Chapter 6: Pym Particles
Hank Pym didn't know what hit him when suddenly his world went black and he fell to the floor, lifeless.
Charles knew exactly where to struck someone to kill them instantly without causing any bleeding or creating a mess. As soon as Hank opened the way to his secret lab to retrieve the Pym particles, he was already dead in Charles's eyes and he was just waiting to see if there were any booby traps protecting the Pym particles.
As soon as Hank's body hit the floor, a portal appeared underneath him and it quickly disappeared with Hank's Body.
Back in the Appledore, a glass container was filled with acidic napalm in which one could see Hank's body being dropped in from a portal above the container and Hank's body quickly dissolving.
Charles wasn't the type to delay killing his targets by telling them his whole plan and then leaving them alive to get killed by some Rube Goldberg mechanism.
He would be lying if he said that he wasn't that type of person before, but when Sherlock Holmes put a bullet in his head that day in the Appledore of his original world, that too in front of the British Security Services, Charles realized when to play with his prey and when to know it was time to go for the kill.
After carefully rechecking everything with VERONICA's sonar scan, Charles started to plunder everything in Hank's secret lab. It had every bit of his research on the Ant-man suit, the Wasp suit, the research on Pym particles, research on a prototype Pym disc which could be reversed to make anything bigger than their normal size.
It also had the research on the Quantum realm and the exuberant amount of energy it had.
Charles didn't just stop after looting Hank Pym's secret lab, because he still had some unfinished business left.
After carefully transferring everything in Hank's secret lab to his Appledore's secret storage vault, which had no gate, by the way, Charles went up into the house and started walking towards Hope Pym's room where originally Hank failed to find his daughter.
As Charles opened the gate, he found Hope Pym, lying there on the bed naked while her hands were behind her back and her mouth was stuffed with a napkin.
If one was paying attention, they would find that the index finger of her left hand was missing and the wound was cauterized, while there was also a huge chunk of burnt skin on her inner thighs, just below her vagina.
Her face was covered with tears and snot while she was begging for mercy in front of Charles through her eyes.
"I am going to remove your Napkin now and you will not make any noise. Should you choose to shout or wail, I will not immediately kill you but will drop you in this condition to somewhere where you would wish every second of your life that someone kills you, but they will not, because you will be their source of release for the rest of your miserable life.
Am I understood?" Said Charles monotonically.
Hope immediately shook her head to say yes that she understood.
"Good." said Charles as he removed the napkin from her mouth.
Hope just fell to the bed face down, and cried silently in the bedsheet as Charles started to speak.
"I have already killed Dr. Henry Pym, but that doesn't affect you, does it? I mean you were already going to betray him so that your boss Darren Cross could acquire Pym technologies and your father's money and research to perfect his Yellowjacket Armor. Am I right?"
Hope's heart sank as she heard the fate of her father and she also understood how frightening the existence of this person is. This man knew her plans, knew about the plans of the Pym technologies, got inside of their house without even alerting the surveillance ants, or should she say, after destroying all the surveillance ants.
It was as if this person who was loved worldwide as a celebrated Author was actually an Omnipotent Devil and she didn't want to anger him in the slightest.
"Well, now I am going to call Dr. Cross and you are going to tell him that your father has found out about your betrayal and now he is going to destroy all his research on the Pym technologies. Tell him that you don't know what to do and ask him to come over."
As Charles said this, he didn't even wait for Hope to tell him that she understood or she was ready and directly called Darren Cross from Hope's mobile.
"Good Morning Hope. Tell me you are not calling it in today. You know you can't take holidays right now. This is a crucial stage of our plan."
"D..Darren. Dad found out about our betrayal and..and he has vowed to me that he will destroy all his research. He has locked me in my room. I don't know what to do...Please help me."
Charles immediately cut the call and threw the mobile behind his back where it disappeared into a small portal.
Hope was crying silently. She couldn't even express her sadness, her guilt, her absolute self-loathing, and her knowledge that she has just sent Darren to his death.
Charles liked this. He had always liked it when people knew that they couldn't do anything to him and all they could ever do was accept his tortures.
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Darren was in a panic. He had been trying to make his own suit of Armor called Yellowjacket based on Pym's research, but he was still far off.
He was just preparing to leave his house for the office but now he ran towards his car and rushed towards Hope's house.
Stopping a few blocks away from Hank Pym's house, he carefully went around and got inside the back garden by jumping the boundary wall.
He immediately took out his gun as he was making his mind to just kill Hank today and steal all the research.
Charles was already out of patience. As soon as Derren got inside of the house by opening the back door, Charles immediately struck his palm like a chop at his neck, and with a "crack" sound of a bone-breaking, Darren Cross breathed his last.
Checking Darren's body for the Yeallojacket, Charles found it in his inner pocket, after which Darren's body disappeared from the floor and went straight into the Acidic Disposal Chamber in Appledore.
