The year is 2007, and young Reed tells his class during Career Day that he wants to be the first
person in history that can teleport himself. In fact, his very high IQ is allowing him to
build a teleporter in his garage. The teacher scolds him and says he’s failed the assignment
for not being realistic, so a disappointed Reed goes back to doodling equations in his notebook.
When Ben is called next, he can’t help being curious about Reed’s work. Later in the evening,
Ben is trying to escape his brother’s terrorizing and comes outside to his family’s salvage shop,
where he hears a weird noise. It turns out that Reed is looking for a power converter,
which he needs for his teleportation machine. If Ben lets him have the piece he promises
to show the invention to him, and Ben accepts. Moments later in Reed’s garage, Ben helps Reed
finish the machine. They put a toy car on it and Reed activates the machine, which causes
their surrounding to shake and the power to fail. To their shock, the toy successfully disappears
and only leaves a few rocks behind. Seven years later at the school’s science fair, Reed and Ben
present an upgraded version of the teleportation machine, which can teleport things away but also
bring them back. Reed borrows a toy plane from a kid and does a demonstration, effectively making
the plane disappear and then return covered in sand. This causes a power surge that destroys
the glass of the basketball ring. Unfortunately the teachers think they’re doing magic tricks
instead of actual science and disqualify them. However Doctor Storm and his adopted daughter Sue
are also in the fair and Reed’s machine got their attention. Storm works for the Baxter Foundation,
a government-funded research institution He reveals his team has also sent things to other
dimensions but they haven’t managed to bring them back, which means Reed is ahead of them. Reed
is surprised to hear this because he had thought he’s been sending things to other spots on Earth,
no other dimensions, so Sue shows him a test tube containing sand matching what’s on the plane. The
institution has analyzed the sand but it doesn’t match any particles on Earth. At that moment,
Storm offers Reed a full scholarship at the Baxter Foundation. The next day, Ben helps
Reed move into the foundation and gives Reed his utility Swiss knife as a present, saying this is
where Reed truly belongs. Later Reed takes a look around the building to get to know everything,
being very impressed by the amazing labs and the huge library. When he bumps into Sue,
he tries to start a conversation, but Reed doesn’t know how to talk to girls and everything goes
rather awkwardly. Meanwhile Storm is having a meeting with the board about the expedition
to a supposed new world. He explains that if they access this other dimension, they can use
its resources and maybe even find a way to save their own planet. But after reading the reports,
government scientist Doctor Allen notices the name Victor Von Doom and doesn’t trust it because the
last time Victor worked for them, he burned all of Storm's data servers before leaving
him. Allen’s willing to give him a second chance because Victor has a lot of potential and was the
one that created their version of the machine, but Storm must promise to supervise him closely. After
the meeting, Storm goes to see Victor and tries to recruit him back. At first, Victor declines,
but he changes his mind when he hears Reed managed to bring things back and that Sue
will be part of the team. Back in the labs, Reed and Sue are working with a team of scientists to
make a bigger version of Reed’s machine. Sue discovers that Reed’s model was ripping a hole
in the fabric of space and time, which can cause a black hole and could swallow the entire planet,
so they need to be careful. Sometime later, Storm and Victor arrive. After introductions are made,
Sue and Victor show Reed an image they took from the other world during their last try.
Storm explains that this new planet could be used to save their own, but Victor doesn't think that
Earth deserves to be saved, and Sue jokingly calls him Doctor Doom for being a pessimist. Meanwhile
Storm’s troublesome son Johnny is competing in an illegal car race. He’s actually doing extremely
well since speed is his best friend, but when he's about to win, the engine of his car explodes and
he crashes into an electric post. Later, Storm picks him up from the hospital, disappointed
to see Johnny racing again. They argue about Johnny wasting his potential because Storm
thinks Johnny is destined for greater things, so he tells his son that he won’t get his car
back unless he works for him. Left with no other choice, Johnny joins the team at the foundation.
