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Soon, the disgruntled Johnny Stone was taken back by Susan Stone for some enforced learning. Robert and the others also left the Avengers base with a laugh. As for Otto's safety, Robert and the others didn't care much. From Robert's perspective, with Tony Stark around, Otto's problems shouldn't be a big issue.

However, Robert might have forgotten that while Tony Stark's temper was generally tolerable for them, only occasionally sarcastic, he was notoriously difficult to communicate with for many others. This difficulty increased when Tony Stark encountered another person with a similarly bad temper, complicating the situation further.

When Otto woke up, he found himself naked in an unfamiliar laboratory, which shocked him. As a top scientist, even if his research wasn't in the field of human biology, he knew about many horrific experiments conducted by unscrupulous scientists.

Although Otto didn't understand why someone would take an overweight, nearsighted man like him to a lab as a test subject, he still felt a sense of danger. Yes, Otto had no idea what had happened to him; his last memory was of the explosion in his lab. But the danger he sensed upon waking left him no time to think. He only wanted to find a way to escape this lab.

"Is it my brain they're after? Damn it, someone actually started targeting this?" Otto considered this possibility, which heightened his sense of urgency. He tried to get up but found his body being lifted on its own.

"Huh? What's happening? Why am I floating? What's supporting me? It feels like my arms, but they're right here. Where did I get the strength to lift my entire body?" Otto, suspended in mid-air, looked at his arms in confusion, then turned his thick neck to look down. He saw four familiar things.

"My mechanical tentacles?! What's going on? Why are my mechanical tentacles here? Could they have captured me for my mechanical tentacles? Damn it, what happened before? Did they forcibly merge me with my tentacles? Hmm... Maybe they can help me escape!"

Unaware that he had mutated, Otto gritted his teeth, thinking he had suffered inhumane treatment. But he quickly composed himself, realizing that his familiarity with the tentacles might be his ticket to escape.

Surprisingly, there wasn't much restraining him in the lab. Otto controlled the tentacles to set himself on the ground, finding them more responsive than ever, almost as if they were his own arms.

Before he could celebrate, he saw dense data on a nearby computer. Assuming it documented the evil experiments done to him, he rushed over to check his body's condition.

"All indicators are normal. The tentacles fused with my body but didn't affect my life or burden my body? What power am I using to drive them?" Otto saw the data showing his overweight status but didn't care. He knew his body well; apart from the tentacles, he was the same as before.

"I need to take this data. My body's and my tentacles' data can't be left behind!"

After snapping out of his initial shock, anger flashed in Otto's eyes. His mechanical arm pierced into the computer, integrating with it to read the data.

"Hey! You're awake? Don't mess with the computer, or we'll have to re-read the data. But your tentacles are quite interesting, even able to read data?" Tony Stark's voice echoed in the lab as Otto was controlling his tentacles to access the computer.

"So, are they directly connected to your neurons? This data transmits to your brain? Impressive! Not useful for a genius like me, but for those struggling academically, this would be a godsend!"

Tony Stark was referring to Johnny Stone, Otto's student, who might be tempted to try the tentacles to shake off his "academic loser" label.

"It's you?! Tony Stark?!" Otto turned, incredulous. He couldn't believe the famous Iron Man had abducted him for evil experiments.

"Of course, it's me! Who else? Don't move; your situation is unstable. Your tentacles need further study; they're integrated with your life now..." Tony Stark explained, unaware of Otto's thoughts.

"So that's your goal? To merge with your armor completely?" Otto's eyes narrowed as he thought he understood Stark's intentions. Retracting his tentacles from the computer, he prepared to confront Stark.

"Merging with armor? Your tentacles are nothing like my armor..." Stark scoffed, puzzled.

Before Stark could finish, a tentacle shot towards him. His pupils contracted, but a mass of metal blocked the attack, quickly forming a suit of armor around him.

Otto didn't attack again. He knew Stark's reputation well and didn't want to kill him but to escape the lab and expose Stark's true face to the world, proving the so-called Iron Man was a fraud.

Otto had heard rumors that the Arc Reactor wasn't Stark's creation, that a scientist from Bear Country had similar technology. Otto hadn't believed it then, thinking it impossible for someone else to create what even he couldn't.

Now, Otto was suspicious, believing Stark might be a despicable businessman stealing others' research for profit, especially considering Stark's position as CEO of Stark Industries.

"You'll pay for your recklessness!" Stark said, frustrated, seeing Otto flee the lab. He hadn't expected Otto to repay his help with hostility and almost kill him. Stark felt a mix of fear and anger, knowing if not for JARVIS's emergency protocols, he might have died.

It was ironic that the contingency plans, set up for potential attacks by vampires and werewolves, had saved him from Otto instead.

"Zap!" Stark, frustrated, fired a repulsor beam at the fleeing Otto, hoping to teach him a lesson.

Otto didn't react to the beam, but his tentacles did, grabbing the energy and absorbing it, turning red and causing Otto to become dazed.

"Huh? They can absorb energy? That's impossible; my tests didn't show this..." Stark paused, puzzled, observing Otto. "Is the energy overload making him stop? The tentacles' energy consumption must be low, or Otto couldn't control them..."

"Tony Stark! How dare you experiment on me? I'll kill you!" Otto, seemingly provoked by Stark's words, raised his head, and his four red tentacles lunged at Stark.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Four loud crashes echoed in the Avengers base. A single tentacle couldn't budge Stark's armor, but four together sent him flying. Stark's armor defense wasn't as strong as its attack.

"Die!" Otto, seizing the advantage, charged at Stark, his tentacles poised to strike.

But just as the tentacles were about to hit Stark's armor, a green figure appeared, catching the tentacles and throwing Otto across the room, saving Stark.

If not for the tentacles protecting Otto at the last moment, the impact alone could have severely injured him. Otto, after all, was just an ordinary, even weak, man.

"Thanks!" Stark sincerely thanked the Martian Manhunter, then looked at Otto, saying, "Something's off with him. He seemed to misunderstand me initially, but then he seemed out of his mind, especially after absorbing my repulsor beam..."

"His tentacles seem unusual..." Martian Manhunter observed Otto getting up with the help of his tentacles. "Perhaps the tentacles have a consciousness. If they fused accidentally, Otto couldn't control them before the explosion. There must be a control program in the tentacles..."

"In the explosion, they fused, giving Otto control over the tentacles and the tentacles control over Otto. When Otto got angry and the tentacles had energy, they took over..."

"Maybe these tentacles are like Venom, forming a symbiotic relationship, but without the ability to speak..."

"Wow, so I helped him? Wait, he's getting away..." Stark remarked, noticing Otto fleeing again with his tentacles.

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