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	This is a sequel to my X-Men story - Something Sinister This Way
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	You should note that the story takes place in comic format (i.e,
through continuation into different comics) this is because I consider this
story an Alternate to the Onslaught Crossover in Marvel Comics last year,
therefore each story takes place over last years Onslaught Issues.
	
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	X-Men : Herald Of Armageddon 1  (continued)
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	"YOU CANNOT PENETRATE MY SKIN!" he laughed,"I HAVE BEEN IMBUED
WITH THE POWER COSMIC!"
	"Of course," gasped Xavier,"Galactus has done this to you!"
	White light blasted the mutants, forcing them to their knees,
the energy seemed to sap their strength and they collapsed.
	"I HAVE COME TO CUT ALL TIES WITH THIS PLANET," laughed
Magnus,"AFTER I HAVE RID MYSELF OF YOU SHEEP, I SHALL DESTROY
THIS MANSION, KILL THE BEAST, BURN BISHOP, RAVISH JEAN......"
	Before he could finish a gigantic optic blast filled the room,
red light was everywhere, washing over everything.  Xavier erected a
telekinetic shield over the X-Men, desperately trying to save them.
	"NO!" screamed Cyclops,"NO!"
	And as the last of his energy was depleted and he fell back,
Wolverine launched himself forward with a growl of anger and punched his
claws through Magnus' skin straight to his heart.
	"NOOOOO!!!!!!" screamed Magnus, Wolverine seemed to turn white
as energy flowed out of Magnus.
	Finally the white light cleared and Magnus was the only one left
standing.  He clutched the claw holes in his skin, instead of blood, white
light poured from them.
	The skin healed over, Magnus no longer looked like a
young twentysomething, he looked at least thirty-five.
	"I am through here," he gasped, the booming quality gone from his
voice,"My plans continue, my strength grows as I channel myself into the
Earth's Electromagnetic spectrum."
	He floated into the air and left the remains of the
Z'Noxx chamber, behind him the X-Men lay upon the ground, it was not clear
whether any of them were still breathing.

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	Repurcussions of the Herald Of Apocalypse 1 :
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	Uncanny X-Men 335 - Shades of Grey
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	Nebraska - Several minutes before X-Men : Herald Of Apocalypse
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	The large figure crouched over the small hole in the ground.
	"What does it take to kill that one?" he muttered,"Perhaps like
myself, Mistress Death has no wish to take him?"
	Energy blasted from his fists, clearing a giant hole in the
ground, one body lay at the bottom.
	He leaped down to the base of the hole, the dead body remained
dead, but he approached it cautiously nonetheless.
	"Dead," he said, looking down at the wasted and damaged body
of Mr Sinister,"And it seems that in death you finally showed some true
emotion."
	Indeed, Mr Sinister looked annoyed.
	Thanos - Titan, Immortal and former Consort of Mistress
Death - approached the lab, the doors opened as he approached.
	Immediately inside, a young man whirled to face him, yellow
fire spewed from one eye.
        "My oh my, you positively exude power," Thanos commented
calmly,"Where did you come from?"
	"Who are you?" yelled the X-Man,"Some creation of Sinister's?"
	Thanos scowled,"I take exception to that!" he flicked a finger
and a small metal device leaped out and hit Nate in the forehead,
bio-electric feedback fired through Nate's mind.
	"Arrghhhhh! "CCCCCAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBLLLEEEEEEE!!!!
HEEEELLLLLPPPPPP MMMEEEEEE!" he screamed and collapsed.
	"Now," said Thanos,"Let's take the tour shall we?"
	A giant purple flare smashed into him, strangely enough, the
purple energy that struck him was the exact tone and quality color as
his own purple skin.
	The young black girl blasted Thanos with an incredible amount
of her death charge, it didn't even put a tear in his clothes.
        "What an affinity you have with death," the Titan murmured to
himself,"Almost do I wish to take you with me, alas I cannot."
	His giant fist lashed out faster than the eye could follow, he
pushed Threnody into a wall, knocking her unconscious.
	The lab was in ruins, the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force had
blasted their way out with little thought to the wealth of knowledge
that Sinister had accumulated in his lifetime.  Thanos frowned at the
corpse of the Dark Beast and booted it away.
	He arrived at a large console that appeared to be less damaged
than the others, he typed a command onto the monitor and information
began scrolling down the screen.
	"Excellent," he laughed,"Computer, initiate Sinister's
protocols, A17 through C26."
	Satisfied, he walked to another console, labeled communications.

