Chapter 62 - 62 The Power Cosmic

The footage from the cameras in the various rooms showed Johnny and Ben collapsing inside the airlock and Susan and Reed getting knocked out. The footage however continued streaming and red lights were showing all over the console. Sparks shot out from the control stick and the shuttle started turning. Moments later, the shuttle started losing altitude and looked like it was about to enter orbit.

Harry got up from the couch and said, "I need to make a call," and left the lounge.

The moment Harry was out of sight of any cameras and witnesses, he teleported to the roof and checked the time before using his Time Turner to go back in time three hours.

There was nothing Harry could do to stop his students from getting exposed to those energy waves, but there were other things Harry needed to do to prevent a different disaster.

Once he was back in time, Harry equipped some gear that would allow him to comfortably survive space without magic and used a portal to head to the orbiting pyramid.

Oddly enough, Harry did have something for this situation. Harry took out several hundred crystal spheres and placed them in a stationary position in the space between the pyramid and the earth in a field nearly a mile in diameter. The shuttle had been very close to the pyramid so Harry just had to place them behind where the shuttle would park and the timeline would not be affected.

Harry then patiently waited and not long afterwards the shuttle showed up and approached from the side while synchronizing its orbit. Harry himself and the spheres were all concealed so they would not be noticed or mentioned on live TV.

Eventually the cosmic storm showed up and Harry got a good look at it. It was a band of energy that extended up and down further than the eye could ever see but it was only a few hundred meters wide. It just so happened that it would pass through the space with the pyramid and the shuttle before passing to the side of earth. Of course Earth's magnetic field would protect it from a storm of this magnitude even if it did pass through it but it would not protect those outside the shuttle from getting microwaved to death if exposed.

Johnny and Ben made it inside and the ship's natural faraday cage design would protect them from the cosmic radiation, but the wave of energy created from the exploding pyramid was different. It easily passed through the ship and was now on its way to Earth.

Or not.

Harry placed the hundreds of spheres outside the area of the cosmic band but in front of the earth. The massive wave of bizarre energy passed through the hundreds of spheres the further into the cloud of spheres it passed, the dimmer the light of the energy wave appeared.

These were energy collectors, all of the ones Harry possessed. Harry had been looking for a new source of energy to use for Battle Meditation and these could collect energy better than anything else on the planet. He'd been getting kicked out of any realm he'd tried to collect high level energy from so his plan had been to drop the spheres, make a distraction, and hope he could collect them again, basically a robbery. That kind of trick would only work once so he had to make it count and it just so happened that they could be used in this situation perfectly as this energy had no master and was even in the material plane.

The strength of the wave completely died before it passed through the cloud of spheres. The wave on the outer rim of the sphere cloud was unaffected but the cut part of the wave was in front of the earth meaning the comparatively small cloud of energy absorbing spheres had basically cast a shadow over the earth, shielding the surface from the wave which passed harmlessly around the planet out into the void of space. Thankfully the moon was behind the earth at the time so it too was unaffected.

The wave itself along with the cosmic storm also passed through Harry of course. The cosmic storm was incredibly powerful, but Harry's magic defense from his Wisdom Stat allowed him to survive lightning bolts without issues and since Harry was wearing a full set of gear, the effect was too weak to mention. The energy from the pyramid however was strange. It was both powerful and weak at the same time. It was difficult to describe it. If was both a spark and a star, yet more and nothing at all.

Even if it was an attack, Harry's body could not internalize and store energy that he had not acquired through combat so the energy had no effect on him. He wouldn't be able to find out what it was without studying what he collected later.

Harry took a moment to calculate the trajectory and had to stop himself from rolling his eyes. Of course it would crash at several times the speed of sound directly into downtown New York City. Why'd he even bother calculating it? He should obviously just ȧssume everything is heading towards New York in the future.

Ironically because the cameras were delivering their stream using Metagem quartz, they were not affected by the energy wave so while the ship was careening towards the earth, the camera feeds were still rolling.

