The Fantastic Four confront the Avengers

Checking the controls to the Fantasticar as they made their flight towards the Avengers mansion, Reed looked out the side window to the Helicarrier coming into sight from the bay. Seeing the two transports fly to the massive vessel with their shipment of the gene trigger, Reed knew that whether he was there or not, Fury would still implement that plan. The city would be safe from Lilith’s hordes if they ever tried to invade… But the REAL threat were the Avengers now. Checking his flight and heading towards their destination, Reed almost flinched when he felt two pairs of arms gently wrap around his shoulders from behind and the lips of his wife kissing him over the side of his forehead.

“You didn’t hurt him, did you?” He asked with a hint of worry. The answer he got from his wife was a knowing smile, shifting her eyes away in a coy gesture.

“No… But he will likely be thinking twice about using our kids as leverage again, I’ll set him free from my forcefields… Now.” She gestured with a raised finger, as if she were tapping a button in front of her. “He won’t be harmed; Sara is watching over him with the detonator to the bomb I put around his neck.”

“SUSAN! You didn’t…”

Giving Reed a warm smile, Susan pulled free a couple of small objects from her top, revealing them to be a pair of AA batteries. “It works better when you’ve got these in it.”

At the back of the Fantasticar, Ben chuckled out loud, elbowing Iron Man in the shoulder and quickly remembering the man’s injuries when he yelped with a start. Looking out of the window, the lot spotted the mansion down below. Descending to the grassy lawn just in front of the mansion, the Fantasticar opened to let everyone out, ready for anything. Johnny and Janet already took to the air, the Human Torch set aflame and kept aloft with thermal down drafts and the Wasp keeping airborne under her own power with her diaphanous wings. Eventually Iron Man joined them in the air, having some trouble keeping his balance but regaining his control quickly once he joined the two.

“Are they still in there?” The Thing asked, finding the mansion quiet. “Because I don’t see nothing moving.”

Narrowing her eyes, Susan sneered and looked over to Alicia, the pair sharing the same disgusted look when they too turned to look up to Janet. All three in consensus after sensing what they could from the building. “Yeah, they’re in there alright.” Waving her hands in front of her, Susan closed her eyes and concentrated. When she reopened them, a bubble of invisibility bloomed out from her body and expanded rapidly until it enveloped the entire property of the mansion, essentially sealing them all within the bubble **** field she created. “No one comes in, no one goes out.” She declared.

“Should we knock?” Asked Johnny, shrugging with his hands up.

“Sure thing, kiddo.” Closing his fist and aiming his arm out at the front doors, Iron Man’s arm opened a compartment that extended a small missile, firing off and blowing the front doors of the mansion apart to splinters and setting off an explosion that blew out all the windows and have the ruins of the front doors belch out a plume of fire. “Knock knock.”

Blinking back in shock, Johnny leaned in close to Janet with a smirk. “You think that got their attention?”

The bellowing roar from the mansion ruins caught everyone’s attention when a green mass the size of a car shot out of the burning roof and slammed down right on top of the Thing. Managing to catch its claws in his stony hands when the impact slammed him into the ground with enough **** to cause a foot-deep crater, Ben looked up at the twisted mandibles of the Hulk growling down at him and snapping his jaws trying to bite off his face. “A LITTLE HELP HERE!” He called out, struggling with the monster’s inhuman strength.

“I’m on it!” Aiming out his hands, several compartments in Stark’s armor revealed micro-missile launchers and small cannons prepped to fire. But before he could unload unto the incredible Hulk, two other forms lunged out of the mansions debris and attacked him. She-Hulk and Tigra barred towards the wounded Iron Man, faster than he could react, Tony managed to fire several scattershot missiles in their direction and sent the She-Hulk reeling, but not before Stark was tackled out of the air and pinned to the ground. Raising his arms up to defend himself Tony’s gauges and displays flashed hot red as the reptilian, tentacle riddled Tigra snarled and slashed at his armor, leaving deep scores in the metal with her claws.

Before a more lethal blow could be struck, the hissing creature screeched in pain when she was doused in intense flame, scurrying off Iron Man and rolling on the ground in agony, trying to put out the fires. Looking up, Tony found the Human Torch land next to him and help him back up to his feet.

“You okay?”

“Not the first time she tried to kill me.”

Looking up from his prone state, Tony found the rest of the Avengers had freed themselves of the mansion along with dozens of others he did not recognize. Charging towards the Fantastic Four with the ferocity of a wasp’s nest kicked over.

“I’m starting to think I should have been more subtle…”

“Pff… Screw subtle.” Setting aflame once again, Johnny leapt into the air and joined the fight where Wasp had her hands full fending off Black Widow before Johnny blasted her in flames.

