Woe Is Love (Wednesday X Male Reader)

Chapter Twenty-Eight - A New World Order

Sewer System - New Jersey

Thing scrambled through cage after cage in search of Wednesday or any other Addams family member. Regretfully, he disregarded the pleas for help from other prisoners, leaving them to Prometheus' will. The hand passed a multitude of cells littered with human and animal remains until eventually, he stumbled across what he was looking for.

Wednesday was strapped to a table in the centre of, what seemed to be, a lab. Two robes towered over the girl, inserting needles into her exposed skin and siphoning thick, red blood into dozens of bags. The young Addams girl jerked wildly in an attempt to escape her captors, resulting in one robe forcefully holding her down.

Suddenly, a beaker filled with a lime-green substance smashed against a cult member's face, knocking him to the floor. Before either of the robed individuals could scream or cry for help, another beaker was tossed at the second robe. Thing froze as the projectile stopped midair with a simple flick of the robe's arm. However, the appendage visibly relaxed when the liquid held within spilt out and covered the robe.

Instantly, an ear-piercing scream echoed throughout the chamber. Steam rose from the person's face as they tried to claw away at the now acidic skin.

"How did you know that was going to happen?" Wednesday asked curiously as Thing hopped onto the table and began freeing her. Thing signed that he just got lucky before Wednesday frantically sat up. "Where's Y/N?"

The duo raced back where Thing came from, with the hand resting atop Wednesday's shoulder, and into the atrium. Wednesday paused momentarily, witnessing the standoff between her boyfriend and the supposed man in charge.

"School's out," the blonde man said with a maniacal grin.

"He's a gorgon!" Wednesday exclaimed just as the man known as Prometheus activated said power. Y/N averted his eyes in time to Wednesday's relief, however, it was short-lived as Prometheus moved faster than a speeding bullet towards Y/N and threw him into a wall. "Y/N!"

Y/N kept his eyes tightly shut as Prometheus threw punch after punch at him. The mage could feel every hit crack a bone or puncture his skin. Prometheus' beatdown only stopped when Wednesday tried to stab him from behind. The cult leader quickly countered Wednesday's sneak attack, disarming the girl and throwing her into the wall beside Y/N.

"You can't stop what's coming!" Prometheus yelled, angrily pointing a finger at the pair and the appendage. "It's already begun. There's no point fighting... pack your shit and go home! You lost!"

"There's something you should know about me..." Y/N stated as he slowly pushed himself off the wall and to his feet. "I'm one stubborn son of a bitch."

The next thing Y/N knew, a fist landed on his cheek, then again on the other side, and then on the chest and ended with an uppercut to the chin. It all happened in less than a second. Y/N was back against the wall with a few more injuries than before. Wednesday held onto his shirt to prevent him from doing something stupid again.

"What you fail to understand," Prometheus continued as if he didn't just beat Y/N to a pulp. "Is that I've already sent the blood to my followers... they've already implemented it into their products... and they've already put it in every market they could find. It's only a matter of time before my 'New Outcasts' emerge!"

Wednesday glared at Weems' son, keeping his attention focused on her and Y/N whilst Thing discreetly scrambled behind the cult leader, another beaker of acid dragging behind him. Thing paused directly beside Prometheus' left foot. The appendage signed to Wednesday, waiting on her signal.

"I didn't actually need the Addams family for my creation to work..." Prometheus admitted with a dry chuckle. "I just needed to find the 'A' for my riddle... plus, I wanted to meet the person who killed my mother."