"It really does seem like people either get powers or end up dead when controversial scientific experiments go wrong," Dex mused. Considering how often it happened in their world, there was a definite pattern to be found when people decided experimenting with unstable elements in their projects and go where no man had gone before started in with their experimentation.

"You and me both," Dex agreed. "I just resigned myself to being alone forever back home. Never letting anyone know the real me because it didn't matter." He paused for a moment and looked over at Ava again. "But I feel less alone here than I ever have before."