The Four return home.

The trip home didn't help the Four adjust to normal. If anything, it made clear to each of them how meaningless "normal" even meant anymore.

Sue had hoped getting to the Baxter Building invisible and by levitation would have given them enough distance to get into a clearer headspace, but to see the scores of Gam-Hattan's bulky denizens from down below had the same effect if the Four were walking among them down the streets, visible or not. They couldn't help but be reminded of their own clan, incalculable in numbers yet all borne between them. With those memories of their scions spreading through an endless plane of reality, the barely twenty-three square miles of Gam-Hattan felt horribly stifling even to merely look at.

Even finally landing on the launching pad at the roof of the Baxter Building, something the four of them had done so many times, had always counted on that comforting sense of home no matter where they had come back from and no matter how long they were away. For the first time, that comfort of familiarity didn't come to them. The only thing more distressing about these alienating feelings was how not distressed at all they all truly felt.

Taking the elevator down to the common space, Reed was about to elect that they each take to a sensory deprivation chamber to dispell their urges when they were met with a pair of women chatting away on the couch.

"Hey! You're all finally home!" Alicia exclaimed, hopping out of her seat the instant she saw the Four come into sight. She skipped over to throw her arms around Ben, her flowing orange sundress rippling around her toned legs and broad hips. The second houseguest took a slower approach to the Four, sauntering over to Johnny's direction in her form-fitting pantsuit.

"Johnny," Crystal purred, embracing her lover by the waist and pulling her hip against his own. "It feels like forever, love."

Johnny snorted, feeling the first bit of relief in Crystal's company since he started walking on two legs again. "You have no idea."

"Ahem," Sue admonished, pushing the two apart with a **** field. "Not to be rude, Crystal, but now isn't the best time for that."

"I beg to differ," Crystal slyly replied, defiantly stroking the crotch of Johnny's suit. Sue gritted her teeth at the princess's slight, and then found herself swallowing any protective instinct that wasn't purely as an older sibling.

"Actually, yeah. Maybe let's reel it back a bit, Crystal," Alicia added. She pulled back from her bear hug with Ben, looking deeply into his everting eyes thanks to her restored vision. "Are you alright, Ben? You feel a bit stiff. Stiffer than usual, at least."

"Eh, don't worry about it, sweetie," Ben reassured. "Suzie's right. We just need a little, eh... decompressin' after the trip."

"Yes." Spoke up Reed as he and the other came inside their home and looked around, almost confused. "Our journey through the Green Door has been...stimulating to say the least."

"Well, is it too stimulating none of you can't sit down for a moment? Because I actually came here to tell you all something."

The Four exchanged glances, then nodded in agreement. As the group settled into the curved couch that Alicia and Crystal had just sat up from, without thinking the group of six coupled up in their arrangements. Alicia curled up next to Ben, as did Crystal with Johnny and Sue with Reed. Compared to what the six of them had gotten up to alone, such casual displays of affection were nothing.

"So, it took until Gam-Hattan's quarantine was lifted, but I finally was able to head back up to Attilan," Crystal explained. "As predicted, I was immediately shuffled in front of the Genetic Council and was put on trial. I was already anticipating it going up there. I made my case, about how neither me nor my children have shown any ailments or degenerative mutations. I even had Karnak as my defense, though I might have gotten a bit ahead of myself. Since before I was even cleared, I proposed a new means of Terrigenesis, where we would intersperse the Mists with Gamma Rays."

"And how'd that go fer ya, Crystal?" Asked Ben as he and Alicia returned to the couch to sit.

"Not...well, unfortunately. Karnak did his best to skin things back around, but Medusa's the one holding down the throne, and she's been against this from the start. She not only exiled me and all my children, but was openly talking about another exodus before I was even out the door, going on about a 'green plague' about to sweep over the Earth..."

"Ouch. Sorry to hear that, babe." Frowned Johnny, holding the blue skinned gammazon close to comfort her.

"It's not the first time I've been exiled from home. It's not even the first time Attilan has moved, much less in my lifetime. Honestly, I think Medusa is just acting hasty. Hopefully the others will talk through it with her, bring to light all the ailments that Gamma rays might cure." She pulled away, wiping what looked like a tear from her eye before she steadied herself and smiled back at Johnny. "But enough about me. Tell us, what was it like beyond the Green Door?"

"It was... Been an experience." Johnny shrugged.

