Chapter 91 Into the Negative Zone

Harry wasn't surprised in the slightest when videos of the battle with that Abomination, Spider-man, and the Hulk were the only thing on the news the following morning. The fight against the Mandarin's Martial Mech occurred mostly on a highway and in the sky while the fight against Whiplash occurred in an area where evacuation was forced. There were many videos, but not that many.

The prior night's battle happened in the middle of New York surrounded by light sleepers in high rise buildings. There were over three hundred different videos, many of which had the entire fight from start to finish as the military's actions at NYU already got the attention of a number of New Yorkers.

Surprisingly, no one died. Jean and Wanda showed up moments after the Abomination started trashing things and texted Harry for details. The latter explained he wanted to use the damage it caused as blackmail material which the pair were fine with. Wanda made them both invisible and Jean used telekinesis to subtly ensure no one died. Everyone just 'got lucky.'

Blonsky was knocked out by the Hulk and chained and webbed up thoroughly before being tossed into a massive truck. Harry Apparated into the truck after the doors closed and injected Blonsky with a gene suppressor which would take care of the man's enhancements. Harry doubted he'd ever look human again, but at least he wouldn't be capable of an encore of the night's performance and his blood would not be usable to make another abomination either.

When Harry returned to Sterns' lab after breakfast, he found that just about everything had been packed up and taken away and the man himself was missing. Harry logged into his own computer and checked the logs of what Sterns had recently done for more information. He'd left a backdoor when he updated Sterns' security software the prior day to be on the safe side.

According to the log, Sterns had indeed synthesized an antidote for the trap within Banner's blood. However, the machine capable of synthesizing it was not in Sterns' lab but another, so it was not among the confiscated equipment. Harry headed over to the lab a few doors down and confirmed the machine had in fact synthesized a batch of the counter agent. In fact, Harry found the remaining sample of what was left from the batch Sterns had made still in the system. What he found odd was that even though the smallest batch could make five doses of antidote, there were only three doses in the leftovers. If the Abomination got one, who got the other? And where was Sterns?

Harry sighed and pulled out a cellphone. A number was dialed and started ringing. Only after seven rings did the other side pick up.

On the other end, Fury was not particularly pleased to be called on his private cell. Only a few knew the number and as it was a Brilliance phone, even Shield could not track it, trace it, or tap it. He was also quite certain the name on the other end of his caller ID was not given the number, and he didn't appreciate the implications.

"What do you want, Potter?"

"Where's Sterns?"

"Samuel Sterns is currently in Shield custody."

Harry rolled his eyes. "There isn't a lawyer on the planet incapable of getting any charges against him dropped on account of violent coercion, though I doubt he needed much of it. On what grounds is Shield holding him?"

"That's classified."

"Just tell me what you can. I have a few guesses already and am asking rather than hacking as a courtesy."

Fury really didn't like being threatened, but since he could hear some actual concern in Harry's voice over his fellow colleague, he decided not to pursue it. This time.

Harry could hear a sigh over the phone followed by, "Sterns was.. contaminated by something. When he was found afterwards he appeared completely delusional. Shield is holding him for observation. If he returns to normal, he can be released."

Harry replied, "'If' being the key word. Alright. I suppose that's the way it's got to be. It really is a waste though. Sterns could have done a lot of good in the world. The problem, as I believe last night made us all aware, is that Sterns is not interested in good. He wants great. Just give him something to do. I'm sure whatever Shield comes up with will be more fun for him than grading term papers or poisoning lab mice."

Harry hung up and started texting Banner while on his way back to his home office. Not long afterwards Banner replied. Though 'officially' off the hook, he didn't want people to get tempted to look for him again, so he was going back to Brazil. Apparently, he has unfinished business there and Banner really wanted to introduce a number of gangs which had given him problems in the past to his greener side. Harry figured that meant the two sides were getting along better now.