	Dawn of the Following Day.
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	Captain America looked over the wreckage of the X-Men's
Mansion, he shook his head in wonder.
	"How is it that we never detected any energy being released, even
by the X-Men? Could they have been caught unawares?"
	The Vision - a sentient Synthezoid being - shook his head,[There
will be no clear answer until we find the X-Men.]
	"Quicksilver," barked Captain America,"When we land I want you
to do a quick run around the Mansion, look for signs of survivors."
	The impetuous young mutant nodded, and when their craft landed
he moved away faster than the eye could see.
	And he ran straight into a kinetically charged card.
	The Avengers moved nearly as fast, rushing out as a team.  
	"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" roared Cap, they rushed down, weapons at ready.
	Thor was in the air, the mighty hammer Mjolnir ready to bring
thunder and lightning down upon the enemy.  Hawkeye had his arrows poised
to fire at any target that made itself clear. Vision and Captain America
stood back to back, ready to face any threat.  The Scarlet Witch had
prepared her hex powers.  In fact, it didn't look like anything could
stop them.
	So they looked really foolish when Gambit stumbled out of some
wreckage and puked on the Vision's boots.

	
	Hawkeye sifted through the rubble.
        "Are you sure there is someone here, Viz?" he asked The Vision.
	[My sensors detect a presence here,] replied the Synthezoid,[The
mutagenic signature is identical to that of the X-Man known as Storm.]
	Hawkeye pushed a large boulder away, underneath it, in a clear
space between the rest of the wreckage lay Storm.  She was in the fetal
position, whimpering softly to herself.
	"Ororo...?" he started, he paused in shock, noticing her uniform
had ripped, exposing one of her breasts.  Hawkeye had always had been
attracted to the African beauty.....
	[Hawkeye? Is there a problem?] asked Vision.
	He shook his head,"No, no.....Storm, it's all right....."
	She turned her head and faced him, seeing the blue sky behind him.
	"Help me!" she cried, she sat up and threw her arms around his
neck, trying to pull herself up out of the rubble.
	[Storm is claustrophobic,] said the Vision,[Pull her loose.]
	Hawkeye pulled her free, he was intensely aware of her breasts
pushing against his chest and he let out a sigh of suffering.
	"Storm, it's okay......"
	She pushed him away and launched herself into the air, trying to
free herself from any constraint.
	[I will retrieve her,] the Vision said and launched himself into
the air.
	Hawkeye shut his eyes and tried to get rid of the image of her
bare breasts, after failing, he headed of to look for other survivors.

        -

	The Beast looked through the suspension pod,"I believe
our chronologically displaced compatriot will be back to his former, gun
blasting, angry mutant with a cause he always was."
	Cyclops took his eyes of his still unconscious wife,"I just hope
Moira can help Jean as well as Bishop."
	Xavier smiled humorlessly,"When Psylocke and Angel arrive, make
all haste to Scotland, I am sure you will all be fine," he frowned,"We
have to take the chance that Magnus will return to kill me, in the case
that he succeeds, I also need you to open the Xavier Protocols."
	Cyclops grimaced,"He will not hurt anyone ever again Professor,
I will see to that!"
	Captain America arrived with Storm, Hawkeye and the Vision at his
side.  Storm had replaced her uniform and regained her composure.
	"We've found everyone now," said Xavier with a smile,"No fatalities,
it seems almost too good to be true."
	"A ship is approaching," the Vision said quietly,"A S.H.I.E.L.D
Pac-Rat."
	"X-Force," said Xavier,"Captain America made contact with them
after locating me."
	They watched as the stolen government flyer made contact with
the ground, Cannonball staggered to his feet, fresh blood staining the
bandage around his forehead.
	"SAM!" screamed Meltdown, rushing down the rampway,"SAM WHERE
ARE YOU!?!" she screamed.
	Cannonball winced,"Here ah am."
	She rushed to him and swung her arms around
him,"ohsamohsamiwassoworriedandithoughtmaybeyouwereohidon'twanttosayitbut
iwassoscared," she stepped back and pushed at him,"Don't ever scare me
like that again!"
	"Ah'm sorry!" he cried,"Next time Magnus comes calling ah'll tell
him to come back when you're ready for him!"
	"Enough," yelled Cap,"It's time to make a battle plan, where's
Cable?" the Living Legend of World War II had formed an unlikely
friendship with the time lost mutant.
	"He's in Baltimore," muttered an angry voice, the Avengers and
X-Men turned to look as Rictor and Warpath helped Domino down the rampway,
she was into her ninth month of pregnancy,"When he should be here to rub
my feet for me!"
	Behind them strode Shattarstar, upon hearing mention of massaging
feet he blanched visibly and began to move backwards.
	"Don't even think about it," growled Domino,"You're the only other
person who can do it 'Star, and you ain't going nowhere."

