Susan Storm and her long time friend Ben Grimm helped attempt one of the earliest escapes from Manhattan Island. The ship was full of contingent of human refugees that hoped to evacuate America, but a mutant saboteur interfered with the launch and her lover Reed Richards and younger brother Johnny sacrificed themselve to save the others from the forces of Apocalypse.

Susie and Ben joined the Human High Council as hired muscle. They were sent to the Eurasian Security Field Command Center to retrive Bruce Banner, the scientist who worked on the nuclear warhead project that made the Council's pre-emptive nuclear strike possible. But they found the facilities barraged and run over by a Thing. The two were able to defeat the monster and retrive Banner so that they could board Mikhail Rasputin's mothership as one of a few select representatives allowed to board the Horseman's vessel as part of a false peace convoy.

The humans were hoodwinked and held captive on the ship until Tony Stark, another captive on Mikhail's vessel, short circuited the craft with his mechanized heart. After they were freed, Ben and Susan helped with the evacuation of the humans, piloting the ships after Banner to unify all the transfer arks into a single fleet used to flee from Earth.