Woot! I'm back! That was a rather long wait but oh well, good things come to those who wait! Um… I'm still working on the next chapter 'cause I have LOTS of work to do… so there might be another short wait ;
"WHAT?!"
Fisk stood up from his office seat to address the broken Robo-Jack that was having trouble standing up. The beaten up robot cast his red eyes to the floor to avoid the Kingpin's eyes.
"You couldn't stall him? You are the replica of the original! You could have fooled the doctor and then killed him! Are you that stupid?!" Fisk continued to yell. Robo-Jack stumbled away from the approaching Fisk in fear he was going to get another wallop.
"It doesn't matter. We will have to activate the machine now if we want everything to go according to plan. Besides, they will all die after the reactor has reached full power." Hannibal said, ignored for most of the conversation. He jumped down from the desk where he was previously sitting and with another jump landed on Fisk's shoulder. Fisk walked up to a nearby bookcase, filled with books obviously. His eyes scanned the thick tomes until he saw a book called 'Boy Genius'. He pulled it out and the bookcase moved to the side to reveal a secret passageway. The Kingpin walked through it, followed by Robo-Jack. The evil trio were on a platform high above, looking below. Fisk walked along the platform to a mini elevator that took him and Robo-Jack to the bottom where a large machine that looked like a claw stood.
"You know what this is?" Fisk asked the robot beside him. Robo-Jack shook his head as they walked off the elevator to take a better look at the strange contraption. It wasn't exactly a claw. It was made up of a large circular platform 20 metres in diameter and four 30 metre high crooked towers that bent towards the middle. In the middle, a small glass ball situated in the air, three blue orbs swirled around in circles.
"It is a fusion reactor. This is the third time someone has tried to create a machine like this. I do believe I have created the ultimate weapon unlike Octavius who believed he had created a power source to sustain all. He was a fool to believe that." answered Fisk as his fingers drummed against the crooked towers.
"What does it do?" asked Robo-Jack.
"It creates a miniature version of the very thing that is at the top of the food chain, robot." Hannibal smiled as he hopped off the Kingpin's shoulder and proceeded to a nearby cabinet. He opened it and pulled out the Moby Morpher, the shen gun wu that allowed others to take the appearance of others.
"You will have to go and face them again if this machine is to activate without any problem from outside sources." Fisk said, holding a strange little coil in his hand.
"If you haven't noticed, I'm missing an arm and have a hole in my chest where oil is currently spilling onto the floor." Robo-Jack hissed, presenting the hole and the MIA arm.
"I know. That is when this fusion coil comes into play."
(Line… I know this is annoying but the line thing isn't working)
Octavius stared as he watched Jack squirm in pain. Tomes simply continued to add pressure on the injection spot where he had previously inserted the needle filled with the snake and tamarin DNA along with his own serum to help it bond with Jack's own DNA strands. Leech stared wide mouthed and eyed at the newcomer with his tentacles. The boy edged slowly out of the corner to get a better view of the situation. Tomes noticed Leech and kicked him in the stomach, sending him back in the corner.
"Stay away Leech." Tomes warned. The boy gave another whimper and stayed put once again. As the old scientist turned his head to face Octavius, he faced his fist instead. Octavius stood over Tomes, breathing hard, clenching his fist. The doctor stomped over to Tomes lifting him up in the air.
"What have you done to Jack?!" yelled Octavius as he shook Tomes hard. Tomes chuckled as the doctor stopped the shaking.
"Made him better." Tomes said, unable to withhold his chuckling. Octavius's face darkened and launched another punch to Tomes's face. Leech peered from behind the bench as Octavius asked the same question again to Tomes. He crept out and hurried to Jack who stopped squirming and looked like he was about to puke. He tried to undo the buckles that kept Jack on the table when he suddenly heard hisses above his head. Leech was too scared to look up so he continued to undo the buckles. More hisses surrounded him, making Leech work faster. Finally when he reached the last buckle, a hand covered his. The boy shook with fear and looked up. The newcomer, the one Tomes had called Octavius looked down along with four tentacles with red eyes. Leech looked down at his covered hand were Octavius's hand; bloodied by the punches he dealt Tomes.
