7. Chapter 7 (1/2)

peter parker

i was able to sleep peacefully through the night. the next morning, i woke up to scott shaking me forcefully. "dude. quit it! i'm awake." i yawned as i sat up. "hey! i can talk! guys i can-" i looked over at the door to see the man with the potato bag over his head. he was standing completely still. i backed up as far as i could. suddenly, he was replaced with tony stark. i let out a gasp of air and yawned again. i tried to say sorry but my voice left me once again. i mouthed "great" and pointed to my mouth.

"good morning, pete. did you sleep well?" i nodded yes and sat back down. "they said you

oke the glass. did you do it on purpose?" i tried to say something, anything, but it was useless. i laid back down and closed my eyes. i was feeling normal today and i didn't want to lose that feeling. the feeling of not being crazy is good. scott patted my shoulder and walked to the glass.

"you getting him out of here?" he said as quietly as possible. there was no response from tony. everything was silent again. i looked over at them and tony and i made eye contact. i smiled widely when he held up a box of donuts.

"can't have you going hungry." he smirked. suddenly all the doors to the prisons opened. i followed scott out in the open area to find everyone was exiting their cells as well."and if you all behave, i may do this a little more often." clint was the only one who didn't exit his cell. instead he sat down and spitted in tonys direction. tony rolled his eyes and handed me the box. my shaking hands reach in and grabbed a chocolate boston cream. i began to devour the sweet

eakfast treat,when i remembered this was the first real food i had in weeks. i slowed down a bit, taking longer

eaks between bites. i looked around to see sam and scott happily enjoying their donuts. then i looked over in wanda's cell. she was sitting on her bed, watching us with desperate eyes.

my senses immediately made me grab another boston cream and walk to her cell. her arms may have been stuck in that torture jacket, but mine were not. i held the donut to her mouth and she took a small bite. i looked back to see tony grinning at me. then he looked down at the ground with sad eyes. i could see the guilt in them. he then walked over to us, handing the box to clint on his way over. i watched as he hesitantly took the box and reached in for a donut.

"may i?" tony asked wanda as he approached. he took the donut from my hand and sat down on the ground, giving her some space as i did. when i stood back up, i felt dizzy. then as if i had a vision or dream of the past,i was back in the creepy room. tony disappeared. scott and sam were no longer standing happily in the middle of the room eating. clint's sour face was nowhere to be seen. it was only me and the chair. i wasn't sitting in it though. i was standing in front of it. then the potato head man walked out from behind it. i backed up a little bit and heard a yell of protest. when i looked behind me,no one was there.

the other man walked up to the potato head. he wore a grin on his face like the jokers from a batman comic. "hello, peter." i started

eathing faster and faster. my chest rising and falling quicker than it should and intended. "it's nice to see you finally got the serum to work at its finest. you see... we know children love sugar, so we made it react in a certain way when contacted by it. sugar's in your stomach, in your blood stream... with the medicine we gave you." i looked at the donut and through it at him. it flew right through his body.

"get away from me!" i screamed to the top of my lungs. "get out!" my throat hurt from the strain and how much effort i had to use to get the few words out. he stepped towards me and i stepped back again. something was blocking my way. then i felt a hand lay on my shoulder. it was the dead boy, james. i quickly backed away from him, but he stepped towards me. "no!"

"don't you see peter. we're your friends. we just want to play." the words echoed in my ears. "we just want to play. we just want to play. we just want to play." i covered my ears and squeezed my eyes closed. when i did i saw the flashing lights in my mind so i quickly opened my eyes again. i was screaming. i glanced up to see what my fate would be, but i was back. i was back in the cell room with tony and wanda. i closed my mouth and stared into tonys eyes.

"hey kid, it's okay. i'm right here. don't worry." i pushed him and he went stumbling back. scott and sam moved to the rescue and caught his fall, settling him on his feet again. "peter, whatever you saw was a hallucination." i looked at the donut... it was back in my hand. when i looked back up, it wasn't tony standing before me. instead it was the man who caused all this. not knowing it was still tony, i ran towards him and pushed him back, all the way up against the nearest wall.

"you knew this would happen, didn't you? where's mj?! tell me, now!" i had him by the neck, my strength too much for him to fight. i rose him off the ground a little bit to watch his feet dangle a bit. "look at you know? isn't this a sight for sore eyes. the monster you created is now your doom." he whispered my name and gasped for air. someone called my name from behind. i quickly turned to see... the avengers? when i looked back it was tony who i was strangling. i let go of him. as he fell to the floor so did i. while scott and dam helped him

eath, i army crawled to my cell. i hid under the bed screaming and rocking back in forth. i was crying uncontrollably, trying to yell i was sorry. nothing came out of my mouth though. i felt safe in the dark area. i felt safe all alone. there was no one there to hurt me.

i started to hear the nursery rhymes playing in my head. why was it so hard to forget them? why was it so hard to think suddenly? all the normal feeling i had quickly faded away. i was getting worse by the moment. at least that's how i felt.

i didn't have to close my eyes to see the lights. i heard something, like a small humming noise and realized it was me humming. so i started to sing one of the songs. once again it was about tony stark. i guess they did that to taunt tony. this song was to the tune of humpty dumpty.

