Marvelous 004

Yeah, I know what you're wondering? How'd I go from flying in a quinjet with T'Chaka, son of the Black Panther and the Invisible Girl, to in the inner works of Latveria, which as of more than two decades ago only consist of Doomstadt. Yeah, yeah I'll give you the backround on that.

Victor Von Doom was killed in a bombing in 1974 and his ward Kristoff came into power. Kristoff wasn't the ruler Doom was and slowly opened up the borders and for his act of kindness, Latveria was attacked from it's neighbors wishing to reclaim their former lands. Leaving Doomstadt for the inept leader.

Kristoff somehow turned this to his advantage and with a country with less than 800,000 servants he transformed it into a technological wonder world. The city-state on the outside looked like something out of a bad vampire movie set in the 1930's and that worked for tourist. Underground the citizens enjoyed techonology twenty years ahead of most of the world, every citizen working above ground on a rotating basis as tour guides in a 'living history' museum, that changed themes on a weekly basis, from prior to WWI and back as far as the middle ages. The citizens had very little work on the whole and enjoyed what most people could only dream of. Marie VonDoom was Kristoff's middle child, the only girl, born a few months before me and is one of my best friends...or should I say was.

We were an hour away when word broke out that she had been killed in a Banner attack along with her younger brother. Details were sketchy but the oldest brother Victor had assumed leadership and closed off the borders to all outside countries and sent it's tourist packing home. So me and T'Chaka had to get in country another way.

We compiled as much data as we could about the deaths and found out that Victoria had sent me a text moments before her death. Ribbit . A code we had growing up, a two sylable word meant two words, so ribbit would break down as "RB". T'Chaka decided he would try to make the connection while I went into the city to see what I could find out on the ground.

My "iron spider" was actually a gift from my grandfather, purchased from the US goverment, one General Ross' hulkbuster designs, I of course spiced it up a bit and gave it a nice Stark make over. Then T'Chaka discovered something, in both our recent attacks, a few strange things had happened.

One of the medics that treated me after had gone missing, it was assumed that he had quit since he was fairly knew, I chalked it up to fear, but considering that no attack on any Stark involved the help, for lack of a better word, in years and the fact these guys were paid five digits a year and pretty much did nothing didn't add up or the swab he took of the inside of my mouth because he thought I had bit the inside of my cheek (I didn't by the way). For T'Chaka it was his father's ex-wife, she had been dug up, at first it looked like a banner had done it but why?

It all started to make sense. Someone was trying to reverse the virus, using my DNA and Orroro's, and the only place that had the lab facilities for such an ambitious task would be Stark, Richards, T'Challa and of course...one of Victor's old labs...who? Could RB stand for Rebirth? Not sure, time to go topside and see if I can find one of Doctor Doom's old labs and the best place to search of course would be Castle Doom, which now was under heavy security, giving our mysterious guy even greater security if I was on the right trail.


TO BE CONTINUED