"Sorry…" whispered Leech as he withdrew his hand from underneath the larger one. Jack tried to keep his eyes open before doing another violent spasm. Octavius undid the last buckle and with his tentacles, carefully lay Jack on the floor and cleared away anything that Jack could hit. Soon the spasm subsided and Jack was left breathing heavily again. Octavius laid him on his side before looking back at Leech who was once again pressed against the corner in pure terror.
"And who are you?" asked Octavius as Bobbles slinked towards the boy in the corner. Leech opened his mouth but no sound came out and instead looked like a goldfish out of water. Octavius gave a chuckle as Bobbles gently grabbed Leech by the waist and brought him closer.
"L-L-Leech… His name is Leech."
Octavius looked down at Jack as the albino spoke.
"Jack!" sighed the boy happily. Octavius gave a smile and lifted Jack into a sitting position.
"Are you okay?" Octavius asked. Jack shook his head.
"Do I look okay?"
"No you're pale as if you saw a ghost." chuckled the doctor. Leech hugged Jack tightly, making the albino gasp for breath.
"Easy there." Jack wheezed, prying Leech's hands off his chest.
"What did he inject you with?" asked Octavius as he took a quick glance at Tomes who still lay unconscious some metres away from him.
"DNA of a snake and tamarin… what is a tamarin?" answered Jack.
"A tamarin is a kind of monkey." To this Jack jumped to his feet in panic.
"I don't want to be a monkey! Or something crossed with a monkey! GET IT OUT OF MEEEEEEE!!!" yelled Jack, starting to run around the place.
"Does he usually do that?" Leech asked timidly. Octavius nodded his head. G.C. gave a grumble before grabbing a nearby microscope and threw it at Jack. Jack hit the ground as the equipment sailed over him. G.C. paused then threw another microscope and Jack dodged it once again. G.C. tried a whole table next. The same results albeit Jack was now mad than panicky.
"Stop throwing stuff!" he yelled.
"It has become an interesting sport to watch."
Leech gave a giggle.
"Besides, you're making the boy laugh. After this I advise you take a job as a comedian."
"Hardy-ha-ha! If anyone is going to be a comedian it's you!" retorted Jack, dusting himself off. He then twisted and turned examining his body. "Say, I do think I have some more muscle." grinned Jack as he pulled up his trench coat sleeve to reveal his arm that did have a bit more muscle than before.
"Whoa…" whistled Leech. Jack performed a somersault and landed back on his feet.
"I'm too cool." he announced.
"There has to be a side effect…" grumbled Octavius, sitting back against the bench. Jack performed another somersault to amuse Leech and unconsciously scratched his bottom after he was done performing it.
He scratches his ass like a monkey giggled Bobbles.
Jack, there is a side effect Flo passed on to Jack. Jack ignored the tentacle, making it feel worried.
Jack?
Jack ignored Flo again. Flo gasped and grabbed the albino, coiling itself around his body so that the head faced Jack.
Jack, can you hear me? JACK!!! Flo yelled shaking Jack hard, almost hard enough to break a man's neck.
"Doc!!! Your tentacles are going CRAZY!!!!!" shrieked Jack. Octavius slapped Flo hard on its metallic head, making it stop the shaking and snake behind his back in embarrassment. To be perfectly honest, Octavius had forgotten about the connection. He couldn't feel Jack's painful spasms or hear him via brain transmission.
"Flo is quite right. What happened to your… powers?" Octavius said, putting extra emphasis on 'powers'. Jack grinned and jerked a thumb at Leech who had backed away in terror of the wild tentacles.
"He isn't called Leech for nothing."
Octavius looked at Leech who shied away and scurried behind Jack. The tentacles lowered themselves down to the boy's level and examined him from all angles.
"So you can't see the dead or anything?" Octavius asked again, focusing his attention once again on Jack. Jack shook his head and then gave a face as if he had remembered something.
