Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of the Fantastic Four and/or Doctor Who characters used within this story. This is purely a work of nonofficial fan fiction. That's how these things work, right?
Author's Note: This story takes place after FF #16/ Fantastic Four #604 and the Doctor Who story "The Big Bang".
Prologue: The Sermon of Science.
The Angel fell, not screaming, but laughing. It streaked across the cosmos in a state one could only describe as jovial. It was aware of how far, of how long, and…how painful it's journey was, but it cared not. It streaked from Heaven knowing something unknowable, but joyful. It relished its knowledge and could not wait to share the news with Humanity, with the devout and just.
Upon my discovery of The Herald, I wept. Oh, don't look at me that way, Doctor, I wept because it was proof of what people have called my "ravings" for years upon years. The Herald has already shared with me so much in its silence. Oh, of course it doesn't speak…not to anyone but me, at least. What? OF course, I am fine, woman! Oh, well…yes, I DO appear to be bleeding from the nose, WHAT OF IT! Why do you think I have called you here? It was the ANGEL'S WILL! It just sits, resplendent, in the laboratory, silently chuckling and allowing us to do our experiment, and what wondrous things we have found already. The gifts from on high it has bestowed on the devout, Dr. Rappaccini; from its flesh, we have found cells able to replicate themselves into living, breathing flesh reborn from NOTHING, from its casing we have found a bonding agent and alloy 50 TIMES THE STREIGHT OF ADIMANTIUM! From its hands, we have detected an energy source and weaponry system that carried the same readings and energy emitted from the Ultimate Nullifier. DON'T YOU SEE, DOCTOR? Can you not recognize the miracle that you see sitting before you?
And now, my dear doctor and tolerated colleagues, I will give it a voice…ready your faith to hear The Voice of God…I have followed it's instructions to the letter, and with but a mere flick of a switch I sha-