Into the Soul of Eternity

MALICE

Sue Storm's mind is whirling with the dreadful possibilities that she is now a supervillainess. Not only does this mean Reed might end up marrying She-Hulk, but she will have to change her code name and costume. Malice is a terrible code name! And such a tacky uniform! None of the supervillainess costumes are as flattering as nice blue set of coveralls! 

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Of course, on her, she might be able to make that spiked collar bare midriff look work...

BUT NO MATTER! The brute known as Evil Reed (who may now be her only evil hope of evil happiness, now that she is evil) and John Jameson must not be lost! 

Jameson, after all, was the first person Spiderman ever saved! (See Spider-Man #1 - Eds) She would not be able to face her team mate, Spiderman, if she had to tell him that she, no one else, lost the first save he ever made! 

Holding up the Soul Gem, Sue says, "Soul Gem! I bid you allow me enter, retrieve the souls trapped in you, and emerge safely back into the world of time! I command you in the name of Eternity, whose soul you are, to open up and show me a path! A safe path, please!" 

WHURRRL

Sue dissolves into liquid and falls into the Soul Gem.

She lands on a pumpkin-shaped settee, beside a caterpillar smoking a hookah.

"Well, hi, little lady," says the caterpillar in an extremely slow drawl, so it's more like "Waaaahul haaaaaaaay, liiiiiiiiiul layyyyyyyydeh." I won't spell it again.

"Lost yer way? Ayuh, there's many an' many a path to be drawn here in the Down-Under, an' never the twain shall meet. Ayuh .... many an' many."

His scented smoke drifts upward, to where the sky should be ...

... and isn't. The zenith is full of faces, tinted orange and distorted across the bowl of the heavens, some twisted into screams of despair, others apparently content.