It calls itself the Eliminator, and it proclaims that for daring to interfere with its work, they must be destroyed. It is its solemn duty, it continues, to eliminate all traces of Agatha Harkness's sojourn among their "primitive race," which includes destroying those who were once her friends. Sue asks whether her son has been "eliminated", and the android replies that its masters will deal with her son in their own fashion. Ben suddenly leaps down from the mezzanine and slams the creature into a wall. When the Eliminator tries to incinerate Ben with incendiary jets on its fingertips, the Human Torch absorbs the flame and ignites himself. Then Sue knocks it over with a force-sphere. This, unfortunately, allows it to use the vacuum-vents built into its boots to blow out Johnny's flame, and then it recovers its footing and staggers them with a shock wave. Reed formulates a plan of attack, but the creature declares that the time has come for it to strike "in earnest." When Sue tries to hit it with another force-sphere. it uses a beam that apparently disintegrates her. Reed is horrified and hurls himself at the android, but a painful blast of energy knocks him away. Then Ben attacks, but the Eliminator pummels him into seeming lifelessness. Finally, Johnny tries to burn the Eliminator up, but it uses its incendiary-jets to force Johnny to explode in a nova-blast. Then, with all the Fantastic Four apparently dead on the floor, it declares that just one thing remains before its mission is accomplished. It inserts its incendiary-jet fingertips into its chest-plate, which commences the countdown of its self destruction. Within minutes, it says, it shall explode and destroy every trace of Whisper Hill. Anchoring itself to the floor with its vacuum-vents, the robot states that the process cannot be reversed. No sooner does it say that than the Fantastic Four all arise. Reed explains to the perplexed machine that the Invisible Girl simply exercised her power to make the android think she was disintegrated. Then, hiding in the shadows, she used her invisible force field to protect Reed and Ben, while Johnny simply faked going nova. The Fantastic Four rush out of the building and duck under Sue's force field, as the android forlornly declares that an Eliminator never fails. Then the mansion explodes, as the debris falls all around them, they vow to track down Agatha Harkness and Franklin wherever they may be.

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