Val von Doom - Observation Window

[val_von_doom]

[Not quite OOM: Last night Val did some thinking in her room...]

This afternoon it is a very different Val who sits munching on sashimi and sipping orangina. Not quite so overcome with grief, she is focused and distracted, scribbling furiously at a notepad. She knows what she has to do now but the "how to" is what's tripping her up and no matter how

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[a1enzo]

"Hey, Val. You feeling any better?"

[val_von_doom]

And speaking of...

"Totally," Val says jumping up to offer Enzo a hug. "I think I've figured out how I can save my uncle!"

[a1enzo]

Enzo is startled at sudden huggage! Also at her statement.

"You can? It's not too late?"

[val_von_doom]

"I...I honestly don't know," she says a little crestfallen. "I can teleport through time and space so I was thinking I could go back to the last time my Uncle Ben saw Johnny or maybe right after would be better to avoid a paradox. A shield had closed over the gate so Uncle Ben didn't actually see Johnny die."

She shakes her head then to push back the grief. "I can even make gateways now so I can take other people and stuff with me. So, if he's still alive when I show up, I can bring him back."

[a1enzo]

"How did he die, exactly? Or... not die?"

[val_von_doom]

"Well, back home, there's a lot of dimensions that are nearby. One of them is called the Negative Zone which was discovered by my step-father, Reed Richards. He still has a portal device set up in the Baxter Building which is the home of the Fantastic Four.

"Most of the native life in the Negative Zone is hostile to Earth so the portal is kept under lock and key. Some of those aliens broke the lock and opened the portal to let in an invading army. Uncle Johnny closed the gate manually from the Negative Zone side to keep that from happening.

"The last thing my Uncle Ben saw as the shield closed to seal the gate was Johnny fighting the army.

"So my plan is to go back to right when the gate sealed, on the Negative Zone side, and grab Johnny. No paradox is possible as Johnny's final condition wasn't observed...well by Ben and the kids. Who knows what the bugs saw but I'm hoping it was me kicking their collective asses."

[a1enzo]

Sounds a little like the Ghost Zone. Only considerably worse. And with... "Bugs?"