unbreakableben | Entries tagged with tomb of namor

"Dude, you sure you're okay with Sue showing Namor the town?" Ben asks Reed as they share a cup of coffee in Reed's lab.

"Hmm…" Reed says distractedly as he makes a few adjustments to his latest project.

Ben reaches and grabs Reed's head and pulls it around to face him. "You're girl showing Mr. Ego the town. You sure you're okay with it?"

"Oh yeah. Well mostly…" Reed replies. "I mean Dr. Storm has a couple of heavy combat drones following them around and Sue can take care of herself."

"Yeah, but what about you guys? That fish guy ain't exactly hard on the lady's eyes."

"Well, Sue's a grown woman. She can make her own choices…but if you and Johnny wanted to 'go out on the town' I wouldn't stand in your way," Reed says hopefully.

"You know, now that you mention it, my legs could use a good stretch. See yeah later."

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Claire had so looked forward to finally getting to see New York City and with her sixteenth birthday, her chance had finally come. Her parents had saved up for the trip and everything was perfect. A hotel within walking distance of Central Park, tickets to see Wicked and she even caught a glimpse of Thor as he flew to the Triskelion. Today they had decided to see TImes Square and all was perfect…until the cab they were in was picked up by the hunk of a guy and thrown at the rock monster. She couldn't tell if the screaming she heard was hers, her mother's or her father and she supposed it didn't really matter. What did matter was that she was only sixteen and she was going to die, painfully and horribly.

But then the strangest, most miraculous thing happened. The rock monster caught the taxi and saved them. He even winked at her through the window. That was until the hunk flew over and hit the monster in the back and kidneys (do rock monsters have kidneys?) a few times. The monsters face crumpled in pain but he never dropped the car. In fact he turned to shield the car from the nutjob!

Finally, the monster croaked out, "A little help here Johnny?" and then there was a wall of fire separating them. The monster carefully put down their taxi and then leaped away to attack the nutjob again only to be knocked three blocks away.

After that things went really crazy. Her mom couldn't stop screaming, her dad was trying to pull them away somewhere (but where was there to go?) and the nutjob knocked out the flaming man. Then there was a giant robot, a fifty foot woman in her underwear and the Ultimates (by this time Claire was wondering if she had hit her head). Then the Invisible Woman, she wasn't invisible at the time, made an invisible dome around the nutjob and the flaming man. She screamed for everyone to close their eyes and there was this bright flash and then everything inside the dome was burnt (except for the nutjob and the flaming man). Then the rock man came back and dropped a bus on the nutjob and everyone cheered cause really, who can take being burnt and then hit by a bus? Turns out the nutjob can. Then the nutjob really started screaming and the sky when dark and there was this massive water giant (that kind of looked like Poseidon) and the nutjob ranted some more and then the Invisible Woman kissed him. After the kiss he said something like, "She meant it" and then he flew away. The water giant collapsed getting everyone and everything wet and the four heroes (cause that's what they were Claire decided) stood looking awkward until a military van came and picked them up.

And truth be told, it was the best time Claire had ever had.

Ben comes to and the waters are calm though the silt is still clouding the area. He feels an immense pressure and can barely lift himself but once he does, the block of debris rolls off him and he stands. Breathing is hard. His face plate is cracked and water is seeping in but that shouldn't matter as his suit is pressurized. Oh wait, if there's a crack that means it's not pressurized so much anymore. yeah, that migth be why he's having trouble breathing. Where are Reed and Sue?

"Reed? Sue? Anyone hear me?" he broadcasts and gets intermittent static for his trouble.

He looks around and finds them both knocked out (he hopes it's just knocked out) and their suits seemingly in good condition. He picks them up and carefully makes his way back to the sub. With his suit compromised he'll need to decompress before entering the cabin proper. He should probably decompress Sue and Reed as well, just in case their suits were damaged. Ben had studied the dangers of deep sea diving and the articles on rapid decompression really made an impression.

Ten minutes later and he pulls Reed and Sue into the cabin to strap them into the seats. He tries to fit himself into the pilots seat but won't fit. Crap.

Bending down he examines how it's anchored to the deck and then pinches off the nuts holding the bolts in place, careful not to damage the hull, and then lifts the chair to stow it in the pressure exchange chamber. Grabbing the joy stick, he experiments a bit to get the feel of the sub before activating the engines and beginning their accent. About four hundred fathoms later it occurs to him that the sub's radio might not be damaged and so flips it on.

"May day, may day. We are under attack by a super powered individual." the radio crackles.

Ah Hell, he thinks and carefully pushes the broadcast button. "This is Discovery Eight. Calvary's coming!"
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[OOC-The following dialog and scenes come from Ultimate Fantastic Four 25.]

By the time they've gotten to where they can see the hull of the boat, Reed and Sue have woken and the radio has been giving a very one sided rundown of Namor and Johnny's fight. And just in time to, as Johnny's body plunges into the ocean. Reed hits the autopilot homing signal, pops the emergency hatch and yells out, "Let's get Johnny. Forget about the sub, it'll find it's way home." He then stretches to catch Johnny's until Sue wraps him with a force field and melds it to the one with air she and Ben are rising in.

"Easy, little brother," Sue says as they continue to rise. Breaking the surface into a nasty squall of rain and wind, they can see Reed has engulfed a struggling body which is safe to assume is Namor. "Big, deep breaths…"

"Ben?" Reed calls out casually like they do this every day. Sue has already formed stepping discs for Ben and is moving him into position.

"I know, I know…" Ben says pulling back. "Clobberin' time." Namor goes limp and Sue pulls them all together into one large disc which floats to the research ship.

