MARVEL GENESIS: FANTASTIC FOUR PART ONE!
BEN GRIMM struggles to carry a box full of equiptment up to the eleventh floor of the Baxter Building, his apartment. He has a muscular build of a High School jock, broad shoulders, and a nearly shaved head. As he finally reaches his door, he tries to unlock it.
BEN: Stupid key--never works--gotta do all this myself--dammit--
Ben's muttering is cut short, as young REED RICHARDS swings the door open. Ben's exact opposite, Reed is smart, intelligent, and has a frail, weak, somewhat lanky appearance. Ben often jokes someone might mistake him for a stick in the wind.
REED: Did you get it?
Ben walks in, drops the box down on Reed's lab bench, pours himself a drink, and sits in front of his TV.
BEN: Yeah I got it. Why do you need stuff from your old lab anyways? Weren't you being funded by H.A.M.M.E.R to make a super soldier serum for them?
REED: H.A.M.M.E.R cut our funding.
Ben spits his drink, and turns to face Reed.
BEN: WHAAAT?!
REED: Relax, I can still experiment.
BEN: I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME ****ING EXPERIMENT! HOW ARE WE GONNA PAY RENT? HOW DO WE GET MONEY.
REED: You could start by getting of your rear.
BEN: What?
REED: Nothing.
BEN: Like I said, we have no income. How are we gonna get some money.
Reed thinks for a while, then finally answers:
REED: Sue!
Meanwhile:
A floor below, Susan Storm argues with her brother, Johnny (16 years old)
JOHNNY: Can't you just....I don't know....see Reed or something?
SUE: I told you, Johnny, Reed and I are having a "trial separation."
Johnny mumbles:
JOHHNY: Of course...."trial."
JOHNNY: BUT YOU'RE ENGAGED!
Sue declines to comment.
JOHNNY: Come on! Pete's coming over!
SUE: I won't be leaving, Johnny....find somewhere else to do....whatever it is you do.
Meanwhile, below the ground, the smell of rotting corpses fill the air....a creature, deformed in nature, surrounds himself with other genetic anomalies. His name is the Mole Man.
MOLE MAN: H.A.M.M.E.R....I know all your secrets...I was designed by leader, Dugan himself....obsessed with super soldiers....killed Cap....."peacekeeping force".....torures heroes....in the name of super soldier formula....I discovered secrets....was cast out...like....like....like unwanted child....GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
The Mole Man thrashes about in a short fit of violent rage. the other anomalies back away.
MOLE MAN: SO MUCH INFORMATION! THEY MADE ME! THEY MADE ME AND I DIDN'T WORK! I WAS IMPERFECT...NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Suddenly, Mole Man stops, as if considering something.
MOLE MAN: But what if I was?
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