[June of 2012]
[New York City]
3rd PoV
Andrew's clone appeared in the sky, above the ongoing battle in front of the Baxter Building. He then suddenly flew backwards as a flaming figure flew passed him that continously fired balls of flames.
"Sorry!" Johnny Storm shouted without looking as he continued throwing flames at the large rabbits.
Andrew just looked at him and then turned back to the ground again and saw numerous civilians running away from the rabbits. Scared shitless.
The rabits were not just abnormally large with its height approaching that of average dogs, but it also has super speed as they blurred from time to time, disappearing and appearing in another location, trying to bite off another civilian's head.
Fortunately, Susan Storm was there. The Invisible Woman had a force-field around her that protects her from the speedy rabbits as she simultaneously waved her hand and conjured multiple shaky force-fields that barely protected the running civilian on time.
Looking at the space in front of the Baxter Building, Andrew can see a small portal that leads to another place. One can see that the place on the other side was desolate, though there's still some trees, all of them are withered.
While large group of the same white, red-eyed rabbits would pour out from there from time to time. Running towards anything that is alive with manic hunger in their eyes.
On the other hand, Reed Richards was busy tinkering with a small device in his hand as he continously tried to evade the speedy rabbits that always tries to bite his ass off.
Frustration is strongly written on his face as the situation was getting out of hand and all of this was not included in his grand and perfect calculations.
Just a few days after coming back from their space expedition and encountering that space storm that genetically altered them and gave them powers, they rested for a while as they also cooperated with the government regarding their situation.
The latter tried to analyze and study their DNAs but Reed smartly pulled out a few dark secrets of those who wants to experiment on them as they all gave up and just let them go after confirming that all was fine.
After all of that, Reed Richards went back to his usual life style; researching. Before the accident that gave them their abilities, Reed have been researching ways on how to effectively travel the sub-space, and from that, his research brought him to the concept of space tunnels also known as portals.
So after returning, he continued this research and ended up with a properly working device that could cut through space. But as usual, Reed Richards being just Reed Richards, he quickly used the device without checking if it's really safe and Bam! It created a portal to another planet that is ruled by dangerous predators.
Back to the present, another rabbit used its super speed and ran to Reed and managed to bite his ass but his elasticity saved him from that terrible fate as Johnny Storm killed it with a fireball that burned it down to its bones.
"Sue! Give me some time! I need to close the portal!" Reed was scared from that encounter as he eventually yelled at Susan Storm on the far side to protect him for the mean time.
"Okay!" Susan, being the obedient her, further halved her attention as she formed a force-field around Reed who immediately sat down and tinkered with the device.
She then turned back her attention to the rabbits as she made small force-fields that smashed at those that was approaching her. She breathed in and out a bit heavily as this fight was starting to take a toll on a inexperienced her.
Bam!
Ben Grimm on the other hand punched another rabbit which made it explode into bits of meat and splash of red blood.
He then swung his fist as he turned around as it met with a face of another rabbit as its head exploded into brain matter.
He then ran to meet another group of rabbit that is trying to fight him in number as he collided with them.
Bam!
The rabbits all roughly landed to the ground after colliding with a literal human rock as Ben quickly stomped his foot to another that is trying to get up and then continued to pummel those who also tried.
Swoosh!
Another group of large rabbits poured out of the portal and began looking around, the rabbits this time were a little different than the usual as they are all color black, their eyes were also black, contrary to the red blood eyes of the white rabbits.
A portion of the black rabbits ran to the direction of the civilians but Johnny Storm was alert as he flew down and stood up in front of the running rabbits.
The rabbits this time were running at a visible and normal pace as Johnny pointed both of his hands on them.
Swoosh!
A large stream of hot flames came out and collided with the rabbits. But surprisingly, the rabbits were not immediately burned down as they brought their unusually big fore arms to their heads as if they know that it was their most vulnerable part.
The rabbits smashed their feet to the ground as it pierced the ground, making them rooted to it as Johnny continued blowing flame stream at them. He furrowed his brows as he cannot see any progress with his attack but he just continued, hoping that it will take effect eventually "Just die, you rabid rabbits."
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"Look! It's Psionix! We're saved!" A small girl – that is being carried by her mother to safety – shouted excitedly while pointing to the hovering featureless man.
""Psionix! Please save us!"" The other civilians – who are also running – shouted in delight as they called out to their most beloved metahuman hero.
