Oh and to adress The Thing:
-He was retired and Reed convinced him to come back for this "time changing event." Reed and Ben are strained and Ben has kind of distant himself (like the unspeaking Victor) from Reed.
Anyways:
-They get back to New York, and become a US/UN publicity stunt. They get the Baxter Building and are given whatever equipment (which is tons) that Reed wants, as he tries to cure Ben. Johnny becomes the "Human Tourch" as he had saved someone's life when he introduced himself to the world he is now a part-time superhero between interviews. He also has a woman every he wants every different week and Ben is distilled.
-Ben is drinking in a bar hidden in a trenchcoat sunglasses and a hat. He grumbles and as he leaves a blind woman who has been trying to talk to him (who he ignored) touches his shoulder and feels rock, she pulls back and Ben grits at her. He then hears on the TV on how the Human Tourch is bravely chasing two runaway cars. It is coming right their way. The Thing runs out and sees Johnny down 5 blocks shoot one over with flames, but the other is getting away. The Thing throws off his coat and yells "It's clobbering time!" He then flips it over with a backslap from his hand. The blindgirl stands in the doorway and smiles at him.
-Cut to the reporters there and Johnny is getting all the attention, the Thing asks for an interview and nobody does they all just kind blow him off, Ben gets angry and storms off.
-Reed and Sue get romantic again, and she gives him the first half of the double lockete that the parents of Sue and Johnny left them. She and Johnny put them together once when they had gotten on at the shuttle. She wants Reed to have it.
-Every week Reed visits Victor (Sue only did once) and begs for Victor's forgivness in the hospital. Victor just stares at him with eyes full of massive hatred. Sue gave Reed the snowglobe (it began in winter when Reed started working for Victor, and Victor gave Sue a snowglobe of Manhattan, who gave him **** in return) and leaves it in Victor's hand. He holds it in his hand and smashes it.
-Victor flashes back to his life as a boy in Lavertia. How his parents wanted to bring democracy, yet the dictator's goon squad came and assassinated them. Victor escaped and came to America, he worked his way to the labs for scholarship, but his rival Reed Richards outdid them...he took a loan from the mob...after graduation he was suppose to pay them back, he couldn't and tried to disappear. The local bums found him and with the leader there, they tried to kill him, in flashes we see him stand up and with determination beat them, and then flashes of him taking power from the leader, giving it to another, but taking enough money to invest...which explains everything.
-We cut back to present and his hand crushes the glass cutting himself....but he feels nothing. He then takes the shard and when the doctor comes in, he sits up and kills the doctor with it and escapes.
-The FF search for Victor to no avail.
-The FF are to go on the Today show. At screening The Thing is told by a snobby assistant they only need the other three. Reed gets angry and barks him out, saying that Reed won't be on either then, but Ben just storms out saying "I don't need this crap anyways."
-Ben goes back to his bar and is drinking and the blind girl scoots over to him, her name is Alicia. They become friends and she semi-restores his self-confidence.
-Meanwhile the other three members get back that evening to the Baxter Building first. They find themselves each fall into a trap. Sue is gassed and knocked out. While Reed is trapped in an airvent and Johnny is trapped in a small box if you will, he walks into that is freezing cold and he can't flame on, or fly. Johnny is freezing to death. Johnny is in great danger.
-Ben comes in and Victor mutters to himself, so the last quarter comes. He goes into his room, and then the walls fly off and he is trapped in a wall of mirrors, slowly closing in to crush him, and he looks up and painted/transplanted on the celling he sees his old face painted on. Reed has to watch this in horror, as in an intercom Victor mentally tortures Reed on what he is seeing.
-Reed blames himself, and the mirrors crush Ben, but Ben isn't dead, the walls shatter around him in a comic moment, Victor realizes he miscalculated The Thing's strength. The Thing smashes through and in the next room he finds Johnny dying, and says "I'm gonna' regret this" and saves Johnny's life. "DAMN!" Yells Victor, who then releases Reed on purpose.
They all regroup in a narrow hallway. Just then the intercom comes on. Victor explains they did very good, but to no avail, now they must find their calculated death. Then his early clumsy killing machines come running down the hall. Just motor machines we have now, but with machine guns mounted to them and rocket/gernade launchers. It blasts them all new ones.
-The floor collapses between them and they seem to fall to their deaths. Victor mutters to himself "too easy." He turns to a comatose Sue Storm who is kindly asleep in a chamber with machines covering her ears, mouth, and eyes, and liquid is covering her body and suit. "Hurry...we have work to do....together."
-The Fantastic Three (heheh) drift in the waters of the sewers, and The Thing pulls an out of conscienceness Johnny and Reed, proving himself more than they could have imagined in this form.
-Johnny and Reed wake up in a cheap motel room. The Thing sits in a broken chair from his weight. "Huh?" they both basically ask. Ben explains that Victor Von Doom thinks they are dead, so dead they must stay. Not until they gather their thoughts and know what Victor is doing now that his twig has snapped. Johnny wants to go to war with Victor, but Thing pushes him down, "You ain't strong enough kid 1), and I love Sue too, but 2) he'd kick your ass again and I ain't gonna' save you next time.! Got it?!" Reed is amazed at how smart Ben is and the bratish almost Johnny finally sees what must be done, even if his sister is at risk.
-We see a scared back of head sitting in a tone, in homage to ESB, Sue stands by behind him and hands him a metal helmet, and Doom dawns it and throws a cape and hood over it. He then stands up and says "It is time."
-The airwaves on all channels tune in to him, as he takes over the satallites, and even the big screen in Times Square watches it. He announces himself to the world as Dr. Doom, he announces war to the world! He threatens the UN help him take Lavertia and its people back, or he will destroy Manhattan with a nuclear bomb he built, and it will be the first of many. He starts naming cities, London, Paris, Rome, Sydney, and in that order.
-With the world at threat, the UN can't neogtiate with terrorism, but they know not what to do. The US military surronds with police and FBI the Baxter Building.
-A Special Forces team goes inside (they can't bomb it because that would set off a nuclear bomb) and they get seperated in two dark rooms. They shoot and their own bullets start hitting them, with cameras on nightvision the world watches as they kill themselves, and when some are left gas is ingested in and the last fall.
-Doom returns on screen, "I'll let that one go, next time y'all oppose Dr. Doom, you shall be doomed!"
The F3 are astounded. We have to stop him says Reed, as he sees a lifeless in the eyes Sue stand by Doom's side as his "bride."
-The Thing asks if they are willing to do this, because chances are they will end up like those Special Forces guys. The Thing doesn't care, he is like this anyways. Reed says he's with Ben to the end, and he must do this for Sue. Johnny puts his hand on top of the other two, saying "I ain't going to leave my sister with him!"
-So they sneak in from the bottom up into the Baxter Building.
-To be continued.
