Negative Ten [Harry] Part 2
At the bottom of the elevator, Harry hears a loud, creepy ding as the elevator says something that's mostly fizz, as the only words that Harry could hear are "Welcome... to... H...E...L...L," and then the thing dies as it loses all power.
But the second Harry leaves the elevator, it magically turns on and starts ascending back up the elevator shaft, leaving Harry screwed as he's now trapped inside this creepy underground lab that no one even knows exists.
From a dark, spooky lab filled with nothing but the sounds of something moving in the darkness, everything quickly shifts to being a sci-fi horror show as the walls start clicking and clattering as the walls shift and turn into shutters as they start moving up, revealing a darkish green liquid.
Inside the vats was something swimming around, and Harry tried his best to ignore whatever was inside the vats as whatever was inside clawed at the vats and crashed into glass hard enough for a thump to ring out through the hallway.
Harry: "Please be nothing, please be nothing. Please DON'T BE HERE, DAD!
Slowly walking his way through the creepy hallway, Harry comes across a massive gate with a creepy demon-looking face on the door, and this causes Harry to have a flashback where he recalls himself being strapped onto a gurney.
Past Harry: "(Groans) Dad... I don't want this..."
Past Norman: "(Brushes Harry's head) Don't worry, son; by the end of this you'll be better and never have to worry about anything again."
The door in the past and present opens, revealing a massive laboratory that in the past was clean and pristine and had a massive chamber in the middle as two massive tanks were filled with yellow and blue liquid.
Present day everything was destroyed, and the tanks next to the center chamber were filled with a red liquid that looked very evil and corrosive, as it seemed like they were eating away at the integrity of the tanks and seemed to be breaking the glass.
In the middle was his father, who seemed to have just been drained of the red liquid from his body as Norman was walking around as a massive goblin hulk creature but started shrinking back to his normal self.
Norman: "(Picks up a towel and wipes off his sweat.) Ah. Harry, my son. To what do I owe the pleasure of meeting you in this medical center that you really shouldn't know about, but at the same time I wasn't really hiding this place from you?"
Harry suffers another flash of memory as he recalls where he was in the same position as his father back when he was younger with the exact same thing his father went through but happening to him as he recalls his veins burning from the inside out.
Harry: "You... you... used me?"
Norman: "(Pours himself a glass of some kind of health smoothie and chugs it.) I didn't use you, son. I merely had you use this state-of-the-art device before me to help stabilize your genetic gnomes before I used it on myself."
Harry felt heartbroken over what he just heard, as he thought his father truly cared all these years, and now, he begins to think his dad never really cared about him or anyone else the second they stopped following his orders.
Harry: "Is this why Martin Li is after us!? (Swings his arms around and knocks over a vial of red liquid that melts the floor.) Is this why Doctor Octavious wanted to hurt you!?"
Norman: "Possibly. I mean, Octavious was a good guy and all, but he was no longer necessary once I had all his research on robotics and being able to make mechanical limbs that function like normal ones, so I had to let him go once he no longer had a use for the company."
Harry: "But what about you destroying his chances to make his own company!"
Norman: "He was using Oscorp technology, so I couldn't just let him go around using things we have exclusive rights towards."
Harry clenched his fist as he realized the only thing his father ever cared for besides his mother was his company, and even now, he's not that certain if he cared for her more than his company or if he was just angry that he couldn't cure his mother and make more money.
Feeling his rage boil over, Harry charged at his father to punch him for the first time ever, but he was effortlessly backhanded by Norman as he flew all the way to the door, bending it as it made an indent in the door.
With the help of gravity, Harry was peeled off the door and crashed onto the floor as Norman walked over to Harry and picked him up by the throat and dragged him towards the chair in the center and immediately strapped him to the chair.
Norman: "You've been such a disappointment for the longest time. Maybe you should have a little drink from the serum once more to get rid of any weakness inside you."
Norman presses a few buttons and pulls some levers as he goes over to Harry and gets ready to pierce both his arms and neck, but before he does, he starts feeling a heart attack quickly approaching and falls to the floor.
When he gets back up, he quickly unplugs Harry from the chair and turns the machine off, but unlike before, he doesn't seem to know what he was doing.
Harry: "Dad... What's happening?"
Norman: "Son, what's going on? Where are we?"
At first Harry thinks his father was making things up, but as he looked deeper into his father's eyes, he quickly realized that something was seriously wrong with his father if, one second, he was acting like he didn't care about anything, and then suddenly he was acting like how he remembers him acting when he was a kid.
This just confuses Harry even more as Norman helps his son up and out of the room and then suddenly feels a pain in his heart once more, causing Norman to scream.
Norman: "NO! I... WON'T LET YOU... HURT MY FAMILY ANYMORE!"
Norman?: "Well then It's a good thing I'm much stronger than you. And don't care about others."
This Norman pushed his son to the side right into the tanks, causing them to crack as they poured all over Harry, making him scream in bloody terror as the Norman straightened his tie and tried to leave but was stopped by his hand that had pressed a big red button.
Norman: "NO YOU FOOL! IF YOU DO THAT, IT'LL BE THE END OF EVERYTHING!"
Norman turned back to his old kind self and grabbed his son and ran towards the other end of the room as the glass in the hallway outside started breaking, releasing the water and whatever was inside.
Norman: "Harry. (Slaps his son awake) This is going to help you, but remember to always be yourself and that no matter what, I and your mother love you, and you are always our greatest blessing in life."
Harry: "Dad?"
Norman gently placed his son in an escape pod and closed the heavy door and sealed it shut as it started counting down while his father groaned in pain and transformed into his monster self again.
The monster version of Norman started banging at the door trying to open it, but it wasn't moving as the counter got closer and closer to one.
Computer: "One. Countdown finished, blasting off sequence initialized. Thank you, Mr. Osborn, and have a nice day."
The rocket started flying out as Harry got a brief glimpse at what was behind the glass, and it looked to be a monstrous combination of every villain Spider-Woman had faced as it attacked the monster Norman, with Harry hearing his bloodcurdling scream along with sounds of battle as the building on top of the lab started breaking down on top of the two monsters.
Harry was traveling in the air for a few minutes until he crash-landed onto the Xavier's Academy for the Gifted area, which was the only place that seemed to be able to fight against Martin Li's attacks.
Charles Xavier: "Logan. Please take our dear friend to the med bay and help him rest up. I think... it'll be a long while before he comes back to us, and we should find out who he's sent us this time."
Logan: "(Snorts) I'm made for fighting, not babysitting, professor! Why not get Jean, Scott, or better yet, Beast to do this instead of me?"
Charles Xaviour: "Because they're all off helping our cause, and you're doing nothing more than drinking and exploring the city. Besides, I think it's best if you get used to the academy once more, as you've been away for a while."
Logan: "I know my memories are not the best, professor. But I don't think anything in the manor could confuse me or surprise me besides maybe Kur or Kitty."
Logan, with a gruff and a scuff, rips, or rather cuts open, the door to the escape pod and takes what's left of Harry from the body and carries him like a sack of potatoes towards the med bay so he can heal up while Xaviour tries to figure out who the young man might be.
And that is all for now hope you all enjoyed and until next time stay safe and peace!
