Fantastic Four World's Greatest Heroes: Volumes 1 3

Come here, you! Stay still.

Stupid mosquito. l'm gonna...

Remember, everyone, don't touch anything.

The slightest disturbance here could have catastrophic consequences for the future.

Whoops.

So this is the past? Weak.

There's no cars or roads,

and by the way, your MP3 player here stinks.

l can't get it to play any music.

Johnny, don't touch that!

lt's a temporal stasis device. It's what allows you to exist here.

Got you. l'll go melt Ben's.

Tell me again why you built a time machine?

Not how, just why.

My future seIf told me to.

Really? Really?

No. Someone bet me l couldn't prove how the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Nerd. Great.

We're out here being chased by dinosaurs so you can impress your science friends.

Huh?

Here's your gizmo, Stretch.

And l didn't clobber anything.

This data could reveal what cataclysmic event occurred here

and help prevent it from happening again in the future.

l'm thinking the dinosaurs got wiped out by a giant meteor.

Well, there are many theories...

l'm sticking with the meteor.

And now we're leaving.

Isn't it amazing?

We're outside of time.

We could access any point in history.

Yeah, but l bet we're still gonna be late for lunch.

Whoa ! Time turbulence.

That's not quite right.

Dude, the Statue of Liberty got real ugly.

Yo, Stretch, check out the Baxter Building.

That can't be good.

What happened?

Unauthorized vehicle,

you are in violation of city security laws.

Land and surrender.

You have 10 seconds to comply.

No, you comply...with...stuff.

Evasive maneuvers.

Sorry, Stretch. Your time doohickey is slowing us down.

Ben, no!

Hang on!

Hey, Suzy, how about a hand here?

Johnny, get ready. Engage nova boost.

Boost systems online.

Oh, yeah! flame on!

Since when do Doom's helicopters patrol the city?

Yeah, yeah. And how sweet was my nova boost thing?

What's going on, Reed?

Let's ask.

Excuse me?

You scared her off.

Reed, how long were we gone?

How could Doom have done all this?

That's just it.

We weren't gone at all.

We should have returned to New York at the precise point in time that we left.

Say, Stretch, this...

This couldn't have happened

because something got messed up in the past, could it?

Well, if something changed history,

it would alter the timeline.

But what could have changed?

Well, the thing is, l may have accidentally

clobbered a dinosaur while we were in the past.

Smooth move, Rockslide.

l don't think clobbering one dinosaur

would have affected the world quite like this.

l'll ask again.

What happened?

Well, l think it's safe to assume that Doom is involved.

No kidding.

We need to split up.

Susan and l will try to locate Doom and find out what changed in the past.

Ben, you and Johnny...

Wait, where is Johnny?

Sorry, l stopped at Doombucks.

This place is crazy.

Doom-accino.

Ben and Johnny will go after the Fantasticar's time module,

which, as l recall, Ben dumped in the river.

lt was slowing us down!

Remember, we're in an alternate timeline now.

Make sure your temporal stasis devices stay on.

They're the only thing anchoring us to this reality.

Don't even think about it.

Well, you have to admit, finding Doom was pretty easy.

Any ideas?

As far as l can tell we don't exist in this timeli'ne.

l suggest we use the element of surprise.

Time travel stinks!

You just know l'm gonna get wiped out of existence.

Just watch. It'll be me.

Will you calm down?

Easy for you to say,

but l've never gone five minutes without busting one of Reed's gadgets.

Let's just get our time machine and get out of here.

Dude! Where'd you get that stuff?

Doom-Mart.

Uh-oh.

Hey, that's our gizmo!

Look at it this way, those Doom guys did all the work for us.

You know what's weird?

lf Doom runs this place,

where's all the Doombots?

And not only that. You'd think he'd build some kind of

Mega-Doombot, that's, like, 30-feet tall with a huge red eye

and loaded with gigantic weapons... What?

You just had to open your mouth, didn't you?

Reed and Susan.

l've been expecting you.

So much for the element of surprise.

What have you done, Victor?

How did you alter history?

Richards.

Always one step behind.

lt's not what l did.

lt's what l didn't do.

Johnny! Ben!

Hey, Suzy. We hit a little snag.

You were all far less colorful when l knew you.

But as you can see, l've been forewarned of these powers of yours.

Forewarned? How could you...

l'm prepared to offer your team a deal, Richards.

You may live, using your powers at my command,

provided you kneel before me.

So in this timeline, your face is fine but your brain is damaged.

We will never kneel before you, Victor.

You misunderstand, Richards.

The offer wasn't for you.

Reed!

You should take better care of your inventions.

Susan, listen to me. You have to go back, go back to the beginning...

As for you three, my offer stands.

No!

What did you do to him?

Foolish girl. With one simple strike, l could wipe you from existence as well.

Well, wipe this!

Sis! We gotta get out of here.

No. l'll make him bring Reed back.

Suzy, Reed's gone. We gotta go.

Doom !

No! Let me go!

Flame brain, we're leaving.

Suzy, get it together.

And then there were three.

This can't be happening.

Without Reed, l don't know what to do.

See? What did l say? Time travel stinks!

Where did Reed go, anyway? He just kind of blipped out.

Johnny, you're a genius.

Yeah.

We have a time machine.

We can just go back in time 10 minutes and save Reed.

One little problem.

We can get to the Fantasticar,

but Doom's goons have the time gizmo.

Good.

Your powers are still lame,

but that was awesome.

Gee, thanks.

All right, let's go back to 10 minutes ago.

Right. Does anyone know how to use this thing?