Stark had no chance of stopping Schiller as he shot forward. To make matters worse, he was not wearing his latest armor, only a substitute version he had thrown together in someone else's lab in a very short time, making him even slower. By the time he flew near Galactus, the gray mist had completely wrapped around the enormous figure.
Gray Mist had previously recovered all of his memories and learned that he had an extraordinarily mysterious origin. Logically, he should have taken the path of gaining Rule Power through a higher cosmic standing.
But Batman and Iron Man had interfered midway and given him a portion of the wisdom of the two universes' greatest scientists. This allowed Gray Mist, during his later collaboration with Mediocrity, to grasp the unique secret that "physical motion is also motion."
That made Gray Mist's methods of attack exceptionally distinctive, truly one of a kind in the universe.
Gray Mist factors were also a type of particle. Or rather, all Symbiote factors were special particles; so-called Symbiote cells were actually Symbiote particles.
This miraculous race was more like microscopic particles capable of simple combinations on the material level, developing different properties according to their divergent evolutionary paths.
Ordinary Symbiotes like Venom used energy acquired from the outside world to increase their own particle count, proliferating endlessly outward to gain greater mass and, through their unique particle structure, greater strength.
But Gray Mist had taken the opposite path. He began continuously splitting his own factors, keeping the total amount unchanged while using energy to make his particles smaller and smaller, probing ever deeper into the microscopic world.
As everyone knew, matter was composed of molecules, and molecules were formed by two or more atoms linked together. If one could freely control molecules, one could create