Chapter 3: The Mind Warper

Meanwhile…

Piotr was still walking upstairs and searching throughout each room to see if the intruder was anywhere in those rooms. When Piotr approached the last door, he saw that nothing was amiss and he started backing out of the room, when he heard a chilling voice behind him.

"If you are trying to find this "so-called" intruder in this miserable Institute, then you might as well look up."

Piotr looked up to see a shadowy figure in a black turncoat. He noticed that this intruder was a male and that he had very muscular arms and tight black pants.

"Who are you?" Piotr asked suspiciously.

The man just smiled and said, "I'm your worst NIGHTMARE and once I'm through with you, you won't remember ever having this conversation with me, once I obtain the final ingredient to make myself more POWERFUL!"

"Final ingredient? What final ingredient?" asked Piotr.

The man just looked at Piotr darkly and said, "Let's hope you never find out." Then the man leaped at Piotr, trying to grab him. However, Piotr quickly turned into his steel form, grabbed the man by his arm and threw him against the wall, causing a large hole to appear in the wall.

The mysterious man then slumped to the floor and Piotr went up to the man, grabbed his shirt and asked again threateningly, "What final ingredient?"

The man shook his head, smiled at Piotr and then put up his hands in front of him. Piotr then felt a sharp jab of pain in his head and he fell to the floor, while whimpering uncontrollably. As the pain worsened, the last thing that Piotr saw was the man's wicked smile before the room started swirling around in front of him and he fainted on the floor.

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Piotr then woke up and started shaking his head to ward off his sleepiness. He then stood up and said to himself, "What…what just happened? Was that man real or was he just a figment of my imagination?"

Piotr then started walking down the hallway when he suddenly saw a person standing at the end of the hallway.

"The Intruder!" exclaimed Piotr and he turned his body into steel and started running towards the figure, when he suddenly stopped as he realized who the figure was.

Kitty was just quietly standing near the staircase, her expression unreadable to Piotr. Piotr then turned his body back into normal and he quietly approached Kitty. When he finally reached her, he said, "Katya, did you find the intruder? I just saw him a few minutes ago…or at least I thought I saw him."

Kitty just looked up at Piotr and said, "Why no Peter, I haven't seen the intruder yet. But, there is something very important that I wanted to talk to you about."

Kitty then approached Piotr quietly and put her arms around his neck and said, "You know, I've been thinking. These last few years might have been tough on the both of us, but I want us to start over again. I want us to be…lovers again." These last few words were spoken in such a sensual way that the hairs on the back of Piotr's neck started to stand on its ends.

Piotr swallowed hard and said, "R..really?"

"Why yes. Why should we let this little bickering between us stop us from what we really wanted? You know that we are just going to come back together anyway. We always do," said Kitty ever so quietly.

Kitty then placed her hand on Piotr's chest and said, "You know, I always love my men big and strong, but I like them better with big hearts. Especially…from YOU."

Kitty then phased her hand through Piotr's chest and started squeezing his heart tightly.

Piotr then gasped as he felt his heart being squeezed painfully and he started slowly slipping towards the floor.

"But…why?" asked Piotr gasping.

Kitty then laughed wickedly and said, "Oh, you silly Russian fool! Do you think that I haven't forgotten what you did to me all those years? You keep on trying to save the world, even at the cost of your own life, but did you ever stop to think about how it would affect me? No, you didn't, which is why I'm giving you a taste of your own medicine! You broke my heart so many times over, so I'm taking your heart and breaking it too!"

Kitty then pulled out Piotr's heart, which was bloody and still beating and Piotr's body gave out as he fell to the floor dead. Kitty then threw Piotr's heart to the floor and walked away laughing.

Minutes later, the man in the black turncoat came back and saw Piotr's body and he said in a chilling voice, "Well, it seems that I have my work cut out for me. Now, I have the secret ingredient for my experiment and I know just how to get it out of you."

The mysterious man then started dragging Piotr's body to the laboratory located at the bottom of the Institute and laid Piotr's body on the operating table, prepared to carry out his plan.

Meanwhile…

Kitty came back downstairs, since she didn't see anything suspicious upstairs and she quietly headed towards the laboratory. Suddenly, Kitty heard a strange noise in the laboratory and she started running towards the laboratory to investigate…