A Plan in Motion…
I quickly check my front which took the brunt of the damage from the blast and it hurt quite a bit seeing just how powerful that blast was as spider powers are mainly for agility and not durability and so I quickly stiffen up my body to ignore my injuries and find my way to my feet and while I could probably lay back and wait for the fantastic four to defeat this guy I'm now really pissed at being blasted and would actually really like to send this grey troll packing but how to do that is the question since I can't actually reveal my powers, viewing the fight for a second from my position laying down on the floor I can see Reed currently wrapping himself around Blastaar trying to restrict his limbs and movements while leaving his head alone which Johnny is keeping a constant barrage of fire blasts at while Ben continues to lambast the grey mountain with blows that all actually avoid Reeds stretched body while Susan provides support by shielding them from Blastaar's attacks as well as protecting them from any friendly fire needed and I take a minute to marvel at the teamwork they are displaying since it takes real dedication and effort to get that good though there are slight mistakes here and there but that doesn't matter much since Susan covers them so right now the invader is taking a serious beating though it looks more like he is being pushed around but not actually hurt that much.
"Enough you filthy MAGGOTS! GET OFF OF ME, NOW!" Blastaar no longer wanting to play around and getting angry roars aloud and let's of some kind of full body blast like the blast he used earlier which blasts Ben back and blows Johnny tumbling through the air while affecting Reed in quite a different way since he was in such close proximity but with his powers Reed is awkwardly blasted away from him flinging in every which direction like a balloon that's been blown up and let go with putting a knot on it which blows it around the entire room before it eventually loses juice and collapses somewhere and without anything holding him back anymore Blastaar goes to take a step forward but finds himself restricted for some reason and when I look towards Susan I can see here holding her hands out towards him keeping him in place and not allowing him to move an inch which seems to be taking quite a lot out of her considering her strained face but this allows. Both Johnny and Ben enough time to recover and rush back in to the fight with Reed joining them shortly after in battle after recovering from his spin around the room, I watch as they easily get back into position and continue battling the hulking grey monstrosity without giving an inch and keeping him in place right in front of the teleported and I realise that this battle is going to be in a stalemate for a long time or it's gonna get resolved quickly if the grey beats begins to use his blasts more efficiently but for some reason he isn't doing it which I'm grateful for but even so it's only a matter of time before he starts blasting which is gonna be pretty soon but even so there's not a lot I can do in this situation given the fact that I can't physically get involved due to hiding my powers and the only way I could possibly affect this battle in anyway is to use my technical expertise and knowledge but even then I'm stuck for ideas and so I take one last cursory glance around the laboratory in search of something that may interest and aid me in my endeavours.
Spotting the things around me and all my possible tools and equipment I began to fashion a plan in my mind that just might work without actually getting me too involved in the fight as I would just be acting as limited support to the rest of the guys and so with the vestiges of my plan forming in my mind I pick up the remote control for the television in Reeds laboratory and begin to slowly worm crawl my way back to my currently occupied friends which was fine by me since it meant no one would be paying too much attention to me allowing me to be free to do what I'm gonna do without interruptions though perhaps no one paying attention to me could be a bad thing considering I'm in a literal battle field and people aren't gonna keep an eye out for me as shown by the blast of fire that johnny just blasted by me, now more cautious and frantic I hurried my way towards my destination while making sure to take cover behind objects on the way to protect my own ass and quite quickly I managed to make it to my destination which was actually the control station for the portal that had been blown up by Blastaar to prevent us from opening it up and sending him back through and it was dangerously close to the battle seeing as to how the control station was connected to the side of the portal which Blastaar was fighting directly in front of meaning that I was just a few meters away from them only being hidden by the destroyed remains of the control station.