"It has been quite a bit for me to study," Reed added. "It's like a great infinite void, and yet a small space you can see the limits of. It almost felt like we were exploring conceptual space, like it was real... And yet NOT real. The dimension had no laws of physics or concept of time or space. I swore, the only reason it had any substance was because it contorted to our perception of reality."

Blinking, Crystal looked to Sue, cozied up by her husband.

"It was an acid trip," she chuckled ruefully.

"Heh..." Ben muttered, rubbing the back of his head. "You can say that again!"

Breaking out into laughter, the Fantastic Four and their compatriots chuckled looking back at Reed who rolled his eyes while Susan squeezed his shoulder. During the humorous moment, something else that caught Alicia's eye, so much so that she pointed it out when she plucked her drink from the table to sip from.

"Now, am I having a contact high, or can everyone else see those?"

Looking up, Susan reached out with her finger and found a bit of yield with the energy ring over her head. Giving it a tug, her finger eventually went through it like it wasn't there.

"Oh, right. Wanda gave us these to keep our heads steady," she explained. "She called them...What was it now? Crowns of Concentration? Or something like that. They were supposed to help us think straight while we were in that realm behind the Green Door."

"Did it work?"

The four traded looks, giving each other anxious stares before Reed answered with a curt "Yes."

"I'm afraid to say...” Reed went on to explain. “Medusa was not incorrect in these precautions you say she's making. Our changes into Gamma Mutates are, by all feasible estimations, permanent. And unless we are able to solve the next issue at hand, remaining on Earth will not be feasible."

"Draining the Gamma Radiation in our bodies was merely a temporary resolution, as our very bodies have become active Gamma generators themselves. And though I have been conducting various experiments in radiotherapy, genetic manipulation, reprogram our RNA to cease metabolizing Gamma Radiation. But none of it worked.”

“Yeah… Was starting to understand Bruce’s frustrations…” Johnny said, holding Crystal close as she playfully drew circles around his chest with her finger.

“I couldn’t find a solution in the lab, so I thought best to try and find answers at the source as it were. Wanda and Agatha were able to determine there was a ‘Green Door’ of sorts that was the root of all gamma and was able to manifest it physically for us to explore. Our travels to the Gamma Dimension was rather disorienting but it did confirm a theory of mine. That the problem with stabilizing ourselves isn't a genetic one. Rather, it is… A spiritual one."

“What do you mean?” Asked Alicia, cuddled up to Ben and resting her head on his shoulder.

“There is somewhat of a correlation between when a gamma mutate is calm or agitated. The more stimulated they are, the more drastic the effect. At first I thought it was biochemical in nature; the release of hormones triggered during anxiety, or pain or arousal. But the problem is the emotion itself. The DRIVE itself. A person completely at peace with themselves would NEVER manifest gamma symptoms, regardless of the intensity of exposure.”

Capturing the two ladies attention, Reed continued.

"When we were all in the realm of the green door, we were in a space that was completely void, empty, at least physically it was empty. The gamma in that void was like an ocean! And just like an ocean it had tides, and flows and turbulences. The longer we were in there the more it pushed and pulled and swayed over us, saturating us constantly and coaxing even the most basic of impulses.”

Twitching and rolling their shoulders, Alicia and Crystal found themselves getting warm, pressing up closer to their significant others while Reed explained where they had been all this time.

“The overdose was so overwhelming, so intense… There was a powerful sense of euphoria that made critical thought difficult, even with the crowns over our heads. We were bombarded not just with gamma radiation, but it actually triggered a secondary transformation in us. We became something base, something primal and animalistic. As if the tide of gamma broke us down to our core, instinctive selves. In our 'savage' states, our conscious minds were dampened while our hormones primarily dictated our functions. Our metabolic processes were brought to superhuman levels, capable of eating anything we could find and generating zero waste. We were even no longer bound by the law of conversation of mass! We… I… I shouldn’t say."

Reed was already feeling flustered, remembering their time in the realm below all, he could feel his heart booming in his chest and his pants growing tight. Looking over to the others, they were just as effected by his description of events. He needed to stop right now and do what he suggested earlier and purge the worst of what they went through all that time and make a report for Jen and the rest of the Shulk council. But Susan rested a hand over his arm and prevented him from getting up.

"N-no, Reed. You should go on." Susan husked, moving up to straddle his waist and gently kiss him on the lips. “Keep going.”

“W-when we first turned, our new bodies were so foreign, everything seemed so much more heightened for us. Sensations, urges, flavours… It was almost addicting. We grew to the size of dinosaurs. I was as big as a house!”