"There is one thing that troubles me. Adrian knew I had death seeing thingie powers but I don't think I ever mentioned it to him."
"Maybe Fisk knows."
Jack looked at the doctor with curiosity.
"When I was trapped in my cell, a man named Wilson Fisk gave me a visit. He is a true nut-job, even had a talking bean on his shoulder who knew I had drunk the Western soup," chuckled Octavius. "We can just go and beat him to a pulp and then grab everything that is worth stealing and be on our way!" he continued, already thinking of the Armani and cigars. He didn't notice Jack's horrified expression though.
"Did you say a talking bean?" gulped Jack. Octavius nodded and was surprised to see Jack clutch the bench to regain his stability. When he asked why he was met with an explosive answer from the teen.
"Hannibal is a demon!!! He is as powerful as Chase and if he is involved in something like this it won't be enough to beat everyone to a pulp! This is involving all people of the world! WE COULD ALL DIE HORRIBLY IF HE SUCEEDS!!!" Jack shouted, pacing around the room with sweat pouring slowly down his face as his mind thought of ways to die. Octavius stood with his mouth open, looking like a guppy. He closed it and stood silent, with a hand on his chin.
"If that is the case, we must hurry. Chase and the others haven't come yet so we have to strike now if we want to do some major damage." Octavius said after a few minutes of thinking.
'We don't even know what the plan is! For all we know we will be stumbling into a trap." moaned Jack sitting on the ground in defeat.
"Leech, don't you know anything of this?" Octavius asked in desperation. Leech shook his head timidly.
"Adrian doesn't tell me anything. And he doesn't know anything either since he is in the biology department. He volunteered for the project only because they needed three dead people and Adrian needed bodies for his experiments." explained Leech in a whisper making Octavius groan in frustration. The doctor rubbed his eyes and looks at Leech who was once again frozen in terror. He sighed and knelt down to the boy, laying a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't be afraid of us and speak up a little. We won't hurt you and we won't let anyone hurt you. So calm down okay?" smiled the doctor, trying to ease Leech's terror hold. The boy still seemed frightened as ever, it was to be expected, but it did do some difference. Octavius stood up once again and headed out the door he had previously barged through, beckoning the others to follow him. The others followed him to the collapsed corridor, Jack raising an eyebrow at the rubble and the oil on the ground. Octavius easily cleared the way with a couple of sweeps of the tentacles. As soon as the rubble was cleared, Leech ran forwards looking around corners then running off again but always in sight of Jack and Octavius. Since Leech wasn't near them, it gave the two time to talk by their mental bond.
Sorry.
I'm sorry too. We both acted like assholes.
But you were a bigger asshole.
Octavius let out an exasperated sigh and lightly slapped the boy on the back of his head. Jack gave a tiny chuckle and kept on walking. Three of the four tentacles nuzzled Jack except of course for G.C. who simply regarded Jack with one look of its red eye before pointing its metallic snout in the air. Octavius gave a warm smile at the tentacles antics (currently giving Jack a bear hug) before looking back at Leech who was staring at a series of test tubes with weird colours, situated on the other side of a window they were currently passing, showing an empty lab room. Octavius unconsciously observed Leech as he ran off again to examine the cell in which Octavius had burst out of and the soldiers that had tried and failed to stop him.
"Did you knock them all out?" Leech asked in wonder, looking up at Octavius. The doctor snapped out of his momentary gaze and looked at the boy and nodded his head.
"Cool…" muttered Leech and ran off again but accidentally tripped over a gun that was lying around, falling flat on his face. Octavius gave a yelp and rushed over to the boy.
"Watch were you're going! You could get hurt!" sighed the doctor lifting Leech up off the ground with a spare tentacle. Leech gave a quick nod before scurrying off again only to hit his head on a branch, provided by an indoor plant. Octavius shook his head and chuckled as Leech ran off again.
Filling the fatherly role are we?
Octavius frowned and dropped Jack, who landed on his feet thanks to the messing of his DNA.
"Just saying…" teased Jack lifting his hands as a barrier for whatever retort Octavius would throw at him. Octavius shot him a glare for good measure before walking after Leech.
