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With a new costume designed by the Wizard, the Sandman attacks the FF in the Baxter building. Johnny arrives at the building, and heads inside, seeing Reed trying to burn his way into the Space-Time Chamber with an acetylene torch, so as to follow the Sandman, who has locked himself inside. The Torch makes a shortcut with his immense power, and in they go, but the Sandman is waiting, swallowing the Torch into a sandy vacuum tube and then extinguishing his flame. He wraps Reed up in a giant, sandy coil and slaps him around the room, but that allows Johnny to flame on and he assaults Sandman with a barrage of flame. But Sandman applies a chemical release of liquid nitrogen to help him freeze in his sandy form, then emit a poison gas. Reed and Johnny can't stand the fumes overtaking him, and his only option is to open the door to the Negative Zone, to air the room out! The door is opened, sucking all matter towards the portal. Sandman realizes he needs to escape and jumps out the window, but Reed is drawn inexorably inside the Space-Time Chamber, plunging through the barrier from Earth into the Negative Zone. As he plummets towards the central vortex of the unknown universe, he realizes he has little time left to live. Johnny explains what happened as Ben and Sue watch the tragic tableau unfold on the Space-Time Screen which monitors the Negative Zone universe. The trio realize there's nothing they can do to help Reed.