addressing Banner. Where were they, like, a billion years ago, Spider-Man asks sarcastically, referring to his battle with the Hulk.
Banner panics and shouts at them to leave him alone. The soldier tells him he knows how this works. He can either put it on himself or he’ll put it on for Banner. Spidey asks who they are while Banner screams and the soldier warns him he is interfering in a matter of national security.
Suddenly, Banner transforms into the (green) Hulk and jumps outside. Army helicopters follow him heading towards New Jersey. Spider-Man is left back wondering what the hell all that was about.
Guadalcanal campaign
Battle of the Tenaru
August, 1942:
Led by a soldier dressed in the blue white red and bearing the flag, American soldier press forward, but in the onslaught he is shot and dies.
Back in the USA, President Roosevelt is informed of their soldier’s death. This is terrible, he states, not mincing words. They did take the island, an aide reminds him. Their supersoldier is dead, the president replies. There’s blood on the flag.
The advisor point out that he was just a soldier… Roosevelt retorts that he wants a super soldier who really is a super soldier. More than a man, he has to be a symbol. A God-fearing symbol to these godless bastards. He shows them the photo of the dead supersoldier. This is a war of images, he stresses. He doesn’t want to see this. He doesn’t want to see a man in their blood-soaked flag lying on the bodies of those who died for America’s freedom. Yes, sir, comes the reply.
The Allied Invasion of Sicily, August 1943.
From the ruins of a house comes a whumping sound of a minor explosion. Making some noise there, one of the three soldier, Nick Fury, remarks to James Howlett, who replies with a grin, that it worked, didn’t it? The third one, Fisk, swears impressed as he checks the safe for the lot they are about to liberate. Fury asks Fisk didn’t he say he knew a guy who could move this stuff? He didn’t say that, comes the reply. Howlett suggests they split it up.
While they wonder whether the stuff is real, they are discovered by an officer. Fisk jumps out of a window and manages to flee. Fury and the Canadian soldier, Howlett, are captured and transported away.
Fury finds himself in a prison cell back in the States, surrounded by other imprisoned soldiers, all of them African-Americans like him. Watching as guards transport the corpse of another inmate, Fury and another guy assume they are not going to get their day in court.
An elderly man with spectacles and a moustache comes in and watches them critically. He settles on Fury, This one, he decides, pointing at him. The soldiers take him out, ignoring his questions. He is led to a giant lab.
Test subject 41. Project Rebirth. Subject name: Nicholas Fury, the moustached scientist announces. He walks on, telling his assistant that the blood samples were healthy and matched that of Subject 22, which had their largest success.
Fury again tries to ask a question and is ignored by the scientist who continues that they’ve adjusted the plasma levels to match the previously taken blood sample. They are hoping that the new mixture will bring on a breakthrough. Is she taking notes? Yes, sir, the blonde replies, shooting a fearful look at Fury.
As he is tied to a chair, he shouts again and is told to pipe down and take his medicine. This will be over momentarily, the scientist adds. It is in Fury’s best interest to allow them to do his work. Please, he just wants to know what this is? Fury can finally finish his question. He wouldn’t understand, comes the reply, so it wouldn’t help them to explain any of this to him.
Where is he? Fury asks. Taking a syringe, the scientist replies he is in a laboratory and he’s been elected for experimentation. It’s an honor, the scientists continues. He hopes Fury knows that. He injects him. Time: 4:11 PM . What are they doing to him? Fury screams.
The scientist’s staff check their watches. No protuberances, the assistant observes. That is promising, the head scientist admits and asks her to take Fury’s temperature. How does he feel?
The blonde asks Fury to open his mouth. Fury moans, then screams in agony as his eyes turn red. The scientist orders everyone to their station.
His eyes aglow, Fury screaming in a mad rage, tears apart his ties. He is surrounded by energy as that of an explosion. Outside the lab, the soldiers hear crashing noises. They hurry inside to see everything devastated. Suddenly and quickly, they are beaten up and taken out by a Nick Fury, who has turned into a muscular superman. Taking a rifle, Fury makes his way to freedom.
The troops find the destroyed lab and the doctor and find out Fury freed all the other prisoners. The scientist asks them to find him. Frankly, he’d like to thank Fury. They finally have what they need. They have their breakthrough.
Alberta, Canada, October 1943:
Howlett is kept in a tube until he is forcefully woken up. The scientist tells his soldiers to put down the guns and assures James he is with friends.
A little later, rifle in hand, James has fled the lab and now runs naked into the snowy wilderness.
Soon soldiers follow him, ordered to shoot. Shoot to kill? one soldier asks and is told they have their orders. So they shoot him. Per radio, they are asked if he is alive. He is not breathing, they reply and are told to double check. Left alone in the snowy wastes is a single black monolith.
Before their eyes, Howlett’s wounds begin to heal, even though he was shot in the head. They are ordered to bring him back.
Weapon X Subbasement, three years later:
The director Colcord asks Doctor Cornelius to explain what he has done here. Cornelius explains that at first they were following experiments to create their own Captain America, their own super-soldier. At first? Colcord asks. Science sometimes leads one down paths one didn’t even know existed.
What has he done? Colcord demands. The scientist tells him to look through a microscope. This is a normal human genome. Colcord doesn’t understand. What’s a genome? It’s what makes us… us, comes the reply. The other slab shows something different, what they have made from Mister Howlett’s genealogy.
This is not just tampered with, or damaged. Something new has been created here. This is a mutated strain of the human genome. This is something more, something better. Mutated, Colcord repeats. This is what they’ll call the mutant gene, Cornelius decides. They created it right here. Man has created its first genome and this is it.
What does it do? Colcord asks. That depends on who carries it. As Colcord saw, in Mister Howlett’s case (which they’re still studying) it increased healing and animal like senses.… Once the mutant gene spreads, they’ll see all kinds of different… Spreads? Colcord asks.
Who knows how it will affect the others, Cornelius continues. How will it spread`? Colcord insists. Eventually man would become extinct, he knows that, right? Cornelius changes the subject. Like the dinosaurs before him. This never-ending world war might be their version of natural selection. The beginning of the end. But… but! Instead of finding a way to kill each other faster, they have found a way to survive themselves. They’ll survive… they’ll evolve.
They are standing over Howlett’s tank. Right here, they control the fate of man. They created a new species. They’ve created the mutant. And James Howlett… is mutant zero.


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Ultimate Origins – part 2
Project Pegasus. Devil’s Point, Wyoming. Today:
The Fantastic Four and Captain Carol Danvers, acting director of SHIELD, have come here. She informs the complex’s armed guards that she brought the FF because a couple of them are super brainiac big brains. Say hi, superbrains. “Hi,” Reed says, as does Johnny. Ben hisses at him that she ain’t talking about him!
Where’s Nick Fury? the guard asks and gets he curt reply not here. Uh, where are the Ultimates? he presses. She replies the FF are better suited for this. Who is she again? She reminds him there was a distress call. They are here to relieve that distress, agent…?
He introduces himself as Wendell Vaughn. Project Pegasus Director, she realizes. Project Pegasus was not something she knew existed until about an hour ago. Yes, it’s top secret, he agrees. Where’s Nick Fury? Why doesn’t he show her what the problem is? she asks. Um, it’s top secret, he stutters, then reluctantly asks them to follow him.
Inside, it’s dark and lifeless. Is it like a museum? Johnny asks. It’s where SHIELD keeps all objects of mysterious origin or unexplained power that the United States authorities have accumulated over the years. They keep all those objects in one place? Reed protests. Obviously every precaution is taken to keep the objects safe, Vaughn replies defensively and finally exclaims he didn’t invent the place.
Are there flies of this? Carol asks. Not for the public and not on everything, comes the reply. Nick Fury just threw anything he didn’t understand into a mountain and hoped for the best? Sue asks incredulous.
This place dates back wayyyy before Fury’s time, Vaughn replies. As hard as it is to imagine something could go wrong in a place, like this, Carol remarks, what  went wrong? What’s the emergency?
Wendell shows them a strange black monolith with something that resembles a red eye. It was just sitting there for decades and this morning it turned on. Is it lookin’ at them? Ben asks nervously.
New York 1942:
A skinny blond young man sits in the cinema, listening intently to the news reel.
The world at war and we take you there. Hitler’s armies goosesstep toward Berlin as a reign of godless terror sweeps cross Europe.
American troops come by boat, by plane and by the thousands… while here at home the women do all they can.
Here we see American soldiers firing at German paratroopers just past the battlefield.
Our president shakes hands with heroic soldiers wounded in the call of duty.
