The fate of humanity and the world, huh. Not like Aldrich was not already dealing with high stakes here, especially with the entity controlling the variants threatening the plunge the world into extinction.
Seemed like now that he was on the world stage, anything and everything was a potential 'world ending threat'.
It made Aldrich's head hurt a little. A common trope for superhero fiction was that everything ended up snowballing into some world ending disaster, but actually dealing with it was a lot more stressful than he bargained for.
"You'll have to explain more to convince me," said Aldrich. "More about yourself and where you came from. More about what you knew about Adam and Elaine.
And I'd also like you to reveal the accomplice that's performing your calculations for you. You said you needed someone else to do the calculations to get here, didn't you?"