Brad had made his Earth-10011 self look gravely wounded, and it certainly wasn't just to win sympathy and frame Kara.
The main reason was that he had recently made tremendous gains and was far too excited to play house with the Avengers there, so he simply staged a serious injury.
That gave him an excuse to lie down and recuperate for a while.
Brad's actual primary consciousness, meanwhile, had already returned to the Main Camp.
A project he had set up earlier was nearing completion, and his restless passion for research drove him to join the army of researcher Brads at the Main Camp base.
The symbiote project.
Back when Brad was in the Blood Cross Universe, he had happened upon superheroes who had traveled there from Earth-616.
The venom symbiote on Agent Venom had particularly caught his interest.
At the time, however, he couldn't act against characters from Earth-616, so he had merely scanned it, established a project, and left the Blood Cross Universe.
Yet the method Earth-616's Tony and the others who remained there were preparing to use to eradicate Blood Cross was to expose everyone in the world to symbiote gene fragments, using symbiotes that counteracted the Blood Cross Virus to deal with every infected person.
This little trick wasn't difficult, especially after Reed, the Blood Cross Universe's Mister Fantastic, woke up and joined Earth-616's Tony in his experiments on a phase resonance device.
Both were renowned scientists and inventors, so they soon developed a device that could use resonance to transmit symbiote gene fragments into every infected person's body.
Afterward, all the infected people in the Blood Cross Universe returned to normal as the symbiote gene chains devoured the Blood Cross Virus.
Of course, Brad's methods were nothing to scoff at, either. He still needed the