Johnny was positive he had seen her slipping that 'Hot Rod' mag copy behind her back, just as he turned the corner into the kitchen area today. It was hard to peek behind her apron from the front. Yet she wouldn't talk to him. Throughout the whole of lunchtime she wouldn't talk to him & only him. She sounded 100% fine chatting with Ben, Dr. O, Reed & Sue. & all this resulting from his act in replacing Ben with She-Hulk for the previous mission?
On Azula's side of the matter, he wouldn't gain her trust anytime soon, she was thinking. There was the danger he'd be treating her like mere property of they got serious; that was the bottom line. It was such a major letdown seeing how he treated Ben (wanting to replace him by holding a "superhero recruitment audition").
If he felt any love at all for the pal he nicknamed "Brickhead", he wouldn't have done something so outrageous. Sue would agree with her on this. She was worried now about how he'd be treating a girl he'd have as his girlfriend (not necessarily meaning that girl would be HER). Boy, was she glad he'd be away that afternoon on that Time Machine 'assignment' Reed was working on. She'd have peace & quiet in this timeframe while he was rampaging with the dinosaurs or something.
Reed's #1 rule for time travelling: No tampering with the temporal stasis devices fixed around your arm. They were what allowed you to exist in another timeframe & were sensitive instruments.
The Time Machine smoothly warped through a psychedelic spinning tunnel. Generally the ride wasn't at all bumpy, apart from the presence of a mild undercurrent. All of a sudden, the contraption jerked violently. "Time turbulence…," mumbled Ben.
No one in the whole party had seen the little Doombot, sent by its master to sneak after them on this mission. The only real test was getting it into the Baxter Building unnoticed, & Doom was delighted that he succeeded. Now clinging to the Time Machine, it was ingeniously programmed to release its grip at a certain point in the portal – to vanish into the timeline of the day of space station launch involving Doom & the Four. That was but the tip of the iceberg of Victor's deadliest schemes yet.