The first week of summer ended up being more busy than the previous semester of classes. There were a few issues with starting an Insurance company as fast as Harry wanted, forcing Harry to spend years worth of Paused time reading over endless lines of legal code, building code, construction regulations, and everything in between. Thankfully, the Scholar Path's assistance prevented his brain from turning into soup before he finished.

Besides learning that more than 60% of New York was breaking the law in some way or another when it came to building codes, Harry also figured that he'd never be able to make the Insurance company he wanted by outsourcing the construction or simply paying the fees to others so they could do it themselves. Thankfully, Potter and Gold Bank and Trust had partial ownership of a half dozen small construction groups at that point. Harry immediately purchased the remaining ownership and merged them into a larger construction firm.

It only took one trip into the City Hall to get the Mayor to agree to let Harry's new group repair the damage caused by the fight for free in exchange for a few concessions when it came to a few bureaucratic issues.

To manage the whole thing, Harry created a computer application which had all the building regulations that needed to be observed for different jobs for different regions of the city and made sure all of his new employees had access to it. On the App they could simply select the area they were in, select the job type, and select the method used to perform that job, and map out the design on the App. The App would then list off the regulations they had to follow. If they included the materials used in the design, the App could even give a ballpark estimate on the cost.

The various managers and supervisors Harry showed the App to pretty much fell to their knees in gratitude since this would pretty much take care of 98% of the paperwork that came with planning any form of construction. Unsurprisingly, giving every level of management easy access to the rules they needed to follow for each job made doing the job quite a bit easier. The App even allowed for users to message each other directly through it allowing for Requests and Submissions to be done as soon as they came up. Anything that they couldn't find a quick answer to they could escalate to Harry and he'd check his inbox once a day for the odd situations they'd often encounter and message back the regulations they'd need to keep in mind to resolve them.

Considering his future plans for the company, he needed to make sure every t was crossed and every i was dotted.

After repairing the damage from the fight, Harry had his construction firm start repairing random things throughout the city Harry bought the rights to from the city and various groups. Like statues in city parks. Of course, he could only repair and maintain them and clean bird poop and graffiti off them. He could not alter their appearance or move them unless such was required for repair or in case something destructive was happening in the city, like a nearby scheduled building demolition. Still, it increased his visibility to be known for such things which was in its own way another form of advertisement.

The firm also built or rebuilt multiple bus stops throughout the city, usually adding a roof so that people waiting for the bus wouldn't get wet if it was raining or hot if it was sunny. For every perfectly done job, Harry's Business Path would get closer to increasing in rank so Harry didn't mind too much as it was a good investment in the long term.

Peter and the Fantastic Four were just as busy during that week. Reed had taken everyone into space the prior week and had only returned after the Hulk's battle. Harry found it odd how few people really noticed that Reed had made the 'Fantasticar' space capable but decided it really didn't matter. They'd gone to a passing comet to mine for a few materials Reed was interested in and Reed and Susan had spent the last week in research mode.

Peter on the other hand was stalked by a crazy dude who called himself Kraven the Hunter all week long. Kraven saw Spider-man on TV against the Abomination and wanted to test himself against the ultimate quarry, much to Peter's dismay. Kraven quickly learned that Peter's spider sense prevented him from simply sniping Peter's head from a distance so the hunter had to create various traps to constrain him and then get close to defeat Peter in hand to hand combat.

The Hunter was apparently quite rich too. He had some knuckle claws made of a metal capable of piercing Peter's costume and used a compound which broke down Peter's webbing to make the latter less effective. Kraven used Peter's spider sense against him by placing various traps in certain locations to herd Peter into nearly inescapable traps or situations which heavily reduced Peter's combat effectiveness.

Eventually Peter arranged a fight near the water. Kraven thought the docks with fewer high rise buildings would be to his advantage, but the traps Peter set up for him allowed Spider-man to toss the Hunter in the water. The moment he got out, Peter quickly tied him up in webbing. The compound Kraven used to weaken the webbing was washed off and once completely tied up, he couldn't use anymore before becoming immobilized.