Harry followed the descending ship and tried technopathy to get the ship to engage the autopilot. Unfortunately that seemed fried too. The ship was also descending at the wrong angle and would burn up into a ball of flaming metal before striking the city with enough force to leave nothing standing taller than four feet off the ground.

Harry's phone beeped and this time he didn't bother to stop his eyes from rolling. Since the crew wouldn't survive the ship's re-entry regardless, the powers that be just sent a missile to blow it up. This would save New York and Harry couldn't blame them for making the call.

Harry obviously wouldn't let his students die like that, it just depended on how much he wanted to reveal to the world. Since the ċȯċkpit was still streaming live on a feed that the Government couldn't cut, Harry couldn't just teleport in, nab them, and teleport out. He needed to fly the shuttle and make it look natural, but the shuttle couldn't be flown from the inside and Harry wasn't strong enough to fly it from the outside. Unless he got creative that is.

Harry charged his cells with dimensional energy and turned himself into a cloud of dust. Ever since he got his Obscurus Perk, he'd had a lot more control over this form. Obscurus particles were also invisible to nonmagicals and with his invisible energy readings there was no camera on earth that could see him.

Harry flew over to the shuttle and engulfed it. The extreme heat of descent was not something that could easily harm particles made of energy and Harry was able to manually push the shuttle into a properly aligned descent while slowing it down and preventing it from melting and destroying itself.

Harry saw the missile on its way in the distance but a minute after Harry started correcting the ship's course, the missile exploded. Harry hadn't done anything to it yet and he figured that someone noticed the uncontrolled flight had become controlled. Whoever had their finger on the trigger wasn't going to kill a bunch of college students on live tv unless there was no other option.

After descending far enough into the atmosphere for the flames over the shuttle to go out, Harry's obscurus form ripped the panel off the back of the ship and pulled out the parachute causing the shuttle to drastically decelerate. Harry maintained awareness of the inside of the shuttle and noticed that Susan seemed to have come too and was pulling on the control stick on her side to change the wings of the shuttle to decelerate it further. Harry helped and pushed the flaps up as the control system was partially fried. Harry's presence was actually making the systems worse as his exotic energy was messing with anything that survived the energy wave. He figured it was a small price to pay.

The shuttle's path had changed from New York City to the coast off Long Island. The shuttle descended right into the sight of the piers and started skimming across the water as it slowed. Once it touched down, Harry removed himself from the shuttle and reformed his body. If there was a random Magical at the pier he'd be seen so this was as close to New York as he could escort the craft.

Those at the pier were running out of the way but Harry controlled the descent enough to ensure the craft only reached the shallow depths before coming to a complete halt. Other than some buoys and one unfortunate boat filled with cabbages, there were no other damages caused by the landing.

Harry continued to maintain invisibility and monitor the crew. Susan had confirmed Reed was unconscious but fine and had used an emergency lever to open up the airlock doors and confirm Ben and Johnny were also alive, though they were decently beaten up as they had descended without seatbelts unlike Susan and Reed. Thankfully they were in their spacesuits which supported their unconscious bodies and prevented something as terrible as their necks snapping from the turbulence of landing.

Harry confirmed that all four had been contaminated by energy but they were alive. Even if Harry walked over to them now, he actually had no way to remove the energy from their bodies without knowing more about it so he'd reached the limit of what he could do.

Harry sent a small spell at Susan to make her think that she'd corrected the orbit instead of it happening on its own, but Harry found that the spell had no effect. He wasn't sure what to make of that and figured it was an effect of the energy. Since there was nothing else he could do, he teleported out and waited until it was one hour and ten seconds from when he'd gone back in time. Harry then used the Time Turner to go back one more hour and teleported back to where he'd left the University from, ten seconds after he left.

Harry then returned to the staff room after visibly putting his phone away and back to his seat on the couch.

