A renegade Skrull subdued the FF while impersonating Susan, and she convinced Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Hulk, and Wolverine to form a new Fantastic Four while she pursued her own agenda. The Skrull attempted to manipulate Reed into helping her as well, but he tricked her into exposing her true agenda and freed the rest of his team. A short time later, Sharon accepted a devil’s bargain with Doctor Doom to regain her human form just as Ben purposefully transformed back into the Thing to be with Sharon.
The Puppet Master returned and exposed Alicia as a fraud. When cornered, “Alicia” confessed that she was secretly Lyja, a Skrull agent who was sent to impersonate Masters and spy on the team. Lyja claimed that her feelings for Johnny were genuine, and she helped the FF rescue the real Alicia from the Skrulls. This proved to be complicated for Ben, as he had already emotionally moved on from his relationship with Alicia. Lyja was seemingly killed during the rescue, but she was healed by Paibok the Power Skrull, her former lover.
Months later, Lyja joined Paibok on his quest for revenge against Johnny and the Fantastic Four, but she ultimately sided with her ex-husband and unofficially joined the team. Reed’s father, Nathaniel Richards, kidnapped Franklin and claimed that his powers were a threat to the world. Nathaniel successfully eluded the team and transported Franklin to the future. Moments later, Franklin returned to the present as a teenager, who called himself Psi-Lord. The FF, and Susan in particular, didn’t trust that Franklin was who he said he was. But he eventually won them over and formed his own Fantastic Force.
When the alien entity known as the Hunger invaded Latveria, the FF raced to defend its people and aid Doom in the battle. Doom seemingly suffered a fatal injury, and he took the opportunity to kill himself and Reed at the same time. Susan was devastated by Reed’s apparent death, although she refused to fully accept it. In Reed’s absence, Namor and Ant-Man unofficially joined the team, as did Kristoff Vernard, Doom’s adoptive heir.
Months later, the Fantastic Four discovered that Reed had been banished to the past by Jonathon Reed Richards, AKA Hyperstorm, the son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards from an alternate timeline. Hyperstorm had also spirited away Doom and held him prisoner. The FF eventually found Reed and confronted Hyperstorm, but not before he changed Franklin’s personal timeline and once again returned him to his original age.
Reed barely had time to adjust to his return before the team was drawn into the battle against Onslaught, the malevolent psychic entity created by the fusion of Charles Xavier, AKA Professor X, and Max Eisenhardt, AKA Magneto’s minds. Onslaught kidnapped Franklin to use his powers, but he was defeated by the combined forces of the FF, the Avengers, and the X-Men. To prevent Onslaught from reforming, the Fantastic Four and most of the Avengers seemingly sacrificed their lives.
Thanks to the incredible powers of Franklin, his parents and their allies were not lost forever. Instead, they found themselves on an alternate Earth where they experienced a bizarre remix of their histories before discovering the truth about their fate. The Fantastic Four and the Avengers were then able to return home and resume their lives.
Welcome to the Family
Much to the surprise of everyone, the FF soon encountered Valeria von Doom as Marvel Girl, a young woman who claimed to be the daughter of Susan and Doctor Doom from the future. The team soon learned that Valeria was actually the daughter that Reed and Susan who had been lost years before, and she was miraculously saved by Franklin’s intervention when the Omniversal Guardian Roma guided him to reach back in time before her death and send her into an alternate future. She proved to be a valuable ally in the battle against the cosmic entity known as Abraxas, who targeted her as a temporal anomaly. In the process of defeating him, the team with Franklin’s cosmic powers, reality reset and Franklin returned Valeria to Susan’s womb in the present. This time, she was successfully delivered and Johnny was named her Godfather. Her delivery was thanks to the efforts of Doom himself, who named her Valeria, after his lost love.