Alvin glanced at Harry and Pietro, who were just as unwilling to fight. Ignoring Gwen, who had her hand raised high, he turned and walked back into the room where the Predators had been born, then waved to close the Space Gate.
Watching the Predator coffin slide along a track, Alvin smiled and asked, "Where's this thing going?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a door opened at the top of the track, and the coffin entered an elevator-like space.
The three of them exchanged glances, then followed it inside.
As the doors closed, the floor gave a slight shudder. Alvin felt the whole space begin to rise, and an opening appeared overhead.
A few seconds later, the elevator entered a room flooded with white light.
Alvin walked a few steps forward, then turned around. The coffin had stopped on a circular stone platform, with more than a dozen Skrull corpses sprawled haphazardly around it.
Simple diagrams had been carved around the platform, showing what the Predator was supposed to do next.
The Predator would wake up here. A mechanism in the nearby stone wall would provide it with various weapons. Once armed, it would leave through a door and begin its trial.
Seeing that the Predator inside the coffin still hadn't moved much, Alvin looked at Norman Osborn and spread his hands. "So? That's the whole process of creating a Predator?
"How did that Skrull named Talos control these berserk warriors?"
Norman Osborn crouched beside a Skrull corpse and swept it with the scanner he'd used earlier.
After looking at the results on the computer, Norman Osborn scanned several more Skrull corpses. He nodded appreciatively and said, "I think I know how they controlled the Predators."
Alvin leaned over curiously and saw that all the Skrulls' skulls had been