Vice-President Truman is at the christening of a new battle ship called the Defender of Tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler addresses his masses calling for a strong and mighty end to the nations which threaten their --
A couple steps past the young man, looking for seats. The woman addresses him as Steve Rogers. “Hey Gail,” he replies. Is he here by himself? Gail asks. Umm, Steve replies indecisively. Gail introduces her friend to Steve whom she knows from school. The other main is Patrick Loika, who just enlisted. He’s shipping out. Gail asks where Steve has been and suggests they should get together. Yeah, sure, Steve replies with a smile. She means it, Gail assures him as she and Patrick take seats in front of Steve. In the back, someone calls for them to be quiet. The movie’s starting!
Steve watches.
A hospital in the United States: army nurses arrives in Port Moresby to care for the troops wounded in the furious fight for New Guinea. The more serious cased are sent back to the Australian mainland.
Steve gets up, shoots one last look at Gail and her beau and leaves the cinema, walking alone through the snowy streets. He walks to a recruitment center, not for the first time as it turns out.
How many times do they have to go through this, the recruitment officer asks him. Isn’t there something he could do? Steve asks. The officer reminds Steve that he failed the physical. That means he stays here. Work at the factories. With the dames? Steve shouts anxiously. They all gotta do their part, comes the reply. He could do the recruitment officer’s job, Steve offers. He wants to do his part. He wants to help stop this war. Tell him what to do and he’ll do it! The officer tells him he understands but he doesn’t make the rules and the rules say Steve ain’t fit for combat.
The phone rings, he listens to the other side, then he tells Steve to enter the door behind him. Sergeant Dugan expects Steve and asks him: How many visits to the recruitment office have these been? Steve apologizes for being a pest. He only…
No one is angry with him, Dugan tells him. They want to talk with him about his passion. Why does he want to enlist so badly? Because the Germans and Japs’re going to take over the world, if they don’t stop them!
Dugan leads him to a darkened room. What is this place? Steve asks agitated. Who is he? His name is Sergeant Dugan of the United States army. His job, to be blunt, was to find him. There’s someone who’s dying to meet him. He leads Steve down darkened stairs.
Steve nervously announces he feels like he is in trouble. Dugan promises him he’s not. They’ve had their eyes on him. Orphaned… gimpy leg… patriotic… smart. After his third trip to the recruitment office, they pulled his file. He has a file? Steve bursts out. Everyone has a file, comes the reply. They are at war. He fits. He’s a perfect candidate. For what? Steve asks.
Dugan tells him he wants to introduce him to… Doctor Erskine. He runs Project Rebirth. The eccentric-looking scientist asks Steve for a blood and urine sample… and so it starts. Steve is examined and tested.
Erskine’s notes:
On paper, the results are very promising. Steve Rogers fits every physical and mental criterion needed for this project. His bloodwork is perfect. His reaction to the steroids cocktails has been well within acceptable range and his heart and mind are exactly where the president wanted our subject’s to be.
Could it be that the missing ingredient was pure intent of the subject’s will? Could that be what was missing?
If Rogers survives tomorrow’s injections, this will be one of the most important days in the history of medical science. This will turn the tide of the World War.
This concludes phase three of my notes.
Steve is visited in his room by Erskine and Dugan. Erskine asks how he is feeling. He threw up this morning, Steve admits, but he’s okay now. Erskine checks his temperature and points out Steve has a lot of chemicals in his system. Nothing to worry about.
He’s ready though, Steve assures them. He’ll be ready soon, Dugan corrects him. He has more reading to do, as he hands him some notes. What is this? Steve asks. Dugan explains this is everything the American government knows about people who live on this planet who were not born here.
He explains to an incredulous Steve that, on top of the Nazis and the Japs, he’s going to learn that there are those working with them that are not from here. Obviously they assume them to be the most dangerous and immediate threat. Little green men from outer space? Steve scoffs. No. Dugan replies curtly.
The next day, Steve is led to a lab and strapped to a chair as Fury before him. He looks up to see a soldier standing above. He is injected. Steve begins to moan in pain, but his vital signs are in acceptable range, Erskine notes. He’s having trouble breathing. Above the solider draws his gun.
Like Fury before him, Steve screams, glows with energy and breaks loose from his bonds. The soldiers get ready to shoot him but Erskine orders them to hold on.
Steve stands still and looks down disbelievingly. He has become a perfect muscular specimen.
Suddenly the soldier above shouts Heil Hitler and fires at Steve, hitting him in the right shoulder. Erskine runs toward him to protect his creation. Before the US soldiers can overwhelm the spy, he has fired again, wounding Erskine lethally.
The Nazi spy still keeps the other soldiers at arm’s length with his gun. Steve takes a metal disc ad throws it at the spy, hitting his target. Then, he jumps up and takes him out with one blow.
Down below there is chaos with some people trying to help Erskine and calling for medics. One scientist asks the hell is that, looking at a small black monolith with a glowing red circle…
Steve Rogers waits alone, until the President of the United States is wheeled in, addressing him as son and telling him to stand at ease. Roosevelt explains that he is sending Steve overseas. He has to. They need him. Yes, sir, comes the reply, but there’s a lot going on that he doesn’t understand.
The President agrees. There’s a lot to take in. Plus, he’s one of a kind now. The Nazis saw to that. It’ll take… he doesn’t know how long… to figure it all out again. The doctor’s notes are incomplete. It was half in his head. But he wanted Steve to hear it from him. He has to help them win this war. He’ll do his best, Steve promises.
That’s not enough, the president replies. Best. Good intention, it’s not enough. He’ll have to wear their flag and win this war. Because without him out there, the next thing they’ll be forced to do is drop a bomb on a country… a bomb that kills everything in it. Every woman and child, They’ll have to commit genocide. And he just can’t have that on his shoulders. He didn’t start this war. He didn’t want to be in this war, but by golly, he’s going to end it. Is Steve going to help him do that? Yes, sir, comes the certain reply.
Some time later, Steve Rogers meets Gail on the stairs of some building. He apologizes for keeping her waiting and tells her he’s shipping out. They are both embarrassed, unsure what to say. Finally, he tells her he loves her. He’s loved her since middle school and he didn’t have the guts to tell her. He doesn’t know why. Now it’s so easy. But he does. Love her.
She loves him too, comes the reply. She doesn’t need to say that. It’s true! she assures him. He didn’t know that. She’s a hell of a gal. They kiss. When he gets back, Steve continues, he’d like to…
Say it when he gets back, she tells him. He walks away. When is he coming back? she calls after him. When I’m done, comes the reply and Captain America springs into action.


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Ultimate Origins – part 3
Today, Project Pegasus.
Wendell Vaughn, Carol Danvers and the Fantastic Four stare at the strange monolith that caused Vaughn to call for SHIELD’s help. Is it watching them? Reed Richards asks. Vaughn doesn’t know. Susan Storm remarks it does seem to be broadcasting. Is it some sort of sensor? It could be alive and they don’t recognize its form of sentience, Reed suggests, a thought that also crossed Sue’s mind.
While they all argue puzzled, Susan remarks that, whatever it is, it outside their school of reference. How long has it been down here? World War twoish, Vaughn replies, not sure. Reed suggests they all get out. Why? Carol Danvers asks. All of the technology created during the war was weapon-based, he explains, because they were…
…At war, Carol finishes. That’s a weapon? she asks. Or a bomb, Reed suggests, or confiscated from the enemy… or alien technology that was being used as a weapon, Susan ventures. An alien bomb? Carol muses, everybody out! she orders.
When they are outside, she states she wants that thing in there removed. Like, from this planet. Reed suggests she shouldn’t do that. What doe she want? She sighs. She wants a team of experts down there to take readings, he suggests. She wants to find out who put it here and why. She wants to find out if it’s radiating any type of energy or virus that is hazardous.
Yes! She wants answers. She tells Vaughn there is a trail of paper that leads to this and how it got here. Find it or go home. ‘Cause now she’s scared that a horde of alien warriors is gong to pour out if it or that it’s going to kill the gonads of every one on Earth. Yeah, that’s a good one too, Reed mutters.
Another SHIELD agent enters, telling Carol there is a call. Busy! she shouts. It’s important, he insists. What’s more important than this? she demands. Well, he begins…
And everywhere else, at Tony Stark’s mansion (home of the Ultimates), the Triskelion (SHIELD HQ), Xavier’s School for Gifted Children (the X-Men’s home), the Baxter Building (home of the Fantastic Four), the Daily Bugle (Spider-Man’s work place) where Jonah Jameson just shouts at his reporter he was supposed to write a story abut where Nick Fury is, in London (Captain Britain’s home), in Hell’s Kitchen (Daredevil’s home), Forest Hills, Queens, Peter Parker’s attic, in all of these places suddenly an identical monolith has appeared. Oh man, Carol Danvers mutters.