Although it is indeed dangerous being so close to the action I'm at least being covered by the wreckage of the control station and there's a reason why I'm here as well because even if the control station is destroyed the portal itself is fine but it needs a switch to be activated which is why I brought the remote control along with me as I'll be using the components inside of it (mainly the buttons) and whatever I can salvage from the remains of the control station to create another activator for the portal and while I might not be able to do anything with it other then turn the portal on and off (not choosing where to deploy the portal in the Negative Zone, not putting coordinates or any other deeper controls) that's all I need since I just want the portal to be activated to send the big grey bastard through it to three Negative Zone without thinking about where he's gonna end up and just caring about the fact that he's no longer here with us, I quickly get to work as I hide behind the remains of the control station taking whatever I can salvage from it and implanting it in the remote control while ripping out the nonessentials from the remote which was pretty much all of it but all I really needed was a signal to relay to the portal and switch it on and off so with some quick work I managed to alter the remote to connect to the portal and switch it on and off but of course while theoretically this should work I don't actually have any confirmation that it will work since I can't test it out due to Blastaar being right in front of the portal and if he sees it turn on then he might destroy the thing before he can be blasted through so I'm gonna have to work on some faith now but what's more important at the moment is finding a way to blast him through it because while the others are getting some hits in they don't have enough force to blast him away.
Thinking quickly now that I have the device to activate the portal I begin to make my way back the way I came to the edge of the room making sure to stay out of sight before I then skirt along the outside of the room till I get where Susan is and at this point I assure myself that I am far enough away from the fight that it wouldn't matter if they saw me or not since Blastaar would be too caught up in battle to do anything and so I actually started to walk on my own two feet instead of crawling along the floor like I had been and arrived next to Susan who didn't even notice me because she was much too focused on the fight ahead of us, and who could blame her when her forcefields could be the difference between life and death for any of the other three members of the Fantastic Four considering the punches Blastaar was throwing around along with the blasts he was starting to use now but that didn't make as much difference as it did the first time considering the fact that the rest of them now knew to expect it and so could avoid and work around it such as Reed now hitting and punching with enlarged fists instead of trying to restrict the invaders movements. "Sue, are you alright? How's the fight going and are we winning?" I ask as I pull along side her startling her in the process but she immediately refocus on doing her job considering how vital it is but she manages to interact with me as she does so, I can see some of the others across the room also noticed my appearance but they don't pay it much attention since they don't have the luxury to and instead they concentrate on fighting this guy who actually didn't notice me which I'm very grateful for. "Nick, your alright? Thank god, we were so worried when you got blasted across the room by that monster. You should get out of here, get to the elevator and leave while we take care of this guy."
She's telling me to leave and go while they fight him which I admittedly did think about but right now I have a plan and I while I'm nearly one hundred percent sure that the Fantastic Four can take care of this guy by themselves there's that slight chance that they might die while in battle or fail which would not only mean that one of the best superhero groups in the world is gone but it would also mean that I'd no longer have an internship here and most of their files and day would most likely be confiscated by Shield or some other organisation therefore restricting my access which I can't allow so I have to make sure they beat this guy so that my place here is safe as well as my access to the wealth of knowledge stored within the databanks (oh, and also the fact that if they lose this Blastaar guy would win and be given free reign to do what he wants till some other superheroes manage to get here and I'm too close for comfort to wait until they do so this is my best option), coming in close to her as she concentrates on the fight I get close to her and lower my mouth till it nears her ear and I begin whisper quietly into her ear. "I can't leave now, what kind of guy would that make me. I'm whispering because I'm unsure if this Blastaar has super hearing or something and I don't want him to hear this, I've rebuilt the controls to the portal he's currently standing in front of and I can now activate and open it but we need to do it at the right moment because if we do it too early he'll destroy it pushing us back to square one. We need a plan to push him through and right now even with the punches Ben's throwing Blastaar is too tough and his stance is making him very stable making any chance of him getting punched through the portal low, do you have any idea as to what we can do to push him through or maybe get him off balance so that Ben can punch him through the portal?"
Susan turns an eye on me in response to my words and I quickly back away from her ear feeling that I was too close but she doesn't seem to care about that as she regards me with an eye before glancing down at the TV remote control in my hand that I refashioned into an activator for the portal and while she eyes it with some concern she eventually decides to trust in my word and she nods, she then gestures with her head for me to come closer to her and I do so before she become again and I be the message lowering myself so my ear was next to her this time so that she could whisper to me. "I've got a plan, it should work. Just make sure you keep your finger on the trigger and get ready to pull it, you'll know when…"
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