The news casters were going crazy as the footage showed the shuttle accelerating towards the earth.

One newscaster stopped speaking and grew somber, "We have reports that the shuttle is going to crash land in New York City! A missile has been launched to intercept!"

Cries of outrage and fear echoed back and forth in the faculty room. There was a camera on the front of the ship looking forward so there was no good way to hide the missile which would show up on camera in a little bit and because of the nature of the broadcasting equipment the government had no way to interrupt the feed.

This was the part where Harry intervened. The blinding light from the heat of the shuttle was automatically adjusted by the camera meaning that the orientation of the shuttle slowly changing was noticed by all viewers. A number of experts were making guesses about what had happened but most concluded the ship had an autopilot which had automatically activated. Investigations later would disprove this but Harry doubted those would be released to the public.

It was a minute later that the missile could be clearly seen from the cameras in the ċȯċkpit's shuttles and just moments later it exploded on screen. Harry along with the other professors shouted in celebration as new reports were plotting the projected course of the shuttle.

The deploying of the shuttle's parachute jostled the ship enough to wake up Susan who looked out the window and shouted, "What the fuċk?!" on live TV. Only the tension in the room prevented Harry from laughing at her use of profanity. The sky out the window was blue showing they'd re-entered the atmosphere while she was unconscious and the land on the horizon was getting closer.

Susan took a moment to confirm Reed was alive and said to the cameras, "Richards is alive but unconscious, I'm going to try to land the shuttle. All Coms are down and I don't even know if anyone is receiving this."

She quickly pressed dozens of buŧŧons and was getting more frustrated with each press. Her expression softened with relief a moment later, "The brakes are slow to respond but have been deployed." She continued to look out the window every other moment.

This was the part where Harry was moving the wings to ȧssist in the breaking of the shuttle. What Harry found odd however was that Susan was not looking at the horizon when she looked out the window, but randomly around the edges of the shuttle at the shuttle's nose and such. Harry wondered if she was looking at his obscurus form, if she could see it.

Harry had confirmed years ago that people with a specific saturation of some types of energy in their body could see a Patronus. The Ancient One and those time Travelers for example. All were technically muggles, except the Time Lord, but they could see something muggles shouldn't be able to because their senses were unbound from saturation of nonstandard energies.

Susan had not said anything about what she was seeing though, possibly because the camera feed from the exterior of the shuttle didn't show the same thing and she might have thought she had brain damage. Harry would definitely have to visit her in the hospital and explain a few things to make sure she didn't think she was going crazy.

The shuttle splashed down but was still getting closer and closer to the incoming pier. It smashed through an unmanned, parked, shipping boat filled with cabbages which smashed over the windshield but that slowed it down enough to stop right at the edge of the water.

The teacher's lounge and everyone in the newsroom on tv shouted in celebration. Harry was actually grabbed by Professor Sterns and hugged and Harry just shook his head and patted the man on the back for a moment before Sterns let him go and jumped off the couch. He was very excitable.

Susan had immediately gotten off her chair the moment the shuttle stopped and rushed to the back to open the airlock doors. The system didn't respond so she had to open the panel for a manual override to unlock and pull open the door.

Johnny and Ben were both still unconscious but Susan released the locks on their helmets and confirmed their status. "Ben and Johnny are both alive. Ben appears covered in bruises and Johnny's temperature is too high. Please send emergency medical services at once!"

The cameras showed that the coloration of Ben's face was off swollen as if he had been viciously beaten up, though the actual color of the bruises were less red than they should be and more orange.

The live feed finally cut out at that point as the two way communication system in the shuttle was mostly fried so Susan couldn't receive any messages sent.

In a small corner of Harry's mind he wondered if this was good advertisement for Harry's Metagems as the streaming system was entirely unaffected by the strange energy waves though everything else was. He'd already seen when he tried using magic to fry the Sentinel with a Metagem system that systems which use his gems have a bit more wiggle room when it comes to shielding than other systems which was why the camera and battery connected to the streaming system also survived.