Alberta, Canada, 27 years ago:
James Howlett is still captured, floating in a tank, unconscious. A teenage boy with longish brown hair stands above the pool. Get up, he orders him. And impossibly James begins to rise, shouting in pain as he does so. He knows, the boy replies. What they did to him. His name is James, James, he stresses. Not Weapon X, not Mutant X. James. Does he know that? Does he remember? James just snarls. He knows, the boy tells him. It’s over now. He’s free. And with an inhuman snarl James Howlett runs off.
Erik please, comes a voice from above. A beautiful, dark-haired woman walks down the stairs, flanked by armed guards. This isn’t how to do it, she implores the boy. This isn’t his place.
Mother… he replies. She looks scared. Is she scared of him? She is right now, she admits, as he takes out the soldiers. She asks him to put everything back and just calm down.
With a gesture of his hand, he lets the metal float in the air. Her life’s work is to torture this man, he states darkly. Her lifework is to help them find a cure, she corrects him. For me, Erik states. For all of them, she stresses. They have a disease. She’s trying to help cure… Goodbye mother, he tells her as he gets ready to use his powers again. He hopes there is a hell.
San Francisco, 18 years ago.
Professor Charles Xavier is holding a lesson on the works of Christopher Marlowe. He tells his bored students that he loves Marlowe and today they are going to talk about Marlowe’s the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus which he’s sure they’ve all read before coming to the class. In which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. This monologue he is about to recite for them… listen to the words, he urges them.
Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships?
And burnt he towers of Ilium? –
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss
He then, uh, kisses her, Xavier explains and continues reciting.
Is he reading his students’ minds? That thought suddenly reaches him. Undeterred, he continues reading while mentally reaching out to the other man, an older Erik, standing at the door. Isn’t that a bit unethical? The man continues. Though it probably does take the edge of dating them. Takes out the guess work. Who is he? Xavier asks telepathically. Why can’t he read inside his mind? He doesn’t know, Erik admits, but that’s interesting. Xavier can hear his thoughts to him but not look inside his mind. Who is he? Xavier repeats. His name is Erik, comes the reply, and he’d like to buy Charles lunch. Okay does anyone have any questions? Xavier asks his students.
Later, outside the building, the two of them take a walk. He’s read Xavier’s book, Erik tells him. Well, that would be one of him, comes the wry reply. To say he enjoyed it, would be an understatement, Erik continues. It moved him. Charles admits he’s surprised. Wasn’t the thought behind it to move mutants to better their unique condition? Erik asks. He thought it would have a little more impact than it did, Charles admits. What was his print run? Erik asks with a smirk.
Who is he? Charles repeats. “Erik Lehnsherr,” comes the reply. How did he know Charles was reading minds back there? He can always tell when a mutant is using his manifestation. Is that his manifestation? Charles asks. No, actually, he can manipulate magnetic fields. Charles asks for a demonstration.
Erik transforms the trash cans into one giant floating metal ball. Has he tested himself? Charles asks. Informally, comes the reply. Why can’t he read his mind, Charles wonders. Erik admits he doesn’t know. Maybe their powers contradict each other. That really intrigues him. They should examine that.
They test it and realize Xavier can hear Erik’s thoughts when he is projecting them. Xavier admits it’s a nice change of pace. He usually knows the end of the conversation or the true intentions of a conversation before the conversation actually happens.
This he doesn’t know: who Erik is or what he’s going to say. He’s going to say that his friends and he were profoundly moved by Xavier’s book. And he thought his idea of a place where mutants can gather and train, cultivate their race… he loved this idea. He wants to make that happen. Oh, okay, does he have a billion dollars? Charles jokes. No, he has something better than that.
16 yeas ago:
Charles and Erik visit the Savage Land. A hundred times, Xavier marvels if he gets to come here a hundred times… Heaven on earth!
He knows, Erik agrees. Proof there’s a God. But is it too far away? Charles wonders. Charles, Charles, Charles, Erik chides him before telling him to come meet his students. A lot has changed since he was last here.
Erik points at a plateau with some people on it. Their brotherhood. Can Charles feel how excited they are to see him? They have gathered to do exactly what he has written. As they join the others, Erik addresses them as “brothers.” Charles thinks they have removed themselves from the fight, he adds. Charles insists that’s not what he said. He just wondered if they are too far away from the rest of the world. Yes, a dark-haired woman named Magda replies. They are where a normal human would never survive. A human would never come here. You have to earn your place here.
But by doing so, it feels like they have removed themselves from society, Xavier points out. They are building a new society like he said, comes the reply.
But, Charles wonders, it’s one thing to fantasize about it, it’s another to write about it, but now that they are here, the real thing.
Within the cave, Erik states, there’s something he never told Charles. His parents were Canadian Weapon X agents. Where they found the first mutant, Charles recalls. Erik was there. Erik explains he was born into a relatively normal life. Then he turned thirteen and made the silverware dance. So his father got drunk as he could and tried to kill Erik. He pulled his gun on him. But Erik turned the bullet around in midair and sent it back to him. Without realizing he was doing it. Just… a defense mechanism. And it was that day that he learned what his parents did for a living. Where he lived.
He broke into their labs and freed “Mutant X”. The rumors are true, they were doing experiments on him. All day. Every day… for decades, right under Erik’s nose. They were seeing what would happen to him if they did this or that. He freed that mutant. His first one. He freed him. His mother tried to stop him. She died trying to stop him. But that mutant was freed. And he knew that this was his life’s work. To set them free. One by one, if he had to. All of them. He was the first. Mutant X.
Will he come here? Charles asks. No, comes the reply. His path is his own, but he is welcome here. He knows that. But to take him out of a prison and to make him stay here if he didn’t want to… put him in another one. This is not what this is about. His path is – he takes a book – and his parents illustrated that to him. The reason they are there and not here is the humans are simply not ready for them yet. They will be eventually. Maybe even in their lifetime. But not now. He points at a passage in Charles’ book. Charles eve said so.
Charles corrects him: he said education of mutants is part of it. Education of the human masses another. One thing at a time, Erik replies and magnetically life some cubes into the air. Today is about them. In Charles’ head is his dream school. He’s dreamed it. He’s fantasized about it, down to the very last detail, right? Let Erik see it, put it into his head. Show him his vision of the world. Charles agrees and they both concentrate.
Erik rises in the air as, under his mental command a complex futuristic metal tower arises. One thing at a time, he announces, unaware that from the jungle a monolith with a red eye observes everything.


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Ultimate Origins – part 3
Kuwait, years ago:
Injured himself, Weapon X carries the wounded Nick Fury through the desert..
Does he know how he got here? General Thaddeus Ross later asks Fury, lying in the hospital. Weapon X carried him across his back, brought him to them. A filthy mutant killing machine saved him. All that animal is programmed to do is kill. And yet he saved Fury. Now if he was a thinking man, he would have to take pause and reflect on this. The nature of man, war and all that. But he’s not, instead he’s going to focus his thoughts on Fury.
He introduces himself and remarks that the other man is Nick Fury, war hero. Nick Fury, soldier of fortune, turned black ops commando. Nick Fury. And if he digs a little further on him, he bets he would find that up until five years ago Nick Fury did not exist. Sure he did, Fury replies. He’s here, ain’t he?
Yes, sure he is. But where was he before? He needn’t answer, Ross adds. He dug. Yeah, sure, he’s a war hero now. But way back in World War II Nick Fury had kind of a spotty record. He holds up a secret file.
This is him, right? This ain’t his daddy or his grandpappy. This is him. He wouldn’t asks something so plainly silly as to why Fury could be ninety something years old and look as good as he does if not for the fact that he came in here yesterday, holding up his own guts and today it looks like he’s ready to walk the hell out of here. Well, minus the eye, he amends.
Fury’s file… his WW II record says he got tossed in the clink. Says he died there. But it’s a red file and stamped and sealed top secret. Now, he’s no stranger to the dirty shadow their government casts over itself in times of war. And he’s no stranger to the atrocities it has committed in the name of science. Especially to gentlemen of color who found themselves on the wrong end of the law during war time. So tell him the truth of it all: He ever heard of “Project Rebirth?”
Rumor around those who could rumor about those things is that there was one man who got away. The story got covered up and swept under the bed (or the rug) but that was the rumor. Was Fury the one that got away? And if so, why’d he come back to them? Why is he running around the desert, looking to get his head blown off? Why is he using his real name? He call himself Chucky Furystein, this conversation never had to happen.
It’s the name his momma gave him, comes the reply. It’s the only thing they couldn’t take. Or deep down he wanted to be found, Ross figures. But why did he come back to duty?
He got it all right, Fury replies. They took him and made him a super-soldier guinea pig without even asking and didn’t care if he lived or died! And that is some heinous @#%$.