"peter parker sat on a wall. peter parker had a great fall! all of starks trinkets and all of starks men... couldn't put peter back together again!"

i started to giggle and laugh like rumpelstiltskin on that tv show "once upon a time". the laughter was quickly turned to screams of pain and agony. begging pleas for no one in particular. i saw scotts feet from where i sat and heard the cells close again. scott didn't say anything. he only sat on the bed and tucked his legs up so i couldn't see them. like a child does at night to make sure the monsters and demons don't grab their feet off the edge of the bed and drag them to hell. "same thing!" i laughed for a

ief moment. people were surely going to call me the dark one after this.

tony stark

i was done with this bull crap. i wasn't taking orders from ross any longer. i was going to get to the bottom of this and start analyzing that serum we found. i was also setting up a meeting with the man who caused all of this... not samuel clarton, no his real name was sweeney tom. like that old musical about the barber going on a rampage and murdering his costumers to use the meat and sell them in pies, sweeney tod was the musical. i guess the two men had a lot in common. both morbid, crazy men who deserve worse than death. and just to point out, who names their kid sweeney anymore? i'm guessing the idiotic monster had weird parents. hey, his step dad was his helper... who knows.

i just left peter to cry, scream, and laugh in his cell after he just almost chocked me to death. definitely not letting him out any time soon. i told the guards to mainly watch his cell for scotts safety. they nodded at me as i left them to do their jobs. i got in my helicopter and flew back to the compound. once i was safely in my lab, i told friday to put me on lock down. no one comes in or goes out without my consent. no one sees through any glass walls, windows, and cameras. i took the serum out of the vault i had it in after stealing it from ross's secret lab. not a secret anymore... the green liquid glowed under the light of the lamp.

"friday, run a scan on this now. tell me what it's made of." i sat back in my chair and waited for her answer.

"i can't seem to pinpoint what it's made of, sir. but it is similar to the super solider serum that was injected into james buchanan barnes." i winced as she said the name. "it's like a combination of that, lsd, psilocybin, and it was exposed to gamma radiation." i slumped back in my chair to think of what may have been causing the craziness. had peter actually gone crazy and the serum was a fraud? a distraction? maybe it was the combination of the ingredients? put all together gave it a new use. sort of like when you mix milk and honey in hot tea. i never put milk in my tea, but i do know that peter does. maybe i know more about him than i thought? anyways, i sat in my lab, trying to figure out what i should try first.

"if only banner was here." i whispered to myself. i have to admit when it comes to weird chemical mixtures and gamma radiation, banner knows more about it. i'm more of the tech guy. not that i don't know how to handle chemicals, it's just that banner as 7 phd's in this area. "well, lets use one of them." i said to myself. i rolled my chair to my computer desk and stood up to make the screen larger. then i started doing some research of my own. finding all and any side effects of lsd and psilocybin when mixed together. of course i knew what they did when taken alone. then i started doing my under cover research on barnes. i firstly read everything i found on the internet and since natasha leaked all the information of shield a couple of years ago, there was a lot of information. including the release of the truth about my parents death. i took a deep

eath as i skipped over that passage and went to the notes taken by the first doctor that worked on barnes. "where did the man get this stuff?" that's when it hit me. barnes was controlled by the organization hydra. "could..." i typed in the mans name followed by shield files. sure enough, his name and face popped up on the screen. i clicked on the first file when my screen went blank. "friday, bypass any security protocols." the ai did as it was told and the screen came back up. "how much time?"

"i'd say nine minutes before they trace it to your computer."

"plenty of time. friday copy all the files on this and move it to a new file. actually, move it to my ghost file. that should keep it secure." the computer started glitching showing me whoever didn't want me to see the files were trying to trace me. the download and copy was complete. "turn off all technology in the area until further notice. you know what to do." the lights went out and another protective shield covered my lab area. i walked to the counter, away from all of my tech and made myself a cup of coffee. friday began to read me everything on the files. sure enough, this crazy man was once a s.h.i.e.l.d agent that was actually for hydra. "shit." i chugged my coffee, burning my lip and tongue. "tell me where they kept the formula information."

"unfortunately, those files have been taken down by the government. shall i notify the proper authorities you are in need of this information?" friday asked as i reversed my orders and took down the shields.