Spider-Man 0X

Ch: 122 [Frank, Gwen & Peter]

Ch: 122 [Frank, Gwen & Peter]

Frank learned many things while walking around.

The warehouse is just one of their hideouts, and the majority of the workers here are just ordinary men. But the ones pretending to be guards are just street thugs whom Otto lured in with money and booze. It wasn't hard to disguise among them due to their loose lips. He only needs to pretend to act friendly and they'll start telling all the stuff they heard from Otto.

He learned that Otto has four metal tentacle arms on his back that work as his arms and legs, plus they are as powerful as to crush a metal bar with ease. As for why he kidnapped Gwen, no one knows about that. All they know is that they are going to get paid tonight and then, they will leave.

Frank was amazed at how careless and incompetent they were. They weren't really interested in guarding and seemed to take this job half-assed, as their first instinct was to drink or play cards when nothing was happening, despite how careful Otto seemed to be in hiding his identity and planning something bad.

He waited for the night before he sneaked inside the building. From what he heard, Otto had a lab on the third floor where he conducted experiments. Frank walked past the thugs guarding the front door, he blended with the others in a guard's outfit. And it wasn't long before he reached the elevator and ascended up to the third floor.

The whole floor was empty and a quiet hiss echoed down the empty halls.

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[Meanwhile]

Gwen opened her eyes only to find herself strapped to a machine. She tried to move her body and free her arms, but she soon realized they had bound her to some kind of weird machine, tightly with metal restraints. She felt a piercing pain behind her head.

"Goddamn, this freaking hurts," she complained, letting out a painful groan, as her consciousness was somewhat cloudy, "Why does it hurt so much?" Her entire body felt extremely weak and she couldn't focus, though the pain that seemed to constantly torture her was fading a bit.

Gwen shook her head and opened her eyes. Before her, stood a man with four mechanical tentacles on his back, fixing something inside a metallic capsule. The man turned around and noticed her, then grinned.

"Oh, you are awake," He said. His mechanical claws ripped and squeezed, creating sparks and embers that flew across the air. "Sorry for the discomfort, Miss Stacy," His tentacles continued to work on their own on that machine.

"Mr. Octavius?!" Gwen's voice echoed with surprise and dread, recognizing the man's face. "What the hell is going on?" She was confused by Otto's actions. She used to follow Otto's articles and even attended many expositions hosted by him. How could a renowned and promising scientist like him be doing something like this?

"I'm so sorry. But I don't have a choice. I'm losing my sanity, you see," Otto explained as he turned back to the metal machine in front of him, using his mechanical arms to adjust the settings and start the machine again, "I need Peter's neural implant to bring these arms under control. Right now, I'm barely holding on thanks to the backup security measures that I created back then, holding the rogue AI controlling these arms at bay. But soon, it will break out and control will be out of my hands forever,"

"What are you saying?" Gwen asked fearfully. 'Damn it! Those arms look dangerous. I just hope someone tracks down that spider bot. Peter's in Baxter Building, and he doesn't have his gadgets. So, even if the spider bot is active, he won't know how I'm in danger here.'

"I just need Peter to build me a neural implant and then..." Otto looked back at Gwen with a sinister smile, "...I'll have him build whatever I want for the rest of his life. And I'm pretty sure he'll do it if his girlfriend's head is on the line. Right, Gwen? Hmm?" He chuckled gleefully, savoring the moment before he stopped working. "If that doesn't work. Then, I'll have to disturb his precious aunt and those girls living in his house. So, don't you worry, Gwen. I've figured it all out," Otto cackled as he resumed fiddling with the machine.

"Mr. Octavius, please let me go. This isn't the right way," Gwen attempted to reason. "Why do you need to blackmail and threaten Peter? Why kidnap me? There has to be another way. You don't have to stoop so low!" She shouted with indignation, pulling against her restraints in panic.

"If there was any other way, I wouldn't have done this. I'm really sorry, Gwen. But soon the backup will be running out, and I'm no match for the power of an AI. Besides, as I said, Parker will live as my slave for the rest of his life. Now, shush and just lay there, while I build new upgrades for my arms because I'm pretty sure things will get heated up soon enough since the Fantastic Four won't let their precious Peter fall into my hands," Otto ignored her, and focused on the machine and his work, since he was short on time.

