Roid Using Grey Lion…

Finishing what I'm doing I put everything in to it's correct place before closing the compartment I was working on and taking a step back to admire the device while Reed puts on the finishing touches before he himself gets up after finishing the portal and walks over to the interface on the side of the portal, which is a separate podium that is used to monitor the conditions on the other side of the portal after it's open and next to the interface is a simple switch to turn the portal on and off with anymore specifics having to be done through the interface which Reed begins to fiddle with before reaching out to grab ahold of the lever. "Nick is correct Sue I'll only be opening the portal for a few scant moments before closing it again to make sure that it works and that's it, you have no reason to worry since I've already done my calculations and an explosion is highly unlikely and after I used the interface I made sure that the portal will open in the middle of space in that dimension so nobody will be coming through or seeing it so you don't have to worry. Just think about the possibilities Sue, this is a dimension made up of anti-matter otherwise being known as a negative matter universe just what could we discover from such a universe, from such a- a negative zone." Hold up a second but did this man just say the motherfucking negative zone, before I can do anything Reeds hand pulls down the switch with all the force of a thunderbolt which makes me go pale and my blood begins to run dry as with a shudder the machine rumbles and a portal springs to life, a portal to the Negative Zone.

The negative zone from what I know is apparently a really fucked up place that heading towards destruction and is basically a wasteland of a dimension with resources being scarce and mostly everyone their being bad guys only looking out for themselves and while I don't know exactly what villains live in the negative zone I do know some of their names like Annihilus (which sounds very menacing, and that's just the guys name) and I know that they're all very dangerous since they live in a dying universe (I'm pretty sure that the negative zone is contacting as opposed to our dimension which is expanding, meaning that that universe is heading for implosion) and so right now I'm shit scared at the fact that I unknowingly helped to make and activate a portal to that godforsaken dimension and while I can take some solace in the fact that in the comics Reed used the universe for his own purposes basically making it a trash can for anything he didn't want including villains that he couldn't handle and decided to just chuck them into the negative zone before eventually making a prison for super humans in that universe though I get the feeling that didn't work out so well given the fact that he bunched up a bunch of villains in an alternate dimension and left them with minimal supervision but I'm not like that and so I'm really wanting to shut this portal down without permission from Reed but I think that would be insubordination (and I don't know if that matters to them) and it could possibly get me kicked out and keep me from the information I need so I'm going to leave it for ten seconds and then close it, what's gonna happen in ten seconds.

Reed after turning on the Portal slowly walks towards it mesmerised while I made sure to manoeuvre through the room towards the switch to get ready to turn off the portal as soon as possible because I'm uneasy with it open but clearly Reed doesn't have that problem as he stalks towards the portal and begins to try and peer through to the other side while running his fingers along the edge of the device running dangerously close to the portal itself but I can't find myself to bothered about that as I'm just counting down the seconds until I can close the damned thing and then leave this building as quickly as possible to get a drink and forget about all the shit that's happened today, I keep my hand on the switch ready to close the portal at a moments notice while Reed caught up in his amazement continuous to stare blankly into the portal with probably a million things running through his mind but I don't far anymore as ten seconds have passed and so I speak out to tell him that I'm closing the portal. "Reed, it's been ten seconds. I'm closing the portal now so back up, we don't know how the portal closing could affect the machine or overload it so gain some distance before I turn it off." I speak out clearly being much more lenient than I should be giving him time to back away which means the portal will be open for a few seconds more but even after I've spoken with my hand raring to pull the lever (almost doing so subconsciously while waiting for Reed to move) Reed stays where he is continuing to look into the portal (the abyss really) before some part of his brain seems to understand and recognise what I just said as he then shoots his arm out towards me in a stop motion. "Hold on for a second Nick, I still need to do some tests. I was so caught up in the beauty of the portal that I completely forgot about using my scanner to scan the portal and sending some of my better and bigger probes through to gather more information for our eventual journey to the other side, just wait there while I go get the scanner and probes to send through the portal."

