Brad had always wondered why the Marvel Universe had no room for a Technology God.
But his circumstances had kept him from reaching that level, so he could only piece together the clues slowly, bit by bit.
First came Skynet and Hemen. Their deaths and disappearance were understandable. After all, even the lingering power of Nothingness was more than the current Brad could withstand. Both had already been gravely injured, so it made sense that they had vanished after entering the Marvel Universe.
Yet after leaving Brad several complete technological development paths, the two had also specifically left him an ability called Future Sight.
Through a figure named Deadpool, it allowed Brad to see the "plot" a step ahead and use that knowledge to gain an advantage as he developed.
Back when Brad had first used Future Sight to gradually establish himself in Marvel, he had noticed that Marvel was a multiverse system heavily skewed toward magic.
Many characters who appeared to be products of biological mutation, seemingly aligned with technology, actually had magical forces working behind them.
Behind Spider-Man's mutated spider lay the Spider-Totem, and behind Hulk's gamma radiation lay the One-Below-All.
There were countless examples like these.
The only ones who seemed to follow the technological path without trouble were Tony Stark and Mister Fantastic, Reed.
But after Brad learned of Earth-616 and Earth-1610 from the Beyonder, the corresponding Future Sight revealed that Iron Man on Earth-1610 actually had an Infinity Stone unique to the Ultimate Universe hidden in his brain.
In other words, setting aside Earth-616, the so-called main universe, there were scarcely any technologically inclined universes to be found in the vast multiverse.
Then there were those few technological gods, whose appearances had been so fleeting.
After Number Four achieved transdimensional computation, the aftershocks of Nothingness