Many of the faculty cancelled their classes to watch the shuttle so when the broadcast was over, Harry returned home and went into the basement to check out the spheres. Once he set up some safety measures, he pulled one out of his inventory and sat down next to it and enabled Battle Meditation.

[Dimensional Energy: Recommended level 50~200

Power Cosmic Energy: Recommended Level 100+

Time Energy: Recommended level 300~500]

Due to the shielding on the house itself, the only standard energies within were Time and Space. Dimensional energy was what gave space its space after all.

Because Harry had placed the spheres outside the range of the electromagnetic band that passed through the area, the spheres didn't absorb any energy from it meaning they only contained this Power Cosmic Energy which seemed to originate from the explosion.

Harry wasn't interested in the energy from that space storm. It looked fancy but it was basically just a concentrated form of electromagnetic energy which would only support Battle Meditation up to level 150 at best. It was enough to kill a normal human, but useless to Harry.

Cosmic Energy was a rather general term and encompassed most forms of background stellar radiation. However when Harry used Battle Meditation, the proper names of such energies would show such as Electromagnetism, Gamma Radiation, Heat Energy, etc. The fact that this energy was called, 'Power Cosmic Energy,' meant it was something else entirely.

Harry tried scanning it with the equipment he usually used for Metaphysics research but the results were inconclusive. The energy was made from the energy Apocalypse was going to use to awaken the X-Gene which had been stored for 5000 years combined with Harry's Exotic energy combined with the Electromagnetic Energy of the space storm. Yet somehow they had combined into this. As far as Harry knew, combining energies didn't work like that.

Deciding to contact someone who knew more than Harry did, Harry equipped some monk robes and made a silver portal to Kamar-Taj.

One of the benefits of no longer being twelve was that his height matched the other young apprentices so he actually stood out less than usual, though those who knew him still recognized him of course. Harry avoided most of the crowds and made his way over to the Ancient One's abode and found Master Wong.

The bald monk gave a curt nod of greeting and said, "I hope you have not brought any bad news this time."

Harry shook his head, "There was some trouble, but it was handled."

Wong actually snorted. "Handled, he says. Every alarm in every Sanctum went off at the same time, but moments later they were silenced. The Ancient One is already waiting for you."

Harry chuckled and followed Wong. The Sanctums defended the earth against mystic threats and the wave of Power Cosmic Energy heading towards the earth likely raised some flags. There are defenses that could have been enabled to protect the earth, but those were costly to set up and the strange wave may have been able to pass through them. Harry's solution of directly absorbing the energy that should have hit the earth was much simpler.

Harry found the Ancient One on a cellphone, browsing the internet while waiting for Harry.

After both took in a sip of tea, the Ancient One said, "Your tea is getting better."

Harry said, "Perhaps one day I'll surpass yours."

"It is good to set high expectations for yourself, however impossible they may be."

Harry smiled at that and took another sip of tea before he explained everything that happened today.

At the end of the story the Ancient One said, "Neither the awakening of Apocalypse or this event with your students happened in the timelines I have observed so I do not know what the future holds. It is rather enjoyable, truth be told."

Harry rolled his eyes and said, "You just enjoy watching me run around trying to put out all the fires I apparently started."

Though she didn't answer, her smile confirmed Harry's guess.

Harry took out a sphere of Power Cosmic Energy and placed it on the table.

The Ancient One didn't use any form of magic to scan it, she simply looked at it for a moment and said, "Put it back."

After Harry put the sphere back into his inventory the Ancient One said, "Power Cosmic is not a term I am familiar with, and I have never seen this form of energy before, but I do have some guesses."

Harry said, "I've never felt anything like it either. It feels like everything and nothing. Both life and death, yet neither. There was no level limit on absorbing it during Battle Meditation. Even if it's just a guess, I'd appreciate anything you can tell me about this."

