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THE RETURN OF SPIDER-X

CHAPTER 36: THE RESCUE

Harry had returned to the area where he had met the others the next day. He honestly didn't know what to say to them but he figured something out. They had no real proof that it was his dad just his company which means he only had one chance to make sure that he could save Peter and the others as well as keep his dad out of trouble.

He was there alone this time although Mary Jane had wanted to stay after all with the school's shut down she had nothing else to do and she wanted to help. She just told her parents she would be at Liz's and Liz of course was covering in case they called.

Harry was nervous as he walked up to the helicopter seeing MJ with Rogue and Kitty. She had started to talk with those two a lot and was fitting in with them most likely sharing stories that neither one knew of Peter. He was kind of envious of that since he was going down a path that he knew wasn't totally right.

In this moment he was going to do something that if they ever found out about they would never trust him again. In fact he was sure that this was even conspiracy after the fact but he had to do what he felt was the only thing he could do. He swallowed up his fear as he approached.

May was there as well as Logan as they saw him first and waved over to him and called out, that got the attention of the others. They all started to move around him hoping for some type of good news. 'Okay Harry here goes remember what dad said about making a deal. You got to sell it and you have to believe in the pitch.'

The irony of this wasn't lost on him but he had to go through with it, it may damn him later on in life but the strange thing was the more he thought about it the more he felt he could live with what was he had planned.

"So kid you find out anything?" Logan said getting to the point he didn't want to dance around the issues everyone was getting restless and wanted to do something and so was he. It was time to act and he was dying for some payback at the moment.

May gave him a sharp look for his less then tactful manner but Harry just nodded, "Yeah it took some time because what I found wasn't in the main computers. I just got into it by accident actually."

"What do you mean?" Scott asked walking forward he looked a bit ragged still not sleeping well and in constant worry all the time as well.

Harry pushed aside the nervousness that was rising up in him, "You see my dad doesn't know about it, someone from inside the company is manipulating funds and equipment around on his own. At least that's what it looked like to me."

"You sure about that?" Scott asked him and Harry gave him a glare.

"Yes I'm sure, look I know my dad isn't the best but he's not a monster but someone inside the company is. This isn't the first time this has happened either the last guy he caught he fired and got arrested for it." There was partial truth in that, that last statement was true since it was in the papers.

His dad always said the best way to make a lie seem true was to wrap it up in some truth. Harry was sure that his dad would be proud of him learning his lessons and putting them to use but he also felt sick to his stomach.

"Guys this is Harry I've known him for years and he's Peter's best friend," Mary Jane said coming to his defense. She believed Harry since she never would think he would lie about something like this. She turned to him giving him a friendly smile to assure him, "So did you find out who is behind this?"

Harry hated taking advantage of her friendship like this but he started down a road where there was no turning back now, "No…" He made it sound like he was disgusted and frustrated with not finding out, "But I did find a facility that for some reason isn't listed at operational and yet there is a lot of equipment being placed there. Including a lot of medical stuff I can't pronounce and a high level of security for a place that is supposed to be nothing more then storage."

"You think that's the place?" Rogue asked him to her it sounded like a good place to start looking and if it was then they could finally get the others back.

"We should get Kitty to look into the place and we need to start making plans," Scott was more alive now then ever because now they had something to go on, something to help them to reclaim what they lost and he wasn't going to lose not this time. He looked back to Harry and nodded to the other boy.

"Thanks for his Harry, we really appreciate you helping us out you're a good friend to Peter and to us."

Harry nodded his head at him putting on a small smile, "Yeah…Thanks." In that moment Harry never felt so dirty in his life and he thought he would never live this moment down. But he sent them on their way they would rescue the others and if word ever got out then people would be looking inside his father's company and not at his dad.

He should be happy with the fact he had managed to save both Peter and his father but he wasn't, he just felt miserable inside.

-Later that Night-

The X-Men were in an area outside of New York in a wooded area, the place they were overlooking was out of the way and even away from the highway hidden with a small forest that helped to hide the facility. You had to use an old dirt trail to get to the facility and even then it was gated off and a guard post down the road.

Luckily they flew here and didn't take any road in. They came in low and landed to make sure no one figured out that they were about to have company. Kitty had looked up everything she could about the place but there wasn't much information she could get from online sources. Even after looking into the construction records for blueprints she couldn't find any record at least anything that was most likely only on paper.