Thing is, he lived. He blamed everyone for what happened. White people, German people, the president, Captain America, Albert Einstein. You name it, he blamed them. And you walk around the world long enough, you suddenly realize things. It occurred to him that maybe… just maybe… he had a little something to do with the situation he found himself in. He let them do this to him. He was the one who was acting the fool and got himself arrested during the war, he was the one who set the wheels a-turning. No one else.
He swore to serve this country and instead he @#$ed it up. He went back on his word as a man! It took him a while to realize it, but all this, it’s a second chance. Almost a do-over. So he said to himself: okay, he’ll do it over. He re-enlisted and he’s doing his best every day to do better than he did before. And yeah, maybe this ain’t the great war but as he recalls that war wasn’t all that great either.
He knows what happens now though, Ross interrupts.  Word’s gonna get out. People are going to want to talk to Fury. The president is very interested in re-instating the Supersoldier program. No @#$%, Fury replies. Or a version of it, Ross amends. He believes the next great war will be a genetic war. He’s right and it’ll be against the mutants. And Fury’s going to be the president’s favorite toy in the whole world. .
They’ll see, Fury replies tight-lipped. They’ll see? Ross asks and tells him if Fury is really the first true Captain America, then why doesn’t he be the first true Captain America? He ain’t him, Fury replies simply. And angrily. There’s only one Captain America and he died in the war.
Maybe back the day they thought a black man couldn’t wear the flag, Ross begins. It ain’t about that, Fury stresses. He ain‘t Captain America. He’s the closest thing they got, Ross insists.
He’s not being modest, Fury explains. There’s a certain type of man that can represent an ideal to a nation and a world and he has lived long enough and gained enough wisdom to know he is not that man. He’s the guy who ran away.
That being said, he will be summoned, Ross warns him. And the question will be: is he gonna run away or is he gonna offer them something? What is he gonna offer the world? Fury thinks and then slowly begins to smile.
One year later in Dover, New Jersey. Fury, dressed in a smart black suit, welcomes a group of very special men in a building that’s still not finished. Morning, he wishes them briefly. He met the president last week and he told Fury he wanted a new Captain America. A super-soldier. Then maybe a thousand of them. Fury told him what he needed to do. He told him he needed to get the best brains money could buy and get them working on it exclusively. The president said he did do that. And Fury said, no he didn’t. Clearly. He said, let Fury go headhunting for him and see if he can’t hunt some heads. He told the president he needs to get the guys Fury picks and put them all in a room together. One of those rooms with a lot of expensive stuff. And then get them to work on securing their future as a nation ad a species.
And here they are. Doctor Franklin Storm, meet Richard Parker. Richard Parker, meet Doctor Bruce Banner. Bruce Banner meet… Storm interrupts referring to the last member of the group, a teenage boy dressed in skater clothes rather than a grown man like them. Their intern? he asks.
Intern? the boy scoffs. What’s 3,424,235,235,345 x 2,352,532, he asks. Storm ums. Doesn’t know his gazintas? the boy asks. Then he can get the coffee.
Fury grabs him by the shoulder, introducing him as Hank Pym, who just graduated MIT. For the second time. When Pym is still bitching, Fury orders him to let it go.
Can they see the original files of the supersoldier program? the scientists ask. No, Fury tells them curtly. They were destroyed long ago. Why? comes the question. He’ll tell them when he gets to know them better. Then they are starting from scratch? Storm asks. No, Fury replies, there’s this, and he hands them a vial of blood. Is it Captain America’s blood? Pym asks reverently. No, Fury replies. But examine it. Reverse engineer it. Do what you do. Where did it come from? Storm asks. Only Banner sees the band aid under Fury’s sleeve.
Get crackin’ or it’s all their asses, Fury orders. And one thing: no human testing. None. What-so-ever. Well, at some point… Banner ventures. At no point, Fury replies forcefully. How are they supposed to make a supersoldier with no soldiers to make super? Banner complains. They’ll deal with that when they deal with it, Fury replies and leaves. “Super-soldier,” Pym repeats enchanted, holding up the vial of blood.
Today:
Project Pegasus. The Fantastic Four and SHIELD commander Carol Danvers just learned that more of the mysterious monoliths have popped up. Reports are coming in  from the Baxter Building, the Triskelion, Ultimates’ Mansion..
Are they being invaded? Reed, asks. Who would want to? The Thing asks. Seriously, Reed replies, he thinks Ben was right before. He thinks it is observing them. He thinks it wants to communicate.
Johnny reminds him that five minutes ago they ran out of here, covering their privates in fear of radiation. What happened to that? That was before the others started popping up, Reed replies. This is a thing now. He still feels they should be covering their privates, Johnny suggests. No, they have to find a way to communicate with it, comes the reply. He thinks they should hit it, Ben remarks.
Carol orders non-essential personnel out and for Vaughn to find someone who knows what this thing is!
15 years ago:
The president asks Fury for an update on “Project Rebirth.” It’s coming along, Fury replies. Is that French for “You’re jerking me around?” the president asks annoyed. Fury insists he said what he meant. They seem up. Involved. They’re in the right headspace. Banner in particular. He doesn’t think the man sleeps. Fury adds that letting the army poach Doctor Storm out from under him for the Baxter Building project didn’t help them any..
The president apologizes but he has many fish to fry. If Fury finds someone else who can replace him, he has the money to do it. He suggests Howard Stark and his boy. But Fury doesn’t want that. Now that Parker is back from his leave… Where did he leave to? the present asks. He’s supposed to be working on a top secret….
His wife had a baby, comes the reply. Fury gave him a couple of weeks. The president is still getting impatient, but so far all the results are negative.
Banner suddenly announces he thinks he has it. Parker doesn’t believe it while Pym is eager to see. A moment later, he hesitatingly states it’s interesting. Parker insists he doesn’t have it. Bruce wants to have it. Doesn’t mean he does.
They should get some dogs and cats to do some testing, Pym suggests. Show it to Fury, Parker insists. Or show it to Fury, Pym amends. Banner is against it. If they show it to Fury, he will take it and hand it off to army scientists and they’ll never see the end of this and never get the credit and they’ll never get the….
No he won’t, Pym defends Fury. This is his project. It’s not his only project, comes the reply. The man is working on all kinds of angles on this.  Who told him that? Parker asks mockingly, his girlfriend? Betty knows how the military works, Bruce states glumly.
Later, Pym and Banner are alone in the lab, Banner has been drinking. Pym asks him how sure he is on a scale from one to ten that this works. Damn sure. He wants to test it? Pym asks. On him? Calling him “kid,” Banner refuses. Why not? Pym asks. Seriously, he wants it. He’ll do it himself, Banner decides. Pym can spot him. Pym agrees.
Pym makes sure that Parker is out of the building and begins recording. Excited, he adds they can show it when they pick up their nobels.
Outside, Parker greets his wife who has brought their baby Peter. He wanted to see where his daddy works, she jokes. Did he say that? he asks. A mother can tell, she deadpans.
Inside, Pym injects Banner.
Outside, the Parkers discuss getting bikes.
Inside, Pym asks how Banner feels. Banner’s eyes begin to glow green.
The Parkers hear a booming noise. Pym runs outside panicked, babbling. Parker orders his wife to go to the car and lock herself inside. What did you--? he asks horrified, looking at the giant shadow emerging from the building.
Mrs. Parker hears a noise and a scream as the building seems to explode. The walls collapse and she is hit by debris, managing to cover her son.
The transformed Banner, a green Hulk, looks down at the dying woman and the unhurt baby. He looks around, sees the devastation and returns to the form of Bruce Banner. Seeing the dead Mary Parker, he whimpers “no” and runs. He didn’t mean to … he pleads and Nick Fury kicks him in the face. What did you do? he shouts at him several times, until noticing the gurgling baby.
He takes Peter up and gently tells him this wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Peter grins up at him. Things got a little crazy, Fury tells him. He carries Peter away and states the good news is Peter is so young, he won’t remember any of this.
Today:
Reed has contacted Tony Stark of the Ultimates, describing the obelisk. Stark replies they have the same thing. Have they tried to make contact with it? Reed asks. Thor hit it -- nothing. He did a full scan, it just bounced back.
Susan looks at the monolith, her eyes beginning to glow red. It watches, she suddenly interrupts Reed. It is a Watcher. It is part of a hive culture that is here to observe and record the significant events that shape our civilization. It is here now to witness the most significant event of this generation. It just told her… it is here to witness the coming devastation.


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Ultimate Power part 1
Project Pegasus, Devil’s Point, Wyoming. Five women all with some snake-like attribute stand in front of Project Pegasus, and the blonde one, Anaconda, exclaims ‘This has nothing to do with ya’ll!’ A scantily-clad woman with long black hair stands behind her and whispers ‘Ana, you know who that is?’ Anaconda introduces her group as the Serpent Squad, and announces that they are here to take back what has been stolen from them, warning the approaching beings not to get involved. ‘Do you know who that is?’ the other woman whispers urgently.
