Chapters tagged doctor doom

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

Natasha's eyes rolled up in her head. She remembered some of her own encounters. Playing the honeypot. Not even a high-class escort. She was a whore picked up by a HYDRA agent in Bucharest. He had picked her up off the street, and she needed what he had. Yet things had gone too...

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

The recording ended. Ben Grimm's stony lips ground like the San Andreas Fault. Johnny Storm's eyebrows were alight, the young man unable to control himself. Only Reed Richards gave no overt sign of his agitation. "The children are still safe with Agatha Harkness," he said. "Ben,...

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

Sensors devoted to detect dimensional incursions refocused. Artificial intelligences scoured the internet and darknet. Ben Grimm made a discreet meeting to Heroes for Hire, with a suitcase full of cash. Johnny Storm crisscrossed the skies of Manhattan, a special sensor about his...

by Zeebop

Chapter 22

In Times Square the digital screens shifted to a sweaty, flushed face. Onlookers paused at the familiar sight of Sue Storm's blue eyes, dilated now with pain and pleasure. Cable networks across the world suddenly experienced technical malfunctions. Static swept across hundreds o...

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

For three days, the world was scoured. Reed Richard's sensors swept through adjacent dimensions. Tony Stark hijacked the world's satellite network. Dr. Strange peered into the Orb of Agamotto. Nick Fury's LMDs checked in with every contact, every spy in his vast network. Nothing...

by Zeebop

Chapter 24

"How is she?" Johnny Storm asked. Reed Richard's face was haggard. "She's resting. Physically healthy. The baby, too. She's almost due. Ready to give birth any time. Traces of temporal energy, they held her somewhere for the duration of the pregnancy. There are signs of...exces...

by Zeebop

Chapter 20

There were a thousand good reasons to leave. Some of them had names. Her children. Her husband. Family. Reputation. Porkum was a criminal, a mutant with some strange power over her. This whole thing was a trap, and Sue Storm had walked into it, arrogant despite her preparations....

by Zeebop

Chapter 27

With her knowledge of the Baxter Building's security systems, Mrs. Fantastic quickly located her wife. The Invisible Woman was in the master bathroom. The only other life sign in the building was Porkum, who was in the master bedroom. The genderswapped Reed Richards scowled at th...

by Zeebop

Chapter 24

The armored figure raised their arms, palms outward. For a moment, Natasha Romanoff heard the buzz of electronics. Then she was flipping as twin beams of plasma lanced out from the arms and annihilated the Fantastic Four's conference table. As she tumbled, the figure was already...

by Zeebop

Chapter 22

The Latverian monarch steepled his armored fingers before him as he stared at the children on the screen. The children of his most hated enemy...and Sue Storm. His connection was particularly strong with Valeria; he had helped bring her into this world, and she bore the name of h...

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

After many years, there was once again the sound of children in Doomstadt. Franklin and Valeria had their own rooms. There were private tutors who taught them science, language, history, mathematics, physical education. Game rooms provided recreation. Personal chefs and nutritio...

by Zeebop

Chapter 24

Sue Storm took a moment to consider her response. At last she said: "Thank you Victor. For what you did for Franklin and Valeria, for me...for everything. I truly am grateful for it," she stepped out of the scanning device and turned to face him. There was conflict in her face....

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

"The servants will see you to your rooms," Doctor Doom told Franklin and Valeria. "Your mother needs immediate medical attention." "No!" Franklin said. Doom paused. He looked down at the young boy. "You swore to obey me," Doom said. "You have trusted me this far. Trust me a li...

by Zeebop

Chapter 24

"Good," Sue Storm said. There was confusion in her voice. Even a touch of wonder. "Really good. I feel so—alive. Almost bursting with energy." She held up a hand, which faded into view. "I can see so clearly. And my hand—the scar I had, on my little finger, where I burned mysel...

by Zeebop

Chapter 22

"Why do you need my help?" Doctor Doom asked. Between them, Franklin and Valeria told Doom what he already knew. Their mother's diffidence and change in behavior. The absence of the rest of the Fantastic Four. The appearance of Porkum. Somberly, soberly, he asked pointed, specif...

by Zeebop

Chapter 23

"Jean Grey Academy?" Franklin Richards said. "It's for the best, sweetie," Sue Storm said as she adjusted his uniform. "Porkum and I have been discussing it for weeks. He was thinking military school, but I convinced him that you needed more...special accommodations. People that...

by Zeebop

Chapter 25

A sensor pinged. Doctor Doom tapped a control, and a holographic screen lit up. Behind his mask, the Latverian monarch's scarred lips twisted into a smile. A dimensional rip. Not unusual for an X-Men compound. But the psionic signature matched Franklin Richards—and as his satell...

by Zeebop

Chapter 16

Sue picked up the phone and called. Porkum gave her an address. When night fell, the Fantasticar settled into the parking lot of the pork packing plant. The Invisible Woman walked down invisible steps. She was wearing her most revealing uniform, the one that she had to wax her...

by Zeebop

Chapter 15

Sue Storm purged. Enemas. Induced vomiting. Sanitization as if she had just emerged from the Negative Zone, which left her skin pink and sensitive. She emerged, shaking and hollowed-out, to a meal of probiotics and granola. The kind of food that felt like a punishment in and of...

by Zeebop

Chapter 14

It was a long walk back to the Baxter Building. Sue Storm squelched with every step, Porkum's seed dribbling down her thighs in thick globs. Her mind wasn't on the risk of pregnancy; she was reviewing other options. Porkum was dangerous. More dangerous than the Invisible Woman h...