Do we have any idea of where we going? G.C. sighed, giving a small annoyed shriek.
I'm assuming 'no'.
We coold ask Leech suggested Bobbles, with a slight bobble of its head. Jack looked at the bottom left tentacle with some concern.
"What's wrong with Bubbles?" he asked as he observed the tentacle to give a violent bobble before settling down.
"When that unknown thing attacked us in the tunnel, it managed to send some voltage down my spine and severed the wires connecting to Bubbles. Oh and it's not called Bubbles, it's Bobbles."
"I thought you were against the tentacles having names?" snickered Jack. Octavius shrugged, giving an indifferent look.
"It grows on you," he answered simply. "By the way what attacked you in the tunnel?"
"Robo-Jack of course. I thought you knew!"
Another shrug from Octavius but a blush rose to his cheeks, after realising that both Robo-Jack and the thing that had attacked him in the tunnel both used massive amounts of voltage.
"Did you meet him in the corridor outside the labs as well?" Jack asked as he watched Leech continue to run around, obviously trying to look for a way out. Octavius nodded his head.
"So? What do you think? Was he a good invention?" smirked the albino. Octavius laughed and gave a warm smile.
"I ripped his arm off and made a hole in his chest. He then tried to blast my head off but instead hit the ceiling." Octavius answered.
"That explains the rubble."
"Yes, quite an angry and prideful machine. Not too smart in some aspects."
Jack gave a snigger.
"In other words faulty?" he said. Octavius shook his head earning a surprised look from Jack.
"He was perfect if he was against an assassin or hit man. But he was against me. You did a good job with that robot even if it did end up rebelling against you."
Jack stared gob-smacked at the doctor and his positive comment before looking away.
"Do you mean that?" he sniffled, slightly teary eyed. Octavius nodded his head that prompted Jack to launch a hug missile on him.
"No one has said that my robots were good! THANK YOU!" Jack cried, hugging the doctor tightly.
"That wasn't a que to hug me!" yelped the doctor, prying Jack off him. The pair suddenly stood still as they noticed Leech staring back at them.
"Are you gay?" the boy asked.
"No Leech, Octavius simply has a tendency to feel down and therefore needs a hug from his beloved nephew." smiled Jack. Octavius stiffened slightly at the word 'nephew' before grabbing Jack and dropping him on the floor. Leech gave a giggle before pointing to a room below. Octavius and Jack approached the window, which allowed them to see below. A number of grey crates were strewn around the round room but left a passage to a grey door. If you really focused, you could see the door sign that said 'Warning: Core Reactor. White tags only'.
"The exit is that way after some weird structure Fisk is building. Tomes once had to go there because they were about to kill this old Japanese guy and he had to go and take the body to experiment on. There is a door that leads to the main corridors and then you just take the elevator or stairs down and you are back in New York." explained Leech.
"And that is were we kick Hannibal's ass, steal Fisk's Armani and get out of here." added Octavius.
"And then we find Kimiko and Chase and boast on the perilous adventure we went on." concluded Jack with a grin. Octavius shared the boy's grin and broke the window with Bimbo before grabbing the two boys and scaling down the walls with ease. He landed among some crates and set the boys down.
"Freedom here we come!" Jack yelled gleefully and skipped happily to the door.
"He is gay." remarked Leech.
"AM NOT!"
Octavius sighed and followed Jack to the door. A tentacle reared back and was about to strike the door when a flash of red lightning appeared above them and part of the wall fell in front of the door. The group quickly and slightly clumsily moved aside before turning around. Robo-Jack looked back at them with a cruel smile only a robot could achieve.
"No one is going anywhere. I have a score to settle and an idiot to kill."
That done! Next chapter is on its way as soon as I finish the mountain of homework I have on my plate… and reports are coming out soon so it might be even slower… but I'll TRY!!
The book that Fisk pulled out is actually a website were they feature Otto and Spider-man as second grade students. It is very funny and I recommend everyone to read it the website is www. jennifertanner. com without the spaces.