<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/eb49310a789cdff4cab2265762077b63/tumblr_mh4o4tk3kZ1rooo17o1_500.png)</div><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>       <strong>Victor Von Doom</strong><br/>  <strong>Title:</strong>          <strong>Doctor Doom</strong><br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong> <strong>Doom</strong><br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   <strong>Moscow</strong><br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong>          <strong>Darkbird</strong><br/><br/></span></span><hr/><br/>The armored despot strode down the hallway of his ship, leading the Chinese mutant to a large set of doors that slid open when he approached.  As he walked in to the lab, it seemed devoid of movement save for the occasional robot servant tending to various equipment throughout the laboratory.  As the girl asked her question, Doom shook his head, his voice resounding with a metallic tinge.<br/><br/><strong>"Yes."<br/></strong><br/>He pointed to an empty metal table and spoke again.<br/><br/><strong>"Put the armor there and set the serum on the countertop beside it.  I will begin testing the substance immediately."<br/></strong><br/>He waited for her to do as he commanded and stepped over to pick up the serum, beginning to run tests on the substance.  He made no motion of telling her to leave, so it seemed that she was welcome to stay and watch or assist if she was able.  He slid a sample of it into a large machine and waited a moment for the readouts to begin processing.  This took about twenty minutes.  When the readouts displayed themselves as a projected holographic depiction of the molecular compound, Doom's eyes widened.<br/><br/><strong>"Incredible... the serum is derived from some sort of mutant cell, capable of shifting it's properties on a molecular level.  It essentially infects the subject and seeks out any sort of latent mutations, bonding with their DNA... the process alters them on a basic level and bestows upon them the powers that had until then been locked away in their genes."<br/></strong><br/>He paused.<br/><br/><strong>"However, should the subject not possess any latent mutations... the compound breaks the DNA down and kills them."<br/></strong><br/>He tapped his fingers on the lab counter before continuing.<br/><br/><strong>"The thing that amazes me the most however is the presence of microscopic nanobots in the serum.  They appear to replicate by themselves... I do not yet know their purpose, however.  The technology used to create these is beyond anything I have seen on Earth."<br/></strong><br/>This was disconcerting.  Though Doom did not specialize in genetics per say, his genius was all encompassing.  Even still, he knew that it would take time to figure out a way to reverse the serum's effects, or otherwise master the technology to his own ends.  For a fleeting moment, he wondered what Richards would make of this... and then he put the thought out of his mind.  Richards was nothing compared to his own intellect, after all.