After passion came emptiness. Once the research into the antimatter bomb reached a stopping point, Mr. Fantastic regained his reason and finally remembered the word "fear."
He feared that the bomb he had painstakingly created would destroy humanity, destroy Earth, and destroy his family.
"If it comes to it, I'll erase it with this..." In the middle of his room sat a lighter-shaped metal device—the Ultimate Nullifier Daisy had once seen.
It contained a portion of Wanda's Chaos magic, refined through technological means for greater controllability. It was Mr. Fantastic's most powerful weapon.
After the battle in Negative Space, Daisy had demanded that he hand over the Ultimate Nullifier. Mr. Fantastic had given her the damaged one. No one had expected that he had made two in the first place; Daisy had always thought the thing was one of a kind.
"Is this magic too?" He had considered using the Ultimate Nullifier to erase the antimatter bomb several times. In theory, it could dismantle the bomb, but he had never fully made up his mind, because the Ultimate Nullifier contained very little energy. It would most likely be destroyed after a single use.
In the end, Mr. Fantastic inspected all the dangerous materials, sealed the entire room with a password lock of his own design, and, after confirming that nothing was wrong, shut the secret chamber and drove off to pick up his wife.
One minute, five minutes, ten minutes... An hour later, an almost imperceptible wisp of black mist appeared on the surface of the Ultimate Nullifier.
A hazy humanoid phantom slowly emerged from within it.
If Daisy had been there, she would have recognized it as Chthon's projection.
It was a fragment less than one ten-thousandth the size of his original projection. Relying on the tiny amount of