"Over here. Just a little closer. C'mon, hurry up!" Doctor Storm is calling to the deck hands.

"Don't worry, Professor. We managed to disable our royal friend without doing any permanent damage." Reed calls out.

"Never mind about him. It's you guys I was worried about." Doctor Storm says as he leaps across to Sue's force field to hug her and Johnny.

"Never scare me like that again. You hear me? Never scare me like that again."

[OOC-All dialog and scenes come from Ultimate Fantastic Four #24. Dear god I'm deep in the Land art now...help me.]

Cramped as the sub is, Ben is doing his best not to move. Accidentally hitting Reed or Sue while they steer would be bad enough but if he upset the center of balance and sent them spinning? No he'll just sit here quietly, in the gradually darkening tight closet and try and make himself as small as he can.

"Twelve hundred fathoms and starting to feel the pressure, Doctor Storm. Even with Sue's force field…" Reed reports.

"You can turn back any time you want, Reed. If it all gets too much, you only have to say the word." Doctor Storm replies through the radio static.

"We can handle it," Sue replies calmly.

Five minutes–and two hundred fathoms–later, the headlamps of the deep sea submersible start to illuminate shapes. Nebulous at first but soon they become clearer; pyramids, obelisks, columns, buildings and towering above them all a massive sphinx nearly three times the size of the greatest pyramid at Giza.

"WOW!" Ben says forgetting himself and leaning forward. The whine of the motors increases as they automatically adjust for the pitch his shift in position has caused.

"Are you getting all this? Are the cameras still working?" Sue calls out.

"Recording everything you're seeing via the sub's cams." Doctor Storm says from the surface.

"I'm so proud of you, Susan. You've no idea how proud of you I am for this. I'd give anything to be down there with you right now. Anything…" the other Doctor Storm says. Ben looks over at Sue to gauge the affect of the praise from her long lost mother as he's still not convinced Sue is okay.

"We're suiting up now. Back in five minutes," is Sue's only reply. Once they are all suited up in the specially adapted deep sea suits (well Ben's suit is special but Reed doesn't really need one–aside from oxygen–and Sue is fine in standard issue), Sue switches on her helmet's radio and cam and reports, "Suits active, are you receiving?"

"Loud and clear."

They cycle through the pressurized chamber and turn on their helmet spotlights. As they decent into the water, Ben can't help but wonder at the near weightlessness he feels. It's almost like being in the space of the N-zone again and he can't help the thrill of excitement which takes him.

"Disengaged from Discovery Eight and following the signal to its source, Doctor Storm. Force fields are working fine, all instruments fully functioning." Reed reports.

"Roger that."

They follow the signal to the base of the sphinx and search around until Sue spots a blinking light. Carefully brushing away the sediment they study what appears to be some sort of electronic lock.

"What's the problem?" Dr. Storm says, impatient with the silence.

"I know this sounds weird, but there's some kind of digital lock on the door…like the ones we use for secure areas. I can't believe this thing's still working after nine thousand years." Sue says.

"Ben?"

"Already on it, doc. If you guys could clear a little space…" Ben says before he punches through the stone door. Who puts an electronic lock on a stone door?

"We're inside and getting some weird feedback. The signal's getting stronger, but the electronics are flickering on and off and I'm starting to feel a headache coming on," Sue says once everything settles.

"Defenses, most likely," Reed says. "Stick together and everything should be fine."

They continue past a few chambers, past walls covered in hieroglyphs and statues of seated pharaohs (with oddly pointed ears which remind Ben of Elrond) until they reach another locked doorway. Reed studies the writing and deciphers a cartouche as,"Namor?"

The last thing Ben hears before the whirlpool engulfs them is Sue screaming, "REED!"

"Shouldn't you go make sure she's okay?" Ben says worried about Susan. After their return from the Zombie-verse, Susan and Johnny's mom returning from the dead after 15 years shouldn't be that big a deal but Ben can't imagine how betrayed he'd feel if his dad showed up after all that time. Plus Susan didn't exactly leave the meeting composed as all the shattered remains of coffee cups could attest.

"Sue just needs to be on her own for awhile, Ben. Between her mom showing up and the Atlantis situation, I think she just needs to cool down and assess the variables a little." Reed replies as they make their way through the nuclear containment area to where they're keeping the zombie Fantastic Four. And there's a whole new ball of therapy. No one should ever have to meet their zombie doppelgänger.

Ben shakes his head. Reed's the smartest guy on the planet and yet still the stupidest. Still what are best friends for? "What are the variables that she's gonna kick your butt for not giving her enough attention?"

"Slightly less that the variables of her dad kicking us out of the Baxter Building for bringing these super-zombies back from a parallel dimension."

Both raise their arms for the guards at the check point and are quickly passed thru.

"Man, that dude kicks us out of here he's looking at the world's biggest lawsuit. He's as much to blame for me looking like an over-baked turd as you are, Stretcho." Ben continues blinking in the red light of the highly secure area.

"Ben, we've opened Earth up to an infection that could destroy the human race in less that twenty-four hours," Reed replies as he hits the switch to raise the admantium shutters of the observation window. Their zombie counterparts are already staring at them as the room is revealed. "That beats a turd transformation any day of the week."

"What's this 'We' kimosabe?" Ben can't help but think as it was all Reed's doing that opened the way for these zombies and just like in the N-zone it was the rest of the team that was left to clean up the mess. Ben really hopes this isn't the beginning of a pattern.

[[OOC-All dialog and scenery taken from Ultimate Fantastic Four #24. Thoughts are my addition.]]