Peter didn't appreciate being invited over to Harry's place afterwards to watch the fight captured on camera on Harry's TV while his girls ate popcorn and provided commentary on everything he did wrong. At the end, rather than feel good he'd beaten the mad man, he felt like crying that he'd taken a week to defeat him.

Tony had also been busy. According to a call Harry received from the billionaire former playboy, Fury had asked him to use Badassium to ignite a power source they'd had in storage for a few decades. Stark wasn't interested but Fury offered him something he couldn't refuse.

Harry had to ask, "Wait, what could they have offered that you actually wanted?"

Tony answered, "Well the bureaucrats have been blocking my patent application for Badassium due to the name. Fury said he'd make sure it would go through in exchange for a favor."

Harry sighed, "Of course he did."

Yet another super villain also showed up in New York the following week, but this one lived in a different part of the city, so rather than fight Spider-man, this guy usually encountered the Fantastic Four. Hydroman, as he was called, was a human mutate created by an ex-Oscorp employee who'd lost his funding and went crazy. The mad scientist didn't survive the explosion caused by his design, but his test subject did. Hydroman could convert himself entirely into water, making him quite difficult to handle. For most people. The fact that Reed defeated him with Kitty Litter was enough for the man to eternally declare vengeance on the Fantastic Four.

Harry was not alone in the opinion that new villains seemed to be popping up more frequently these days. Besides Hydroman, the Fantastic Four also had to regularly deal with a few other criminals, most of which used tech of some kind such as the Ironman knock off Beetle, the glue gun wielding Trapster, and the gravity tech using Wizard. Harry was a little upset at the naming sense of the latter.

While doing his best to minimize the unpaused time Harry spent on various projects, Harry spent a majority of real time in Battle Meditation, either alone or with the girls. Giving Mary Jane the Gamer package only cost one level since she was fairly low spec. Most of her power came from blessings by the Goddess and her sword skill.

Things went into routine for a few weeks but before summer could end, Harry got a panicked call from Johnny Storm.

"Professor! Susan and Reed are gone! There was an explosion in the lab. Get over here quickly!"

Up to this point they had not called Harry for anything annoying so Harry was willing to give Johnny the benefit of the doubt and come over via portal. Of course if this was a lie or they called him over for something stupid, he would make them suffer accordingly.

Harry portaled into the main work area where Johnny and Ben were waiting. Ben had changed from his normal skin form to his orange rock skin form meaning he expected to need it.

Johnny saw Harry arrive and pointed to an area filled with wreckage. "Reed and Susan were working on something over there. Reed said he found something and Susan started panicking while Reed tried to fix whatever was going wrong. Then there was this explosion of red light!"

Harry mostly ignored Johnny and calmly walked over to the computer terminal he'd already connected to technopathically and set it to play the most recent security footage.

The video that came up showed Reed and Susan playing with the newly built Dimensional Portal. Harry was mildly irked they were even turning it on without calling him there. Harry did however, access the data and determined the parameters were set for observation only, not travel.

As for the observation location, it was a dimension Richards postulated the existence of and wanted to see if his theory was correct. Recently Reed had gone over the data on the readouts sent back by the Hubble telescope on an unusual blackhole. NASA thought it looked weird and sent the data to Reed asking him to check it out. The observed mass of the blackhole did not match what it should have been. Reed hypothesized that the blackhole was sending the matter it absorbed into another dimension and wanted to use his Dimensional Portal Generator to observe it.

When Harry checked on the details for the theorized dimension, he had to Pause just so he could curse Richards out safely for as long as he wanted.

There were some dimensions that even the bravest and most powerful of Sorcerers didn't go. Not could not, but did not. If a list of such dimensions was written, the Negative Zone would be right at the top of the list.