So they had to go in blind as they were in the tree line overlooking the place. Lucky there wasn't another fence covering the facility like with the land that they were on. There were a few security guards walking the perimeter but for all they knew there was several surprises on the inside they would need.

"So what are we going to do?" Evan looked out at the place it was some serious thing they were in. They had trained for this but then again this was the real thing although he was eager to see what he could do and give a little payback.

"I say we just go in there and grab one of those guys and make us tell them where the others are," Logan growled out.

"No Logan we're not doing that." Scott told him sharply.

"Kid these people most likely have them and I ain't sitting back."

"That's the kind of rashness that will get us nowhere they most likely don't even know about the others Logan they're just some guys doing a job," Scott countered to him. Logan had been very aggressive lately and Scott could understand that but Xavier put him in charge of the team and he wasn't going to make anymore mistakes.

"We need to sneak in there and it's most likely they have them in the most secured areas of that place. We have to get in there and get in as far as we can without rising an alarm." Scott looked at the place the outside seemed pretty lax but he bet once they got in there it would be a lot tougher.

"Sooner or later there will be an alarm but she have to get in as close to the others when that happens since we have no idea what they'll do." There was a main complex where he bet was their best shot. He ignored the other smaller buildings and he was looking for some type of security room.

"Storm, can you blanket the area in a thick fog leaving an area where we can see from here to that building?" He pointed to the main one where it looked like there was a door it was the closest way into the main building and from the looks of it the best way in.

Ororo looked and nodded, "Easily."

"So what we're just going to walk up to it?" Wanda asked him looking at the area.

Scott nodded with a smile, "Exactly and Wanda you think if you're close you can screw with the power to the place? You know lights, cameras, security and other things?"

Wanda looked at the area normally she had trouble with something unless it was in her line of sight otherwise she had nothing to focus her powers on. Even with all the training she had trouble but then again Xavier was in there a man that had been helping her and her what she guessed could be closest friend in the world Tabitha was also there.

"Yes I think I can," She stated she would do whatever it takes to get them back.

-Security Room-

The main security room of the building was a large room currently the night shift was on and given how late it was they weren't expecting much. There was a wall covered in monitor screens with three different tables with smaller monitors, keyboards, buttons and other security electronic equipment put into them.

There were only a few guards there that night since the night shifts usually had lighter duty. Besides they were out in the middle of nowhere it wasn't like they expected someone to get in the most they had were just some teenagers trying to sneak onto the land for some stupid reason or another.

"Hey Harry what the hell is that?" Maria a women guard said pointing at the screen. She called up a few images as several of the monitors now showed a certain sections outside. "The hell is going on?"

Harry looked and there looked to be a thick mist or fog or something rolling in which was really strange given the weather shouldn't be able to do that in fact since when do they even get fog out here?

He didn't like it and pulled out a radio at his belt, "Hey anyone on the perimeter in area 4 and 5?"

"Yeah I am."

"What the hell is going on out there?" Harry asked as he walked up to the monitors looking as the fog was getting thicker and harder to see.

"Hell if I know one moment I was just walking and the next it's a freakin' monster movie set. I can barely see my hand in front of my freakin' face."

Suddenly there looked to be movement in the fog he couldn't make out just what it was but then one of the cameras just died on them giving them nothing but static. "What happened?" Harry asked Maria who was working on the problem. She couldn't seem to find one.

Then another camera went blank and then another. "Someone talk to me what's going on out there! Where losing cameras!" Harry shouted out into his radio.

Someone else came on the line, "I can't tell it's too thick I can't even see where I am."

An alarm sounded out then as a diagram of the main building came up on one of the screens a red dot glowing over a doorway. "Security breach! Section A6, South East doorway!" Maria called out as she tried to get any cameras in that area working but the computer systems registered a power surge and the building seemed to shake a bit.

"The hell was that?" Harry asked her and she just gave a frustrated shrug as power went down around that section not even emergency was working at the moment. "Damn it we got some kind of security breach I want full alert going on now!"

He had no idea what was going on here but he was sure that whatever it was he wouldn't like it at all. Already security officers were going to the armory to suit up, and get to their stations. Harry watched at the power seemed to fail in a certain path.

It was heading for the core of the building but the only thing there was the main elevators that led down into…

"Oh hell they're going to the Sub Levels!" He said and Maria looked up and noticed what he was talking about. No one knew what went on in the lower levels of the complex the security guards were only allowed into certain parts. There were whispers and rumors of course that they were holding nuclear waste, or making biological weapons to even making monsters down there.

