Super Science

Ch 52: Confrontation

"Where…where am I?", Overhaul asked as his eyes fluttered open after a very long, groggy, and uncomfortable sleep.

"Ah good to see you awake, Overhaul. Or should I say, Kai Chisaki?", A voice said to him.

Overhaul tried, and failed, to bring his head up fast. Feeling whiplash hit him hard as he winced from the pain. So he took it slowly and noted how he had been strapped to a chair with an overhead light. Looking down at himself he was once again reminded of his lost limbs, truly hoping in his mind that it had all been a dream. Sitting across from him was another person silhouetted by the darkroom outside of the lights range and staring straight at him.

Trying to get comfortable in his restraints. He asked back incredulously, "You…know who I am?"

"I have my ways.", the voice said nonchalantly.

Overhaul recognized the voice and as his mind cleared up, you realized who it was and stated, "Your Egon."

Egon sat up from his seat and walked into the light, revealing himself, and saying, "Glad you noticed."

"Where am I? What do you want?", Overhaul tries to demand as best he could in his weakened state.

Egon chuckled at the question and answered, "You're back in my laboratory, in a secret area, you know, the one you nearly wrecked!", He half yelled, quickly getting extremely angry before saying with a calmer tone, "As for what I want, I want to make you suffer. But don't get it twisted, I don't want to make you suffer exclusively because you nearly destroyed my life's work, threatened my staff, and a whole dictionary's worth of petty gripes.", He listed off while getting increasingly irritated for trying to rain in his anger as he told him, "No, I want to make you suffer for what you did to that girl."

Overhaul looked up to the side thinking deeply to himself. Not realizing what he meant at first until it finally clicked he asked dumbly, "Eri?"

Egon's anger exploded and he ran up, holding the man up by his collar as he screamed into his face, "Of course! Who else would I be talking about!?", He let the man go, straightened out his lab coat, and told him, "I don't give a damn about what your end goal was or whatever reasoning you had for it. What you did was sick! You're a monster, plain and simple! You don't deserve mercy, just pain!"

Overhaul felt a twinge of fear go up his spine as he said this and resisted the urge to gulp as he asked, "So you're gonna make me suffer through all she had and kill me when you're done."

Egon put on a shocked expression and said back, "Kill you? Oh no no no. You're far beyond the mercy of death. I'm gonna make you suffer and you won't even feel pain in your body.", He gets uncomfortably quiet and leans down to his ear where he whispers in the most malicious tone he's heard, "I'm gonna make you wish you were dead."

Now Overhaul felt true fear that rose through his bones and settled in his stomach wanting to make him puke! He looked at the sadistically smiling man and asked, "What…are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna change you.", Egon told him simply while pulling his head away. He then walked to the edge of the light and walking around he explained, "You see, here at NIP we've discovered something that could very well be the whole reason for life on this planet, evolution, and the appearance of quirks in general.", He stops his walk and stands right in front of him as he finishes, "And that same something is what's gonna be used to change you. We've already tried it before and we ended up finding a way to bring back extinct animals and create new ones."

Trying to control the shake in his voice, Overhaul inquired, "So you're gonna lobotomize me to turn me passive."

Egon blew air between his lips and waved his hand while telling him, "Oh don't be silly. I'm gonna take away your humanity and make sure you never forget a single thing about it. From your success to failures.", He then cupped one hand to his mouth and called, "Oh Doctor, you can come in now."

A moment after he said this, a door opened and from the white light of the room outside, in strode a huge shape of something. Something came into the light and it was revealed to be some kind of mechanical trolly with a chicken driving it. A chicken with a huge head. The cart had some kind of machine with dozens of different colors crystals. Overhaul looked between the bird, the man, and the machine in a frenzy.

Egon motioned his hand to the bird and said, "Chisaki, let me introduce you to Doctor Cluck Orpington. She's the only one I can trust to do this procedure and the only one mentally crazy enough to do it and go about her business like it never happened. Have fun with him, doctor, and remember not to hurt him.", He said with a menacing tone, a smile on his face as he left the room behind the sliding door.

The chicken then turned her cart sideways and robot arms sprung out from all directions where he could swear the animal was smiling at him like some mad scientist. Then he heard something that made his blood run cold! The chicken spoke, surprising him, as she said, "Prepare for your examination."


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