	The Mansion's ready room was one of the few still functioning, so
they made their battleplan there.
	"It is agreed then," said Captain America,"X-Force will locate
this 'X-Man', Storm will go to Baltimore to retrieve Cable, Cyclops will
take Pheonix and Bishop to Scotland to enlist Moira's help and open the
Xavier protocols, we'll take the rest to Four Freedom's Plaza to see the
Fantastic Four."
	"And I shall attempt to locate Magnus through Cerebro," said
Xavier,"If he can be classed as a mutant anymore."
	

	Wolverine sat down on his Harley, he revved the engine several
times until he was satisfied, then prepared to go.
        [Wolverine, may I assist you?] came the Vision's voice, he phased
through the shed wall.
	"No thanks, Vis," replied Wolverine,"I gotta head down to
Massacheussets, warn the Gen X kids and speak to Gateway, Banshee and
the White Queen."
	[I detect concern when you speak of the Generation X children,]
said the Vision,[Do you fear for Jubilation Lee's safety?]
	Wolverine growled fiercely at the Synthezoid, then his face
broke into a smile,"Yeah, yeah I am, the kid acts tough, but she's just
a kid."
	The Vision nodded somberly, the smiled slightly at Wolverines
scowl,[Have no fear Wolverine, I will not reveal that you have emotions
to your friends.]
	Wolverine laughed and kicked the Harley into gear, he tore away
from the shed, driving into the heavily wooded forest, it seemed
impossible that he could drive in there without crashing, but the Vision
did not worry for him.
	[Such an odd man,] mused the Vision,[Yet I think I like him.]
	As the Vision floated away a man stepped out from behind the
shed, he had been detected by neither Wolverine's hyperkeen senses nor
the Vision's sensors - hardly surprising, since he wasn't there, the
shed could be seen through him.
	"Excellent," said the stranger,"Everything is going as planned." 

	Bobby Drake stretched his arms wide and yawned,"Well, shall we
go kick ass and save the world again?"
	The Beast grinned,"One might consider your ice cold demeanor to
be a result of your much lamented mutant ability to generate ice and
perform totally humorless jokes on this poor, mistreated genius, but I
am not one so foolish as to believe that."
	Iceman grinned,"Once more unto the breach my friend, once more
unto the breach?"
	"Hey! It's my job to quote famous lines!"
	The two old friends climbed onto the quinjet with slight chuckles,
Xavier watched with a light grin on his face.


	Domino watched the face on the monitor, the blazing yellow eye
reminded her of Cable.
	"Need your help...." he was gasping,"I...found Sinister....barely
alive, hooked up to machines, being tended by automatons, I tried to
destroy the machine, but there was some kind of telepathic feedback."
	"DaCosta?" she asked, Sunspot was looking over the readings on
a portable cerebro.
	"His mutagenic signature is there," he replied,"Along with another
mutant signature that doesn't register as any known mutant."
	"Sinister?" growled Domino,"Okay then, let's go to Nebraska!"
	The face on the monitor grinned weakly and then the signal was
broken.

        Thanos chuckled softly as he dropped the holoplasmic disguise of
the X-Man.
	"Now, the players are all in position, and things will soon come
to fruition."