The only ones they knew that had access into those areas were those two scientists, Mr. Osborn himself and then there was one other guy. No one knew who he was only that they saw a man in a red and black outfit a couple of times. Personally he didn't know the world was messed up with this mutant thing as it was.

When he thought about mutants he suddenly got very worried what if they were mutants? He had seen what they did to that robot after all this could explain a few things they didn't have the training for this kind of thing not at all and he looked to Maria. "Maria I want everyone in full combat gear…Something tells me we're going to have a major fight on our hands."

She nodded her head he thought about calling in the police but given where they were the most they would get is a few State Troopers at best. Besides standing policy was no law enforcement, period.

-Oscorp HQ in New York-

Norman Osborn was in his office after just returning from a meeting. It had been a long night and he wouldn't be surprised if he was one of the left in the building he stretched out and sat back in his chair giving a sigh. So far things were going well his cover up operations were going well thankfully it seemed that the recovered Spider Slayer was pointing to other sources or he was sure he would be arrested by now.

He wished he hadn't lost that machine it would be expensive to replace and the fact that the Sentinel was recovered had a few parts from several companies and not just ones he owned. That was another bonus in his favor as he had been questioned about those parts.

He showed the agents bills of sale and how they were supposed to have been used for various other items and not a giant robot. He had preformed pretty well although that man with the eye patch…what was his name? Well whatever that man was looking at him in a strange way and Norman didn't like it.

He'd have to be very careful from now on.

Norman turned to his personal computer and turned off the screen saver there was a flashing icon on it. It was a special program that alerted him to security breaches in any of his holdings. He double clicked and his blood ran cold as he saw which facility was having the trouble.

"NO!" He bellowed out slamming a fist into the wood in the desk he didn't even notice that the wood splintered slightly with his fist. "All this work will not be for nothing!"

He got up trying to think of what to do he had to do something to protect his assets. Sure they had already taken some genetic material to the other site and they were making headway into things but they would still need fresh samples to work from just in case.

That Parker boy's DNA was the Rosette Stone for their work into modifying human DNA. They had already told him on the slight radioactive levels of his blood and then there were the mutants their x-genes were proving to be a great insight as well.

Norman would not lose this he had to think but it was hard, he had been getting headaches for a time and strange dreams. He felt fine physically in fact better then fine but another problem was that his temper seemed to be getting worse as well.

"There has to be a way to fix this, I can't just-Arrgh!" Norman pitched forward gripping his desk with one hand and his head with another. A blinding pain went into his mind. It felt like his mind was on fire as he stumbled forward. He was in a daze not sure what he was doing the last thing he remembered was being in his office now he looked to be in one of the elevators.

"How…How did I get in here?" He muttered to himself. Did he blank out? He should go and find a doctor he needed help. The world started to spin as he felt vertigo set in as he fell to his knees. Norman was breathing hard now and sweating, he couldn't focus anymore.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

"What? Whose there?" He asked falling to his side and rolling onto his back, it had been soft almost like a whisper. "Is someone there?"

There was no answer and the elevator stopped and opened up he looked to see it was the lower levels that he had access to. He hadn't been here since Octavius chased him down to these levels.

Get up

"What?" He heard the voice again it was a bit clearer. It was kind of high pitch but a male voice he was sure of it.

Get up!

Norman weakly rose up walking the corridors he must have blacked out again because when he woke up he was in front of the vault door opening. He couldn't understand anything it was like he was in a dream like he was seeing his body from the outside.

Maybe he was dreaming, he wasn't sure if this was real or not anymore he couldn't think or remember anything at the moment. His legs seemed to move on their own as if they had a mind of their own. He then stumbled his way into the armory. It had been repaired thankfully and the equipment had stayed intact nothing but the gas tanks had been damaged.

Norman looked around and then saw the spare Goblin suits hanging there and how the gas had altered the coloring and texture of them. The mask had seemed to have smoothed out a bit from the more gruesome image that it had started out for the Hobgoblin.

He felt a pull towards it as he reached out, his mind felt a bit more crystal clear as if almost he was starting to understand something that he had always known in some part of his mind. He pulled down the green grinning mask and the yellow eyes of it. It looked almost like it was laughing at him like a mad man.

His body tensed up feeling more energy going into his body, the weakness fading away. Before he blacked out one more time he heard that high pitched voice once more speaking to him.

Time for some work Normy, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 37: THE GREAT ESCAPE