Wrecking Ball…
"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 beckons again and I understand 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."
Nodding my head in response to her words I quickly back away from her so as to give her enough space as to concentrate on her job which is providing support to the others and making sure they don't die which is pretty important so I'm fine with backing off and staying silent while just keeping watch and waiting till the moment where I have to activate the portal which shouldn't be too much of a weight considering the fact that this battle is continuing and Blastaar doesn't look much like he's tiring so they're gonna have to do something soon or risk the me of them getting seriously injured so I'll have to focus entirely on the battle and make sure I don't miss my opportunity to open the portal when they throw him backwards, otherwise we'll be screwed and while I'm sure they could handle it and pull it out of the bag even if I failed I'm pretty sure they would still be angry so I better not fuck this up.
Standing quite a fair bit behind Susan now I concentrate and focus my all into watching the battle as it progresses and it seems like the guys are making some headway now that they've gathered more information on his capabilities with Reed mostly zipping around the guy using his stretching powers to provide some sort of distraction whiteout getting too close while zapping him with some kind of weapon which he seems to swap out every so often trying to find something that will hurt him and while he does that Johnny still fires his blasts at the guy but because he can't make his fire too hot as he would risk hurting others here he has instead improved his accuracy and has began shooting at Blastaars eyes (or any orifice he can really, I saw him shoot a blast directly into the guys mouth one time) which are proving to be a weak point of his since he gets hurt and so he has to close his eyelids to protect his eyes which blinds him, this gives opportunity for Ben to get through and start sucker punching him (Ben has not really changed what he's doing but he's changed when he's doing it as he's waiting for opportunities provided by the others to get in and deliver some damage) but even then Blastaar knows what to expect after closing his eyes so his stance is wide for stability with his arms crossed in front of him to provide some measure of defence so that even with Ben delivering some serious damage the guy is like a rock that's taking it and isn't getting thrown away which means even with the guys better teamwork and efficiency we are not getting closer to getting this guy through the portal and back to the negative zone.
Susan seemingly seeing her opportunity yells two different orders at once for the other Fantastic Four members to hear, the first one being for Johnny and the second one being for both Reed and Ben to follow and I'm wondering what the words she is shouting actually mean because they are pretty weird. "Guys we've got a plan trust me, just follow my orders! Johnny, Fire Spout. Reed and Ben, Wrecking Ball! Shoot him towards the goal!" I think I understand the last bit as she's telling them to hit Blastaar into to the goal with the goal being the portal as it's circular and pretty easy to understand what she means without tipping off Blastaar because they probably don't have sport where he's from and I can gather form context that it's Ben and Reeds job to hit him towards the goal since their orders are 'Wrecking Hall' which I don't know how to interpret because obviously in that scenario Ben would be the wrecking ball but for something to be a wrecking ball it needs to be swinging from something and while theoretically Reed could be the chain in this scenario I don't think he has the strength nor the rigidity to be the chain to Ben's ball so I'm pretty confused what's happening here, what I'm not confused about though is Johnny's job since with a name like 'Fire Spout' it's not too difficult to infer what that means since spout is sometimes used in place of spew so Johnny just gonna be spewing fire which he's been doing this entire time so for this to actually have a code word to it must mean something different is also being done here aside from the regular blasts and I figure out the difference pretty fast considering that Johnny started to blaze a continuous stream of fire at Blastaar which is no different to what he's done before but what is different is the fact that Blastaar had to actually defend against this fire by crossing his arms in front of him and even then it seems like the fire is nearly pushing him back and I quickly understand what is different about Johnny's flames this time being the fact that they are considerably more hot now reaching unbearable temperatures and while I can actually handle these temperatures due to my powers these guys don't know that and they have some resistance to fire so I'm a bit confused at what sues planning until I see a brief shimmer in front of me and I realise she placed a force field/barrier in front of me to protect me from the heat which I appreciate as it keeps my cover intact but even then she continues to look at the battle and concentrate on her work but when I look at the battlefield I'm confused as to what she's actually doing since I can't see any of her forcefields at all (yes they're invisible (kinda) but with all the flames I would have expected the forcefields to become visible but I can't see anything).
Seeing that Johnny is doing what he's supposed to which is following his sisters orders I look over to Ben and Reed curious as to how 'Wrecking Hall' worked since I couldn't figure it out but when I looked over it seemed like Reed was reluctant to do what Susan wanted him to as he stood there just staring at Blastaar as he was sieved by Johnny's fire contemplating and not wanting to follow Susan's plan which I can kinda understand since she hasn't really said anything about the plan and just ordered them around but she's only done that because she doesn't want to alert Blastaar and make him destroy the portal before we send him threw but it seems like Susan isn't noticing Reeds reluctance as she focuses on doing whatever part of this she involved in and I'm about to step in and say something when I see Ben approach Reed and pull him along to the centre of the room which was thankfully somehow empty of clutter which is rare for any part of Reeds lab, it seems that Reed decided to go along with the plan since he had no other option and he had no other plans in the work so he might as well try and do this since he very one else was doing there parts already and so Reed quickly stretches his arm out across the room and I can't see where it goes as it's lost in the clutter but when it appears again as it saps back to his body he's holding a metal pole around the size of a baseball bat and once he has it he holds it out upright and suddenly both ends of the pole extend digging into both the floor and the ceiling and I can see various other metal components pop out from the sides and begin to hook themselves into the floor and ceiling to make it stable and I'm confused what this is supposed to be and I'm equally confused when Reed goes and wraps his entire body around the midsection of the pole sand then stretches out his hand toward Ben with all his digits elongate he and wrapping around Ben's body which the orange rock man doesn't seem to mind.
I'm a whole lot more confused when after being wrapped up by one of Reed's arms Ben begins to jog around the pole in the middle slowly working his way up to a full blown sprint while all the time having Reed holding onto him and as Ben ran circles around the pole which ended up in Reed's whole body and arm being wrapped up around the pole as he ran around the pole but what amazed me further was the fact that no matter how many circles Ben sprinted around the pole it just seemed like Reed's arm kept going and stretching to accommodate him and after about a minute in which Blastaar was still being full blasted by Johnny Ben had ran around the pole ten to fifteen times before he stopped and that made me even more confused as to what was supposed to happen and I was surprised when Ben started to kneel on the ground and curl up into a hall before I found myself astonished when Reeds elongated arm began to fully wrap up the orange rock man completely covering him showing nothing of the man underneath as he was entirely covered by layers of Reed own body, I watch for a moment as they just sit there and wait for something to happen which I'm unaware of but it seems all they were waiting for was a signal. "Alright now, do it! Let it rip boys, full speed!"
After Susan shouts that I see Reed press a button that was almost invisible on the pole with his other free hand and suddenly the pole itself began to him as if some machinery was going to work in there, staring at it I can only come to one conclusion, holy shit this is crazy…
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