Chapter 26
"What is this? Where's Reed?" Ben angerly yelled at Victor after he looked at the machine and noticed that Reed and the others were no where to be found.
"Where do you think?" Victor asked Ben before he chuckled darkly.
"With his new boyfriend." Victor then told Ben causing the rock like man to look at Leonard.
"I'll take it form here, Leonard." Victor then told Leonard.
"Uh, yes, sir." Leonard nervously told Victor before he turned around and walked out of the lab leaving Ben alone in the dark with Victor.
"What do you want, Vic?" Ben asked Victor as he walked deeper into the lab.
"To help you. The machine is ready." Victor told Ben causing the rock like man to look at him curiously.
"But Reed said it wouldn't be-" Ben began as he walked closer to the machine before Victor interupted him causing Ben to stop.
"He also said we'd avoid that storm in space. But we all know how that turned out." Victor then told Ben.
"He couldn't generate enough power for the machine to reach critical mass. Yet another mistake for Mr. Fantastic." Victor then explained to Ben.
"And you can?" Ben asked Victor as he walked over to the machine once more.
"Yes." Victor then told Ben causing the rock like man to look at him in shock.
"Tell me...do you want to be Ben Grimm again?" Victor then asked Ben causing the rock like man to look at his hands before he closed his eyes, opened them and then looked at Victor once more before he walked over to the doors of the machine causing Victor to walk over to the control panel.
With determaination in his eyes, Ben walked into the machine and then turned around to face Victor before the doors closed as the raven haired man set the machine to it's highest level and then pressed a button on the machine causing the levels to rise as groaning from the machine filled the air just before the equipment began to power down.
Thinking quickly, Victor walked over to the containment area of the machine and then opened it revealing a miniture storm.
As the storm swirled around, Victor reached inside the containment unit and then added his powers to the machine causing lightning to flow from inside the containment unit and into the machine causing it's power levels to rise higher and higher as Ben's screams filled the air.
As the cosmic energy flowed through Victor and the machine, lights began to flash through the lab and the top of the building causing the lights in the building to flicker causing the sleeping members of the Fantastic Six to wake up.
+Reed's bedroom+
As the lights flicked, Reed slowly opened his eyes while Susan, Marcus, and Thomas looked worringly at each other as they stood by a medicine cabnet.
+With Johnny, outside the building+
As the lights flashed at the top of the building and the street signs began to act up, Johnny looked up worringly and then quickly ran as fast as he could back to the building hoping that everyone was all right.
+With the Damon kids and the digimon, Reed's lab+
"Don't get too close." Eddie warned his siblings as they and the digimon ran into the lab.
"Eddie, what's happening?" 5 year old Casey worringly asked his older brother as the digimon shielded them from the lightning the machine was producing.
"And who's that?" 5 year old Nick asked the group as he looked curiously at Victor as the light show ended just as the doors of the machine opened causing smoke to come out of the machine as a now human Ben coughed and then looked at his hand in awe before he touched his face in shock.
Smiling in relief, Ben sighed happily and then grinned as he began to laugh happily.
"Oh, thank you!" Ben greatfully told Victor as he looked around for the raven haired man and noticed the Damon kids and the digimon were looking at him in shock.
"Kids? Gaomon? Agumon? Vic?" Ben asked the kids and the digimon in shock as he began to stand up causing the group to run over to him as he climbed out of the machine.
"Vic?" Ben called out once more causing Kayla to look at him curiously.
"Mr. Victor's here?" Kayla curiously asked Ben causing the former mutant to nod before he ran out of the machine.
"Vic!" Ben yelled once more as he grabbed his coat and then put it on.
"Vic, it worked!" Ben then yelled happily as he tied the jacket's belt around himself while the kids looked around curiously.
"Vic?" Ben yelled out once more just as Victor's voice filled the air.
"Everyone thought I was safe behind those shields." Victor told the group causing everyone to turn around just as a metal scared and burnt Victor walked over to them causing Agumon and Gaomon to move infront of the kids.
"By the gods." Ben gasped in shock as the kids and the digimon looked at the raven haired man in shock.
"The machine worked for me. It can work for you too." Ben then told Victor as he got closer to them.
"Oh, it did, Ben. It worked perfectly." Victor happily told the group as Nick noticed that Victor's hands were completely made of metal along with the area near his mouth and under his chin.
"You planned this." Ben then told Victor as he realized what the raven haired man had done and how he had played him for a fool.
"I've always wanted power. Now I have an unlimited supply." Victor then told Ben.
"And no Thing to stand in your way." Ben then told Victor with horror in his eyes knowing that he had played right into Victor's hands.
"Take a good look, Ben. This is what a man looks like who embraces his destiny." Victor then told Ben before he smacked the former mutant causing Ben to fly though the air and crash into some shelves.
"Uncle Ben!" the Damon kids yelled in fright before they and the digimon except for Kayla ran over to their unconcious uncle while the young brunette glared at Victor.
"You big meanie!" Kayla angerly told Victor causing the raven haired man to glare at her.
" 'Meanie' am I? Well, let's see just how meaner I can become." Victor smirked as he reached down, grabbed Kayla by her neck and then tossed into her into the air causing the young brunette to land into her brothers and the digimon.
"Two down, four to go." Victor then told himself as a voice filled the air.
+High on the top landing+
"Vic?" Reed asked Victor in shock causing the raven to look up at his ex-boyfriend.
+With Victor+
"Right on cue." Victor then told Reed just as Reed noticed the unconcious digimon, the unconcious Ben and the unconcious children.