Queen checks King.

Searching for an opening among the throng of slithering creatures slashing at his daughter’s **** field, Reed looked over to where the hallway leading to his lab was. For the moment the creatures were only interested in them and not the building itself, leaving the hallway empty. Looking down to the shivering girl, it did him proud that she was still holding it all up, keeping her eyes closed to the monsters hissing and screeching bloody **** on the other side of her **** field she held up. Looking to Franklin who was holding onto his father’s arm tightly, Reed knelt and held his two children tight.

“Franklin, I need you to do something for me, do you see the hallway to Daddy’s lab?”

Braving himself to look up over the multiple creatures slathering and snapping at the wall of solid light, the boy found the hallway empty, nodding slowly up to his father. “Good, I need you to use your powers to make a way through.”

“But you told me never to use my powers.”

“I know I did son, but we can make an exception, clear a way for all of us so we can get to safety.”

He was always told to be careful with his powers, to never use them out in the world or even in the home, and for good reason! The power to alter the wold on a molecular level was incredible… And dangerous. Especially in the hands of a ten-year-old boy. Raising his hands and closing his eyes, the young boy concentrated on what he wanted. When he opened his eyes again, he only said two words. “Go away…” The scream was almost deafening as a column of open air cut through between the Richards family and the hallway, instantly disintegrating everything in between and out of the way. What creatures were in the path of destruction had ceased to exist, and the rest reeled back clutching at missing limbs gushing fluids that stained the floor and walls. “NOW!” Picking up both his children in his outstretched arms, Valeria dropped the bubble of solid light while her uncle blasted a wake of superheated air all around them to launch the horde of monsters off them. Now with a clear path, the five ran for their lives, being granted a brief respite as the monsters literally licked at their wounds. Running as fast as they could, Johnny looked behind him to find the swarm of slithering creatures were already rebounding and chasing them, many regrowing missing limbs within seconds.

Finally reaching the door of his lab, the Human Torch set the entire floor aflame behind him just as the Thing punched the controls to the doors, slamming them shut behind him just in time for the burning horde to collide into it, the heavy thumb and thud of their bodies slamming into the foot thick metal doors.

“HERBIE! Set up a hermetic energy bubble around the lab.” Reed called out, setting his two kids down on the floor while still balancing the spoon full of organic matter in his hand to pour the green gelatinous sludge into a gene scanner at the table. “Acknowledged Dr. Richards.” The A.I. chirped as a purple tinged bubble of energy surrounded the entire lab area, an electric hum filling the air as the group realised the bubble extended outside the walls, floor and ceiling. Looking back at the door behind them, Ben stepped back when he could still hear the creatures on the other side screech and roar in fury, body tackling the door to try and get through. And by the small dents forming on its surface he was surprised to find they were slowly making their way in doing just that.

“Is that gonna hold, Reed?”

“I don’t know, but hopefully long enough for me to figure out what we are dealing with.” Typing away at the computer, the man activated the scanner and a holographic display of the gene sequence of the creature’s DNA rotated beside him. Moving with a dextrous speed all too familiar when he would enter his research, Reed Richards went over hundreds of gene codes, gasping at the complexity of it all.

“Incredible! This Species… It’s almost perfect, it can near instantly bioform itself to any environment and spontaneously regenerate to any injury, any trauma whatsoever.” He caught himself in his wonder, focusing on the task in front of him to try and find a way to stop these creatures from attacking his family, or worse get out! “The genome is so complex it actually responds near instantly to any stimuli that might damage it, that would mean there is no way of tampering or damaging the genetic structure in any way, and… No! No, no, no, NO, no, no…”

Seeing a massive dent in the solid steel door where they could see tentacles try to slither through the tiny cracks of the buckled metal, Ben and Johnny turned to Reed who nearly stepped back in shock at what he was looking at. “What Reed?! Can you stop this or not?”

“These creatures are… They’re part human!”

“WHAT?!”

“Not just part human, part US! This genome here, and those base pairs there… Oh god!”

Feeling the lab lurch from another impact by the swarm behind the door, the family looked around them as they heard metal twist and groan. Impacts powerful enough to feel like a city bus slammed into the door and walls around it, causing plaster dust to fall and the reinforced door frame to twist. “SUSAN! OH MY GOD! IT’S SUSAN!” Thick chitinous claws speared through the lip of the door, branching out dozens of green sinuous tentacles that branches out and rooted themselves over the surface of the door before it was crumpled and bent, pried apart and **** wide open to make way for the massive behemoth that stomped into the lab. It wasn’t a singular creature, not quite. An amalgamated mass of the swarming creatures had tangled and knotted themselves up together into a gestalt form that looked like some hunched gorilla that lumbered into the lab complex and bellowed a roar from its many toothy mouths across its entire body, dozens of human sized creatures followed behind it, swarming up the walls and around the energy bubble that protected the Richards family.

They slithered and crawled in what space was available to them, taking on forms best suited to do the most lethal damage possible; some slithered on serpentine bodies while others skittered on chitinous limbs like insects or arachnids, waving tentacles coiled and snapped like angry serpents all while the swarm hissed and chittered at the family that had so far stoked the swarm into a murderous rage. Having made their way through the foot-thick steel door effortlessly, the hulking gestalt brute lifted its massive limbs and pounded against the energy barrier, making the thing flicker at the amount of energy needed to block such a strike.

“Holy shit, how strong are these things?” Swore Ben Grimm, looking at the monster comprised of twenty or so tangled bodies staring furiously back at him with dozens of reptilian eyes. Almost making him want to puke. Then something happened.

Parting to make space, the swarm of monsters lowered their heads and stepped aside to make room for something joining the swarm in the room. Even over the hiss and growls of the monsters, the family could make out the click clack of what sounded like heels walking over the scorched floor, just as a creature came into view and walked the threshold of the ruined lab door. Looking up at the door, Reed went pale.

She was tall, almost seven feet, her long legs sported sharp spurs down her thighs as she gracefully made one step in front of the other with a deliberate sway of her wide hips like a runway model. Her four arms hung from her sides, brandishing knife-like talons that looked sharp enough to easily cut through metal and rows of chitinous spurs down her forearms that looked equally as sharp. Yet she let one claw rest on her hip to show she was careful enough to not cut even herself. Her bare breasts heaved and swayed with each step and breath, standing proud from her chest over the smooth surface of her abdomen and naval. Behind her a sea of tentacles swayed and drifted like seaweed half as long as she was tall from her scalp, where a barbed tail swished and flicked behind her like that of a cat or scorpion.

Her face was crowned with a pair of horns or antlers that grew from her brow, arcing and framing her humanoid face like a tribal headdress. Pert lips pursed into a sensuous smile while yellow reptilian eyes leered at the family before her, separated by the energy barrier ahead of her. “My goodness husband…” Purred the female creature with a voice smooth as honey yet carried a cruel, predatory undertone. “Is this ANY way to treat your flesh and blood?”

Reed swallowed hard, looking up at the erotic and terrifying form of the female creature smiling back at him.

“Hello Susan…”