This is interesting, I'm definately going to read the other chapters. I like your style, it's pretty good
I have to admit, when I read the part about him being suspended over a pool of greenish liquid, I immediately thought of Logan/Wolverine in X-men, when he's getting the metal implanted in his bones (or whatever).
Overall, I'd give this a 4, maybe a 4.5. And I agree with the others on the obscurity of the father using his loved (it seems) son in potentially dangerous experiments. I guess I can see how that would work, but it's a little too... I dunno, out there?