章節 77: Portal to Another Dimension…

After passing through the reception and taking all the elevators up I finally arrive at Reeds laboratory which is on the 33rd floor and walking out of there elevator I immediately spot Reed working on some it in the middle of his laboratory which is where I expected him to be since if he's not there then he's usually sleeping or on some wacky adventure but what does surprise me is the fact that the rest of the Fantastic Four are surrounding him as he works with Ben and Johnny looking very impatient and Susan looking very tired and I'm immediately wary since usually only Susan comes to Reeds lab for one reason or another because of her crush on him which he is highly dense and unaware of but the others usually never come here except for Johnny when he wants something stupid being made or he has a problem (which actually isn't as often as you would think, surprising I know) and Ben used to come down here to buy Reed about solving his problem every so often but know that his problem has been revealed to him by Professor Charles Xavier and he's been seeing Doctor Leonard Samson so he no longer has a reason to be bugging Reed but in actual fact whilst it's weird that they've come to visit him in his lab what has alarm bells ringing in my mind is the fact that they've all come together so something must be up, I edge closer without trying to hide but it's clear that the are all caught up in conversation with Reed too invested in his work to pay attention to my approach and so I decide to eavesdrop a little to try and see if I can figure out just what they are talking about or more like just what the other three are shouting at Reed about while he just continues to work on his project but know that I get a closer look it seems like he's working on that portal that I've been helping him with. "Reed, you can't seriously be thinking about opening that portal now, we have no idea what it'll do or if will even work and more importantly we have no clue what's on the other side. You're putting not just us but everyone in the building in danger if this thing fails and explodes, we have no idea just how much the dimensional energies will Steve the the portal or even this world or whether or not it'll amplify the explosion so it's best if you hold off on it for now, at least till we do some more tests and then we can try opening the portal but until then I think it's best to wait and maybe even try and acquire a testing facility somewhere else to do this in where we wouldn't be endangering any other people."

Susan ever the voice of calm and reason tries to persuade Reed to rethink his thought which must be to finish and open the portal today and while I knew that it was nearly finished I didn't think it'd be in use so soon considering the fact that I estimated that it would take us another couple of weeks to finish but I guess Reed couldn't wait any longer and started to fixate and focus on this project since I last saw him and he must be finishing it up today and planning to open it and see what's on the other side which would indeed be quite serious and so I can see why the entire Fantastic Four are here to try and convince him to rethink his plan but if there's one thing I've learned about Reed over the past couple months of working with him then it's the fact that he has pride (some may even call it an ego, I'm some) in his work and he would never think it would be wrong or mistaken in any way and so he'll do what he think is correct and right without caring about others opinions unless he's smacked in the face with cold hard proof which I believe is not going to happen in this situation, Reed begins to respond to Susan not giving any leeway and explaining his views and his evidence before he notices me coming his way and beckons me forth. "Susan you don't have to worry so much, I discovered this dimension while I was searching for a way to travel through sub-space and I opened a portal to it and since I've discovered it I've been regularly been sending probes through the portals and I've been studying it a fair amount and I've determined that it largely unpopulated and not only that but with all of my time sending probes through portals I've figure out how to create the perfect portal and I'd enlisted the help of Nick to build it for the last couple of months and it's finally close to completion and I'm a hundred percent sure that we can open it up without any dangers plus we will only be opening it up to check it works before switching it off since we won't actually be going through. Nick what are you doing here on one of your college days, actually never mind just come over here and help me finish the portal to the new dimension I discovered and maybe once we're ready to go in we can bring you with us."

While I'm definitely not going to venture to the other side of the portal with them I wouldn't mind helping in creating the portal to this new dimension that's been a discovered since I've become more invested in it as I've worked on it for the last couple of months with Reed and I'd like to help in its final completion before Reed complete it all by himself which it looks like he's close to doing and so I quickly hurry past the others joining Reed like a well oiled machine since I immediately know just where he is in the process and I get to work with nary a word immediately helping to bring this project to completion whilst Susan and the others look on flabbergasted since I'd just appeared and immediately started to help Reed with his work while they were all trying to stop him and slow him down whereas I joined him and started to fasten the process, I imperially start to put pieces and parts together connecting wires and tightening bolts whilst soldering parts together and welding components to one another without even having to look at a schematic or a blueprint since I've worked on this baby for over three months and I've already memorised the blueprints since I'd already spent so long on it plus the fact that this project involved portals and dimension particularly got my interest since I could use the experience to help me in my own endeavours with my own project. "Nick, what the hell are you doing? You must've heard us trying to dissuade him from opening this portal as soon as you got out of the elevator yet you immediately start to help him complete the project instead of trying to dissuade him like the rest of us so what gives. Opening this portal could be very dangerous and could endanger everyone in this building maybe even going as far as to end anger everyone one in New York and while Reed says that it's largely unpopulated that still means there's some population and I don't want one of that population coming through here without precautions so it would be best if we'd tabled this idea for right now and try to hold off on it at least for now, maybe we could acquire some kind of testing faculty or something to do this in where we wouldn't affect anybody else and we could have precaution in place maybe somewhere like the vast Nevada dessert where there's hardly anyone around."

I continue on with my work whilst she talks though I do take the opportunity to lift my head every so often to make it clear that I am listening to her as I talk since I don't want to be too rude, honestly i don't want Reed to open the portal yet either and I'd much rather be as far away as possible when he does since I don't have a particular need to expose myself to potentially hazardous places but I've been working on this project for the past three months and I want to be part of its completion as well but that doesn't mean I'm want Reed to open the portal since finishing the portal and activating it are two very different things but there is a small part of me that does want to see what's on the other side since it's such a fascinating subject plus the fact that this portal is quite similar to what I want to create except mine wants to go to a different universe/multiverse and having the experience of building it and maybe even going through it could be very useful towards my future goals. "Susan, I understand where you're coming from but I've been working on this thing for the past three months and I at least want to be part of its completion plus just because I'm helping to finish it doesn't mean it's going to be activated though it does still fall on you guys to persuade him not to go through with it. Honestly though I don't think it'll be too bad if he just turns the portal on for a few seconds to make sure it's working before turning it off just to make sure everything's working and it won't explode or anything, after that we can begin do more tests and even send some probes through to the other side to do a deeper and more extensive search with a stable connection before we properly think about people going in or keeping the portal open for longe reptiles of time."

Finishing what I'm doing I put everything int it's correct place before closing the compartment I was working on and taking a step back to admire the device while Reed puts on the finishing touches before he himself gets up after finishing the portal and walks over to the interface on the side of the portal, which is a separate podium that is used to monitor the conditions on the other side of the portal after it's open and next to the interface is a simple switch to turn the portal on and off with anymore specifics having to be done through the interface which Reed begins to fiddle with before reaching out to grab ahold of the lever. "Nick is correct Sue I'll only be opening the portal for a few scant moments before closing it again to make sure that it works and that's it, you have no reason to worry since I've already done my calculations and an explosion is highly unlikely and after I used the interface I made sure that the portal will open in the middle of space in that dimension so nobody will be coming through or seeing it so you don't have to worry. Just think about the possibilities Sue, this is a dimension made up of anti-matter otherwise being known as a negative matter universe just what could we discover from such a universe, from such a- a negative zone."

Hold up a second, did this man just say negative zone… before I can do anything Reeds hand pulls down the switch with all the force of a thunderbolt which makes me go pale and my blood begins to go dry. With a shudder the machine rumbles and a portal springs to life, a portal to the Negative Zone…

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