Amera was sitting in the lab with all the materials she needed, busy building the wormhole detector. She sat with all the pieces around her, already cut to shape and size, laying in perfect order for assembling. She was busy manipulating more metal for the last few pieces, and then started building the core. Amera phased herself into lead, as she did before on her planet for assembly the radioactive core. She assembled the core reactor carefully and placed it in the centre of all the other pieces, ready to weld it all together. Before she started, the elevator opened and Reed came into the lab, seeing Amera sitting on the floor with all the pieces around her.

"When you said three days, I thought you were bluffing…but I see now you weren't." Reed said, sitting on his swivel chair and watching her. Amera had already told him several times that she didn't need any help, only because she didn't have help building it on her planet either. It was easier to work the metal by herself, without anyone to get in the way of potential harm.

"Well, you're just in time for the final assembly. After that, I'm just going to install some basic programming and hand it over to Herbie to start coding further…" Amera said, getting to her feet and standing back. She put her hands forward slowly, and the pieces of metal flew up into the air, hovering in an exploded view of the dish. They came together little by little, just so Amera could see if everything was coming together properly. The pieces melted together seamlessly, and the final detector dish hovered down to the floor. Reed stood up, his mouth open but in a smile, looking at the dish.

"That was amazing! Now I see why you said you could do it in three days."

Amera quickly loaded a custom operating system and then turned to Reed.

"All done. Now it's just up to Herbie to add the code I gave him and run the diagnostics."

Reed walked around the dish, observing Amera's handiwork, looking at all the fine details meticulously.

"So whose plan was this exactly? I mean the wormhole detector." Reed frowned at Amera, and she shrugged.

"Well it was Reed's idea, of course. He's been hoping to find a wormhole for ages. We had worked through all the theories, and we hoped it would work like time travel…and here I am." Amera gestured to herself and Reed smiled.

"So you made everything on your planet as well?" He asked again, without looking to Amera this time.

"No, I just put it together and coded it. It was Reed's plan, idea and coding…he is the brains of the group after all." Amera answered, and Reed smiled widely at her referring to him as the smartest of the group.

"So when is the wormhole due to open again?" Reed asked once again, this time he moved away from the dish and headed to his console.

"About 13 days and 10 hours. Give or take." Amera answered; a projection screen popped up behind her with a time estimate.

"So you're technopathic…that must be quite fun. Can you really communicate with any technology?" Reed asked again, looking from the screen and to Amera, sitting in his swivel chair and looking up at her.

"Pretty much. I haven't had any problems yet…except for Herbie shocking me the first time…" Amera thought back to the first time, and remembered how shocked Herbie was to have someone on the system.

"Herbie shocked you? I guess he thought you were some kind of virus…" Reed answered nonchalantly.

"That's what I said…and once Reed loaded my DNA code onto the system, it never happened again. That's why I asked you to do it first over here."

Reed spun away from Amera in his swivel chair, talking more to himself than to her.

"I somehow knew technopathic abilities were possible…I just never knew what a human would have to do to actually get them…" Reed muttered, and started typing on the console.

"Oh, well, Herbie's done coding the detector…" Amera said, looking over at it and switching it on. It ran its initial diagnostics and started scanning the skies. Herbie linked up to the detector, and updated Amera's time estimate by only a few minutes. Reed nodded over at Amera, impressed by her previous estimate. Amera walked over to the console and looked down at Reed, trying to get his attention.

"I've been looking closer into those mysterious crimes around the world…and the more I think about it, the more I think Victor's team are the ones behind it." Amera said, and Reed looked up at her immediately. Amera turned to the projection screens and brought up her theories.

"Most of these crimes have some things in common…metal frozen so cold that it shatters; impossible vaults to open; explosions that show no source of reagents…which lead me to the next source…the team that got the powers and the powers that they got." Amera turned to another set of screens, and brought up the four individuals that got the powers, as well as Victor.

"They have powers that correlate with those incidents. Nyla; the woman geneticist, she got some form of cold generating abilities. Snow, blizzards, freezing objects that she touches…" Amera explained, and Reed spun around his chair, looking at the screens.

"I know of the powers they got, I just never had this much information of the crimes." Reed got up from his chair and walked over to her, still looking at the screens.

"You know, come to think of it, Victor has been acting strange lately. He won't receive any appointments, and he let me order all the materials for the detector without question…" Reed looked down at Amera, and she could recognize the fear of the unknown on his face.