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Once again his eyes were opened, and he quickly saw that he was in the same hospital room.

The memories had been very revealing and although most of it was about the father and son relationship as well as Norman's wife, it was good news, at least he knew the memories would come to him, so it was certainly a reason to be happy.

Even in that mood he was a little conflicted, he really didn't fully understand why the old Norman hated his son, the boy was not to blame in any way, Emily's passing was just a bad twist of fate, something that neither Norman nor Harry were to blame for.

Besides above all, Emily left him as a mission to take care of her son, the product of the love they both had for each other, she left with the thought that Harold would be loved by Norman, but the elder Osborn could not fulfill the request of the person he claimed to love.

"It is good to see you awake Sir" a voice with hints of the passing of time in its tone brought Norman out of his thoughts.

The Osborn only took his gaze to the place where the voice came from, finding that it was the same man who had the butler's suit: "Bernard" mentioned Norman when he saw him, in the small fragments of memories the older man was the butler of the Osborn family.

The older man's eyes showed a little surprise at the mention of his name, he quickly opened his lips: "Sir, do you remember?" he asked with a little doubt.

"Just little things, the rest are still very blurry for me" he mentioned honestly while his eyes began to move around the room, trying to find something or someone: "Where is Harry?" he asked when he didn't find the figure of the little boy in the room.

This time the surprise was huge in Bernard's eyes after all Norman never asked about his son, he treated him as if he didn't exist: "The young master was taken to the Manor by Miss Watson" he explained after getting out of his surprise.

"Miss Watson?" asked Osborn to himself, being at Marvel and hearing the last name Watson would certainly create a connection with Spider-Man's love and if he remembered correctly before he lost consciousness he had seen a young red-haired woman.

Although he understood that the question was not addressed to him, Bernard answered it, maybe this was an opportunity for Norman to have a closer relationship with Harry, so he would not let it pass: "She is the nanny of the young Harry, since you was in coma more than eight months ago I had to intervene in the direction of Oscorp so Harry had no one to take care of him" he began to explain giving little information to Norman about how long he had spent in bed, those eight months explained why his body was so thin and resented when he moved.

"Due to that fact I took the liberty of hiring a nanny, I carefully went through a highly reputable company and researched all the candidates before making a decision" he continued explaining: "Although Miss Watson might be the least experienced I considered her to be the least suspicious of them all, due to certain circumstances at home she had to have a job to pay for her college, so the high pay attracted her despite that fact she has proven to be a good nanny and a very capable young lady" he mentioned before he was interrupted by Norman.

"What is her full name?" he asked bluntly, for all intents and purposes the fact that Harry was a four-year-old boy should also apply to Peter, MJ and others, but the fact that Harry's nanny was a redhead with the surname Watson made him doubt.

Bernard was somewhat puzzled by the question, but still answered it quickly: "Mary Jane Watson" he answered and remained silent.

Again a few simple words or in this case a simple name made Norman's mind start turning the necessary gears to find an answer.

Silence was the only thing in the room due to Norman's thoughts, a few seconds later he was interrupted: "I need a laptop" mentioned the Osborn to Bernard who quickly left the room to fulfill his master's order.

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A quick research through the internet brought him some answers.

The fact that Mary Jane was much older than Harry was a big difference from the 616 universe of course Norman's own age was already completely different, so he couldn't quite apply his previous knowledge to this new reality.

This version of Norman was only 27 years considerably younger than the Norman Osborn of the 616 universe, he did not research too much about it as the memories were starting to creep into his mind little by little, perhaps to prevent another blackout.

Instead, he started researching about the main characters or rather people belonging to the MCU after all in Lux's words this universe was an alternate version of that movie saga.

First, he started with the main members of the Avengers, mainly the public members, Anthony Edward Stark seemed to have many similarities with the character's history in the MCU in his research he found several show notes about the rivalry between the former Norman and Tony, probably for the companies of both.

The next member he researched was Robert Bruce Banner, most of his history was also very similar to that of the MCU, being at this time a fugitive from the U.S. Army, there were also certain "newspaper" notes about a green Sasquatch which gave the hint that the Hulk already existed.

The research about Steve Rogers was the easiest of all, basically he was America's hero, his story was told by everyone, the first hero, a museum was made in his honor and his sacrifice was always remembered and even talked about him in school history classes.

As for the remaining Norman didn't even think to research about them, Natasha and Barton were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, so it was unlikely that he could find anything about them in the public web, instead about Thor he only found about the myths related to him due to the Norse mythology, but obviously nothing to suggest that he existed in these times.

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Closing the computer Norman brought his right hand to his forehead as he tried to massage himself, at the moment there was no sign of the heroes being among the people.

Perhaps because they were in the beginning of 2009, to be more precise he was on the 3rd of January 2009, which is he remembered correctly put him in the exact year in which the events of Iron Man would happen at least if it followed the same line as the MCU.

Tony was kidnapped between the months of February and March, so before long he will know if the events would follow the same script as the movies, having that fact the next question was about Peter Parker.

Considering that Mary Jane was entering adulthood the most logical thing would be that Peter himself would be the same, but considering Harry's age change it could be that he was still a little boy.

Actually the more sense he tried to give to the things that were happening, the more confused he was, so for the moment he stopped thinking about it, for the moment he did not have enough information to try to deduce the events that would happen in the future.

The main objective for the moment was to make his weak body into a strong one, in order to fulfill the condition Lux mentioned of the Karate Kid's knowledge.

Norman had not chosen him on a mere whim after all, Karate Kid also known as Val Armorr a DC Comics character and member of the Legion of Superheroes, possibly the best martial artist there is in DC after all he was a master in all the martial arts that existed in his universe.

Plus he had to start thinking about how he could activate by saying some word his teleportation powers, as he had no clue to that fact, but he hoped it would be something relatively easy.

The combination of the two abilities would possibly make him the best fighter in all the earth and possibly the universe, but of course he knew that on a general level he would fall too short against the truly powerful beings of Marvel, so he would have to find a way to increase his power.

There was also the relationship with Harry, the fact that he now had a son had taken him by surprise and after seeing the memories about him there was simply no way he could ignore it.

Transmigration wasn't as simple as taking over a person's body, it was much more complex than that, in this case the memories and feelings that the old Norman had been slowly coming into his being, the love for Emily, the respect and admiration for Bernard and then there were the feelings for Harry which were somewhere between hatred and a tiny hint of affection.

He was slowly merging with what was left of the old Norman, which for all intents and purposes and as crazy as it sounds would make him become Harry's father, and he knew that was inevitable, he just hoped he would be a better father than the old Norman, although it would be a simple thing to accomplish.

Stopping thinking about the things that could or would happen he lay back on his bed, he had a new life ahead of him, and he didn't plan on squandering it.

With that kind of thought he fell into the arms of Morpheus.