“It WAS addicting!” Panted Susan, resting her hands over her husband’s shoulders as she practically ground and dry humped her husband on the couch. Peppering his lips with kisses as she breathed out more of what happened to them all. “I never felt so alive! So POWERFUL! It was incredible… I felt like I could do anything.”

“We wandered the void together, the space going on and on as far as we could see. Sometimes there were land masses, sometimes mountains and cliffs. There were times it even looked like the devastated remains of the Earth, with crumbling buildings and highways left centuries old.”

Unseen by the couple making out, the other four had wordlessly followed in Susan and Reed’s example. Making out like horny teenagers while Susan continued her story.

“But no matter what, it was just us… We ate what we could… Slept where we wanted… “

“All the while the gamma just kept building… And BUILDING…”

“… And building… And BUILDING..” Husked Susan, her breathing growing deeper as her clothes began to tighten. Her muscles throbbing as were Reed’s as their excitement intensified. It finally came to a head when an audible creaking noise could be heard until the front of Susan’s blouse split open. “Until it BURST!”

The two couples behind them groaned and gasped as their own bodies began to expand, the living room was becoming hot and humid, but not from any kind of temperature increase. The six were exuding gamma radiation the longer they were active together, radiating gamma in huge amounts that circled around and fed back on their bodies. Alicia swooned as her back and shoulders surged, muscles building and packing on while her thighs practically doubled in girth. Crystal cried out in delight as her own body swelled and bulked up larger with muscle and strength, Johnny groaning underneath her as he had to widen his stance in his chair to give more room for his muscular thighs and ankles. His own shoulders spreading wider as he sat taller.

Pulling open her blouse to free her tits, Susan wailed and tossed her top across the living room. Kneading and groping her enlarged breasts in lust. Fluttering her eyes she licked at the slopes of her now J cup breasts before her attention fell to her burly husband still growing underneath her. Ripping open his shirt, she reached down and grabbed a handful of her pants and ripped it off her with the same ease as tearing tissue paper.

“Eventually we just let the tide take us… And it was wonderful.” She husked, her voice getting deeper as she grew larger. Grabbing the tattered shreds of Reed’s pants, she pried them off him in a single pull, leaving them both completely naked and his now two-foot-long cock free to bob and twitch before she grabbed it in her hands and sandwiched it between her breasts, licking at the head as she continued to speak. “We fucked right then and there, not even caring about anything in the world.”

“Time… Time had no meaning…” Grunted Reed, gripping the couch underneath him as he grew bigger and stronger, his stance widening as her grew out. “Days… Months… Years… It all flowed like wax. The overdose of gamma devolved us… Or EVOLVED us… So hard to tell the difference. We had become… Creatures, monsters… BEASTS!”

Repositioning herself over him, Susan bit her lower lip and aimed the head of his cock to her pussy and sunk down hard to the hilt, gurgling with lust, and squeezing her inner muscles before squirming and grinding against him.

“I gave birth to Reed’s litter… Then another… And another…” She gasped, almost coming out as a snarl as she rode him. She tossed her hair and looked over her shoulder to find Ben and Alicia in the same throes of love making, as were Johnny and Crystal. “Then I had… Ben’s litter… Then Reed’s… Then Johnny’s…”

“We never stopped!” Gurgled Reed, gripping at Susan’s hips and thrusting harder into her, the two now twice their size when they originally sat down to talk and continued to grow. “Or progeny continued to multiply… The fluids we left behind left mold… Fungus… Plant life…”

“ALL FROM MY LOINS!!!” Growled Susan, her plump lips sporting fangs as she continued to toss her hair and grind her hips. “I GAVE BIRTH TO AN ECOSYSTEM!”

Crystal gasped and cried out from that revelation; her open mouth captured by Johnny’s as they made out furiously while she continued to slam down on his cock.

“We created so much, destroyed so much. We were gods there…” Snorted Reed, his teeth becoming fanged as his finger nails became thick and curved.

“We didn’t want to leave! A whole world to lust, hunger, and rage forever and ever. Millions of my progeny running and hunting and breeding around me…”

Opening her eyes, Susan bellowed out a roar as her and Reed went into a radical transformation. Tails instantly grew out from behind them, swatting away the coffee table to make room as they intertwined with each other. Their skin became rough like hides, their hands and feet developing claws as they became more bestial by the second. Rearing back, Susan’s chest became crowded with a second and third pair of milk heavy breasts, her neck growing almost two feet long as her face and skull stretched and grew. Horns poked out of her scalp as did Reed’s, the two looking more and more like wingless dragons by the time Reed reared back and roared out, his massive balls tensing as he flooded his wife’s pussy with bolts of cum that left her shivering with orgasmic pleasure.

