How are you doing with your teleporter project?

[roseline371274]

Dear Ben, since we were ten years old, you and I have always worked together on this project. Now that I've been offered a job and money to continue, I suggest I leave without you and not even mention that you deserve your share of the pie too. That's friendship. Signed by your best friend writing to you from his pool of coke, Reed Richards.
So Reed packs his bags and leaves his rotten suburb to go to the heart of Manhattan, because at Marvel, when you build a mega-laboratory, you always build it in the heart of an overpopulated city with shameful rents. It's well known that the 7th c level executive list arrondissement of Paris, for example, is swamped with experimental laboratories. So much so that for years a gerbil that escaped from one of them has been pretending to be the mayor. He'll have to tell them one day, though. Anyway; Richards is very happy to discover a super laboratory, his pad, and incidentally that Susan Storm, Storm's blonde and sexually compatible adopted daughter, is there too, and that she's working on the teleportation project. Yay yay! Reed tries to flirt with her a little, with lots of "  Do you know this book?" It's called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , wait, I'll explain what it's about, you probably don't know what a girl you are ." but surprisingly without much effect. I imagine he's reading The Art of Seduction . At most, he learns that the young woman's specialty is "  systems analysis ," understanding, discovering the logic behind things, and unraveling their mysteries. Just like that. Bam. You give her an alien computer, she understands how it works, a parallel dimension, she discovers the rules, Instagram and... yeah, no. She still doesn't understand the point of the thing either. It's a superhero movie, but let's not exaggerate, even her skills have their limits.

But meanwhile, at the Baxter board meeting, Professor Storm is having a rough time.

"So, Professor,
" "We're getting close to the end of it, all that.
" "You're still sending anything anywhere, right? You think it's scientific?
" "Yes: look, I've got a lab coat.
" "You've convinced me. Right, let's talk about the recruitment budget: are you sure that recruiting all these young people from all over the country is really useful?
" "I recently recruited a man named Reed Richards. With him, we'll soon have the teleporter fully functional.
" "Wait... I see in these files that you also have a man named Viktor Von Doom, a student from Bastardavia, on the team! Isn't that the young man who recently wrecked the project by burning down all the servers, and therefore part of the building?
" "Yes, but I'm sure he'll really help us this time."

Oh, well, yeah. What if we recruited the guy who hates us so much he tried to destroy us? Who betrayed us and everything? I'm sure it won't end badly at all.

And it's validated. A reason? No? You're right, we might as well have fun, it's a festival.