According to some theories, the Negative Zone was a pocket dimension created prior to the Big Bang by a hyper advanced civilization from the previous universe in an attempt to survive the Big Bang. They did end up surviving the Big Bang, but not the splitting of the multiverse that occurred right afterwards. Because of that, there was only one Negative Zone for the multiverse so entering and returning to your own universe was not so easy.

Oh, and the fact that any normal portal made to the Negative Zone would cause an explosion capable of wiping out you, your planet, and everything else in the same star system. One of the Kree's dirty little secrets was that they knew about the Negative Zone and had designed a machine which could create such a portal. The design was called the Nega-bomb. Harry knew this because the fake bomb he'd framed the Supreme Intelligence with was a Nega-bomb which matched the designs he'd stolen from Hala.

The reason a normal portal caused an explosion was that all matter in the Negative Zone was in fact antimatter. But not normal antimatter. When matter and normal antimatter interact, they would annihilate and transform into pure energy. When antimatter of the Negative Zone and matter of this dimension interacted, it would generate energy and deadly radiation.

The laws of physics in the Negative Zone did not completely align with the normal universe so creating a portal, even for viewing purposes, could easily encounter unexpected problems.

*Ping*

[New Quest: Rescue from the Negative Zone

Recover Susan Storm and Reed Richards from the Negative Zone.]

Harry was moderately surprised at the quest. Harry already figured that the explosion had transported the pair into the antimatter dimension, but wasn't sure if they could have survived without exploding. Though if Susan made a shield around the pair, it was possible.

Harry said aloud, "They're trapped in another dimension, I'll go get them."

Ben said, "I'm coming too." And Johnny added, "And me three."

Harry considered it and replied, "Fine. Give me a moment."

Turning matter into antimatter was mostly impossible, but that was only in this dimension. Creating a portal which reversed the polarity of their matter as they passed through it into the Negative Zone was possible, though not for any Sorcerer but Harry. Even the Ancient One required a Sling Ring to make a portal, so Sorcerers could not customize the settings on their portals like Harry could.

Harry calculated out the details and threw out his silver portal. Instead of showing the other side, it only showed a curtain of static red light. When Harry approached it, he got another pop up.

[Hell Mode Instance Dungeon: The Negative Zone.

Restrictions

-Cannot use Inventory while inside.

-Cannot Respawn outside of Instance Dungeon while inside.

-Cannot use Battle Meditation while inside.

-Sorcery used has one tenth power while inside.

Triple EXP on kills.]

Harry's eyes shined at that last line. This was a first. Though the restrictions were not light, Harry could certainly use it. If he could take the girls inside, it would be better than Battle Meditation if there were enough mobs.

Harry took some armor, a belt and a few things to place into the belt out of his inventory and equipped them before getting out some stickers with smiley faces on them. He said, "This is an antimatter dimension, so you'll need to be protected. Don't take these off or you will explode in a massive matter/antimatter annihilation event."

Before either could reply, Harry stuck a sticker onto each of them and jumped into the portal.

The shifting of positive to negative didn't affect him much since his Obscurus Particle cells could make the change easily enough. The polarity shift caused by the portal was more for his equipment and weapons than for him.

Ben and Johnny on the other hand dropped to their knees on arrival from the disorientation associated with matter polarity inversion. Though Harry had applied a discreet Bubble Head charm to the pair before entering, he dispelled it after determining that the air was both breathable and nonpoisonous. Both of which were odd as their apparent exit point was not on a planet with an atmosphere, but on a floating rock in the middle of a field of other floating rocks.

Ben was the first to gain his bearings and looked into the sky exclaiming, "Woah."

Harry nodded to himself. Woah indeed. The entire sky was an eerie purple and the air itself seemed to have a sickly green hue.

The first thing Harry did was confirm that neither Reed nor Susan were around. It had only been about ten minutes since the explosion and Susan could hold a forcefield bubble that long, but the quest's map pointer showed them a fair distance away. He wasn't expecting the need for long distance travel.

