Capítulo 39: Never Again
Gasping for air, I bolt upright from where I slept in a cold sweat.
The Wards.
Reaching out with my Magic, I immediately summon the Black Mirror to find out what happened. The only reason the Wards would alert me like that would be if the throne room itself was attacked, but that should be impossible… I increased Security tenfold for while I was gone. Combine that with Marko, Yuriko, Logan, and the kids being there, the place should be harder to break into than Fort Knox.
Mentally pulling up a picture of the Throne Room on the mirror, my eyes widen in shock before narrowing in anger.
"This should get his attention." I hear from the demonic entity as he impales Yuriko on his Glider before flying out the window, creating a portal to who knows where.
"Greer," I say as I get up from my bed. Right now we were on our last stop before returning to Genosha, Oscorp.
"Mmmhmm…" she mumbles as she stretches, not unlike a cat.
"There's been an attack on Genosha, I need you to get there immediately and care for the injured. Get Dr Banner and Dr Connors to help." I say as I open up the lab I had set up so long ago. Stepping in, I immediately suit up.
"What?!" She yells as she nearly leaps from the bed. Clothed in nothing but her fur, she leaps across the room to gather her clothes from where they had been dropped the night before.
Creating a portal for her to go through, I grab my mask and slip it on, completing the Atlas Armor.
"Someone attacked the Throne Room and took Yuriko. I'm going to hunt them down and rescue her. You need to take care of the injured." I answer with a scowl as I load my Glider up with extra pumpkin bombs and my belt pouches with Razor Bats and other gadgets.
Nodding with a serious expression on her face, she stepped forward and grabbed my shoulders.
"Be careful…"
After she steps through the portal, I close it behind her and instantly start planning. Somehow that thing was capable of bypassing my security, something I thought impossible. The wards by themselves should have stopped him, only someone I let in personally or is related to me is capable of waltzing in like it seems he did. The only reason the wards even alerted me was due to the violence the thing caused.
"Ultron, what happened. Why didn't you alert me of any intruders?"
"Zzchhhhhh…"
"Ultron? What's wrong buddy?" I ask as I pull up his code on my Ozwatch.
"KKZzzzccchhhh…."
Looking at his code, I groan. It was shredded. I'm not sure how as Ultron's code was unique in A.I. constantly evolving and based on the human mind, it was supposed to be near unhackable.
Or so I believed.
Using the Black Mirror to track its movements, I frown. The Roosevelt Bridge, but why? The last person I fought there was…
Norman.
The Green Goblin.
Using the black mirror, I zoom into his face. There was no way he could have actually come back… right?
It made sense though. If anyone could, it would be him. He was stubborn enough, and if he somehow made the right friends while in hell…
Creating a portal and hopping onto my glider, I fly through to face him and save Yuriko.
No one was going to die on my watch.
"Well look who decided to show up! The copycat, the imposter." He laughed with a sickening grin. Yuriko is now pinned to the ground by some sort of demonic spear, her body burning away as quickly as she can heal, leaving her in a state of agony
"Norman," I say. "Last time I saw you, you had impaled yourself with your own glider. How the hell did you get back from that?"
Giving a demented grin, he replies.
"Let's just say I made a deal with the devil and leave it at that."
With that, he threw a pumpkin bomb at me and leapt onto his glider, diving at me as fast as he could.
Summoning a magical shield, I swat the bomb aside and barely avoid Norman from impaling me with his glider.
THWIP!
"AUGH!" he yells as a familiar webbing impacts his mouth, glueing it shut.
"Hey hot head! That's for Johnny!" Spider-Man yells as he swings in and nails Norman with a kick to the chest, knocking him off his glider.
Burning the web away, Norman laughs.
"Well if it isn't the Spider? This must be my lucky day, I get to kill the imposter and the Bug."
"It's an Arachnid, Flame Brain. Geez, for all the drama and bravado, you would think that he would be smart enough to get it right?"
"Get Deathstrike, I'll get the demon." I say as I jump off my glider and land in front of Norman.
"Gotcha." He replies as he swings off.
Reaching down to grab him by the neck, Norman grinned and grabbed me by my wrist. Using me as a springboard of sorts, he launches backwards before rebounding and launching at me.
With that, we fell into battle. Analyzing him, I realized that he was far more powerful than he was last time. He was far faster, capable of keeping up with me as I fought, something most could not attest to, and he was far stronger, capable of landing hits that would have caved in another man's skull.
What set us apart, however, was skill.
Where I fought with precise strikes, meant to incapacitate or take someone out of the fight quickly, he fought like an animal. Tearing and slashing, biting and throwing fire at me, anything to win. On the bright side, this gave me a bit of an edge as I could somewhat predict his moves beforehand. On the other hand, he is far more durable than I gave him credit for. Combine that with his animalistic fighting style and speed, he was far more dangerous than I was expecting.
