Broken windows part 13; summer’s wind

Echoes of a venomous past

Professor Venomous’ perspective

My son and I fought for the last time. His turbonized form was angry, furious with me, and when he blasted my former lover/partner and step-kids into space, it set off a huge whirlwind of emotions inside of me.

“Why? Why?!” I cried, softly at first. But it built up. I was on the ground, peering behind my hands at the clear sky and the unforgiving sun, seeing my beautiful family leave me. My first born son was here, yes, but he wasn’t himself right now. “Why did you do it?” I couldn’t stop my growling. My tears felt fierce and I sobbed uncontrollably. “Oh God, my poor children… Boxy…” I whispered in broken sobs, crying harshly into my hands.

“Shut up about them. They aren’t even your kids! I’m your only kid.” T.K.O. said in an annoyed way. “Those stupid robots were pummeling me… using all their force against me, complaining about how we forced them out of their home and how they were doing this for Jethro… for… stupid Boxman!” He rolled his eyes and I finally stood up. I felt that gray shadowy curtain flood my body and that tar I kept swallowing finally hit my vocal cords, intermingling with my breath and words.

“You are my son, so I won’t say otherwise. But Fink is my kid too. She’s my daughter. And all of Boxy’s kids are mine too!” I say in the softest voice I can muster. “You’re all my family. Please, K.O… don’t do this..”

“You’re delusional, old man! Your supposed family is dust!” He laughed and I felt my knees go weak, falling to the ground. The idea that they were actually gone made me want to die. I knew Fink would be okay,(she was unconscious nearby but was breathing and seemed stable) but still… I felt so weak inside as I was unable to protect anyone.

“You’re so pathetic!” He yelled. “That’s why I will rule and you’ll just stand by and be nothing!!!”

“You’re wrong, K.O. You aren’t going to rule anything or anyone…” I stand up, my aura of violet and black crawling around with an electric crackle.

“Well, what did you think would happen? You’d rule?” He laughed mockingly. “You’re only level negative eight. I’m level negative ninety nine. You’re such a puny supervillain. You can’t catch up to me.”

I feel Shadowy overtake me again. It fills me with intense electricity and energy, an immense ferocity I haven’t felt in a long time. It’s as though Shadowy has taken my grief and anger and amped it up to a thousandth degree.

“No, son. I was only going to rule. You have no idea what you’re dealing with. Your powers are but a trifle when it comes to what I can create!” I feel my body float up high above the ground as I laugh in a manic way.

I still don’t want to hurt my son, but his words of hatred for Boxman and my other kids have created a splinter between us, and Shadowy is indulging in that splinter and irritating it further.

“You said we’d be equal partners in this!” T.K.O yelled, reviving up his power fists, slamming it into the ground.

“No. No. You’re just a cute, little kid, K.O. But, you are my son so I wanted you to help out a bit…it was my naive idea of father son bonding gone awry…” Shadowy growls out, sending out blasts of electric power attacks to him. T.K.O easily avoids them.

“Just…” I see an intense reddish curving force building up as my son almost screeches his words. “Shut.. up!”

His blast wave hits me suddenly, and I feel it overwhelm my whole body and my mind.

I am suddenly and totally blacked out, but I feel a sense of high relief. He used his powers to exhume Shadowy’s prescence from me. He may not have intended it, but I felt it, like a vacuum. He was gone, finally gone.

Echoes of such a venomous past, a past I created by my selfishness and pride and mania—now finally and painfully open to heal.

That is, if I ever wake up.

I felt a strange hope suddenly, and that heavy heat of before cooled. It was smoky and smooth and felt like a loving caress.

A summer’s wind to stop the pain of such a heatwave. I had only hoped my love Boxy and all of our children could feel it too.