Through his efforts, he had raised the success rate of the Silver Superman Potion from the initial 34.7% to 79.3%.
Even after acquiring the Gene Infuser from the Skrulls, he had only raised it to 79.3%, not 100%.
That meant that when he injected the serum, there was over a twenty percent chance
that his genes would collapse or mutate him into an uncontrollable bio-weapon.
"Master!" Alice's voice came through the communicator, faint but clear.
"Android 18 has been shot down. She fell into the Atlantic Ocean and was trapped by the Space Stone's compression field, unable to move.
"Nymph is trying to hack into the Infinity Gauntlet's system, but the energy field of the six stones is too strong. Her consciousness can't penetrate it."
"Tell her to stop," Loren said.
"Nymph?"
"Tell her to stop. Don't keep fighting. Just protect herself!"
"Then what about you, Master?"
"I'll handle it."
The transmission was cut off.
Loren stood atop the console, his fingers typing the final line of instructions onto the keyboard.
On the holographic screen, the serum's molecular structure model completed its final rendering.
A perfect three-dimensional double helix, wrapped in a golden energy field, slowly rotated in the darkness.
He took the vial of serum from a small temperature-controlled container.
The serum was silvery white. It was neither liquid nor solid.
It was a substance between the two, flowing like mercury.
It moved along the inner walls of the glass tube, golden light flickering over its surface like a galaxy trapped in glass.
The tube was cold, but the serum itself was warm, as though it were alive, like a sleeping life-form.
Loren raised the serum before his eyes, his black gaze fixed on the flowing silvery-white radiance.
"Carol Danvers gained power from the Space Stone. Bruce Banner gained