Peter and Eddie were just cleaning up from doing a little work at the soup kitchen when Peter brought something up.
"Have you figured out the origin of the suit yet?" he said.
"No." said Eddie, "The suit doesn't even know where it came from."
"What are you talking about?" said Mr. Li.
"Nothing, Mr. Li." said Brock.
"What's this about suits?"
"Nothing." repeated Eddie.
"I know exactly what you're talking about," said Li, "and I can help you."
"What do you mean?" said Peter.
"Remember when I said my negativity was just the way I was?" said Li
"Yeah, so?" said Brock. Mr. Li went into the back room, with Peter and Eddie reluctantly following. When they arrived they saw that this was apparently Mr. Li's place of residence, for there was a small cupboard, oven, microwave, bureau, and bed. Li moved the bureau and whispered "Nepo" into the wall1. Peter and Eddie couldn't believe their eyes when the wall opened right in front of them. Mr. Li went inside and gestured for the others to follow. Once inside, Li took off his clothes, along with what was revealed to be a mask, exposing a full-body suit underneath. He went into a dark corner and moved as though he was taking something off and putting something else on. When he emerged, Peter and Eddie were shocked, for Mr. Li looked like himself, but he looked like he would if a photographer still used negatives
"Mr. Li?" said Brock.
"Ma yllaer I tahw si siht." said Li, "Kool doog a ekat."
"What?" said Peter, prompting Li to put a device in his mouth.
"Sorry." said Mr. Li, "I sometimes forget to put in my negative-to-positive translator. I said take a good look. This is what I really am."
"What are you?" said Brock.
"I'm human," said Li, "I'm just not a normal human by your standards. I'm from the Negative Zone of the universe."
"I've heard about that." said Peter, "I read a paper once that said that scientists believe that there is a sector of the universe wherein everything is comprised of antimatter, and that the only thing preventing an explosion at the boundary is a sort of Neutral Zone, where no particle has a charge, positive or negative, but seeing an actual antimatter life form, it's remarkable." Peter reached out to touch Li, but he pulled away.
"What were you thinking?" said Li.
"Right," said Peter, "if antiparticles come into contact with particles-"
"Both will be annihilated." said Li.
"Yep."
"With that aside, I need your help, we need your help. Both of you need to help us, or the Negative Zone will be destroyed."
1 If you see words spelled backwards, it means that the character is speaking in a rewound style, it is not necessarily a phonetic spelling