Back at the Baxter Building, Sue, Ben, and Johnny were at loose ends in finding what they felt was the right switch to bring Reed and Mary back.
"Now will you take my advice, and call up someone who deals with time travel?" Johnny asked Sue desperately.
"Unfortunately, it looks like it's the only choice we have. I do not want to sound like a cheapskate, but I really hope they don't want money for this operation. But, it's to the point, I would be willing to give up anything to have Reed and Mary back." Sue said as she along with Johnny walked towards the mechanics lab's exit.
"Yeah, I'm with ya Suzie. Anythang to have Stretcho and his girl back!" Ben exclaimed, as he got off of his knees to follow the Storm siblings out of the lab.
While doing this, Ben unknowingly knocked a lever on the space/time apparatus' control panel up. Suddenly, a bright flash of light appeared out of nowhere. And replaced by the light five seconds later were the very people Ben, Sue, and Johnny had attempted to bring back out of the vast reaches of time and space for the past eight hours. The three once leader-less members of the Fantastic Five all ran up to Reed and Mary, and said in unison.
"REED! MARY! HAVE WE MISSED YOU!"
A potpourri of hugs, kisses, laughter, and joy followed between the five superpowered friends. The celebration did not end there in the lab, it was immediately decided between the quintet that they would take their festivities over Reed and Mary's return to a restaurant, then a movie theatre. As everyone left the lab to get into some better attire for the party, Mary strangely took a little longer to come out of the lab. Before she finally came out, Mary turned in her Sherlock Holmes book to the page that showed Reichenbach Falls. Interestingly though, it showed more than the waterfall. It featured a man stretching out from a cliff with another man in his arms as if preparing to throw him into the falls. Mary smiled, for she knew this was a far better souvenir from her and her stepfather's journey than a mere autograph.
"So this is where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got his ideas from, visions of that dimension Father and I visited! You learn something new every day..."
Mary thought to herself slyly, like the man whose autograph was in the very book she clutched in her hand. It would be in that book she would eventually discover that like the picture she had just beheld, the ending to "The Adventure of The Final Problem" had altered too. Instead of Holmes supposedly dying, it told of how he lived due to "a man made of rubber picking up Moriarty, and throwing him off the mountain". Mary would also uncover when reading "The Adventure of The Empty House" that Watson and Holmes had separated for three years after the Reichenbach Falls trip because instead of Watson believing Holmes to be dead, Holmes and Watson had had a bitter argument over Holmes' drug use and his accusing Watson of trying out his seven-percent-solution without his knowing it. But, upon the discovery of her stepfather being in a Sherlock Holmes story, Mary ran out of the lab to get ready for the huge party and night on the town celebrating her arrival. Ironically, the movie her and her friends chose to see after they were done at the restaurant was The Hound of the Baskervilles.
"Now will you take my advice, and call up someone who deals with time travel?" Johnny asked Sue desperately.
"Unfortunately, it looks like it's the only choice we have. I do not want to sound like a cheapskate, but I really hope they don't want money for this operation. But, it's to the point, I would be willing to give up anything to have Reed and Mary back." Sue said as she along with Johnny walked towards the mechanics lab's exit.
"Yeah, I'm with ya Suzie. Anythang to have Stretcho and his girl back!" Ben exclaimed, as he got off of his knees to follow the Storm siblings out of the lab.
While doing this, Ben unknowingly knocked a lever on the space/time apparatus' control panel up. Suddenly, a bright flash of light appeared out of nowhere. And replaced by the light five seconds later were the very people Ben, Sue, and Johnny had attempted to bring back out of the vast reaches of time and space for the past eight hours. The three once leader-less members of the Fantastic Five all ran up to Reed and Mary, and said in unison.
"REED! MARY! HAVE WE MISSED YOU!"
A potpourri of hugs, kisses, laughter, and joy followed between the five superpowered friends. The celebration did not end there in the lab, it was immediately decided between the quintet that they would take their festivities over Reed and Mary's return to a restaurant, then a movie theatre. As everyone left the lab to get into some better attire for the party, Mary strangely took a little longer to come out of the lab. Before she finally came out, Mary turned in her Sherlock Holmes book to the page that showed Reichenbach Falls. Interestingly though, it showed more than the waterfall. It featured a man stretching out from a cliff with another man in his arms as if preparing to throw him into the falls. Mary smiled, for she knew this was a far better souvenir from her and her stepfather's journey than a mere autograph.
"So this is where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got his ideas from, visions of that dimension Father and I visited! You learn something new every day..."
Mary thought to herself slyly, like the man whose autograph was in the very book she clutched in her hand. It would be in that book she would eventually discover that like the picture she had just beheld, the ending to "The Adventure of The Final Problem" had altered too. Instead of Holmes supposedly dying, it told of how he lived due to "a man made of rubber picking up Moriarty, and throwing him off the mountain". Mary would also uncover when reading "The Adventure of The Empty House" that Watson and Holmes had separated for three years after the Reichenbach Falls trip because instead of Watson believing Holmes to be dead, Holmes and Watson had had a bitter argument over Holmes' drug use and his accusing Watson of trying out his seven-percent-solution without his knowing it. But, upon the discovery of her stepfather being in a Sherlock Holmes story, Mary ran out of the lab to get ready for the huge party and night on the town celebrating her arrival. Ironically, the movie her and her friends chose to see after they were done at the restaurant was The Hound of the Baskervilles.