"Suffer a Witch to Live . . . The Human Torch is deeply in love with Alicia Masters, flying across the Manhattan skyline, he reflects back on his past relationships and realizes none of the girls he previously loved made him feel the way Alicia does. He returns to his apartment where Alicia is hard at work in the kitchen making him dinner. She tells him dinner is almost ready, but stops long enough to give her new lover a kiss. Meanwhile, at the Baxter Building, She-Hulk is working out to test her strength. Monitoring her progress is her new boyfriend Wyatt Wingfoot, who remarks that her current strength level is comparable to the Thing, whom she has recently replaced on the Fantastic Four. When Wyatt comments on Reed's assessment that she may be able to reach the strength levels of her cousin the Hulk, Jen wonders if she is at risk of losing her humanity in the process. Deciding to take a break, she asks Wyatt if he's up to massaging her back. At that same time at their home in Belle Porte, Connecticut, Reed and Sue Benjamin have a housewarming party and have invited all their neighbors over to get to know them better. When Sue introduces Reed to the Fieldstones, Hyram Fieldstone makes a comment about how Reed and Sue have the same first names as Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four and remarks that it is a funny coincidence. As the party continues, from across the street local snoop Alma Chalmers is spying on the house with binoculars. She is convinced that the Benjamin family are really witches and has convinced the occult expert Elspeth Cromwell to come and investigate her suspicions. Elspeth assures Alma that when the Benjamin family are finally alone she will act. Hours later, Reed and Sue say goodbye to the last of their patrons. Finally no longer required to keep up their ruse as the Benjamins, Reed allows his face to resume it's proper proportions. Although he is concerned how a possible connection to the Fantastic Four was made during the party. Their discussion is interrupted by their son Franklin who has woken up to ask for a glass of water. Sue gets the boy the water and escorts him back to bed where Franklin tells her that he had a strange dream where his parents were attacked by a strange woman and man with horns. Sue assures her son that it was just a dream and that they are safe. Although when she leaves the room, Sue can't help but wonder if there might be something wrong with her son, recalling an incident in Reed's lab a few days earlier. [1] She can't help but wonder if perhaps her son's mutant powers might be returning again. While downstairs, Reed is cleaning up the garbage from the party and his concerns about their double identities in Belle Porte being compromised causes him to reflect their attempts to try and have a normal family life, but realizes that as members of the Fantastic Four they may no longer have that luxury. When Reed opens the door to take out the trash he is suddenly blinded by a bright light. Sue is upstairs getting ready for bed when she notices the bright flash of light as well and comes rushing to her husband's aid. As Reed comments on the omni-directional light their attacker, Elspeth Cromwell, makes her appearance and calls out the Benjamins as witches that must be destroyed. When Reed tries to explain who they really are, Cromwell refuses to believe them and strikes Richards with a mystical bolt. When Sue tries to contain their attacker in an invisible force field, Elspeth turns it into water that she passes through. Suddenly fire begins to belch from the ground around Reed and Sue. Demonic hands rise from the ground and grab Reed's wife and pulls her into the Earth. When Reed tries to stretch his arm down to grab his wife, the demons manage to break it. However Sue is not gone, she uses her invisibility powers to force her way back to the surface. Increasing her attack, Elspeth then uses her arcane powers to summon the Knights of Hades to attack the couple. As the battle rages on, Franklin is awoken by the noise and he goes downstairs to check on his parents. As he runs to the door there is suddenly an explosion that knocks young Franklin backwards and he strikes his head on a cabinet, knocking him out. As Franklin falls to the ground unconscious, his head starts to bleed. As the blood seeps out onto the floor of the kitchen it begins to smolder. While outside, Reed tries to talk sense into Cromwell, pointing out that the only supernatural threat to Belle Port is her own reckless use of her occult power. Reed points out that the legends of the Knights of Hades states that if innocent blood is shed in their attacks then it can unleash an powerful evil force. When Elspeth tries to regain control of the Knights they turn on her and strike her down. Suddenly Franklin comes out to warn his parents that something is happening in the house. When Sue notices Franklin is bleeding, Elspeth realizes that it's too late, and at that very moment the massive form of Mephisto raises from the burning house saying that it is time for the final punishment. Back in New York's Greenwich village, Doctor Strange is in deep meditation when he suddenly calls out in pain. Sensing some powerful evil having been unleashed upon the Earth, he has his servant Wong bring him his Cloak of Levitation and flies off into the night sky to face this evil."