Weeks pass with everyone working hard together and forming a very strong friendship among themselves,
although Victor begins to get jealous when he notices Reed and Sue are getting closer. After
lots of exhausting days, the team finally finishes building the teleportation machine and they call
it the "Quantum Gate". Reed sends a picture of it to Ben, thanking him for everything that he has
done for him. The next day, Allen and the board arrive to watch a live demonstration. They send
a monkey for the first organic test and after a few seconds of tension, they get a video feed
what the other dimension, which they call "Planet Zero". Then the monkey returns in good health,
which officially makes the experiment effective and safe. Allen congratulates the team,
but when the teenagers say they want to go next, Allen immediately refuses. Creators must stay
behind to control the machine, they’ll be sending NASA men instead. After the board leaves, Reed,
Johnny, and Victor decide to have a drink together to forget their disappointment. However they keep
complaining about the fact they don’t get to go to the dimension they discovered themselves,
which should give them “first step” rights. Reed comes forward and convinces everyone
they should use the machine on their own and go behind everyone’s backs. The other two agree,
and Reed calls Ben to join them since he was an original creator too. Moments later,
everyone suits up and gets into the machine pods. Meanwhile Sue is working in the office and gets an
alert that someone is activating the gate, so she runs to the lab to check. By the time she arrives,
the four men have already disappeared. On Planet Zero, the guys are amazed by this new dimension.
When Reed and Ben put up the American flag, the ground breaks and reveals a glowing green light
beneath it. Afterward they check on the place where Victor thinks the energy is converging.
Johnny stays at the top of the cliff to be the anchor as the other three climb down and find
a green lava-like substance. When he touches it, Victor discovers that it's responding to
a physical stimulus. Then Victor dips his hand further only for the substance to explode, causing
the ground to erupt. The three men run back to the rope and climb immediately with Johnny supporting
their weights, but Victor falls hanging on the rope. Reed tries to pull him up, but the erupting
green substance reaches Victor and spreads over his body, so Reed has no choice but to let go of
him. Unfortunately the substance melts off the rope, causing Victor to fall back down to the
surface. Reed and Ben continue climbing and reunite with Johnny to go back inside their
pods. However the re-entry is not working. At that moment, Sue gets their signals back and activates
the return, but she isn’t fast enough: suddenly Johny catches on fire, and Ben is hit by a bunch
of rocks. The machine explodes when it returns and sends a shockwave that knocks Sue out and causes
blackouts to the whole city. When Reed regains consciousness, he immediately sees Johnny burning
and Ben caught under the rocks. His own legs are caught under a pillar, but Reed begins crawling
anyway, thinking he can get out. However when he looks back, he sees his legs unusually stretching
and he passes out. The next day at Area 57, the scientists are doing experiments on Reed to test
his stretching abilities. Whenever he wakes up, he gets too emotional and the scientists put him
to sleep again. Storm comes to see his children and discovers Sue’s shifting in and out of the
visible spectrum. Johny is still burning and when he wakes up, he panics and releases an explosion,
making Storm feel pity for him. Sometime later, Reed wakes up again and hears Ben calling for
help. He immediately decreases his arms to escape the bindings and crawls through the vent until he
finds the room Ben is at. To Reed’s shock, he sees Ben has turned into a human rock. At that moment,
the whole facility is alerted of his escape, so after promising Ben that he will figure out
a solution, Reed escapes the facility alone, easily using his powers to stop any guard that
gets in his way. Afterward, Allen visits Ben and manipulates him into thinking that Reed has
abandoned them. He says that the government and Area 57 can find a way to fix what happened to
them, but in return, the teens will need help with their service. A year later, Ben, Johnny, and Sue
are controlling their abilities perfectly and have become great assets for the government, especially
Ben, who is sent to war zones to destroy enemy tanks. Johnny can now fly, and Sue can turn other
objects invisible too, she also can create a force field. Allen discusses this with The Pentagon and
proposes another Quantum Gate Project aiming to give the United States military powers too. At
Area 57, Johnny and Sue argue about what they should do with their abilities. Johnny wants
to use his powers for something useful like going on missions like Ben, but Sue doesn’t want to be
treated as a tool and thinks they should wait to be sure they can be fixed as promised. Sometime
later, Allen arrives with agents from The Pentagon and shows them the Quantum Gate. The generals
agree to give their support to the project, but only in exchange for using Ben and Johnny more on
the field. Storm hears this and doesn't like the idea of the government using any of his children
as weapons, so he talks to Sue and tells her they need to find Reed quickly since he’s the only one
