Ok Silver,here's my humble follow up to your piece of fan fic.It is rather bland IMO.But I never claimed to be a good writer
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I was confused and intrigued.He broke Spider-Man?? I turned over a fresh new page on my notepad to make sure I got every fine detail of this."Please enlighten me Doctor.What happened when you first confronted Spider-Man".Octavius reached into his coat pocket.Once again my heartbeat increased by about 10 beats a second.He pulled out a cigar and a lighter.My heartbeat slowed again.I watched him as he lit the cigar,puffing almost merrily on it.
"I imagine you only know the half baked version of what happened from pathetic rags like the Daily Bugle.So allow me to give you the uncut,real account of what happened.I was sent to recover from the explosion in the Bliss private hospital.U.S. Atomic Research,my employers at the time,wanted to keep the accident quiet from the public.Radiation was major concern back in those days.Fools.They all fear what they don't understand.But I understood the nature of radioactivity.I had made radiation my servant.And it served me with the ultimate power.Mental control of my mechanical appendages".He smiled,the smile of a man who remembers a memory he holds dear,and never wants to forget.
"When I awoke,I discovered I was under strict orders to stay in hospital for observation and recovery.My hospital room was more like a prison cell.The windows were barred.They were trying to contain me.I remember feeling a surge of anger at this.I remember wanting to rip those bars right off the window frame.Then my mechanical arms responded to these thoughts,as if they were my own flesh and blood arms.They flexed out and tore those bars off window like they were twigs".
Octavius smiled that smile again.Remembering a fond memory he holds dear in his mind."I soon realised what power that explosion had bestowed on me.It granted me something most men have only ever dreamed of having.Power.A power that was controlled by my very thoughts.With such a power at my disposal,and my amazing scientific mind,I had become
supreme.A supreme human being".He turned sideways and tapped the ash off the end of his cigar."Using my new found power,I took the medical staff prisoner in that private hospital,while I conducted some private experiments in their rather paltry laboratory.Then
he showed up".
Octavius paused and took another long puff of his cigar,blowing the smoke slowly from his lips.His eyes may be hidden behind those dark glasses,but I could feel them staring holes into me.I was waiting anxiously for the details of his first encounter with Spider-Man.I mean how many people have been privvy to details like this?? Spider-Man has never been around to interview.But here,right here and right now,I have Doctor Otto Octavius,known and feared by the world as Doctor Octopus,about to give me all the details of his first battle with his long time arch enemy.
"So Spider-Man just showed up at the hospital.What happened?? Did he attack you immediately?? Or did you spot him coming before he arrived??".Octavius moved another pawn on the chess board slowly."Neither.He came crashing thru the window demanding I release one of the witless Doctors I had ensnared in my tentacles,because the old fool had the temerity to question me".Octavius laughed."He spoke so brazenly.Like any typical half wit youngster.I remember I was less than amused by his sudden appearance and childish outbursts.Not only had he interrupted my experiments,but he challenged me to a fight.Mocking my remarkable appendages,claiming they could not be fast enough to match his agility".
Octavius looked at me with a grin of pure malicious pleasure."How wrong he was.My mechanical appendages swatted him down like the pest he was.He then tried to entangle my arms in that webbing of his.I snapped it like it was thread.The fool had underestimated my strength,my power.Like everyone in my life,he mocked and underestimated me.He didn't realise what I was.How supreme I was.And that was a mistake that cost him dearly. Ensnared in my mechanical arms,I reeled him in until we were face to face.It was wonderful to watch him squirm helplessly.Like a live worm on the end of a fish hook".
"He had dared to mock me before.But now he was helpless before me.Beaten down by my supreme power.And where was he brave words and taunts then??".Octavius leaned back in his chair,grinning that malicious grin of his."But........you didn't kill him??" I asked nervously.Octavius' grin faded.
"I did worse.I broke him.I broke his spirit,and left him to live with his defeat and humiliation.Killing him would have been too easy.I beat him down,humiliated him and then tossed him away like a piece of garbage.I believed he was no longer a threat to me,and that the humilation of his defeat would leave him permanently broken".Octavius hesitated for a moment,and then said almost regretfully "I was wrong".
"He did return again shortly after,at the U.S. Atomic research centre,which you had taken over to......to......." I paused.I know what I wanted to say,but it was like a slap in the face from reality.I was sitting across from a man who tried to drown this very city,and all it's inhabitants,in radiation.
"Yes he returned.He always returns.I always return.It's the cycle I've spent years doing with him.He can never kill me.But I can kill him.Unlike that webslinging fool,I don't have the weak willed morals to stop me from dealing with those who dare stand against me".
To put it simply,he's not willing to become a murderer,and you are,I thought to myself as I wrote down the last few details of his account.It was giving me the creeps,all this talk of killing innocent people.It's not like I was talking to him thru prison bars.I decided to try and change the subject.
"So from then on,you were then publically known as Doctor Octopus??".Octavius tossed his cigar away."Actually my co-workers,in their petty jealousy,dubbed me that name.It became almost fashionable.Doctor Octopus indeed.A genius by any other name,is still a genius.That's what infuriated those inferior clods".There was one question that I simply had to ask him."Doctor Octopus is not the only name you were known by.You were also commonly known as 'Doc Ock'.Do you remember where that name stemmed from??".
Octavius' brow creased."You do ask the most pointless questions.Here you have a rare opportunity in your amateur career.You have the chance to interview one of the greatest scientific and criminal geniuses of the ages.And the only questions you can come up with are where my criminal names came from?? Young lady you are starting to bore me".
My heart began to beat faster again."I'm......I'm sorry Doctor.I just thought my readers would be interested in.."."Yes your readers" Octavius interrupted."All as mindless and as dull as you.They would have to be to read your editorials.You could be asking me things like my experiences with the Sinister Six,or my involvement in the Death of Captain George Stacy,or ask me details on one of the biggest gang wars this city has ever seen between the Owl and myself,or perhaps how I managed to construct my Master Planner lair without anyone's knowledge.But no,you'd rather know where the moniker Doc Ock came from".
I was lost for words.I did not know how to respond to him.He seemed to be growing increasingly impatient with me.I expected him to pick up his hat and cane and leave.But instead he sat back in his chair and said "Make your move".I looked down at the chess board.I moved another pawn.Octavius sighed again."It was him".I looked at him confused."What was him??".Without looking up at me he said "Spider-Man,he was the one who dubbed me Doc Ock.He does so enjoy his childish name calling.So he came up with that moniker for me.He was so fond of using it".Octavius looked up and grinned at me."But then I did have my fair share of names for him too.And none of them quite pleasant".
