To Stand In the Shadow of DOOM!

Hmmm. Sue's instinct would have been to run away.

Sue says, "Hit him again! Harder! Clobber him!

"But, oh, please be careful!! He is a dangerous man!

"He is not as bright as Some Other Scientists and it makes him so cranky, you see! He did not discover the Negative Zone. Or Unstable Molecules."

She is one hundred percent certain Jameson is going to die. She calls out, "I believe in you, John! Do your best!"

Then she turns invisible and steps to one side, trying to get behind Doom.

And she will try a difficult trick: she puts a force field anywhere between Doom and John Jameson where a weapon or barrel opens in Doom's armor, or between Doom's hands and Jameson, to try to stop any gunfire, laserfire, sonicblasts, ultrablasts, gamma rays, xraylasers, zeta beams, deathbeams, force beams, dehydration rays, shrink rays, heat rays, micro-missles, time vortex rays, or whatnot going from Doom to John.

Since the force fields are invisible, Doom will not see them. She just hopes she is quick enough to put them in front of any weapon he draws or finger he points.

But she is not putting either in a bubble: John should be able to smite Doom's hulkproof armor with all the power of his American Astronaut fist.

She makes little irregular elevations and depressions in the ground on which Doom stands (assuming he rises to his feet) invisible, or coats his left boot with a force field, so that his footing is bad during the upcoming donnybrook.

John Jameson does indeed press Dr. Doom in fisticuffs!

He ought to have his head knocked off. But Doom keeps slipping, stumbling over rocks, and otherwise fumbling what should otherwise be an effortless win.

Clang! Clang! Jameson punches the side of Doom's head, where Doom's green hood covers his iron mask, so Jameson doesn't break his knuckles.

Thorp! Glap! Doom launches micro missiles and fires zeta beams, to no effect.

Suddenly, Doom turns, holding out an armored glove to hold Jameson momentarily at bay.

"Richards?" he exclaims in astonishment. "But HOW? I used the Will Stone to bend space around this world, rendering entry or egress equally impossible!"

"Through space, yes," Reed Richards says. "But there are other ways of accessing other worlds, Victor, as we both know. I'd be a poor scientist indeed if I only had rocket ships in my arsenal."

"John Jameson, right?" he says to Jameson. "Seems you've been off the radar for more than a few years. Have you been here on Counter-Earth this whole time?"

Jameson replies,

"Dr. Richards, I'd be glad to fill you in on my back story, but there's still this maniac to deal with. Care to lend a hand?"

"From all the way over here?" scoffs Richards. "He'd roast me before I took two steps. No, what we ought to do is ..."

"MANIAC?" demands Doom hotly. "Who threw himself on me with fists upraised? Who chose at once to enter into the maelstrom of combat, without, as his own NASA's motto declares, seeking the unknown to make it the known? Who if not you, John Jameson?"

"Well, yes, I did attack you," Jameson counters. "Am I supposed to wait until you attacked me?"

Reed Richards comes over beside Jameson, passing within arm's reach of Sue Storm. But he looks right through her, as though she did not exist!