that can make the gate work and get a cure. Sue immediately begins tracking Reed's moves on the
internet to find a pattern. She discovers that he has been collecting scrap metals and always
keeping himself updated about Ben, now she has to patiently wait for his next move. Meanwhile Reed
keeps on buying metal scraps while using his power to change his face every time so security cameras
won’t recognize him. He’s been collecting parts to build a new gate, but the next time he logs in on
his computer, Sue manages to track him down. Using Sue’s intel, Area 57 sends a team to capture Reed,
but they accidentally trigger his security system. Reed quickly runs to the woods and gets surrounded
by soldiers, but he’s been training his abilities too and easily fights them all. When the soldiers
fail to catch them, they release Ben to finish the job. Reed tries to explain he still cares and
has been looking for a cure, but Ben is hurt and shuts him up with a headbutt. On the trip back,
Reed apologizes for leaving everyone and promises to find a cure. However Ben knows that Allen won’t
let anyone fix them because they’re useful like this. When they arrive in Area 57,
Sue talks to Reed and convinces him to help them fix the gate, telling him that this is the chance
for his work to make a difference. He finally agrees to help and immediately begins working on
Quantum Gate 2 with more effort than last time. When it’s time for a new teleportation trial,
Reed and Johnny reunite, and unlike Ben, Johnny is happy to see his old friend again. Next,
the machine safely sends a new crew to Planet Zero, which has changed a lot during the past
year. Suddenly they’re shocked to see a human shape approaching: it turns out to be Victor,
who somehow has managed to survive all this time here. Allen orders the crew to bring Victor back
and he’s immediately sent to an examination room. When they look at him more closely, they discover
that his suit has fused with his body and the green light can be seen underneath. Allen promises
Victor that he’ll cure him in exchange for him telling them everything he knows about Planet
Zero. Victor explains that it was the place itself that kept him alive and gave him immense power,
then he snaps and uses his newfound telepathy to kill everyone in the room. Afterward Victor
goes out and wanders around the building to kill every single person he can find without remorse.
An alarm quickly goes off, and for a moment Ben thinks Reed is the one trying to run away again.
Johnny is on his guard and accidentally hits an invisible Sue, then the siblings go looking for
their father. At that moment, Victor is trying to go back to Planet Zero and Storm is trying to stop
him. By the time the siblings arrive, they have to watch how Victor mercilessly kills Storm. Then
Reed and Ben also arrive and try to talk Victor down, but Victor simply telepathically shoves
them away before finally entering the machine and returning to Planet Zero. There he starts
overloading the Quantum Gate to create a vortex that will pull everything from Earth to the other
world. A furious Johnny flies to the portal to Planet Zero, and Sue creates a force field
around herself and her two friends to follow him. Seeing how the vortex works, Reed deduces that
the matter from Earth is being converted into energy, and the only way to shut it down is to
stop the source itself, which is Victor. Johnny and Ben attack separately with all their might,
but Victor can easily beat them down by barely lifting a finger. He covers Johnny with smaller
rocks and mud to kill off his fire and attaches bigger rocks to Ben, making it impossible for him
to move. Meanwhile Sue creates a massive force field that prevents the debris from Earth from
falling into the Quantum Gate. Noticing this, Victor sends sand and small rocks to detect
where Sue is hiding. The particles overwhelm her force field and the extra weight causes her to
fall. Then Reed attempts to talk Victor out of it again, but his only answer is to ask Reed to call
him Doom as he spreads the green substance over Reed's body in order to make him loose like old
rubber. At that moment Sue recovers and tries to attack Victor directly, but he just pins her down
using his powers. Seeing his friends on the brink of death, Reed gathers his strength and regains
control of his body, which allows him to attack Victor and throw him off a cliff. It only takes
a few seconds for Victor to rise again, but this time Ben is waiting for him with a huge rock that
he throws as a distraction. Then Sue traps him inside a force field, which Johnny fills with
his flames to burn him up. Victor uses his powers to break Sue’s force field, but Reed comes after
him next to fight him hand-to-hand. This turns out to be another distraction because at that moment
Ben comes out of Sue’s invisibility and punches Victor into the machine. Lastly, Johnny breaks
all the pillars, causing Victor to be turned into pure energy. Now the battle is over and they won,
the four friends run back to the machine to return to Earth right before the gate closes. Sometime
later, the Pentagon thanks them for saving the world and asks them to be their soldiers, but the
friends turn them down and passive-aggressively imply things will get nasty if they aren’t left
alone. At least they get gifted a large lab to work on and they agree they need to come up with
a name for their team. After a comment made by Ben, Reed says they shall be “The Fantastic Four”.