Science meets Magic

Dr.Everyone had recently remembered his death. He didn't remember a whole lot of the past year or so. His time as a villain, the time when he was an insane pyromaniac. Some bit and pieces came back to him, and some major events he remembered the basics of. His nights were filled with relivings of his past actions. Many he didn't remember come morning, and others he did. And last night, he had remembered his death. He was in another country, but he couldn't remember where. All he knew was that it wasn't America. He was fighting what seemed to be a large anthropomorphic humanoid scorpion. Behind both of them, a house was on fire. Through a hole in a wall, he could see a young woman passed out. She had blacked out due to Dr.Everyone

He remembered a tornado of fire, pain, punches, and finally a large explosion that destroyed whatever town he was in. He remembered his death.

The thing that killed me..it had a name. It looked differently before. Dark....Night. Night what? I know It's in here somewhere, but where?" He thought after he woke up. He couldn't remember. But he would, eventually.

But now he pondered how to come back from death in the case that it happened again. Elena Marie had revived him that last time, but it almost didn't happen. He was almost stuck in oblivion permanently. After breakfast, the thought struck him.

"I was resurrected by my own instructions. I had magic work in way science would have. But, if I were to let magic work as magic, perhaps I could achieve resurrection in a much easier fashion. And the only magical person I know is Elena. And the only place I would think she would be is that church I met her in. I guess I am a bit overdue for mass."

He put on his usually dress cloths and lab coat, and his helmet, and flew off to the church.

He arrived in front of the church. He had only remembered it's general location, but from an aerial viewpoint it wasn't hard to find. The place didn't seem like it was in active use for any church service, but it did seem livable enough. So he opened the front doors, and waltzed in. He took a few step until he was halfway down the middle aisle. He remembered they had entered a secret chamber somewhere and somehow, but not the where or the how. So he called out (musically) for Elena in his professional toned voiced, with a slight english accent.

"Oh Elena Marie, can't you come out to see me? It would make me so cheery, for me to see you, Elena Marie."

Dr.Everyone turned around, looking at the source of the voice. In one of the pews behind him, was Elena Marie. He walked up to the pew sitting and sat down on the pew next to her, leaving a seat space between the two of them.

"This body works and fits like I was born with it, thought it seems quite easy for it to pass up it's creator when walking. How have you been, recently?"

"Straight to the point, aren't you? Well, I suppose us villain types do have much to tend to. You see," Dr.Everyone said, putting his legs to rest on the top of the pew in front of them, also crossing them. "The thing is that I have recently come to ponder the thing that all people think about eventually: Death. Yes I have experienced it, and I am quite aware that the odds are in favor of my experiencing it again. I do not have a problem with that, it's inevitable. What I have a problem with, is not returning afterwards. My last death was rather difficult and complicated to reverse, despite the assistance of you and two highly strong, durable, and loyal allies. So I have come in search of you today, in the only place I could imagine to find you in this large city, for one thing. I have come to seek a easier, more sure way of bringing me back from the land of the dead."

The Doctor's head turned to Elena at the end of his small speech. His helmet obscured his entire head, but you could feel if he was staring or looking at you.

"What would you prescribe to reverse death once it has occurred?"

Dr.Everyone watched Elena pull out a laptop and type in a very long passcode. She browsed through it for a bit and then inserted a USB flashdrive. She downloaded some files onto it, and removed it. Then she asked an impossible price for an impossible request. If he were to achieve life between deaths, a kind of eternal resurrection, he would need to clash with the man who had run him out of Chicago. He would need to kill Pain. Before he answered, Dr.Everyone stood up.

"You ask of me something that many consider impossible, and I assume you are amongst those people. Killing Pain would be quite impossible. But what if I were to hurt him. What if I were to make him realize just how vincible he is? It might take a lot to kill him, but not much to hurt him, maybe even hurt him badly. I'm more than powerful enough, and I have a few tricks up my sleeve. Besides, wouldn't you rather save the finished move for yourself, when you get a chance?"

Elena handed him the USB, with instructions to tell Pain that it all was "courtesy of Elena Marie". Simple enough. And with the allies he had made recently, it would be an easy doing. Or rather, easy enough.


"Had I still been the man I was before death, I wouldn't have done anything I promised. But thanks to you, I am not. I owe you a favor and I am a man of my word. Your expectations are not misplaced. You will get your proper payment for giving me the information I have sought out."

And the Doctor walked out of the pew, turned to face the cross. He genuflected, getting down on one knee and doing the sign of the cross. He then got up, and walked out. But right as he passed the pew Elena was seated in, he said a simple "Good bye." and walked out of the door.