And for this, some maneuvering was required!
After all, Derek couldn’t just expect that by simply ‘coming back to life’, the Norman Osborn couple who brought him out of the Vought laboratory would definitely adopt him.
He needed to show a bit of his value first!
And he happened to have just a bit of capital!
Of course, not his little Derek, but the V5-activated superpower that Vought injected into him while he was an embryo!
Just like Homelander, he was injected with V5 while he was in the embryo.
Homelander possessed superpowers at birth, and naturally, he did too!
However, even though he and Homelander were twins, there were still significant differences in their abilities.
What Homelander awakened was an ability similar to Superman’s, while the ability he awakened leaned more towards the ability of his mother, Stormfront, in his genes!
Electricity!
That’s right, Derek could clearly feel that he possessed the ability to control electricity!
His purplish complexion at birth wasn’t caused by asphyxiation, but by the supernatural electricity coursing through his body!
The original owner’s cause of death was precisely because he couldn’t withstand this violent electricity!
‘Then first of all, let’s attract some attention!’
Derek took a deep breath and emitted his first sound in this new World.
“Wa wa wa——————”
The baby’s cries instantly resounded through the stretched Lincoln, also attracting Emily, who was holding Derek, and Norman Osborn opposite her, who was lowering his head and deep in thought.
The two of them simultaneously looked towards the source of the sound.
Then they were surprised to find that it was actually the child they previously thought had died!
“Oh my god! Norman Osborn, this child is still alive, he’s still alive!” Emily covered her mouth, looking with pleasant surprise at Derek, who was crying in her arms.
Norman Osborn’s expression sank, and he low-shouted: “Alive? Bernard, stop the car!”
Screech——————
Hearing Norman Osborn’s command, the driver butler immediately slammed on the brakes, stopping the car.
Emily, who almost fell because of this, sat steadily with Derek in her arms and looked at her husband with confusion: “Norman Osborn, what are you doing?”
“Emily, we have to send this child back to Vought!” Norman Osborn said.
Hearing this, Emily naturally refused, protecting Derek in her arms: “No, don’t even think about it. This child finally crawled back from hell, and I won’t let you send him back to that living hell called Vought!”
Norman Osborn shook his head helplessly: “Emily, I know you’re doing this out of kindness, but taking a dead experimental subject from Vought versus taking a living experimental subject—those two have completely different meanings!”
“What’s more, this child is Vought’s most important experimental product. If Vought finds out that this child didn’t die and was instead taken and hidden by us, it’s very likely they will target Oscorp in all aspects, causing incalculable losses!”
Hearing Norman Osborn’s words, Emily became even angrier:
“Oscorp, you think about your Oscorp every day. Norman Osborn, you are a human first, and then a businessman. You cannot extinguish your humanity just because of the loss of immediate interests!”
“If one day, it requires sacrificing the child in my belly, your biological child, in exchange for Oscorp’s interests, would you sacrifice your own child too?!”
Faced with his wife’s questioning, Norman Osborn’s expression also turned ugly, and he retorted in a deep voice: “But he is not our child!”
Emily didn’t back down an inch either, dead set on protecting this child:
“But he can be. We can adopt him; our child is going to be born soon anyway. We can even use some methods to make this child and ours appear as twins, so we won’t have to worry about Vought discovering it!”
Hearing Emily’s words, Norman Osborn also hesitated a bit.
This wasn’t a bad method after all.
But taking the risk of offending Vought to do this—was it really worth it?
Norman Osborn asked himself this in his heart.
Seeing that Norman Osborn hesitated, Derek knew it was time for him to show off!
“Wa wa wa——————”
Zizhi——————
Derek opened his mouth and suddenly started crying again.
But this time, unlike the last time which only had crying, it was accompanied by the faint sound of electric current!
Even the lights inside the stretched Lincoln were flickering, and the dashboard needles on the driver’s side were darting around randomly, as if the current was unstable!
Immediately after, an even more miraculous thing happened…
Derek…
flew up!
He slowly floated up from Emily, stopped in mid-air, looked at Norman Osborn with eyes sparkling with Purple Electricity, and then reached out his chubby little short hands towards Norman Osborn.
Norman Osborn’s pupils constricted, and he instinctively blocked in front of him with his arms.
He thought this child was like that child in the laboratory, about to randomly shoot lasers too!
But after waiting a few seconds, Norman Osborn didn’t get the pain he anticipated.
Instead, he waited for his wife’s laughter.
“Hahaha, Norman Osborn, ever since we got married, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you make such a comical move~”
Hearing this, Norman Osborn realized he had misunderstood and lowered his hands.
“Look, Norman Osborn, the little fellow really likes you, he’s asking you for a hug!”
Hearing his wife’s words, Norman Osborn looked at Derek floating in mid-air.
To his surprise, the little fellow actually opened his arms, making a hugging posture, and his small, wrinkled face—wrinkled because he was born not long ago—carried a trace of an innocent smile.
This made Norman Osborn, who was already prepared to be a father with his pregnant wife, skip a beat in his heartbeat.
Perhaps…
keeping this child and taking a slight risk wasn’t completely out of the question…
Norman Osborn unconsciously reached out and hugged Derek, who had opened his arms towards him in mid-air, pulling him into his arms.
The Purple Electricity in Derek’s eyes slowly dissipated, and his big eyes blinked like two gems as he looked at Norman Osborn, stretching out his tender little hand to touch the stubble on Norman Osborn’s face.
This made Norman Osborn’s gaze even softer.
“Norman Osborn, let’s keep him. He is really destined to be with you…” Emily assisted from the side.
Hearing this, Norman Osborn’s resolution, which was already leaning towards keeping Derek, completely solidified, and a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.
At this time, the current in the car also returned to normal.
The old butler turned back and looked at Norman Osborn with a smile: “Sir, shall we turn around and head back to Vought?”
Norman Osborn shook his head firmly: “No, we’re going home!”
The car slowly restarted, but it wasn’t heading in the direction of the Vought laboratory, but rather in the direction of ‘home’…
Derek inside the car finally breathed a long sigh of relief at this moment in his heart.
‘This round is secured!’
‘Not only do I not have to go back to Vought, but I’ve also leaped into becoming a super second-generation rich kid!’
After using his power and feeling somewhat drowsy, once his mind was at ease, Derek’s eyelids were fighting each other and he wanted to sleep.
And just the moment before he wanted to close his eyes, a vintage car brushed past their vehicle on the highway.
This made Derek instinctively glance out of the car window, and he saw a long-haired man riding a motorcycle also brushing past their car.
And that man had a silver metal arm…