#101: Solve Everything. 
- —The 101st idea on the Damien Sharpe List
Appearing in ""Solve Everything: Part One""
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- The Wizard
- Galactus of Earth-2012
Other Characters:
- Thirty-Two (Bentley Wittman: Clone of Wizard) (First appearance)
- The Council
- Reed Richards of (Earth-12)
- Reed Richards of (Earth-4280)
- Reed Richards of (Earth-6590)
- Reed Richards of (Earth-9601)
- Professor R
- Silver Surfer (Reed Richards)
- Starbrand (Reed Richards)
- multiple other versions of Reed Richards
Locations:
- The Hall of the Council
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for ""Solve Everything: Part One""
Once upon a time, a young boy stood about to jump out of a treehouse, but was afraid. His father, standing below, said he understood his fear, but if the boy would not even try, then he was a coward. Promising to do his best, the boy jumped into his father's arms.
Today, the boy is Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, and his home is under attack by a quartet of giant robots designed to attack each member of the group. Swapping partners, the team realizes that each robot is controlled by an artificial man designed to look like the scientist known as the Wizard. Quickly capturing all four artificial men, Richards tracks the signal they are generating back to the Wizard's lab using a "translocator" device which teleports him there. He finds the Wizard has been making people, and there is a small boy being ignored in the corner. When the Wizard starts raving that "Gods make mistakes", Richards captures him for the authorities.
Later that night, Richards is telling his children about the adventure he had that day. Valeria doesn't worry about it, but Franklin asks about the little boy in the Wizard's lab, asking if Richards will help him, saying "You have to try, right?"
Afterwards, the Human Torch convinces the Thing to come to Nu-Earth with him at some point in the future. The Invisible Woman is amazed at how intelligent Valeria is becoming, but Richards keeps thinking about something the Wizard said before he was taken away: according to his math, the world is going to tear itself apart and they can't stop it. As his team-mates go to bed, Richards goes down to a secret area in his lab to look at the Psychohistory room. He began working on it the day after the death of Damien Sharpe, and it contains 100 ideas on how to make the world a better place. However, his list has run out, leaving only idea #101.
To fulfill it, he is going to use the Bridge, a device for traversing the universe and glimpse parallel realities. Here, he is met a mysterious trio - and they are all Reed Richards. They have come to invite him to join the Council, a mysterious group that meets outside of time and space to do great things. It is an organization composed of alternate versions of himself.
As the majority of the Council departs to deal with a Galactus incursion on Earth-2012, the founders of the Council - three versions of Reed Richards who each bear their universe's Infinity Gaunlet - inform him that it is time for him to fulfill his potential...