Ben had finally gotten back to his feet, locked in a grapple with the hulk as he continued to snap his jaws and tentacles at the Thing. He was able to fend him off, but he knew he was fighting a losing battle. Whatever the Hulk had become, he was not holding back. “Youz gotten UGLY there Banner, I finally feel handsome in front of ya.”

“Appearances are nothing Grimm… All that matters is the swarm.”

Blinking back in surprise, Ben gasped as he felt a pair of arms grab him by behind in a **** hold, forcing him to lose his grip and look behind him to find Jennifer smiling back at him. “The swarm is everything Ben, and soon you will be a part of it.”

Fumbling back, the two Hulks pinned the Thing down.

GET THE HELL OFF HIM!!!” Screamed Alicia, snapping her braided tentacles at the two hulks and binding them around their necks, pulling them back as best she could when she spotted the Human Torch land and assist.

“I got you buddy!”

He was about to unleash a column of flames towards the two monstrosities when his powers backfired on him, causing him to cry out in pain as he felt like he was on fire without the protection of his powers. Collapsing to his knees and going into heat rigor, Johnny looked to where he heard laughter. Casually walking her way towards him and Alicia, the Scarlet Witch smiled a grin best found on a piranha. Her flesh was a translucent green like the others, riddled with spines and tentacles. But her scalp sported a pair of heavy, gnarled horns like the rack found on a mountain goat, her feet were digitigrade and gripping the earth with sharp talons while a cloak of fleshy fins furled behind her. Wanda’s hands swirling with arcane energies, inverting the Human Torch’s powers and sending Alicia to her knees in pain.

“You cannot stop us Johnny Storm… The swarm consumes all.”

“Consumes all…” The turned heroes said in unison.

Tigra had gotten up from her burns and already looked completely healed, turning her attention to Susan and Reed, she gave off a phlegm drooling roar before charging towards them. Dividing her attention, Susan sent the feline creature back with a concussive blow of solid invisible light while maintaining the forcefield around the mansion ruins, keeping the fight here and not letting it spread out to the rest of the city. Very quickly the tides of the fight were changing as the Avengers overpowered the Four and their allies. Janet ended up being bound in organic webbing being spun by the Black Widow, flicking her six claws to spread her silk over the struggling Wasp and keeping her in place. Her face was a mess of drippings mandibles and eyes as she hissed down at her prey.

A blur of cosmic energy blinded Susan before a pair of masses pinned her down onto the ground. Looking up, she snarled, snapping her tentacles at her attackers only to find them just as strong if not stronger than her. Finding herself taken down by Captain America and Thor, the two eyed her up as they kept her arms pinned. Looking for her husband, Susan was horrified to find Captain Marvel holding Reed by his throat, the rest of her body was enveloped in destructive energies that prevented Mr. Fantastic from fighting back without seriously hurting himself. Carol had become a nightmare of herself, plated, membranous wings like the fins of a fish flapped idly behind her while a pronged tail flicked and curled by her feet, ending in a snapping barbed claw. Her scalp was alive with tentacles that barely obscured the fin of spines that lined down her scalp like a mohawk. Smiling with razor sharp teeth and leering at the struggling elastic man with reptilian eyes, her attention soon fell back to Susan.

“REED!”

Gasping and clutching at Carol’s arm to keep himself breathing, the alien creature looked down at the cannister he held wrapped in his arm like the coils of a snake. “You think to stop us with an explosive? We cannot be stopped. We are perfection, predatory perfection that will scour this Earth and the worlds beyond… Thanks to THIS body, the swarm can reach MANY worlds.” Grabbing the cannister, she tossed it to the ground with a cruel laugh, seeing the fear in Reed’s eyes with dark satisfaction. Carol purred at the sight of his terror, bringing Reed close to lick at his face.

“GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!!!” Susan roared, unable to break free of the alien creatures that used to be Captain America and Thor.

Paying Susan brief attention, Carol’s eyes narrowed with amusement. “Do not worry ‘former’ queen, you shall return to our good graces soon.” Looking to the rest of their prisoners, the Fantastic Four and their allies were all contained, unable to fight back. “We do not wish to kill YOU, no… Our Queen wants power, power to consume, power to infect, power to multiply… Image how powerful our swarm will be… When YOU are added to it Reed Richards.”

Gasping and coughing as her tail snapped around and clutched at his throat, Reed suffocated, his mouth wide open gasping for air. A prone position Carol took advantage of when she pulled his tongue out of his mouth and scratched it down its length with her finger. Coughing and spitting up blood, Reed looked up with stars in his eyes to the sight of Carol extending her own tongue out of her fanged mouth to cut it as well… Then pulling him in for a languid kiss.

“REED!!!!!!!!”