‘Course I know who that is…it’s the Fantastic Four!’ Anaconda exclaims. ‘And I am soooo turned on right now!’ The handsome Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch exclaims as he flies towards the serpentine women. ‘Johnny!’ shouts Johnny’s sister, Susan Storm a.k.a. Invisible Woman disapprovingly. Ben Grimm a.k.a. the rock-like Thing announces that he calls dibs on the blonde, to which Susan asks what is wrong with them.
The Human Torch unleashes a massive burst of flames, while Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic begins battling Anaconda. As the Thing tussles with Death Adder, he reminds Susan that she got to body-wrestle with the half-naked Namor, so now it is their turn. ‘You all disgust me!’ Susan replies as she pushes an invisible force field around Princess Python. Reed winds his elastin body around Anaconda and informs them that he must ask them to surrender right now, adding that with the pressure he is exerting on her, she will only be able to breathe for another 55 seconds. Anaconda simply replies ‘They stole the Serpent Crown from us! They stole it!’ to which Reed asks them who they are.
The sultry dark-haired woman in black approaches the Thing and introduces herself as the Black Mamba, boasting that the Thing cannot hurt her, nor can he win. ‘Oh I’m pretty sure I can hurt you’ Ben replies. ‘You actually can’t’ Black Mamba replies. ‘You can’t be hurt?’ Ben asks. ‘I cannot’ Black Mamba replies. ‘Does it hurt when I do this?’ Thing asks her as he tosses her across the compound. ‘Janis!’ cries out Asp at the sight of her teammate being propelled away.
‘Settle down, creepy snake-woman!’ Susan tells Princess Python, whom she has trapped in an invisible bubble. Princess Python calls Invisible Woman “Barbie” and warns her that she is going to rip out her hair. Before she can say anything else, Susan interrupts, asking her if there is any chance she can tell her if she has a natural or manufactured mutation. ‘WHAT?’ Princess Python replies. Susan asks Princess Python if she is aware that she has gills and scales grafted to her human epidermis. ‘Bite me!’ is all Princess Python can say.
‘Well, so much for a level of banter that -’ Susan begins until Death Adder leaps on her and begins pulling at her face. ‘You looked better on TV! And you didn’t look that good there!’ she snarls. Johnny sees his sister in danger and tosses a flame-ball towards Death Adder, but Princess Python, now free from the invisible bubble, catches it and tosses it at Mr Fantastic, subsequently releasing Anaconda from his grasp. ‘Oh man…’ mumbles Johnny.
Susan traps herself and Death Adder in an invisible bubble and smashes Death Adder up against it, while the Thing asks Susan to let him in. Death Adder begins to say that this is completely entertaining on so many levels, when suddenly she can no longer speak. ‘Choke on a force field you $%^&!’ Susan shouts as she punches Death Adder in the face.
Thing remarks that Susan using language like that could get them fined, when Princess Python comes up behind him and punches him several feet across the complex, more shockingly though, a piece of his rock-like skin breaks off and lands nearby, which Reed, Susan and Johnny all see.
Mr. Fantastic stretches over to the Thing and tells him not to touch it, while Susan tells Princess Python to settle down as she traps her in a bubble. ‘I’ll kill you all!’ Princess Python shrieks. Susan just tells her to “shush”, then Princess Python falls to the ground, unconscious. Johnny flies over to Reed and referring to the flame ball asks him if he is okay. Reed replies that he is okay as the impact suit took most of it. ‘I would never -’ Johnny begins, but Reed tells him that it is okay.
As Reed picks up the missing rock from the Thing and puts it in a container, Ben asks if he is breaking. Reed tells him not to worry, that they will figure it out. Susan asks if it is epidermal shedding, to which Reed points out that there is no break, the top layer came loose on impact. Susan reminds them that Ben has taken harder hits than that in the past. Reed wonders if it is the start of secondary mutation, while Sue remarks that the rock-formational epidermis doesn’t get the kind of oxygen that normal human skin would get, when they are approached by a handsome man in a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform.
He introduces himself as Agent Wendell Vaughn and explains that he is in charge of security here at Project Pegasus, ‘But these serpent-women, man, they were hammering us!’ Johnny asks what this was all about, to which Wendell reveals that the Serpent Squad are a freaky cult. He informs the Fantastic Four that he doesn’t have all the information, but the Serpent Squad seem to think that Project Pegasus has their Serpent Crown, which he is told is some sort of unlawful energy source.
Reed asks Wendell if Project Pegasus does have the Serpent Crown, to which Wendell replies that all Project Pegasus business is classified under the Gruenwald Doctrine. The Thing goes over to Anaconda, who, like the rest of her teammates, are being led away by S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel and asks her what Project Pegasus is. ‘Off me!’ is all Anaconda replies.
Wendell tells the Fantastic Four that he thought he just told them that all Project Pegasus business is classified under the Gruenwald Doctrine. ‘Ah, vague! I love vague!’ Johnny exclaims. The Thing tells Wendell to make sure creepy and crawly stay in whatever freak jail they put freaks in. ‘Freaks? You’re calling us freaks?’ Black Mamba asks. ‘Look at you! You’re sickening! You’re a horror! You’ll die alone!’ she screams at him as she is lead away. The Thing looks to the ground, while Susan looks at her friend, concerned. Reed just rubs his brow.
Later, Reed sits at a desk, computers and papers all around him. He remembers how he told Ben that he promises to fix this, to trust him that he will. But Ben replied ‘Well, let’s see…took you fourteen years to find a way to mess my life up this bad. Guess I can wait around another fourteen…see if you ever figure out if you can fix it’. Reed rubs his eyes under his glasses.
He makes his way to the Negative Zone viewer, Quadrant 45-43. Standing before the massive red portal. ‘Damn it!’ he shouts, tossing a chair against it, which just smashes and falls down onto the platform. ‘Why can’t I do this?’ he shouts, when suddenly he sees lying beside the broken chair a small metal object.
A new day, at the Triskelion, headquarters and home of the U.S. sanctioned superhuman task force, the Ultimates, created by Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. ‘All I need is 22 million dollars…give or take…’ Reed announces to the gathering of important people before him watching his presentation. ‘Oh! Okay, let me get my checkbook!’ General Nick Fury replies sarcastically. Reed declares that he needs to make forty-two hundred of these interdimensional data retrieval constructs. ‘What’s in it?’ Fury asks.
‘Stuff’ Reed replies. ‘Stuff that will retrieve information from dimensions other than our own’ he adds, before explaining that he wants to launch these into every over-lapping dimension that they can find, starting with the uncharted areas of the N-Zone, then the Z-Zone, and going from there. He adds that this device will broadcast data back to the Baxter Building data banks. Reed announces that he wants to produce a library of readings and energy signatures for the world science community to have access to.
Reed begins to say that it is time they start figuring out the space they live in, when Fury interrupts him, asking if this is about Ben Grimm. ‘Because it sounds like you’re trying to get us to pay for more of your experiments in finding a way to reverse Ben Grimm’s N-Zone transformation. Reed replies that his findings have always ended up making the government millions and millions of dollars - even the transporter accident. ‘Well, I don’t think anyone is denying that you’re a very -’ begins Captain Carol Danvers when Fury interrupts her, declaring that he thought it was clear that they are done with any interdimensional exploring at this time. ‘It’s not about the money. The mood ain’t right for this’.
‘The mood of what?’ Reed asks, clearly frustrated. Fury reminds Reed that just this year they have had Gah Lak Tus, an alien invasion, the zombie accident, Atlantis, Mole Men, and the Hulk is out there doing God-knows-what. Fury declares that it is not a good time to go poking their noses anywhere else they don’t belong, that this is more of a regrouping period.
Reed begins to walk away, announcing that he will do it himself then, with whatever - ‘Uh, no you won’t, first of all -’ Fury begins, when Carol interrupts him this time, ‘Excuse me, Doctor? Aren’t you at all concerned with…what do you call it…the Butterfly Effect…?’ Carol begins to explain the Butterfly Effect, ‘A butterfly flaps his wings over here -’ ‘- it causes a mudslide in Kenya’ Reed cuts Carol off, assuring her that he knows what the Butterfly Effect is.
Carol tells Reed that the point is, every one of these experiments that he tries, he risks a cause-and-effect that he cannot conceive of, and won’t be able to control. ‘Hence the state the four of you are in today - no offense!’ Reed angrily replies that everything causes the Butterfly effect. ‘This conversation is causing a Butterfly Effect. Not exploring these dimensions causes the Butterfly Effect!’