Through the battle, I can see his once proud and psychotic grin slowly morph into a snarl of pure rage.
Ducking under another attack, I quickly strike his side, causing him to lose his balance long enough for me to start casting a spell that would banish him to whatever hell he came from.
"AAAHGGHHH!"
Abandoning the spell, I dart my head to the side to see civilians screaming in fear. Chasing them was a Hellhound.
"You shouldn't have let up." I hear behind me before I feel a sharp point stab through a chink in my suit.
Grunting in pain, I see the same spear that was once pinning Yuriko to the ground jabbing into my side.
Grinning again, Norman laughs at the chaos around him. The sound like nails on a chalkboard. Twisting the spear just enough for me to grunt in pain again, Norman leans in close.
"I want to savour this moment… I want this sight burned into my memory forever, fueling me. The day the Goblin died… it has a nice ring to it doesn't it?" He whispers. "When I'm done with you, you can be sure that I will take Genosha, Oscorp, and everything you have ever made and destroy them. Burning them to the ground…"
I can feel the demonic energies slowly eating at my insides. The only thing keeping me from being instantly turned to ash was my healing factor.
Looking at the civilians, I can see Yuriko and Spider-Man fighting the demon dog, barely holding it off as the civilians fled, Spider-Man even shifting into his Man-Spider form in order to get on more even footing.
"NOOOOOO!" I hear from above.
Harry…
No.
Flying at us on his light glider, Harry pulled his sword from his sheath and dive bombed Norman, intent on helping me.
Only… he failed.
With a sickening squelch Norman ripped the spear from my gut. As I lay prone and bleeding, my healing factor on overdrive trying to deal with the excess of demonic energy, I could only watch in horror as Harry almost avoided Normans's attack, watching as it impaled his side as he flew by. His human body never stood a chance against the Demonic weapon. Soon all that was left was ash.
"Now… Where was I?" he asks with an almost negligent dismissal of the fact that he killed his own son.
"No…" I mutter, tears stinging at the corners of my eyes.
This is exactly what I was trying to avoid. This is the exact opposite of what I wanted…
Standing up from where I fell, I turn to face Norman, the anger and sadness and agony fueling me.
Without a word, I started to destroy the man who was once my father.
Summoning my enhanced Chitauri battlestaff, I get to work, knocking his attacks aside as if they were nothing, methodically injuring him only for him to heal.
Never again. A mantra in my mind.
Never again.
Launching him back with a blast from my sceptre.
Never again.
Impaling him.
Never again.
Throwing him off the bridge before creating an Eldritch Whip, wrapping it around his neck and yanking him back into the ground.
Never…
Summoning the Eldritch Disks and throwing them with all my strength at him, I blast him back and never give him a chance to recover.
Again.
Using the little technopathic skill I had, I summon Harry's glider to me. Grabbing it in one hand, I extend the blades.
Never Again!
Grabbing Norman by the throat, I slam him into the ground, impaling him with the glider. Just like last time.
But this time… I wasn't done.
NEVER AGAIN!
Grabbing him by the jaw, I slam his head back into the concrete of the bridge, causing a crater from the impact.
"NEVER AGAIN!" I yell as I slam his head into the ground, over and over and over until finally, I let him go.
"Done already?" He coughs.
"I hereby summon the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to bind my enemy to where he stands." I enchant as, from my hands, crimson ribbons of energy engulf Norman, preventing him from movement.
"Is that it? Going to lock me up? NO PRISON CAN HOLD ME!"
"I'm not going to lock you up… I'm going to destroy you." I reply. Walking forwards, I place a hand on his forehead.
"Obliterate."
Certain forms of magic require different incantations. Some require hand gestures, some require long summoning enchantments.
Other's, however, require sheer willpower, and I had that in spades. With a sickening explosion of bone and brain matter, I stand up.
"Burn."
Ethereal green flames engulf what remained of the body, slowly burning it until all that is left is ash.
"Never again."
Looking over at Spider-Man and Yuriko, I can see them still fighting the hellhound. Creating another Eldritch whip, I lash out with it and wrap it around the things neck, yanking it back. Grabbing Normans spear, I spin it around before plunging it deep into the beast's chest as it tried to lunge at me.
Putting the spear in a pocket dimension, I sigh. Walking over, I pick up Harry's glider and start creating a portal back to Genosha.
"Boss?" I hear behind me. Yuriko.
"We're leaving." I say, my voice like steel. I needed to process this, I-I needed to get out of here before I broke.
Before I hurt someone.
With a nod, she walks through the portal, Peter right behind her.
With a look back at the ashes of my brother and his killer, a simple promise falls from my lips once more…
"Never again."
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