Though Harry read everything in the Sanctum, not all knowledge was written down after all. Some things could only be learned through experience.

The Ancient One nodded and said, "The closest term I would use to describe it would be primordial energy. I've never encountered it before, but I've heard some theories about it. It is the energy created from the void which sparked and fueled the Big Bang itself. The first energy, the energy that gave birth to all other forms of energy."

That certainly surprised Harry. Every form of energy was basically just another unit of measurement. You can't measure heat with a ruler, you can't measure brightness with a thermometer, you can't measure time with a magnet, and you can't measure radiation with a scale. Metaphysics basically introduced a dozen new units of measurement for a dozen new forms of energy. The idea that all forms of energy share the same origin meant that all units of measurement were derived from the same source. This was something that went completely against every form of common sense. It also explained why his systems back home couldn't measure it. If true, this energy was literally unmeasurable.

Harry asked, "Do you have any theories on what will happen to my students and their friends? They were completely saturated with this last I checked though their vital signs were stable."

The Ancient One considered it and said, "Most if not all the energy will likely turn into another form of energy within their bodies. If they survived the ȧssimilation, they should survive the metamorphosis."

Harry frowned at that, "Anything I can do to prevent it or help?"

The Ancient One shook her head, "Neither of us are experts in this Power Cosmic thus neither of us know a safe way to remove it. Until you learn more about the energy, anything you attempt is more likely to harm your students. However you must be careful. This is the energy that created the Big Bang. I will be most disappointed with you if you destroy the earth during your research."

Harry nodded. "I'll carry out the dangerous experiments in the Mirror Dimension."

"That guarantees little. If you accidentally destroy the Mirror Dimension it will have untold consequences on this plane as well. In addition, there are beings trapped in the Mirror Dimension who have not died with the passage of time. Should they acquire some of this Power Cosmic from you during your experiments, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Harry sighed and knew she was right. The Mirror Dimension was not a playground. Several lazy Sorcerers in the past have in fact unwisely tossed certain dangers in the Mirror Dimension and not all of them may have died. There are beings that may not be capable of escaping under their own power, but they can put themselves into a dormant state to await the right opportunity.

"Alright, then I'll go the slow and steady route."

"That would be the wisest choice."

After finishing their tea and some more small talk Harry bid the Ancient One farewell and returned home.

Jade had just come over with her study group as Harry walked out of the basement. "Hey guys, you see the news?"

Jade answered, "You should have seen it Harry! The teachers and students were freaking out!" It seemed they had access to the news during the class. probably living streaming on a cellphone.

Gwen shook her head and said, "When the news said the shuttle was going to crash into the city, two girls in my class fainted and one boy screamed like a little girl."

Harry turned to look at Peter who noticed it and put his hands up, "What? No, it wasn't me! I swear!"

Felicia laughed and said, "It wasn't Peter, it was actually our resident quarterback."

Harry shrugged and said, "Oh yeah, we have some new staff now." Harry turned to face the kitchen and said, "Little Potato, can you make some tea?"

The three happy barks that came from the kitchen drew everyone's attention.

MJ blandly asked, "Was that a dog?"

Harry answered, "Our new Chef, Little Potato."

Rather than argue with the bizarre logic, Peter quickly changed the subject, "Um, Prof-" Harry glared at him for a moment causing him to freeze and start over, "Um, Harry? Have you heard if the shuttle's crew will be okay?"

Harry shook his head and answered, "I don't but I'll be visiting them at the hospital. Honestly I'm surprised I haven't been called yet since they were exposed to some weird energy and I'm the best available expert on weird energies around."

Gwen asked, "Best available? So there is someone better than you?"

Harry answered, "There is always someone better. I studied under a Master for a while and still ask for advice every now and then. I was actually just in contact until a few moments ago and had a discussion on possible identity of the energy which the crew was exposed to."

Peter asked, "What was it?"

