Chapter 9: Transformation

Victor was slowly waking up and saw the sun through the window. He did finally feel someone at peace knowing that now he has as much time as he needed now that Nora is in cryostasis and both her and her illness are paused. He looked over at his clock and saw that it was 10:30. He immediately panicked because he was supposed to be at work at 9:00 and he wanted to see how Nora was, also to make sure Boyle doesn't find out about this. He quickly got dressed and made his way to work. Meanwhile, Boyle was in his office when one of his employees came in and said, "Uh, Mr. Boyle. I just looked at our financial records, and I noticed that we're about 3 million in debt.". Boyle looked shocked and said, "What the hell are you talking about? How is that possible?". "Well, apparently someone has been depleting our funds and us not knowing about it, but we're not sure who.", the guy said. "We have to find out who's responsible for this!", Boyle said angrily. "Also, I was looking through the security footage from last night and I saw Victor Fries wheeling some kind of chamber with a really sick woman right behind him.", the employee said. Boyle then became even more furious and said, "That sneaky son of a bitch! Get me a couple of guards to meet me at Fries's lab!". Boyle then walked away in anger. At Victor's lab, there were two guards with Boyle and one of them used his foot to kick the door which was locked open. Victor then saw the chamber that Victor rolled into the building on the security footage. He looked in the chamber and saw Nora in suspended animation. He was angry that Victor had been doing what he told him not to do behind his back and still using his money which he cut funding to. All of a sudden, Victor acme into the lab with a terrified expression on his face. "What the hell is all this about?", Boyle asked angrily. "Uh...this isn't what you think.", Victor stuttered. "Really? Because it looks like you have been using and wasting my money for the project that I terminated weeks ago! I'm 3 million in debt because of you!", Boyle shouted. "Shut all of this stuff down!", Boyle ordered his guards. Victor then immediately got in their way. "Stop! You can't! My wife is in there!", Victor begged. "So, bring her out?", Boyle said. "You can't interrupt the process now! Please! This is her only chance at surviving!", Victor continued to plead. "No, Victor! This ends now! Just let her die! Go on, guys! Pull the plug!", Boyle said. Victor then became enraged and attacked Boyle. The guards got Victor off of Boyle and they held him by the arms. Boyle then regained his composure and said, "Oh, you want to take a shot at me?", Boyle said and then punched Victor in the stomach. Victor fell to his knees in pain. After a few seconds, Victor got back up and head butted both guards so they would let him go. Both guards backed up and Victor was literally strangling one of them. The other tried to get Victor off of his friend, but Victor elbowed him in the face which made him topple backwards. He toppled into Victor's cryotank where he had all sorts of his own concoctions of cryochemicals in there. The guard accidentally hit a red button on the tank which gave off a warning noise. Everyone in the room heard the noise and stopped what they were doing. While Victor was distracted, the guard that was strangling pushed him off towards the tank. A few seconds later, the tank exploded and cryochemicals filled about a quarter of the room. The plume of gas completely enveloped Victor while Boyle and the guards watched in horror at what was happening. Victor could feel the chemicals seep into his skin and into his body. His body began to go through an extraordinary transformation that lowered his body temperature to negative 20 degrees below zero. Victor felt searing pain all over his body and began to feel faint. Once the gas cleared, Victor fell forward and lied there motionless, seemingly dead. Boyle and the guards saw this and were really freaked out. Boyle assumed Victor was dead and said, "Wel, looks like that problem is taken care of. Such a shame a brilliant mind like his had to perish in a lab accident.". "What about her?", one of the guards asked pointing to Nora in her chamber. Boyle thought for a second and was extremely fascinated on how Fries had been able to put her into suspended animation. "Take her with us. I want to know how he built this thing. Take her into the Cryogenic Testing Facility and keep her there until I say otherwise. And make sure this lab is quarantined so nobody hears about what happened in here.", Boyle ordered. "Yes, sir.", the guards said as they grabbed Nora's gurney and wheeled it out of the lab. Boyle took one last look at Victor's corpse and saw that his skin had turned blue, his hair was starting to deteriorate, and his entire body was covered in a light frost. "I hate to say it, Vic, but you asked for it.", Boyle said to himself as he left the lab since it became even more cold in here after the accident. Unknown to Boyle, Victor would soon wake up, but not as the man he was before. Instead, he will wake up as a new and more cold-haerted man.