As Johnny and Ben were standing up, Harry performed a few spells to confirm the problem. Time passed differently in the Negative Zone. It had been between ten minutes to a day or two since the pair arrived.

Still, they were alive.

Harry hadn't thought to take a magic carpet from his inventory and couldn't at the moment. The matter polarity reversal wouldn't have affected the content of his inventory so anything he pulled out would annihilate in a boom large enough to crack most planets, which was the reason for the restriction. And of course due to the time difference, it would literally take too long to go back, take it out, and return with it. So Harry instead transfigured a rock into a platform and lifted it with telekinesis. Though Sorcery was weaker, Wizard Magic and all his other skills were not affected.

"Hop on guys, we're heading that way."

Johnny asked, "Oh, you got a pointer?"

Harry had in fact told Johnny about his quest pointer when he explained how he got the Ultimate Nullifier and even a year later Johnny remembered it.

Harry answered, "Yep, and it can't point to something dead, so they're both alive.

Ben hopped on and said, "Well then, let's get this show on the road."

Johnny looked around the desolate landscape and asked, "What road?

"Just sit Johnny. I'm gonna make us invisible and your flying is a bit flashy so until we have more details, I want to remain low profile."

Johnny got on while muttering, "Unless it's a prank, you always want to remain low profile."

Once the platform lifted off and was made invisible, Ben asked, "Why can't you make a portal there?"

Harry answered, "Because time and space here are too different. I'd need a bit of practice to make portals from location to location here abut since the pair are not that far, we'll get there faster this way." Though he could still apparate. Wizard magic was about overwriting reality, not editing it. It didn't care how nonsensical the existing rules were.

Ben nodded while looking around. Ben was much smarter than his appearance gave him credit for and Harry was quite skilled at giving simple explanations.

The pointer led them to a massive, death star sized asteroid it was easy to tell had multiple structures, new and old built into it. It seemed to be orbiting a blackhole but as gravity didn't work here the same way it usually did, they were not being pulled unstoppably towards it.

What was stranger was that time should pass slower when closer to a black hole, but from what Harry could tell, time was actually moving even faster the closer they got. That meant that depending on when Susan and Reed got there, they might have already been there for a number of days or longer.

As they got closer they were able to spot the locals, large insectoid form beings that stood upright on two legs and had four arms. As gravity seemed to be inconsistent in this place, most used wings to fly meaning Harry's invisible platform and occupants needed to maneuver quite a bit to avoid collisions as they neared the targets.

Eventually they got to a locked door and Harry said, "We're still invisible, so keep quiet until we find Susan and Reed." Technically Harry had also applied a silencing spell around them so others wouldn't hear Ben's massive footsteps, but he didn't want them idly chatting.

The lock looked pretty heavy duty but a silent Alohomora took care of it easily enough. The trio walked through a few empty halls and eventually found a main room filled with the insectoids. At the end of the room were two figures wearing what looked like metal hazmat suits, and Harry's Quest was pointing at them.

Harry used some telepathy on the nearby creatures to find out what was going on. Thankfully thoughts don't have a language.

After getting the details, he said, "Alright, those two in the suits are Reed and Susan. Go say hi."

The pair didn't need a second reminder and rushed over as the invisibility dispelled and shouted, "Susan! Reed! You're alive"

The two suits turned around and the insectoids looked appropriately alarmed. A number of them grabbed weapons that looked like bows but fired energy shots instead.

Reed shouted, "Wait, these are our friends!" A moment later, an insect like hiss came from his suit in what Harry figured was an automatic translator.

As the insects lowered their weapons, Susan asked, "How are you here without a suit?"

Ben pointed at his smiley face sticker and said, "Oh, these protect us."

From Reed's suit came out a sigh followed by, "Hello Professor."

Harry smirked and walked over into view after Reed guessed what was going on. A few more weapons were raised since the armored Harry did look a bit threatening, but since the greeting was translated, they knew Harry was a friend.

