Chapter 36 Apology

I could hire other assassin's, Obadiah tried convincing himself.

So what if the Ten rings were incompetent, I can easily find a more competent group to do it.

But no matter what he thought, he always remembered how Iron Man had such a powerful suit and then there was Superman.

Even if he killed Tony and took over, would Superman let him live? Obadiah thought to himself.

Finally, he asked, "If I agree, how does it work?"

Mephisto raised his hand, and a glowing red orb appeared, pulsating with energy.

"This," he said, "will power your suit. But beware—this energy has a will of its own.

It will make you unstoppable, yes, but if you want to use it, it comes with a... price or two beyond what I've mentioned.

Think of it as a bonus surprise and hey, One of them will even make you stronger." Mephisto chuckled.

Obadiah stared at the orb, his reflection distorted in its fiery glow.

"If I destroy Stark and also Superman, take what's mine and live my life how i always wished to... Can I undo the deal?"

Mephisto's grin faded slightly. "Unlikely. But hey, nothing's impossible—if you're clever enough." He said with a little bit of a scoff.

"Fine" Obadiah said after a long silence.

The grin on Mephisto's face widened as he flicked his finger, the orb floating through the air heading for the open cavity in the suit.

As it slowly floated past Obadiah, no heat resonated from it, it was almost like it didn't exist.

Obadiah had an impulse.

He began extending his finger to try and touch it.

To see what would happen because as this seemed like it didn't even exist.

His finger inching closer by the second until it was about to touch the orb.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Mephisto said as the Orb sped up out of range from Obadiah.

It shot straight into the opening and disappeared.

A red glow encapsulated the suit making it hard to see the suit for about a minute before it started fading, what was revealed was nothing special, the suit was still the same with absolutely zero change at a glance.

"What happened, did it get absorbed into the suit?" Obadiah wanted to ask as he turned his head to look at Mephisto.

But when he turned, Mephisto was gone.

Obadiah glanced all around but he couldn't find Mephisto.

The flickering lights also stopped flickering.

The buzz of the computers, servers and the Arc reactor also started up again.

The lights were back and everything was functioning properly as if nothing had happened.

He glanced around at this normalcy feeling a little odd.

He even wondered if he had hallucinated everything but that was just a fleeting thought.

He was sure meeting the Devil himself was not a illusion.

He glanced at the large suit that still seemed like an empty shell.

But he knew better.

Stepping close to the suit.

His heart pumping faster and faster with every step he took until he had finally arrived in front of the Armour.

Pulling out a cell phone.

He dialled a number.

"William, you are hired, get back in here, I will pay you and the others a... lets just say, very sizeable bonus for this and bring the scientists who have knowledge off the suit with you" Obadiah said.

He knew what he had done was wrong, but he also knew the power of money.

And he was sure that, William and the other researchers would temporarily put away there prides and come.

After all he couldn't get in this suit and secure it all by himself.

Just as expected.

About 10 minutes later, William walked into the room with 4 other Scientists.

Glancing back at them, Obadiah smiled.

"You are here, come over and help me get in this thing" Obadiah said as he went back to staring at the suit.

His eyes glancing around at the suit, trying to observe any changes no matter how minor, but in this entire time he had spent waiting and observing he had failed to spot a single change.

No one came over so, Obadiah glanced back at the William and the others, he saw them standing there unmoving causing a frown to appear.

"What are you doing, come here!" William said in a loud and commanding tone causing one of the younger scientists in the back to flinch a little.

"No" William stepped forward.

"What do you mean No?" Obadiah asked getting frustrated.

"We want you to apologise to us first" William said, when Obadiah heard that he barely managed to stop himself from bursting out laughing.

"You must be joking" he said struggling to keep a straight face.

"We are not" William replied causing a deep frown to appear on, his face.

"If you don't get here right now, forget being fired, I will make you never get to work again" he threatened now a little serious but William and the rest didn't move.

They were sick of how Pierce treated them.

They were his employees, but so what, they were humans as well.

Was it too much to ask a little respect?

Pierce gritted his teeth as they stared at him in silence refusing to move.

His eyes glancing at the Suit and the scientist.

Frustration bubbling.

"Alright then, I am sorry" Pierce said feeling extremely reluctant.

But right now he had to use the suit.

Use what he sold his soul for.

Without the assistance of these scientists it was an impossible task to get in the suit.

William nodded.

"Open this up" Obadiah said.

They stepped forwards and began to open the suit.

A few locks later, the suit was opened up, empty in the middle, just waiting for somebody to step inside.

William and Pierce stood there looking at the opened suit as the other Scientists stepped back after completely opening it.

"Sir, this still has no power, what is the use" William asked but received no reply from Obadiah.

As a matter of fact, this entire time, Obadiah had not said a word to them.

He removed his suit, stripped himself down to his under garments.

Moving forward, He placed his body into the space that fit him perfectly.

As if it was measured and built exactly for his body and his body only.

"Close it up" Obadiah said without much expression to William who stood in front of him.

After that, Obadiah didn't bother glancing at William, who felt a little awkward but knew what he had down was the right thing asking Pierce to apologies.

He did not know what plan Pierce had in mind, but he didn't care.

"Close it up" William said as he stepped back and glanced at the four other Scientists.