"According to the data from our investigation, this evolution seems to involve a change in the Energy Matrix," Belcher reported to Luo Xia, who was asking about Eevee's evolution.
For the AllSpark Company, Eevee's evolution was far more important than the Frost Giants' invasion. After all, they had known about the Frost Giants for a long time, and their arrival wasn't unexpected.
By contrast, this evolution of the Pokemon had come too quickly and was far too surprising.
Judging from the data they had received, Eevee hadn't just undergone a change in size. More importantly, the form of the Energy Matrix within it had also changed.
The Energy Matrix derived from the Extremis Virus had an unstable pyramidal structure. But now, the Energy Matrix inside Flareon had changed noticeably in subtle ways compared to the original.
The structure of the Energy Matrix was like a circuit diagram, and changes to the diagram often meant that the circuit's function had changed.
They had copied Flareon's mutated Energy Matrix and discovered through testing that its altered structure made the matrix more stable. However, it also lowered the maximum temperature the matrix could reach.
The original Energy Matrix from the Extremis Virus could produce enough heat to tear through Iron Armor with bare hands. But the mutated matrix seemed to have lost the risk of self-destruction, while its maximum temperature had dropped considerably. It could now only reach temperatures high enough to melt steel.
"What caused this mutation? By all logic, this secondary Intelligence Sequence shouldn't have the ability to innovate," Luo Xia asked, puzzled.
He had even put off his trip to Asgard to get to the bottom of it.
Not only was a secondary Intelligence Sequence incapable of changing the Energy Matrix's structure, but Luo Xia himself couldn't do it either.