Johnny looked between Reed and Harry and shouted, "Dammit, he got us again!" before ripping off his smiley face sticker.

Reed asked the approaching prankster, "You reversed your molecular polarity?"

"Exactly. Want me to get you guys too?"

Susan answered first, "Oh god yes, I need out of this smelly suit."

Harry nodded and concentrated for a moment. He sent a bolt of lightning at Susan but it didn't harm her. Instead, it covered her in a static charge. Harry then used technomancy and telekinesis to disassemble her suit. The static around her kept her isolated and then Harry made another red portal like ring and tossed Susan through it.

Richards replied, "Fascinating."

"You're next," as he repeated the performance.

Though Harry reassembled the suits, he took out the translator and made it handheld. Though Technomancy was a form of Sorcery and only one tenth as effective, that just meant Harry took longer to reassemble it than normal.

After the pair were free to breath the 'fresh' air of the Negative Zone, they explained what happened.

The portal's explosion created a crack into the Negative Zone which drew them in. Susan had already created a forcefield around them to protect the pair from the explosion and she maintained it after arrival once Reed deduced where they were. Their entry had not been as quiet as Harry's so a group of locals discovered them and brought the forcefield bubble to their leader.

The leader gave the pair suits which would isolate them within the suit from contact and included a translator that quickly picked up on their language using their conversations between each other as a base.

This leader was not exactly benevolent. His name was Blastaar, or King Blastaar as he referred to himself.

Reed described him as beastial in nature as opposed into insectoid. Once he learned that Reed had created a device which could allow for transportation between their world and another, Blastaar immediately declared his intentions to rule over the new dimension.

Reed of course refused to be a part of any such thing, but Blastaar gave a knowing look at Susan and said, "We have ways of making you talk."

Thankfully, a rebel force had broken them out of jail before any form of torture or interrogation had started. The rebels claimed that Blastaar killed their ruler and took over by force. Their spies inside the palace heard Blastaar would use the prisoners to become more powerful, so they decided to use that against Blastaar.

After being rescued, Reed had been helping the rebels find a way to defeat Blastaar, but had not been of much help.

Oh, and they had been there for about a week.

Harry sighed at how stupid Reed could be and was a bit disappointed in Susan, thinking that she should not have been so naïve. They both needed to watch more television in order not to fall for such an obvious setup in the future. What was worse was that they were thankful to the rebels for rescuing them and wouldn't simply leave until they'd helped take down Blastaar, even though Harry could take them home any time.

Since Harry could see where this was going, he decided to skip to the end and gathered the Rebel leaders and said, "What we need is a distraction and a trap. Us new guys and as many of your members as you can spare will go over to the city and create distractions to empty out the palace guard and draw out Blastaar. Then you can have your elite forces break into the nearly empty palace and capture the leaders of your race who have sided with Blastaar. You can offer them a deal, help or die. If they decide to help, they can be used as bait to lure Blastaar into a trap. I have a powerful bomb that I know can kill or heavily weaken Blastaar, so we can lure him there using them as bait, and use that."

Oddly enough, the Rebels liked the plan. No one asked what would happen to the leaders who refused to help.

After the meeting was over, Reed approached looking like he wanted to have some serious words. Harry instead made a quiet motion with his finger motioned for Reed and the others to follow him to a corner. He left the translator on a desk so it would be out of earshot.

Before Reed could get in a word, Harry said, "That translator was bugged. Everything that was translated using it was heard by Blastaar."

Susan nearly shouted, "What?!"

Harry continued, "He probably let you guys get rescued so you'd be his inside moles for the base. You couldn't even talk to each other in those suits without him hearing it, so there was no way around it if you weren't going to catch on."

Ben stated, "Then it's a setup eh? So what's the real plan Professor?"

