[Location: Oscorp Research Facility]
{3rd person POV}
Norman Osborn paced bad forth in his office. He was frustrated with the ret setbacks in their research. The military tracts were important to keeping Oscorp at the top of the biochemical ons industry. The funding that those tracts provided would also allow him to move forward with his own personal projects. Projects that had a much more profitable e than chemical warfare.
Among them was the new version of Super Soldier Serum that he was able to recreate from Dr. Erskine's hough Norman still needed a way to stabilize it so that it wouldn't kill anyone who used it. The b rats and spiders he has beeing on haven't shoromisis except for immense aggression. But he hid this fact about the side effects from the military tractors that funded his work in fear of losing the funding he desperately needed.
However, after months of failure after failure, Norman started to lose hope of ever perfeg the serum and moving forward with his pns. Well, things ged when the golden opportunity came walking through his front door one day. An ieeant with a peculiar ability never before seen walked into the hospital under OsCorp seeking medical help and Norman saw it as the breakthrough he'd been waiting for.
The dormant X-genes in that boy's body awakened after the act. His power is immunity to all diseases and viruses along with an accelerated healing factor. That was the beginning at least. Normahere was something else dormant ihat boy after he performed various experiments on him. After all, Xavier himself said the X-Genes are capable of unlog extraordinary abilities in its host. Osborn believed if they could awaken that gehen it could lead him to finally find the solution he had been looking for all these years.
Years passed as he tio put that boy through inhumas to try and activate the dormant gene inside of him. He eve as far as iing the unstable formu of Super Soldier Serum into that boy's body multiple times in hopes that it might trigger some kind of rea. But the boy whom they were calling Subject 0x, his immunity kept blog the serum and Norman became infuriated at the ck ress.
He was there that night in that underground facility, in the observation room, the boy through the monitors as usual while OsCorp stists ducted another experiment on the boy. Subject 0x was strapped down oable surrounded by maes monit his vitals. They wao extract his immunity X-genes or mutation factor as OsCorp calls it.
Norman wao ihe SSS into himself but to elimihe side effects, he decided to use Subject 0x's mutation factor. Time was running out for him and he o do something, anything to keep the tractors happy and funding OsCorp. So he instructed the stists to extract Subject 0x's mutation factor and use it to make an artificial X-Genes which he could theo stabilize the SSS.
"Sir. The kid will die if we proceed with the extra," One stist warned Norman who stood behind the gss wall overlooking the experiment room. "That's why you're here, doctor. Do whatever it takes." Osborn coldly said. "His father has already been paid handsomely for this," He added. The stists gulped nervously at his boss' cruel order.
Subject 0x weakly opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling. He was lying on that metal table uo move after being ied with powerful sedatives. The drugs only keep him numb for a few minutes before his immunity power kicks in aralizes the drug. But his o head were always immus or any medications. He was always scious and saw everything they did to him.
They had to move fast with the extra due to the limited time. The boy slowly turned his head to look around the room filled with maes and stists wearing white hazmat suits.
He was lying on his stomach.
"So, what's ? Going to i radiation or nuclear waste inside me?" Subject 0x weakly asked. The stists ignored him and began preparing the equipment for the extra. "What? No taunts or mog today? Did I hurt your feelings?" He mocked again but nobody paid attention to him.
Suddenly, one stist approached him and leaned closer to whisper in his ear. "You have no idea how sorry I am," She whispered with a hint ret in her voice.
"Nah! You have no idea how sorry you all will be if I survive this," Subject 0x whispered back with a smirk on his face. Then she quickly pulled away and joihe others to prepare for the extra.
They punctured his spinal cord using special needles ected to maes. 33 needles total, all ied deep into his spihe boy didn't feel any pain sihe sedatives were still at work, but when they pushed the needle deeper into his neck, he felt unimaginable pain that made him scream in agony.
"Argggg! Fuck you! You motherfug bastards!! Arggg!" Subject 0x screamed at the top of his lungs. Norman watched everything from the observation room with a sadistic grin on his face.
"Beginnira," A stist annouhe boy screamed louder as waves of electric curreered his body from the needles and traveled up and down his spihe maes started beeping. "Extra failed," Another stist announced. "Increase the voltage," Norman ordered over the inters.
The boy tio scream in agony as more waves of electricity entered his body and traveled up and down his spine.
"Another failure, sir. The subject won't survive atempt," The stist announced.
Norman gritted his teeth in anger but quickly calmed his nerves, "Extract his spinal fluid then," He ordered. "But sir..." The stist tried to protest but Norman cut him off, "Just do it! Extract everything... Blood, ans, bone marrow... EVERYTHING!" He shouted angrily. The stists nodded relutly and proceeded with the extra.
"I will extract it from your remainings. Don't resent me, kid. Think of this as a sacrifice for a noble cause," Norman chuckled darkly to himself as he watched the boy screaming in agony.
The boy looked up at the tinted gss window where Norman stood behind. Even though he couldn't see him clearly, he could sense his killer's presence. Subject 0x gred at the gss wall as tears ran down his cheeks. Norman smirked sinisterly and waved goodbye to the boy who y helplessly on that metal table being tortured by OsCorp stists.
The boy just smiled at Norman. His eyes glowed red for a flicker sed, "Got ya, fucker!" He showed him the middle finger.
"Noooo! Stop the extra! KEEP HIM ALIVE AT ALL COST!" Norman yelled realizing that the boy had awakened his dormant X-Genes. "Sir?" The stists looked fused. He frantically pressed buttons on the sole in front of him trying to shut dowraae. "KEEP HIM ALIVE!!" He yelled again.
"We are sorry, but the Subject is already dead," One stist informed him over the inter. Norman stopped pressing the buttons and looked up at the s showing Subject 0x lying motionless on that metal table surrounded by maes monit his vital signs.
"ARGGG!" He puhe gss wall in anger causing cracks to appear everywhere. He panted heavily while staring at the dead boy's body through the cracked gss wall. "You... I will extract it from your corpse if I have to." He ched his fists tightly until blood dripped down his knuckles.
[Present day]
Norman threw the gss of whiskey across the room shattering it to pieces upon impact against the wall. He sighed loudly before sitting down on the cou his office. Osborn was furious about the test news regarding the disappearance of the only serum he was able to create after four years of experimenting on Subject 0x's remnants.
It was supposed to be his big breakthrough. A final product that will eliminate all risks of using the SSS and increase the success rate by over 95%. This was supposed to be a turning point for him and his pany, but everything was back to square one. He was standing at the same crossroads he was all those years ago.
Norman ched his fist tightly while gring angrily at the shattered gss pieces scattered all over the floor.
The tractors would want the product soon and Norman o deliver otherwise they would pull their funding. Without them, OsCorp won't survive long enough for him to move forward with his other projects. Everything would have been easier if Subject 0x survived the extra four years ago.
He took out his phone and dialed a number, "Prep the mae for human trial..." He ordered over the phone.
"Yes, sir," The person oher end replied before hanging up. Osborn sighed loudly before pig up the bottle of whiskey and p himself another drink.
"Haunting me years after your death, aren't you kid?"
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