New Developments.

Stepping through the door with at least ten pizzas in their hands, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm meandered through the door and managed to kick it closed behind them as they entered, their vision obscured by the many boxes in their arms. "Geez! How much pizza does my sister need?" Huffed Johnny, nearly losing his balance and the tower of pizzas in his hands before Ben managed to catch him.

“She says she’s hungry.”

“Yeah… She’s been saying she’s been hungry for a couple of DAYS now, and she hasn’t stopped either.”

“ARE THOSE THE PIZZAS?” They hear Susan call out from the kitchen, just as the two managed to get to the room and grimace at the sight of the woman. “Good! Keep it coming, I’ve been starving all day!”

Sharing a look between each other, the two men dropped the two towers of pizza onto the table and stepped back when the top boxes were quickly snatched up by the woman. For the past few hours, Susan had done nothing but eat and eat. It was not a mystery where all the calories were going, she was HUGE! Easily 12 feet tall and almost that much around, the hulking scaly woman flipped open one pizza box to shove the entire pie into her fanged maw before tossing the box aside to reach for another. Her fingers had become clawed, as had her toes after they had burst out of her boots, leaving her in the taters of her costume which struggled to keep up with her increasing girth.

Her curves had swollen along with her beanbag chair sized stomach, giving her an 8-foot-wide rear and breasts the size of prized watermelons. A woman her size should have died of a heart attack by now, or worse, instead, the woman showed no sign of slowing down or stopping and seemed to be getting bigger… And worse. Her skin was almost a blue green now, covered in rough scales that caused tears in some places of her costume. It was a litter unnerving to watch until Susan caught her brother and friend staring at her eat.

“What?”

Darting their eyes to each other, the Human Torch and Thing felt nervous in the spotlight until Johnny finally spoke up. “Uhm… You feeling okay sis?”

“Yeah…” She answered, rolling her shoulder, and scratching her neck while reaching for another pizza. “My back itches a bit, its almost like…” Biting into another pizza pie, Susan rolled her shoulders again and the two men gasped when bony fins burst out of the back of her costume, tearing the fabric as they jut out of her spine to splay out like leaves from a plant out of her back. “Sigh… MUCH better!”

Taking an uneasy step out of the kitchen, the two men bumped into Reed who had just come out of the lab to check on his wife. “Oh good, you two are back, SUSAN? Honey? I’m just taking Ben and Johnny with me for a bit.”

“Okay sweetheart, I’ll be right here… BURP!”

Tugging on their arms to get out of sight, Reed gave Ben and Johnny a worried look. “I’ve been running tests on Susan, and…”

“And?”

“Whatever is happening to her, I think I found a catalyst point where it’ll wear off and stop.”

Looking relieved by that, Ben and Johnny gave each other a grin and nod, only to find Reed did not share in it. If anything, he looked MORE worried. “Is that… Bad?”

“I’ve checked her charts and progress and whatever she’s turning into, the reason she’s eating so much to become that… She’s only 5% there.”

“Five percent?!” The two whispered in unison, leaning back to peer through the kitchen entrance to watch the reptile woman eat. “How worse is she gonna get?”

Seeing Susan pause in her eating to scratch at her back and thigh, she looked uncomfortable before the back of her pants burst apart to free a rapidly growing tail, one that just seemed to keep going until it knocked over a couple of chairs and a trash bin. “Ahh…. Finally.”

“Should we be scared Reed?”

“I think we’re going to need more pizzas.”