‘The answer is no!’ Fury declares once more. Silence fills the room, which is broken by Reed informing everyone that he made a promise. A promise to his friend that he would try to find a way to reverse the damage done, which he cannot do with the data he has. ‘I need more data! I…I need more!’ Fury tells Reed that he is smart, that he will find a way. ‘But the answer to this is no’.
Later, rain pours down, and inside the Baxter Building, Reed watches it splash against the windows, before heading back into this laboratory. The red glow from the portal colors the room in hues of scarlet and blood as Reed begins to get to work on his project. He sends his devices into various Zones, while the piece of Thing’s rock-skin sits beside him, reminding him of why he is doing this. Reed watches, content, as the instruments are propelled into the portal.
‘Fantastic Four posable figures. Each 12-inch figure is expertly sculpted in full detail to capture the essence of each of your unique…characters’ a man meeting with Susan, Reed, Ben and Johnny announces as they gather around to look at action figures of themselves, Namor and Dr. Doom. The man informs the heroes that each figure offers character-dedicated accessories and multiple points of articulation, as well as 30-seconds of squeeze-activated sounds and catchphrases.
‘I don’t have a catchphrase!’ Susan informs him. ‘Isn’t that too many points of articulation?’ Johnny asks. ‘What’s articulation?’ asks the Thing. ‘Joints. The joints, it’s too many’ Johnny explains to him. Johnny picks up the action figure of himself and remarks that when he was a kid, action figures had a lot less points of articulation and looked heaps better. ‘Are we really talking about this?’ Ben asks. Reed tells the man that Johnny is right, they are looking for a more classic look for the next line. ‘No offense, Mister Richards. Kids today like -’ the man begins, until Reed cuts him off. ‘I’m eighteen years old, sir. I was a kid yesterday!’
Susan puts the Namor action figure down and remarks ‘You’re back from inside your head’. ‘I am’ Reed replies. ‘Good!’ Susan declares as they hug. Reed asks what is for breakfast, to which Susan replies ‘Me!’ ‘Uh, we can hear you!’ Johnny exclaims, when suddenly, there is a loud BOOM! The Baxter Building begins to break apart, building material begins flying everywhere. Susan tells everyone to get near her, and while Reed wraps himself around the action-figure man, Susan throws up an invisible field.
She begins to struggle though, all the rubble weighing down on her. Reed tells Sue that she has it, but Susan shouts that she doesn’t! Reed tells her to use her force field to push the rubble aside so they can see what is going on…what they see is the Squadron Supreme: Hyperion! Doctor Spectrum! Arcanna! Nighthawk! Power Princess! Inertia! Tom Thumb! Blur! Nuke! Shape! Kingsley! But what are they doing here…?


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Ultimate Power part 2
New York City: local super hero Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man swings from building to building, carrying his girlfriend, the mutant super hero from the X-Men, Kitty Pryde, along with him. The two are discussing possible code-names for Kitty. ‘Shadowcat’ she remarks, which is her current name. ‘Meh’ Spider-Man replies. ‘The Cat’. ‘Meh’. ‘The Shroud’. ‘Meh’. ‘If you “meh” me one more time – ‘Kitty begins, until Spider-Man interrupts, telling Kitty that those names suck. ‘They do not!’ Kitty snaps back. ‘Those names aren’t you!’ Peter exclaims.
Kitty declares that she needs a super-hero name, to which Peter tells her ‘Fine – but those suck’. ‘Like Spider-Man is such a great name!’ Kitty replies. ‘It works!’ Peter points out. Kitty mutters that “meh” is the worst word in the English language, when suddenly a bolt of lightning-like energy strikes a building nearby. ‘Uh…did you see that?’ Spider-Man asks Kitty, when suddenly the top half of the building blows up. ‘Oh my God!’ Kitty exclaims.
The building in questions is the Baxter Building, and Reed “Mr. Fantastic” Richards of the Fantastic Four orders a lock-down, shouting out the security code, and ordering everyone out of the building now. ‘Well, this is a “hey, how are ya”?’ Ben Grimm a.k.a. the Thing jokes as he, Reed, Johnny and Susan are attacked by a group of super-humans not from their world. Zarda a.k.a. Princess Power replies to the Thing’s comment, but her words a jumbled, and no one can understand her. ‘Really, ya don’t say?’ Ben replies jokingly.
Susan Storm a.k.a. the Invisible Woman asks if anyone has any guesses as to this little intrusion of their personal space. ‘You’re the brain, Susie…’ Ben points out. Another of the intruders mutters something indecipherable, while Susan approaches the one called Tom Thumb. ‘Hi, little guy!’ she exclaims. Susan’s brother, Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch tells Reed that he has many questions about this – in no particular order. ‘Firstly, what language is this?’ Reed replies that it is not one spoken on this planet. Wrapping his malleable body around one of them, reed adds that he does not know why they are doing this.
Arcanna Jones unleashes her quantum powers while also saying something unrecognizable. Susan tells her brother to ‘Watch it with the fire!’ before using her powers to put a force field around Hyperion. ‘Yeah, we wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to our stuff’ Johnny jokes, as all their stuff is in fact destroyed. The Thing plows through the intruders, telling them that they are trashing his buddy’s lab and now he is going to cry. ‘You want to see a stretchy man cry?’ Susan tells Reed that she gets the impression that the intruders are not in complete control of themselves, that they seem confused.
‘Oh, like we’re not!’ the Thing shouts. Reed exclaims that he is about to end this, and fast. With that, he radios to the Triskelon, informing them that the Baxter Building is under attack. HERBIE picks up on this and initiates defense mode. Blur uses his super speed to repeatedly attack the Thing, who cannot get a single punch in. The Thing is about to announce what the only thing worse than a speedster is, when someone puts their hand on his head. He looks around – only to be smacked over by Hyperion. Ben wipes his mouth, then snarls ‘Huh, I thought you had something there’. Hyperion says something indecipherable and the two power-houses engage in a fist fight. Eventually, the Thing grabs Hyperion and tosses him with all his might into the air, way out of the rubble that is the Baxter Building.
Spider-Man and Kitty see Hyperion being tosses past them and realize they must be at the right place. Spider-Man drops in and asks the Fantastic Four what is going on. ‘You, like, having a party or something?’ Kitty drops down and the Thing asks who is next. Power Princess approaches him and smacks him over towards Kitty Pryde, who phases so that he passes right through her.
Nighthawk motions to Blur, who sees Hyperion in the sky and races out of the building after his teammate. Hyperion bounces off another building while Blur speeds all over the city trying to rescue his teammate. Eventually, he races across water, past the Statue of Liberty and into a populated area, where he helps the civilians as Hyperion crashes into them. Blur’s words are slowly becoming recognizable and he asks why he cannot talk, before putting an ear to Hyperion’s chest to listen for a heartbeat, before turning back towards the Baxter Building as various forms of power sound around it.
The misplaced super humans’ sentences are becoming easier to understand, and Nuke tells the Human Torch that he is under arrest. Spider-Man mutters that he hates it when bad guys won’t tell you who they are. Reed tells Spider-Man that they appreciate his help, to which Spider-Man replies that he owes the Fantastic Four a ton, before asking what language this is. ‘Latverian?’, to which Reed replies that he doesn’t think it is a language. He points out that the unidentified humans do not seem to be pleased with the noises that are coming out of their mouths, and he doesn’t think they are fully in control of their powers. Kitty asks Reed if she can borrow his phone, to which Reed replies ‘It’s right over there’ and informs her to dial “nine”.
‘They like to make a mess!’ the Thing exclaims as he battles Power Princess, while Arcanna motions to Kitty, who is behind a set of pipes and talking on the phone, telling Storm that the X-Men need to get over to the Baxter Building, as things are going crazy, when suddenly, the phone turns into a bunch of flowers. ‘Damn it! Why aren’t my powers working?’ Arcanna shouts. ‘Okay, that was sufficiently weird!’ Kitty exclaims.
Doctor Spectrum calls out to his teammates, telling them that he thinks he is getting his voice back and asks if any of them can hear him. The Thing grabs Doctor Spectrum, who is unleashing his powers, while Spider-Man shoots his webbing at Kingsley, and the Shape bounces along, announcing that his powers aren’t working.
‘What was that Arcanna?’ Nighthawk shouts. Arcanna replies that it might have been the dimensional travel, to which Doctor Spectrum tells her to fix it. ‘It is fixing, Spectrum! What do you want from me?’ Arcanna snaps back. Nighthawk mutters that they should have never relied on Arcanna for something this important, to which Arcanna calls him something offensive and suggests that he find a way to transport a large group of people across inter-dimensional space next time. ‘Hey, whoa! Language!’ Spider-Man tells Arcanna, before informing them that he liked it better when they all sounded like Flipper.
