It had started out as a normal day in New York.
That is to say, a new superhero had shown up with a new villain, one of the Goblins was fighting Spiderman, a few loose supervillains were rampaging (and getting defeated by various heroes), and one crime head or another was making a power play.
Relatively, the Baxter Building was incredibly quiet. Of course, that would last as long as it took the group's leader, Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, to finish his newest invention.
"What is he even working on?" Johnny Storm asked, watching the genius adjust what looked like a giant laser coil until something clicked.
"Dunno, but Strech-o's really excited about it. Somethin' about intergalactic transport-something," Ben Grimms answered, watching as well.
"I think it's a long-distance teleporter. There are prototypes all over our universe, but none work with absolute certainty. Too long in where ever it is they get sent during transport," Sue told them, though she looked unsure.
"Got it!" The other members of the team straightened up at Reed's exclamation. He recoiled, destretching into his human shape, before turning to his family. Before he could say anything, however, the machine behind him went off. A beam of silver energy shot through the roof and continued out, vanishing into space.
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen, right?" Johnny asked, frowning.
Cutting Reed off again, the energy returned, this time coalescing into three small shapes that made all four superheroes stare blankly.
Three 5-6 year old children were sitting in the place of the energy, looking very, very confused. On the left was a dark-skinned boy with short black hair and black eyes, wearing what looked like a black toga. On the right was a girl with deep red hair and vivid green eyes with pale skin that accented her midnight blue dress. The boy in the middle had pitch black hair, green eyes, and tanned skin, and was wearing black jeans and a purple shirt.
"Did we just accidentally kidnap three cross-universe alien kids?" Johnny yelled, voice growing louder with every word. The kids shot him an odd look.
"No. I hope not. They look human, don't they?" Ben asked, eyeing the kids. The middle boy stood up, looking around for a second, before saying in a deeply annoyed voice, ""Don't judge a book by its cover" is one of your species' sayings, correct?"
"...Yes?"
The boy shook his head as the two others got up, both staring at themselves.
Reed stepped forward, looking them over.
"Excuse me, but who are you? We're sorry for transporting you against your will, it was an accident."
The child sighed, arms crossing with a neutral expression.
"I suppose I cannot blame you for not recognizing me or my siblings. We ourselves have never seen these forms before. I am Galactus. As you can guess, these are my brother, Eternity, and my sister, Death."
The silence that reigned was more than understandable.