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	Fantastic Four 415 - Unbreakable Bonds
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	(Note, this story takes place just after Magnus defeated the
X-Men and left them for dead.)

	Susan Richards was a role model for women and young girls
everywhere, she promoted an image of a strong woman, a beautiful mother,
sister and wife.
        So many people would be surprised to see her naked on all fours
on top of Four Freedoms Plaza, dripping with sweat and begging her husband
to fuck her up the ass.
	Reed had devised a shield that protected them from both natural
and mechanical eyes, and he knew that nothing turned on his wife like
having sex where it was possible they could be seen.
	Only last night Reed had shown her a new trick which had driven
her wild with lust and desire.  The nature of his powers were physical
control over his molecules, enabling him to twist and stretch his body
to any length or shape.  Now he had found a way to literally split his
penis in twain, forming a smaller cock near the base of shaft.
	"Come on Reed, fuck me!" she moaned, he had already stretched
out both his fingers and his tongue to give her memorable foreplay, now
she was desperate for the real thing.
	"Your cock looks just like those dildo's they have in the sex
shops?"
	"And how do you know what dildo's in sex shops look like,
hmmm?" mused Reed with a grin.
	She turned her head and peered at him slyly, he swallowed dryly
and started forward.  He had to admit his wife was hot, just staring at
her firm ass and trimmed pussy made him incredibly hard, now he longed
to reach around and massage her large breasts...but first things first.
      	Almost reading his mind, Sue rose up slightly on her knees,
presenting the puckered entrance of her anal passage and her pretty
pink pussy.
	Reed grabbed her hips and slid his cock into her cunt, they were
a perfect fit, America's favorite married couple, now he meant to be an
even more perfect fit, the bulbous end of the smaller cock at the base
of his shaft pressing against her tiny rectum.
	"Unggh, yeeessss!" Sue groaned, as her husband pressed forward.
But Reed didn't stop his relentless drive up into her wide-stretching
anus, shoving forward with all the might of his surprisingly
athletic frame.  The larger part of his cock thrust upward, the thickly
rounded head of his cock moving with urgency upward into the soft
clinging pink folds of his beautiful wife's cunt.  As he thrust, Sue
grinded back against him, crying in pleasure as she felt the two cocks
sliding against the thin wall between her anal passage and cunt.  Reed
could also feel the two parts of his cock sliding against the membrane
that separated his wifes tight pussy and her hot, gripping back-passage.
     "OH GOD!" Sue screamed, her long, shapely legs quivering as her
husband pounded into her cunt and ass at the same time.  She let a low
moan of satisfaction escape her lust-contorted lips.  It felt so hot,
having both her holes filled totally.
     "Ooooohhhhhh yeeeessssss!" Reed cried.  He was finding it hard to
control himself, her pussy was clamped tightly around his shaft, and her
asshole was clamping down tight on his other cock.  His arms stretched
out, passing around and grabbing her breasts.  Her breasts, OH YES! full
and rounded, clasped between his hands, her erect nipples held between
his greedy fingers.  His two cocks seemed to be moving faster as he
slapped against her beautiful ass, he rammed his engorged members into
her gripping, soaking wet pussy and her viselike asshole.
     "Oh, shit Sue.....ohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!" Reed groaned, his
hands squeezing her full breasts,"Your ass is squeezing my cock
so tight! Ahhhhh fuck, I can't keep this up much longer!"
	Sue didn't seem to hear him, she was thrusting her hips back,
banging against him, gasping out nonsense words, she was ready to cum.
She couldn't believe how deeply inside her ass he had gone, further
than she thought was possible, and now she could hear him screaming
something at her, but she didn't care, she could feel her orgasm
coming.  She moaned in ecstasy as his slender member entered and
withdrew from her tightly clenched anus, feeling his thicker cum-engorged
penis sliding into her cunt.
     For Sue, this new form of sex was better than anything she had
ever felt before, she sometimes wondered over how perverted her desires
were, but Reed often said she needed a release from the pressure of
being a perfect figure to the masses.
	"I bet Captain America had had a few orgies in his time!" he
had once joked to her.  A sudden vision had formed in her mind of 
giving the Living Legend a blowjob, and she had immediately done the
real thing to her husband.  Such fantasies didn't bother her, in fact
she sometimes shared them with Reed during foreplay and vice versa.
	As she felt her orgasm approaching, she remembered the time
they had discovered they shared a fantasy.  Red had told her a
sado-masochistic fantasy he had had over the She-Hulk in which she was
chained up in leather with a ballgag and had to do whatever he said, she
had surprised him by revealing she shared the fantasy.  It didn't bother
him that she had fantasies about other women, the idea turned him on in
the extreme.
	"Oooooh shit REEDDDDDDD, OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" she screamed
as she suddenly came, juices poured from her cunt, it clamped around
his cock and squeezed as her body bucked uncontrollably.
	"Shiiiiiitttttt!!!!!!!!" Reed moaned and suddenly cum spurted
deep into her cunt and up her ass at the same time.
	He collapsed on top of her, his hips pressed against her ass,
his hands buried beneath her tits.
	"Oooh yeah," she moaned,"If only the world knew why you were
Mr Fantastic!"
	He laughed lightly,"I am tired......" he gasped,"I can't keep
up this pace forever Sue, what happens when you get too horny for me?"
	She sat up, his cocks slid out of holes and rejoined together,
his body was back to normal proportions,"You're kidding right?" she
laughed,"You're the most incredible lover I've ever had, if you ever
run out, I guess I'll be stuck with my hand and those little toys you
bought me!"
	He collapsed onto the concrete roof,"Oh shit Sue, you'll be
the death of me!"

