Introduction
Children are taught that it's all about science, that at some point in the last century something happened to the ocean water and it had just changed people. Adults had been terrified when children started acting strangely all over the world. The governments had find out some scientists agreeing to sign and publish papers saying it was all natural, something to do with a massive sun eruption that had somehow change the molecular in the Earth's water supplies but since none of them was able to agree with their colleagues it had quickly became more confusing than helpful which was the intended purpose.
Of course not everyone was left in the dark, they needed actual researches to be done and founds to help get things along it was never intended for this situation to keep going for that long. Geneticists, chemists, physicists, Medical teams, radiation specialists as well as people that could help and create whatever was needed to help wrap things up to at least found out if it would be passed on to the next generation were brought together.
The World Conseil decided that Howard Stark and Hank Pym would share the responsibilities of the research. Not that the two men particularly gave them a choice anyway. Stark knew what had caused the changes and Pym was more 'friendly' toward other scientists and could help smooth things over.
A few years prior to the first documented change, Stark had pulled the Tesseract out of the water in his search for his friend Captain America. At that time he hadn't thought anything about it put the glowing cube in what he considered to be a safe place and only divulged his finding to Peggy Carter, SSR Agent, and Edwin Jarvis, his trusted everything who occasionally helped Peggy or Howard in SSR business.
After the changes became noticeable they were all knee deep into research, trying to figure out if maybe project Manhattan could have been responsible Stark and Pym asked a young genetic professor specialized in mutation for help. Charles Xavier told them important things:
only 25% of the new born children seemed to be affected, worldwide, but in the USA the percentage was closer to 35%
The change seemed to have started near the east coast
The mutation he was studying were brought on by genetics and were natural, but the global change that seemed to take place right know looked more like a induced modification of the child DNA in the same process Stark and Erskine had done to Captain America
Charles Xavier and his lab partner, Hank McCoy, told them that their theory was that the change happened from the water the mother drank while pregnant but they couldn't explain why it didn't affect everyone the same way or why some people weren't affected at all.
That's when Howard Stark started to be reminded of the Tesseract and decided to study it more closely with the help of the new found SHIELD.
In modern times every new born has the genetic change into their DNA code and research were still done to try and understand why.