Nearby, Blur crouches by Hyperion, who slowly rises. Hyperion asks Blur if he is all right, to which Blur replies that he can talk again, and asks Hyperion if he is okay. ‘I am now!’ Hyperion replies.
Back at the Baxter Building, Arcanna reminds her teammates that she told them that when they decided to do this, that this travel has a lot of x-factor. Arcanna suggests that their biology took a little time to get used to this place, but now they are getting it together. Nighthawk argues with her, pointing out that they should never have transported right on top of them if there was a chance that they would not be themselves upon arrival. ‘Hey, I got an idea – why don’t you guys just beat each other up and we’ll just watch!’ the Thing shouts at Arcanna and Nighthawk.
The Thing calls the invaders “yokels” and remarks that now they can talk, how about clueing everyone in as to why they are here. He looks to the sky and sees Hyperion flying back towards him. ‘Oh, you again – time for another smack in the puss?’ Hyperion reaches the Thing with tremendous force, but before he can attack him, he is knocked away by a powerful bolt of energy, which also signals the arrival of Nick Fury and the Ultimates – Captain America! Iron Man! Thor! Scarlet Witch! Hawkeye! Quicksilver! Ant-Man! Wasp!
Fury introduces himself and informs the intruders that they are all under arrest. ‘Cease this $#%^% immediately or we’ll do it for you!’ he bellows. ‘Translation – you made a big “whoops!”’ Wanda a.k.a. the sultry Scarlet Witch exclaims. ‘What? You guys having a party?’ Janet van Dyne a.k.a. the Wasp asks. Spider-Man smacks Nuke over and declares that he made the same joke. ‘You did it funnier!’ Kitty assures her boyfriend. Spider-Man exclaims that he loves this girl, before telling his foes that, in case they were wondering, ‘You’re in a lot of trouble now!’
Hyperion takes to the sky, ‘You people would defend such a man?’ he asks. Thor warns him to stand down or else feel his wrath, to which Hyperion continues to fly towards him. Captain America exclaims that they have a situation here, and orders the building to be sealed. ‘Uh-oh…’ Kitty mumbles as Hyperion and Thor clash in the sky. Ant-Man makes his way to Tom Thumb, while Wanda flies over to Arcanna, both powerful women surging with their respective energies.
Hyperion smacks Thor in the jaw, while Captain America tosses his shield around and asks Reed if he can fill them in on what happened. ‘Uh, no, actually’, Reed replies. ‘He really can’t!’ Spider-Man exclaims. Inertia exclaims ‘You’re just making it harder ion yourselves, you know that!’ to which someone asks ‘We who? Harder than what?’ Iron Man blasts his opponent while remarking to his allies that, whoever these people are, one has to give them credit for not crapping their pants when the Ultimates showed up. ‘I would have!’ he jokes.
Nick Fury fires his weapon at Nuke, while some lightning strikes Hyperion. Thor smiles, remarking that he thought it was his, to which Ororo “Storm” Munroe exclaims ‘You can thank the X-Men!’ She is flanked by her teammates in the mutant super team Wolverine, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Iceman and Rogue. Kitty smiles upon seeing her teammates and shouts ‘You guys rock! I love being on a team!’ Storm flies above everyone, surveying the situation and remarks that Kitty wasn’t kidding, ‘This is a real thing-a-ding!’
‘Okay, whose first?’ Wolverine asks, while Mr. Fantastic informs the intruders that they are no overpowered and outmanned. He suggests that before this escalates into someone actually dying, they reveal why they are here and what it is they want. ‘Turn of the wind!’ Arcanna shouts. Hyperion smashes Thor again, before calling out to Reed. ‘Yes? What?’ Mr Fantastic asks, looking up at Hyperion. ‘You’re under arrest!’ Hyperion shouts. ‘Oh really? ‘ mutters Susan, while Nick Fury wants to know by whose authority.
Hyperion exclaims that they have come here to bring Richards to answer for his crimes against humanity. ‘Uh-huh’ Reed mumbles. The Invisible Woman asks what they think Reed has actually done to them, to which an angry Nighthawk shouts ‘What did you do? You destroyed our world! You destroyed everything!’ Claiming innocence, Reed replies that he doesn’t even know who they are, that he has never heard of or seen them before. ‘What world?’ he asks.
Suddenly, Reed stops talking as Princess Power holds up a small probe. ‘You didn’t. Tell me you didn’t!’ Nick Fury asks, while Reed just looks at the probe, his jaw dropping. Susan asks Reed what it is, but she doesn’t get an answer, as Hyperion shouts ‘You’ve destroyed our world – and you will answer for what you have done!’


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Ultimate Power, part 3
(Flashback, takes place in between the pages of Ultimate Power #1)
In the middle of the night at the White House, the President of the United States makes a phone call. ‘Is that the actor and his “wife” in the Lincoln Bedroom?’ the President asks. ‘I believe so, sir’ comes the reply. ‘Okay, no more sleepovers! I don’t care how much they gave to who!’ the President exclaims, before fluffing his pillow and lying back down, ‘This is the White House, for Heaven’s sake…’ the President mutters, when shortly, there is a loud boom, and his security staff burst into his room.
‘Sir, we need you to come with us, immediately!’ one of them exclaims, declaring that they have to get him to the safe-house. One of the security staff radios to someone else, informing them that they are in the residence-main hallway and heading South, so he wants everyone out of the way, now. The President asks what is going on, but his staff tell him to keep moving. However, the President glances through a window, ‘What is that?’ he asks.
Outside, spreading all over the White House is some kind of organic organism is spreading, further and further, all over Washington D.C. But this world has heroes, the Squadron Supreme, who are currently investigating. Power Princess asks Hyperion what it is, before noticing that Hyperion seems to be in some kind of pain. ‘Something’s wrong…’ Hyperion replies, before he and Power Princess set about rescuing civilians.
Meanwhile, the President’s staff inform him that they do not know where these creatures have come from. ‘They just appeared?’ the President asks. Someone tells him that they are working to gather information as they speak. The President asks if they are only in America, before someone motions to the reports on the screen, explaining that the creatures are everywhere, all parts of the globe, and there are thousands of them. The Presidents staff inform him that there seems to be a major concentration of the creatures on the Eastern seaboard of the States, which is why they have to evacuate all the major cities.
The President exclaims that it looks like they are growing. ‘Yes, sir’ his staff reply. ‘Oh my God, look at Manhattan!’ the President cries, to which his aide tells him that he needs to call for a full scale evacuation. ‘Of the entire Eastern seaboard? And where should I put everyone? Your house?’ the President snaps back sarcastically. The President is reminded by his staff that the organisms are growing with each second, to which the President demands to know what they are. His aide tells him to calm down, to which the President snaps back ‘You calm down! My entire presidency is going up in flames because of these…these…’ his voice trails off before turning to Steadman and declaring that he knows he did this.
The President declares that this is Project Hyperion coming back to bit him. ‘I inherited that stupid crap and now look at it!’ Steadman tells the President that, right now, Hyperion and his teammates are the thing out there saving people from –
‘What is it?!’ the President shouts. The President and his staff watch the Squadron Supreme on recordings and the President asks what is happening now. As Nighthawk and Doctor Spectrum appear on screen, Steadman informs the President that Hyperion and the rest of the Squadron Supreme are engaging the organisms.
Someone else informs the increasingly-agitated President that they are getting some more reports, and according to FEMA, the organisms are changing the oxygen content and barometric pressure of the atmosphere in their direct vicinity. ‘Oh my God!’ exclaims Steadman. The President asks what that means, and Steadman declares that it means the organisms are probably alien. ‘Oh my God!’ the President exclaims.
Steadman informs the President that one theory is it seems the organisms are changing the environment to suit their needs, and the second is the possibility that the environment is being changed just by the aliens being here. He declares that, either way, this is a high level threat to their own way of life and they have to get the people out of there so they can run tests. Someone else announces that they are still waiting on more environment readings, to which the President declares that they have to find out who the creatures are, what they are and how they got here.
Steadman replies that he agrees, but that first concern is the safety of their people. ‘Are we being invaded? We’re being invaded!’ the President exclaims while civilians flee in panic. Steadman tries to calm the President down, who now exclaims that it is a biological attack. Steadman points out that they don’t know that, but the President continues his rant, exclaiming that it is a terrorist attack, and orders someone to get him the Joint Chiefs and the United Nations.
Steadman tells the President that if it were a biological weapon, then they would have some intelligence reports, some knowledge of the type of attack. ‘What if this is Hyperion’s daddy coming to get him?’ the President asks. ‘Sir?’ Steadman replies. The President exclaims to Steadman ‘No offense, but you don’t know what this is, you don’t know what you’re doing and all you can tell me is how stupid I am for knowing as much as you do!’ Steadman motions to the monitors and reminds the President that people are dying.