Clone Andrew – who saw that they finally noticed him – eventually made his move as he waved a hand and formed countless small force-field that individually encased every panicking civilians.
""Woah!"" every kid that is along with their parents muttered in amazement while their parents and the other adults smiled in safety.
Andrew then flew at immense speed, passing by the side of Human Torch, as he formed his hand in a fist and that fist smashed the bodies of the black rabbits as he flew along. The flames of Johnny didn't bother him as he just passed through it without scratch.
No blood can be seen on his fist as he's protected by a personal force-field as he then landed beside the large, orange rock humanoid being. He then punched another that tried to use its super speed to smash at him as he spoke "You still got juice left to fight?"
The Thing also punched another as he replied without looking at the newly arrived hero "Definitely, this monsters ain't even a warm up."
"That better be true because this is about to get even bigger." Andrew replied as he held his hand out and formed a force-field around a group of rabbits. He then slowly clenched it as the force-field also became smaller and smaller until it squished the monsters inside.
"What do you mean?" Ben asked as he turned to Andrew, but the latter didn't reply as he was currently looking at the direction of the portal.
Bam!
Bam!
Bam!
Loud booming sounds resounded within the portal as all the creatures – whether they are humans or rabbits – in the immediate vicinity stopped, as they slowly turned to the portal.
Bam!
Bam!
Bam!
The loud booming sound continued as they all waited for the inevitable reveal.
But Andrew seemed to have different plans as he hovered on the air and turned to the civilians that is still watching as if the whole situation is a movie. "Everyone! Run!"
The people snapped from he stupor as they quickly tried running, but most of them didn't move, still trying to watch what would happen.
Bam!
Bam!
Andrew wasn't about to let this people die as that would stain his image as he controlled the force-fields that was surrounding all the civilians and made them all fly to the far side of the city, approximately 1 kilometer away.
Bam!
Bam!
The booming continued as Andrew moved, followed behind by Johnny Storm who doesn't know what was making him all panic like this "Hey, just chill man, we can handle them pretty easily, so no need to panic."
Andrew didn't respond to him as he flew past the still-sitting Reed Richards and hovered in front of the small portal. He then held out his hands to the front as a small and blue, cube-like force-field slowly came out of his palms.
He then made it approach the portal as it encased the portal inside it, trapping it from within.
Bam!
Bam!
Bam–
The loud booming sound that was actually footsteps suddenly stopped as the Fantastic Four and newly arrived military subconsciously all held their breaths.
"*Gasp!*"
All of them – excluding Andrew – suddenly gasped as they saw something that would definitely haunt them in their dreams.
A blood red eye peeked from the portal.
The eye was large enough to cover the portal that is approximately about two meters wide.
The eye was reptilian-like as it had a slit in the middle.
The eye blinked and then began backing away as the whole face of the creature can be seen on the portal.
It was a dragon.
GROOOOOWWLLL!!!
It opened its mouth and then growled at the portal.
Boom! It then neared the portal again and then biting the portal but it was unsuccessful as it repeatedly tried biting it.
Seeing that it was still unsuccessful, it stretched its sharp, clawed hands and grasped the rim of the portal.
Crash!
Crack!
Cracking sounds resounded as the portal became unstable. Seeing that its successful with that, the dragon reached out its other clawed hand and also grasped the other rim side of the portal.
Crack!
The portal became even more unstable as small bolt-like space rift appeared around it as if it cannot withstand the external force.
Seeing the situation becoming even more dire, Ben turned to Reed who were also looking at the scene with, not fear, but fascination. "Reed! How long until you fix that damn thing!"
Johnny Storm burned the remaining black rabbits to death, which he found out to be actually super strong, contrary to the super fast white rabbits. He then flew down and landed beside Reed "Hey man, fix it already, there's a freakin' dragon that is currently trying claw its way into our planet for God's sake."
Susan Storm imitated the action of Andrew and squished the remaining rabbits using her force-field as she also made her to Reed's side while saying "Reed, Take the portal down, now."
"I am trying.." Reed replied without looking back at them as he continued fiddling at his device.
Andrew didn't joined them as he continued looking at the portal that was starting to get destroyed by the sheer might of the dragon.
Crack!
The rifts in space around the portal started to multiply as the dragon finally managed to tear open the portal and make it larger, losing its circular shape as it became a slash-shaped large portal.
The dragon peeked its head inside as it finally breathed in the air of the planet earth, it took a deep breath as it looked around.
"GRAAAAAAHHH!!!!"
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