After making sure Quicksilver and Lorna had returned to their rooms, Henry helped the elderly Catherine Hepburn over to the sofa and settled her down before activating this hastily assembled Inhuman medical chamber.
The first step was to open the Obelisk and expose the Terrigen Crystal.
Although the Kree Metal used to make the Obelisk would petrify anyone without Inhuman genes, Henry was fortunate that the alloy contained no "lead." That meant he could use X-Ray Vision to examine its structure.
In the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Obelisk would automatically open when placed into a specific hole in a stone altar. In truth, it was a very simple mechanism. As long as there was a groove shaped like its base, the Obelisk would open.
Thus, beneath the glass cover, flexible clamps extended from every direction around the platform's base, gripping the bottom of the Obelisk and applying pressure. Just as expected, the metal container unfolded like a flower.
The Terrigen Crystal was a cluster of sky-blue crystals. Yet it differed somewhat from naturally formed crystals, because after emerging from the Obelisk, it continued to spread outward, changing the angle of every crystal column.
Then, after sprinkling it with clean water at the right temperature, mist began to rise from the crystals and flowed through the connecting tube into the main chamber where Skye lay.
The mist had not even filled the main chamber before Skye's Inhuman genes immediately triggered a reaction in her body.
Before Catherine Hepburn's astonished eyes, inch after inch of stone skin grew over Skye's body, eventually covering her entirely, as if she had been wrapped in stone.
At that point, Henry began extracting the air from the main chamber in reverse. Using Kree Technology air filtration, he sucked all the Terrigen Mist back into