Harry shrugged, "Something that shouldn't exist and makes less sense the more you analyze it."

MJ said, "I heard Harry say the crew would be taken to an Oscorp facility, not a hospital."

Harry looked over at Ms. Watson who realized what she said and continued, "Different Harry. Norman Osborn's son, Harry Osborn."

"Oscorp has them? Crap."

Gwen asked, "What's wrong with Oscorp? They are one of the most advanced companies in the world."

Harry answered, "Compared to other companies at the same level, there is not much wrong with them. The problem is that most companies at that level have a lot wrong with them."

Felicia asked, "And what's wrong with your company?"

Harry looked up as if pondering something and said, "Most of my employees and business partners bring knives to work and if a week goes by without them being used, it's considered slow."

Everyone made a strange face at that, even Jade who had not seen Harry's memories yet and didn't know about the Goblins.

Two barks came from the kitchen and Harry said, "Thank you Little Potato. Twinkie, can you bring out the tea?"

Harry looked over at his guests and said, "Twinkie is our new butler."

Everyone turned to face the hall leading to the kitchen and moments later, a golden, bowtie wearing corgi waddled out of the hall floating four feet in the air and moved its legs as if swimming as it slowly floated over to the table. In the corgi's mouth was a large silver tray containing a half dozen cups of steaming tea.

The floating fuzz ball set the platter on the table and gave out two more happy barks.

Harry walked over and pet Twinkie saying, "Good boy." With his other hand he got a cup and took a sip.

Jade said, "Come here Twinkie."

The golden corgi turned over and ran across the table before sitting in front of Jade who started petting it.

Felicia was the first to break out of the stupor that came with witnessing such a strange thing and scooted over to pet the corgi too. "Is this real?"

Harry answered, "It's another Hard-Light projection."

"But it's warm."

Harry nodded, "Microwaves."

Peter said, "Cascading modulation? You have targeted wave motion inference built into your Hard-Light system?"

Harry took another sip of tea and answered, "Yup. The coding was a pain in the buŧŧ."

"Did you use Correlation System Designs or Triparty Static Analysis?"

"Triparty Static Analysis is easier with my systems."

"Right, because of the Feedback hardware. But if you used a Terminal Inference for sub processors, wouldn't the programming have taken care of itself if you used Correlation System Designs?"

Harry blinked and took a seat. "Well, now I feel like an idiot for manually programming everything from scratch." Harry might know every computer tool that existed but that didn't mean he knew the most efficient way to use them all. Peter's suggestion would have allowed the system to partially program itself through a week of trial and error which would have been a lot easier than the manual programming Harry had to do.

Gwen said, "Look what you've done Peter, you've hurt Harry's feelings."

Felicia said, "Yeah, he might kick you out and not let you come back anymore."

"What? No, I mean it's amazing he could do so much programming manually! I can't imagine all the effort he must have put into it."

Gwen said, "Effort you've pointed out was a complete waste of time."

"Wait, no, that's not what I said! Really!"

Harry finished his tea and smiled, "It's fine, I learned a bit while manually coding it so it wasn't a waste."

Harry looked over and Peter and said, "It's your birthday in two weeks right? I'll get you some socks."

Felicia asked with a bit of humor, "Socks?"

Harry nodded, "A good warm set of socks are not something you'll really appreciate until you have worn a pair. If you're interested Felicia, I'll get you a pair for Christmas as well."

It was New York after all. New York got cold and warm socks were awesome. Though he'd outgrown the pair Dumbledore gifted him years ago, Harry did like them and he sent a pair back to Dumbledore every Christmas.

Felicia rolled her eyes and asked, "Why's like the richest guy on the planet gifting socks?"

Harry shrugged, "The best things in life are rarely gifts, but things you acquire yourself. Rather than give a person something they'd be better off getting themselves, it's better to get something they'd enjoy but likely wouldn't get for themselves."

