Blastaar Blasting Off…
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 ball 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 hum as if some machinery was going to work in there, staring at it I can only come to one conclusion but even then I was confused since I don't think even this would be enough to blast Blastaar through the portal but then again I could be wrong since I don't know exactly what the guys limits are and these guys have been fighting him for a while so they shouldn't you have a more accurate measure of him and if they think fifteen spins are gonna do it then who am I to doubt them.
With Blastaar being preoccupied by Johnny's full power fire blast which even managed to push him a few steps back there's nothing he can do as the pole Reeds attached to begins to hum and whirl before suddenly it revs up and begins to rapidly spin and when you take into account the direction Ben had run around the pole before hand you realise that he ran around the pole away form Blastaar and the portal and now that it began to spin in the opposite direction Reed himself who was attached to the pole itself began to spin around and he was attach her to the big wrecking ball that was Ben using his elongated arm and so as he began to spin so did Ben at a rapid speed and with each revolution the speed got faster and so did Ben and even then I noticed Reed either stretching or shrinking his arm as he span to give Ben enough slack to speed up but not enough length to hit Blastaar before they were supposed to whichever I'm guessing they'll know when Susan tells them and so they began to spin as Johnny continued his constant stream of fire on Blastaar and Susan watched them seemingly concentrating on something, with each revolution they spun I knew they had one less spin and I worried that whatever plan Susan was working on it wouldn't happen fast enough before the spins reached there end and I worried that the power of Ben even with all the centrifugal force wouldn't be enough to shoot Blastaar through the portal even with Johnny keeping him at bay which was why I was so shocked when Susan shouted her next orders to them. "Reed, hit him towards the goal NOW! Johnny, kill the FIRE! Nick, you know what to do."
While she shouted her two previous orders got here recipients she whispered her final order to me because not only was I right next to her but I also had the most important job which was to open the portal at the exact right time so the Blastaar could be hit through but to do it so that Blastaar wouldn't be able to destroy it before he was sent through but what alarms me most is the fact that I thought this plan hinged on Johnny distracting Blastaar with his flames slowing Ben to hit him through the portal but just now Susan ordered Johnny to kill his flames which he immediately did without hesitation which shows just how loyal and trusting he is of his sister but the situation is bad since Reed also follows through on his orders as well as he extends his arms to give Ben enough slack so that he would now be able to punt Blastaar but he only did that just after Ben passed Blastaar which meant he had another entire revolution to do before Blastaar would be hit by Ben and with Johnny killing his flames Blastaar no longer had anything distracting him and while that would admittedly only be for less than a second that was still too long as Blastaar could dodge or even brace himself for the blow in that time, my fears are proven true when Blastaar realises his situation and begins to raise his arms to defend himself but just before my hopes are compulsory dashed i see a slight glimmer beneath the invaders feet and suddenly he stumbles backwards and that was when I realised the absolute genius behind Susan's plan and he needs good what the crux of the plan truly was because Johnny's flames were not only meant to distract Blastaar but they were also intended to push the man back a bit which would be enough for him to step onto the paper thin forcefield Susan had laid against the ground behind him which was what she was concentrating on this entire time and so when Johnny cut his fire and Reed lengthened his arm Susan did her own part of the plan.
With Blastaar standing on Susan's thin force field she turns her forcefield into a slope and since Blastaar was on the forcefield he stumbles back caught unaware and by surprise and that's when I realise that it's my turn to do my part of the plan which was probably the easiest but since I created the device on the fly and I hadn't tested it I found myself worried that it wouldn't work when I pressed the bug button in the remote but thankfully my device worked perfectly and the portal behind Blastaar shudders to life creating a portal to somewhere in the Negative Dimension but even then Blastaar doesn't even have the time to realise that it's open since he's stumbling backwards and before he can react Ben completes his final revolution and smacks straight into Blastaar as he's destabilised and blasting him off like a rocket straight through the portal that I had just opened and that must've hurt both of them a lot but since almost all of the kinetic energy transferred from Ben to Blastaar at the point of collision Ben finds himself on the ground as Reed unwraps his arms from him and Johnny flys down to land beside them while releasing his flame transformation and I hear Susan let loose a sigh of relief which I find myself also doing alongside her, thankful for the mad man to now be on the other side of the portal I quickly realise that said portal is still activated and so I aim the remote towards it once again and press the button to deactivate it but nothing happens and so I press it again and then again and again each time with more pressure and speed before I finally realise that the remote control was bust and no longer working which means that the portal was still activated meaning that anyone or rather Blastaar could come flying back through at any moment. "SHIT, THIS GODDAMN REMOTE! I CAN'T SHUT DOWN THE FUCKIN PORTAL, FUCK! QUICKLY, ONE OF YOU GUYS DESTROY THE BLASTED THING!"
With Johnny having flames off and Reed reluctant to destroy his own machine so suddenly Ben is the one who reacts straight away and barrels towards the opened portal and smashes one of his fists towards the machinery encircling the portal and blasts away a chunk of the machine deactivating the portal in the process but this comes with consequences as the portal shuts down backlash is created which creates a blast which not only destroys the machine in its entirety but blast Ben across the room and straight past us to be embedded inti a wall but the guys a buck orange rock man so he should be fine plus it's not like any of the residual energy blast will affect him considering the fact that Ben is a tank and empowered by too much cosmic power so he'll likely be fine, we all breathe a sigh of relief as we stare anxiously at the wall Ben was embedded in and watch him slowly pluck himself out of it and fall to the ground looking about tired but no worse for wear but immediately afterwards knowing that his friends are safe Reed rushes toward the remains of the portal which me and him spent over three months working on and completing so it's a bit of a shame to see it go but I got a lot of information out of it in the process but it seems like it meant a lot more to Reed as I can see him scavenging through the pile while muttering to himself and it seems like he'll be here a while do we all ignore him. "Well I guess we're finished here, huh. I'm gonna go see Alicia and calm down, maybe relax a little. See ya guys later."
Ben speaks out after a moment as we all look at each other and he quickly leaves the room with Johnny soon following him afterwards stating that he's going out to get a drink and relax and while he offered for me to join him I declined stating I was too tired and after a moment Susan leaves the room as well after looking at Reed scavenging the remains of his machine but this time I quickly follow behind her and catch up to her in the corridor before the elevator, it startled me just how causal these guys were after an attack by an extra dimensional alien but I guess they're just used to it after all this time and most likely they are all going to relax for the rest of the day to cool of from the action today and talk about it tomorrow. "Hey Susan, do you mind treating me in your medical lab? I got a bit roughed up today when that Blastaar guy shot that beam at me and I got injured because of it, hurts like hell so I'd appreciate you stitching me up"
Susan turns around in the corridor to see me and nods her head agreeing to treat me, I follow her into the elevator and stand beside her as she presses a button to lower the elevator a level to go to the medical lab and while waiting to arrived about destination she questions the extent of my injuries. "You did good today Nick, I appreciate it. Now, just how injured are you? You don't look that bad to me, a few scrapes and bruises but nothing maj- WHAT THE HELL!" Susan shouted her reaction after I brushed the lab coat I was wearing to the side and lifted up my shirt to show her the piece of metal shrapnel that was imbedded into my gut between two of abs from when Blastaar destroyed the control panel for the portal, I've been tensing my muscles this entire time to prevent blood loss but it's really wearing on me now…
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