Someone else enters the room, ‘Now what?’ the President mumbles, before the new arrival reads off some new reports and exclaims that right before the – whatever they are – showed up, there was so sort of surge. He adds that it was some sort of fluctuation and that the SECAT 56 picked it up from space. ‘Speak English!’ the President exclaims, before asking what kind of surge. Steadman declares that he needs to speak to Hyperion on the communicator and get Hyperion to New York.
Hyperion flies past one of the organisms and asks why he can’t pick them up, and Steadman, who is communicating with him, replies that he doesn’t know. ‘Why can’t I lift them up and throw them into the sea?’ Hyperion asks, to which Steadman again replies that he doesn’t know. Hyperion remarks that they have no weight, no substance, to which Steadman informs him that he doesn’t think they are from this plane of existence. ‘What?’ Hyperion exclaims. Steadman replies that they are working on it, before Hyperion asks what he is looking for. Stedman replies that hopefully Hyperion will know it when he sees it, adding that there was an energy surge of some kind, but they have no school of reference for it. Suddenly, Hyperion screams before flying into the mass itself.
Steadman tells him to get out of it, to which Hyperion replies that there seems to be some sort of radiation. ‘Get out of there!’ Steadman exclaims. Hyperion replies that he has never felt anything like this, before discovering what he is looking for. He informs Steadman that he has it, and Steadman warns him not to touch it. But Hyperion doesn’t listen, instead he grabs the small spherical object, before forcing his way up and out of the organism, gasping for air. Hyperion asks Steadman if anything is happening, to which Steadman asks if he touched it. ‘A little’ Hyperion replies. Steadman begins to remind Hyperion that he just told him not to, but Hyperion interrupts, asking if the organisms are still growing. Steadman replies that he can’t tell yet, to which Hyperion tells him to get Nighthawk and Spectrum.
Shortly, the Squadron Supreme have gathered, and Hyperion asks what it is. Spectrum asks what it is doing, and Nighthawk replies that he thinks it is broadcasting. ‘Broadcasting what?’ Spectrum asks. ‘Data’ Nighthawk replies, Steadman asks where it is broadcasting to, and Hyperion suggests it might be another country, or another planet. Someone announces that the President is asking for an update, to which Nighthawk motions to the energy signature from the object and asks Dr. Spectrum if he can make out the reading.
Spectrum replies that he can’t, before Nighthawk asks if perhaps it is alien technology. Spectrum replies that he doesn’t think so, that he thinks it is just very advanced. ‘But it is an attack’ Hyperion exclaims. Steadman replies that he doesn’t think so, to which Hyperion exclaims that whoever it’s broadcasting to is who they need to get their hands on. Steadman asks Spectrum if he would mind using his power crystal for a different type of cursory examination, to which Spectrum replies that he isn’t sure what he is looking for. Steadman replies that neither is he.
Spectrum approaches the object, when suddenly a recording is heard. ‘I didn’t do that!’ Spectrum exclaims as the recording exclaims ‘Hello, greetings!’ A holographic image of four heroes, a young man, a young woman, another young man in flames, and a rock-like man appear. The first young man introduces himself as Reed Richards, explaining that he is broadcasting this message in colloquial English, which is a popular language on the planet Earth in his home dimension. Reed remarks that he is a scientist from Earth and is conducting a data retrieval experiment across multiple dimensions.
The recording of Reed goes on to explain that scanner or probing devices will have triggered this message, and that his message to them is one of peace. He assures his listeners that the data retrieval sensor is just that, and in no way a weapon or an act of hostility of any kind. ‘What is he, nine years old?’ Spectrum asks, only to be hushed by Steadman. The recording of Reed informs the Squadron Supreme that he is part of a group of super powered adventurers and scientists working towards a goal of peace and technological advancement. Reed explains that al the data recovered from their dimension – ‘Dimension?’ Steadman exclaims – is being used for the grand idea of scientific advancement. Reed adds that if they have the technology to respond to this message, then he will gladly share his research with them as a matter of good faith. He concludes by asking his listeners not to destroy or dismantle the sensor until it has run its program in full.
‘Oh my God…’ Steadman exclaims. ‘A child!’ Nighthawk declares, while Blur asks what it means. Nighthawk replies that it means a child tried an inter-dimensional scientific experiment and by doing so nearly destroyed their world and endangered the lives of everyone on the planet. Nuke asks how he managed to do this, to which Nighthawk replies that he doesn’t know, ‘I don’t do inter-dimensional exploration because we didn’t know there were other dimensions to explore until four seconds ago’.
Power Princess points out that the boy did, and Spectrum reminds everyone that he spoke English, that he is American. Hyperion asks if they can reverse this, to which Steadman replies that it will take them months, maybe years to match the technology that this kid is working with. ‘We just don’t have that kind of time’ Steadman adds. Hyperion declares that they will bring the kid here to fix it. ‘Just like that?’ someone asks. Hyperion points out that it is broadcasting, so they can follow the broadcast trail right back to where it is broadcasting to. ‘In theory’ Hyperion is told, before Hyperion tells Nighthawk to gather the Squadron. ‘Everyone?’ Nighthawk asks. ‘The boy said they have powers…we might have a little fight on our hands!’
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A mighty gathering of heroes, the Squadron Supreme and the heroes of Reed Richard’s America are battling it out in the destroyed Baxter Building. ‘Reed Richards, you’re under arrest!’ Hyperion shouts. ‘Oh yeah? How about you’re under arrest?’ Reed’s teammate the Thing exclaims, before calling to Nick Fury and asking him to put them under arrest. ‘Yeah, you’re under arrest!’ Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch exclaims. Nick Fury orders everyone to calm down, but a furious Hyperion shouts ‘Richards! You put my entire world in danger!’ before declaring that he is going to come back with them and fix what he has done, before standing trial for his crimes against humanity.
Power Princess holds up the small globe and tells Richards that he better pray to his God that he can fix the mess. Everyone stops fighting and Ben Grimm a.k.a. the Thing asks his friend what he did. ‘Reed?’ exclaims Susan Storm a.k.a. the Invisible Woman and Reed’s girlfriend. Captain America looks to Fury for their next move, but Fury orders everyone to stand down. Reed announces that he will go, to which Kitty Pryde of the X-Men asks him what he did.
Reed begins walking towards the Squadron who have all gathered together, but he cannot get past an invisible force field that Susan creates. His teammates go towards him and Susan tells her boyfriend to get behind her, but Reed turns to her and declares that the Squadron is right, he has to go. ‘I did this!’ he exclaims. ‘No!’ Susan shouts, while her brother Johnny suggests that the Squadron might just be lying. ‘They’re not, Sue, drop the force field’ Reed declares. Angry, Susan screams at Reed, telling him once again to get behind her, when suddenly Hyperion smacks his powerful fist into Susan’s force field, the force of his blow causes her pain and she is sent careening backwards, though the Thing catches her.
The Ultimates and the X-Men prepare themselves for battle again, but Fury tells them to get back. Reed holds his hands up, ‘Stop! Stop! Please, no more!’ he tells his friends. A bright rainbow colored light from Arcanna’s quantum abilities signals the teleport back to the Squadron’s world, while Reed declares that he did this, informing Ben that he was trying to find a cure for him, like he promised he would, but he didn’t mean for any of this to happen. ‘I wasn’t trying to hurt anybody…I made a promise’ he remarks, before admitting that Fury was right and he didn’t listen. ‘Ben, Johnny just keep her safe’ Reed remarks, before vanishing along with the powerful Squadron as he exclaims ‘I’m sorry’. Susan just screams. Arcanna’s power lights up the surrounding area, while the Thing tries to comfort Susan, who just tells him to get off her, then walks away and sits down on her own.
Susan then turns to everyone else, ‘And you did nothing!’ she exclaims, before declaring that Fury is supposed to protect them. ‘All he’s done for you and you did nothing! You people just stood there!’ Nick Fury goes over to the Invisible Woman and tells her that they stood there because he told them to, ‘And I told them to because we’re not having a super power battle of that magnitude in the heart of New York City on a weekday!’
Fury remarks that regardless of the fact that Susan’s boyfriend went against his direct order and did that which he was told not to do because something of this very nature might come back to bite him in the butt, he is still going to put together a rescue team, to go wherever the Hell they went, fix their world, and get Susan’s boyfriend back. ‘So I would appreciate if you not get all up in my face while I do it!’ Fury shouts. Ben and Johnny both exclaim that they are in, to which Fury replies ‘Not all of you, some of you’. Captain America asks what the plan is, to which Fury replies that he is working on it.