'This retard. Capture Peter? Yeah, right. If he hears about this, he'll rip those arms out of your back... Wait! I know he's Spiderman and he was learning magic, but those arms look kinda dangerous. What the heck am I even thinking? Of course, he'll kick this octopus's butt, but with me strapped in here,'

Gwen looked around, trying to examine the machine into which she was strapped, 'Damn! These nozzles, maybe poisonous gas to kill me.' Her eyes fell on the ceiling. There was a drill machine above her head and a few weird machinery that she had never seen in her life before. 'Oh, God. This lunatic prepared a death trap machine just to kill me in case Peter refuses.'

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While Frank was infiltrating the facility and Gwen was busy thinking of a way out of that trap machine, Peter was enjoying a nice meal with Maddie, Sue, and Wanda.

"Aren't you supposed to be busy?" Peter asked Sue while eating the Wagyu steak and sipping on the wine.

"Nope. I'm just sick of the monotonous routine of my life. I thought a bit of change might help," Sue said before cutting a piece of the steak with her knife and ate it.

"So you decided to hang out with us, huh?"

"Something like that."

Peter was watching Sue. Though she appeared normal, he could sense she wasn't feeling well.

"You know everyone here could see that you aren't alright, and yet you put this act of being alright," Peter told Sue, "Out with it."

"She got duped by Reed again," Wanda quickly read Sue's mind and learned about how Reed stood her up on a dinner date again and went to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters to research the black box that Captain Marvel discovered in Xander.

"Again?" Maddie asked, unaware of the dwindling relationship between Sue and Reed. "Oh, you alright?" She walked up to Sue and patted her back, consoling her.

Sue broke down in tears, hugging Maddie, and crying loudly, venting her frustrations, and annoyance towards her husband.

"That idiot! How could he keep ignoring me and spending all the time with that blonde and researching all the time? Today I planned everything, and he canceled again," Sue kept sobbing.

'You just had to say it out loud,' Peter glared at Wanda as he spoke through telepathy.

'What? It's not my fault. I took a peek in her mind and she's totally broken from inside. Reed keeps ignoring her and spending more time with Captain Marvel, so, you can take a guess what Sue is going through after knowing that, but you know what surprised me more? It's her messed-up thoughts and dreams about you, Peter. Just what the hell is going on here between you two?' Wanda said in return.

'None of your damn business.'

'Pft! Seriously, just spit it out, Peter. Don't try to hide something this big from me. I'm getting this feeling from her that she's either thinking or dreaming about you every day. If I were to guess, Sue must be rethinking her life's choice. She might just break it off with Reed and shift her attention toward you. But you better be careful, this lady has some insane thoughts about you,' Wanda replied as she peeked into Sue's desires and saw how she wanted to dominate Peter and spoil him rotten like a sugar mommy. She shuddered when she found out that Sue's obsession with him was abnormal, and was at a point where she fantasized about having sex and making babies with him,

'Let me handle this, Wanda,' Peter asked Wanda to stand down and left her to her thoughts, though she had a creepy smirk plastered on her face when she watched him handling a broken-hearted Sue.

"Now, now, don't cry... Everything is going to be alright. You guys just need to sit down and talk this out," Peter also walked over to Sue. He gently stroked her blonde hair and offered her his shoulder to lean on. He hugged her as he consoled her.

It took a while to console Sue, and in the end, Maddie helped Sue go to her room, leaving Wanda and Peter alone there in the dining room.

"Well, I'm going out on a stroll," Wanda stood up and opened a portal before disappearing.

"Haaa... Women... Well, time to pay the girls a night visit. Humm... Let's start with May..." Peter opened a portal in his room and walked inside. 'It seems May cleaned my room every day, not a speck of dust...' His eyes went toward the basement door which was shut close. He wanted to go to May's room, but then he remembered all those dangerous gadgets that he left in the basement. 'Let's check out the gadgets. I hope they didn't fiddle with my gadgets or my Spider-Man suit.'

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