Ben was next to reach his limit, crying out as fangs grew from his mouth and a stony tail grew out from between his legs. Alicia crying out along with him when the transformation took root within her and made her grow two sets of horns, and two extra sets of breasts. A tail slithered out from above her muscular glutes, stretching out until it joined Reed and Susan’s tail at the center of the living room and coiled around Ben’s when it grew out long enough. The seat they took up collapsed into a heap of fabric and reinforced framework, unable to support their now combined mass of 3 tons. Opening her eyes, all four of them, Alicia purred deeply under her throat, and captured Ben’s stony lips in her reptilian one, her prehensile tongue slithering into his mouth. She could still feel him flooding her insides and had no desire to make him stop.

Crystal wailed as her own transformation claimed her around the same time it coursed through Johnny. His body surging larger and more reptilian as his hair ignited and the seating burned underneath him. Arching her back, Crystal wailed as a tail erupted behind her, and crystalline formations jutted out of her back like spines. Johnny grew a pair of horns and his skull taking on a draconian shape, as did Crystal who lolled her mouth open in orgasmic bliss. Her brow forming crystal horns and gamma enriched flame escaped her fanged lips. Their seating collapsing into a heap under their growing bodies. Grinding her hips against his, Crystal growled, her chest becoming crowded with extra breasts and small quarts formations grew from her shoulders and thighs.

Slick with sweat, Reed and Susan sat up to give themselves a look over and to their family, now fully transformed into gamma beasts and still tangled together. Nuzzling against Susan’s neck, Reed growled and purred deep in his throat like a crocodile.

This… Was… Inevitable…”

“Yes…” Purred Susan, her eyes half-lidded with a sly grin on her snout. “Happened… Faster… This time…”

“Only way… To live… With Gamma.” Reed snorted, licking Susan’s neck affectionately.

“Give me… Cubs… Want to… feel… Life Bloom… Again!”

“Yes Susan…” Reed inhaled deeply, nipping at Susan’s neck as he continued to pulse inside of her. “My wife… My mate… My hen… My alpha.”

Smiling a toothy grin, Susan craned her neck to address Ben and Johnny, the two drowning in post coital bliss with their lovers.

“Breed them…” She husked. “Breed… Then eat… Then you breed me! Breed Alpha!”

*

Meanwhile back at the research facility...

Stepping out of the facility doors with the gamma drainer in hand, the Shulks looked around for their transportation and in a panicked dash scrambled to get into the vehicles, stepping inside and causing the limousines to lurch under their combined weight before closing the doors. Ororo and Wanda were **** to follow by air as the two were far too big to sit in the interior. Scarlet Demo-Hulk unfurled her wings to flap and propel her upwards to take to the air, and Storm conjured a gust of wind to make her sky bound and ready to follow.

Crawling her way up to the front of the limo to knock on the window of the driver, Jen gestured for him to take his radio plugs out of his ears and roll the window down.

“Yes Miss Walters? You want to check on them visitors?”

“Later! Right now, take us to Four Freedom Plaza and step on it!” Shoving a pile of hundreds out the window and onto the blue skinned hulk’s lap, the man’s eyes went wide as he pocketed the money and threw his portable radio into the glove compartment. “Yes MAAM!”

Getting back to her seat as the limo peeled rubber to get to their desired destination, Jen shared an anxious looked with the Red and Blue Shulks sitting across from her. The gamma drainer sitting gently in her lap with both arms wrapped around it like it was a prized possession.

"We have to get to the Four and get more information. They've been to the source. They KNOW more about gamma radiation than anyone else in the city."

"Present company included." Piped in Betty as she looked out the window of her seat to the populace outside. "Who KNEW it could lead to this kind of catastrophe?! We need to get a hold of the Mutants too. They set up a stability net within the city to keep everyone from going caveman, if anyone else has manifested Gamma Beast symptoms, they'd be the first to know."

"We'll call them when we can, until then we have to find measures to contain this."

“If we don’t, this planet is going to be a gnawed-on apple core… Then the REST of the galaxy will follow suit.” Worried Carol, sitting back in her chair and hugging her knees close to her chest.

"Let's just hope Xavier can keep us updated."