Chapter 41: Punishing a stupid Lizard
While Blink was training her mutant ability according to the instructions he gave her, Arthur had immersed his consciousness into the inventory to study Gravitonium containing Dr Hall.
It was lying there motionless, without any changes or fluctuations at all. If he had not seen it himself, he would have some doubts whether this had swallowed Dr Hall.
"System, if I devour it now will I receive any ability?" Arthur asked the system.
"It is now in a completely dormant state. It should be changing from the inside and going through self adjustment, so it cannot be absorbed now." The system said.
"Self-adjustment? I am afraid the reason for this is Dr. Hall. So, I will have to wait until Dr. Hall gets the gravity manipulation and become Graviton. Probably then I will be able get the gravity manipulation." Arthur was really annoyed right now, a really powerful ability was in front of him but he couldn't use it.
As for thinking of recruiting Graviton into his team...he was a super villain with genuis intellect so he would be very hard to control. So instead of having a possible betrayer in his team, it would be better to just devour his ability.
"Arthur, Arthur.…"
While Arthur was thinking about the Graviton, he suddenly heard someone calling him. He saw Blink, who looked a little scared and panicked.
"Calm down and tell me what happened?" Looking at Blink's anxious face, Arthur became curious.
"I have a friend who is trouble right now, I have to...I must hurry and save her… will you help me?" Blink asked nervously.
"Of course!" Arthur said without the slightest hesitation, then he asked: "First tell me who is your friend and What happened to her?"
"She is someone who I have gotten to know only recently. Her name is Sarah and she is also a mutant with the ability to grow and manipulate bones, high metabolism and accelerated healing factor. I had saved her a few days ago but now she called me and said she needs my help because someone is pursuing her." Blink explained quickly.
"Is a Mutant? Name is sarah and Can grow bones to be used as weapons with healing factor?" Arthur was a bit surprised, this ability was a bit similar to Wolverine execpt for bone manipulation. Uncle Wolf has only got three claws coming out of his knuckles. But from what he could recall of the comics, this mutants nickname should be Marrow and she also possessed two hearts.
"Lets Go then!"
Hearing Arthur say this, Blink gratefully nodded to him and then raised her hands to throw out a crystal which morphed into a portal. After the portal appeared Arthur and Blink directly jumped into it.
In the next second, the both of them were in a place that appeared to be an abandoned subway. They then saw someone running towards them and seeing the light of the portal and the appearance of Blink next to Arthur, she was wild with joy and relief. She then hurriedly yelled: "Great, you are finally here. Wait, who is he?"
"His name is Arthur Wolf, my Boss." Blink introduced, but before she could even finish Marrow said: "Okay Hurry up, Clarice fast open a portal, we need to get out of here quickly. I tried to injure him to stop him from pursuing me, but he could also heal. He must be coming here fast, let's go now."
Hearing this, Blink was about to open a portal.
"And this will happen again and again and again!"
Arthur suddenly spoke and looked at Blink and Marrow and said, "Do you know why even after saving her just a few days back she is again in trouble? It's only because you guys just hide and runaway! There will come a day when you can't run anymore and hide anywhere. You have to solve your problems from the root. You have to defend yourself." Arthur then looked towards the new girl and said, "Your name is Sarah? Tell me, where is the one who was pursuing you?"
"He is coming from that direction." Marrow subconsciously said.
"I heard that you can create and manipulate bones as a weapon? Do you know how to fight using them?" Arthur asked again.
Marrow shook her head.
"It doesn't matter, you can learn and train later." Arthur then went searching with Blink and marrow following him.
After walking for a while the subway slowly cleared into an empty underground chamber. Probably must be some opening in the sewer system. But it seemed that it had been abandoned for a long time.
"He… isnt he worried about being killed or injured?" asked marrow with worry evident in her tone to Blink.
Blink replied: "Do not worry, he is very strong and… I think that he is right, always escaping is not a solution, we have defend and fight for ourselves."
"Roar!" A weird snarling sound was heard suddenly. Arthur rubbed his ears and said to Blink and Marrow behind him: "Pay attention to your surroundings and make sure to stay at a safe distance."
Soon some heavy footsteps were heard and the surroundings seemed to be shaking a bit. Seems like the opponent is a big guy...
Arthur soon saw the enemy. It had green skin, a huge muscular body with a long thick tail.
"Really, Professor Lizard?" Arthur looked at the big guy who appeared. He didn't expect it to be Professor Curt Connors. Wasn't he the enemy of Spider Man, then why was he trying to capture a mutant? Isn't he doing things outside his jurisdiction?
"Hey, stupid lizard, go bother Spider Man, don't try to meddle into the affairs of mutants." Arthur voiced towards the professor.
The lizard snarled and didn't care about what Arthur said and rushed straight towards Marrow.
"You dare ignore me? It seems I have to punish you for your audacity." Arthur said and moved to intercept the lizard.
The lizard stretched his tail and tried to hit Arthur. Seeing this marrow closed her eyes, thinking that Arthur would be severely injured after this while Blink looked quite confident in Arthur.
Arthur bent under the tail, then grabbed the tail and fiercely swung the Lizard towards the wall.
Boooooom!
The lizard was violently slammed into the wall, he shook his head to get of the dizziness and stared at Arthur angrily. The lizard then roared and again launched another attack with it's tail.
"Again?" Arthur grinned, but this time he didn't catch the tail but raised his arm and punched it. While the Lizard was indeed very powerful compared to Spiderman but his strength still fell short of the Super Strength and durability Arthur gained from The Thing.
After testing Lizards strength, Arthur then increased the force of his punch.
Crack..... Soon the sound of something being broken echoed. The Lizards hand was crushed by Arthur's Super strength. His punch didn't stop after that, but continued gaining momentum and hit the Lizard on his chest. The Lizard again flew and crashed into the wall like an broken kite.
It seemed that the Lizard was stunned by the collision and became unconscious.
"This.... Why did it seem as if the Lizard was weak?" Marrow looked at Arthur and Lizard with an incredulous expression in her face.
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Went for an unplanned vaccation with my homies right after my exams. It was a beautiful trip with a trek in the snow mountains, just couldn't go skiing due to melting ice and risky terrains. Got back 3 days ago.
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