Hey, guys. If you all love the classic Universal monsters, then you'll definitely love this story. This will involved them being redesigns in my imagination as modern-day superheroes.
March 29, 1827
Dark, thunderclouds roared with fury as it rained hard. Lightning crazed the sky, almost breaking throught the sound barrier. In a mysterious, shady castle estate, on the highest part of the whole structure, there was some sort of scientific workshop consisted of tools, and beakers and strange contraptions. A young man with long, wavy dark hair and a goatee with glasses was working on something on a table with a cloth over it. Presumably a surgical procedure.
His assistant, a former side-show attraction named Igor, shuffled over. "All is ready." He said.
"Very good." The man nodded. He is known as Victor Frankenstein, a medical school student hellbent on proving that life can be created by humanity as well. He moved his hand over the sheeted figure and began to caress it gently, almost as a parent soothed their sleeping child.
"Are you prepared...to make the one of the most beautiful figures in all of history?" Victor asked his assistant and friend. Igor nodded and Victor stood up and faced him.
"Let us do it together." He said and held his open palm out. There was a pause and Igor seemed almost unbelieving. Then he took Victor's hand. Then the two walked over to some chains and began to left them up, which lowered the table holding the figure under the sheets into a large tank full of electric eels. Victor then attached some wires to the edges of the tank which were connected to the machines. He turned some nobs and sent a jolt of power into the tank. This sent an electrical current throughout the water of the tank, increasing the eel's electricity. Victor went over to a switch to one of the bigger machines.
"Are you ready?" He asked Igor. Once again, he nodded.
"3...2...1!" Victor shouted as both he and Igor pulled the switch and just like that, electricity flowed through the whole room. The storm outside responded to this and lightning struck the lightning rod on the roof, adding to the procedure. The eel's in the tank electrocuted the figure under the sheets and it glowed a bright color as it did, allowing it's skeleton to be revealed. Victor and Igor shielded their eyes from the blinding light and held their arms up to protect themselves from the powerful bolts. Finally, the electrical currents subsided and all of the machines let out a decreasing whir as they powered down, filling the room with a growing silence. The two regained posture and caught their breath. They then started to pull the chains, lifting the figure out of the water. They lowered the figure back onto the table and a hand slipped out from the sheet. It was gray in color and had stitching around the wrist. Victor and Igor watched this hand with bated breath. After what seemed like an eternity, it twitched.
"It's alive." Victor whispered under his breath before saying louder "It's alive. IT'S ALIVE!"
He gently removes the sheet from it's face to show that it has a stitch going down the top of it's head with remaining hair on the right side. The creature's eye slowly opened. It's dark green irises stared back at the man before him.
"Father?" It let out a squeak. Victor was baffled. The creature smiled now, showing copper teeth. Igor and Victor slowly started to loosen to belts holding the creature down and removed the soaked sheet from his body. The creature stood up and began an awkward shuffle; it's first steps.
"Come towards me." Victor commanded it as Igor took a few more steps back, expecting any violent action the creature may attempt. The creature obeyed. It was difficult at first. The thing staggered slowly towards him, carefully not to trip and fall down. Victor held his arms out as the creature finally held onto his arms to keep his balance.
"Good." Victor nodded. Igor didn't know what to make of the creature. It was like a newborn, but he could sense something dangerous about it.
"Can you speak?" Victor asked it.
"Y-Yes father." It answered.
"I shall call you...Adam." Victor said, giving him a name.
"Adam." The creature repeated his new name.
"Do you...remember anything?" Victor asked.
"Remember?" He asked.
Before he could Victor could say anything else, Igor came behind the creature and pulled a rag over his mouth. The creature fought, but grew weak and collapsed in his arms.
"What are you doing?" Victor asked.
"You surely don't want this thing to remember who it was before, do you?" Igor responded. "No!" Victor exclaimed and sighed.
"We'll lock it in the highest tower." Igor suggested. "We'll figure out what to do next then."
"No!" Victor stopped him. "I cannot risk that." He sighed and thought for a few moments as he sat down. "We'll...just have to dispose of it and that'll be that. I need to see Elizabeth again. She must be worried sick."
"Go." Igor said softly to his friend. "I will destroy this abomination."
Victor gently got back to his feet and walked away holding a hand to his face. Igor quickly wrapped the creature in a sack and changed it up, in case it would try to escape. He ride a stagecoach out onto a high stone bridge as it rained. He grabbed hold of the creature and dragged it over to the edge of the bridge and gives it a push. The unconscious being falls from the bridge and into the water below. Igor watched it as it plummeted fast and made a huge splash as it impacted the water. His work complete, he hopped aboard the stagecoach and rode off. Unbeknownst to him, the creature eventually regained consciousness, broke free of the chains and crawled out of the water at the clap of thunder.
Victor and Igor rode back to his family estate and they entered through the double doors.
"Elizabeth?" Victor called.
"Victor?" He saw a young woman at the top of the steps and rushed to her. They embraced and shared a long kiss. Weeks later, the two got married on the spot and after their consummation, gave birth to their firstborn son, Wilhelm. Wilhelm was a happy and curious child, though he always felt as though he was being watched. More than once, he thought he saw the shadow of a very large man behind him. Outside the mansion, the creature was standing in the shadows of the darkness. His silhouette could be seen standing outside as the lightning struck. He was silently plotting revenge against his creator for turning his back on him. One night, Victor was writing down pages for his first novel when he suddenly heard his wife scream from their master bedroom. He rushed in to find his wife dead and his son gone, carried away by the creature. He rushed to the window to find the monster disappearing into the darkness of the wilderness. Desperate to rescue his son, Victor chases after the creature into the Arctic Circle. He continued after his hideous creation as he heard his son's frightened cries in the distance as well as the monster's figure, which was almost difficult to make out through to raging blizzard. Victor's body was started to become numb all over and his temperature was dropping fast due to the cold. He then dropped to the snowy ground dead, having suffered hypothermia, since he spend too much in the chilly weather. The creature, Adam, buried his creator's body in the snow and left Wilhelm at the doorstep of an orphanage before retreating back to the Arctic to hide in a cave. Months later, a ship arrived to the Arctic where it's captain, Robert Walton, stumbled upon the frozen carcass of Victor Frankenstein and carried it away to be examined. For years, Adam remained isolated from the world.
Victor's story eventually reached Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, who turned it into a gothic novel. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus.
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