	 
    	The Thing settled down onto the couch.
	"Ahhhhh, a quiet night at home, this is what it's all about."
	"Hey Ben!" yelled out Johnny, startling the world's most
huggable Hero (according to People Magazine's Hero Poll) into throwing
his popcorn into the air.
	"Ahh shucks kid, look what you made me do!"
	"Sorry man," laughed the Human Torch,"I'm going out clubbing,
why don't you come, the chicks dig you nearly as much as me!"
	"Sheeesh kid, you know I ain't got an interest in any chick
but Alicia, and what about you and Lyja?"
	Johnny frowned,"Come on Ben, I don't want anything to do with
that heartless bitc....."
	"Hey, no cursing, who knows when Franklin might pop up!"
        Johnny shook his head, his easy going grin flashed
brilliantly,"Fine, I'm going then!"
	He walked away, Franklin appeared from behind the couch.
	"Unca Ben? How come Unca Johnny is so mad?"
	"Forget it kid," laughed the Thing,"You wanna watch the movie
with me?"
	Franklin's face lit up,"Sure! What's on."
	The Thing lifted Franklin up onto the couch,"The Good, The Bad
and The Ugly! It's a classic!"


	Sue pulled her jacket over her uniform,"I guess we better get
going, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly started about an hour ago, and
I'm sure Ben will find a way to let Franklin see it...."
	"Come on honey, it's a classic...." started Reed, Sue threw
a mean glance at him and he looked down at the ground abashed, he began
to rub his foot into the ground.
	"Look at me, I told that reporter I had three kids! Looks like
I got four!"
	Arm in arm, they headed for the stairwell that would take them
downstairs, that's when a blast of pure white energy smashed into the
ground before them, knocking them backwards to the ground.
	"Wha....." started Sue, she looked up and saw a man hovering in
the air above them, energy radiating from him.  He was dressed
simply - with no ostentatious costume - in jeans and a white shirt, yet
there was no mistaking him.
	"Magneto!" yelled Reed, he also recognized the mutant terrorist
despite his apparent youth.  The Magneto they had known had been in his
fifties, this man was no older than thirty-five.
	"I AM NOT MAGNETO!" screamed Magnus, white fire bursting from
his eyes, shattering the ground in front of him, Reed noted the
machinery that operated the shield he had constructed was a smouldering
ruin, that meant that this power should be evident to sensors
now, including their own.
	So where was Ben!

	The Thing fought back tears as the Sergeant died watching the
bridge blow up.
	"Why are you sad?" Franklin asked,"Mr Eastwood saved all
those people."
	"But the Sergeant died......." started the Thing, then
smiled,"Hey, who said I was sad!"
	Franklin giggled as his 'uncle' tickled him.
	"Stop it Unca Ben! Stop it!"
	The Thing laughed and turned back to the t.v,"Okay kid, this
is the best part, we're coming up to the Mexican standoff between The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly!"