Sue immediately get affronted as there was a clear set upon deal where the portal would be open for ten seconds before it is closed just to make sure it is okay and there was no mention of scanners or probes being used so clearly Reed was disregarding what the rest of us had said and was trying to gather as much information as possible too caught up in his excitement which clearly angered Susan as she agreed to the terms and she is probably feeling some negative emotions right now because it was completely ignored, immediately she strides towards Reed who hadn't had the chance to get away from the portal before Susan accosted him in front of it digging her finger into his body which didn't really work since he's elastic and she was basically just stretching him. "Reed, what the hell! We agreed that you'd only open the portal for a few seconds to make sure that it worked before closing it until we got a proper facility to use it and made some failsafes, you can't just change your mind on a whim. Nick forget what Reed said, you close that portal right now before anything further happens." Susan begins shouting at Reed not giving him a chance to get a word in edge wise before she turns and starts barking orders at me to close the portal but I find myself stuck between a rock and a hard place since on one hand Reed wants me to keep the portal open and he is technically the boss of the fantastic four and 'Fantastic Four inc.' so he would be able to fire me for going against his orders but on the other hand Susan is clearly the more author active one here and she's basically the boss in all but name but she doesn't have the capacity to fire me but if I disobey her she might want to get me kicked out which she would be able to do one hundred percent as the rest of the team would listen to her but if I disobey Reed while he might try to get me kicked out I would have Susan on my side for siding with her and she would be able to keep me here even if my position is a bit shaky, if it's a choice between one or the other than it's clear who I'm gonna choose and so I'm about to bring my arm down to close the portal but before I can the unexpected happens (or is it unexpected since I tempted fate and Murphy's law answered).

Before anyone even knew what was going on something blasted out from the portal shooting at Reed and Susan and blasting them backwards and it was only because of Susan and her fast reaction conjuring up a forcefield that neither of them were hurt aside from being a little scuffed but even so we were all on our guard staring at the portal and snapping out of my daze I pulled down the lever with all my might hoping to close the portal down before something really bad happened but it seems I was too late because just before the portal close something managed to come through from the other end and it didn't look very nice, standing in front of the now closed portal is some kind of giant bipedal beastly animal looking around the room menacingly but you could tell he wasn't an animal by the fact that he wore an amour of some kind and his eyes were full of intelligence and when I looked closer I noticed a lot more than him being a monster such as the fact that he had armoured boots, chest plate and pants along with some durable looking large bracelets that encircled his wrists each article having intricate designs as if designed by a master of their craft, the thing was built like the hulk (and he might even be a bit bigger than the thing) with an animalistic face sporting a wide snout like nose, beast like sharp teeth, a face that look like it was stopped halfway between a transformation from a human to a wolf along with the wolffish ears poking out of the thick black lions main that surrounded his head and if there was one thing you could tell just by looking at him it was that this guy wasn't friendly or misunderstood monster, he was a genuine monster out of a nightmare.

"I thank you beings for providing me with such a passageway, it was just in time as well since the explosive core where positive matter and anti matter meet was about to burst and send out a wave of destruction which I would be caught in. Thankfully I managed to blast my way out of the containment suit those rebellious dogs put me in before sending me to an abandoned planet for my death by being caught in the wave of destruction and conveniently there was a open portal providing me a way to escape the blast, for that you have my thanks and so I'll show you some mercy and allow you to serve me since you've brought me to my new kingdom, a place to start anew and rebuild my armies after I conquer this new planet and inevitably wipe out the puny defence your species will put up." We all stare dumbstruck at the guy startled by the sheer audacity of him to claim that he would wipe out the defending armies of earth and conquer it to make his own armies but when I look at his bulging muscles and his animalistic face I get the sense that he would actually be capable of that and while I don't have a monkeys as to who this guy is I know that he's incredibly dangerous since my spider sense is going off like a vibrator which is a crude but accurate metaphor, the rest of them are too dumbstruck by his arrogance to properly reply to anything and we all start at him in silence for a moment with Reed and Susan getting back up and into their stances to joint Johnny and Ben in the upcoming fight but it seems like the huge grey guy noticed their defiance and he doesn't like it. "A shame that you're not going to accept my mercy, you mustn't understand how rare it is and you are ignoring it in your ignorance. No matter, you can die with the countless others who will fight my inevitable conquest but before you do I will grace you with the name of the new ruler of this planet. I am you're new king.. Blastaar…"

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