Fantastic Four #174

STARQUEST!

With the 24-hour time period to find a new suitable world for Galactus to consume running out and members of the Fantastic Four captured two different alien worlds, the High Evolutionary has become desperate to prevent Galactus from consuming his Counter-Earth that he has decided to take matters into his own hands and battle Galactus himself. Sue, wanting to save her teammates tries to convince the High Evolutionary to save them from capture first, however he refuses to do so. Sue then turns invisible and tries to teleport herself to one of the worlds the other FF members have gone too, but instead finds herself transported to the third world that the Evolutionary presumed to be a dead world. Trapped there with almost no air, Sue realizes that unless someone rescues her she is going to suffocate on the planet once her air runs out.  While on the planet Mekka, Reed and Ben are prisoners of Torgo who does not wish for them to leave because he believes that they will reveal the location of their planet to Galactus. He explains to them that he and his mechanical race were invented by humanoid creatures that once inhabited their planet to be their workers. When a plague wiped out their inventors, Torgo and the other Mekkans took over their world and converted it into a mechanical world for them to live out their sentient lives. Retiring to the Tower of Life, Torgo goes to prepare Reed and Ben for the Ultimate Resolution: Having been programmed never to harm an organic being he will soon change them both into Mekkans in order to protect his world.  Left alone, Reed deduces that the Elektro-Clamps they are stuck too are attuned to magnetize Ben's exo-suit and not his human form inside. Telling him of a release mechanism inside his gloves, Reed instructs Ben how to get free from his suit so he can shut off the Elektro-Clamp. Their escape is soon discovered and they are forced to fight off Mekkan guards. During the fight Reed realizes that he can no longer stretch his right arm and has to confide in Ben that he is slowly losing his powers. Fighting their way into the Tower of Life they have to f