	Dr Doom laughed humorlessly,"I would say," he cackled,"That
Magnus is more than a match for the Fantastic Four!"
	One of his scientists laughed as well, he didn't notice the
others step away from him,"Yes my Lord! They will no longer be a thorn
in your side, your eventual victory will be assured!"
	Doom's eyes narrowed, his laughter stopped.  The Scientist's
laughter faded away, he looked around, the others were redoubling their
efforts over Doom's computer banks.
	"Are you suggesting that the Fantastic Four have stood in my
way! That they have opposed my will and I have allowed them to live?"
	"No my Lord....I merely suggested....."
        "You suggested that I need the help of Magneto's powers to defeat
the Fantastic Four! That without his help I would never be able to conquer
this miserable ball of mud!"
	Doom's voice had remained calm, but had grown harder and
colder, the Scientist was on his knees, begging for forgiveness.
	"Enact self-destruct system 816093," Doom said, his attention
had already turned to the computer banks.
	"Please my Lord!!!!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!" he screamed
as his armored suit grew red hot, burning his skin to the armor, the
helmet setting his hair on fire, making his eyes pop, he collapsed to
the ground.
	Two servo-mechs arrived quickly and pulled the body away.
	"Recycle the armor," murmured Doom,"And report to Lab 109 to
have your response time reconfigured."
	"It seems that Magneto needs to be taught a lesson," Doom said
to himself, he had already forgotten the scientists existance,"Prepare
my craft, I am going to pull Richard's fat out of the fire one more time."
	

	"Hey blondie! You're a real son of a b..........." the theme
music leaped over the last word, the Thing laughed out loud.
	"Yes! That Clint Eastwood!"
	Franklin was struggling to keep his eyes opened, but he smiled
too.
	"Okay kid, time for bed," laughed the Thing,"And you better not
have any nightmares, or your Mom will make me take a timeout!"
	Franklin giggled at the idea of the Thing being forced to sit
in his room.
	"Attention, unauthorized presence on roof," came a soft computer
voice (think Majel Barret from Star Trek).
	"Huh? Arrhhh, where's Stretcho or Susie?"
	"Reed and Susan Richards are on the roof."
	"I'll be up in a second," he said,"Come on kid, let's get you
tucked in."


	The Invisible Woman's forceshield was beginning to buckle under
the stress of Magnus' blasts, but she thought she could hold out until
they got to the stairwell.
	Reed stood behind her, struggling to think of something he could
do, he felt helpless.
	Magnus suddenly released the pressure on her forcefield and
blasted the stairwell, both Reed and Sue heard the Thing cry out in shock
as the stairs he had been climbing were smashed.
	Reed's fist lashed out, stretching up to where Magnus stood, it
smashed into his chin.
	"YOU DARE TO STRIKE ME!?!" screamed Magnus, and then a blast of
flame sent Galactus' Herald flying backwards.
	"Johnny!" screamed Sue, her brother, the Human Torch was blasting
Magnus with bolt after bolt of fire.
	The Thing ripped the rubble away, bounding through the remains
of the stairwell.
	"IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!!!" he screamed, his giant fists smashing
into Magnus' side, knocking the Herald flying across the roof.
	"EXCELLENT," roared Magnus,"MY THANKS, SHEEP!" suddenly his
body seemed to flow down into the roof, disappearing inside Four
Freedoms Plaza.
	"Oh God!" yelled Reed,"It's Franklin he's after!"
	Sue screamed denial even as an invisible battering ram smashed
into the ground beneath her, clearing a path she leapt onto an
invisible platform and flew down the floors towards Franklin's
bedroom.  Reed stretched down after her and Johnny flew behind.
	"Wotta revolting development," muttered the Thing and leapt
after them.
	He crashed onto Sue's platform, she had left it there for him
and halted his fall.  He stared around the bedroom where he had just
tucked in Franklin five minutes ago, the bed was now empty, and there
was a huge hole in the wall.
	Franklin was gone.

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