Richard answered for him, "If Blastaar believes the plan is to draw him out and enter the palace with the elite forces of the Rebel guards, then he would probably stay in the palace and make it look like he left. That way he could take out the strongest of the rebels himself, and quell the rebellion."

Johnny picked up from there, "And since we know he's going to be there without any guards, that's where we'll kick his ass ourselves!"

Harry nodded, "Pretty much. Before the plan, I'll disable the bug and tell the Rebel leaders about the new plan. From what I can tell, as long as they don't have to face Blastaar personally, they won't mind anything we come up with."

During the wait for the mission start, Harry and Reed spent their time examining the tech of the Negative Zone. From what they learned, most of the tech was built mimicking the ancient designs found in various ruins. Both Reed and Harry shared a look and a smirk at that. Great minds think alike after all.

The Rebel leaders were eventually informed of the change in plans and that they just had to send their people out to do random, distracting things while Harry and the Fantastic Four would head to the palace and beat Blastaar. The leaders insisted that Harry give them the bomb he intended to use on Blastaar in case he failed, so he transfigured a fancy looking piece of metal and a clock he'd found and made it look good before telling them how it would work.

Harry and the Four invisibly made their way into the palace and Throne room where they saw Blastaar waiting for them. He looked similar to Dr. McCoy but two sizes larger, brown furred, and more feral looking features.

Before Susan could undo their invisibility and start talking, Harry pulled out a gun and unloaded his rounds on Blastaar.

"Ahhrg!" He turned to their direction and shouted, "You humans dare to challenge King Blasstaarrrrr?!" Harry figured he was practicing his English as he was quite good at rolling them Rs.

The ruler's hands glowed with fiery light and he pointed them forwards. Bolts of energy shot out from ten fingers like a scatter shot towards their group. Reed stretched thin to dodge the shots, Susan made a shield, and Johnny flew up while Ben endured the hits.

Blastaar then rose into the air using his hands as propulsion and shouted, "All who meddle with the will of Blastaar, Die!"

He fired more shots at Johnny but Susan made a few shields for her brother to hide behind. She also made some floating platforms Ben spotted and used to jump higher and higher into the air.

When Ben got close, he shouted, "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" and leapt into the air to collide with Blastaar. Ben wrapped his arms around him and twisted in the air to ensure he landed directly on top as they plummeted to the ground.

Before ben could get up, Blastaar made a fist and struck with a mighty glowing blow. Ben shot into the air in an arc that almost reached the high palace ceiling before coming back down.

Harry caught him with Telekinesis since Susan was too far away to do so easily, but Ben was clearly out cold. From what Harry could tell, that punch had some serious force to it.

Blastaar climbed out of the crater Ben slammed him into and shouted, "I have no more patience for usurpers. You will Die!"

His hands glowed brighter and he shot more bolts of energy from his finger. Reed dodged again, but Susan's shield shattered and she was hit. Johnny shouted, "No! You bastard!" and fired a beam of intense heat which pushed Blastaar back, but was endured.

Harry Apparated over and fed Susan some elixir of Life he kept in his belt for emergencies. Just to be safe, he immediately created a portal back to Earth and pushed Susan and Reed through. Play time was well past over.

*Ping*

[Quest Complete: Rescue from the Negative Zone

Reward:Map of the Negative Zone]

Blastaar recognized the portal Harry made and shouted, "A new dimension to conquer!"

Johnny shouted, "Is she okay?"

Harry used telekinesis to lift and throw the unconscious Ben Grimm into the portal and said, "Yeah she's fine. Head in now, I'll follow afterwards."

"But what about him?"

Blastaar was already charging forward while Johnny continued to try pushing him back using his flames.

Harry answered, "I'll take care of it. Just go."

Johnny didn't need to be told twice and flew into the portal Harry then closed behind the Human Torch. Now it was just Harry and Blastaar.

Harry cracked his knuckles and asked aloud. "I wonder how much EXP you're worth?"

*Author's Note*

Will try to post another chapter tomorrow