Chapter 68 - [BT] One Month Deadline...

[Before Transition]

Before following Sue out of the elevator I take a look at the buttons on the side and see that the button 32 is lit up which must mean we are on the 32nd floor though I'm a bit confused why as Johnny told me this floor was basically just living areas and holds records, I don't see why we are here. "Sue, why are we on the 32nd floor? Johnny said that this floor just held the living areas for guests and some boring old rooms like the library." I ask her but I stop speaking when I see the little bit of frustration that shows on her face, she's clearly not happy for some reason or another. "I shouldn't have let Johnny give you the grand tour, like always he somehow found a way to bungle it up. Listen, Johnny mainly only ever goes to the 30th floor, the 31st floor and the 35th floor where he works on vehicles and that's why he hasn't given you the most in depth tour so I'm gonna have to fill you in on a few things, mainly that nothing in our base is boring."

She clearly took offence to my use of the word boring and if I remember correctly the medical lab where she sometimes works is on this floor so no wonder she got angry when I inadvertently told her Johnny called the space where she worked boring. "First of all the 30th floor is just a reception that is just there to check over any visitors and that's about there, I don't think you'll have any need to go to that floor in the future considering that you now have your personal pass to get to the top five floors." She only told me that it's a reception room, I guess Johnny wasn't supposed to tell me about all the mechanics and shit that's on that floor and I guess it makes sense as the less people know about the place where they have all the mechanics that make some of this buildings special features the less chance anyone's going to target and destroy it.

"The 31st floor is the place where mine and the rest of the fantastic fours rooms are so if you ever need one of us and can't find us come knock on our doors but don't just enter as we take privacy very seriously in this building. Apart from that it also holds the kitchen, the dining room, the lounge, the recreation room and the gymnasium so this is mainly the floor where you will be able to hang out and have lunch whenever you get the chance, you can also use the gymnasium free of charge as I can see that you obviously like to keep yourself in shape." Oh my, was that a glint of appreciation I just caught in her eyes, well I do have a pretty s.e.xy body so who could blame her. "There are also a few other rooms on this floor such as the Telestar-Continental-Local And Closed Circuit TV Monitors, the TV sending studio and the Radio Sending And Receiving Room which are all used to keep an eye out on any radio signals or news broadcasts that might acquire the attention of the Fantastic Four, you are not permitted to enter these rooms and if for any reason you have to please consult with us first as it is crucial that such rooms that could inform us about disasters and catastrophes be untouched."

Right, she's guessing that Johnny slacked off when he gave me the grand tour and I've gotta say that she's right because she keeps mentioning rooms I has no idea about, she's also setting boundaries and rules while I'm interning here. "The 32nd floor is the place that has living areas for any guests or new residents, it also holds a fairly large library and the reference room but that's not all. This floor also has several labs such as the medical lab, the chemistry lab, the electronics lab, the biological research lab and finally the technological research lab which also functions as a machine shop, this is the floor where you will be spending most of your time but we can talk about what you'll be doing later. The reason why Johnny didn't inform you about these rooms is because they are ever hardly in use, Ben and Johnny definitely don't use them and reed has his own floor where he does his work which is the 33rd floor and I spend most of my time helping Reed with his research while only occasionally using these labs for my own research."

I guess most of the scientific research that happens in this building is Reeds and I suppose it makes sense, Reed regularly makes marketable products which keep the Fantastic Four funded so Reeds research should be the focus as it is the most profitable even if he does take whatever he creates and scales it down by the thousands before patenting it citing that the human race isn't ready for such advanced technology and frankly I agree with him. "I've already told you that the 33rd floor is exclusively Reeds lab so we'll just skip that floor but remember that you are not allowed on that floor unless given permission as there are multiple dangerous experiments going on up there, Reeds lab is always being modified to account for his new research and experiments so just be aware that it sometimes spills over onto the 34th floor so please try to avoid going near the spillover. The 34th floor is basically our headquarters and it holds the computer banks, the monitor banks, the communications centre, the briefing room, various conference rooms and the projection/theatre room. Finally on this floor there are two, technically three, rooms that you should stay away from unless told otherwise, these are the missile monitoring room and the missile ready room which holds the entrance to the launch pad where we can enter our ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), be aware that the area that holds the ICBM runs through all five floors and you can even see the tip of the ICBM in the hangar in the form of a rocket silo."

She's telling me not to go to these rooms yet she is explaining each and every room to me which is kinda weird, I'm not gonna question it until she's finished and hope that she's doing it because she has full trust in me for whatever reason. "Now the 35 floor is the hangar which I'm guessing is all that Johnny told you about it? Well it is much more than that as it happens holds the vehicle maintenance shops, the storage and supply rooms as well as a few other miscellaneous rooms that we rarely use such as the photo analysis room for whatever reason we have that, the hangar also holds the entry to the observatory on the rooftop. The hangar holds our vehicles such as the Pogo-Orbit Plane, the Fantasti-Copter and the Fantastic-Car along with all of their previous iterations, you can visit this floor for any work you might need to do but please refrain from interacting with any of the vehicles without express permission from one of us."

"Any work I have to do? I'm sorry but I thought I was only gonna be working on this floor and for that matter why have you told me about all the different rooms in this building? Even the rooms that you've told me not to enter you've given me information about." I ask her now confident that she's given me all the information about the building that I'm ever gonna get from her. "When did I say you can't enter those rooms, all I've said is that you would need permission first from us if you want to enter those specific rooms and as for why you might have to enter those rooms? Well that's to do with your first job interning at 'Fantastic Four, Inc'." She tells me with a smile, we are now outside of the medical lab.

"And what is my first job?" I ask quite curious, Susan smiles at me. "You have 1 month to come up with a marketable product that is feasible, it has to not only be a profitable product but it also has to be a product that will help the public and not bring any harm to the world so nothing that could be used as a weapon, okay. You have 1 month before you present it to us though I think you'll mainly be presenting it to me and Reed, you can use any of the rooms in the building but make sure you ask permission to enter the restricted rooms. Good luck!"

So I have a singular month to come up with an awesome, eco-friendly, profitable product. This place is definitely gonna challenge me...

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