MJ smiled and said, "Like warm socks."

"Exactly. Like warm socks."

Peter looked like he was about to argue but warm socks were not exactly a bad gift so he actually had no reason to refuse.

One of the reasons Harry liked having Peter over was because the kid was without a doubt, the smartest person Harry had met. Peter didn't know everything Harry knew, but the soon to be fifteen year old knew and understood a shocking amount of physics, engineering, computer systems, and even biology, genetics, and chemistry. What shocked Harry the most was that Peter didn't do massive amounts of research. According to Peter, his parents had a lifetime subscription to a lot of science magazines and publications. Many of those actually included published Doctoral Thesis's and Peter not only read them all, but did the relevant research to fill in the gaps for what he didn't know and understood it.

Apparently Peter could have tested right out of high school but according to Gwen and MJ, his guardians wanted him to stay in school and make friends so skipping two years was the best he was allowed to do, and he was only allowed do do that because Gwen had done it too. When Jade and the rest were studying for upcoming tests, Peter was apparently reading papers recently published by various scientists and their relevant work which he kept in his backpack.

Though Harry could discuss such things with his fellow University teachers, Sterns knew nothing about computers and Connors knew nothing about physics. If they were willing to talk about their own research that'd be fine, but neither would give details about their projects and wouldn't speak about it even if Harry guessed. So Peter was the only person with multiple interests Harry could speak the same language with and bounce around to various topics without receiving dead, blank looks from the other party.

The next day Harry informed the University that he was going to visit the Shuttle's crew and asked for someone to take over his classes. Professors Connors and Sterns offered to teach his classes as long as Harry told them how the kids were doing when he got back which Harry easily agreed to.

Harry confirmed through some hacking that the Storm Foundation was not doing great. They'd apparently invested nearly everything into this project which is why they had almost full control. However not only did they come out with nothing, but the shuttle malfunctioned, contracts were terminated, fines were levied, and everything was crashing around them like the cabbages in that shipping boat. At this point they'd be lucky if at the end of the day they were able to keep their main office in the Baxter Building at the other end of the city.

The reason they were at Oscorp was because Norman had apparently footed the bill for health care as a PR stunt and it was actually working out very well for the man.

Harry wanted to ask Susan what happened to the shielding and determine what effects the Power Cosmic would have on his students and their friends. He'd brought over a large suitcase with a lot of tools and headed out for the building they were being kept in.

Thankfully Osborn liked to have everything in one place. His research site and standard personnel were all in the same building so there was no guard to prevent Harry from walking in.

Harry walked right up to the desk and said, "Hello, may I know the room and floor the crew from the Storm Shuttle are being kept?"

The woman at the other end of the counter said, "No unauthorized personnel are allowed in the tower sir and no visitors have been authorized as they crew are under quarantine receiving the best medical care money can provide."

Harry rolled his eyes at the obviously scripted lines and said, "They are under quarantine because they got exposed to weird energies right? Well I'm Harry Potter, the best expert you're going to find in weird energies. Please do me and yourself a favor and call your boss's boss and tell him Harry Potter is here to see those four."

The woman looked at Harry for a moment before making another call. A few moments later she said, "Third Elevator on the right, fifteen floor. Someone will be waiting for you there."

Harry nodded and thanked the woman. If nothing else this should prove to be interesting.

*Author's Note*

The four are getting the same powers as normal, I just didn't like their original comic origin story where a band of cosmic energy randomly comes out of nowhere in space and gives them powers. So I added a few details which makes it seem less like something which happens all the time.

Now what do you think Norman is going to do with four super powered humans leaking highly unstable radiation? Let's see how many origin stories I can squeeze out of this one eh.

Serious question though, what is the first villain the Fantastic Four should debut against? (Not Doom, he comes in later.) They are getting the title of First Super Heroes in this fic so I need them to unite against something, and fight it publicly that will earn that title.. I'm seriously tempted to just do Mole Man.