{3rd person pov}
[2 Weeks ter]
Norman gathered twenty stists into his office. Most of them worked in OsCorp's bioengineering division.
"You may wonder why I called you here today," He addressed the group sitting in front of him. Everyone remained silent, listening carefully to him. "Well, I have some good news and some bad. Good news is that I five you all for the loss of 0X-Serum. Bad news is that yoing to help me fix it," He expined calmly. Everyone exged gnces w what he meant by that.
Osborn took out a folder taining dots and handed each stist one copy of the dot.
"These dots say that twenty of you are now officially going to bee the test subjects for Project SSS," He announced causing gasps of shock among the stists.
"W-what do you mea subjects, sir?" One stist raised his hand nervously, asking the question everyone was thinking abht now.
"Since you destroyed something more worth than all of your and this entire pany bined, I need repts," Norman answered coldly without giving a damn about the sequences of his decision.
"B-but, sir. Your formu will kill us if it doesn't work," Another stist protested, but Osborn just ignored him and tinued expining the details of Project SSS.
"So, die... You should have thought about it before losing the serum, right? So, it's only fair for you all to pay for your mistakes by being huma subjects for Project SSS," He decred leaving no room fotiation.
Everyo there frozen in pable to believe what was happening.
"Three days should be enough," Norman gave each stist three days to prepare themselves mentally and physically for the procedure. And if they decide to act smart or try to run away, then he will hunt them down personally and force them to participate in Project SSS whether they like it or not. If that's not suffit, he will drag their family members into this mess too making sure none of them escapes his wrath.
"Now get the fuck out of my office. I don't have time to waste on worthless trash like yourselves," He dismissed the stists. Everyone immediately stood up a him alone in his office.
Ohey left, Osborn poured himself anss of whiskey before heading downstairs to the b where Project SSS will take pce. It's located in an underground level below the main building. There are several rooms used specifically for dug experiments on humans including the observation room where Norman observe everything from above via CCTV cameras installed throughout the whole level.
As soon as he arrived, OsCorp stists greeted him and escorted him into the observation room where Project SSS will en three days.
"How's the preparation going?" Norman asked one stist standio him watg everything through the CCTV ss. "Almost ready, sir. We just o finish installing equipment and calibrate them accly," The stist answered nervously while avoiding eye tact with him afraid that he might notice his fear. "We are w as fast as we ."
Osborn noticed this behavior but decided not to ent on it knowing how terrified these stists must be after hearing what happeo Subject 0x four years ago.
"Good. Make sure everything goes smoothly this time," He remihe stist whose name is Dr. Jayce before making his way to another level below ground level 1. He ehe elevator and sed his retina on the ser.
"Access Granted. Level -2," The robotic female voinounced before desding deeper underground level 2. Ohe doors opened Norman stepped out into ay hallway leading directly towards twe steel duarded by armed security persoanding on each side of them.
He sed his retina again on another ser located beside those steel doors.
"Access Granted. Norman Osborn," The robotic female voinounced again opening both steel doors, revealing a vast space beyond them taining hundreds of cells lined up ly along the walls f rows stretg further than he could see.
Each cell tains a humanoid figure locked ihem wearing nothing but a pin white shirt and shorts. Some cells tained more than one humanoid figure occupying them. All of these figures were mutants captured by OsCorp during missions ducted across the try searg for subjects suitable for his sick projects.
Just in case everything falls apart and Project SSS fails, he will have plenty of backup subjects to tih his sick experiments. Norman walked past row after row gng briefly at every cell taining humanoid figures locked ihem.
It was like a prison except instead of inmates serviences here, mutants and people with superpowers are imprisoned waiting to be experimented upoopped in front of a particur cell taining two figures occupying it.
They're male and female respectively. Both had pale skin covered in scars caused by previous experiments performed on them. He pressed a buttoo their cell activating speakers ected to ihe cell allowing him to unicate with the figures occupying it.
"Wanda Maximoff. Pietro Maximoff," Osborn called out their names causing the figures occupying the cell to turn around, fag him through thick transparent walls separating them.
They stared bnkly at him showing ion whatsoever. Their eyes are void of any sign indig life within them. Norman smiled seeing how obedient and docile Wanda Maximoff has bee over the years since being brought here years ago after killing her parents and burning her hometown dowing in massive destru spreading across Sokovia destroying thousands of lives, leaving nothing behind except ruins scattered everywhere across the nd onown as a beautiful peaceful try full of life now turned into graveyard filled only death and despair.
Norman used onry stolen from Stark Industries, creating chaos and causing mass casualties among i civilians living there unaware that their loved ones would never e back alive anymore because someone decided to py god using ons designed specifically for killing people rather than saving lives.
The gover bmed Tony Stark g that he created ons capable of itting genocide against i people, but Osborn knew better than believing such lies spread by fools ignorant of truth, hidih the surface deep underh yers, c secrets hidden far away fr eyes uo see clearly enough through the illusioed purposefully to deceive whoever tries unc mysteries surroundiais randomly without warning leaving no trace behind proving its existence eveing at all.
He captured the remaining survivors of that attack.
"How are you two doing today?" Normaed them politely pretending towards them when iy he could care less about how they felt or think about anything other than obeying ands given by him willingly without hesitation unlike Subject 0x who refused to cooperate despite stant torture inflicted upon him.
The two teens didn't answer so Norman tinued, "I guess, it's pretty cold around here, isn't it? Why must you resist? Follow me and I promise to help you get revenge on Stark. It will not be easy but you have my word that I will keep both of you alive longer if you behave like obedient children and obey every iven by me."
The st time he let them out they almost destroyed the entire facility, almost killing everyone. Sihen, he has kept them within the tai cells, specifically designed for them. Wanda has yet to ma her full potential, so she couldn't help but remain in that cell along with her brother waiting obediently for a ce to escape.
A bst of red energy smmed on the tai wall startling him a bit, making him stumble backward a few inches.
"Haaa..." Norman shook his head in disappoi, "It's sad. Really sad... Well, enjoy your st months together because once Project SSS succeeds, I will show you two what happens to those who don't listen to their elders." He gave a final warning before walking away leaving them aloh nobody else around except themselves and whatever happens in this prison stays in this prison, hiddeh yers of secrets buried beh yers c everything.
After he left, Pietro smmed his fist on the wall making another dent appear, trying desperately to break free. Wanda watched silently as he kept banging on those walls, crag them ever so slowly while she stood there feeling powerless not knowing how to fort her twin brother who lost hope long ago...
"You think we should accept his offer?" Wanda finally broke her silence causing Pietro to stop what he was doing and face her directly, staring straight into her eyes without blinking.
"Why are you saying that? You think we should go with him? You know very well it isn't Stark who was responsible for our parent's deaths, sister," His tone ged abruptly, anger creeping into his voice.
She didn't respond immediately afraid of getting angry back because she uands where he gets such feelings ing from.
"But that doesn't ge the fact that it was the Stark ons that caused our suffering," Her voice trembled slightly when she answered back without looking away from him. "We o survive if we were to have a ce to take our revenge on Stark and Osborn. He is the one who captured us so it is only right that he suffers along with his creations!" She added sharply making her point crystal clear to him.
Her brother seems hesitant to follow up with what she suggested, unsure how far will they succeed once released from this prison where both of them are imprisoned like caged animals. But he realizes they really have no choice but to do what Osborn ands, so he relutly agrees to work under Osborn's and. "Alright, I'm in."
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