When Alvin passed the prisoner transport vehicle, he saw a familiar figure...
The giant mechanical octopus arms curled up inside the vehicle were impossible to miss...
Simon Fek, inventor of the Super Battery, CIA's sacrificial pawn, and creator of the artificial sun beneath the North Pole...
He should be called Dr. Otto now...
They said he insisted that everyone in prison call him Dr. Otto, because he wanted to use the identity the CIA had given him to bear the pain of the disaster he had caused.
Through the observation window, Alvin saw the disgusting burns and scars covering Dr. Otto. He had suffered burns over 95 percent of his body trying to shut down the artificial sun, and the advanced neural-link octopus arms had been fused to his spine...
Alvin had always thought the man was supposed to be dead...
After the North Pole incident, he hadn't had the time or inclination to deal with the scientist's twisted mind. He'd simply let S.H.I.E.L.D. take him back to the United States and send him to the deepest part of Black Prison.
Come to think of it, Alvin felt the man had been pretty unlucky. His flawed invention had been used to set a trap by the CIA's brain-dead higher-ups. He was just a sacrificial pawn...
Sacrificed by the CIA, used by Cobra, and in the end, he'd found out he'd only been creating disasters...
Frowning, Alvin looked at Dr. Otto. There wasn't a patch of unburned skin on his body, and eight melted, ruined octopus arms drooped behind him...
Even just standing upright caused him immense pain...
Dr. Otto, whose eyesight was nearly gone, seemed to sense someone watching him...
He turned his neck and looked in Alvin's direction with his half-withered eyes...
His horrifying face showed no expression besides