Charles scanned the Yellowjacket and found that it was really too incomplete and didn't have any Pym particle cartridges to power it.
"Seems like my worries were for naught" He said as he went back to Hope's room who was trying to get out of her predicament by wiggling around and trying to come out of her hand ties.
"Really?" He said as he looked at her.
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Charles completely cleaned the House of his presence. He also went ahead and put wads of cash near a window, from which anyone from outside can see it.
He then proceeded to take out DVDs after DVDs of child pornography, which he has just downloaded from the Dark Web and planted them in the Secret Lab of Hank.
Hank's computer, which used to have most of his research was now filled with such revolting content that any jury would sentence him a life in prison.
After confirming that everything was fine, Charles disappeared from the house.
Arriving back in Appledore, he went to the Dinning table to find a plate already prepared for him.
"Master, Today's Lunch is Spaghetti bolognese in white sauce." Came VERONICA's voice as she informed Charles about his Lunch.
"Good, It's actually tasty." Complimented Charles as he found that Veronica's cooking had drastically improved and she was cooking better than many Michelin Star chefs now.
After having his lunch, Charles went to his lab and started to read the research he stole from Hank Pym, while VERONICA too gave him some equations and breakdowns to look at which she deduced on her own after scanning all the research.
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A couple of days later, a piece of similar news could be seen on many news channels.
"Dr. Henry Pym of Pym technologies is on the run. A robber yesterday night went to his house to steal money, but what he found there shocked and disgusted the unnamed robber so much that he immediately called the cops."
Suddenly there was an interview with the Police officer who first arrived at the site.
"Yes, Our Control room received a 911 emergency request last night which we thought at first to be a prank call. I mean who admits to a burglary while doing the said burglary? But I still responded to the call as I am trained and what we found on the site was really creepy.
We found at least 10 TBs of extremely graphic child pornography on Hank Pym's computer and DVDs with a wall-size poster which was pasted on the wall of his Secret underground stash.
We also found around a hundred thousand dollars in cash which we believe was what he got by selling his collection.
Next, there was the Robber's interview in which he said that his conscience wouldn't allow him to touch such money, which was tainted with the innocence of so many children and he thought that he would've killed Hank Pym if he was available at that time because the robber also had a daughter."
The robber had actually become a Hero overnight while Hank Pym was declared on the run and a prize money of $50,000 each was soon put on his head and his daughter Hope's head by the NYPD.
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Nick Fury was walking with a file in his hand and entered a conference room where one could see Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff.
"Everyone. Today I have called you here because you are the only people left in S.H.I.E.L.D who I can trust.
Now as most of you know, Some time ago, Charles Augustus Magnussen had given a Pendrive to me in Stark's party."
As Fury said it, everyone was confused. Especially at the mention of Charles's name as with the exception of Clint Barton, everyone here witnessed the scene of Charles handing Fury a Pendrive.
While steeling her heart, Maria asked Fury.
"What was in it, Director?"
"I have destroyed that Pendrive, Maria. But if you want to know what was in it, see for yourself."
Speaking up until here, Fury handed her the file he came in with.
Maria didn't know what to expect as she started to browse through the contents of the file but the more she looked, the more she became alarmed.
"This is the list of most of our S.H.I.E.L.D staff! From field Agents to Executive promotors! How...How did Augustus get his hands on such information!?"
Maria's words shocked everyone else and they all got up from their seats around the conference table and went towards her to see the file.
"How did Charles get his hands on such information is secondary, Do you want to know why he gave this list to me?" At this, everyone's attention was shifted to Fury once again as they all had a bad premonition.
"I confirmed what he told me in these days, not fully but, to an extent at which I can say for certain that most, if not all people from this list are members of HYDRA."
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Charles was sitting shirtless on a bed, while on her side, May parker was sleeping soundlessly under covers.
He was thinking. Charles right now had a great amount of defense but he knew that he was not ready for Thanos, or even Hela or the Black order. He didn't know if there was another cosmic entity that was looking for trouble with earth.
He knew that he needed puppets….or superheroes who would fight these threats off while he builds up his arsenal.
He didn't give fury every name of Hydra members in S.H.I.E.L.D that he knew about, because that would be extremely detrimental to his plans.
Charles needed the Maximoff twins under his thumbs, so he had to allow Hydra to take the scepter after the New-York war while Peter already followed his commands and Tony was under the impression that Charles thinks of him as his brother.
Getting up from the bed, Charles's black suit crawled to him from the side chair and it disintegrated and climbed up on his body to become the suit again.
It was made out of Nano-bots obviously and Charles took a step forward and disappeared into a portal.
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Loki suddenly appeared in an unknown facility of S.H.I.E.L.D and smiled as he saw the Tesseract and the people who have started to aim at him.
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